Nantucket Island School of Design and the Arts

SUMMER ARTS 2025 ONLINE

Workshops and Classes for all ages and skill levels!
Be creative this summer!

WHAT'S HAPPENING AT NISDA

NISDA is dedicated to sharing the spirit and creativity that the Arts bring into our lives.
Our Seaview Farm Arts Community offers a place to be inspired, refreshed, to create, learn…

OAR @ NISDA

Summer Artist Residencies
Accepting Applications now!

NISDA’s Offshore Artist Residency is an on-your-own, self-structured experience that provides time and your studio for personal renewal and experience in the island's landscape and seascape.

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50TH SANDCASTLE + SCULPTURE CONTEST

July 26th at Jetties Beach, Nantucket

Save the Date!
Registration starting soon.

Use Nantucket Island as your Canvas and Inspiration.

NISDA & NANTUCKET

NANTUCKET ISLAND – 30 MILES OUT TO SEA

Explore moorlands, 80 miles of beaches, dunes, hidden forests; nature as a material resource and varied topography for en plein air adventures or sculptural site works.

NANTUCKET ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN AND THE ARTS

NISDA is a year-round cultural and arts educational institution and an arts resource center on Nantucket whose mission is to explore the connections of the arts, sciences, humanities, and the environment, and to enhance education, community, and quality of life through arts stewardship. NISDA is dedicated to sharing the spirit and creativity that the Arts bring into our lives. Our Seaview Farm Arts Community offers a place to be inspired, refreshed, to create, learn.

NISDA is a 501(c)(3) Non-Profit Organization.

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NISDA is now in its fourth decade. Generations of students, islanders, summer visitors, student and professional artists have explored the arts in its workshops. Thousands have been challenged and nurtured creatively. Throughout its rich history.

NISDA has continually evolved, changed and adapted to the times. What has stayed constant, however, has been NISDA’s core values. NISDA is widely acknowledged by those who have studied, taught, and worked there as a place with a rare spirit that fosters creative freedom and nurtures the imagination through its deep respect for the artistic process.

NISDA’S CAMPUS COMPRISES TWO PROPERTIES
SeaView Farm Art Center in Wauwinet at 23 Wauwinet Road where you will find ceramics, photography, textile, drawing, painting and sculpture studios, the Silo Gallery, an extensive art book library and a children’s art program. Down the road at 55 Wauwinet Road we are developing a new facility for the Offshore Artist Residency (OAR) which currently has our Atlantic House with five live work residencies open for Summer 2024!