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Nantucket Arts FestivalOct 2 - Oct 11, 2015

NantucketArtsCouncil.org

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Leap into the UnknownBe Immersed in New Ways of SeeingExploring new directions in the visual arts

O P E N I N G R E C E P T I O N Friday, October 2 • 6 – 9 p.m.

Daily 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Sherburne Hall • 11 Centre Street – upstairs

Home of Preservation Institute: Nantucket

& Nantucket Arts Festival headquarters

508-325-8588

Nantucket Arts FestivalOct 2 - Oct 11, 2015

C U LT I VAT I N G T H E A R T S O N N A N T U C K E T

Since 1973, Nantucket Arts Council has stoked the fires of creativity on Nantucket by supporting many artistic endeavors. We encourage and prompt collaborations in visual, performing, and literary arts through education, grants, and scholarships. We some-times produce our own events and champion others through direct funding, advice, and promotional help. We are the only Nantucket arts organization embracing and advancing the arts in all forms including the visual arts, music, dance, theater, literary arts, and more. Throughout most of our history, we’ve annually celebrated Nantucket’s talented artists with Nantucket Arts Festival to showcase the island’s amateur and professional artists, including those with whom you might be unfamiliar. We’re confident all of this week’s artists will surprise and delight you. There isn’t an aspect of the arts on the island that hasn’t benefitted from the Nantucket Arts Council’s work and funding in the last 43 years. We hope you’ll join us during Nantucket Arts Festival and year-round to ensure the arts have a secure place in our community for the next generation and for years to come.

William Ferrall,Executive Director

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

~ Aristotle

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U N D E R W R I T E R S

M E D I A PA R T N E R S

Froelich Foundation • ReMain Nantucket • Tuppancy-Harris Foundation of 1986

Nancy Sayles-Day Foundation • Nantucket Golf Club Foundation

Hy-Line Cruises • Nantucket Bank • Atlantic Mainstay / Brant Point Inn

Carriage House • Hawthorne House • Ships Inn

Beverly Hall • Dan Driscoll

THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING YEAR-ROUND PROGRAMS OF NANTUCKET ARTS COUNCIL

Froelich Foundation

WCAI-FM 90.1 / Cape and Islands NPR

T H A N K YO U F O R S U P P O R T I N G N A N T U C K E T A R T S F E S T I VA L 2 0 1 5

September Productions

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B OA R D O F D I R E C TO R S

Dan Driscoll, President • Beverly Hall, Vice President • Gene Mahon, Secretary John Belash • Tara Young Early • Barbara Elder • Sharon Lorenzo • Dr. Gerald Mack • Bee Shay

Reggie Levine, President Emeritus

William Ferrall, Executive Director

P.O. Box 2176 / 5 North Water Street • Nantucket MA 02584 / 508-325-8588

www.nantucketartscouncil.org

Cultivating the arts since 1973

National Theatre Live / Metropolitan Opera Live /

Bolshoi Ballet LiveNantucket Dreamland Film and

Performing Arts CenterMarketing support for live and repeat broadcast programming

Downtown Celebrity Concerts Five concerts by renowned musicians

(March through May 2015)Presented with Nantucket Dreamland Film

and Performing Arts Center

Five O’Clock ShadowPresented at Nantucket High School and

free in concert with support from Nantucket Golf Club Foundation

(May 2015)

Nantucket Arts Council Merit Award to Reggie Levine: Celebrating a Masterpiece

(July 2015)

The Moth MainstagePresented in partnership with

Theatre Workshop of Nantucket and White Heron Theatre Company

(August 2015)

Third Annual Baroque Concert by Candlelight

Presented with St. Paul’s Episcopal Church (August 2015)

