Nantucket Cultural Council
Nantucket Cultural Council is a volunteer group part of the Town of Nantucket’s Boards, Committees, and Councils. The group is overseen by the Town of Nantucket Director of Culture and Tourism. We focus on distributing Mass Cultural Council grant money to fund public programming in the arts, humanities, and sciences on Nantucket.
The purpose of the Nantucket Cultural Council is to promote and maintain the vitality of local cultural resources and to ensure these resources are shared within the Nantucket community. The council is committed to funding a diverse cross-section of activities. We support a broad variety of art forms, the ongoing work of individual artists, environmental education projects, collaborative proposals that bring together artists and other types of organizations, local cultural groups and projects that serve specific populations, including, but not limited to: youth, elders, low-income, disabled. Granting funds to individual artists, cultural organizations, schools, and other community groups fund exhibitions, performances, lectures, artist residencies in the schools, and more. Many of these projects bring an arts discipline to a new audience, complement the education of our young people, or connect artists’ work to everyday life. They promote the uniqueness of a community, foster community pride, bring people together, and provide a sense of celebration for the community. Our mission is that, The Local Cultural Council of Nantucket grants connect people and places in creative, dynamic, and exciting ways, that help strengthen the social fiber of our community, and improve the quality of life
Contact
Deana Weatherly
ncd@nantucket-ma.gov
508-325-5396
Address
16 Broad Street
Nantucket, MA 02554-3500
Application Information
FY26 details to come.
FY25 Funding List
| Name | Project Title | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Artists Association of Nantucket, Inc. | Senior Citizen Art Class and Exhibition | $1,220 | Bulgarian Education Center Inc | Bulgarian School Holiday Show Performance | $1,220 | Linda Loring Nature Foundation | LLNF Trailside Story Walk | $1,220 | Nantucket Boys & Girls Club | Family Fun Night | $600 | Nantucket Comedy Festival, Inc. | Stand Up & Learn Education Program | $1,220 | Nantucket Community Music Center, Inc. | Early Childhood Music and Movement | $1,220 | Nantucket Community Television, Inc. | FABLES | $600 | Nantucket Island Fair | Tie Dye and pumpkin painting at Nantucket Island Fair | $500 | Small Friends on Nantucket, Inc. | Nanpuppets Shows for Small Friends on Nantucket | $700 | The Nantucket Book Foundation, Inc. | Visiting Author Program | $500 | The Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association | Visiting Scientist - Habor Monitoring Project - Data Analysis | $1,000 |
