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Centre Stage 2 Centre Street

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You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown

July 10 - Aug 3

Dead Man’s Cell Phone

Aug 14 - Sept 7 Dracula

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Bennett Hall 62 Centre Street

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Six Degrees of Separation

July 24 - Aug 24 The Wizard of Oz

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Collard, Fred Dreamland Film & Performing Arts Center

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NHA 1800 House

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Emery Design Studio

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Old Spouter Gallery

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Foley, Elle

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Peter Beaton Studio

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Robert Foster Fine Art

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Robertson, Lauri

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Ireland Galleries

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Trinkle Legge, Katie

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Keely Smith Designs

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Unitarian Meeting House

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10 58 Years of Theater on Nantucket

by Sara Boyce.

A historic look of how Theatre Workshop of Nantucket was founded, and the story of John Shea and his group of dedicated directors, set designers, and actors who continue to take to the stage and deliver a world of imagination and expression.

20 Masters of Arts on Nantucket

by Kate Splaine & Arlene O’Reilly.

Interviews with David Hostetler and Cary Hazelgrove, spotlighting their achievements as they share their creative process.

24 Trail-blazers to Watch

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by Kate Splaine & Arlene O’Reilly.

Interviews with Jeff Tocci on film making and community TV, Ed Romanoff, a singer and songwriter who draws inspiration from Nantucket, and wth Mary Emery who uses graphic design in just about everything she touches. Also, a spotlight on MJ Levy Dickson and her art installation beach glass projects.

32 Island Arts & Education

by Mary Lancaster.

An overview of all we have to offer in arts education from the Artists Association of Nantucket, Nantucket Atheneum, NHA 1800 House, Nantucket Community Music Center (NCMC) and Nantucket Island School of Design and Art (NISDA).

42 Performing Arts

Reviews and descriptions of plays, shows, and concerts offered by Dreamland Theater, Nantucket Community Music Center, Nantucket Musical Arts Society, Theatre Workshop of Nantucket, and the Unitarian Meeting House.

54 Four Decades of Arts Advocacy

by Mary Lancaster.

A historic review of the Nantucket Arts Council, as it reaches a milestone of forty years of community service, combined with views from some Council directors as they share the challenges, achievements, and important role the Council has in the island arts community.

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Artists Represented: Brian Aja Peter Layne Arguimbau Scott Balfe Judith A. Brust Armond Cabrera Thomas Deininger Judy Dinnick Judy Friday Keith Gunderson Michael Harrell Barbara Insalaco Richard Kemble Ken Knowles Kent Lemon John Matusz Sandy Moran John P. Osborne Karen Petersen Pamela Pindell Lauri Robertson Edwin Rudd Jane Santini Gail Sharrets Kevin Shea Kathy Stark Thomas Torak Jocelyn Sandor Urban Joshua Williams

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by Sara Boyce “Here we are, all in the dark, on a journey together. Theatre belongs to a community.

It’s the audience that gives the theatre its life force.

It’s really a group endeavor.” — Annie Breeding, Designer

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or the last 58 years, The Theatre Workshop of Nantucket, known as TWN, has touched the lives of thousands of people and been through debt, fire, and a nomadic existence.

Reggie Levine, President of the Nantucket Arts Council and former TWN President, says TWN “has been able to withstand the bad times and produce miracles in the good times.” Current Artistic Director John Shea believes that “TWN reflects the spiritual life of the island. Our job is to inspire and entertain and reflect the community. That’s why I think people are coming: to share in that mission.”

There is a lot of weight attached to the words “community” and “professional” in the theatre world. The assumption is that “community theatre” is the lesser. Community theatre actors are (at times) less trained than professional actors and (usually) paid less, but the quality of performance is not necessarily compromised.

Repeatedly, I have emerged from performances amazed by the talent and dedication on this island of ours. At times, TWN will augment its deep pool of local talent by bringing in full-time, professional directors and actors from Boston, New York City, Los Angeles, and London. This harkens back to the beginning days of TWN, and fills the void created by local actors taking extra jobs in the summer or leaving the island for various reasons.

John Shea, 1972, Twelfth Night Location: New York City

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the beauty and creativity on the island. Perhaps because we are separated from the next town by 30 miles of ocean, Nantucket takes its job of creating its own entertainment very seriously.

An award-winning Broadway, film, and television actor, John Shea studied acting at Bates College and earned an MFA from Yale University School of Drama, but the start of his career was on TWN’s stage. “It was 1968, and I had just stepped off the Nantucket ferry, one day after my 19th birthday. On my way to Cap’n Tobey’s for a beer, I poked my head in the back door of the Straight Wharf Theatre and was beckoned in by a couple in the back row. Little did I know, I had wandered into a rehearsal that was short an actor. Soon I was asked, ‘Shea, can you do an Irish accent? Take this script.’ At the end of the week, Joseph M. “Mac” Dixon, the Artistic Director, handed me $10 and said, ‘ You’re doing a great job. You’re a professional actor now.’ ” While Shea admired Dixon’s commitment to producing great theatre, it is doubtful that he imagined he would follow Dixon’s lead as Artistic Director. Shea and Executive Director, Gabrielle Gould, are the dynamic leadership team currently at the helm of TWN. “I knew Gabrielle as a wonderful

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actress,” said Shea. “ We were bonded together by acting in an emotional roller coaster of a play, Blackbird. We have since become an inseparable team, and I’ve learned just how unbelievably organized she is with very professional capabilities as a producer.”

Gould and Shea’s synergy is palpable, and their priority is to strengthen the organization itself.

Since its inception, TWN has been run largely by volunteers. Gould explains, “We are working to create an infrastructure so TWN is not dependent on any one person. If any one of us has to leave, we want to insure that the organization continues to thrive and grow.”

For the first time, TWN has a small staff comprised of Molly Martin (Production Manager) and longtime TWN actors, Eric Shultz (Technical Director), and Annie Breeding, (Costume, Set, and Property Designer). The Board of Directors has been expanded, and they have introduced an Advisory Board. TWN casts are increasingly larger, and shows sell out regularly. There is an everexpanding group of passionate producers who provide necessary financial support. 2013 offers an aggressive schedule of seven full productions, as well as special guest shows, comedy, events, and many collaborative performances with other local organizations, such as the NHA (Nantucket

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That organization’s Executive Director, Bill Tramposch, comments, “TWN is so inspiring and central to the life of Nantucket because of its indefatigable talent to collaborate with island kindred cultural partners, and because of its magnetic ability to attract talented actors of all ages.

Having a leadership that is so imaginative, positive, and engaged in every step is key to its success, and the NHA is continually proud to be a collaborator with them!”

“People go to community theatre to see their friends on stage, only to watch their friends turn into someone else,” explains actor and former TWN President, Pam Murphy. Someone who has just emerged from a play has a recognizable glow of excitement. The same glow is echoed on the faces of cast members, who regularly spill into Pazzo for some music and dancing Saturday nights after their performances, in turn raising the energy of the musicians and of the entire restaurant.

Mentorship is a recurring theme in TWN’s history.

Part of Shea’s personal pleasure is the opportunity to work with aspiring actors. From time to time he quietly pulls actors aside to share the basics of acting with them. “That’s what people did with me when I was young, and we were bonded for life. It is a challenge and a real privilege.”

For years, Nantucket Event Media’s Lisa Frey has been documenting the TWN experience on film and video. “Those kids have so much fun being in the mix. It’s amazing: the adults and kids all have respect for each other. They are all very professional and working toward the same goal of having a great time and entertaining the audience. These kids really want to be there, and they take their part seriously. And you never know where it will take them.”

Wizard of Oz, Sawyer Phillips

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“TWN’s 2003 Midsummer Night’s Dream was one of the first plays I participated in on Nantucket. I remember Tatania, Queen of the Fairies, shepherding her brood off-stage.” Virginia

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fell in love with musical theatre.” Wright’s passion for the stage precipitated a family move from Nantucket to Duxbury, Massachusetts so she can pursue her professional acting career. Her lead role of Wendy in Peter Pan has been, by far, her favorite. “Every single show is so professional, and TWN is known for blowing people away. Despite the wide range of ages, all the actors, including the principals, treat each other as performers.”

Wizard of Oz, Photo: Lisa Frey

Bullington, then five years old, took her role as a fairy very seriously. Feeling the need for more expression, she escaped the herd for a solo tour of the stage, kicking her heels up in a moment of inspired fairy glee. Currently 15, she acts in as many local performances as she can and has attended Theatre Camp at Interlochen Center for the Arts in Interlochen, Michigan for the last five summers.

After taking a musical theatre class with TWN’s Laura Gallagher Byrne, Skyler Wright “immediately

Willa (10) and Sawyer (12) Phillips recently debuted in Oliver and The Wizard of Oz. As Willa explained, “Seeing Peter Pan got me and Sawyer interested. At first, it’s kind of intimidating, but then it gets more comfortable. They instruct you.” Sawyer, who had a lead role as the Artful Dodger in Oliver, remembers, “It was really exciting. It was my first real big production play. It’s very fun to work with both adults and kids. Sometimes there is a little bit of ruckus, but most of the time everyone is pretty calm.” He continued, “It’s fun to be a different person than you are and to have experiences that you might never have in your real life. It takes a lot of practice to get into character.”

Oliver Photo: Lisa Frey

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Annie Breeding reveals the joy of helping to create a character. “Oliver was the first time I was the Costume Designer. I watched that child (Sawyer) as I placed each piece of costuming on him for his role as The Artful Dodger. He became Jack the Dodger in front of my eyes.

He turned to look at me when I was done and exhaled, ‘Ahhh. I’m actually him. I never thought it would be that good.’ ” Shea is delighted to be working with Breeding as an actor, director, and designer. “I’ve known Annie since the late 70’s. She was arguably the best actress on the island for many years, and we are lucky to have her on board. Annie Breeding could be resident designer of any theatre in the country.”

Good theatre is truly a collaborative effort. “I honestly don’t know how we get it all done. Somehow it comes together. We work long hours. It is a joy. It’s often not like work,” says Technical Director Eric Schultz, who is single-handedly responsible for coordinating and building the often elaborate sets. Shultz admits that, “probably 20% feels excruciating as you’re working together to hit the opening date. When they say, ‘There’s no business like show business,’ it’s absolutely true.”

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Sue Riddle, (Stage Mother to Willa and Sawyer) muses, “It’s wonderful to see people you never thought would go up there and belt out a song and do a big dance number. It is so joyful and infectious. People don’t get enough of this type of creative experience in their workaday lives.” It is not just kids stepping on stage for their debut. At 44, Pam Murphy was already involved in TWN when she first got on stage. “I’d never acted before, and I was welcomed with open arms.

It was a whole side of my life that never would have happened if we didn’t have this community theatre.”

Like all art forms, an essential dialogue exists between the creator and the viewer. Never is that more true than with our community theatre. One needs the other to exist.

