A hit following its 2008 release, the film “Artists of The Bahamas” builds on the momentum surrounding its debut at the Bahamas International Film Festival. Last November the artists of the film were featured in a city-wide exhibition encompassing six galleries and three weeks. Now the artists prepare for the next big event: an exhibition at the Waterloo Center for the Arts in Iowa. The event is scheduled for October of this year.
Month: August 2011
Dede’s Blog
Dede Brown, one of the artists at Popopstudios, has been in England participating in an Artist’s Exchange Programme with the Ipswich & Colchester Museums and A Fine Line, for the ‘Stories of the World’ Programme set up for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. Check out her blog.
Harry C. Moore Library Spotlight On Alistair Stevenson
On the second floor of the Harry C. Moore Library and Information Center, weaving along the space between windows, lies a test. It’s Alistair D. Stevenson’s installation “Contagious”, and it’s a veritable rorschach exercise—does the stained plywood drilled into a series of seven low-relief sculpture panels resemble a creature crawling along the wall? A relief map? A birds-eye-view of islands? Coral reefs?
The F Factor
Last week, the dynamic exhibition “The F Factor: Female Artists of The Bahamas” opened at The D’Aguilar Art Foundation, showcasing work in a wide range of media from 24 established and practicing female artists based in The Bahamas, including Sue Katz-Lightbourn, from Popopstudios.
Postern Plans
Heino Schmid and Keva Fawkes, one of the three 2011 junior resident artists, discuss her ideas for refurbishing Popop’s rear entrance passageway, which is currently…