The 16th Annual Nantucket Fall Arts Festival will take place beginning Labor Day weekend (August 29) on Nantucket and will run through September 7.The Festival will showcase the creative talents of many talented Nantucketers– from talented local photographers, painters, weavers and musicians to Nantucket High School students, who will be staging a premiere of a creative video project they have been working on for the past year. It will truly be a celebration of the diversity and extraordinary talent found on the island today.
The Arts Council expects to attract over 4,000 participants throughout the Festival starting with the busy Labor Day weekend. We will be promoting the Festival and our sponsors through advertising and publicity in Nantucket and Cape media, as well as our Nantucket Arts Council monthly e-newsletter. We also will be producing a printed program in a quantity of 6,000 to be distributed free all over the island.
For more information about sponsorship or advertising opportunities, contact Nantucket Arts Council Director of Development Linda Sonnonstine at development@nantucketartscouncil.org or (508) 228-7892.
This weekend Nantucket plays host to the Nantucket Folk Art and Artisan Show at Bartlett’s Farm. Expect to see some great Folk Art from local favorites and visting Artisans. Our personal pick is the delightful Starfish, Whales and Sealife brought all the way from Iowa by Sundie, Tucker and Lucia at Vintage Sculpture. Make sure you go along and say hi..
Nantucket Folk Art & Artisan Show
Bartlett’s Farm
Thursday July 10-Saturday July 12
Carrying the baby, Ocean beach, 1993 (from Bartley’s video), 2008. 36×48 inches.
Currently exhibiting at the Hoorn-Ashby Gallery on Federal Street is “Back To Nantucket”, a series of new paintings by Maud Bryt. See Maud Bryt Art here >>
Happy Independence Day!! As usual it’s going to be a busy one on Nantucket, and for the Art minded there are one or two notable openings over the weekend. (more…)
After his successful opening at LoLa 41 last week we thought you might like this Kerry Hallam interview we found on YouTube, with the great man waxing lyrical and talking of ”Painting.. the telling of beautiful untruths”. (more…)
Next Tuesday (July 2nd) has been officially designated Unofficial International WordPress Day by the folk over at WPCandy and they have some pretty good stuff to give away to celebrate. For anyone who dosn’t know, Wordpress is a open source publishing platform allowing users to build blogs and CMS websites with the minimum of coding knowledge (we use it here at Nantucket Art). (more…)
A week of star spotting on Nantucket Island culminates this weekend with the 13th Nantucket Film Festival. Unlucky perhaps for anyone attempting to nip into town WITHOUT spotting a celeb… (more…)
The Art Season on Nantucket starts in earnest this weekend with the Artists Association of Nantucket’s Sidewalk Art Show.
The Sidewalk Art Show was founded in 1930 by the illustrator and painter Maud Stumm as an outdoor exhibition originally sited along the walls of Nantucket Atheneum. The show was open to all artists, professional or amateur and was a resounding success, drawing hundreds of visitors. Of the original show The Inquirer and Mirror reviewer wrote:
“The wide shady walk by the library was an ideal place to examine and discuss Art and the beauty of Nantucket, which was the principal subject of the oil, water-color, black and white studies displayed. Little children, tourists, sailors, townspeople came again and again, eagerly examining the varied aspects of the Island, and deciding which was truest to life.”
Sidewalk Art Show 2008
10 am - 6 pm Artists Association of Nantucket, AAN Gallery, 19 Washington St. All day outdoor art sale. Rain date 5/25. 508-228-0294.
Our tip for the Earth Day project this year on Nantucket is the Wave of Change - a community Arts project brought to you by Sustainable Nantucket.
The Wave of Change is a large-scale sculpture created out of recycled materials, mounted on a boat trailer by volunteers from the Sustainable Nantucket Green Council, and then covered with whimsical, colorful sea creatures and environmental slogans created by the children of our community.
The Wave is designed not only to raise the awareness of the participants - but also to impact and engage additional members of the community through highly visible placement around town before and after Earth Day 2008.