“There are two elements in all creation,” says Reggie Levine, “one who creates the piece and the audience which responds. A work of art does not arrive at its completeness until it has been experienced. In a sense we are all involved in the creative act.”

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Column: Master Sculptor

DAVID HOSTETLER

by Kate Splaine

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t’s a classic story: small town girl transforms into big city sensation. Last October, sculptor David Hostetler’s monumental IKON was unveiled in the plaza at The Sheffield between West 56th & 57th Streets in New York City. The piece is thirteen feet high. It is comprised of an hourglass pedestal and Hostetler’s signature streamlined female head form.

Forged from bronze with a custom white powder coat, the figure seems to glow from within.

Since the beginning of his artistic life, the focus of Hostetler’s work has been women. “People say I idealize women,” the artist says in the Emmy awardwinning documentary, The Last Dance, “I do, I really do. I’m looking for a universal that conjures up this very essence of image that is female, woman.”

“It’s something I’ve been working on for sixty years,” he said recently. “The distillation of the head form.”

The result, while unmistakably Hostetler, embodies iconic images throughout history. From the goddess Asherah, to Nefertiti, to American Folk Art, to the sleek models of Harper’s Bazaar magazine who captured Hostetler’s imagination when he first came to Manhattan as a young artist, the viewer can find myriad references in the form “depending on where your own head is,” he laughs.

IKON got her start in 1970 on Nantucket. It was Hostetler’s first summer on island— a summer spent cruising on a sleek BMW motorcycle. Enamored of his ride, the artist felt compelled to decorate it with a hood ornament. “I made this small head, but didn’t have the balls to put it on the bike.” He feared it would be stolen.

That small figure was reinvented as a 15-inch bronze sculpture. The form has accompanied Hostetler for decades. Those years have brought him international success, avid collectors, and a thriving, happy partnership with wife and gallery director, Susan Crehan-Hostetler.

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Today, technology has afforded a new ability to transform that original 15-inch figure viaComputer Aided Design (CAD). “It used to take months to scale up,” Hostetler recounts. “It was just a pain in the butt.” DUO, a piece that sits just uptown from IKON at the Trump International Hotel and Tower at Columbus Circle, “took all summer” for the foundry to create,he remembers.

With IKON, a company in California translated the original 15-inch piece via CAD into a foam mold.

Working with that lightweight, easily maneuverable model, Hostetler’s foundry cast the 13- foot iteration in far less time. From its humble beginnings as a beach town bike ornament, IKON has taken Manhattan. “I love it,” Hostetler says. “It really fits where it is.”

The Hostetlers return to their Centre Street gallery this summer. Along with sculpture, abstract prints the artist has been working on this past winter will be on display. Abstract, but distinctly and fundamentally female.

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Column: Master Photographer

CARY HAZELGROVE

by Arlene O’Reilly Cary Hazelgrove is one of the most respected female photographers not just on Nantucket, and I dare say, nationwide. She has achieved visual perfection and memorable story-telling using good old-fashioned film, in addition to being a trail-blazer in the digital age.

Q: I am aware you started your photography business in the late seventies. Tell me what it was like and how you got started in photography?

A: After graduation, I arrived on Nantucket back in the ’70s and worked for Gene Mahon at the Camera Shop.

It was such a great time back then. I went with Gene to many social gatherings like baseball games and beach parties, and was taking pictures with a camera that had been given to me when I was sixteen. I realized I could take a pretty good shot.

There was a whole group of us that gathered at Frank and Maggie Conroys, where Sparky & Peggy Potter were presenting their slide show called “The North Country”. It was a collection of photographs on the Winter Olympic Games in Vermont. Watching this slide show, well, it was just my BIGGEST inspiration — it was the creative lightning bolt that hit me right between the eyes.

In a few years, I founded my current business Nantucket Film Works. At that time, there were not a lot of photographers here on Nantucket. Back then, it was Terry Pommett, Beverly Hall, and me. This opened me up and required me to adapt to a wide variety of photography services: weddings, portraits, interiors, landscape.

Q: Once you knew you had established a professional reputation as a photographer, did you have any idea how far you would go?

A: I never really projected myself in to the future. I was young and driven. I wanted to top myself every time I did a project. One of the things that was a big transition for me in the last five years was adapting to digital photography. This leap requires not just camera

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systems, but also post-production skills and software.

I learned Final Cut Pro - which is one of the highest learning curves in film production. But, I still shoot in film for my portraits. Having to learn all this stuff in my mid-50’s has taken great effort. I can do it, but it takes me much longer than my daughter.

Q: I remember when you did a series on NYC firemen.

That was some hot stuff, tell us about that a little.

A: That was a really, really fun project to do. At first, I was not going to do it, because it was not my style of photography. This assignment was boodwah photography style of guys in bunker gear - it could have been really tacky. During the shoot, in studying my subject, I looked at each guy and saw something really beautiful and refined about him; instead of him appearing lascivious.

I was able to do that in seconds. That is one of my innate skills- I look at the subject and capture the beauty instantly, bringing a sense of taste to the subject.

There is great dichotomy in being able to photograph the Old Mill while laying in the snow seeing windy snow swirls versus a wet fireman, versus a bride. You have to be a whole person to capture this level of imagery.

I have an incredible life here living on Nantucket.

I would not be the person I am today without living here.

This place has allowed me to reinvent myself over and over again.

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Column: Art Installation

MJ LEVY DICKSON

by Arlene O’Reilly

I have known MJ Levy Dickson for many years, and I have always been able to count on her to introduce a new way of looking at something. She is the perfect combination of creative, innovative, and scholastic. I recall her first talking about her beach glass project five years ago. In 2011, I invited MJ to share her beach glass concept at the Artisan Talk Show Series during the Nantucket Arts Festival that year. Since then, I have followed her success in raising the funds needed for this project and find her enthusiasm contagious. The following is a snapshot of her journey in her own works.

“As an artist, I am inspired by the beauty of natural surroundings. I have spent many years observing nature on Nantucket Island as well as in other parts of the world, taking advantage of the diversity of marine life, mountain environments, and wooded areas. In this project, I have focused on sea glass— something that can be found all over the world, has been celebrated by many different cultures, and which is accessible for all to enjoy.

This interactive installation is made of hand-molded glass and tumbled glass shards of various sizes, shapes, colors, and textures.

The hand-molded pieces of glass range in size from a small leaf to the size of a very large rock in shades of aqua, jade green, clear, yellow ochre, red, and cobalt blue; each piece is original and unique in feel and texture. The glass shards are made from recycled bottles tumbled in a cement mixer. The hand-made shapes are created from “templates” that I drew, influenced by pieces of sea glass that I had found.

As the first Artist-in-Residence at the Perkins School for the Blind, I became aware of the importance that all people be given the opportunity to appreciate and interact with art. Sea glass has a real texture and shape; it is found all over the world. Cultures from ancient times to the present use glass. It unifies us; the shapes and uses

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are what create individuality. My project will include everyone from the very young to the very old, and anyone with limited abilities. The audience should interact with the art, so there are no boundaries between what is being seen or felt.”

The installation first appeared in 2011 at the Julie Heller Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts.

This past April, MJ was invited back to exhibit at Appearances 2013, an annual arts festival, sponsored by the Provincetown Conservation Trust located in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

“My goal is to have this installation exhibited anywhere in the world and be available to a universal audience.”

This art installation will be available for viewing on Nantucket this summer at Pumpkin Pond Farm, Exhibit: July 15 – August 15 To see more relating to this column, visit artsnantucket.com.

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Column: Film Production

JEFF TOCCI

by Kate Splaine

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antucket Community Television Executive Director Jeff Tocci is often asked if TV18 (as it is known) can cover a particular event. His answer?

“No, but you can.” He continues, “we find that most people really have no idea what it is that we do, and look at us as a sort of production house, when they should look at us as an educational facility.”

That education begins with a $35 membership to the non-profit, P.E.G. (public access, education, and government) station. Membership grants access to all the training and equipment needed to produce video—equipment that is entirely up to date. Tocci explains, “many stations are still stuck converting their equipment over to HD. Not us. We are portable, tapeless, and capable of just about every kind of production imaginable.”

After earning his degree in Media Arts and Design at James Madison University, Tocci produced Beardo—a documentary about the World Beard and Moustache Championships. The project involved leading a nine member crew to Anchorage, Alaska and successfully overcoming the initial annoyance and reticence of the competitive-class hirsute. “That experience taught me that when you ask permission to do something, the answer is always, without fail, ‘no’. Then if you simply ask again, and prove that you’re serious, the answer will inevitably be ‘yes’.”

Next, he co-founded So It Goes Productions in New Orleans which remains in operation today, having survived Tocci’s subsequent move to Plum-TV. He joined Nantucket Community Television in October 2011. By April 2012, the station was on the air.

Within a year, TV18 was broadcasting 24-hours a day, both on cable and online. According to Tocci, “It’s only a matter of time before the internet and cable meld into the same thing anyway. We’re just ahead of the game.”

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Current programming covers town government: Board of Selectmen, Airport Commission, School Committee, and Annual Town Meetings.

Coverage also includes special events that impact the community, such as the public hearing on the potential CVS pharmacy downtown, the Civic League’s Meet the Candidates forums, the Taxi Fare Workgroup, and last fall’s Island Cup and the Nantucket Arts Festival.

“Our goal is to create an archive, a time capsule, of everything that happens on the island,” says Tocci.

“In the future, we would like somebody from every organization on Nantucket to be capable of video recording any non-commercial event that they feel is important to the community at large.”

Along with Station Manager Lisa Sawlit, Tocci welcomes and encourages everyone to participate. “If there is something that you want to see on the station... come in and make it,” he says. “We want to be the pulse of the island, and the only way that is achievable is to have active community involvement...the coolest part is that we don’t censor anyone. We’re not allowed to. Whether we agree with your perspective or not is irrelevant.”

He adds,“That being said, we prefer our content to be completely original, visually entertaining, and thoughtprovoking”—descriptives that also apply to the island and community the station serves.

