The 16th annual Nantucket Film Festival (June 22-28) line up has been announced, and includes a film by Nantucketer Kit Noble “Nantucket by Nature”.
“After the success of NFF 15, it was inevitable that we would need to expand the festival’s length and scope to accommodate the growing interest,” said Executive Director Colin Stanfield. “Along with the later dates allowing more families to attend after the school year wraps, the festival stands to help bring more people to the island and in turn positively affect local business economically.” Passes are currently on sale on the festival website, with individual tickets on sale May 27. (more…)
Mark Carapezza is the brain child behind “Wishes from Nantucket” – the colored flags appeared around Nantucket in the last few days – with the simple aim to capture people’s wishes on small flags that hang around the island from now until April 3.
The project began as a visit to the Nantucket Public Schools to talk about installation art: (more…)
We’re featuring the photos of Laura Poole, a 25 year old living in Nantucket for her 9th month. Laura works in the Arts community on islane and has been taking photos for a long time, but Nantucket’s beauty has really sparked her interests even more. you can follow here on Twitter at twitter.com/thatslinkygirl1.
The shores of Vancouver Island’s wild west coast are overflowing with Whale based Art & celebrations during this week’s Pacific Rim Whale Festival, as they celebrate the arrival of upwards of 20,000 grey whales on their northbound migration from the Baja Peninsula to Alaska’s Bering Strait and beyond.
“The great Leviathan is that one creature in the world which must remain unpainted to the last.”–Herman Melville
The history of Nantucket is inexorably linked to that of the whale – and Moby-Dick. A fathomless source for literary exploration, Melville’s masterpiece has also inspired a stunning array of book illustrations, prints, comics, paintings, sculptures, mixed media, and even architectural designs.
Unpainted to the Last by Elizabeth Schultz illuminates this impressive body of work and shows how it opens up our understanding of both Moby-Dick and twentieth-century American art. (more…)
Alongside Facebook and Twitter, the internet has become a great place to find and share artwork and craft. A perfect example of this is Flickr.
Flickr is an image and video hosting website, where professional and amateur photographers, painters and artists can share their work and online community. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers to host images that they embed in blogs and social media. (more...)
