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The Francine Kelly Gallery in Featherstone's Art Barn is open year-round, with a variety of community art shows as well as curated shows and retrospectives. During exhibition, the Gallery is open 12-4PM, daily. At the end of each year, the gallery hosts the annual Holiday Gift Show. Click here to see previous shows.

Upcoming Shows in 2022

For submitting artists, please  read our Gallery Guidelines at the bottom of this page.

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Emma Amos, Lena Toni Tina, 1982-2008. (c) Emma Amos; Courtesy RYAN LEE Gallery, New York

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CURATOR TALKS
August 10 & 24  @4:00PM
Adrienne Childs will be hosting two curator talks during the exhibit on Wednesdays:
August 10 and 24,
at 4:00PM.
The talks are free and open to the public, however, we kindly ask that you pre-register to let us know that you're coming.

IMAGINE: CELEBRATING BLACK FEMALE CREATIVITY curated by Adrienne L. Childs, Ph.D. | August 7 - September 5
​Opening Reception: Sunday, August 7, 4-6PM

Imagine is an exhibition that brings works by historical and contemporary African American women artists to Martha’s Vineyard’s Featherstone Center for the Arts. The exhibition features artists who work in various media from painting and collage to jewelry. The Vineyard has been a welcoming and nurturing space for generations of artists and makers who see their time here – full time, or summer only – as a creative
retreat. Imagine puts our Vineyard artists into conversation with artists from across the nation, and celebrates the dynamic and diverse aesthetics of Black female creativity.

Adrienne L. Childs, Ph.D., is an art historian and curator. She is an adjunct curator at The Phillips Collection.  Childs is currently curator of Imagine: Celebrating Black Female Creativity at Featherstone Center for the Arts in Martha’s Vineyard and,co-curator of The Colour of Anxiety: Race, Sex and the Uncanny in Victorian Sculpture for the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, England. Childs is 2022 recipient of the Driskell Prize in African American Art awarded by the High Museum. She curated the exhibition Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition, 2020, at the Phillips Collection. The exhibition catalog Riffs and Relations won the 2020 James A Porter and David C. Driskell Book Award in African American Art History.  Her current book project is Ornamental Blackness: The Black Figure in European Decorative Arts, forthcoming from Yale University Press. She has held fellowships the Lunder Institute at the Colby College Museum of Art, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA), The Hutchins Center at Harvard University, The Clark Art Institute and the David C. Driskell Center. She is co-curator of the recent exhibition The Black Figure in the European Imaginary at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College. She contributed to The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume V from Harvard University Press. Childs is co-editor of the book Blacks in European Art of the Long Nineteenth Century, Routledge. Her scholarly interests are the relationship between race and representation in European and American fine and decorative arts. She also served as curator at the David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland where she curated numerous exhibitions of African American art. 

Personal and Vineyard Connections…
​Childs was first brought to the Vineyard 40 years ago with her husband to be – Ronald Childs - and has been enjoying summers there ever since. She is the mother of 2 adult children, Giselle, and Clayton Childs. Aside from her busy career her interests include travel, cooking, reading, making jewelry, and entertaining.

GALLERY GUIDELINES:

 

• These Featherstone exhibitions in the Francine Kelly Gallery are open to all Martha's Vineyard artists - those who live year round, seasonal residents and those with a prolonged connection to the Island.
• All forms of art are welcome. Art must be newly created and not previously shown at Featherstone.
• Two dimensional art must be wired securely and ready to hang (saw tooth hooks will not be accepted).
• All artwork must be signed and labeled.
• Featherstone reserves the right to not hang a piece based on presentation: no proper hanging mechanism, poor framing, the yellowing and age of piece, etc. ​
• All art must be for sale. Artists receive a 60% commission for all art sold.
• Please alert us if art will be shipped rather than delivered in person.
• Please notify us at featherstone@featherstoneart.org if you wish to participate or if you require more information.