tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46431998663343866642024-03-12T21:35:54.705-04:00Featherstone Center for the ArtsFeatherstone Center for the Arts is a year-round community arts center on Martha's Vineyard- a place of inspiration, education and creative nourishment. The goal of this Blog is to bring the support and community Featherstone offers into a virtual space that can easily be accessed by anyone, anywhere.FCAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00678270249882118719noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4643199866334386664.post-56714004281476138882011-03-10T15:07:00.000-05:002011-03-10T15:07:31.320-05:00Tova Katzman's Photograghy Show<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/S2QDW21V-Z0?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;">Martha's Vineyard Regional High School Senior Tova Katzman's Photography Show </div><div style="text-align: center;">at Featherstone Center for the Arts. Opening reception March 6 - March 11, 2011.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Video by Patrick Phillips of Vineyard Voice<span style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="border-collapse: separate; 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Cape Cod Delivery arrived early Tuesday morning with our shiny new Skutt Kiln all packaged up safe and sound. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Just waiting on a few small technical improvements to the kiln's new home and we'll have her up and running in no time. Be sure to come on by for <b>Open Pottery Studio</b> every <span style="color: #990000;">Wednesday from 2-5pm</span> and every <span style="color: #990000;">Thursday from 7-9pm</span> to check out the new goods and put it to good use!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZhUbOznQR0hRHAb5t7Q_5G0rtAlbJp0XXH5z7gDeiUt3x4lLRf4Ym70v1P9stNR3ZvwfLTyFVliYQvE4K5YfTaLcQrEcn4e4c3RKPRtF2s1hnIyfsDC2PvTB00Zu-kzWZWh6eq5v9aKg/s1600/IMGP3593.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZhUbOznQR0hRHAb5t7Q_5G0rtAlbJp0XXH5z7gDeiUt3x4lLRf4Ym70v1P9stNR3ZvwfLTyFVliYQvE4K5YfTaLcQrEcn4e4c3RKPRtF2s1hnIyfsDC2PvTB00Zu-kzWZWh6eq5v9aKg/s320/IMGP3593.JPG" width="211" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Mark your calendar for this years <b>Second Annual Potters Bowl</b> <span style="color: #990000;">August 28th, 2011</span> to raise more money for our busiest studio on campus.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">More pictures on our Facebook page.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div>FCAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00678270249882118719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4643199866334386664.post-88755472052466798522011-02-08T15:30:00.002-05:002011-02-11T14:42:02.680-05:00Christmas in Edgartown<div style="text-align: center;"><b>This year the Children's Studio created a beautiful window project on Main Street in Edgartown.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;">Miss. Lani's Portrait Painting class and Animals in Art class teamed up to put together a peaceful and inspiring message for the holiday season and New Year.<br />
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</div>FCAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00678270249882118719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4643199866334386664.post-72823682261173502322011-01-13T21:32:00.002-05:002011-02-01T12:27:51.887-05:00Featherstone's History<span style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: Lucida Grande; font-size: 14px;">Featherstone, the island's only year-round non-profit arts center, celebrates 15 very fruitful years of bringing art, in a myriad of forms, to island audiences and participants.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #073763;">The Martha's Vineyard Artistic Outlet</span></span></span></span><div><span style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: Lucida Grande; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;"><br />
</span>With gallery shows, classes and workshops, art camps, evenings of music and poetry, and special events, Featherstone has been the living beating heart of the Vineyard art scene for over a decade now. Starting out in 1980 as the Meetinghouse of Martha's Vineyard, with a mission to sponsor and encourage community involvement in the arts. Meetinghouse found a home, and a name, when the center, in partnership with the Martha's Vineyard Land Bank Association, acquired the farm in May 1996. Meetinghouse changed its name to Featherstone in 2002. Featherstone will be celebrating its fifteenth anniversary in 2011 with a big birthday bash on Saturday, August 6th. <br />
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Watched over a cows, the six acre parcel devoted to the Arts Center, maintains the feel of a working farm. Situated among unspoiled woods and meadows, the center's five buildings house studios, show space and offices. The farmhouse has been converted into a gallery and office space, the main barn, once used as stable for horses, has been transformed into a lofty artist's studio for photography, printmaking and weaving. A tool barn was reinvented as a workshop for woodworking, stained glass and metalwork. What was once the stable for breed mares and their foals is now the Pottery Studio. On the grounds is an outdoor, wood-fired, brick kiln.<br />
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Budding artists/artisans/musicians can explore a diversity of crafts through the Center's many workshops led by professionals in a variety of artistic fields. Along with drawing, painting and photography classes, Featherstone's adult offerings include ceramics, sculpture, jewelry, felting, quilting, knitting, printmaking, tapestry, poetry, writing, mixed media, and technology. <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #073763;">Art For Kids and Teens</span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: Lucida Grande; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;"><br />
</span>Our children's art offerings include: week-long art camps in the summer as well as weekday and Saturday art classes in the fall, winter and spring. Preschoolers to young teens can participate in daily, age appropriate art related activities. After school programs in photography, ceramics, and printmaking are offered free to teens during the school year.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #073763;">Outdoor Entertainment</span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: Lucida Grande; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;"><br />
</span>Musical Mondays take place during the summer from June 20th through August 15th, spotlighting local musicians in a bucolic outdoor setting.<br />
</span></div><div><span style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: Lucida Grande; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">Flea and </span></span><span style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: Lucida Grande; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">Fine Arts Market</span></span></div><div><span style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: Lucida Grande; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;"><br />
</span><a href="http://www.featherstoneart.org/Home/featherstone-fleamarket">The Featherstone Flea & Fine Arts Market</a> is offered every Tuesday from June 21st through August 30th. from 9:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. — featuring over sixty vendors.</span></div><div><span style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: Lucida Grande; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</span></div><div><span style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: Lucida Grande; font-size: 14px;"><span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px;"><div><span style="border-collapse: separate; color: #073763; font-family: Lucida Grande; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">Summer Pottery Readings</span></div><div><span style="border-collapse: separate; color: #073763; font-family: Lucida Grande; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;"><br />
</span></div></span>The best American Poets read on Thursdays throughout the summer. </span></div>FCAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00678270249882118719noreply@blogger.com0