The NAGB prepares for a new welcome with Tyrone Ferguson’s Gates of Transformation
The Gates of Transformation: The NAGB prepares for a new welcome
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Building Community Effort: The NAGB Sculpture Garden unfolds with assistance from Rotary Club of East Nassau
After many years of discussion and a solid year of hard work and collective effort, the NAGB Sculpture Garden moved closer to becoming downtown’s native plant park and preserve, on Saturday, March 24, 2017.
The Blank Canvas: Dr. Craig Smith, Dr. Tiffany Austin and Alexia Tolas
On this week’s Blank Canvas, we welcome our stand-in host Dr. Craig Smith, Chair of School of English at the University of The Bahamas (UB), who is spearheading the first annual UB Spring Book Fair and Literary Festival set to take place over three days starting Thursday, March 30 through Saturday, April 1st.
Reporting from the Cancer Society’s Freedom Kids Workshop at the NAGB
On Saturday, March 25, 2017, the NAGB had the pleasure of hosting 18 children from the Cancer Society’s Freedom Kids programme.
NE8 Artist Talk at Hillside House: On Belonging
On Friday, February 24th, the NAGB in collaboration with Hillside House staged a closing event to mark the end of the National Exhibition 8 OFFsite exhibition. The event featured an artists’ talk with participating artists Del Foxton, Keisha Oliver, Alicia Wallace, and Natalie Willis. The discussion focused on the projects developed for the NE8, which speak to practices that give attention to subjectivities. These include the rise of the woman’s voice in the local creative community and the plight for gender equality in The Bahamas.
Blank Canvas: March 15th, US Embassy, Transforming Spaces and NAGB Permanent Exhibition
The Blank Canvas welcomes US Embassy Nassau’s Public Affairs Officer, Penny Rechkemmer and the winners of the MLJ Jr photo contest and Transforming Spaces founder, Jay Koment, DAF curator, Rashad Adderley, and NAGB assistant curators Natalie Willis and Richardo Willis speaking about this year’s event.
MAXAMOS: NAGB Travelling Exhibition to open in Hope Town, Abaco
Family Island access to the National Collection is of immense importance to the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas (NAGB). Our country, an archipelago, vast in its length and breadth presents a challenge to facilitating such a critical component of our mission. To answer the call of sharing Bahamian art with every citizen possible, the NAGB developed a travelling exhibition using the works of two iconic Bahamian masters: Max Taylor and Amos Ferguson.
The Blank Canvas: Patricia Leigh-Wood and Adrian D’Aguilar, March 8
Leaving the visual arts aside for a week, the “Blank Canvas” turns to musical arts and focuses on the festival “Eleuthera All That Jazz.” The Founder and Chairwoman, Patricia Leigh-Wood, comes on the show to speak about how the event was founded and its goal: to expose more Bahamian children to world-class music and to give them the opportunity to learn about different instruments. Also joining us is musician and “Jazz Cat” Adrian D’Aguilar, who has participated in all the editions of the festival for the last six years.
The Blank Canvas- March 1st with Cynthia Rahming, Natalie Willis and Alicia Wallace
This year’s National Exhibition (NE8) has extended beyond the walls of the NAGB to include another art space: Hillside House on Cumberland Street. Three of the artists from the NE8 OFFsite join the “Blank Canvas” to speak about their interventions, all of which deal with the issue of being a woman in general and in The Bahamas, specifically, post-referendum. This week we welcome, Cynthia Rahming, Natalie Willis and Alicia Wallace.
The Blank Canvas: Feb 22nd, 2017 featuring Dr. Ian Bethell-Bennett, Jason Evans and Dr. Michael Pateman
On tonight’s “Blank Canvas,” our host is joined by three Bahamians in the studio discussing various aspects of history and how it is addressed through different artistic practices.