Nantucket Arts and Culture

Art Instruction - Art Galleries

Nantucket has a rich and varied art scene.

Art Instruction

Nantucket Island Schoolof Design and the Arts

23 Wauwinet Rd
(508) 228-9248

If the visual arts are your love, contact the school and take some classes. The school offers courses for academic credit and enrichment to both children and adults in such subjects as drawing, painting, photography, clay, textiles, and crafts. The school has accommodations on Washington Street on the harbor.

Shredder's Studio

Salros Rd. off Appleton Rd
(508) 228-4487

Shredder's offers oil painting, watercolor, jewelry making, and basketry classes to adults and young adults and watercolor, ceramics, and other classes for children. It even has a preschool creative workshop for little budding artists.

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Art Galleries

The Gallery at Four India Street

4 India St.
(508) 228-8509

This gallery is open year-round. It has 19th- and 20th-century oils, pastels, watercolors, sculpture, and bronze work, 80 percent of which is the work of local and regional artists.

The Little Gallery

Straight Wharf
(508) 228-0294

The Little Gallery is operated by the Artists Association of Nantucket. You can buy a remembrance of Nantucket and support local artists at the same time.

The Nantucket Gallery & Frame Shop

23 Federal St.
(508) 228-1943

This gallery is owned by artist Marshall DuBock, who sells Nantucket scenes.

Robert Wilson Galleries

34 Main St.
(508) 228-2096

While in Nantucket, be sure to visit this gallery, which has exquisite landscape and still-life renderings in oils and watercolors.

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