Featherstone "Art of Flowers" Exhibition. May 8th - June 1st 2016
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Each Mother’s Day weekend, Featherstone Center for the Arts celebrates the coming of spring by opening their “Art of Flowers” exhibition. Now in its 20th year, this event kicks off the summer art season in style and is tagged to be their busiest show of the Featherstone calendar.
Holly Alaimo has done an amazing job curating the 80 plus artists’ work. The opening day on May 8th started as a rather gloomy Mothering Sunday, but right on cue at 5pm, the sun burst through the clouds for the last part of the day and the turn-out for the show was great. Artists and patrons enjoyed the samplings of wine and cheese on offer whilst they admired the art, before spilling out onto the deck of the Virginia Weston Besse Gallery. As it's name suggests the exhibit has a floral theme, from paintings, drawings, ceramics, handmade cards and even vintage fabric ponchos and artwork printed onto silk scarves.
For this 20th Art Of Flowers, there's a second floral themed exhibit on show; The Pebble Studio is host to a retrospective of work from Jeanne Campbell. Jeanne unfortunately passed this winter, but was a great supporter of Featherstone. She and he husband Malcolm began coming to Martha’s Vineyard in 1966, building a home in Spring Point in 1974 and spending at least 5 months of the year on the island. The Campbells are fondly remembered in the Vineyard community as the founders of Chilmark Chocolates and, yes, Chilmark Chocolates were served! Jeanne liked to photograph flowers, producing many images for sale and which were printed in to a calendar in recent years.
The Exhibit will be up until June 1st. For more information visit www.featherstoneart.org