NISDA LECTURES
GALLERY EXHIBITIONS
SPECIAL EVENTS
AT NISDA SEAVIEW FARM COMMUNITY ART CENTER 23 WAUWINET ROAD
NISDA’s Cultural Arts Lecture Series, the figurehead of our programs, offers a place to be inspired, consider visions of the future, stewardship, explore ingenuity… expressive and applied creativity!
THANKS FOR A GREAT SEASON!
SEE YOU NEXT YEAR!
Summer Time Thursday Evenings 6–8 pm with ISLAND TUNES live music open mic "en plein air" and FOOD TRUCK for food to purchase
The NISDA Community Clay Bowl Event this summer to benefit the
Nantucket Food Pantry (NFFRA) has been a huge success! The NISDA Community has made over 100 bowls! We thank all of you for participating and contributing to the "No More Empty Bowls" event which will be taking place at Cisco Brewers on October 27 from 2–5 pm.
Our NISDA C3 Thursdays with Live Music and Food Truck (rain or shine) was a wonderful success! We hope to see you out at the Farm again next year for some homegrown island music & great "eats" from local food trucks!
This program was sponsored in part by a generous $500 donation from the Nantucket Arts Council. Please consider donating to NISDA to help support our free community programming.
OCTOBER 11 | 1–4 pm
A Celebration of Clay with Piero Fenci
A Discussion + Demonstration of Techniques by Piero will be followed by his Birthday Celebration and Cake!
Piero Fenci is a ceramic artist and teacher.
Throughout his long career as Professor of Art at the Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas, and summers spent in Sconset, we have been honored to have Piero teach, and mentor us at NISDA since 1974. His bold ceramic art and engaging teaching style has made an invaluable contribution to the intellectual and artistic life of the school.
Please rsvp: 508 228 9248
nisdaartsnantucket@nisda.org
Contributions made in honor of this benefit event will be designated to the Long Shed Solar, Winterization + Improvement Fund.
Suggested Donation of $50
JULY 10
Cultural Arts Lecture Series at 7 pm:
Piero Fenci
Ceramist, Professor Emeritus, Austin State University
The Grand Voyage: The Life and Art - The evolution of Fenci’s work; his deep attachment to historical and functional objects… his passion and heritage.
NISDA’s Silo Gallery Exhibition at 6 pm:
Community Clay Exhibition + NISDA Faculty Show
Ceramic works by Piero Fenci, NISDA Ceramic instructors Manioucha Krishnamurti, Penny Hanson, Laura Herhold, Heather Grillo, Spencer Kimble and Esme Westerlund. Community Clay Exhibition as well as NISDA’s Painting Instructors Spencer Verney, Elizabeth Congdon and Leyah Jensen, with college interns.
JULY 17
Cultural Arts Lecture Series at 7 pm:
Kenneth Shirley in conversation with Donick Cary
Kenneth, a Navaho Fancy Dancer, Filmmaker, Founder of Indigenous Enterprises and Dancers, will share his journey and their mission to be role models; to keep Native American Culture, History and Spirit alive.
NISDA’s Silo Gallery Exhibition at 6 pm:
The 2nd Annual People’s Art Show!
Nantucket community members are invited to bring their work to be displayed in an “informal community exhibition” throughout NISDA’s Silo Gallery, Studios and Long Shed Clay Studio! Join us for a Potluck celebration of creativity – with an ice cream sundae finale!
JULY 20 AT 4 PM
Saturday Benefit Performance at NISDA:
Native American Champion PowWow Dancers
The Indigenous Dancers will perform Pow Wow Dancing and Song in authentic and spectacular regalia created by him and his grandmother. Previous performances included: The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, and the Sydney Opera House.
MusAck + the Nantucket Island School of Design & the Arts are delighted to present a collaborative benefit concert. This family friendly performance featuring the dancers from Indigenous Enterprises with Kenneth Shirley will open with MusACK + Nantucket Community Music Center's Rock Camp Kids band!
JULY 24
Cultural Arts Lecture Series at 7 pm:
Spencer Verney – Fine Artist, Classical Painter
Studied at Florence Academy of Art and Eckerd College.
Studied at Florence Academy of Art with Jordan Sokol, Eckhard College, NISDA’s RISD College Summer Session Painting – exhibited at the Institues of Classical Architecture, CAA, NYC, Painting in the Permanent Collection of the NHA, Sconset Trust and Nantucket Conservation Foundation. will share his dedication, his sensitive, powerful and deep connection to nature expressed in his Cloudscapes, Seascapes and Landscapes.
NISDA’s Silo Gallery Exhibition at 6 pm:
The work of Spencer Verney
Verney’s works will include paintings of Nantucket form the land, sea (the rips of Nantucket) as well as the clouds formed by an island at sea. The show will be focused on the changing weather of an island at sea.
JULY 31
Cultural Arts Lecture Series at 7 pm:
Michael Frassinelli
NISDA’s Featured Artist-In-Residence will share his works created entirely of Piano Parts; Sculptures, Large Installations, Trompe l’oeil Paintings and video – The Legend of the Pianistras – a fictional lost culture. Chair of Visual Arts Dana Hall, he has worked with San Francisco Ballet Bread and Puppet. In Galleries nationally, work in Ripley’s Believe it or Not Museum. A Fellow at Vermont Studio Cener and Appalachian State University, he will be sculpting in NISDA’s Long Shed Studio August 1 – 16 – Open to the Community to visit and viewing.
NISDA’s Silo Gallery Exhibition at 6 pm:
Selected works of Michael Frassinelli
Frassinelli’s assemblage works and paintings and studio workshop will be featured.
Photo Credit:
Inquirer and Mirror photo by Nicole Harnishfeger.
AUGUST 7
Cultural Arts Lecture Series at 7 pm:
Celebrating Fredrick Clow
Legendary photographer’s 7 decades of adventuresome life stories; Nehru, Martin Luther King, John F. Kennedy family, Churchill and 13 United States Presidents. Photographer for the Associated Press, The Inquirer and Mirror and many other publications.
NISDA’s Silo Gallery Exhibition at 6 pm:
Photography Exhibition
Images from Clow & Nantucket Photographers Larry Cronin and Anne C. Jennings.
The event is sponsored and catered by the
the
Inquirer and Mirror.
AUGUST 14
Cultural Arts Lecture Series at 7 pm:
Eames Demetrios
Lecture: Charles and Ray Eames: Design as a Life Skill and Power of 10
Presented by Artist in Residency Eames Demetrios. Demetrios is a filmmaker, storyteller, and creator of the ongoing Global Art Work: Kcymaerxthaere, with 153 installations in 30 countries so far. He is also Director of Eames Office, presenter of TED talks, a Documentary at Sundance FilmFest. He is also one of Charles and Ray Eames grandchildren, all of whom help the care of the Eames legacy.
NISDA Silo Gallery Exhibition at 6 pm:
Glimpses of Charles and Ray Eames' innovative creativity, design, architecture, toys and the Powers of 10, as well as some flavor of Eames Demetrios' Kcymaerxthaere Global Artwork.
AUGUST 15
Thursday Morning 10 am–noon
Conversation with Eames Demetrios
An opportunity to speak to Eames about his ongoing work and Nantucket possibilities for participation in future installations.
EVENTS + PROGRAMS
NISDA
Seaview Farm Arts Center
23 Wauwinet Road
Nantucket, Ma 02554
PHONE (508) 228-9248
FAX (508) 228-3648
EMAIL nisdaartsnantucket@nisda.org
