Featherstone Center for the Arts

Name: Featherstone Center for the Arts
Address: 30 Featherstone Lane (Off of Barnes Road), Oak Bluffs, MA, 02568, US
Telephone: +15086931850

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08/05/2026

Tonight! Join poets Liz Kelner Pozen and Don McLagan for an evening of poetry featuring readings from their published works. Themes of memory, place, and the human experience will be explored, followed by a conversation with the authors. Books will be available for purchase. Free and open to all, light refreshments will be served.

Poetry Reading with Liz Kelner Pozen and Don McLagan
Wednesday, August 5th at 5PM
Art Barn Painting Studio (down the hall from the gallery).

Liz Kelner Pozen is a painter, poet and retired psychotherapist who lives in Boston and on Martha’s Vineyard. She is the author of three books of poetry A Scarred Samovar (2025), Salami (2020), and The Heart of the Family (2017), and three children’s books, Sam and the number 8 (2025), Grandma Can’t Hear (2024), and The What Ifs (2022).

Don McLagan is an entrepreneur and poet. He is the author of four books of poetry, Poems of 1968 Then as Now: Divided, Hurt and Raging (2025), Chappaquiddick Poems (2023), Fragments in a Glass Bowl (2019), and Tug at the Knot (2016). For forty years a tech
innovator, McLagan is now retired, advises young entrepreneurs and writes poetry. He lives and writes in Sarasota Florida and Chappaquiddick, a sometimes separate island off Martha’s Vineyard.

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08/04/2026

Today! It is a busy one at Featherstone: in addition to classes in jewelry, writing, drawing, cyanotype, pottery and summer art camp, we have a program packed late afternoon and evening!

Please join us later today, Tuesday, August 4th at 4PM in the Francine Kelly Gallery for a Curators’ Talk with RISD President Crystal Williams Crys Williams and Director of Campus Exhibitions Mark Moscone RISD Exhibitions. Crystal and Mark will tour the gallery and provide insights regarding their curatorial process and the RISD alumni artists featured in the exhibition. This event is free and open to all, no registration necessary. Learn more about the exhibition at: featherstoneart.org/RISDemerging

Following the talk, we have our final Photographers Salon of the season at 6PM with host Michael Johnson michaeljohnsonphoto_mvy_sf in the Art Barn Painting Studio (down the hall from the gallery). It is an open salon for our final week, encouraging photographers to bring one photograph to share with the group. Free and open to all.

Also at 6PM, Entrain ENTRAIN will be performing on the Outdoor Stage! They were rained out for Musical Monday last night, so we are fortunate to be able to have them play this evening. Limited tickets are now available online: featherstoneart.org/music

Images:
1-2 by Ray Ewing
3-4 by Posie Haeger

07/30/2026

Please join Featherstone CEO Ann Smith and RISD President Crystal Williams for a panel discussion with Featherstone artist instructors and RISD alumni, who will share how RISD shaped their creative experience and artistic journey from RISD to Featherstone.

Featuring Featherstone instructors and RISD alums:
Nancy Crossley Blank, 65 AE (Painting and Art Education)
Sabrina Kuchta, 11 IL (Illustration)
RISD Trustee Katherine Megrue-Smith, 88 GD (Graphic Design)
Rory Valentine, 93 TX (Textiles)
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07/26/2026

Today! Please join us at the opening reception for “RISD Emerging,” an exhibition Featherstone Center for the Arts on Martha’s Vineyard. At a time when funding and opportunities for artists are increasingly scarce, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Rhode Island School of Design is creating opportunities to elevate the work of emerging artists for broader audiences. For the first time, RISD President Crystal Williams Crys Williams and Director of Exhibitions Mark Moscone RISD Exhibitions have curated an off-campus exhibition of art by recent RISD alums RISD Alumni Association. The exhibition features the work of alumni from the classes of 2023 to 2026. The show offers a sampling of the exceptional craft, intellectual rigor, and creative vision that RISD artists and designers share.

On view July 27-August 16, 2026
Featherstone Center for the Arts
Opening Reception: Sunday, July 26, 4-6PM
RISD Alumni Panel: Thursday, July 30 at 4PM
with Featherstone CEO Ann Smith and RISD President Crystal Williams
Curator Talk: Tuesday, August 4 at 4PM
with Crystal Williams and Mark Moscone

Participating artists:
Amadi Williams Amadi Williams
Annemarie Cabrera Annemarie Cabrera
Asma Amadou Asmaa Amadou
Boluwatife Oyediran boluoyediran
Cassidy Sage Argo Cassidy Argo
Dominick Cocozza Dominick Cocozza
Dora (Yiden) Chen Dora Chen
Elliott Golden Elliott Golden
Florian Okwu Florian Okwu
Ireoluwatoni Asojo Ire Asojo
JaLeel Marques Porcha JaLeel Marques Porcha
Jennifer Choi Jennifer Choi
Katherine Hofmann Katherine Hofmann
Lisa Sacco lisa sacco
Paree Rohera Paree
Priyanka Kumar Priyanka Kumar
Ricky Vasan Ricky Vasan
Samuel Aguirre Samuel Aguirre
Samuel Sherman Sam Sherman
Tony Torres Tony Torres
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07/21/2026

Join us tonight, Tuesday, July 21st, at 6PM for this week’s Photographers Salon featuring Mark Alan Lovewell. Mark was a staff photographer and journalist for over 45 years at the Vineyard Gazette. In that span of time he received numerous awards from the New England Newspaper and Press Association and their predecessor organization for his writing and photography.

