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A season of art, inquiry & connection.Today marks the close of Fault Lines and Loïs Mailou Jones: Sphere of Influence, b...
09/13/2026

A season of art, inquiry & connection.

Today marks the close of Fault Lines and Loïs Mailou Jones: Sphere of Influence, bringing an extraordinary chapter of Knowhere Art Gallery’s 2026 Martha’s Vineyard program to a close.

Since June 19, three exhibitions, Held in Tension, Fault Lines, and Loïs Mailou Jones: Sphere of Influence, have brought together artists, histories, ideas, and perspectives that invited us to look more closely, ask questions, and engage with one another through art.

We are deeply grateful to the artists who entrusted us with their work, to our collectors and collaborators, and to everyone who walked through our doors, joined a conversation, attended a program, returned with a friend, or simply spent time with the art. You are an essential part of what makes Knowhere a place for connection and inquiry.

While these exhibitions come to a close, the conversation continues.

Beginning this week, our Martha’s Vineyard program comes together at Center of Knowhere, 73 Circuit Avenue, with a curated presentation of available works by artists featured throughout our summer exhibitions.

We look forward to continuing the conversations, connections, and discoveries that began this summer and welcoming you through the end of October.

Center of Knowhere
73 Circuit Avenue
Oak Bluffs · Martha’s Vineyard

09/12/2026

A look back at Loïs Mailou Jones: Sphere of Influence.

Legacy is not static. It is carried forward through teaching, mentorship, artistic practice, and the exchange of ideas.

Sphere of Influence traces that continuum from Loïs Mailou Jones across generations, revealing how influence evolves as artists encounter it, interpret it, and make it their own.

As the exhibition enters its final weekend, we look back at the works, connections, and conversations that brought this story to life.

On view through Sunday, September 13.

Center of Knowhere
73 Circuit Avenue · Oak Bluffs, Martha’s Vineyard
Saturday 11–5 · Sunday 12–5

Featured Artists:
Loïs Mailou Jones (1905–1998)
Dr. Samella Lewis (1923–2022)
David C. Driskell (1931–2020)
Martha Jackson Jarvis - martha jackson jarvis
Lisa Corinne Davis - Lisa Corinne Davis
LaToya Hobbs - LaToya M. Hobbs
Mathieu JN Baptiste - MATHIEU JN BAPTISTE


Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts National Museum of Women in the Arts The David C. Driskell Center Baltimore Museum Of Art

09/11/2026

A look back at Fault Lines.

During the exhibition, Fault Lines brought together artists whose practices examine the structures and systems that shape human experience. Through questions of history, race, identity, and place, the exhibition considers what becomes visible when we look more closely at the forces that surround us and the points where they begin to shift, fracture, or reveal themselves.

As we enter the final weekend, we look back at some of the works, encounters, and conversations that have shaped the exhibition.

On view through Sunday, September 13.

Knowhere Art Gallery
91 Dukes County Avenue · Oak Bluffs, Martha’s Vineyard

Friday + Saturday 11–5
Sunday 12–5

Over the past several weeks, we have taken a closer look at the artists, works, histories, and ideas that have shaped ou...
09/09/2026

Over the past several weeks, we have taken a closer look at the artists, works, histories, and ideas that have shaped our exhibitions this summer.

In Fault Lines, artists examine the structures and systems that influence human experience, making visible forces that can shape our lives, communities, histories, and sense of place.

In Loïs Mailou Jones: Sphere of Influence, we have considered legacy as something that moves across generations through teaching, mentorship, artistic practice, scholarship, and the sharing of knowledge.

Different artists. Different practices. Different points of entry. Together, these exhibitions have created space for inquiry, reflection, and conversation.

As we enter the final days of both exhibitions, we invite you to experience the works together and spend time with the conversations they have opened. Fault Lines and Loïs Mailou Jones: Sphere of Influence remain on view through Sunday, September 13.

The influence begins here.Loïs Mailou Jones (1905–1998) is the intellectual and artistic foundation of Sphere of Influen...
09/06/2026

The influence begins here.

Loïs Mailou Jones (1905–1998) is the intellectual and artistic foundation of Sphere of Influence. Her significance extends beyond her achievements as an artist to the generations she shaped through nearly five decades of teaching at Howard University.

Jones understood that artistic legacy was not created through imitation. She encouraged artists to develop independent voices grounded in technical discipline, thoughtful design, cultural inquiry, and an understanding of the world beyond themselves.

