News and Events for Nantucket Island
This Saturday, June 30, the Artists Association of Nantucket (AAN) will hold it’s first 2018 Sidewalk Art Show in the dappled summer sun of the Nantucket Atheneum garden, India Street. More than twenty AAN’s artist members will be available to discuss art and sell their works. The outdoor art show […]
by Robert P. Barsanti After I got the call, I spent an hour or so in my mother’s photo albums. During one of my mother’s chemotherapy summers, she organized a life-time of snapshots and Polaroids into a series of books. Film, in particular Polaroid film, was expensive. As a result, […]
Artists Association of Nantucket (AAN) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2016 Lloyd Schultz Awards for Excellence in Fine Art. All are students at the Nantucket High School. 1st Place: “Treacherous Fruit,” ink drawing – Morgan Sayle / 12th grade 2nd Place: “Dolceacqua,” ceramics – Nicole Gottlieb / […]
Music, film, visual arts, crafts, design, and theatre all take center stage from Friday, October 2 through Sunday, October 11 during the 2015 Nantucket Arts Festival. Produced by Nantucket Arts Council, the festival includes amateur and professional artists from Nantucket and beyond. This year’s festival theme, Art of the See, […]
1st Place Winner in the Yesterday’s Island Photo Contest: Ward Vogt 2nd Place, 2015 Yesterday’s Island Photo Contest: David Policansky To see a gallery of our Winners and Honorable mentions and other great shots from the 2015 Annual Yesterday’s Island Photo Contest, visit Nantucket.Net. THANK YOU! to the hundreds of […]
The bonds of friendship between six brassy Southern women are explored in Theatre Workshop of Nantucket’s current production of Steel Magnolias. Expertly staged so that the audience is “behind the mirror,” this play that is part comedy, part tragedy is superbly acted by Karen Lee, Jessica Jensen, Jackie Freeman, Cynthia […]
The Nantucket Historical Association (NHA), in partnership with Theatre Workshop of Nantucket (TWN), present a staged reading of Twelve Angry Women on Thursday, September 24, and Friday, September 25, 2015, at 7 pm in the NHA’s Quaker Meeting House, 7 Fair Street. Based on Reginald Rose’s iconic courtroom drama Twelve […]
This week and next, paintings by members of the Nantucket community will be on display alongside work by member artists of the Nantucket Artists Association in the AAN’s annual Collaboration Exhibition. This popular show opens with a festive reception from 6 to 8 pm this Friday, September 11 in the […]
In the riveting drama, Secrets Laid Bare, by award-winning playwright Jon Robin Baitz, Brooke Wyeth returns home to Palm Springs after a six-year absence to celebrate Christmas with her parents, her brother, and her aunt. Announcing that she is about to publish a memoir dredging up a pivotal and tragic […]
