The three art students who received the Popopstudios International Center for the Visual Artists Junior Residency Prize – June Collie, Keva Fawkes and Alistair Stevenson, along with Richardo Barrett, winner of the Antonius Roberts Award, and the summer interns – all art and art education majors at the College of the Bahamas, have been busy learning and developing their artistic skills this summer. One of the particularly anticipated highlights of the residency program is a trip to New York to visit art galleries.
Kendal Hanna’s Retrospective Opens
The Retrospective Exhibition “Kendal Hanna – Happy Birthday to Me” officially opened on Friday, July 15, 2011 at the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas on West Hill Street and will be on display until the end of 2011.
To Hanna, the experience is somewhat surreal, but brings him great joy, for being underappreciated for so long led him to believe his work would never be presented in this way, let alone that his story, forgotten even by his own troubled mind, would never be told. See photos from the opening reception…
“A Life I Lived To See”
For Hanna, art has been both a failsafe friend and a savior in a long life of psychological and personal struggle. It’s a story that’s been reflected in his pieces in the only way he knows how — through abstract expressionism.
“Now, I have come to the belief that I was born to be an artist,” he says.
“Kendal Hanna: Happy Birthday to Me” opens on Friday, July 15th at the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas.
Alistair Receives Denis Knight Award
Alistair D. Stevenson – current Junior Resident Artist at Popopstudios – has been selected as the 2011 and first recipient of the Denis Knight Award.
New Kitchen Almost Complete
Popop has put the funds raised from Sketch24 to good use… and refurbished the kitchen and dining facility.
Bettina’s Project In Progress
Popop’s current resident artist, Bettina Furnee, spent several days, including the Independence holiday weekend, working […]
Popop Junior Artists In Schooner Bay
The second annual Schooner Bay Eco-Art symposium proved to be an exciting and educational experience for the Popop Junior Resident Award Winners, who were invited to participate by Schooner Bay Resident Artist Antonius Roberts. Take a look…
Dialogue With John Cox
Dialogue-Bahamas host Etoile Pinder talks with Popop owner, John Cox about the recent and upcoming activities at Popopstudios. Watch it here…
Dialogue With Lavar Munroe
Etoile Pinder, host of Dialogue – Bahamas, chatted with Lavar Munroe about his current exhibition “Invasion” at Popopstudios ICVA. Watch the interviews…