2013 Artist Exhibitions

Opening Receptions – Friday Evenings, 6 - 8 pm July 5th Robert Frazier & Gabriella Fiabane July 12th Katie Trinkle Legge July 19th Joan Albaugh July 26th Sherre Wilson Liljegren & Kasia Baker August 2nd Michael Rich August 9th Megan Hinton & Julie Gifford August 16th John Lochtefeld August 23rd To Be Announced December 6th Art of the Season: Holiday Exhibition Also Exhibiting: Deirdre Briggs, Kasia Baker, Howard Fraker, Margaret Fox, James Harrington, Sculpture: Lorry Sullivan, John Evans, Fiber Sculpture by Jeannette Carl, Hooked Rugs by Jerry Carl, Folk Art: Mike Bacle and Susan LaCouture, Furniture Maker: Sharon Mehrman

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Column: Singer / Songwriter ED ROMANOFF

by Arlene O’Reilly “There is truth in a good song, and when you pursue it, and write about something real, you find out something real and true about yourself. The more you do it, the more it helps you heal, and it heals others in a similar way. It’s a crazy circle, but it works.” — Ed Romanoff I was surprised last fall during the Nantucket Arts Festival to hear a voice message from an agent in NYC telling me his client wanted to get in touch with me to make an appearance. Once we spoke, he explained that Ed heard about the Arts Festival’s Artisan Talk Show Series and wanted to know if there was room for him to join us to play a few of his songs for us, before leaving on his European tour. It was a great night. Ed struck me as a remarkable artist, and I wanted to learn more about him. Fast forward to this past winter when I had the opportunity to reconnect with Ed for this interview. He is without a doubt, someone to watch as his career continues to take off.

He is also inspirational to anyone who is approaching “mid-life”.

Q: How was the tour in Europe?

A: It was a trip that I will never forget. The impression I have of the people in Ireland and Scotland is that they really listen to the words of songs and strongly relate to music for all levels of human connection, such as political causes, compassion, courage, humility, humanitarianism, and of course - romance. This made me feel right at home.

A funny side note, as soon as I arrived from the States, I had an interview appointment in Dublin. I was under the impression it was a radio interview. It was actually a TV broadcast interview, and I’m ok with that, but I did not have time to change or clean up. I had on torn jeans, hair all over, half-moon shave - this completely worked in my favor. This connected me with a entirely new audience of fans that simply liked my music and me. I can’t ask for more than that, and I look forward to going back later this year.

Q: What is your connection to Nantucket?

A: I came here for a weekend with a girl many, many years ago. Sadly, the girl is gone, but I met some lifelong friends

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here and fell in love with the island. I never stopped coming here over the years. And, now that I’m tuned into my songwriting, I make my pilgrimage multiple times through out the year. To me, Nantucket is the best studio.

This is where I come to get inspired, slow down, regenerate, be still, write, and play music.

Q: Have you always been a singer-songwriter?

A: “Ha - noooo. I started this career path after I turned 50.

I guess the first 49 years of my life (and then some) is where I experienced everything that I write about. Without getting into my life story, I was lucky enough to have recognized all my “stuff ” and things just fell into place.”

Ed’s website says it well: “It may have taken Ed a little over two years and two generations to write his album, but he’s perfectly on time. After all, they say it takes a lifetime to write your first record.”

Ed’s voice is smooth and rough at the same time, and, combined with his guitar playing, his music style ranges from boozy blues to brothel jazz. The album is produced by Crit Harmon, esteemed for his work with Martin Sexton, Lori McKenna, and Mary Gauthier, and features backup vocals from Josh Ritter, Tift Merritt, Meg Hutchinson, and Mary Gauthier.

Nine songs from this debut record have been recognized in international songwriting competitions prior to its release. “Breakfast for One on the Fifth of July,” written with Mary Gauthier, which won for best lyrics at the 2011 International Songwriting Competition and the 2011 USA Songwriting Competition.

Keely Smith was born and raised in the UK. Working in London for 15 years as a Fashion Designer, led Keely on many travels across Europe and the Far East.

For the last 14 years Keely has created KSD jewelry line.

All designs are limited edition,inspired by textures, stamping, and the love of fonts.

KSD also offers a Nantucket inspired collection.

Personalized and handcrafted.

KSD continues to grow beyond its loyal Nantucket and East coast following.

New pieces are added each season maintaining KSD style: worn, distressed and unique.

KSD full collection can be seen at NALU 14 Cambridge St. limited edtions at: MiLLy AND GrACE 2 Washington St. StEPhANiES 42 Main St.

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Column: Graphic Design

MARY EMERY

by Kate Splaine

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uy walks into a bar, and the bar starts telling him jokes. It quotes a 19th Century poem about Nantucket girls. Not the limerick, rather: “I’ll haste to wed a sailor/And send him off to sea/ For a life of independence is a pleasant one for me.” Exquisite pen and ink illustrations accompany the bar’s stories.

It’s a funny bar. Also a beautiful one. And you can walk into at Oran Mor Restaurant. It’s the work of Nantucket decorative and fine artist, designer, teacher, and entrepreneur Mary Emery of Emery Design who might be there too, enjoying people’s reactions.

“Nothing is better than being within earshot and hearing people reading the quotes and laughing out loud,” she says.

As a girl, Emery summered on Esther Island. She describes that life with no hot water, electricity or phone as “simple and full of adventure. Food came from the sea, fun came from the sand.”

She studied Early American art with her mother, a writer and teacher. “Reverse painting on glass, painting and stenciling on tin, gilding, etc. I grew up around these techniques and motifs.”

From the beginning, “all my work, fine art and design work, has been influenced by historical design and technique,” she says, defining that aesthetic as “the daily things of life we use, should be pleasing to be around.”

In 1985, armed with an MFA from Pratt in Painting and Printmaking, she founded Emery Design in New York City—a full-service studio for interiors and fine art. Her business thrived and earned her widespread recognition in the design world, in publishing, and on television.

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She moved to Nantucket in 1999. “One big difference here is I feel I have more freedom in my work.” In the past, her custom work (hand-painted rugs, floor cloths, murals) created for retail existed alongside, but separate from her own painting and drawing. “Being here full time has merged these worlds in my approach—always influenced by the rich history of the island, but in that history is a sense of whimsy.”

Whimsy is key. Emery’s training, education, and technique lend her work what she calls a “somewhat serious air.” She is quick to add, “at first glance.” A deeper look reveals the artist’s abiding sense of humor which adds the unexpected and delightful. “It’s all about engaging and communicating with the audience even if its only one person,” she says.

So, what’s next? Emery will join forces with another island designer to form Flip Flop Studio. After all, girls just wann have fun and design some really cool stuff with a pinch of Nantucket. Stay tuned, soon, Emery’s signature “fine design with a lighthearted attitude” will be enjoyed by a larger audience.

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by Mary Lancaster

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reative people are insatiable. It is inborn in their nature to want to explore new techniques of their craft, to delve into the unknown, the undone, to unleash unique ways of seeing and hearing art in all its forms, as they continue on a never-ending journey of personal growth. Having gained prominence long ago as an art colony, Nantucket Island currently offers nearly limitless opportunities for visual artists, musicians, and craftsmen of all ages to learn about and hone the talents they already possess, as well as to encourage them to stretch themselves further than they ever imagined.

VISUAL ARTS Artists Association of Nantucket Excited children’s laughter spills from a studio into the hallways of the Artists Association of Nantucket’s workshop and classroom building on Gardner Perry Lane, as the kids immerse themselves in an art camp. Established many decades ago, the Artists Association holds year-round classes, workshops, and camps for all ages and in a wide variety of media, as well as after-school programs for all youth levels.

Instructors for children are certified, trained teachers; many are artist members of AAN. The four youth class division levels are: ages two to five; six to nine; ten to thirteen; and thirteen years and up. Two programs per week are scheduled for each youth level.

“One of our main goals with the arts program for the children is to encourage exploration, creative problem-solving, and a life-long interest in the arts,” said Lori Garrabrant, the Association’s Arts Program Director.

The youngest children’s group is exploratory in nature, allowing the students to move along at their own pace doing very tactile, hands-on projects. A parent or caregiver must accompany the child.

The second level focuses on mixed media such as painting and collage, clay sculpture, and clay hand-building.

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Supporting the arts on Nantucket year-round

Visit our Gallery downtown for exhibitions and events featuring Nantucket Artists.

Joyce & Seward Johnson Gallery, 19 Washington Street, 508-228-0294

For workshops, classes and more visit www.nantucketarts.org

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Adults in year-round programs are taught by professional artists and AAN members. Beginners attend short, rotating evening classes in drawing, printmaking, painting and ceramics. Those enrolled in intermediate and advanced classes have an accelerated program, particularly in clay wheel-throwing. In the summer, the adult curriculum includes plein air painting. New topics are introduced each season that may include jewelry-making, textiles, and printmaking.

Kids ages ten to thirteen enjoy classes in drawing and painting, digital photography, computer Photoshop, and clay sculpture and clay wheel-throwing.

The older youth learn all aspects of photography, sculpture, wheel-throwing, drawing and painting, and may join adult courses.

There are school vacation art camps for elementary school-age children, and five to seven free workshops throughout the year for this group. There is also an internship program for teens interested in attending art school that allows them to assist in studios and classes.

Summer offerings for the pre-school level are about the same as those offered during the rest of the year.

The second level students attend weekly morning art camps to learn drawing, painting, printmaking and clay work with changing themes. During one special session, the Association collaborates with the Maria Mitchell Association, and children study animals, then use the studios to transform their studies into inspired art. The third youth level has three-day summer weekly workshops to learn printmaking, drawing, painting, digital photography, and clay wheel-throwing. They may pick which subjects interest them. The oldest group learns drawing, painting, and wheel-throwing.

“There is a lot of overlap with what we do. We try to keep our program consistent over the year so we can reach our beginner students and also keep our advanced and intermediate students moving forward,” said Garrabrant.

She further noted, “Within the classroom the teachers are allowed a lot of flexibility with their lesson planning.”

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Adult workshops, led by island and off-island artists, are geared to subject matter that appeals to more experienced artists. Monthly daytime classes from January through November include choices such as water-mixable oils, printmaking, non-representational art, watercolors and pastels, drawing, painting with wax, and painted photography. These classes run weekly in the summer.

“Collaborations are something very exciting for us because it takes us out of here to different locations,” explained Liz O’Brien, AAN’s Outreach and Public Programming Director, noting affiliations with the Nantucket Historical Association and Saltmarsh Senior Center.

“We want to take students from beginners all the way to established artists and offer them a wide variety of fine arts programming, year-round,” Garrabrant concluded.

CRAFTSMANSHIP NHA 1800 House It is fitting that the Nantucket Historical Association holds its popular Early American folk art classes in its stately 1800 House on Mill Street, surrounding students with inspiring period architectural and decorative details while they work. These unique classes that were started nine years ago, run from May through October, last from one to three days each, include all materials, and are taught by talented instructors from Nantucket and across the United States.

“We have the best in their fields,” said Mary Lacoursiere, 1800 House Curriculum Coordinator, and one of the local instructors.

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This year the 1800 House will hold five late-year classes at reduced prices for people wanting to create holiday gifts, festive home decorations, and blockprinted cards.

The 1800 House program offers a limited number of scholarships for island youth up to age 25.

“There are not many places around the country where you can learn these decorative techniques,” she explained. “The program is based on decorative arts and crafts, and a lot of these traditional techniques aren’t taught often. Our focus has a strong variety of Nantucket-based decorative arts.”

