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21 Artists Selected for the Eleventh National Exhibition at the NAGB
Maelynn Ford Appointed Executive Director of the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas
NAGB Opens The Lobby: A Satellite Space in Grand Bahama
NAGB Announces Two Compelling Exhibitions: A Celebration of Straw Craft and an Exploration of Ecohorror  
NAGB Receives $55K Donation for the National Collection
Interim Executive Director Departure
Director’s Note on the Passing of NAGB Chairperson Emerita, Dr Gail North-Saunders
The Graham Foundation Grant to Krista Thompson for “Antonius Roberts: Art, Ecology, and Sacred Space”
NAGB exhibition featured in ARTFORUM
Dawn Davies Book Donation
“Full Fathom Five” Mural Unveiled in North Eleuthera
NAGB Announces Departure of Chief Curator, Holly Bynoe
UB and NAGB formalise agreement for the arts
Tilting Axis 6 to be hosted by NAGB in 2020!
NAGB Responds to British Council Decision
The NAGB welcomes Eddie Chambers: Cultural critic and writer presents public lecture at the NAGB
Introducing Tilting Axis 2018 Curatorial Fellow, Natalie Willis
NAGB Welcomes New Team Members: The Institution as Expansive and Limitless
Amanda Coulson Named as Judge for the 2017 Jamaica Biennial
New rules eliminate hassle for artists exhibiting abroad
The NAGB moves full steam ahead: Three new team members come on board in time for upcoming exhibition

Museum News

Teachers at Work: Art Across Disciplines
95%: Jordanna Kelly and Jenna Chaplin’s NELEVEN Installation
Portfolio Workshop: Lessons from Neoclassicism, The Romantics, and Ourselves
21 Artists Selected for the Eleventh National Exhibition at the NAGB
Villa Doyle and Beyond: Expanding the NAGB’s Footprint
Sounding the Alarm: Tanicia Pratt’s Blow the Whistle
Maelynn Ford Appointed Executive Director of the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas
NAGB Opens The Lobby: A Satellite Space in Grand Bahama
NAGB Announces Two Compelling Exhibitions: A Celebration of Straw Craft and an Exploration of Ecohorror  
Executive Director Opportunity
The Nation/The Imaginary Reading List
Justin Benjamin Explores Interiority in Vantage
Environmental Force: On Abstraction and the Nature of Survival
NAGB Receives $55K Donation for the National Collection
National Exhibition Eleven Call for Works
Interim Executive Director Departure
Blank Canvas: Nov 22, 2023
Blank Canvas: Nov 15, 2023 “Re: IMAGE” & “Invisible Returns”
Blank Canvas: Nov 8, 2023 Transforming Spaces
Blank Canvas: Nov 1, 2023 FUZE Art Expo Recap
Blank Canvas: Oct 25, 2023 featuring Leslie Vanderpool, D Sean Nottage, Kyle Turnquest, John Cox & Averia Wright
NAGB presents “Re: IMAGE” Short Film Series
Blank Canvas: Oct 18, 2023 featuring Steven Schmid, John Cox, Averia Wright, and Letitia Pratt
Blank Canvas: August 23, 2023 featuring Zearier Munroe-Wilkinson, Nowé Harris-Smith, and Sann Sann Lam
Welcome to the Past, Present, and Future: A Caribbean Futurist Read of Antonius Roberts’ Mabrika
Director’s Note on the Passing of NAGB Chairperson Emerita, Dr Gail North-Saunders
