Year: 2012

The Transforming Spaces Committee is completing plans for its eighth year on the Bahamian art scene. The popular annual Transforming Spaces Bus Tour features a single theme this year. The tour will take place this year on Saturday and Sunday, March 24 and 25. Eight Art Spaces will be participating: The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, Doongalik Studios Art Gallery, New Providence Art & Antiques, the Pink ‘Un Gallery, Popop International Centre for the Visual Arts, Hillside House Gallery, The PRO Gallery at COB and The Hub.

On February 24 between 6-8 p.m. at Popopstudios, the Critical Caribbean Symposium Series will hold “Education for Liberation” which will examine the need for educational reform in the country in order to liberate and advance its people.

Panelists: representatives from the afterschool education program The Indaba Project; Reverend Livingston Malcolm, the superintendent minister of the Methodist church in Nassau; human rights activist Erin Greene; UWI Representative Michael Stevenson; and scholar Niambi Campbell whose work examines education in fostering a sense of community.

Popopstudios International Center for the Visual Arts started off 2012 with the first round of formal art classes taught by professional local artists. With those classes successfully coming to a close, the institution is looking ahead at their next round, where they will continue to offer some of the same that made their first semester so successful, as well as some new options that will continue to define Popopstudios as a major art institution in the country.

Interview with Chief Curator from the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, John Cox from the NAGB “Mixed Media Blog”.

John: I think the role of the curator is to use a metaphor, it is like being a conductor of an orchestra, so it is about responsibility, leadership, delegation and creativity…

It becomes clearer every day that America is one big melting pot. The reasons people immigrate here are vast and varied, but the one thing that is clear of those who begin another life in the U.S. is that it will never be like their first home. They’ve been thrown “into the mix” per se.“

Into the Mix, will be an excellent example of the return to Materiality for 10 artists that have a relationship to the Caribbean.

Habitat – an exhibition of ceramic artwork by 2011 Popopstudios Junior Resident Artists, Keva Fawkes and Alistair Stevenson – opened on Thursday, February 16, 2012 with an impressive attendance. Both artists addressed the public, explaining their thought processes and concepts and expressing gratitude to The D’Aguilar Foundation, and Popopstudios for their experience as resident artists.

On Saturday 10th February 2012 John Cox armed himself with several cans of fabric ink, 40 t-shirts of varying sizes, and two silk printing screens and met the kids from the Diabetes Research Institute with a plan to print t-shirts for the Rock Wall Climbing event on March 10th. Here are some photos… visit DEN Bahamas for more photos and information.

Bahamian artist El Padrino was gone for ‘a minute’, and now he is back with a new song and a new video. It is gaining positive reviews locally and internationally. The “Duffles” video was shot on Rose Island and Norman’s Cay. It is the first video from the artist since he took his short break a year and a half ago.

The Bahamas has seen many art shows over the years, but rarely comes along an artist brave enough to present a body of work that defies convention. The Central Bank of The Bahamas opened the year with one if its most provocative exhibitions to grace its gallery. Bahamian master artist John Beadle’s recent work, ‘Nature’s Lines’ draws our attention to the natural beauty of a line we often disregard.

The exhibition ends Friday, February 17, 2012