Nantucket resident Artist Gail Sharretts is running an 8 day workshop of intensive study and painting en plein air in coastal France in the Fall of 2010.

This workshop is for those who would like to become more interpretive with their work through the medium of landscape painting and through various methods of abstraction. Beginning and more experienced painters are both welcome. The course will progress in terms of the individual needs of each student. Instruction will take place for three hours each morning for six days. Afternoons and evenings will be dedicated to one’s own study and exploration. Individual and group critiques will be offered as the course progresses. Cost includes accommodations and meals at our beautiful renovated stone farmhouse in the Brittany countryside and tours of the area. This is an opportunity to experience France as more than a tourist, to discover its beauty, history and culture in an authentic way.

Please visit the link to find out more about the Brittany workshops.

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Plein Air Painting Workshops

“Create”, the new exclusive/speciality Art store has just opened its doors on Amelia Drive. The store will be open year round and fills a large gap in the Art supplies market on ACK. Pop along and lend your support…

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New Art Store ‘Create’ opens its doors on Nantucket

Work copyright Sarah Laurence

Great to see that the Arts and communities based website Your Town Performs has turned the spotlight on the Art Community of Nantucket, featuring our “incredibly vibrant art scene, particularly in the theatre and visual arts” this month.

They go on to warmly endorse features past and present including The Nantucket Film Festival, The Gaslight Theatre, Theatre Workshop of Nantucket, Nantucket Dreamland Theatre, The Artists Association of Nantucket and The Sailor’s Valentine Gallery.

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Great Art Towns: Nantucket

Nantucket Bookworks have published their bestselling books of the year. Don’t hesitate top pop in there if you are short a present or two or need some holiday reading.

Here’s a sneak peak at the top 10 – for the full list visit Nantucket Blogworks

1. In the Heart of the Sea

2. Olive Kitteridge

3. Castaways

4. Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

5. Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society

6. Jennie’s Pennies

7. Elegance of the Hedgehog

8. Nantucket Reader

9. The Help

10. Summer Affair

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Top 10 Best Nantucket Holiday Reads

The second of the Artists Association of Nantucket’s Junior Artists Exhibitions opened on Sunday, May 10 and featured a great selection of work by students from Cyrus Peirce Middle School, Nantucket High School and Nantucket New School.

You can find more details and photos of the event at the Nantucket Blog par excellence this is Mahon About Town.

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The Artists Association of Nantucket’s Junior Artists Exhibition

Society6 is a new website for emerging and established artists from every creative discipline to showcase their talent as it unfolds. Artists join the online community which puts artists in touch with patrons offering grants.

Society6 has created an open grants system where individuals and organizations can easily issue money or opportunity (free products and services) grants to creative people from around the world. Artists and other creative people apply to these grants. The community nominates applicants to create the list of finalists. The grant giver chooses one applicant from the finalist list to award the grant.

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Society6 awards grants to artists online

Nantucket Island School of Design & The Arts. Visual artists, performers,composers, writers. Residencies at Harbor Cottage Artist Colony in town. School is 8 miles away offering studios in-season. June through Oct. the arts community is active. Off-season is perfect for solitude and on-your-own experience. $750 to $1,000 per month (higher in summer). Limited work exchange may reduce summer fees – write requests with application. No application fee. Please visit www.nisda.org for application requirements. For further information email nisda@nantucket.net or call 508-228-4485

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Residency – Nantucket Island School of Design and the Arts

Nantucket Bookworks uploaded some great pictures to their Nantucket Bookworks Flickr including this watercolor by Victoria Elbroch. Make sure you give them a visit…

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Nantucket Bookworks

For those of you who don’t know – you can find us and a bunch of other Nantucket islanders and artists on Twitter. Check us and some of our favorites out below:

http://twitter.com/Nantucket_Art
http://twitter.com/NantucketPhotog
http://twitter.com/timeril
http://twitter.com/SomethinNatural
http://twitter.com/FilmTruth
http://twitter.com/nantucketbooks
http://twitter.com/coldnosephoto
http://twitter.com/Nantucket_Sully
http://twitter.com/Amandablum
http://twitter.com/GrantSanders
http://twitter.com/GeneMahon
http://twitter.com/refreshcapecod
http://twitter.com/ManFmNantucket

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Nantucket Art Twitter

As record crowds brave freezing temperatures for President Elect Barack Obama’s inauguration, it’s worth considering that few political figures in the recent past have generated such an outpouring of support amongst creatives and artists or reached icon status so quickly. Here’s a-few examples of Obama Art courtesy of ArtCulture Magazine.

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Inauguration Day Art – Obama the Icon