CULTURAL ARTS LECTURE SERIES
AND SILO GALLERY
JULY + AUGUST 2025
WEDNESDAYS 7–9 PM
AT NISDA SEAVIEW FARM
23 WAUWINET ROAD
Open to Community Visitors.
NISDA’s Cultural Arts Lecture Series, the figurehead of our programs, offers a place to be inspired, consider visions of the future, stewardship, explore ingenuity… expressive and applied creativity!
At NISDA we explore the inter-connections of the Arts, Sciences, Humanities and Environment…the Arts as generator of ideas, creativity, sustainability, social voice, conveyor of human spirit and future building.
Suggested Donation: $10.
You are welcome to donate online through our partner Better World.
Supported by a grant from the Nantucket Arts Council.
AUGUST 20
Lecture at 8 pm
Elizabeth Akamatsu: Sculptural works inspired by the Intersection of Forms in Nature and Technology.
AUGUST 27
Artist Talk and Presentation 7–9 pm
Adam Mallin: Drones. Basic Techniques and Application as Artistic Expression. Adam will present Workshops on August 28 and 29.
Past Shows and Artist Talks
Summer 2025
AUGUST 6
Opening at 7 pm
Lecture 8 pm
Silo Gallery August 6-11
Joan Albaugh Chasing Light: Paintings as Self Portrait.
Paintings and photographs that express a sense of self, the relationship to our environment and the world at large.
Joan Albaugh is represented by AAN, the Nantucket Looms, and Quidley & Company.
AUGUST 13–26
David Halliday: Still Life: Photographs and Assemblage.
Showing four decades of photographs; from large-format portraits and still life to the more recent color photographs and 3-Dimensional work.
Lives and Works in Schodack Landing, New York and is represented by the Carrie Haddad Gallery and C + C Gallery.
JULY 9
Opening 7 pm
Silo Gallery July 9-14
Mara Cary: Natural Baskets made with Nantucket vines
Mara Cary 1940-2016 was year round Nantucket resident for much of her adult life. During that time she held many roles: actor playwright educator librarian basket weaver and all around dreamer of big ideas. Author of two books on basket making: Mara Cary’s Basic Baskets (1975) and Useful Baskets (1977), Mara lived and worked on Nantucket throughout the 70s,80s, 90s and early 2000s. She starred in many Theater Workshop productions including as Annie Sullivan in the Miracle Worker and the lead in Wit. Her baskets were made from the vines that come from Nantucket's soil. Her books are filled with their spirit. Her unpublished memoir is entitled "Enthusiasm for Silly Things" and was titled by her then five year old grandaughter, Amadi, who called Gruther.
Lecture at 8 pm
Nap Plank: Master Craftsman and Nantucket Basket Maker.
A leading innovator of Nantucket Basket making will talk nautical craftsmanship, the history of basket making on Nantucket, and share Island stories from decades in the trade.
JULY 16
Opening 7 pm
Silo Gallery July 16-21
Ian Torney:
NISDA Teaching Fellow and Artist in Residence will show paintings of the observed landscape, seascape and sky-scape, in an exhibit titled
The Mountains and the Sea. This exhibit will include paintings from his ongoing series "365 Views of Mt. Washington" and plein-air seascape paintings created during his residency.
Ian Torney is represented by Hurricane Mountain Design Gallery in North Conway, NH. Learn more at
www.iantorneyart.com.
Lecture at 8 pm
MJ Levy Dickson: Wildflowers and Plants bring people together
Fulbright Scholar conducting study in India will present work and research.
MJ Levy Dickson is represented by Robert Foster Gallery, Nantucket Looms and AAN.
JULY 23
A Special Evening Celebrating the Creativity of Judith Brust.
7 pm
Silo Gallery presents a selection of Brust’s colorful abstract monoprints and life cycle series. Works exhibited are generously donated to NISDA and will be available for purchase through our Annual Online Summer Benefit Auction.
8 pm
Presentation of a short video featuring Judith Brust’s unique printmaking process followed by a conversation with Judith Brust, Kathleen Knight of Gallery at Four India Street and Kathy Kelm NISDA’s Founding Director.
Judith Brust's colorful abstract monoprints merge art with natural elements and found material transforming the two-dimensional surface into three. Motifs of windows, planets, plant life, and life cycles throughout, express a spiritual and metaphysical awareness.
"All my work is saturated with symbolism and symbolic shape. The circle is central. The mark-making has the feeling of graffiti, somewhat like an ancient language. . . the balance of nature so perfect, it was like a genesis. . . the way it was supposed to be before order and structure dominated. In essence, it represents the natural equilibrium unearthed." Judith Brust
All proceeds from sales of this exhibit are generously donated by Bob and Judy Brust to NISDA's arts and culture program.
Judith Brust is represented by The Gallery at Four India.
JULY 30
7 pm
Pop Up Show of Works by David Lazarus.
Artist Talk at 8 pm
Then and Now:
A Conversation About a Life in the Arts on Nantucket.
David Lazarus and John Carruthers – longtime members of the Nantucket painting community reflect on their careers, influences, and the Islands creative art scene over the decades.
