Meet Mr. Tony Sarg at the Nantucket Whaling Museum

Kick off the “Summer of Sarg” with this introduction to the illustrator, puppeteer, entrepreneur, and beloved Nantucket summer resident who inspired it all, Mr. Tony Sarg. Nantucket Historical Association (NHA) Curator of Exhibitions, Deborah Sorensen, shares her illustrated talk about the artist’s globe-hopping life and prolific career, as well as background on how the exhibition Tony Sarg: Genius at Play, organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Mass., was adapted and expanded for its presentation at the Nantucket Whaling Museum and other NHA properties.
Learn more about the Tony Sarg: Genius at Play exhibition open through 2024 at nha.org/whats-on/exhibitions/....
Deborah Sorensen is the Robyn & John Davis Curator of Exhibitions at the NHA, where she develops and manages original and traveling exhibitions, as well as short- and long-range exhibition planning across the NHA’s historic properties. Before joining the NHA, she spent 17 years at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., crafting exhibitions and film programs on architecture and design topics. More recently she served as Senior Content Developer for the planned Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream. She received her M.A. in Museum Studies from the George Washington University.