PC Digital Database

This database contains over 90% of the artwork maintained in the AAN Permanent Collection.

The collection now consists of over 1100 pieces covering the modern era, from the art colony roots of the 1920s to young artists active today. Media include sculpture, paintings, collages, ceramics, drawings, various forms of printmaking, photographs, and even sketchbooks and historic artifacts. The art is catalogued, watched over by the AAN's Curator of Exhibitions, and, since 1992, has been actively guided into an ever-expanding entity that seeks biographical data and pertinent artifacts on Nantucket artists, as well as important works of Nantucket art.

The AAN stores the collection in a climate-controlled storage location. Access to the physical art can be arranged for research purposes, as well as loans to other non-profit organizations for exhibition.

Works are currently on loan for exhibition at the Emergency Room waiting area of the Nantucket Cottage Hospital, Sankaty Head Golf Club, the Great Harbor Yacht Club, and the Amelia Drive annex of Nantucket Bank.

In 2012 the AAN will host The Waterfront Artists, a new PC exhibition on the waterfront artists that changed Nantucket, opening June 29th.