Nantucket Arts Festival 2015

Organizing Committee Dan Driscoll • Tara Young Early • Sarah Ellis

Reggie Levine • Bee Shay

Festival StaffChristie Cure • Kim Vasquez • Carolyn Walsh

N O T E W O R T H Y E V E N T S P R E S E N T E D T H I S Y E A R

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Cultivating All the ArtsThe arts in their many forms are alive and well on Nantucket. For most of the last two decades, the 43-year-old Nantucket Arts Council has celebrated their variety in a weeklong annual celebration showcasing the many amateur and professional artists who live and work on Nantucket. This year’s Nantucket Arts Festival, extending from Friday October 2 through Sunday, October 11, features an art exhibit of works by over 50 local artists; concerts of classical, folk and popular music; plays; lectures and readings; and new films by and about Nantucketers. This year’s festival theme, “Art of the See,” is to be interpreted literally, figuratively, or playfully for its intentional double meaning. Throughout the week, you’ll find the arts alive on nearly every downtown street and around the island. The arts have a huge impact on our local economy and our community wellbeing. In multiple ways, Nantucket Arts Council continues to lead and advocate for the arts and cultural activities on Nantucket. Your support for those efforts matters greatly to all of Nantucket, whether it’s as an audience member, a volunteer, or a financial contributor.Get a Nantucket Arts Festival badge with discounts to ticketed events for contributions of $20 or more. Available at Sherburne Hall, 11 Centre Street, daily 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

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Promoting Nantucket Arts and CultureA Massachusetts Cultural District For Downtown Nantucket Most visitors who drive or walk the streets of downtown Nantucket quickly learn how much arts and culture mean to the life of our island. Over two-dozen art galleries keep storefronts along blocks in our core district or near by. Nantucket’s leading arts and cultural organizations are evident in downtown including those whose missions include movies, history, music, works of literature, and more: Nantucket Dreamland Film and Performing Arts Center, Nantucket Historical Association’s Whaling Museum, Nantucket Atheneum, Nantucket Community Music Center, and many more. When leaders of Nantucket cultural organizations learned about statewide designated Massachusetts “cultural districts,” among their first questions was, “Why not us?” After all, Nantucket boasts of more than 800 public and private properties on the National Historic Register, we’re home to 120 non-profits, most with year-round programming, and businesses related to arts and culture drive much of our island’s economy. About two years ago, with leadership from the local non-profit development group ReMain Nantucket, Nantucket Arts Council and others, an ad hoc committee of Nantucket leaders invited the former head of the New York City cultural commission for a public appearance and work sessions to help further develop local non-profit cultural efforts. A few weeks later, the executive director of the Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC), Anita Walker, made a similar visit to the island, offering advice on growing and helping the island’s cultural community to operate more effectively.

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From those events, the Nantucket Cultural District Steering Committee formed and began meeting monthly for nearly the past year, for the purpose of applying for and earning the designation of an official Nantucket Cultural District within our downtown core. Once awarded by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts through the MCC, the Nantucket Cultural District will earn island businesses additional promotional and marketing support from the Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism and could pave the way for future development and funding opportunities, with Nantucket Cultural District as the vehicle. With the Town of Nantucket as the official applicant, and under the leadership of Nantucket Arts Council with Artists Association of Nantucket, Nantucket Dreamland, the staff of ReMain and leaders of almost two-dozen other local nonprofits, the official application was submitted this fall, with the hope of earning the official designation before year’s end. The district encompasses 28 easy-to-walk blocks within the core downtown of Nantucket, but the group will embrace most of the island’s arts and culture non-profits in its promotional efforts since most carry out their missions partly within the district.

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Rendition of future new home of White Heron Theatre Company designed by Workshop APD .

Nantucket’s Nonpro�t Film & Performing Arts Center

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All the Island’s a StageFor 2015, Nantucket stages have been chock-a-block full of theater, music and dance, with plenty to see and hear during Nantucket Arts Festival and in the year ahead.

