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When I was getting my master’s degree in fine art, I decided to do very large architectural pieces. This was a style I just gravitated to. I...
Quick Reads
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I met William Ternes in 1983, introduced by Nancy Furino, who was exhibiting at my newly opened gallery, Hermine Merel Smith Fine Art. Bill ...
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Alejandro Carreño and I met at the Vineyard Artisans Festivals several years ago and have been friends ever since. Our booths were next to e...
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Dick Iacovello, Pellegrino Limonata.
The year was 1998, the Time I captured an image of a crushed can of Coca-Cola. It was thrown f...
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If you are on the receiving end of Peggy Turner Zablotny’s annual bookmarks, then you already know the power of the petal. Each year, Zablot...
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These “Food as Art” portraits came out of a classroom-wide exploration of food — food as nourishment, food as it relates to community and ga...
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Place: Up-Island Vineyard
Time: 12 midnight (summer — everybody knows that a winter Island midnight comes at 9 pm)
We hear: Waves br...
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Menemsha 1993, Alison Shaw
The summer I turned eight, my father insisted I go sailing with him and Mrs. Gilchrest. In July the three of u...
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Many year-round islanders work more than one job — sometimes to support a family, sometimes to build a winter nest-egg by taking advantage o...
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I was determined to make an atomic structure that viewers could see and touch. Art and science — this is what I like . . . The atom is a col...