June Session: June 8, 15, 22, 29
July Session: July 6, 13, 20, 27
Registration open

August 7, 14 + 21
Registration open

July 25 + 26 
Registration open

NISDA STAFF Ross Rosenberg Ross Rosenberg is a recent graduate of Massachusetts College of Art and Design where he majored in ceramics. At MassArt he explored the material qualities of paper clay and honed his skills on the wheel. In both these explorations he has focused on themes of interpersonal engagement, using art making as a means of navigating relations to self, others, and environment. Ross has served as a technical assistant for multiple MassArt ceramics classes and recently held a position as studio monitor. Ross is enthusiastic to be a part of the long shed this summer!

Weekly enrollment:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
June 22–August 28
Ages 5–9

July 3, 10, 17, 24, 31
August 7, 14, 21
All Ages

Upon request.
Please inquire 1-2 weeks in advance.
Summer schedule June 24–August 31

NISDA STAFF PIERO FENCI I’ve always defined myself by the work I have done. I grew up on the island, and consider myself as close to a native as one can get without being born on the rock. Work has been my salvation in this world into which I have fallen. On the island I have worked as a busboy, a salad chef, a short order cook, a scallop shucker, a sailing instructor, a bartender, an airplane parker, a carpenter, and an instructor at the Nantucket Island School of Design and the Arts. I am now a professor emeritus, having taught at the state university of Chihuahua for the past 20 years, and at Stephen F Austin State University, a branch of the University of Texas, for the past 50 years. The key to my happiness is that I adore what I do, and am engaged in a passionate anti-entropic imperative – a quest that creates order in the face of chaos, a life’s work that gives joy to the people I touch. And I’m not done yet. Lots of irons in the fire. As the old timers I worked with banging nails on the island used to say, “Onward through the fog!”