Blank Canvas: June 28th, 2023 featuring KEEYA
Blank Canvas: June 21st, 2023 featuring Brigidy Bram co-directors and producers, Kareem Mortimer and Laura Gamse
Blank Canvas: May 24th, 2023 featuring Samantha Treco of CAB, DAF featured artist Matthew Rahming, and Romel Shearer of TERN
Antonius, AfriCOBRA, and the Aesthetics of a True-True Bahamian
Blank Canvas May 3rd, 2023 featuring NAGB’s Interim Executive Director Dr. Ian Bethell Bennet, Pat Rahming and Arien Rolle
Blank Canvas April 26th, 2023 featuring NAGB’s Interim Executive Director Dr. Ian Bethell Bennet, artist-architect James Rolle and Arien Rolle
Call for Summer Camp Teachers
Blank Canvas: April 19th, 2023 featuring Chantal E.Y. Bethel, Jo Morasco, and Laurie Tuchel
Blank Canvas: April 5th, 2023 featuring Zearier Munroe Wilkinson, Nowé Harris-Smith, and Richardo Barrett
Blank Canvas: March 22nd, 2023 featuring Zearier Munroe Wilkinson, Community Outreach Officer, and Reagan Farrington, Educational Assistant
Blank Canvas: March 1st, 2023 featuring John Cox and Lynn Parotti
Blank Canvas: February 22nd, 2023 featuring Vice President of the Museums Association of Caribbean (MAC) Nyasha Warren and Dean of Liberal and Fine Arts at the University of The Bahamas, Dr. Douglas Barkey
Blank Canvas: February 15th, 2023 featuring Interim Executive Director of The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, Dr. Ian Bethell Bennett
Blank Canvas: February 8th, 2023 featuring MAC Treasurer, Susan Garcia & Board Member, Katarina Jacobson along with Bahamian Conference Hosts, Ulrich Voges of Central Bank Art Gallery and Katrina Cartwright of the NAGB
Blank Canvas: February 1st, 2023 featuring Artist, Antonius Roberts and Curator, Dr. Krista Thompson
Blank Canvas: January 26th, 2023 featuring Jodi Minnis, Tern Gallery
Blank Canvas: January 11th, 2023 featuring Reagan Kemp and Marknesha Bastian from I.C.E. Bahamas
Blank Canvas: December 14th, 2022 featuring members of the TERN team – Lauren Perez and Romel Shearer, and artists Florence St. George and Freya Bramble-Carter
Blank Canvas: December 7th, 2022 featuring female Bahamian recording artist and child protection activist, Ternielle “TaDa” Burrows
2023 MAC Conference “Power of Museums: Relevancy, Advocacy, Transformation”
Blank Canvas: November 23rd, 2022 featuring TERN (Jodi Minnis, Gallery Manager), The Current at Bahamar (Averia Wright, Curator and John Cox, Creative Director) and mixed media artist Kachelle Knowles
Blank Canvas: November 16th, 2022 featuring the new Inter-Island Traveling Exhibition (ITE), “Thirty: Island Perspectives” Curators
Blank Canvas: November 9th, 2022 featuring members of the TERN team – Amanda Coulson and Jodi Minnis—and artist Melissa Alcena, Bahamian documentarian and fine art photographer
Blank Canvas: October 26th, 2022 featuring NE10 artists Samantha Treco, Studio and Gallery Manager at CAB and Jodi Minnis, Gallery Manager at TERN
Blank Canvas: October 19th, 2022 featuring John Cox and Averia Wright from The Current at Bahamar team, Richardo Barrett from the NAGB, and “Beguile”artists DeDe Brown and Kachelle Knowles
