During an interview we did with artist Clara Urbahn in 1999, she told us that her mother “trained us to look through a window and see everything as a painting…It was a wonderful way to start life off, as if you’re living in a painting…” Judging from her current exhibition […]
Nantucket Arts
The Game is Afoot at White Heron Theatre
by Catherine Macallister The stage at White Heron is set: wallpaper in crimson red reminiscent of parlors, a single light post at center stage, and the silhouetted outline of famed detective Sherlock Holmes provides a back drop for the beginning of Hound of the Baskervilles. We meet Sir Charles Baskerville […]
Where Fine Arts Meet the Real World
by Catherine Macallister As we sat amongst pictures, posters and ballot boxes in the new exhibition at the Hadwen House, guest curator Dan Elias took time from his busy day to share his experience of putting together this unique exhibit. Elias considers himself a “storyteller with objects,” something that became […]
Celebrating an Island Art Icon
Celebrate with the Artists Association of Nantucket (AAN) this Friday, June 28 from 5:30 to 7:30 pm, when they host a festive reception for Folk Tales to Fine Art: A John Lochtefeld Retrospective. On exhibit since June 3 in the AAN Visual Arts Center at 24 Amelia Drive, the show […]
Opposing Takes in AAN’s Guilty Pairs
Join the Artists Association of Nantucket (AAN) as they open the Cecelia Joyce and Seward Johnson Gallery to their latest exhibition, Guilty Pairs, on Friday June 7. This special exhibition is based on the theme of two different takes on the same subject, diptychs, or subject-paired works. Each participating artist […]
Annual Cool Yule Party to Celebrate the Season
Steaming mulled cider, softly falling snow, cozy fires; holly, winterberries, sleigh bells, quiet streets; a windswept harbor, frothy eggnog, flaming plum puddings; festive art, and unique gifts are all signs of a Nantucket holiday. Artists Association of Nantucket (AAN) is delighted to host a festive Cool Yule Party for their […]
Help Choose the Winner
Festive pumpkins, crimson moors, colorful bittersweet, crisp evenings scented with smoke wafting from chimneys; oil paintings, watercolors, ceramics, wood carvings, photographs, and sparkling jewels…… Artists Association of Nantucket (AAN) is delighted to announce the opening of the 2018 People’s Choice Exhibition, with a festive autumnal reception on Friday September 28, […]
AAN 10 x 10 Exhibit Includes Community Art
The Artists Association of Nantucket (AAN) is delighted to announce the opening of the 2018 10 x 10 Open Exhibition with a reception on Friday September 7, 6–8 P.M., in the Cecelia Joyce & Seward Johnson Gallery, 19 Washington Street. The show will be on display through Monday, September 24. […]
Print Collaborative Event Offers Art Activities for All
This Saturday, August 25, the Artists Association of Nantucket (AAN) will hold the fourth annual Donn Russell Print Collaborative at their Visual Arts Center, 24 Amelia Drive from 10 am to 12 pm. Donn Russell is a longtime AAN artist member, and an accomplished printmaker, painter, sculptor, along with being […]