•••
I recently have been working on compiling a collection of comic poems. Most of them are soliloquies, and some monologues. I started thinking...
Artists
•••
In 2010, when portrait artist Elizabeth Whelan gave up her Island graphic design business and made the switch to oil painting, she left behi...
•••
M-C Lamarre has been on and off the Vineyard for years. This year she’s teamed up with Zita Cousens, owner of Cousen Rose Gallery in Oak Blu...
•••
Around the Bend, by Bob Avakian
A couple of years ago, I was interviewing a well-known Vineyard author, and I asked where he got the inspir...
•••
A truish look at life on the Vineyard back in the day.
In the late ’60s and early ’70s, a wave of 20somethings were drawn to Martha’s Vin...
•••
Photo, above, A work in progress: Stina's design, inspired by a jacket in the museum collection. Photos courtesy MV Museum
The coll...
•••
Doug Kent, in his West Tisbury Gallery, with one of his Mind Series paintings. Photograph by Lynn Christoffers.
Quantum leap:
In physic...
•••
Dan VanLandingham of West Tisbury was already an accomplished painter of Vineyard landscapes when he set out to advance his work with a M.F....
•••
Dick Iacovello ended his U.S. Army tour of duty in Vietnam in the fall of 1963.
He would spend the next 45 years exorcising the demons of h...
•••
There’s nothing subtle about the work of artist Basia Jaworska. She creates poster-size paintings — larger-than-life portraits in vibrant co...