19 Years of Bold, Biggity, Bahamian Art: Where Do We Go From Here?
Blank Canvas: October 12th, 2022 featuring Moya Thompson and Abby Smith from The Department of Cultural Affairs at The Ministry of Youth Sports and Culture
Blank Canvas: September 28th, 2022 featuring MAC President Joanne Hyppolite and Vice President Nyasha Warren
Blank Canvas: September 21st, 2022 featuring Averia Wright, Sue-Katz and Dylan Rapillard from “Fowl Play” at The Current at Baha Mar
Blank Canvas: September 14th, 2022 featuring NE:TEN “Mercy” artists Sonia Farmer and Yasmin Glinton Poitier and curator John Cox
Blank Canvas: August 24th, 2022 featuring artists Amaani Hepburn and Matthew Rahming from TERN’s “FIVE”
Blank Canvas: July 13th, 2022 featuring Bodine Victoria
Blank Canvas: June 29th, 2022 with Guest host Katrina Cartwright, NAGB Education and Outreach Manager, featuring Sann Sann Lam, Exuma Arts Network founder and colleagues Blake Fox (Education Officer) and Zearier Wilkinson (Community Outreach Officer)
Blank Canvas: June 15th, 2022 featuring BahaMian Trae
Blank Canvas: June 8th, 2022 featuring Dyah Neilson and Shacqeel Coleby of The D’Aguilar Art Foundation’s, “Salt & Earth”
Blank Canvas: June 1st, 2022 featuring Sonovia Pierre of the Department of Culture and Amard Rolle of the NAGB
The Graham Foundation Grant to Krista Thompson for “Antonius Roberts: Art, Ecology, and Sacred Space”
Blank Canvas: May 25th, 2022 featuring Tierra Ndlovu, Zearier Wilkinson and Amard Rolle
Blank Canvas: May 18th, 2022 featuring Cultural Icon, Timmay
Blank Canvas: May 11th, 2022 featuring Artists, Richardo Barrett, Averia Wright and Christina Wong, Curator of “11 Strong”
NAGB exhibition featured in ARTFORUM
Blank Canvas: March 23rd, 2022 featuring Artist, Kendra Frorup and Averia Wright, Curator, of “The Whimsical Collector”
Blank Canvas: March 17th, 2022 featuring John Cox , Curator of the NE10 Exhibition “Mercy”
Blank Canvas: March 9th, 2022 featuring Kachelle Knowles, Christina Wong and John Cox
Blank Canvas: March 2nd, 2022 featuring Sann Sann Lam and Zearier Wilkinson
Blank Canvas: February 23rd, 2022 featuring Travis Miller
Blank Canvas: February 16th, 2022 featuring Dawn Davies
Collecting Plates Project
Dawn Davies Book Donation
Blank Canvas: January 19th, 2022 featuring Antonius Roberts
Blank Canvas: January 12th, 2022 featuring Tiera Ndlovu
Blank Canvas: December 22nd, 2021 featuring artists Elkino Dames and Sofia Whitehead
Blank Canvas: December 15th, 2021 featuring artists Dr Ian Bethell Bennett, Errol Brewster, Averia Wright and Kachelle Knowles
Blank Canvas: December 8th, 2021 featuring John Beadle
Blank Canvas: December 1st, 2021 featuring artists from “The Evolution of The Arc”
Blank Canvas: November 24th, 2021 featuring Allan Jones, Dorlan Curtis and Caroline Anderson
‘Evolution of the Arc’
A Repository of Memories
Blank Canvas: November 17th, 2021 featuring Rhojai Burrows, Apryl Burrows and Kathy Hamilton
Blank Canvas: October 27th, 2021 featuring Deime Ubani of The Salus Project and “The Evolution of the Arc” Judges
Blank Canvas: October 20th, 2021 with Guest Host Katrina Cartwright featuring Ulrich Voges and Ruthjeana Johnson
Blank Canvas: October 13th, 2021 featuring Melissa Alcena, Tamika Galanis and Rodell Warner
Blank Canvas: October 6th, 2021 featuring Keisha Oliver
Blank Canvas: September 29th, 2021 featuring Marielle Barrow and Sonia Farmer
Blank Canvas: September 22nd, 2021 featuring Guest Host Katrina Cartwright and Blake Fox
Blank Canvas: September 8th, 2021 featuring Jodi Minnis and Tiffany Smith
Blank Canvas: August 25th, 2021 featuring Leanne Russell and Lynn Parotti