Through his years living on Martha’s Vineyard, he transitioned from black and white film photography to include digital imagery and he still has his darkroom. He has taught workshops through the Cambridge Center for Adult Education and shared his love for photography with numerous organizations and groups, going back to the days of Nathan Mayhew Seminars.

His work has appeared in top publications from the New York Times, Boston Globe and including magazines like Hasselblad Forum, and has hung in many Martha’s Vineyard galleries.

Photographers Salon hosted by
Tuesday, July 21st at 6PM featuring
Refreshments and Q&A, free and open to the public!

Featured photos are part of the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital’s Permanent Art Collection: 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵 𝘏𝘢𝘭𝘦-𝘉𝘰𝘱𝘱 𝘖𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘌𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘊𝘩𝘰𝘱 (1997), and 𝘊𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘌𝘥𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘰𝘸𝘯’𝘴 350th (1992).

07/19/2026

Today is the final day to view The 15th Anniversary Photographers Salon Show, curated by in the Francine Kelly Gallery! We are open today, July 19th (following a stormy Gala last night!), from 12-4PM.

In the summer of 2011, Featherstone began collaborating with Michael Johnson to welcome photographers to present their work and discuss their creative process with fellow photographers and art enthusiasts. Over the last fifteen years, the Photographers Salon has hosted 61 artists who have generously given their time and talents on Tuesday evenings each summer and created opportunities for new and emerging photographers to learn, share, and grow through our Open Salons. This exhibition celebrates this milestone and the artists who have made these Salons possible.

07/16/2026

There are just 2 days left to purchase a Golden Ticket! Enter to win one of five special experiences valued at over $10,000! Celebrating 30 years on our Featherstone Farm campus, 300 tickets will be sold at $100 each. Golden ticket winners will be drawn at the Featherstone Summer Gala this Saturday, July 18th - and you do not need to be present to win!

Experiences include: ✨a seven night stay in Tuscany, ✨chef‘s table dinner for 10 at Slough Farm, ✨a weekend getaway in Boston, ✨golden hour sunset sail with Catboat Charters, or ✨a family photo shoot with Jeanna Shepard Photography. Visit our website at featherstoneart.org/goldenticket to learn more!

07/14/2026

Tonight! Join us Tuesday, July 14th at 6PM for this week’s Photographers Salon featuring Michael Stimola. Learn about his creative process while he shares images and his inspiration with us.

“My photographs are a personal response to what I discover as stimulating in otherwise common environments. A landscape or landscape element, a building façade or street scene will evoke a distinct and personal impression. This evocation can be the result of a play of light and shadow, shapes within shapes, textures, motion or most significantly, by associations and memories.”

The above featured artwork of Michael’s is currently on display during our 15th Anniversary Photographers Salon show in the Francine Kelly Gallery (open 12-4PM through July 19th).

Photographers Salon at Featherstone Center for the Arts hosted by
Tuesday, July 14th at 6PM, featuring
Refreshments and Q&A, free and open to the public!

featherstoneart.org/photographerssalon

07/13/2026

Tonight! “Musician Stan Strickland is turning 80 years old this year. In celebration of that, a special concert at Featherstone Arts will take place, Monday, July 13, at 6:30 pm. Strickland has been an active member of the summer jazz community on M.V. for decades.

The theme of the show is Inner Freedom, a different spin on the idea of the country’s celebration of its 250th anniversary. Stan and his longtime ally, Joel Harrison, will perform music from two of the most iconic jazz records of all time, “In A Silent Way,” by Miles Davis, and “A Love Supreme,” by John Coltrane.

Other musicians joining them are Chico Huff, a virtuoso bassist originally from Martha’s Vineyard now based in Philadelphia. His long career has included performances with James Taylor and Kate Taylor, Solas, Dr. John, Terence Blanchard, and more. Robby Ammen is an internationally renowned drummer who played for Paul Simon’s “Capetown” musical. Ta**us Biskus and Wes Nagy are longstanding Islanders.” - MV Times

Tickets are $20 and available online at: featherstoneart.org. Tickets for Johnny Hoy and the Bluefish this Friday are also available, and Sarah Shaw Dawson next week go on sale today at noon!

Address

30 Featherstone Lane (Off Of Barnes Road)
Oak Bluffs, MA
02568

Telephone

+15086931850

Website

http://www.featherstoneart.org/, https://www.mvtimes.com/2026/07/08/every-picture-tells-a-story/

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