“What makes it special,” she continued, “is that classes are geared toward a broad skill set. For those who have no experience, instructors walk you through, step by step, so you have success. Those who do have experience take it to the next level.”

Among techniques Lacoursiere teaches are: painted floor cloths, colored pen work on cherry boxes, and transfer-ware, which is placing historic images on ceramics. A class always in demand is making Sailor’s Valentines, which is taught by three different instructors presenting three different approaches to the project.

Other classes, among a vast selection, include: painted game boards, willow garden accessories, painted fire boards, theorum painting, paper-cutting, crewel and needlework, wood-carving, silver-smithing, rughooking, marbling, decoupage, carved quarterboards, and fish and block printing.

“A lot of the courses are very practical. A lot of Early American decorative arts were very functional,” said Lacoursiere. “There is a really nice selection. It is stuff you can pursue on your own if you want to go further with it.

It’s one of the best-kept secrets, but we’re trying not to have it a secret. When you’re in a cool environment and creative place, it allows people to step away and learn something new. The 1800 House is a special, unique place, and the classes are designed so you can fit them into a busy summer schedule.”

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Nantucket Atheneum Nantucket’s Atheneum library on India Street offers many community-oriented calendar events, such as concerts and films, but also holds craft classes, yearround, mostly free of charge, and for all ages, from tiny tots to senior citizens. There are three crafts programs for youth through the Weezie Library for Children that run monthly in the winter and weekly during the summer.

“We encourage use of the library to enjoy more family time, and for people to come in and peruse books and begin crafts if they are not already doing it at home,” said Program Coordinator Nancy Tyrer.

Story and Craft is for children ages four and up. It promotes development of motor skills and eye/hand coordination along with a love of books. The children first are read a story from the extensive Weezie collection, then make a simple craft that is related to the book to take home. This program offers a pleasant way for parents and offspring to learn and share a bonding experience.

“We feel pairing crafts with a literary aspect is a natural pairing,” said Leslie Malcolm, the Children’s Librarian.

“Kids enjoy it as informative and creative, and it deepens the connection to books.”

Crafts for Eight to Eleven-Year Olds combines activities with books available and recommended for this age group. Instead of hearing a story, books related to the chosen craft are on display. Various crafts the groups have completed include: birdhouses decorated with mosaics, Mardi Gras masks, and St. Patrick’s rainbow pots filled with chocolate gold. “There is always some sort of literary connection,” explained Malcolm.

Nantucket Musical Arts Society 2013 CoNCeRT SeASoN our 55th consecutive season presenting national and international artists.

July 9th Calus. A vocal quintet acclaimed worldwide.

July 16 Yevgeny Kutik. Violin virtuoso with Timothy Bozarth, piano.

July 23 Carpe Diem. A string quartet - one of the most unique and

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in-demand ensembles on the stage today.

July 30 Axiom Brass Quintet. Masters of music from the Renaissance to jazz.

August 6 Brandon Cedel - Baritone. Winner of the Metropolitan Opera auditions this year. A majestic voice.

August 13 Michelle Cann - Piano. She has been endorsed by pianist Richard Goode for her “Fine musical intelligence and emotional depth.”

August 20 Adrian Daurov / Spencer Myer Duo - Cello and Piano.

Long-time visitors to Nantucket, this fabulous duo will be playing for Nantucket audiences for the first time.

All concerts are on Tuesday evenings at 8pm in the First Congregational Church, 62 Centre Street. Doors open at 7:30pm. Tickets at door or in advance at the Antiques Depot at 14 Easy Street and the Lochtefeld Gallery at 4 Fair Street.

On Monday evenings there is a free and informal “Meet the Artists” in Hendrix Hall of the Unitarian Meeting House at 11 Orange Street at 8pm.

For tickets and further information, please call our box office at the Antiques Depot.

508.228.1287 or visit nantucketmusicalartssociety.org

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Crafts for Teens is an age twelve to eighteen program that is modeled on a similar principle as the eight to eleven program, but with more sophisticated projects.

Some crafts utilize recycled materials or involve writing as well as hands-on creation. This group has made mini-hot air bags to hang in their rooms, decorated t-shirts, and assembled paper chandeliers, for example.

The adult crafts programs are usually led by Nancy Tyrer, and some, such as block printing, offer demonstrations.

Participants have made wreaths, baskets, pressed flowers, holiday ornaments, and done paper-folding projects. At the Saltmarsh Senior Center, groups learn cooking with an international flair, make tabletop arrangements, and other fun crafts. The library also holds a weekly knitting and crocheting workshop. As with the youth programs, the adult classes incorporate a variety of books from the Atheneum’s collections.

“It’s accessible to all, so that people who have an interest in these things have a place to go at no cost,” Tyrer said of the library crafts programs. “We try to deepen experiences for people interested in travel, cooking, and so on.”

MUSIC Nantucket Community Music Center The Nantucket Community Music Center on Centre Street is alive with the sounds of a multitude of instruments and with the joy of both its teachers and students, who share a love of these mesmerizing, uplifting strains.

NCMC Artistic Director Mollie Glazer spoke of the spirit behind the workings of the Center’s school.

“Private music lessons have a history of one on one. The interesting thing about that is how many things still exist in our society that are passed on from generation to generation,” she said. “The mastery of a musical instrument is an inward journey. Not only do you have to learn what to do with your hands, you have to learn how to access the emotional connection so that music actually speaks to yourself and to other people.”

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The NCMC programs are year-round with island and off-island teachers devoted to patiently instructing young people, starting at age three, and adults. While the overall program is always evolving, its core subjects and instruments taught include: music therapy, piano, trumpet, violin, cello, voice, ukulele, guitar, saxophone, drums, bass, ensemble jazz, and string ensemble, community chorus, and ukulele band.

Glazer explained that statistics show that learning a musical instrument aids in coordination and motor skills, concentration and discipline, and contributes to the pleasure of performing with others.

“They get to see an end result from the fruit of their labor.

You get to perform and get accolades. Performing is a selfesteem building experience,” said Glazer. “How wonderful to push through and have success. It’s a great thing.”

“It is an adventure,” she went on, “People can just call to express interest, and we will cheerfully set them up.

We have lots of opportunities for year-round and summer visitors to study and learn and make music with others.”

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CREDITED CLASSES Nantucket Island School of Design and the Arts Wondrous things take place within the walls of the Seaview Farm Art Center at the Nantucket Island School of Design and the Arts on Wauwinet Road, but the vital common denominator of all its programs is nurturing students’ connection with the environment and providing guidance to show how that connection can transform into artistic inspiration.

While NISDA’s curriculum is extensive for both children and adults, the school stands out on the island for offering college credit granted through the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, and Professional Development Points awarded through the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. In addition, through prearrangement with their school, high school students can earn credit in such areas as design, drawing, painting, and the creative process.

The school is open year-round for classes, tutorials, and its independent residency program with a teaching component, however there is also a summer schedule.

Instructors are a mix of local artists and artisans, as well as artists from the mainland with special expertise.

NISDA offers art studios featuring landscape photography, textiles, plein air painting, clay wheel and clay hand-building and more. Its workshops include: watercolor painting, clay, jewelry-making, Japanese tie/dye, book- binding, machine knitting, and photography.

The Kinder Arts program for children ages five and up offers fun, exploratory arts and crafts using nature as creative inspiration for painting, clay work, collage, mask-making, music and more that often involves participation by artists, theater performers, and environmentalists.

The Young Artists program is for youth ages eight to twelve. They examine personal creative ideas while learning studio techniques in areas such as textiles, including art clothes, cartooning, clay, painting and drawing, jewelry-making and photography.

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Teen offerings for youth thirteen and older, span drawing and painting, printmaking, fashion, clay, and art-related nature exploration.

“Our Kinder and youth programs offer the opportunity to explore individual creativity in order to feel the delight of ideas, creating, and self-expression,” said Kathy Kelm, NISDA Director. “Along with that, all our programs have a DNA of learning about other cultures and nature.

The ultimate goal, basically through sensorial experience in the arts, is to realize the connection we have to all of nature and to people around the globe.”

Adult programs at NISDA focus on the creative process, problem-solving, and mastering specific techniques. Many are scheduled for evenings to accommodate working people.

“All of our classes have a studio component, but we consider the landscape around us an opportunity for use as a visual and materials resource,” Kelm continued. “One of the core classes looks at cultures around the world and then considers how to incorporate them into our curriculum.”

She concluded, “Art and the environment link us to the evolution of man and to the universe. It broadens our consciousness. The idea of the excitement of being fully alive is what the experience is.”

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PERFORMING ARTS

Performing Arts May 30 - June 22

Theater: Six Degrees of Separation

7:30 pm Bennett Hall

by Theatre Workshop of Nantucket (IFC)

By John Guare, Directed by Kate Splaine.

Winner of the 1993 Olivier Award for Best Play and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. No subject is left untouched in this comic, fast-paced and affecting piece. The title refers to a statistical theory which states that any two people in the world can be connected through only six other people. Inspired by a true story, the play follows a young black man, Paul, who insinuates himself into the lives of a wealthy New York couple by claiming he knows their son at college, and has just been robbed and mugged.

Captivated by Paul’s intelligence and charming conversation, they invite him into their home, but soon discover that their trust may be misplaced.

Tickets available online at theatreworkshop.com & the Theatre Workshop Box Office 508-228-4305.

June 7

Concert: Quartetto Gelato

7:30 pm Coffin School, 4 Winter St.

by Nantucket Arts Council (bc) Virtuosic showpieces, romantic tenor arias, pyrotechnical solos, blazing gypsy show pieces, multi-instrument mastery and a World Accordion Champion – this is Quartetto Gelato.

June 13

Concert: Coq Au Vin

5 pm Unitarian Meeting House (pg 43) Nantucket’s “gypsy band” plays the Meeting House, for a one of a kind evening of gypsy jazz, blues, Latin American, French, and Spanish music. A rare chance to see this local favorite perform in concert!

June 27

Event: Shakespeare in the Garden

5:30 pm Madaket

by Nantucket Arts Council (bc) This widely acclaimed and eagerly anticipated event

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is the main fundraiser for the NAC. Acclaimed as “the best party on the island”, the event features strolling musicians, magical entertainment, a falconer and, of course, the main event—a lively performance directed by Meredith Martin of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Tickets required, see nantucketartscouncil.org for details.

June 20

Concert: Meeting House Choir

5 pm by Unitarian Meeting House (pg 43) The Meeting House choir has been a long loved fixture at the Unitarian Universalist Meeting House for over 30 years. Their repertoire of choral music about peace, love, nature, and thankfulness is sung with an enveloping and welcoming sound, spanning all manner of styles from madrigals to spirituals to pop songs – all under the musical direction and accompaniment of Diane Lehman.