Theatre Workshop of Nantucket, our island’s leading public theater since 1956, has staged more than a dozen plays and events this year including the hilarious beauty shop comedy “Steel Magnolias,” running throughout Nantucket Arts Festival. The Young Actors Theater Company of Nantucket Dreamland expanded to include junior and senior members from ages six to 19, presenting adaptions of family-oriented musicals. White Heron Theatre Company, our newest theater featuring Equity actors and a year-round institute for new plays, began construction of an impressive new theater building on North Water Street. World-class opera, theater, and dance continue through live streaming of performances at Nantucket Dreamland and at the annual Nantucket Atheneum Dance Festival. Nantucket Community Music Center, Musical Arts Society, Downtown Celebrity Concerts, pocket park concerts, restaurants, nightclubs and special events continue to bring music for every taste to Nantucket year-round.

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The Art of Being ThereMany professional photographers, especially photojournalists, will say their work requires a cold, detached eye. But for Frederick G.S. Clow (left, with Hillary Clinton), capturing iconic images over more than six decades has often depended on the art of being in the right place at the right time.

Clow has captured on film, both in public and private moments, 12 U.S. presidents, world leaders, and many celebrities. Often he was granted access or finagled his way into settings and events where other photographers were denied. Since mastering the use of cameras as a teen, Clow has worked as a lens man for the U.S. Air Force, as a medical photographer, and finally, as a photojournalist for Cape Cod News, The Inquirer & Mirror and international photo agencies. His work has also been published in Time Magazine, Yankee Magazine, Boston Herald, Toronto Star, N Magazine on Nantucket, and in numerous books. Nearing the age of 85, Clow shows few signs of slowing down. “I haven’t completed the journey yet,” he said in an interview at the age of 73. The same is true for him today.

See examples of Clow’s photos in the 2015 Nantucket Arts Festival visual arts exhibit “Leap into the Unknown.”

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One misty evening in the year 1989, a group of 18 like-minded artists attended a meeting at the home of Santjes Oomen, on Hooper Farm Road, Nantucket Island. The purpose of the meeting was to form a gallery run by and for artists, a collective. The artists present that evening were Brian Fitzgibbon, David Halliday, Howard Fraker, Robin Jones, M.J. Levy, Sherre Wilson Rae Liljegren, Melissa Macleod, Robert McKee, Hunter Mckee, Kathrine Moore, George Murphy, Santjes Oomen, Terry Pommet, Ted Rabidoux, Billy Sherry, Reema Sherry, Graham White, and Linda Zola.

The minutes of that meeting reveal the concept of this new gallery, including a hands-on involvement of the artists in all aspects of the gallery, the hanging of shows, finances, and what would be regarded as appropriate events that might expand the

limitations of a tradi-tional gallery. During this and subsequent meetings the gallery was referred to as the “(X)” Gallery, awaiting a proper name, but the odd moniker stuck, and came to represent the “X” factor of the mystery of creativity and neutrality, letting the art work speak for itself.

The first version of the (X) Gallery was on Main Street, in a deep narrow storefront owned by Sherburne Associates. The shows of the first season in this space exhibited both the range of work, multi-media pieces, figurative and abstract painting, sculpture and photography, and the esprit d’corps that would define the gallery for its lifetime. The shows garnered praise, but also their share of controversy.

The (X) Files

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The (X) Gallery found its permanent home around the corner at 12 Orange Street, in a historically significant 18th-century build-ing whose fireplaces, wainscoting, and wide pine floorboards made a compelling backdrop for the very modern work seen in the gallery. The group was joined by artists David Lazarus and Kasia Baker.

Over the following decade, accompanying the sophisticated and bold showings of art by the core group were a large variety of guest artists, conceptual art installations, performance art, film screenings, poetry readings, and musical events, successfully fulfilling the original charter of the (X) Gallery space as stage, meeting place, and cultural centrifuge.

Remarkably, each of the original (X) members are still practicing and successful artists, showing their work on island and around the world. – Kathrine Moore

During Nantucket Arts Festival 2015, look for a special display of the 10th Anniversary (X) Gallery Art Box from 1999, as part of our “Leap into the Unknown” exhibit at Sherburne Hall.