Blank Canvas: August 18th, 2021 featuring Bahamian filmmaker Kareem Mortimer and partner Julia Chatwin
Blank Canvas: August 11th, 2021 featuring guest host John Cox and Amanda Coulson
Blank Canvas: August 4th, 2021 featuring Katrina Cartwright and Exuma Arts Network Founder, Sann Sann Lam
Blank Canvas: July 28th, 2021 featuring Giovanna Swaby
Blank Canvas: July 21st, 2021 featuring Sound Waves Founder Tim Daniels and Exhibiting Artists
Blank Canvas: July 14th, 2021 featuring Ashley Cooper, June Collie and Jason Evans
Blank Canvas: July 7th, 2021 featuring Dominique Knowles and Heino Schmid
Blank Canvas: June 30th, 2021 featuring Averia Wright and Navarro Newton
Blank Canvas: June 22nd, 2021 featuring Education and Outreach Department
MMASC returns with “Jammin Visuals”
“Full Fathom Five” Mural Unveiled in North Eleuthera
Blank Canvas: June 16th, 2021 featuring Denzel Lightbourn and Deime Ubani
Blank Canvas: June 9th, 2021 featuring Tessa Whitehead and Leasho Johnson
Blank Canvas: June 2nd, 2021 featuring Pam Burnside, Nadine Ramphal and Sosefina Christie
Blank Canvas: May 26th, 2021 featuring Curators Natalie Willis, Richardo Barrett and artist Benjamin Ferguson
Blank Canvas: May 19th, 2021 featuring Floating Rib artists Kendra Frorup, Averia Wright and Jodi Minnis
Blank Canvas: May 12th, 2021 featuring Curator Natalie Willis, Floating Rib artists Margot Bethel and Khia Poitier
Blank Canvas: April 28th, 2021 featuring Anina Major and Tamika Galanis
Blank Canvas: April 21st, 2021 featuring April Bey, Margot Bethel and Tiffany Smith
Blank Canvas: April 14th, 2021 featuring Curator Natalie Willis
Blank Canvas: April 7th, 2021 featuring Lynn Parotti, Alison Thompson and Tatina Flores
Blank Canvas: March 31st, 2021 featuring Matthew Wildgoose and Brian Maycock
Blank Canvas: March 24th, 2021 featuring Kaché Knowles of iisabahamianbey
Blank Canvas: March 10th, 2021 featuring Central Bank Art Competition Open Category Prize Winners
Blank Canvas: March 3rd, 2021 featuring Rodell Warner
Blank Canvas: February 24th, 2021 featuring Kishan Munroe
Blank Canvas: February 17th, 2021 featuring Curators Bettina Pérez Martínez and Simone Cambridge with special guests artists Edrin Symonette and Nadia Huggins
Blank Canvas: February 10th, 2021 featuring Jodi Minnis and Kendra Frorup
Blank Canvas: February 3rd, 2021 featuring Jeffrey Meris
Blank Canvas: April 15th, 2020 – featuring George and John Cox
Blank Canvas: April 1st, 2020 featuring Larry Ossel-Mensah
Blank Canvas: March 25th, 2020 (featuring Kristin and Dede Brown)
Everybody and Dey Grammy
So Close Yet So Far
Blank Canvas: March 18th, 2020, ITE North Eleuthera
Blank Canvas: March 11th, 2020, Grand Bahamian “Refuge” Artists
Blank Canvas: March 4th, 2020, Transforming Spaces
Blank Canvas: February 26th, 2020, Christina Wong, Cydney Coleby and Heino Schmid
Blank Canvas: February 19th, 2020, Romel Shearer, Zearier Munroe and Jevon Thompson
Blank Canvas: February 12th, 2020, Bahamas Junkanoo Art & Music Festival
Max and Amos: Enchantment and Magical Realism in Service to Freedom
Blank Canvas: February 5th, 2020, Tamika Galanis
Blank Canvas: January 29th, 2020, Sonia Farmer and Orchid Burnside
Blank Canvas: January 22nd, 2020, Jodi Minnis, Nowe Harris-Smith and Spurgeonique Morley
Blank Canvas: January 15th, 2020, Lemero Wright, Jenna Chaplin and Dyah Neilson
Blank Canvas: January 8th, 2020, Leanne Russell
Blank Canvas: December 18th, 2019, Ritchie Eyma, Roshanne Minnis Eyma, Yutavia George and Matthew Rahming
Blank Canvas: December 11th, 2019, Arnold J. Kemp
Blank Canvas: December 4th, 2019, Amard Rolle and Blake Fox
