On this week’s “Blank Canvas” we meet Kaché Knowles, the founder of iisabahamianbey which is a brand and clothing line that aims to empower Bahamian culture by preserving the past, educating the present and building the future.
On “Blank Canvas” we hear from the Central Bank’s art and culture Curator, Uli Voges and the final group of Central Bank Art Competition Open Category prize winners for the categories of Photography, with Jamie Bruce and Sculpture with Carlos Bain, and their public art projects.
Joining host, Amanda Coulson, on the NAGB’s Blank Canvas tonight is Trinidadian artist, Rodell Warner, who is opening a solo show next week at TERN Gallery in Nassau.
On tonight’s “NAGB’s Blank Canvas” we welcome Bahamian artist Kishan Munroe. Munroe has been most recently seen all around the island of New Providence working on project “Legend Steel”, which is the restoration of famous public sculptures, often found on public roundabouts, made by Bahamian Cultural icon Stephen G.E. Burrows.
On tonight’s ” NAGB’s Blank Canvas,” your host, Amanda Coulson, delves into Seascape Poetics with curators Bettina Pérez Martínez and Simone Cambridge. Special guests artists Edrin Symonette and Nadia Huggins discuss how their practices approach issues of identity, climate change, and tidalectics.
On this week’s “NAGB’s Blank Canvas” we spoke with Jodi Minnis, the Gallery Manager at Nassau’s newest physical art space, TERN on Mahogany Hill, about the closing exhibition “Inherited Values” featuring artist Kendra Frorup, that she curated to inaugurate the new space.
Tonight, Bahamian artist Jeffrey Meris, will be on the “Blank Canvas” to speak about his journey from the Junkanoo shack to Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia for his Bachelors’ and from Columbia University in New York for his Master’s to recently completing the prestigious residency NXTHVN in New Haven.
As your regular host Amanda Coulson (NAGB Executive Director) stays home and safe during this COVID-19 pandemic, we visit the “Blank Canvas” archives to bring back some great shows and pay tribute to those we have lost.
Tonight we will reair the April 10th, 2019 episode, featuring international curator, Larry Ossei-Mensah who came to scope out the art scene in The Bahamas and we’re really pleased to have had him in the Blank Canvas studio!
The NAGB is currently closed due to COVID-19, but when the museum reopens please visit us to view the stunning “Refuge” show. Your regular host Amanda Coulson invites artistic duo, the sisters Kristin and Dede Brown, into the Blank Canvas studio to discuss their moving piece, “In the Faces of Tragedy” which is one of the showstoppers at the NAGB’s post-Hurricane Dorian exhibition.