News and Events for Nantucket Island
Geena Davis, an Oscar and Golden Globe Award winning actor and advocate, will headline the Dreamland Foundation’s 2015 Stage and Screen Gala. The Gala, one of the summer’s standout events, will be held at the Dreamland Theater on Saturday, July 11. As the event’s headliner, Davis, who was born in […]
by Abigail Terres This weekend nationally- and internationally-acclaimed authors and hundreds of readers will gather on Nantucket to share their love of books, their enthusiasm for writing, and their insights on the written word during the fourth annual Nantucket Book Festival. More than 70 published writers participating in the three-day […]
For four days from Thursday, June 18 through Sunday, June 21, the Artists Association of Nantucket (AAN) will host the annual Plein Air Nantucket. Plein Air Nantucket is open to all artists, at any skill level, who wish to paint in the fresh air and pristine scenery of the island, […]
Roberto Dutesco is a New York based photographer, poet and film-maker. Romanian born, he studied photography in Montreal, where he moved while still a teenager. Dutesco soon became a sought-after fashion photographer. With the spirit of a globe-trotter, he portrayed prominent personalities of our times, such as Pierre Trudeau, the […]
Artbook Project Exhibition opening will be the first chance for the community to see AAN’s new Visual Arts Center at 24 Amelia Drive. Artists Association of Nantucket (AAN) is pleased to announce the opening of the Nantucket Artbook Project Exhibition, on Friday, June 19 at 5-7 p.m. at the Visual […]
Philip Bloom Gallery is pleased to announce its inaugural exhibition featuring original paintings by Cassandra Levine, Javier Ramirez, and Patrick Shoemaker. From the Ashes of Conceptualism will open with a reception on Friday, June 19 from 6 to 8 pm, and will be on display to the public till June […]
• by Sarah Teach • Money, power, lust and blood converge in Nantucket Sawbuck, a novel from island-based writer Steven Axelrod. Instant millionaire Preston Lomax is the kind of guy who cheats on his wife with her own sisters, gleefully stiffs his business associates, impregnates then abandons his housemaids, and […]
The Artists Association of Nantucket (AAN) is celebrating island life in a timely exhibition entitled In the Art of the Sea, opening with a reception on Friday June 12, from 6 to 8 pm in the Cecelia Joyce & Seward Johnson Gallery, 19 Washington St. The exhibition will be on […]
Sunny Wood’s whale carvings are derived from a personal relationship between the artist and his experience with nature. As Sunny carves, the grain and knots in the wood become realized and the whale comes to life. Each whale takes on a unique personality conveyed through its expressive eye that tell […]
Nantucket Arts Council and Nantucket Dreamland Film and performing Arts Center present the concert finale of its spring 2015 Downtown Celebrity Concerts when The Artie Shaw Orchestra appears on the Dreamland main stage this Sunday, May 31, at 4 pm. Starting in the 1930s, Artie Shaw pioneered and has since […]
