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
[email protected]
508-325-5396

Address
16 Broad Street
Nantucket, MA 02554-3500

Application Information

FY27 details to come.

FY26 Funding List

Name	Project Title	Amount
Artists Association of Nantucket, Inc.	Senior Citizen Art Program	$1,000
Nantucket Comedy Festival, Inc.	Stand Up & Learn™ Children’s Educational Workshops	$1,000
Nantucket Island School of Design and the Arts, Inc.	Thursday Night Community Fete	$1,000
Small Friends on Nantucket, Inc.	Family Picnics and Puppet Shows	$700
Soverino, Lauren	Nantucket S.T.A.R. Sensory Art	$1,000
The Theatre Workshop of Nantucket, Inc.	March Production Costumes	$1,000