Regular host Amanda Coulson returns with international guest and visitor, Trevor Schoonmaker, the Chief Curator at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.
Blank Canvas with Trevor Schoonmaker
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The Liberal: Thierry Lamare’s Sincerity in Rendering Bahamian Life
The April 29th Nassau Guardian Arts+Culture section features a write up on Thierry Lamare‘s “The Liberal” which is part of our National Collection and currently on view in “Love, Loss and Life” at the NAGB through September.
Creating Thinking Spaces: Opportunity to Think, Build, and Grow
The University of The Bahamas and the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas have created an open space for group discussion that allows students to benefit from the offering of both spaces. This relationship allows culture to truly be highlighted. As much as we talk about culture, we often disconnect our experiences from talk. These lectures are designed to promote thought and unshackle minds blinkered by a dysfunctional system designed to create workers without a sense of self, or an identity that can transcend the 9 to 5 and the 21 by seven of the mundane.
Kendra Frorup’s ‘Domestic Chickens’
Kendra Frorup’s ‘Domestic Chickens’ (2007) installation is one of the lesser-known pieces in the National Collection. The 2017-2018 Permanent Exhibition, ‘Revisiting An Eye For The Tropics’, is a departure point for us to look to the way the past has informed the present aesthetic in Bahamian artwork, and also importantly to showcase the works in the National Collection and remind us of what we have ownership and pride over as Bahamians.
Blank Canvas with George V. Cox and John Cox
Engineer George V. Cox talks with his son, curator John Cox, about The Unseen Structure—an experimental project exploring the invisible backbone of civil engineering.
Margot Bethel’s Portal: Unpacking Memories of Womanhood
Bahamian artist, Margot Bethel, explores ideas of femininity and the roles of women from both past and present day. In “Portal: There’s a WHole in the Bucket”, Bethel transforms a collection of mundane, everyday objects into a sculptural installation proposing the idea of the hole and the whole, simultaneously describing aspects of gender inequality, female stereotypes, and objectivity.
The Gates of Transformation: The NAGB prepares for a new welcome
The NAGB prepares for a new welcome with Tyrone Ferguson’s Gates of Transformation
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 Past meeting Future in the Present?’: Breaking open the imagination.
Dr. Ian Bethell-Bennett writes: As University of The Bahamas students work to design smart, green, locally-responsive, environmentally-attuned drawings for the Expo 2020 World Fair to be held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates in three years’ time, the nation also prepares to be under the microscope on the world’s stage.
Blank Canvas with 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.