Executive Director Opportunity
No Vacancy in Paradise (2001), Patricia Glinton-Meicholas
All posts by Blake Belcher
The Nation/The Imaginary Reading List
The Nation/The ImaginaryReading List
last updated may 3, 2024
Explore a curated list of literary works that connect to themes in our current exhibition. Titles with asterisks are available for purchase in our Museum Store!
“The Dreamers”, found in If I had the Wings (2017), Helen Klonaris
How to be A True-True Bahamian (1994), Patricia Glinton-Meicholas*
“The Impossible Garden” found in WomanSpeak Journal (2012), Lynn Sweeting
“Sonnet for the Moon” found in WomanSpeak Journal (2012) Lynn Sweeting
Gun Boys Rapsody (2015), Ian Strachan*
Woman Take Two (1987), Telcine Turner-Rolle
“Ghost
Vantage: Justin Benjamin
Justin Benjamin explores interiority in Vantage
Amaani Hepburn • Apr 15, 2024
Justin Benjamin is a painter who primarily works out of his studio in New Providence. Most of his painting scenes depict life on family islands he has frequented throughout his life – Eleuthera, Long Island, and Abaco – and his works place the audience squarely in the perspective of the intimate voyeur. In his book Vermeer and the Delft School (2001), scholar Walter A. Liedtke describes Vermeer as “a perceptive invader of privacy.”
As the intimate voyeur, Benjamin acts as an observer of the unperceived, mundane,
NAGB x Tin Ferl: Open Call
Open Call: The Pink Guardian of Paradise Park
New Deadline: Jun 1, 2024
Are you ready to embark on a mission that challenges the status quo and sparks a wave of change? Tin Ferl—in collaboration with the NAGB, Sand Dollar, and New Providence Ecology Park—invites you to dive deep into the heart of artistic expression and environmental advocacy through our sculpture project.
THE MISSION:
We’re on a quest to revolutionize perceptions and ignite conversations about ocean plastics in The Bahamas. Do you feel any guilt when you throw away food packaging? Well, we do and we want to plant this
Environmental Force: On Abstraction and the Nature of Survival
Environmental Force: On abstraction and the nature of survival
Letitia Pratt, Associate Curator • Mar 27, 2024
“In the piece, environments overlap in energetic combustion: the blue of the sea, the white of the clouds, the green of the trees all bounce around and move through each other within the frame.”
"Environmental Force" (2005), Kendal Hanna, 47" x 35". The National Collection.
Between the years of 2004 and 2005, The Bahamas was hit by three devastating hurricanes: the subsequent destructions of the twin storms Frances and Jeanne in late 2004, and then almost a year later, Hurricane Wilma in 2005.
NAGB receives generous donation from Atlantis
National Exhibition Eleven Call for Works
National Exhibition 11
Call for Works
Deadline: Jul 4, 2024