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Nantucket Arts Festival is just one of many year-round efforts by Nantucket Arts Council to boost our island’s combined arts and cultural community, usually in collaboration with our colleagues at other non-profits. This past year we presented five Downtown Celebrity Concerts in early spring of renowned, world-class musicians, from classical pianists to Harlem Renaissance music to doo-wop vocals and the Artie Shaw Big Band. Nantucket Dreamland Film and Performing Arts Center joined us in produc-ing what were critical successes and big hits with audiences, made up mostly of Nantucket residents, of all ages. Thanks to support from Nantucket Golf Club Foundation, we presented the all-vocal rock group Five O’Clock Shadow, with Nantucket native Caleb Whelden, for work-

shops and classes at Nantucket High School and a free concert for 325 Nantucketers. Nantucket Community Music Center helped with the day’s activities. In August, we brought the popular public radio storytelling program The Moth to the island for a sold out audience of almost 600, with Theatre Workshop of Nantucket and White Heron Theatre Company as our co-presenters. We also joined St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in presenting the third annual Nantucket Baroque Concert, featuring outstanding classical musicians from on- and off-island. We awarded scholarships to three prom-ising Nantucket High School graduates to continue their studies in the arts, and we made grants to three other Nantucket arts groups to help with their programming. We awarded our occasional Merit Award for outstanding local achievement in the arts to Reggie Levine, longtime arts advocate and founder-owner of

Nantucket Arts Council: Boosting the Arts Year-Round

our island’s long running Main Street Gallery. In these and other ways, Nantucket Arts Council continues to lead and advocate for arts and cultural activities on Nantucket. Your support in those efforts matters greatly to all

of Nantucket, whether it’s as an audience member, a volunteer, or as a financial contributor. We welcome your questions, suggestions and participation. Learn more about us at www.nantucketartscouncil.org.

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Tens Days of Lively ArtsThis year’s Nantucket Arts Festival, the 21st festival presented by Nantucket Arts Council, features an art exhibit of works by over 50 local artists, concerts of classical, folk and popular music, plays, lectures and readings, and new films by and about Nantucketers. See the color and symbol code on this page to easily pick out highlighted events on the festival’s daily schedules. With many events being added up to and through the opening of the festival, visit www.nantucketartscouncil.org for complete listings and details of events on these pages and others.

Music

Theater

Literature

Exhibits

Lectures

Film

Other

Get a Nantucket Arts Festival badge with discounts to ticketed events for contributions of $20 or more. Available at Sherburne Hall, 11 Centre Street, daily 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

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Friday, October 2Nantucket Arts Festival

Opening reception: 6 – 9 p.m.Food & drink, entertainment, new ways of seeing art

Leap into the UnknownA 10-day exhibit exploring new directions in visual art, featuring dozens of Nantucket artists.

Daily 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. FreeSherburne Hall - PI:N • 11 Centre Street - upstairs

Mood IndigoArt Exhibit opening reception, 6 – 8 p.m. FreeArtists Association of Nantucket

Cecelia Joyce & Seward Johnson Gallery19 Washington StreetContinues daily except Sundays through October 19www.nantucketarts.org

Manhattan Short Film Festival Great Hall of Nantucket Athenuem7 – 9 p.m. • $10/$8 • 1 India Street at Federal Streetwww.nantucketatheneum.org

Steel MagnoliasThe critically-acclaimed beauty shop comedyTheatre Workshop of Nantucket at Bennett Hall7 p.m. • $33 - $4762 Centre St. at First Congregational Churchwww.theatreworkshop.com

I of the Storm A new solo riff by Richard HoehlerTheatre Workshop Center Stage • 7:30 p.m. $37 adultsTwo Centre Street – Methodist Church lower levelwww.theatreworkshop.com

Live Music & DJs Brant Point Grill, Kitty Murtagh’s, Rose & Crown, Station 21, Starlight Theater & Café5 p.m. – 1 a.m.

