Year: 2012
Exploring The New York Art Scene
The Popopstudios Junior Residency Prize winners have been in New York City for three days and are making the rounds to the top museums and art galleries. Popop founder John Cox and curator Heino Schmid are leading the small group on a 10-day educational art-saturated junket to explore the expansive New York art scene.
Junior Residents 2012 In New York
The three art students who received the 2012 Popopstudios International Center for the Visual Artists Junior Residency Prize – Veronica Dorsett, Steven Schmid and Yutavia George, along with Christina Darville, winner of the 2nd Antonius Roberts Award have been devotedly developing their artistic skills this summer at Popop.
Junior Residents Work In Progress
Works in progress by junior resident artists Christina Darville and Steven Schmid
First “Conversations With Artists” Event
Several artists took part in the first “Conversations with artists” event that served as a focus group session toward the upcoming book project A Sense of Place: Public Art, Political Space and The Sacred based on Sacred Space at Clifton Pier and Bahamian Arts Practice more generally.
Conversations with Artists At Hillside House
How do you define artistic practice in the Bahamas? A focus group session with all interested and involved in the arts of the Bahamas. Hosted by Marielle Barrow, this conversation is toward the upcoming book project “A Sense of Place: Public Art, Political Space and The Scared” based on Sacred Space at Clifton Pier and Bahamian Arts Practice more generally.
Creating A Network of Sacred Space
Schooner Bay Arts symposium with resident artist Antonius Roberts, curator of the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas, John Cox, George Mason University Lecturers Tom Ashcraft and Peter Winant, George Mason PhD student, Marielle Barrow, Popop Junior Residency Prize Winners, Veronica Dorsett, Christina Darville, Yutavia George & Steven Schmid.
Call For Artists To Teach Classes
Popopstudios is calling for practicing artists who are either Bahamian or permanent residents to submit proposals for adult classes to be taught at Popop.
Alistair Returns From China
Just over two weeks ago, Alistair Stevenson returned from a 5 ½ week-long ceramics course in The People’s Republic of China where he was able to study with a group of students under the tutelage of various ceramic artists from both West Virginia University (W.V.U.), West Virginia, U.S.A. as well as JingDeZhen Ceramic Institute(J.C.I.), Jiangxi Province, China.