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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Creating community through the arts. Featherstone's mission is to engage, enrich and connect our com

06/09/2026

From : Join us as we celebrate the release of Volume 2 of the Washashores Review—an anthology featuring the voices, perspectives, and creativity of 30 talented writers.

Spend the afternoon with us at Featherstone as we gather in community, hear live readings from featured contributors, meet the authors behind the work, and celebrate the power of storytelling.

Whether you’ve been with us since Volume 1 or are discovering the Washashores Writers Collective for the first time, we’d love to have you there.

📖 Washashores Review, Volume 2
📅 Saturday, June 20
🕓 4:00 PM
📍 Featherstone Center for the Arts

And if you haven’t yet picked up Volume 1, now is the perfect time to dive in before the newest collection arrives.

We can’t wait to celebrate with you. 💙

06/05/2026

We have two special one day workshops this weekend: Plein Air Painting with Liz Taft and Linocut Pet Portrait with Ann Meleney. Both on Saturday, each unique!

Plein Air Painting: Keeping it Simple with
Saturday, June 6
10:00AM - 3:30PM / $110
featherstoneart.org/painting
Liz Taft will be leading painters outdoors on Polly Hill Arboretum’s beautiful property. Students will conduct two studies - one in the morning and one in the afternoon, observing the differences in the colors and the shadows as the light changes with the movement of the sun. For Liz, painting is all about attention to what is in front of you and simplifying what you see.

Linocut Pet Portrait with Ann Meleney
Saturday, June 6 in Featherstone’s Printmaking Studio
10:00AM - 1:00PM / $70
featherstoneart.org/printmaking
Turn your favorite pet photos into bold, expressive works of art in this beginner-friendly linocut printmaking class. Using your own images as inspiration, you’ll learn how to simplify shapes, carve designs into linoleum blocks, and create striking prints full of personality and texture.
We’ll cover the essentials of transferring your pet’s likeness onto a carving surface, safe and effective carving techniques, and inking and printing methods that bring your design to life.

06/01/2026

ANNOUNCING A 30TH ANNIVERSARY $30,000 MATCHING GIFT CHALLENGE!

In celebration of our 30th year on the Featherstone Farm campus, we are thrilled to announce a matching gift fundraising challenge for the month of June! A thoughtful Featherstone family has pledged to match up to $30,000 raised through donations from our community of students, friends, and patrons, over the next 30 days.

During the month of June, your donation of:
$100 turns into $200
$500 becomes $1,000
$5,000 gift equals $10,000 for Featherstone!

This matching gift challenge allows us to raise necessary funds to support our classes and programs. Your gift to Featherstone during this fundraiser will help us continue to connect with our community through engaging and enriching experiences and education.

🎨 $30 covers supplies for one day of a children’s art class.
🎨 $300 enables a child to participate in two sessions of afterschool art classes.
🎨 $3,000 provides a new kiln and equipment in the Pottery Studio.
🎨 $30,000 allows us to renovate an older teaching studio building.

Every contribution you make to Featherstone Center for the Arts during the month of June will be matched! Please consider a donation by June 30th to double your impact!

We believe in the power of art and creativity and that it has the ability to connect us and enrich lives. All of us at Featherstone are incredibly thankful to you for your belief in our mission. Please join us in supporting connectivity and creativity here at Featherstone!

🔗 in bio to donate (featherstoneart.org/30match)

05/29/2026

We have an opening in the next session of Beginner Wheel with Debbie Hale stating this Monday! The rest of the summer, through August, is sold out (including Mark Bateman’s Intro to Wheel)!

In this beginner’s ceramics class, students learn techniques to create forms on the potter’s wheel - cups, bowls, vessels, etc. You will learn the basics of the pottery studio, wheel throwing, glazing and firing

Beginner Wheel Throwing with Debbie Hale
Mondays: June 1, 8, 15, 22
4:00-6:30PM / $240
featherstoneart.org/ceramics to register

05/28/2026

Saturday’s weather doesn’t look great, but we have a fun one day workshop for you! The Printmaking Studio at Featherstone is a cozy creative space. In Block Printing with Allison Doherty, students will learn the basics of relief block printing by carving small designs into soft-cut printing blocks, inking using a brayer (small roller) and transferring the image to paper. After designing your blocks, you will be able to create a small set of prints.

