“Nantucket Art and Artists,”
NANTUCKET MA: The Nantucket Historical Association (NHA) will present “Nantucket Art and Artists” led by Cecil Barron Jensen, executive director of the Artists Association of Nantucket (AAN) and Robert Frazier, director of the Joyce & Seward Johnson AAN Gallery, at the Food for Thought series on Thursday, March 25, in the Whaling Museum, 13 Broad Street, at noon. Free admission; bring your lunch.
Jensen and Frazier will discuss the origins of the Nantucket Art Colony, the lively art scene of the twentieth century, and the many artists who put their efforts into founding the Artists Association of Nantucket in 1945.
The Nantucket Art Colony can trace its beginnings to the early 1920s, when summer resident Florence Lang transformed a number of the South Wharf shanties into studio spaces, and notable artist and teacher Frank Swift Chase arrived to teach art classes. This transformation of the wharves—and the subsequent founding of the AAN—was a direct result of this waterfront rebirth.
A well-known artist and member of the AAN, Frazier is also a past president of the organization and currently manages its permanent collection. Jensen worked for the NHA and the Nantucket New School before becoming the executive director of the Artists Association. Their Food for Thought discussion occurs during the first 2010 AAN exhibition, Icons: Influential Artists From the AAN’s Sixty-Five-Year History, on display through March 22, 2010, at the Joyce & Seward Johnson Gallery, 19 Washington Street.
The following Food for Thought program, on April 1, will feature “Nantucket’s Historic Hotels,” hosted by Mark Avery, director of historic properties for the NHA.
The Food for Thought programs are supported by a grant from the M. S. Worthington Foundation. Each talk begins at noon and is free to the public. For additional information please call 508-228-1894, ext. 0
