This week’s Featured Nantucket Artist is photographer and writer Terry Pommett. Terry has been documenting the people and places of the Cape and Islands for the past 25 years. Read More Here >> script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Featured Artist - Terry Pommett", url: "http://nantucket-art.com/2008/05/02/featured-artist-terry-pommett/" });

In preparation for their monthly Cape Cod @Bar/Twitter/Pownce monthly Meetup this friday Friday night, those creative chaps and chapesses over at @Bar came up with some truly inspired Web2.0 cocktails. Nice work guys!! Anyone for an iMartini or a Bulgarian Hacker? script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "5 Web2.0 Inspired Cocktails", url: "http://nantucket-art.com/2008/04/29/5-web20-inspired-cocktails/" });

The Two Percent is a new Art site based in New York that claims only 2% of the cities galleries are worth seeing, and aims to show you which they are. It’s a pretty aggressive stance to take - and we look forward to our next trip into the city to see if they got it right. script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Ninety-Eight Percent of Art is RUBBISH !!??", url: "http://nantucket-art.com/2008/04/28/ninety-eight-percent-of-art-is-rubbish/" });

Word has reached the Nantucket Art offices that the 13th Nantucket Film Festival will open with Transsiberian - starring Woody Harrelson , Emily Mortimer & Ben Kingsley and co-written by islander Will Conroy. Expect more details at the official Nantucket Film Festival soon !! script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Transsiberian opens Nantucket Film Festival", url: "http://nantucket-art.com/2008/04/27/transsiberian-opens-nantucket-film-festival/" });

Our tip for the Earth Day project this year on Nantucket is the Wave of Change - a community Arts project brought to you by Sustainable Nantucket. The Wave of Change is a large-scale sculpture created out of recycled materials, mounted on a boat trailer by volunteers from the Sustainable Nantucket Green Council, and then covered with whimsical, [...]script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Earth Day Wave of Change on Nantucket", url: "http://nantucket-art.com/2008/04/26/earth-day-wave-of-change-on-nantucket/" });

We’ve come across an online experiment taking place called Shutdown Day on May 3rd 2008. “The idea of Shutdown Day project is simple - just shutdown your computer for one whole day of the year and involve yourself in some other activities: outdoors, nature, sports, fun stuff with friends and family - whatever, just to remind yourself that [...]script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Shutdown Day - Will you survive?", url: "http://nantucket-art.com/2008/04/24/shutdown-day-will-you-survive/" });

Since discovering TwittEarth over the weekend I’ve become hooked on watching the cutely animated twitts blossoming all over the globe. And to cap it all you can download the app as a screensaver !! For more visit the review on KillerStartups.com   script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "TwittEarth - Live Twitts and Twitter Screensaver", url: "http://nantucket-art.com/2008/04/22/twittearth-live-twitts-and-twitter-screensaver/" });

This week Nantucket plays host to William McDonough’s film “The Next Industrial Revolution” on Wednesday, April 23. The film promotes a hopeful vision of a sustainable future, and explores how businesses are re-inventing themselves in order to work with nature and maximise our dwindling natural resources. Co sponsored with Sustainable Nantucket, Green Nantucket and Nantucket Atheneum. Atheneum Great Hall, [...]script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The Next Industrial Revolution screening", url: "http://nantucket-art.com/2008/04/20/the-next-industrial-revolution-screening/" });

Islanders affected by domestic violence will come together next Saturday, April 26, to raise awareness and show support through Art as part of the The Clothesline Project - a nationwide project concieved and launched Cape Cod. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. the Atheneum garden will display the customised tees, designed and decorated by victims and their friends and [...]script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Healing through Art on Nantucket", url: "http://nantucket-art.com/2008/04/19/healing-through-art-on-nantucket/" });

The ever inspirational Darren Rowse over at Problogger has declared today April 14th Blogger Appreciation day - and asked readers to email another blogger to let them know that they appreciate something about them, so let’s spend today doing a few random acts of kindness and encouragement for our fellow bloggers. Here’s afew bloggers who make our world at [...]script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Blogger Appreciation day", url: "http://nantucket-art.com/2008/04/14/blogger-appreciation-day/" });

Art Market Blog this month features a great list of sites where artists can get noticed, promote themselves, submit to galleries and find news and reviews from the latest exhibitions. Take a look and tap into the new talent listed if you are a fan of Art too!! script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Tips For Artists", url: "http://nantucket-art.com/2008/04/12/tips-for-artists-get-noticed-online/" });

Anyone planning a trip off island into New York over the next few months could do alot worse than pop along to the The Andrew Edlin Gallery - currently playing host to one of the most celebrated examples of outsider artists America has ever known. Henry Joseph Darger was a reclusive American writer and artist who became famous [...]script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Darger Discoveries", url: "http://nantucket-art.com/2008/04/08/darger-discoveries-andrew-edlin-gallery-ny/" });

The Ting Tings - That’s Not My Name Is Music Art? Is Art Music? Any of you who made it over to SXSW last month may have caught The Tings Tings amazing set there. This debut single caused a storm over in the UK last year and just got a re-release and shiny new video - [...]script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The Ting Tings - That’s Not My Name", url: "http://nantucket-art.com/2008/04/08/the-ting-tings-that%e2%80%99s-not-my-name/" });

The CND logo - one of the most widely know symbols in the world - is 50 years old. Its logo, designed in 1958 by Gerald Holtom became widespread outside of Britain during the 1960s as the “peace symbol“. The peace symbol is based on the international semaphore symbols for “N” and “D” (for Nuclear Disarmament) [...]script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The CND logo celebrates its 50th birthday", url: "http://nantucket-art.com/2008/04/06/the-cnd-logo-celebrates-its-50th-birthday/" });

Brighten up your computer with a Nantucket-Art wallpaper! Click on a link below, then simply right click on the image that appears in the browser, and select ‘Set As Background’… > 800 x 600 > 1024 x 768 > 800 x 600 > 1024 x 768 > 800 x 600 > 1024 x 768 script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Free Nantucket Art Wallpaper", url: "http://nantucket-art.com/2008/04/01/free-nantucket-art-wallpaper/" });