Her own practice embodied that philosophy. Across more than seven decades, Jones continually evolved, drawing upon experiences and visual traditions encountered in the United States, Europe, Haiti, and Africa. Her work moved across approaches and influences while remaining grounded in exceptional craftsmanship, color, composition, and curiosity about culture and identity.

Through teaching, mentorship, artistic exchange, and example, her influence moved outward. Students such as David C. Driskell carried that knowledge into their artistic practices, classrooms, scholarship, institutions, and mentorship, extending its reach to generations Jones herself would never teach.

Loïs Mailou Jones to David C. Driskell. Driskell to the next generation. And the influence continues.

This continuum is at the heart of Loïs Mailou Jones: Sphere of Influence. The exhibition explores what happens when ideas, knowledge, discipline, and artistic inquiry are passed from one generation to another, then interpreted and transformed by those who follow.

We close our Artist Profile series where Sphere of Influence begins: with Loïs Mailou Jones and a legacy that continues to resonate across generations.

Experience Loïs Mailou Jones: Sphere of Influence, now on view at Center of Knowhere.

Center of Knowhere
73 Circuit Avenue · Oak Bluffs, Martha’s Vineyard
Open Wed–Sat: 11–5 · Sun: 12–5

Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts The David C. Driskell Center Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Centre Pompidou French Culture in the US Martha's Vineyard Museum Boston Art Review The Boston Globe Smithsonian

09/05/2026

Loïs Mailou Jones to David C. Driskell. Driskell to the next generation.

Legacy is not static. It is passed from one generation to the next through teaching, mentorship, artistic practice, and the sharing of knowledge.

David C. Driskell embodies this continuum at the heart of Loïs Mailou Jones: Sphere of Influence.

Driskell studied with Loïs Mailou Jones at Howard University, where her teaching and example became part of the foundation of his development as an artist and scholar. Her influence extended far beyond their time together in the classroom. Driskell carried that knowledge forward, building upon it through his own artistic practice, scholarship, curatorial work, teaching, and mentorship.

His artistic practice drew upon nature, spirituality, African and African American cultural traditions, and personal memory. Working across painting, collage, and printmaking, Driskell developed a visual language rich in color, symbolism, texture, and layered meaning.

His influence beyond the studio was equally profound. In 1976, Driskell organized the landmark exhibition Two Centuries of Black American Art, bringing greater visibility to generations of Black artists and helping challenge longstanding omissions within American art history. Through decades of teaching, scholarship, curatorial work, and mentorship, he helped create pathways for artists and scholars who followed.

This continuum is central to Sphere of Influence. The exhibition considers legacy not simply as what an artist leaves behind, but as what is transmitted, transformed, and carried forward by those who come next.

Experience the work of David C. Driskell in Loïs Mailou Jones: Sphere of Influence, now on view at Center of Knowhere and virtually at Knowhere Art Gallery’s website.

Center of Knowhere
73 Circuit Avenue · Oak Bluffs, Martha’s Vineyard
Open Wed–Sat: 11–5 · Sun: 12–5

The David C. Driskell Center Howard University Fisk University FISK Gallery University of Maryland High Museum of Art Michener Art Museum Raven Fine Art Editions

09/02/2026

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT | MARIA-LANA QUEEN

With a self-directed practice developed over more than two decades, Maria-Lana Queen transforms color, texture, symbolism, and found materials into a deeply personal visual language.

Queen began painting in 2003 following the loss of her brother. What began as a means of processing grief evolved into an ongoing visual diary and a distinctive coded language through which she explores memory, lineage, faith, resilience, and the complexities of the Black American experience.

Layering paint and found materials with recurring symbols and markings, Queen creates works in which personal and collective histories converge. Her compositions move between remembrance and reckoning, honoring those who came before while confronting the structures and histories that continue to shape the present.

Queen’s work is held in collections including the David C. Driskell Center and the Larry and Brenda Thompson Collection of African American Art at the Georgia Museum of Art.

Explore the work of Maria-Lana Queen in Fault Lines, now on view at Knowhere Art Gallery.

Knowhere Art Gallery
91 Dukes County Avenue · Oak Bluffs, Martha’s Vineyard
Open Wed–Sat: 11–5 · Sun: 12–5

Artwork Details (in order of slides):
A Bloodline of Greatness
Resilient
Awakening #2

Photos courtesy of the artist and Knowhere Art Gallery.

