Popop’s Dede Brown was featured this week in The Bahamian Art & Culture newsletter. Dede is currently participating in an Artists-in-Residence Exchange Programme in England, where she is working on a Junkanoo themed project exploring her “Bahamianness”.
Popop Junior Artists On The Radio
Tonight at 7:00pm on “Making it” with host Margot Bethel on Island FM102.9. Kashelle Knowles, Richardo Barrett, Rashad Adderley and Alistair Stevenson talk about their experiences as interns and residents of Popopstudios International Center for the Visual Arts. Listen up!
Ostrich Syndrome
Popopstudios newcomer – textile artist and quilt maker Jan Elliot recently had a quilt displayed at the Festival of Quilts Exhibition at the NEC in Birmingham UK, which ran from 11 – 14 August. The piece, “Ostrich Syndrome”, was part of the NE5 exhibition at National Art Gallery of the Bahamas last year.
Harry C. Moore Library Spotlight On Khia Poitier
How many Bahamians can say they know their constitution and their fundamental rights? On the top floor of the Harry Moore Library and Information Center lies the law library if you want to educate yourself, but if you want to take a shortcut, make sure to look over Khia Poitier’s untitled mural in the same area. It’s hard to miss — against a background of vivid tangerine and silhouettes that span floor to ceiling, Khia presents chunks from the Fundamental Rights and Freedoms of the Individual as outlined in the Constitution of The Bahamas.
Margot Bethel On “Departure”
It’s been a year of change for Bahamian artist Margot Bethel. After years of taking part in group shows in Nassau, she returns to the scene with her solo art show, “Departures”, opening at Popop International Center for the Visual Arts this evening.
“I think doing a solo show was a challenge I think I felt I needed to push myself towards,” she says. “For some reason, despite having a difficult year, I decided this would be the year for that.”
“Artists of the Bahamas” Prepare For Iowa Exhibition
A hit following its 2008 release, the film “Artists of The Bahamas” builds on the momentum surrounding its debut at the Bahamas International Film Festival. Last November the artists of the film were featured in a city-wide exhibition encompassing six galleries and three weeks. Now the artists prepare for the next big event: an exhibition at the Waterloo Center for the Arts in Iowa. The event is scheduled for October of this year.
Dede’s Blog
Dede Brown, one of the artists at Popopstudios, has been in England participating in an Artist’s Exchange Programme with the Ipswich & Colchester Museums and A Fine Line, for the ‘Stories of the World’ Programme set up for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. Check out her blog.
Harry C. Moore Library Spotlight On Alistair Stevenson
On the second floor of the Harry C. Moore Library and Information Center, weaving along the space between windows, lies a test. It’s Alistair D. Stevenson’s installation “Contagious”, and it’s a veritable rorschach exercise—does the stained plywood drilled into a series of seven low-relief sculpture panels resemble a creature crawling along the wall? A relief map? A birds-eye-view of islands? Coral reefs?
The F Factor
Last week, the dynamic exhibition “The F Factor: Female Artists of The Bahamas” opened at The D’Aguilar Art Foundation, showcasing work in a wide range of media from 24 established and practicing female artists based in The Bahamas, including Sue Katz-Lightbourn, from Popopstudios.