As The Bahamian Project wraps up its latest series of portraits, photographer Duke Wells tells The Tribune’s Cara Hunt about documenting the faces of the Bahamas and the need for a national portrait gallery.
Nowé Harris-Smith will be exhibiting a new body of work in the Project Space Room of the NAGB from July 7th through August 7th, 2016. The collection features a selection of paintings and photographs that deal with abstraction through the exploration of bodies and faces.
The three Popopstudios Junior Residency Prize winners have been working away at their art practices.
Summer interns Dalton and Michael, along with PJRP winner Keith, have been working on a mural, based on a painting by former PJRP winner, June Collie. The mural will be permanently installed in Popop’s kitchen.
Incentivizing Local Emerging Artists
It is a long upheld tradition in ‘the art world’ – that seemingly separate planet where for many it is baffling that one can take an unmade bed or a pile of bricks and call it art.
2016 Popop Junior Residents Keith Thompson, Nowé H. Harris-Smith & Navarro Newton, are off to NYC with Popop founder and Creative Director John Cox, Popop Curator Heino Schmid and artist Tessa Whitehead from the D’Aguilar Art Foundation, sponsors of the Popop Junior Residency Prize.
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