June 27

Concert: Bart Weisman Trio

5 pm by Unitarian Meeting House (pg 43) Renowned Jazz musician and executive producer of the Providence Jazz Festival comes to the Meeting House for an evening of Jazz and Bossa Nova inspired melodies. Bart Weisman has toured all over the country, has played for Presidents, and has even opened for the Boston Pops. This will be his premier performance on Nantucket! Renowned Jazz musician and executive producer of the Providence Jazz Festival comes to the Meeting House for an evening of Jazz and Bossa Nova inspired melodies.

July 2 – Aug 3

Theater: You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown

5:30 pm Centre Stage

by Theatre Workshop of Nantucket (ifc) Based on the Comic Strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz. Book, Music and Lyrics by Clark Gesner.

You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, a delightful musical based on the beloved Peanuts cartoons, brings the gang all together for a day in the life of

Thursdays @5

A Meeting House Summer Concert Series

Enjoy music in the early evening, featuring musicians from “around the Sound!”

Painting by Anne Sutherland

June 13–September 12 Thursdays at 5 p.m.

Unitarian Meeting House 11 Orange Street Also join us for “Open Rehearsals,” Sundays 12–2 www.MusicAtTheMeetingHouse.org Music at the Meeting House is made possible by grants from the Worthington Foundation and ReMain Nantucket.

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PERFORMING ARTS Charlie Brown. You will celebrate your childhood or revisit it as Charlie tries to win the heart of the Little Red-Haired Girl, while Snoopy and Linus want to daydream. Meanwhile, the rest of the characters battle book reports, kites, baseball and misunderstandings in this classic Broadway musical, based on the iconic comic strip by Charles Schulz.

Tickets available online at theatreworkshop.com & the Theatre Workshop Box Office 508-228-4305.

July 2

Concert: Women’s Chorus Summer

4 pm Summer Street Church

by Nantucket Community Music Center (pg 45) July 3

Concert: Women’s Chorus Encore

4 pm Cisco Brewery

by Nantucket Community Music Center (pg 45) July 4

Concert: Bob Lehman Trio

5 pm by Unitarian Meeting House (pg 43) Bob & Diane Lehman, with Erik Wendelken on the stand up bass come to the Meeting House for an entertaining evening of standards, popular and novelty tunes. Join in the fun with this island band led by one of our very own, Bob Lehman.

July 6

Concert: Brad Corrigan of Dispatch

5:30 pm Dreamland Theater (pg 5) Musical artist, Brad Corrigan of Dispatch, is part of the Summer Music Event benefit for the Nantucket New School, Strong Wings, and the Dreamland Foundation. Independent artist, international recording sensation and humanitarian, Brad Corrigan

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(of Dispatch) continues the NNS/SW Summer Music Event tradition of celebrating and raising funds for Nantucket New School and Strong Wings through music. Headlining in 2011 was Martin Sexton, and in 2012 was Shawn Colvin.

For more information about this Summer Music Event, Nantucket New School or Strong Wings, please contact Jocelyn Beni at (617) 921-1213 or Laura Raimo at (508) 228-8769.

July 9

Concert: Camus

8 pm First Congregational Church

by Nantucket Musical Arts Society (pg 37) A vocal quintet acclaimed worldwide.

July 10 – August 3

Theater: Dead Man’s Cell Phone

8:30 pm Centre Stage

by Theatre Workshop of Nantucket (ifc)

By Sarah Ruhl. An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café. A stranger at the next table who has had enough. A dead man. And lots of loose ends. So begins Dead Man’s Cell Phone, a wildly imaginative new comedy by MacArthur “Genius” Grant” recipient and Pulitzer Prize finalist Sarah Ruhl, author of The Clean House and In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play. A work about how we memorialize the dead— and how that remembering changes us—it is the odyssey of a woman forced to confront her own assumptions about morality, redemption, and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed world.

Tickets available online at theatreworkshop.com & the Theatre Workshop Box Office 508-228-4305.

July 11

Concert: Dan Charness

5 pm by Unitarian Meeting House (pg 43) The Meeting House proudly welcomes singer songwriter Dan Charness to Nantucket for a one night engagement of his original music – a unique blend of acoustic 70’s folk rock, pop, and indie music. Winner of the 2010 Indie International Song Contest, Dan Charness is a New York based musician who has played all over the Northeast, including NYC’s The Bitter End and Caffe Vivaldi.

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July 21

Theater: Queen of Hearts

Concert: All Voices Choral Concert Broadway Melodies

11 am Dreamland Theater (pg 5) Young Actor’s Theater Company

Concert: Jazz Band

6 pm Children’s Beach Park

by Nantucket Community Music Center (pg 45)

Event: Susie Jarrell Merit Awards Student Concert

7 pm Nantucket Atheneum,

by Nantucket Community Music Center (pg 45) July 13

by Nantucket Community Music Center (pg 45) A choral concert of show tunes that span decades of Broadway hits. Arranged and directed by our very own Diane Lehman.

July 22– 27

Dance: Nantucket Atheneum Dance Festival Nantucket Atheneum (pg 7)

Event: Nantucket Dreamland Foundation Gala Please join the Nantucket Dreamland (pg 5) Foundation for its annual gala. Please call 508-332-4823, ex 105 for details.

Event: Annual Benefit Art Auction & Gala

by Artists Association of Nantucket (pg 33) Please call 508-228-0722 for details.

July 16

Concert: Yevgeny Kutik

8 pm Congregational Church

by Nantucket Musical Arts Society (pg 37) Violin virtuoso with Timothy Bozarth, piano.

July 18

Concert: Nantucket Women’s Chorus

5 pm NCMC Women’s Chorus directed by Barbara Elder offers an eclectic mix of pop tunes, folk and world music sung by women around the world.

by Nantucket Community Music Center (pg 45) July 19

Theater: Little Snow White

11 am Dreamland Theater (pg 5) Young Actor’s Theater Company July 20

Concert: Washington Saxophone Quartet

Reception @ 6:30 pm, Concert @ 7:30 pm Congregational Church

by Nantucket Community Music Center (pg 45)

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Featuring stars from the dance world brought together by Artistic Director, Benjamin Millepied and Associate Artistic Director Tyler Angie.

The festival includes many free outreach events for adults and children and culminates with two spectacular evening performances on July 26 and July 27. Tickets for the evening performances, which feature a dance program of classical and contemporary ballet, will be available July 1st at the library and online. All other events are free.

The Nantucket Atheneum Dance Festival is a major fundraising event for the Atheneum, which must raise 60 percent of its budget through special events and private donations.

The festival began in 2007 and has featured principals and soloists from the New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Royal Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, and Paris Opera Ballet.

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Concert: Carpe Diem

8 pm First Congregational Church

by Nantucket Musical Arts Society (pg 37) A string quartet - one of the most unique and in-demand ensembles on the stage today.

Theater: The Vandal

2 pm Dreamland Theater (pg 5)

by White Heron Theatre Company

vocal performance from both the world renowned conservatory at the University of Michigan, and Boston Conservatory, and is a member of the faculty at the Cape Cod Conservatory in Falmouth. His long standing love for Duke Ellington is venerated as he performs a night of standards by “The Duke”.

July 26

Theater: Humpty Dumpty’ s Big Break 11 am Dreamland Theater (pg 5) Young Actor’s Theater Company

July 24 – Aug 24

July 27

Theater: The Wizard of OZ

Dance: Children’s Program Dance Festival 10 am Nantucket High School

by Nantucket Atheneum (pg 7) FREE ADMISSION A fun, interactive program for children ages 5 and up. Dancers from the company lead children on stage through a choreographed piece.

6 pm Bennett Hall

by Theatre Workshop of Nantucket (ifc)

By L. Frank Baum, Harold Arlen, and E.Y. Harburg.

TWN is thrilled to reprise our hit production, The Wizard of Oz, this summer. With sold-out houses last year, Oz grabbed our hearts and our imaginations, carrying us on a fantastical journey with music, dancing and special effects. One of America’s greatest and best-loved fairytales, The Wizard of Oz promises to take you and your family “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” as we bring this magical show back to our stage.

Tickets available online at theatreworkshop.com & the Theatre Workshop Box Office 508-228-4305.

July 24

Dance: Youth Master Ballet Class Nantucket Atheneum Dance Festival (pg 7) 9:30 and 11 am Nantucket High School FREE ADMISSION

Youth Master Ballet Classes taught by members of the dance company. Limited to dancers up to 18 years old with at least two years of training. Registration is required. To register, call 508-228-1110 ext. 107.

July 25

Concert: John Murelle in Concert

5 pm by Unitarian Meeting House (pg 43)

John Murelle is a well known Cape Cod based baritone and voice teacher. He holds a degree in

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July 26 and July 27

Dance Festival: Evening Performance 6:30 pm Nantucket High School

by Nantucket Atheneum (pg 7) Tickets Required. A spectacular evening of ballet performed by stars of the American Ballet Theatre, Miami City Ballet and New York City Ballet. Tickets on sale July 1st on the website or at the library.

For more information on ticket reservations, visit nantucketatheneum.org or call 508-228-1110 July 30

Concert: Axiom Brass Quintet

8 pm by First Congregational Church

by Nantucket Musical Arts Society (pg 37) Masters of music from the Renaissance to jazz.

August 1

Theater: Rumpelstiltskin

11 am Dreamland Theater (pg 5) Young Actor’s Theater Company

Concert: Timbukblues

5 pm Unitarian Meeting House (pg 43) Local Favorites, Erik Wendelken and Chuck Colley join harmonica and sax player Tom Stoddard with their earthy band of blues.

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Concert: Brandon Cedel - Baritone

8 pm First Congregational Church

by Nantucket Musical Arts Society (pg 37) Winner of the Metropolitan Opera auditions this year. A majestic voice.

August 8

Concert: Cabaret, A Tribute to Irving Berlin

5 pm by Unitarian Meeting House (pg 43) A cabaret style evening of the music of Irving Berlin, led by Nantucket’s own Broadway songstress Cynthia Csabay.

August 11

Concert: Hyannis Sound

Afternoon by Unitarian Meeting House (pg 43) This nationally recognized, all male acapella group comes to Nantucket for an afternoon of acapella renditions of pop songs, spanning decades of popular music.

John Shea. TWN celebrates the 40th anniversary of Dracula’s premiere on Nantucket, a production that was originally conceived and produced by American scenic designer, producer, director, and former Nantucket resident, John Wulp. Wulp’s production moved to Broadway, earning him a Tony for Best Revival, and a nomination for Frank Langella in the title role. TWN’s artistic director, John Shea, who was in the 1973 production and who will direct this revival, is excited to bring this thrilling classic back to the Nantucket stage.

Tickets available online at theatreworkshop.com & the Theatre Workshop Box Office 508-228-4305.

Theater: Senior Showcase

August 15

August 13

5 pm by Unitarian Meeting House (pg 43) ’Sconset’s world class touring flautist, back again with accompanist Alan Murchie.

