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.
The “Blank Canvas” Studio is graced tonight by the great Stan Burnside who joins the NAGB Executive Director, Amanda Coulson, in the studio to talk about his life journey in the arts.
NAGB Assistant Curator, Natalie Willis, sits in for Executive Director, Amanda Coulson, on tonight’s episode of Blank Canvas. This week, Willis speaks with artists who creatively contribute to relief efforts in Grand Bahama. She is joined by Chantal Bethel, a long-time fixture and advocate in the Grand Bahama art community, who has an exhibition and book launch that starts this Thursday at Hillside House.
Tonight’s “Blank Canvas” is all about the Central Bank of The Bahamas’ commitment time the arts.
On this tonight’s Blank Canvas, Amanda is joined in the studio by Bahamian artist, Kendra Frorup, a professor of Art & Design at the University of Tampa. Kendra’s focus is on the global conversation about connections and identity with a special interest in the Caribbean and Africa. She has exhibited her sculptures in the United States and in worldwide venues such as the Caribbean, France, Puerto Rico and Martinique, Ghetto Biennale, Haiti, UNESCO in Andorra, and The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas.
On this week’s show, Deime Ubani comes to speak about her own artistic practice (she currently has work at the Central Bank of The Bahamas’ Open category exhibitors) and also the importance of community and collectives working for the benefit of the people. She shares about different artist groups that she is a part of—including the SALUS Project and the Artist’s Circle—and her next group project “Black Out: Art in The Dark” at the Creative Center on the PopopStudio grounds.