Blank Canvas: November 27th, 2019, ITE Long Island
Blank Canvas: November 20th, 2019, Stan Burnside
Blank Canvas: November 13th, 2019, Angelika Wallace-Whitfield, Chantal Bethel and Jodi Minnis
“To Throw Rocks” Exhibition Opening at UB
Blank Canvas: November 6th, 2019, Central Bank of The Bahamas High School Art Competition
Blank Canvas: October 30th, 2019, Kendra Frorup
Blank Canvas: October 23rd, 2019, Deime Ubani
The Straw Paradox
I’s Man: Ian Strachan’s documentary on masculinity in The Bahamas captures the polemics of today’s ‘Man Crisis’. 
The Sea as Life: Cargo and VLOSA
Peggy Hering’s “Lilies” (1984): On Being Both Student and Teacher
From the Collection: “Solomon” (2000) by Stan Burnside
Blank Canvas: October 16th, 2019, Create Space reair
Blank Canvas: October 9th, 2019, Lynn Parotti
Blank Canvas: October 2nd, 2019, Max Taylor
Adaptability & Draughts(woman)ship: Kachelle Knowles Builds a Practice of Representation That Takes Action
Create Space: Art as Therapy
Open Call for “Refuge”: The NAGB stages a call for artwork as we recover, rebuild and restore the nation’s spirit.  
Hope Is All Around Us
Open Call for Works for “Refuge”
Blank Canvas: September 25th, 2019, Create Space
Traditional Knowledge Living in the Tropics: Respecting Lifeways
From the Collection​: “North Star” (2007-8) by Heino Schmid
Blank Canvas: September 18th, 2019, Kachelle Knowles and Richardo Barrett
We Live at the Undersides
Climate Refugees: On Becoming Climate Refugees or Building Back Differently
Blank Canvas: September 11th, 2019, The Brenton Story
Blank Canvas: September 4th, 2019, Small Axe reair
“Duran Duran”: Exploring Themes of Longevity and Survival in Kendra Frorup’s Work
Blank Canvas: August 28th, 2019, Dyah Nielson and Jonnique Beadle
From the Collection: John Paul Saddleton’s “West Hill Hidden Garden”
From the Collection: “The Deanery” (1979) by Alton Lowe
Epistemic and Cultural Violence: Powercutting as Light
Blank Canvas: August 14th 2019, Kim Smith and Andrew Ash
Summer Camp ends on a festive note: MMASC Exhibition and Awards Ceremony held at the NAGB
The Visual Life Of Social Affliction: Structures of Violence in the Caribbean
From the Collection: “Poor Man’s Orchid” (1989) by Sue Bennett-Williams
Blank Canvas: August 7th, 2019, Walteria Tucker-Rolle, Heino Schmid and Keisha Oliver
Finding Our Voices: Resisting Violence and Oppression
From the Collection: Jolyon Smith’s “Transformation” (1987) and imagining Black Bahamian futures
Blank Canvas: July 31st, 2019, Women’s Wednesdays
NAGB Announces Departure of Chief Curator, Holly Bynoe
Designing for Space: Working with Possible Futures in Mind
The Blank Canvas: July 24th, 2019, Mixed Media Art Summer Camp
From the Collection: “Untitled (Rake Bird)” by Tyrone Ferguson
The Blank Canvas: July 17th, 2019, WE Collective
From the Collection: Chelsea Pottery “A Brief Bahamian History of Clay”
Timelines: Developing Blackness
The Blank Canvas: July 3rd, 2019, John Paul Saddleton and June Collie
Demure Facade, Colourful History: Sterling Miller’s “Villa Doyle” (ca. 1969)
The NAGB “Parades through the Caribbean”
The Blank Canvas: June 26th, 2019, Jarrette Stubbs, Blake Fox and Ulrich Voges
There are several ways of finding yourself: Reporting from Tilting Axis 5
Unplugged Sessions at Fiona’s Theatre
Blank Canvas: June 19th, 2019, Vizcaya Museum and Gardens
Check Yourself: Thinking About Stereotypes and Chan Pratt’s Sincerity in Painting Over-the-Hill
“Wellington Street Dwelling”: Exploring the Bahamian Vernacular
UB and NAGB formalise agreement for the arts
Blank Canvas: June 12th, 2019, Richardo Barrett
Tilting Axis 6 to be hosted by NAGB in 2020!