6:30 pm Dreamland Theater (pg 5) Senior Company Concert: Michelle Cann - Piano 8 pm First Congregational Church

by Nantucket Musical Arts Society (pg 37) She has been endorsed by pianist Richard Goode for her “Fine musical intelligence and emotional depth.”

August 14

Theater: Beauty and the Beast Jr.

5:30 pm Dreamland Theater (pg 5)

by The Dreamland Theater: Junior Company Other performances Aug. 15, 16, 18, 19, 20 Aug 14 – Sept 7

Theater: Dracula

7:30 pm Centre Stage

by Theatre Workshop of Nantucket (ifc) Based on the Novel by Bram Stoker. Stage adaptation

by Hamilton Deane & John Balderston. Directed by

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Concert: Coutney Hardy Classical Floutist & Pianist

August 20

Concert: Adrian Daurov / Spencer Myer Duo 8 pm First Congregational Church

by Nantucket Musical Arts Society (pg 37) Cello and Piano. Long-time visitors to Nantucket, this fabulous duo will be playing for Nantucket audiences for the first time.

August 22

Concert: Live Music

5 pm by Unitarian Meeting House (pg 43) Come to the meeting house for an evening of live music. Each concert features one local or regional artist, covering a range of styles from classical to folk to jazz to rock.

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Concert: Nick Davies & Friends Summer

by Nantucket Community Music Center (pg 45) 4 pm Children/Family Concert.

Nantucket High School 7 pm Adult Reception & Concert The Westmoor Club, 10 Westmoor Ln. August 29

Concert: Jessie Ann Labrecht - Operatic Soprano 5 pm by Unitarian Meeting House (pg 43) Our very own soprano, back for the second year in a row performing selections from her repertoire of operatic arias.

September 5

Concert: Jazz with Nigel Goss & Matt Hutchinson

5 pm Nantucket Musical Arts Society (pg 37) Sons of Nantucket, world traveled and returned, they share a passion for jazz and mix it up for us with their unique blend of sound, Matt on piano, and Nigel on bass and Nick on drums.

September 12

Concert: Jazz Band Swing

5 pm Nantucket Community Music Center (pg 45) Unitarian Church, 11 Orange St. September 18 – Oct 12

Theater: Dinner

7:30 pm Centre Stage

by Theatre Workshop of Nantucket (ifc)

By Moira Buffini. Directed by Ginny Irwin.

An artist, a scientist and a sexpot are coming to dinner. Paige, hostess extraordinaire, is celebrating the publication of her husband’s bestseller. The arrival of Mike, marooned in the foggy lane after crashing his van, provides an unexpected addition to the evening’s entertainment. A silent waiter, sourced from an obscure website, completes the picture. Primordial Soup is first on the menu. Let the dinner from hell begin! A wonderful comedy chiller with blood on the carpet before bedtime.

Tickets available online at theatreworkshop.com & the Theatre Workshop Box Office 508-228-4305.

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October 4 - 13

2013

Event: Annual Nantucket Arts Festival

by Nantucket Arts Council (obc) Enjoy the collaboration of activities from festival partners and the exhibits of various artists & the Artisan Talk Show Series.

October 12

Event: Annaul Organ Crawl

9 am by Nantucket Community Music Center (pg 45) Part of Nantucket Arts Festival begins at St. Mary’s Church and ends at Unitarian Church.

November 22 – December 14

Theater: A Christmas Carol

5:30 pm Bennett Hall

by Theatre Workshop of Nantucket (ifc)

By Charles Dickens. Carrying on TWN’s tradition of bringing a large holiday show to the stage, A Christmas Carol will feature a cast of all ages in Dickens’ timeless and beloved classic. Our holiday show is one of TWN’s most ambitious productions of the season, drawing on the remarkable talents of our year-round community. TWN invites you and your family to travel with the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future in this marvelously told story, complete with music.

Tickets available online at theatreworkshop.com & the Theatre Workshop Box Office 508-228-4305.

December 14

Concert: Jazz Band Holiday Series

4 pm Summer Street Church,

by Nantucket Community Music Center (pg 45) December 15

Concert: Jazz Band Holiday Series

4 pm Congregational Church

by Nantucket Community Music Center (pg 45)

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4 Decades of arts Advocacy

by Mary Lancaster “The Nantucket Arts Council is certainly a far different organization now than it was then, mainly because the purposes have changed,” said Reggie Levine, who became involved with the NAC in 1974 and was named president in 1998.

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here is an old saying that some things improve with age.

The Nantucket Arts Council, celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, is a true testament to that adage as it not only thrives as an advocate for and supporter of all island cultural art forms, but is poised to soar into greater future relevance.

The story of the council’s first incarnation began in 1973.

The late John Wulp set the first effort in motion by being instrumental in the creation of the Nantucket Stage Company, a serious attempt at bringing professional theater to the island. Wulp formed a group that became the original Arts Council board to foster his vision to transform Nantucket into a highly-regarded regional arts center. Tragically, that vision was dashed when Straight Wharf Theater, the sole venue for stage performances on Island, burned to the ground in 1975.

After the fire, the board more or less dissolved, but Levine owned the Main Street Gallery at 50 Main Street and invited what remained of the council to relocate temporarily in his building. Henry Koch, the first NAC president, had resigned and was replaced by Maxine Shaw, a woman Levine refers to as the organization’s “unsung heroine.” Levine became vice president.

“At that point we began to see the beginnings of the Arts Council of today, in that it installed a new board and began to develop programming,” said Levine.

Shaw was succeeded as president by John Sutton.

Under Sutton’s tenure the council’s presence in the community and cultural activities ratcheted up to unprecedented highs. The Nantucket Performance Center was launched on the second floor of the

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with her dynamic influence, but, while Levine maintained an affiliation with that group, he returned to the NAC after a two-year absence. The council’s direction changed in the early 1990s as it evolved to support inclusively other art forms than concerts by offering project-supporting grants to local non-profit cultural organizations.

Photo: Beverly Hall

Methodist Church, and an extensive series of lectures, and what would become the NAC’s signature concert events, were initiated.

“A great deal of effort, time, and money went into creating that performing space. It was a little jewel box,” Levine recalled.

In the late 1970s into the 1980s, Levine was charged with developing the council’s programming.

He was also first vice president of the Nantucket Historical Association and gained its approval to host NAC arts and crafts exhibitions in the association’s under-utilized Fair Street Museum.

“That was a particularly exciting time for the Arts Council because we were doing so many things,” said Levine.

The musically-talented Margaretta Sutro next took the reins leading the NAC. She focused on transforming the concert series into something extraordinary through her access to great traveling performers who drew capacity audiences. Still, Levine believed the Arts Council needed to expand its presentations. He left the NAC to create the Nantucket Arts Alliance as a supplementary arm.

Former resident Kate Stout infused the alliance

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After John Stroup and Peter Sutro served as NAC presidents, in 1998 it was Levine’s turn. He held the post for 11 years then passed the torch to present NAC board member Gene Mahon for two years.

He reclaimed his seat after that, and has headed the council to this day.

Many milestones have been reached in the last 15 years, including the establishment of the NAC’s Young People’s Concert Series, its Merit Award program for individuals making outstanding community contributions, its youth arts study scholarship program, the acclaimed summer fund-raiser, Shakespeare in the Garden, and the much-anticipated fall Nantucket Arts Festival.

From 2004 until 2007, the NAC created and sponsored the Nantucket Shakespeare Festival, producing performances by visiting mainland theater companies. Later, it sponsored the local group called Shakespeare by the Sea. Additionally, the NAC was a founding sponsor of the Nantucket Book Festival that debuted last year.

“After 50 years or so of being involved in cultural life on Nantucket, I am convinced that the arts have a vital and life-enhancing role to play in this community,” said Levine. “The benefits of a lively and inventive arts scene involving the entire community through shared cultural experiences are endless. Such experiences will first of all be simply entertaining, drawing us out of our daily repetitive routine and confronting us with the unexpected that can be challenging, confrontational, and questioning. All art, no matter what discipline, requires two definite elements — the artist who creates

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the work and the audience that responds to it. In that sense, we are all participants in the creative act, making it truly a shared experience on many levels.”

For all his kudos, Levine is the first to give credit to fellow NAC board members for their many valuable contributions that have enlivened and enriched the council’s offerings. Included in that long list is First Vice President Beverly Hall, a board member for more than ten years and long-time hostess of her own brain-child, Shakespeare in the Garden. Hall opened her lovely gardens in Madaket for the lavish event for five years. Last year the festivities took place at the home of Bob and Judy Brust; they will be hosting the event this year again.

Hall remembers that the council was searching for an interesting summer fund-raising concept when a local restaurant owner offered to hold a stand-up cocktail party for the purpose. To Hall, the important occasion needed to be more creative and fitting to an organization promoting the arts. Since the NAC had previously supported Shakespeare productions, she suggested Shakespeare in the Garden with a sumptuous “groaning board” of food and wine, theatrical entertainment, music and wandering minstrels, and other period characters.

The premier was so well-received it was quickly recognized as, “The best party of the year.”

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“It was a wonderful night with real Elizabethan fare.

That set us on the map with a fund-raiser that was not only representational of our creativity, but also gave us a vehicle to put ourselves out as an arts group.

It was fun, it was inspirational, and it was exciting!

We are an organization that advocates for art and the artists,” said Hall, noting that, besides many other achievements, years back the council began a winter film series at the Atheneum that eventually was adopted by the library itself as one of its regular calendar offerings.

Dr. Gerald Mack, a board member for six years, is also the Music Director for what is now known as the NAC’s Winter/Spring Concert Series, performances by well-known mainland singers and ensembles that are frequently attended by standing room only audiences. Mack is also responsible for booking the musicians.

“These are highly professional people we’re bringing in now. We started with a winter series but found there was not a lot going on in the spring, yet there were still a lot of people here,” said Mack. “The emphasis with the concert series is to bring professional musicians to the island at very reasonable prices during a time when most of the people on island are year-round. It’s for them to have these cultural experiences. It makes Nantucket a better place in many ways, and it does a wonderful thing, educationally.”

“I think the Arts Council is a very important component of our life on the island,” he continued. “It’s not just one area; it’s music, it is supporting Shakespeare, it’s supporting all of the arts. This is an overseeing kind of organization that supports all of the arts, and it is very important for us to continue.”

Arlene O’Reilly has been a board member on the council for seven years. Working with fellow board members Mary Lacoursiere and Dan Driscoll, she re-branded the council in 2009. Arlene designed the new logo seen today and established

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has hosted approximately 500 people in circulating attendance in one night.

Photo: Arlene O’Reilly

nantucketartscouncil.org. “We added multimedia features and tied in social media aspects that were established by past board member, Elizabeth Hazel.

