Art and Artist Community – Nassau Bahamas
Khia Poitier, a winner of the Popopstudios Junior Residency Prize (PJRP) in 2010, is now a student at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where she is pursuing a degree in illustration.
RISD is one of the highest-rated fine arts colleges in the US and Khia follows in the footsteps of many other Bahamian artists who attended the school.
The “Kendal Hanna – Happy Birthday to Me” catalogue is now available.
The catalogue, designed by artist Nicholas Meicholas, is a retrospective of Hanna’s works over his near sixty-year career and was produced as part of the Retrospective exhibition at the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas.
Margot Bethel’s solo exhibition “Departure” at Popopstudios – featuring her new mixed media work and paintings – closes this Saturday September 3. If you haven’t seen it yet, stop by.
Where do the boundaries of nation, personal identity and environment begin and end? Where do they intersect?
This past Thursday at the Ipswich Art School in Ipswich, the UK, Bahamian artist Dede Brown and UK-based artist Bettina Furnée presented the work they completed during their residencies abroad in an exhibition titled “Material Response”.
Due to complications resulting from Hurricane Irene, the Opening of Omar Richardson’s Exhibition at the Central Bank of The Bahamas, which was scheduled to open tonight (September 1, 2011), has been postponed until further notice.
Bahamian artist Dede Brown has added her own Caribbean flare to the Never Ending Mural project in Ipswich. She said; “the mural has become a very enthusiastic community driven project, involving many people living in the town. Having played a small part it is easy to see how this inspirational project has captured the town’s imagination”.
Over the past three months, four student artists at Popostudios have been exploring their creativity and experimenting with various art forms as they develop their skills. College of The Bahamas students Richardo Barrett, June Collie, Keva Fawkes and Alistair Stevenson are all Junior Residents at Popopstudios.
An exhibition of work by artists Bettina Furnee and Dede Brown, who have participated in an Artists in Residence Exchange between Ipswich and Popopstudios in The Bahamas, as part of Stories of the World, a project at the heart of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad.
At Popopstudios International Center for the Visual Arts, student artists are getting a chance to form their future artistic practice in a creative, experimental and educational atmosphere.
College of The Bahamas students Richardo Barrett, June Collie, Keva Fawkes and Alistair Stevenson were all selected by Popopstudios ICVA as their second set of Junior Residents, receiving studio spaces within which to produce their work from June to August.