Blank Canvas: May 29th, 2019, Rowena Poitier-Sutherland
Dialect and Diaspora: The Intuitive Art of Joseph “Joe Monks” Weaver
The Blank Canvas: May 22nd with Anthony “Big Mo” Morely
A Choice Landscape: The Early Work of the Late Chan Pratt and How Art Practice Gets Shaped by the Environment
Beauty and Loss in Tessa Whitehead and Chan Pratt’s Work: A Death Foretold, yet Not Dying
Blank Canvas: May 15th, 2019, The Current at Bahamar
From the Collection: “Ain’t I A Good Mother?”
Reconnecting to the Divine Feminine
Blank Canvas: May 8th, 2019, Diana Nawi
Of Beauty, Community, and Healing
The NAGB presents two breathtaking exhibitions: Chan Pratt and Tessa Whitehead shine a light on the landscape and personal stories.
The Blank Canvas: May 1st with Tessa Whitehead
Chan Pratt’s Work Speaks to the Urbanisation of the Bahamian Landscape
From the Collection: Rembrandt Taylor’s Madonna and Child
Blank Canvas: April 24, 2019, Lillian Blades
Blank Canvas: April 17th, 2019, Popeyes and Matthew Rahming
The Role of the Arts in Addressing Climate Change
“Rafiki– more than just friends” Honouring and fighting for love.
Blank Canvas: April 10th, 2019, Larry Ossei-Mensah
The Black Woman Body Paradox
Sitting Pretty Political: Amos Ferguson and the Reclining Women of Art History
NAGB Travel Grant in collaboration with Tilting Axis 5
The Blank Canvas: April 3rd with Saskia D’Aguilar and Alex Timchula
Saucy Expressions presents ‘Riddim n Tingum’ for the National Exhibition 9
The NAGB takes the ITE to Grand Bahama
Blank Canvas: March 27th, 2019, Allan Jones
Considering culture: More than a smile
Talking to the Dead: Tamika Galanis’ repatriates materials from the Alan Lomax archive and brings them home.
Blank Canvas: March 20, 2019, Dr. Amatoritsero Ede, Shivanee Ramlochan and Sonia Farmer
The God Self: Lessons on Self-Love from Emerging Artist Cydne Coleby
Tender Seedlings: Anina and A.L. Major Reflect on Pain and Love in the Bahamian Diaspora
Blank Canvas: March 13th, 2019, Jalan Harris and Kendra Frorup
Something About Failure: Tessa Whitehead’s intimate questioning on success, failure, and what makes art work.