Dan’s film work is always top shelf, and Mary’s creative talents are a never-ending stream. All three of us use our creative abilities professionally every day in marketing in one aspect or another. Combining our talents together, we elevated the council to a entirely new level of presentation.”

Once the new look was established, Arlene turned her attention to re-kindling the Nantucket Arts Festival, an event that did not occur during the height of the recent recession. In 2011, she took on the role as NAC chair of the Arts Festival. “I realized that this festival had at least 30 years of history and community involvement. I needed help, and invited representatives of each of the island arts nonprofits, many of whom had been involved in past arts festivals, to meet with me to discuss how we could work together in bringing back this cherished signature event of the Nantucket Arts Council.” This initial meeting formed the Arts Ambassador Group. ReMain Nantucket was the first to be a major sponsor, followed by Hy-Line Cruises. The sponsor list grew, and so did the buzz. The opening reception to the Festival’s community exhibit (curated by NAC President Reggie Levine and assisted by board members Tara Young and Mary Lacoursiere)

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Another popular festival feature is The Artisan Talk Show Series which presents film- makers, painters, sculptors, writers, designers, and musicians, all sharing their creative process. The 2011 talk show series can be viewed at NCTV, channel 18 or www.nantucketcommunitytelevision.org. “While serving as the council’s chair for the Arts Festival in 2011 and 2012, it was a rewarding experience to see the wealth of talent - all aspects of art- that exists here on Nantucket, and see it united for one week,” Arlene commented.

Dan Driscoll has been an NAC board member for three years. While he reflects proudly on its past accomplishments, he looks to the future of the organization with optimism and confidence in its ability to achieve even greater goals to benefit the community.

“I still see us as growing, and I look forward to seeing the fall Arts Festival become a bigger event. One thing we’re talking about is a short film festival of films made on Nantucket. I want to see us grow and become more recognizable,” said Driscoll. “I feel the Shakespeare event has grown very nicely, and more and more people are getting on the board and offering more suggestions. Gerry’s concert programming has been most phenomenal. Those are the things that come to mind immediately to me.”

Jack Fritsch has logged three years with the council and serves as second vice president. His enthusiasm for the organization’s work and its vital role in the community is boundless.

“Historically, I think the greatest accomplishment of the Arts Council is to address and bring together all the disciplines to tighten the arts community on Nantucket.

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Certainly, the annual Arts Festival is a spectacular accomplishment — to even dare think to do it, let alone do it,” said Fritsch.

“The most lasting contributions are the grants and scholarships. I think that’s the most important. The council has raised enough to give grants and scholarships where they are needed and deserved,” he continued.

“Since I’ve been with them, probably the most important accomplishment the group has achieved is to bounce back from the drastic economic situation people found themselves in, in 2007 and 2008. To survive and recover from the economic crash I think is its strength, which is most surprising because the Arts Council is a quiet organization.”

Fritsch sees how the council has broadened its horizons by sponsoring more programs than ever, adding concerts and children’s programming, delving into literature and theater, and, generally, nurturing all creative forms, instead of being restricted to a perhaps assumed focus on the visual arts alone.

“Art is such an important part of our life. People may overlook it without realizing it is fundamentally important,” he concluded. “After you put a roof over your head and food on the table, after you take care of the necessary things in life, art and culture keep us happy and healthy as well as stimulated.”

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Charlotte Maison Kastner has served as the council’s Director of Operations for a year and a-half, keeping the office running smoothly and savoring the chance to see and assist with the innermost workings that perpetuate the organization’s success. She has been affiliated to a degree with NAC since the 1990s and, once installed on its staff, became aware that the NAC’s original mission has not simply managed to continue, it has flourished, as collaborations have expanded.

“The mission is still to benefit the cultural life here, benefit arts organizations, and offer opportunities for people here to experience the talent of off-island concerts at affordable prices — enjoying the top musicians in New England in intimate settings,” she said. “It is such a gift to the year-round community. There is an on-going commitment to the year-round community at the NAC.” “It’s true of the Arts Festival, too,” she continued, “and using historic spaces that bring people in touch with Nantucket’s roots. And it is true of the Young People’s Concert Series. Over the years, the Arts Council has brought a number of special programs to the school children. Nantucket kids have an exposure to the very best in cultural events, even though they live 30 miles out to sea.”

Save the dates for NAC Signature Events: Shakespeare in the Garden: Thursday, June 27 5:30-8:30 p.m.

At Bob and Judy Brust’s residence Concert Series - Quartetto Gelato: Friday, June 7 7:30 p.m. at the Coffin School NAC Merit Award: Sunday, July 21 6-8 p.m. at NHA Rooftop and Whaling Museum Nantucket Arts Festival: October 4 – 13 Preservation Hall

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Book Reviews

Over the past few years, Nancy Thayer’s New York Times bestselling Nantucket beach novels have become a summer staple for readers across the country. This year she is back with island girls, a highly emotional, wholly entertaining tale of three sisters forced to confront the past over one eventful summer on the island.

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Outstanding photography by Cary Hazelgrove, this book is filled with over 130 poignant color photographs illuminating the island’s distinct seasons. Images are paired with thoughtful words by island residents and a foreword by best-selling author and summer resident David Michaelis make this book an enduring portrayal of Nantucket.

Hardcover. Available at local book stores and Amazon.

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Nathaniel Philbrick, award-winning and bestselling author of In The Heart of the Sea and Mayflower, brings his prodigious talents to the story that ignited the American Revolution. With passion and insight, Philbrick reconstructs the revolutionary landscape—geographic and ideological—in a mesmerizing narrative of the robust, messy and blisteringly real origins of America.

“Philbrick will be a candidate for another award with this ingenious, bottomup look at Boston from the time of the December 1773 Tea Party to the iconic June 1775 battle. A rewarding approach to a well-worn subject, rich in anecdotes, opinion, bloodshed and Byzantine political maneuvering.”

—Kirkus (Starred Review) Hardcover, ebook and audio cd available in bookstores everywhere.

Nathaniel Philbrick’s Bunker Hill book tour will include Nantucket on: July 25: Egan Maritime Institute @ Unitarian Church, 7 p.m.

August 21: Nantucket Atheneum @ Unitarian Church, 8 p.m.

“This richly detailed and tenderly presented account of Nantucket’s unique and awe-inspiring natural history will satisfy the curiosity of all who ponder and explore Nantucket’s natural world. Peter Brace’s deep passion for the island’s habitats and their inhabitants is revealed even further through his insightful commentary and meticulous footnotes. Next to your field guides, this is an essential text for understanding the island’s natural world and its formation.”

—Janet E. Schulte, Ph.D. Executive Director, The Maria Mitchell Association

Hardcover. Available at the Eagan Maritime Institute, Amazon and local bookstores.

This book is a collection of the art of Richard Kemble (19322007), co-authored by George Korn and Thomas Livingston.

Kemble was on the faculty of the State University of New York and Pratt Institute but gave up academics after receiving one of the first printmaker’s fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in the 1960’s. Kemble’s work is included in more than 100 public collections including New York’s Museum of Modern Art, The New Jersey State Museum and the Cape Cod Museum of Art. He was inspired by his surroundings at his homes in Nantucket and Key West.

Hardcover. Available at the Gallery at 4 India Street.

Featured book signing July 19th & 20th, 2-6 p.m.

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Exhibits & Receptions June 1 - November 15

June 28 continued

Peter Foulger Gallery, Whaling Mueum Nantucket Legends Exhibit

Robert Foster Fine Art (pg 57

Walk down Main Street on a busy August afternoon, and you’ll likely overhear someone telling a story about Nantucket’s history—a tale of the day a sea serpent visited the island, or how Main Street came to be paved with cobblestones. This summer, the Nantucket Historical Association will explore some of the tales—those rooted in documented history and those of fantasy—that are integral to how the island community understands its history and presents Nantucket to the world. Nantucket Legends: Foggy Facts and Fictions will take a close look at some of Nantucket’s colorful stories, including the first Nantucket tea party, R. H. Macy’s red star tattoo, Tony Sarg’s sea serpent hoax, and the origin of roof walks on Nantucket houses, Folger’s Coffee, and Nantucket Reds. Visitors to the exhibit will learn that it isn’t always possible to distinguish fact from fiction, but that stories told about the events, places, and people of Nantucket change over time to reflect the identity and interests of the storyteller.

June 1 - June 26 Robert Foster Fine Art (pg 57)

Group Show

6 - 9 pm Reception for Kathleen Kelliher Show thru July 10 June 29 - 30 Artists Association of Nantucket (pg 33)

Plein Air Nantucket Painting Festival 6 pm Maria Mitchell Building June 30: Reception and Frank Swift Chase Awards Presentation July 1 - 31 Gallery at 4 India (pg 8)

Modern Perception Exhibition July 5

Artists Association of Nantucket (pg 33)

Hot Pressed: Works on Paper Exhibition Old Spouter Gallery (pg 27)

6-8 pm Reception for Robert Frazier & Gabriella Fiabane, Robert Foster Fine Art (pg 57)

6 - 9 pm Reception for Deborah Vanderwolk.

Show thru July 17 July 10

June 14

Artists Association of Nantucket (pg 33)

Art Cabinet Nantucket (ad on pg. )

Eye of the Beholder Exhibition A juried exhibition

6-8 pm Salon & Lecture with Wilfredo Chiesa and Sculptures of Billy Sherry.

June 28

Wilfredo Chiesa’s abstractions are engaging and revealing in a profound manner, offering an experience that is rich in its visual quality as well as in the ability to resonate with the viewer on an emotive, philosophical, even spiritual level. Indeed, Chiesa’s work, being non-representational, invokes the mystical, the divine, that which cannot be defined, depicted, or named.

Artists Association of Nantucket (pg 33)

6 - 8 pm Nantucket Moderns: Contemporary Art 1945– 2013. Permanent Collection Exhibition, Maria Mitchell Building

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Billy Sherry is a graduate of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., where he studied sculpture under Leonard Cave. His early work in carved wood was soon replaced with large steel abstract pieces after he met and worked with the French sculptor Marc Berlet in Miami. His work is abstract, using the natural geometry of steel in formal and often lyrical statements. His sculpture is grounded in the tradition of Gonzalez, Smith and Caro, yet it expresses a clear and individual style.

Old Spouter Gallery (pg 27)

July 12 Artists Association of Nantucket (pg33)

Old Spouter Gallery (pg 27 )

1 Gardner Perry Lane A Focus on Conservation: A photography exhibition celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Nantucket Conservation Foundation.