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Saturday, October 3

Leap into the UnknownArt Exhibit • 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.Sherburne Hall - PI:N11 Centre Street – upstairs

Farmers & Artisans MarketLocal art, crafts & edible bounty staged byNantucket Sustainable Development9 a.m. – 1 p.m. Cambridge Street at downtown post officewww.sustainablenantucket.org

The Met Live: Verdi’s TrovatorePart of ongoing live streaming at Nantucket Dreamland of Metropolitan Opera, National Theatre & Bolshoi BalletNantucket Dreamland Main Theater17 South Water Street12:55 – 3:45 p.m. • $18 - $20, member discountswww.nantucketdreamland.org/tickets-showtimes

Steel MagnoliasThe critically-acclaimed beauty shop comedyTheatre Workshop of Nantucket at Bennett Hall7 p.m. • $33 - $4762 Centre Street at First Congregational Churchwww.theatreworkshop.com

I of the Storm A new solo riff by Richard HoehlerTheatre Workshop Center Stage7:30 p.m. • $37 adultsTwo Centre Street – Methodist Church lower levelwww.theatreworkshop.com

Live Music & DJs Brant Point Grill, Cisco Brewers, Kitty Murtagh’s, Rose & Crown, Station 21, Starlight Theater & Café5 p.m. – 1 a.m.

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Sunday, October 4


Open StudiosVarious locationsSee working artists in their studios3 p.m. – 5 p.m.www.nantucketartscouncil.org for details

Robert Luddington: Interior Designer for Rose KennedyNantucket Dreamland Studio Theater4 p.m. • 17 South Water Streetwww.nantucketdreamland.org/tickets-showtimes

Brunch with guitarist Andy BullingtonBreeze Bar & Café at Nantucket Hotel11 a.m. – 2 p.m. • 77 Easton Streetwww.thenantuckethotel.com


Earth Got the BluesCisco Brewers6 p.m. • 5 Bartlett Farm Roadwww.ciscobrewers.comCancelled

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Monday, October 5

Leap into the UnknownArt Exhibit • 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.Sherburne Hall - PI:N11 Centre Street - upstairs

Make a Magnificent MobyBeachcomb for marine debris with artist Cindy Pease Roe to create a whimsical whale.Susan Lister Locke Gallery28 Easy Street1 p.m. • 508-228-2132

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Tuesday, October 6

Leap into the UnknownArt Exhibit • 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.Sherburne Hall - PI:N11 Centre Street - upstairs

Hanna MonaghanBeverly Hall’s multi-media reading about Nantucket’s famous Monaghan sister artists6 p.m. FreeSherburne Hall - PI:N11 Centre Street - upstairswww.nantucketartscouncil.org

Jacob Butler, songwriter-musicianCisco Brewers6 p.m. • 5 Bartlett Farm Roadwww.ciscobrewers.com

Photography by Daniel Sutherland

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Wednesday, October 7


Open Art StudiosVisit Nantucket’s art galleries,Most open until 6 p.m.See www.nantucketartscouncil.org or visitSherburne Hall for locations.

Farmers & Artisans MarketLocal art, crafts & edible bounty staged byNantucket Sustainable Development4 - 6 p.m. MID-ISLAND: 113 Pleasant Streetwww.sustainablenantucket.org

Chef’s Choice Food Pantry Benefit Dinner6 – 9 p.m. • Nantucket Yacht ClubAnne Marie at 508-228-7438 or [email protected]


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Thursday, October 8

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Food for Thought Lecture SeriesSee website for speaker and topic.Nantucket Whaling MuseumNoon • 13 Broad St.www.nha.org

A Life in Art & DesignSenior Artist Lecture, TBD6 p.m. • Free cocktail hourSherburne Commons Great Room40 Sherburne Commons, South Shore RoadFor details see: www.nantucketartscouncil.org


Live Music & DJs Brant Point Grill, Cisco Brewers, Brotherhood of Thieves, Rose & Crown 5 p.m. - 1 a.m.

