Month: March 2012

ARC Magazine founders and editors Holly Bynoe and Nadia Huggins have taken up the Youth-IN Visions project – an initiative by the United Nations Development Programme – and over a period of four months will travel around the Caribbean to spotlight in each place four visionary young people who are making a difference.

Oftentimes, a single piece of artwork can define an individual artist, a sweeping era, or a life-changing moment in time. Deeply embedded in our cultural consciousness, such work becomes legend and the artist an icon. The work is reproduced so often that to see it in person is a rich moment for the viewer.

Such is the thought behind the current exhibition at The D’Aguilar Art Foundation,”Bahamian Icons: Past, Present and Future”…

Absolut vodka announces a call for local artists to participate in one of the most unique, fun and exciting art shows of the year.

Popopstudios International Center for the Visual Arts and our co-sponsors, The D’Aguiliar Art Foundation and Antonius Roberts, congratulate Veronica Dorsett, Steven Schmid and Yutavia George for being selected for the 2012 Popopstudios Junior Residency Prize, and Christina Darville for being selected for the 2012 Antonius Roberts Award.

“When you think we have eight galleries taking part and over 60 artists, you may think, how are they all going to be using this one theme?” said Pam Burnside. “And it’s amazing, what they’ve come up with. They all have different ideas and have used materials in totally different ways. We asked people to consider the possibilities when we sent out the call and we were amazed with what we got back.”

On Friday, March 30, 2012, from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at The Hub, the Critical Caribbean Symposium Series will present the final of its Community Conversations: “Revolutionary Cultural Practices and Engagements”.

Holly Bynoe and Nadia Huggins, co-founders of ARC Magazine, will speak at the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas at 6:30pm on Monday, March 26, 2012 on the importance of inter-Caribbean dialogue and exchange within the arts and culture communities.

Charles Campbell is among a new generation of contemporary Caribbean artists working to explore and disrupt the region’s dominant social narratives.

Members of the art community and the general public gathered at Hillside House this morning for the unveiling of the new gate at Hillside House.