News and Events for Nantucket Island
by Suzanne Daub This weekend the annual Nantucket Book Festival features a stellar line-up of authors and events. Throughout Friday and Saturday, writers will read their work and talk about their creative processes. Panel discussions and interviews will help festivalgoers get to know participating writers. Ticketed social events provide unique […]
This week the Artists Association of Nantucket is celebrating two things Nantucket has plenty of: clean lines and fresh, open air. From June 9 through June 26, AAN is hosting an exhibition called Clean Lines on the Horizon, in the Cecelia Joyce & Seward Johnson Gallery, 19 Washington Street. An […]
There are a few tickets left to see American folk singer Livingston Taylor live in concert at the Dreamland Film & Cultural Center on Sunday, July 2. Part of the American music landscape for the past 50 years, Taylor has recorded top-40 hits such as I Will Be in Love […]
by Cara Godlesky Over the last few decades, Nantucket transformed from a bustling whaling and fishing community into a nucleus of fine arts, food, culture, and tourism. Once a small, sandy patch that few could locate on a map, Nantucket became a destination and home for artists, politicians, and celebrities. […]
The Artists Association of Nantucket (AAN) is pleased to announce the opening of a double exhibition: A Dot That Went for a Walk and Make an Impression, with a reception on Friday, May 12, 6–8 p.m. in the Cecelia Joyce & Seward Johnson Gallery, 19 Washington Street. “A Dot That […]
by Rebecca Nimerfroh Just four miles from the turn onto Polpis from Milestone, you will see an unassuming sign reading Almanack Pond Road. It is down this sandy lane, lined with scrawny, wind-swept trees that you will stumble upon the Almanack Arts Colony, a palatial retreat founded by John S. […]
