Art and Artist Community – Nassau Bahamas
For four years, Empty Bowls has been a charity event that not only promotes art and culture in the country but also benefits the needy in our community.
4th Annual fundraiser – Empty Bowls – “Fighting Hunger Together”
Sunday, February 26, 2012
from 1:00pm – 6:00pm
at Queen’s College High School Auditorium
On February 11, 2012 Antonius Roberts hosted his first open house at his new studio and gallery at Hillside House, located at 25 Cumberland Street. Photos…
Alistair Stevenson was busy last week preparing for his upcoming exhibition “Habitat” – in which his ceramic artwork will be shown along with Keva Fawkes – both 2011 Junior Resident Artists at Popopstudios. Alistair utilized a smoke-firing technique for some of the sculptures that will be on display
The Transforming Spaces committee is completing plans for its eighth year on the Bahamian art scene. The popular annual bus tour which provides a window into the galleries, studios, artwork and lives of the best visual art organizations and practitioners in the country, will take place this year on Saturday and Sunday, March 24 and 25.
With his studio space in the back and a gallery space at the front, Lunn both invites structure into his living space and injects informality into an otherwise very formal practice. Such a space presents more of a whole picture of the artist as well as a comfortable atmosphere where pressures to buy and sell are lifted, allowing easy and intimate conversation to flow.
“I learned from Kendal Hanna that spaces don’t have to be polished; shirts don’t have to be tucked in every time you show – sometimes a working space is appropriate,” said Lunn.
The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas was featured on ZNS last night, with video footage of the current exhibition, “As We Knew Him” – a tribute to Jackson Burnside.
Kishan Munroe has been putting in long hours at his studio at Popopstudios ICVA. He is working on a new mural with a socio-political theme. More information to follow as to the concept and where the mural will be displayed upon completion.
El Padrino’s Official Duffles Music Video is getting rave reviews around the world as one of the best music videos ever to be produced in The Bahamas. Some of the scenes were filmed at Popopstudios and the video was produced by Popop community artists, Duke and Lisa Wells for Kaos Records.
Following the successful and exciting symposium on the life and works of Frantz Fanon at The College of The Bahamas Fanon Symposium 2011 this past December, COB professors Craig Smith and Keithley Woolward are ready to establish the framework for year-round critical conversations open to the public.
“It’s about creating a culture of critical engagement where academic or critical thinking that is usually associated with academic institutions is not uncommon to The Bahamas,” explains Woolward.