Nantucket Arts Festival 2011

This fall the Arts Council will once again host the popularNantucket Arts Festival. This years event will be September 30th— October 9th ending with the popular Wet Paint Auction.

Get your Nantucket Arts Passport* and  immerse yourself in all things creative on our Island: Exhibits, gallery & studio tours, lectures,  music, theatre, poetry readings, demonstrations, films, wet paint auction, and an “organ crawl.”  Don’t miss our new feature — Artisan Talk Show Series — presentations by Nantucket artists & designers of all disciplines.

To get your passport, visit the  Arts Festival headquarters upstairs at Preservation Hall, 11 Centre Street, 10am-7:30pm daily during Arts Festival.

Don’t forget to enter our grand prize drawing!

Artisan Talk Show Series

The following speakers are more than “artists”and “designers”.  They are  visionaries that express through their creativity.  This is free to the public, a wealth of Island talent, and inspiration not to be missed!

Monday 
       6 pm:  Mark Carapezza , M. J. Dickson, Darcy Creech

Tuesday 
    1 pm:  David Lazarus, Jessica Sosebee, Dan Sutherland
        6:30 pm:  Greta Feeney, Matt Hutchinson, Jen Laskey

Wednesday
     1:30 pm:  John Stanton, Nancy Thayer
      6 pm: Miki Lovett, Stephen Pitliuk, Christine Sanford

Thursday
    1:30 Judy Brust, Joanna Kane, Trudy Dujardin
    6 pm  Cary Hazlegrove, Greg Hinson

Friday    
    1:30 pm  Audrey Sterk, John Evans, Leslie Linsley

If you are interested in being invovled or want more information, please email Arlene O'Reilly, Nantucket Arts Festival Chairperson.  * Suggested donation is $7 for Arts Passport, which includes name entry in our grand prize drawing. The passport is a guide to all arts events and offers some specials. It does not include tickets to all festival events.