Year: 2012

Alistair Stevenson was one of the winners of the Bahamas Speed Week Revival drawing for complimentary tickets. On hand to draw out the winning names were artists Antonius Roberts and Heino Schmid.

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.

The NE6 aims to explore the challenges of ‘transition’ in modern times, in which we are brought abruptly closer together thanks to the spoils of electronic and social media platforms that connect every aspect of our existences.

Can Caribbean countries collaborate to move art forward in the region?

It’s a question that Caribbean curators, writers and artists came together to begin to answer at the recent Aruba Linked/Caribbean Linked arts symposium.

Kendal Hanna has completed his massive painting for Kingdom Come – The Sixth National Exhibition which will open at The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas on November 15.

Bahamian artist Dede Brown took home the winning prize last week for her photographic rendering “Absolut Party”, at an exhibition featuring Absolute Vodka inspired art pieces.

Popopstudios artists were well represented at the D’Aguilar Art Foundation on Thursday during the Absolut Art Ambition exhibition which showcased the creativity of about a dozen local artists.

Kendal Hanna working on his painting for the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas’ Sixth National Exhibition, opening on November 15, 2012.

The first 13 years of Popopstudios will be outlined, hinging on pivotal moments of its development from special exhibitions, interesting international resident projects, community achievements and future projections.

New art classes are now open for registration at Popopstudios International Center for the Visual Arts.

The second half of semester three which runs from October 22 to December 1 will see the introduction of new classes and the continuation of a favorite. Six-week adult classes at three hours each will be offered.