Featherstone, the island's only year-round non-profit arts center, celebrates 12 very fruitful years of bringing art, in a myriad of forms, to island audiences and participants.

The Martha's Vineyard Artistic Outlet
With gallery shows, workshops, art camps, evenings of music and film, and fundraising events, Featherstone has been the living beating heart of the Vineyard art scene for 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.

Watched over by a pair of cows and a horse, 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 six 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 kiln.

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 tapestry and stained glass, poetry and music classes.

Art For Kids and Teens
Week-long Art camps replace the popular Saturday pre-school and Saturday arts classes once summer arrives. Preschoolers to young teens can participate daily (M-F mornings) in art related activities geared to the particular camp's age range. After school programs in photography, pottery and poetry are offered free to teens during the school year.

Outdoor Entertainment
Musical Mondays take place during the summer from July through August, spotlighting local musicians in a bucolic outdoor setting. 

Featherstone celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2006 with a big birthday bash.