News and Events for Nantucket Island
We should have guessed that we’d receive hundreds of entries to our 2021 Nantucket Photo Contest: after all, 2021 was a banner year for number of visitors! There was a record number of sunset and sunrise photos entered. It’s interesting (or maybe it isn’t) that we received a surprising number […]
Artists Association of Nantucket (AAN) and Bartlett’s Farm are again partnering: this time to keep the island’s popular Wet Paint Art Show open for a free in-person viewing. “In past years, during the week leading up to Columbus Day weekend, you could find our AAN artists en plein air painting […]
When you spend a summer on Nantucket Island, it can be hard to choose just one favorite—good thing you don’t have to choose just one! You can enter our Annual Nantucket Photo Contest as many times as you desire! Send us a photo of your favorite day at the beach, […]
Kathleen A. Duncombe is known for her expertise in art and collections. An artist herself, she has taught and mentored many on Nantucket. This season she is bringing back a tradition of trunk shows to Old South Wharf, where she runs Made on Nantucket, a shop featuring paintings, prints, photography, […]
This Friday, August 20, the Artists Association of Nantucket’s Cecelia Joyce & Seward Johnson Gallery will open its doors on the 72nd Annual Artist/Patron Exhibition. The exhibition will be on display through Monday, September 6 in the gallery at 19 Washington Street. “Truly one of AAN’s longest standing traditions, summer […]
The Artists Association of Nantucket (AAN) is pleased to invite the public to its second 2021 Sidewalk Art Show at the AAN’s Visual Art Center, 24 Amelia Drive this Saturday, August 14 from 9 am to 2 pm. More than twenty AAN artist members, each with their own “art wall,” […]
There are art galleries on every street in downtown Nantucket—classic, contemporary, abstract, sculpture, textile art, photography—some with changing exhibitions and others that feature work by a single artist. This Friday, August 6, plan your Nantucket evening around three artists receptions held at galleries in the heart of downtown. Hostetler Gallery […]
You can re-live your childhood in the Neverland you never knew with White Heron Theatre’s stellar production of Peter and the Starcatcher. This Tony-award winning play by Rick Elice based on the best-selling novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson takes the audience (and the play’s unlikely heroes) through thrilling […]
Nantucket Island is known for its rare beauty and unique history. That beauty is alive in the gorgeous groomed hedges of ‘Sconset that surround their meticulously maintained famous rose-covered cottages to the stately, classic mansions of downtown Nantucket whose interiors are carefully planned to combine historic beauty with modern convenience […]
