Year: 2012

“All citizens of the Bahamas, through formal and informal education, will fully understand and appreciate our culture and the heritage of our language, music, expressions, food, religion, and myths,” stated the 2012 PLP Charter for Governance.

Combining Health and Wellness with the value of Art and Beauty. The Salus Project is for young artists to express themselves in all five areas of Wellness: Spiritual, Financial, Physical, Emotional and Social.

The launch is on May 17th, 7-10pm, in The Ladder Gallery at New Providence Community Centre, Blake Rd. & JFK Drive. The art will be displayed for four weeks.

To give his advanced students experience in the local art world and to “breathe life into the art program” College of The Bahama art instructor John Cox helps them plan and carry out site-specific art pieces.

Some things are often so tiny you miss them – but the installation by art education major Yutavia George on the glass wall of the computer center in the Harry C. Moore Library and Information Center has undeniable presence.

DAB – Solo Exhibition by Artist Marco Mullings
Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at 7:00pm at the Central Bank of the Bahamas Gallery. Show runs through end of May. Contact: 324-3840

As part of Popopstudios’ ongoing educational programming initiative a summer camp will be held to cater to aspiring young artists between the ages of 8-16 years. During the camp they will exposed to various disciplines and participate in both group and individual activities. Their experience will be enhanced by weekly trips to galleries and nature preserves with assignments being formatted to encompass dominant themes in the places visited.

The Sunflower Organization, under the patronage of Sir Orville Turnquest and Sir Durward Knowles, has chosen to celebrate the life, works, character and friendship of Jackson Burnside III – architect, artist, and culturally passionate Bahamian for this year’s Sunflower Day.

The Sunflower Organization has been promoting the celebration of life since May 2000. Sunflower Day is an uplifting way to remember those we love who have passed on as well as to be aware of the presence of those we love who are still alive.

For the newly created category of IWFS, the Jackson L. Burnside Fashion and Design Presentation, four artisans from very different design fields have accepted the challenge of taking materials they would traditionally use to build and accessorize homes, offices and other buildings and make them fit on a new canvas – the human body.

The pieces will be reviewed by Pam Burnside, wife of the late Jackson Burnside, Marcus Laing, CEO of InsituArch Caribbean Magazine and John Cox chief curator at the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas and founder of Popopstudios International Center for the Visual Arts.

Art in its many forms has undeniable power, able to bring groups of people across social strata and cultures and even social beliefs together in an instant – just think of the myriad of pop culture musical references and local performances used in our political rallies.

The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas (NAGB) and the Nassau Airport Development (NAD) have partnered to beautify the airport.

Hoping to bring some diversity airport, the projects Curatorial Assistant, Ashley Knowles intends to make a “call-for-artworks” for the September 2012 rotation encouraging all types of 3D artists to submit proposals.