ArtWeek Nashua 2021
Saturday October 16th through Sunday October 24th

City Arts Nashua presents: ArtWeek Nashua 2021, a weeklong virtual televised event.

About Our Weeklong Event

We at City Arts Nashua had to think outside the box last year by creating a new format for our traditional ArtWeek. Now in its 17th year we are again featuring a virtual ArtWeek and KidsWeek! With a wide variety of quality arts-related programming, we are committed to celebrating our creative community!  We plan on reaching an even larger audience by sharing on all of our social media sites and Access Nashua Community Television. Our shared programming will be offered Sat. Oct. 16 – Sun. Oct. 24, 2021.

We kick off ArtWeek with Eric Escobar's signature mural installation - Live, Saturday October 16 at 30 Temple Street; while Access Nashua's programming lets you meet local artists and performers via pre-recorded video segments; or you may want to stroll downtown to see one of the many public sculptures on display or view the window displays of artwork of artists in select downtown businesses. With our virtual format, you don’t have to be from the Nashua region to join us in supporting our creative community!

If you live in Nashua and have Comcast, check out Channel 96. Don't have cable or live in Nashua? No problem!  All programming is streamed on the Access Nashua, Community Television website.

How to Connect with ArtWeek

Throughout the week on Access Nashua Community Television, City Arts Nashua’s website and social media there will be profiles of artists and their works, posts about each artist will be displayed on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube, along with Twitter and LinkedIn. Events televised on Access Nashua Community Television Channel 96, can be found on accessnashua.org, City Arts Nashua’s website, social media pages and City Arts Nashua’s YouTube channel.

Live/in Person Events

  • Multi-talented artist Eric Escobar will hold a live artmaking performance to help kick off ArtWeek and create our ArtWeek installation piece as he has done for the last several years at our previous in-person ArtWalks, at 30 Temple St., Nashua on Sat., Oct. 16 starting at 10:00 a.m. There will be refreshments from a local ice cream truck, Hazy Ice Cream, from 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. During the day Nashua’s Great American Downtown cultural and downtown events organization will also be holding some nearby outdoor events, and all are walking distance, including to and from our activities below. The Rotary Club of Nashua West is also holding a “Duck Derby,” also nearby.

  • Self-guided public sculpture tour of the works of the Nashua International Sculpture Symposium. Maps are available at Picker Artists Studios at 3 Pine St., Nashua, or download the 2021 NISS Map PDF File.

Artwork to be on display in the windows of select Downtown Nashua business locations. There will be QR codes accompanying the pieces for viewers to see and learn more about the artists:

How to participate in the AWESOME KidsWeek!

Our popular scavenger hunt is back and even better this year! Yes, we may have to stay socially distanced, and yes, we are all tired of Covid restrictions, but this year we are making even more mini art kits and even more fun content for our young artist friends to enjoy! With a little help from Access Nashua Community Television and Nashua-based photographer Sid Caesar, Woz Watts and Sid the puppet are going undercover as superheroes, channeling “The Avengers,”  hiding new, fun art kits for kids to find at various public sculpture locations throughout Nashua.  Five of these kits will contain a very rare, very exclusive “creativity stone”, which will grant the artist that discovers it unlimited creative powers! During ArtWeek, 50 mini art kits, containing paint, sewing or sculpture projects will be hidden at various Nashua International Sculpture Symposium site locations.  Hints will be revealed through our City Arts Nashua social media, and hard copy maps of all the sculpture site locations will be available at The Picker Artists Studios, at 3 Pine St, Nashua. Be sure to watch for fun videos starring Woz and Sid on Access Nashua Community Television and City Arts Nashua’s social media! Join in the fun, and find your creativity superpowers! The hunt begins soon!

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The 50 mini art kits are as follows:

  • 25 mini watercolor sets, with mini sketchbook

  • 15 mini polymer clay kits, with charm making accessories

  • 10 mini sewing kits, with pre-cut felt and pattern

*Six of the kits will contain a plastic “gemstone” aka “creativity stone”,  a la “The Avenger’s” infinity stones.

Participating ArtWeek Artists and Performers
Click their links for more information

Our Event Hashtags will be:

#ArtsConnectNH 
#NHArts 
#cityartsnashua 
#nashuaart 
#artwalknashua
#LoveNashua 
#2021ArtWeekNashua
#publicart
#musicNashua

Special Thanks to our Sponsors

New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, Great American Downtown, 
Nashua Arts Commission, Greater Nashua Chamber of Commerce,
Access Nashua Community Television