Block Printing with Allison Doherty
Saturday, May 30
12:00PM - 3:00PM / $65
featherstoneart.org/printmaking to register

05/27/2026

One week away! We are looking forward to welcoming award-winning Palestinian-American poet, essayist and educator, Naomi Shihab Nye to Featherstone on Wednesday, June 3rd. Nye is the author and or editor of more than 30 volumes: books of poetry, collections of essays, anthologies, and fiction. A fundraiser for Featherstone, Nye will read from her published work, with Q&A and book signing to follow (The Tiny Journalist and Everything Comes Next will be available for purchase from Edgartown Books at the event). Presented in partnership with PathwaysARTS .

Poetry Reading with Naomi Shihab Nye
Wednesday, June 3, 2026 at 6:00PM
Francine Kelly Gallery / $30, open seating
Further information and registration: featherstoneart.org/nye

Naomi Shihab Nye describes herself as a “wandering poet.” She has spent more than 40 years traveling the country and the world to lead writing workshops and inspiring students of all ages. Nye was born to a Palestinian father and an American mother and grew up in St. Louis, Jerusalem, and San Antonio. Drawing on her Palestinian-American heritage, the cultural diversity of her home in Texas, and her experiences traveling in Asia, Europe, Canada, Mexico, and the Middle East, Nye uses her writing to attest to our shared humanity.

Nye was a Lannan Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a Witter Bynner Fellow (Library of Congress). She has also been the recipient of many awards and prizes including a Lavan Award, Isabella Gardner Poetry Award, four Pushcart Prizes, Robert Creeley Prize, NSK Neustadt Award for Children’s Literature, May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Award, Lon Ti**le Award for Lifetime Achievement, two Jane Addams Children’s Book Awards, the Ivan Sandrof Award for Lifetime Achievement, the 2024 Texas Writer Award and the 2024 Wallace Stevens Award. In 2021 she was voted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

(Photograph by Michael Nye)

05/25/2026

Featherstone is closed today, Monday, May 25 in observance of Memorial Day. Reminder for artists, drop off for our upcoming show The Vineyard Landscape is this Tuesday & Wednesday, May 26 & 27 from 10AM to 4PM each day. The Vineyard Landscape asks artists to create their vision of our island’s landscape, from the literal to your hopes and dreams for our community.

Artists are welcome to submit one piece. The show will run from May 31-June 21, with an opening reception on Sunday, May 31 from 4-6PM. Artist submission forms are available at: featherstoneart.org/galleryshows (and at drop off).

Featured artwork is by Liz Taft who will be hosting a plein air painting workshop the weekend after, Friday-Sunday, June 5-7 at Featherstone and Polly Hill Arboretum . Further details at: featherstoneart.org/painting.

05/23/2026

This is the final weekend of THE ART OF FLOWERS! Come see the many blooms from 130 artists filling the gallery before they are gone! We are open Saturday and Sunday, May 23rd and 24th from 12-4PM. (Please note, Sunday is the final day of the show and we are not open on Memorial Day).

Be sure to also visit the Schule Chapel Gallery next door while on campus to see ’s collaborative mini show, The Art of Flowers through the Eyes of Children.

05/22/2026

Visit the Martha’s Vineyard Film Center this weekend for the 2026 Martha’s Vineyard Environmental Film Festival and view Vineyard Conservation Society’s high
school art show, The Art of Conservation!

This annual art contest encourages students to deepen their connections with nature and the habitats that sustain it through artistic expression.

The Art of Conservation with
at the ’s Feldman Family Artspace
May 21 - June 14.

Address

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

Telephone

+15086931850

Website

http://www.featherstoneart.org/, http://featherstoneart.org/jobs

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