Art and Artist Community – Nassau Bahamas
Governor General Sir Arthur Foulkes sat down this week with a small group of people involved in a very ambitious project — to create, exhibit and make available to the wider world the faces that make up the soul and spirit of the Bahamian people.
“This is a wonderful idea,” said Sir Arthur
“The 6th volume of ARC Magazine brings together a mélange of artists, scholars and writers in collaboration exploring and experimenting with formal and preconceived elements of beauty, alchemy, aesthetics, nationhood, independence and burdens of representations,” according to ARC editor-in-chief Holly Bynoe.
Several Bahamian artists are featured in the latest issue of the Caribbean contemporary art publication ARC Magazine.
The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas
presents its 6th National Exhibition
Thursday, November 15, 2012 • 7pm to 9pm
This year’s edition of National Exhibition, “Kingdom Come,” provides 50 visual thinkers with a practical platform on which to collide with their vision of our present confusion or with hopeful projections of new beginnings.
Capturing the true essence of the Bahamian spirit is one of the many ambitious goals behind a captivating new arts initiative that seeks to help preserve the character and legacy of the country’s most precious resource – its people.
The subjects of the project will include Bahamians and members of the community from all walks of life and islands.
Heino Schmid was featured in The Nassau Guardian’s column “Twenty Questions” this week.
Popopstudios is looking for serious artists to fill a number of vacant studio spaces.
Popop has been committed to the advancement of art in The Bahamas for over fifteen years, and houses a diverse group of local and international professional artists.
The National Art Gallery of the Bahamas and Popopstudios have collaborated with Popop-based photographer Duke Wells to create The Bahamian Project. This three-year working initiative will yield a collection of high-quality, black-and-white fine art portraits that will document and explore the positive spirit of Bahamian people from a humanistic point-of-view.
Two local organisations joined forces last Saturday to raise awareness about diabetes and work with children affected by the disease.
Awareness, Compassion and Education (ACE) Diabetes and the Diabetic Research Institute (DRI), brought artists and children together at Popopstudios to assist in painting a mural that will be installed Downtown for World Diabetes Day on November 14.
