Society6 is a new website for emerging and established artists from every creative discipline to showcase their talent as it unfolds. Artists join the online community which puts artists in touch with patrons offering grants.

Society6 has created an open grants system where individuals and organizations can easily issue money or opportunity (free products and services) grants to creative people from around the world. Artists and other creative people apply to these grants. The community nominates applicants to create the list of finalists. The grant giver chooses one applicant from the finalist list to award the grant.

http://nantucket-art.com/2009/05/13/society6-artists/

The 16th Annual Nantucket Fall Arts Festival will take place beginning Labor Day weekend (August 29) and will run through September 7.. read more

Currently exhibiting at the Hoorn-Ashby Gallery on Federal Street is "Back To Nantucket", a series of new paintings by Maud Bryt. See Maud Bryt Art here..

This week's Featured Nantucket Artist is Dan Moran. Dan's Art draws inspiration from the old, haunting, black-and-white version of Nantucket Island..

After his successful opening at LoLa 41 last week we thought you might like this Kerry Hallam interview we found on YouTube, with the great man waxing lyrical and talking of "Painting.. the telling of beautiful untruths".

You can also pick a copy of his book Getting To Nantucket: An Artist's Journey on Amazon.

After 30 years the first Beach Boys solo album, Dennis Wilson's Pacific Ocean Blue , finally get's the reissue it deserves. It's been something of a lost masterpiece since it's release in 1977 - and to this days still stands up as a haunting masterpiece, everything thing about it feels like a lovesong to the ocean...

A week of star spotting on Nantucket Island culminated with weekend with the 13th Nantucket Film Festival. Unlucky perhaps for anyone attempting to nip into town WITHOUT spotting a celeb…

We spent a couple of hours on YouTube scoping out the Nantucket content and found some nice clips on there posted by Doerte Neudert at the Art Cabinet, including this virtual tour of the gallery.. a great idea.

This week's Featured Nantucket Artist is Tim Campbell. Tim works around Nantucket and The Cape painting nautical themes and furniture..

Money Shots is the hot new internet guerilla art phenomenon hard on the heels of the Sleeveface craze. You can see more over at the Money Shots Flickr group.