Georgia Museum of Art The David C. Driskell Center The Washington Post Washington City Paper East City Art
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08/30/2026

What happens when the structures that shape our lives become visible?

In her Redlining series, Kim Rice examines race, property, place, and access by weaving historical redlining maps through photographs of the landscapes and structures we inhabit.

One of the works presented in Fault Lines incorporates a photograph of the former Bradley Memorial Church and Denniston family home at 11 Masonic Avenue in Oak Bluffs, a site deeply connected to the history of Black life on Martha’s Vineyard. Under the leadership of Rev. Oscar E. Denniston, Bradley Memorial became the Island’s first African American church and a place of worship, education, community, and fellowship. The historic building was demolished in 2017.

Rice weaves this image together with the history of discriminatory housing policies that shaped access to property, homeownership, and generational wealth. The redlining map physically interrupts the photograph, asking us to consider how systems of race and property become woven into the places we call home.

This tension sits at the heart of Fault Lines, an exhibition exploring the impact of structures and systems on human experience. In Rice’s work, structure is both visible and invisible: the physical structures that hold community and memory, and the social and economic structures that shape access, ownership, and opportunity.

Presented here in Oak Bluffs, only a short distance from where Bradley Memorial once stood, the work carries particular resonance.

Experience the work of Kim Rice in Fault Lines, now on view at Knowhere Art Gallery.

Knowhere Art Gallery
91 Dukes County Avenue · Oak Bluffs, Martha’s Vineyard
Open Wed-Sat: 11-5 · Sun: 12-5

Vineyard Gazette BmoreArt University of Oklahoma Baltimore Museum Of Art Creative Alliance Baltimore Sun Lighting The Trail

08/28/2026

“I strive to create situations and objects where people are compelled to interact.”

For Alison Croney Moses, sculpture becomes a place for connection, exchange, and possibility. Through wood, she creates forms that ask us to consider how we encounter one another and how those encounters might help build community and move us toward a more just future.

In Where We Meet, intertwined forms hold the pressure of difference, capturing those moments when conflict softens, perspectives converge, and a future begins to take shape. Alison invites us to look closely, not away from tension, but toward the possibility within it.

A Boston based artist, Alison Croney Moses is increasingly recognized for a practice that brings together craft, community, identity, and care. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Detroit Institute of Arts, Rose Art Museum, Fuller Craft Museum, and the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Her recent honors include the 2025 James and Audrey Foster Prize from the ICA Boston, the 2024 Black Mountain College International Artist Prize, the 2023 Boston Artadia Award, and a 2022 USA Fellowship in Craft. She was also a finalist for the 2024 LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize.

Experience the work of Alison Croney Moses in Loïs Mailou Jones: Sphere of Influence, now on view at Center of Knowhere.

Center of Knowhere
73 Circuit Avenue · Oak Bluffs, Martha’s Vineyard
Open Wed–Sat: 11–5 · Sun: 12–5

RISD Alumni Association RISD Museum ICA/Boston The Boston Globe Boston Art Review Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Fuller Craft Museum Smithsonian

Cicely Carew creates vibrant, immersive works that explore joy, liberation, transformation, and the possibilities of con...
08/26/2026

Cicely Carew creates vibrant, immersive works that explore joy, liberation, transformation, and the possibilities of connection. Working across painting, collage, sculpture, printmaking, installation, and sound, Carew embraces improvisation and layered materiality to create works that move between disciplines and invite viewers into spaces of wonder and reflection.

Through bold color, movement, and exuberant form, Carew approaches beauty as a pathway to presence, healing, and a more expansive sense of belonging.

Carew is a recipient of the 2023 James and Audrey Foster Prize from the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston and the 2023 Brother Thomas Fellowship. Her work is held in collections including the Harvard Art Museums, Boston Public Library, U.S. Department of State Art in Embassies program, and Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. In 2025, she presented the solo exhibition BeLOVEd at Fuller Craft Museum.

Explore the work of Cicely Carew in Fault Lines, now on view at Knowhere Art Gallery.

Knowhere Art Gallery
91 Dukes County Avenue · Oak Bluffs, Martha’s Vineyard
Wednesday–Saturday: 11–5 · Sunday: 12–5

Artwork details, in order of slides:
Prepare
Between Heaven and Earth
A New Day Dawns
Radials
Light Calibrated
Light Up

Photos courtesy of the artist and Knowhere Art Gallery.

The Boston Globe Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) Boston Globe Arts & Lifestyle ICA/Boston

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