Reviews of the permanent collection of the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas (NAGB) should always demand an examination of the works and aesthetics of two of the country’s outstanding and prolific indigenous artists, Amos Ferguson (1920-2009) and Maxwell Taylor, better known as “Max”. Ferguson has a particular call on prominence in this regard because it was the Bahamas Government’s purchase of twenty-five of his paintings in 1991 that launched the National Collection.
On tonight’s Blank Canvas, your regular host Amanda Coulson (left) catches up with Bahamian documentarian Tamika Galanis (right), who is one of the artists participating in the current exhibition “Refuge,” currently on show at the NAGB. Tamika catches us up on her artistic journey and where the archives have led her in her current research project.
The creative community is the spotlight of this week’s show on Blank Canvas, as your regular host Amanda Coulson (Exec. Director, NAGB) invites poet and bookmaker, Sonia Farmer, and cultural instigator Orchid Burnside into the studio.
On tonight’s Blank Canvas we have a vibrant group of young artists in the studio, who involved in back-to-back shows opening this week in Nassau.
Continuing in our series meeting artists participating in the current exhibition “Refuge,” the NAGB Executive Director meets Lemero Wright (right), Jenna Chaplin (second from right) and Dyah Neilson (second from left) to discuss the artworks they produced for the show.
On the first Blank Canvas of 2020, we host Abaconian artist, Leanne Russell, in the studio to talk about her artwork in the NAGB’s latest exhibition, “Refuge.” An open call to Bahamian artists to create works processing the events during and after Hurricane Dorian, Russell created images with archival images of the Great Abaco Hurricane of 1932 overlaid with her own documentary photos from the 2019 tragedy.
Celebrating the opening of our next show at NAGB, “Refuge,” we invited four Bahamian artists to share their journey through Hurricane Dorian and the reflections that inspired their artwork.
Amanda Coulson, NAGB Executive Director is visited in-studio by American-Bahamian, Arnold J. Kemp, an artist who works in painting, print, sculpture, and poetry. He is represented globally and has received several prestigious awards, from the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Joan Mitchell Foundation.
Tonight’s Blank Canvas is all about holiday happenings at the NAGB!
This week’s “Blank Canvas” is all about big ups to the NAGB’s awesome team! Freshly back from the installation of the latest iteration of the Inter-Island Travelling Exhibition (ITE) in Long Island, you’ll hear from (left to right) Blake Fox (NAGB’s Education Assistant); to the right regulator host Amanda Coulson (NAGB Executive Director); Amaani Hepburn (artist and regular NAGB assistant); Richardo Barrett (NAGB Associate Curator); and Zearier Munroe (NAGB Community Outreach Officer), about the challenges and rewards of taking part of the National Collection to the Family Islands.