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Friday, October 9Leap into the UnknownArt Exhibit • 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.Sherburne Hall - PI:N11 Centre Street – upstairs

Opera Stars of TomorrowBoston Conservatory Opera Scenes and AriasDreamland Studio Theater 7 p.m. • 17 South Water Street$30 with discounts, to benefit live streamingwww.nantucketdreamland.org/tickets-showtimes

Walden Chamber PlayersWhaling Museum7 p.m. • 13 Broad Street$10 general public / free to NHA memberswww.nha.org/tickets

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AAN Permanent CollectionReception & ExhibitCollected Works of Artists Association of Nantucket6 – 8 p.m.Visual Arts Center, 24 Amelia Drivewww.nantucketarts.org


Live Music & DJs Brant Point Grill, Cisco Brewers, Brotherhood of Thieves, Rose & Crown 5 p.m. – 1 a.m.

Friday, October 9

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Saturday, October 10


Farmers & Artisans MarketLocal art, crafts & edible bounty staged byNantucket Sustainable Development9 a.m. – 1 p.m. Cambridge Street at downtown post officewww.sustainablenantucket.org

Nantucket Cranberry FestivalNantucket Conservation Foundation celebrationwith farm & nature activities, food, arts & crafts11 a.m. – 4 p.m. FreeMilestone Cranberry Bogwww.nantucketconservation.org

Organ Crawl with Walden PlayersNantucket Community Music Center9:15 – 11 a.m. • 20 minutes each locationLocations near Main Street starting at • St. Mary’s Church at 3 Federal Street• First Congregational Church at 62 Centre Street (sanctuary & vestry)• Unitarian Church at 11 Orange Street• St. Paul’s Church at 20 Fair Street• Nantucket United Methodist Church at 2 Centre Street Refreshment break at NCMC 56 Centre • 10:50 a.m.www.nantucketcommunitymusiccenter.org

AnnapurnaReading of a new play by Sharr WhiteWhite Heron Theatre CompanySamuel Owen Gallery5 p.m. 46 Centre Streetwww.whiteherontheatre.org

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Saturday, October 10

Nantucket Shorts FestivalShort films created on Nantucket3:30 – 5:15 p.m. • $12Nantucket Dreamland Main Theater17 South Water Streetwww.nantucketshorts.comwww.nantucketdreamland.org


Live Music & DJs DJ. Brian at Rose & Crown 10 p.m. – 1 a.m.

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Sunday, October 11Leap into the Unknown • Closing DayArt Exhibit • 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.Sherburne Hall - PI:N11 Centre Street – upstairs

Brunch with Guitarist Andy BullingtonBreeze Bar & Café at Nantucket Hotel11 a.m. – 2 p.m. • 77 Easton St.www.thenantuckethotel.com

Kid’s ShortsNantucket Film Festival presents family friendly films and cartoons1 p.m. – 2 :15 p.m. • $10 - $13 Nantucket Dreamland Main Theater17 South Water Streetwww.nantucketfilmfestival.orgwww.nantucketdreamland.org

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Sunday, October 11Wet Paint Auction & DinnerArtists Association of NantucketPreview and auction of paintings createdthroughout weekend by local artists.Preview & Live Auction • 4 - 5 p.m.Nantucket Hotel Ballroom19 Washington Street

Wet Paint Benefit Dinner and Silent AuctionFollowing AuctionFor tickets call 508-228-0722www.nantucketarts.org

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Thank you for contributions of time and effort to Nantucket Arts Festival 2015Ginger Andrews • Judith Brust • Jamie Cure • Greta Feeney • Mollie Glazer • Evelyn Hudson

Susan Lister Locke • Alison MacDonlad • Melissa Macleod • Jeff MacKinnon Maury’s Toggery Men’s Department • Alexandra La Paglia • Paul La Paglia • Eric Nordby

Sue Riddle • Patty Roggeveen • Linda Spery • Billy Sherry • Don VanDyke Nona Westerlund • Michael Wodynski

Most photography by Lisa Frey

Nantucket Arts Festival Wrap Party Celebrate our wrap-up with music and video.

Food and beverage for volunteers and button holders.Monday, October 11, 6 – 9 p.m. • Rose & Crown Pub • 23 South Water Street

Program designed by Eleventh Hour Design • www.11th-hour-design.com

Hatchel & Strand Light SculptureBy Alexandra La Paglia

Photo by D. Clyde Myers

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