Old Spouter Gallery (pg 27)

6-8 pm Reception for Katie Trinkle Legge (pg 19) Robert Foster Fine Art (pg 57)

6-9 pm Reception for Elizabeth Congdon Show thru July 24 Sosebee Studio Gallery (pg 39)

6-8 pm Reception for Doug & Deb Sosebee July 19 Artists Association of Nantucket (pg 33)

Summer Small Works Exhibition East End Gallery

6-8 pm Reception Elle Foley (pg 31) Gallery at 4 India (pg 8)

6-8 pm Reception for Thomas Deininger and Book Signing for Richard Kemble Retrospective Hostetler Gallery (pg 21)

5 - 7:30 pm Reception for Art Werger Master printer of mezzotints, aquatints and etchings. They have a photographic quality to them.

Some with black and whites and grays, others with colors of exotic birds, swimmers, moments of captured life, aerials of New York City captured with an eye for viewing life from another angle.

6-8 pm Reception for Joan Albaugh Robert Foster Fine Art (pg 57)

6-9 pm Reception for Julija Mostykanova Show thru July 31 Sosebee Studio Gallery (pg 39)

6-8 pm Reception for Helen Sharp Potter July 26

6-8 pm Reception for Sherre Wilson Liljegren & Kasia Baker Robert Foster Fine Art (pg 57)

6-9 pm Reception for Daniel Sutherland Show thru Aug. 7 Sosebee Studio (pg 39)

6-8 pm Reception for Jeanne Rosier Smith (Pastel Artist)

August 1 - 31 Gallery at 4 India (pg 8)

Traditional Realism Exhibition August 2 Artists Association of Nantucket (pg 33)

6 - 8 pm Think Big: A Large Works Exhibition Gallery at 4 India (pg 8)

6 - 8 pm Reception for John P. Osborne Hostetler Gallery (pg 21 )

5 - 7:30 pm Reception for Power Boothe Abstract, minimalist, tight compositions, explosive use of color, and new language for landscapes, oils on canvas Old Spouter Gallery (pg 27)

6-8 pm Reception for Michael Rich, Robert Foster Fine Art (pg 57)

6-9 pm Reception for Christine Sanford Show thru Aug. 14

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August 2 continued Sosebee Studio (pg 39 )

6-8 pm Reception for Barbara Capizzo August 8 Art Cabinet Nantucket (Studio) (pg 13)

6-8 pm Joanna Kane & Silvio Cattani with Sculptures of Billy Sherry. Salon with Guitarist Walter Abt - South American Music.

“Joanna makes her paint, mixes her pigments, paints on carefully hand conditioned wood...Joanna is cut from the same cloth as those that labored in their studios for long hours, with intense, trance-like devotion and relentless work ethic.” Stacy Lynn Barr August 9 Artists Association of Nantucket (pg 33)

Robert Foster Fine Art (pg 57)

6-9 pm Reception for Peggy Silverstein Show thru Sept. 4 August 24 Artists Association of Nantucket (pg 33)

Sidewalk Art Show In the garden of the Nantucket Atheneum.

August 30 Robert Foster Fine Art (pg 57)

6-9 pm Reception for John Devaney Show thru Sept. 11 September 6 Robert Foster Fine Art (pg 57)

Life’s A Beach Exhibition

6-9 pm Reception for Lisa Marie Duval Show thru Sept. 18

Old Spouter Gallery (pg 27)

October 4

6-8 pm Reception for Megan Hinton & Julie Gifford Robert Foster Fine Art (pg 57)

6-9 pm Reception for Anne Rose Show thru Aug. 21 Sosebee Studio (pg 39))

6-8 pm Reception for Jessica Sosebee August 16 Hostetler Gallery (pg 21)

5 - 7:30 pm Reception for Crystal Cartier Photography of food is her profession and the creation of a new vision with this focus is her artistic passion.

Old Spouter Gallery (pg 27)

6-8 pm Reception for John Lochtefeld, Robert Foster Fine Art (pg 57)

6-9 pm Reception for Whitney Kreb Show thru Aug. 28 August 23 Old Spouter Gallery (pg 27)

6-8 pm Reception TBA

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Nantucket Arts Festival Reception (OBC)

by Nantucket Arts Council Join the Nantucket Arts Festival for their opening art exhibition.

October 4 - 13 Nantucket Arts Festival

by Nantucket Arts Council Enjoy the collaboration of activites from festival partners and the exhibits of various galleries.

October 25

Artists Association (pg 33)

People’s Choice Exhibition November 29

Artists Association (pg 33)

Holiday Small Works Exhibition December 6 Old Spouter Gallery (pg 27)

6-8 pm Art of the Season: Holiday Exhibition Robert Foster Fine Art (pg 57)

6-9 pm Stroll Weekend Group Show Show thru Christmas

Lectures & Demonstrations ARTIST RESIDENCIES AT NISDA

NISDA’s Artist Residency Community welcomes emerging and professional artists and educators in all fields including, but not limited to, the studio arts in photography, painting, ceramics, textiles, writing, music, performance and any alternative projects committed to the creative process. NISDA’s residency is an on-your-own, self-structured experience that provides time & climate for personal renewal. Residents live in NISDA’s Harbor Cottages in Nantucket Town. You may work in studios at NISDA’s SeaView Farm, in your cottage, or in the Nantucket landscape. Artists in Residence who wish, are welcome to attend lecture series or ongoing classes.

NISDA CORE COURSES 2013

Experience the connection to the universality of the creative process in nature’s systems and humanity’s participation through the global expression of the arts and living. Workshops as well as choice/s of Art Studios may be integrated into your personal contact hours and experience.

Nantucket Island School of Design and the Arts is affiliated and grants credit through the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston.

Professional Development Points are awarded through approval of the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

June 14 Sosebee Studio Gallery (pg 39)

Artist Demonstraton: Catherine Elliott time TBD, sign-up required June 19 Artists Association (pg 33)

Plein Air Nantucket Saturday–Sunday, June 29– 30, Plein Air Nantucket 2013, painting festival.

Nantucket Atheneum (pg 7)

7 pm Lecture: Bobbi McPeak, “How to Publish Your Own Book” . Free admission June 26

Nantucket Atheneum (pg 7 )

June 28

Sosebee Studio (pg 39)

Artist Demonstration: Diane Panerelli Miller time TBD, sign-up required Nantucket Atheneum (pg 7)

8pm Lecture: Dr. Margaret Geller, “Mapping The Universe” Free admission July 2 Nantucket Atheneum (pg 7)

8pm Author Talk: Jim Sterba, Backyard Wars.

Free admission July 8

Nantucket Atheneum (pg 7)

Unitarian Church 8pm Geschke Lecture Series: New Yorker contributor and author David Owen: “Adventures in Journalism, Home Improvement and Golf.” $25 admission July 12

Sosebee Studio Gallery (pg 39)

Artist Demonstration: Doug & Deb Sosebee 10:30-12 pm, sign-up required July 14

Nantucket Atheneum (pg 7)

8pm Author Talk: Megan Marshall, Margaret Fuller: A New American Life. Free admission July 15

Nantucket Atheneum (pg 7)

Great Harbor Yacht Club 8pm Geschke Lecture Series: John Donoghue, “Merging Mind and Machine to Restore the Brain”. $25 admission July 17

Nantucket Atheneum (pg 7)

Unitarian Church 5pm Constance Laibe Hays Memorial Lecture: Janny Scott, author of A Singular Woman, discusses writing about both the Obama family and her own. $25 admssion

7 pm Lecture: Dr. Scott Kenyon, “Pluto Strikes Back.” Free admission

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July 19

August 7

Artist Demonstration: Helen Sharp Potter, time TBD

Great Harbor Yacht Club 8pm Geschke Lecture: Robert Kirshner, “The Accelerating Universe: A Nobel Surprise.� $25 admission

Sosebee Studio (pg 39)

July 22

Nantucket Atheneum (pg 7)

5pm Author Talk: Cathy Marie Buchanan, The Painted Girls. Free admission

Nantucket Atheneum (pg 7)

August 8

Nantucket Atheneum (pg 7)

July 24

8pm Author Talk: Andrea Wulf, Founding Gardeners. Free admission

Master Artist Demonstration /C. Robert Perrin Series #1

August 10 Sosebee Studio (pg 39)

Artists Association (pg 33))

July 23 Nantucket Atheneum (pg 7)

5pm Film Talk: NY Export: Opus Jazz followed

by Q&A with creator and Executive Producer Sean Suozzi.

July 25

Nantucket Atheneum (pg 7)

4 pm, Nantucket High School, Free Admission Choreographer Justin Peck, New York City Ballet pianist Cameron Grant and other artists, will talk about the importance of collaboration between choreographer, musician and dancer as they shaped a new dance that will make its world premiere at the 2013 Nantucket Atheneum Dance Festival.

July 27

Sosebee Studio Gallery (pg 39)

Artist Demonstration: Jeanne Rosier Smith (Pastel Artist) 10:30-12:00 pm, sign-up required August 5 Nantucket Atheneum (pg 7)

8pm Author Talk: Hallie Ephron, There Was An Old Woman. Free admission August 5 - 9 Sosebee Studio Gallery (pg 7)

Artist Demonstration: Barbara Capizzo 10-2 pm. Personal instruction available, sign-up required

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Artist Demonstration: Jessica Sosebee 10:30-12 pm, sign-up required August 12

Nantucket Atheneum (pg 7)

8pm Geschke Lecture Series: Maureen Orth & Luke Russert. The mother-son pair compare and contrast the changes in reporting and journalism in this new age of social media and the 24 hour news cycle. $25 admission August 14

Artists Association (pg 33)

Master Artist Demonstration /C. Robert Perrin Series #2 Nantucket Atheneum (pg 7 )

8pm Author Talk: Nancy Rubin Stewart, Defiant Brides. Free admission August 19

Nantucket Atheneum (pg 7 )

8pm Lecture: Elizabeth Kalman, Henry David Thoreau and Writing from the Threshold. Free admission August 21

Nantucket Atheneum (pg 7)

Unitarian Church 8pm Author Talk: Nathaniel Philbrick, Bunker Hill. Free admission

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August 26

September 5

8pm Author Talk: Janet Wallach, Richest Woman in America. Free admission

Coffin School 7pm Author Talk: Mike Tougias, A Storm Too Soon Free admission

Nantucket Atheneum (pg 7)

August 28

Nantucket Atheneum (pg 7)

Nantucket Atheneum (pg 7)

October 4 - 13

September 4

Enjoy the casual setting surrounded by art as artisian of all styles show and tell about thier creative process.

8pm Author Talk: Woody Tasch, Inquiries Into The Nature of Slow Money. Free admission Artists Association (pg 33)

Master Artist Demonstration /C. Robert Perrin Series #3

Nantucket Arts Festival Artisan Talk Show Series - by The Nantucket Arts Council

October 13

Artists Association (pg 33))

Wet Paint Weekend

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Merit Award

Concert Series

Festival

For forty years, the Nantucket Arts Council has supported and encouraged a collaborative community of the visual, performing, and literary arts on Nantucket through

education, grants, scholarships & events.

HELP us kEEP tHE Arts stroNg oN NANtuCkEt.

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