Blank Canvas: March 6th, 2019, Eric Rose, Danny Davies and Jenna Chaplin
The Beauty and Charm of Colonialism: April Bey’s “Power Girl” Series
Push Out: Jodi Minnis and Ian Bethell-Bennett Investigate the Mythologies and Futures of Gentrification in Over-the-Hill
The Blank Canvas: February 27th, 2019: Seph Rodney
Mhudda: Jackson Burnside’s socially aware look at the struggles of the Bahamian “everyday”
Leaning on your community to create: Natascha Vazquez speaks on her first time National Exhibition
Blank Canvas: February 20th, 2019, Bahamas Junkanoo Art and Music Festival and “The Coloured Museum”
The National Exhibition 9 (NE)9) – An Opportunity for Reflection Part 2
The National Exhibition 9 (NE)9) – An Opportunity for Reflection Part 1
When We Are Like the Trees
Blank Canvas: February 13th, 2019, Cydne Coleby and Letitia Pratt
The Island Repeated: Toni Alexia Roach’s Patterned Approach to Confronting the Past
Blank Canvas: February 6th, 2019, Jalan Harris and Kendra Frorup
A Botanical of Grief: Yasmin Glinton and Charlotte Henay Connect with Ancestors’ Voices and Put Mother Tongue to Poetry
To Heal We Must Remember: Katrina Cartwright’s power figure uproots the past
Blank Canvas: January 30th, 2019, DC Pratt and the Island House Film Festival
The Grave Silence: Sonia Farmer and Shivanee Ramlochan give voice to victims of rape in The Caribbean
Under Attack: Averia Wright’s Elevating the Blue Light Special and the Dualities of Bahamian Identity
A Garden: Letitia Pratt Creates New Folklore in Response to Biblical Patriarchal Storytelling
Blank Canvas: January 23rd, 2019, Amaani Hepburn, Dwynette Rolle and Jarette Stubbs
“Water: The giver and the taker of life”: Edrin Symonette’s “Salt of the Earth”
Painting to heal: Artist Gabrielle Banks lays bare the burdens of her troubled past in NE9 submission
Strange Fruit: Kendra Frorup’s poignant banana plumes in “Inflorescence/Influence” for the NE9
Vulnerable ecologies: This Woman’s Work
Blank Canvas: January 16th, 2019, Charlotte Henay and Sonia Farmer
The Weight We Bear: Heino Schmid’s monumental drawings for the NE9
MasC Off: NE9 brings artists of different disciplines together to challenge social binary views on gender.
Blank Canvas: January 9, 2019, Anina Banks and Natascha Vazquez
Dave Smith “Violence, the beauty of paradise”: The art of capturing the lingering impact
“I ga’ gee’ you what you lookin’ for!”: Tamika Galanis gets to the heart of the Caribbean’s history of “looking”
Blank Canvas: January 2, 2019, Carlos Bain and Jay Koment
Utopian Ecologies: Alex Timchula’s microcosmic garden sculpture for the NE9
Speaking to views and gazes in the work of Eric Rose: Education, Space and Knowing your Place
Returning the Gaze: Melissa Alcena’s work for the NE9 seeks to challenge the gaze on the Black Bahamian body
Seeing the God in me: Jalan Harris’s “Self-Pollinate” and Cydne Coleby’s “A God Called Self” works
Field Notes on Planting Seeds in Uprooted Gardens
Everybody is hoping for something
NE9 Talks and Thoughts: Artists share their thoughts on the NE9
Blank Canvas: December 19, 2018, NE9 Artists
NAGB opens National Exhibition 9 (NE9) to wild acclaim
Blank Canvas: December 12, 2018, NE9 Artists
A Night in Pictures and Sound: Cultural Heritage Month Kicks Off at the NAGB
Danny Davis brings a colonial interpretation to NE9’s “The Fruit and The Seed.”
Blank Canvas: December 5, 2018, Abby Smith and Matthew Rahming
Denis Knight: An Incredible Journey (1926-2018)
Big Yard, Big Heart, Big Art: The NAGB Inter-Island Traveling Exhibition in North and Central Andros!
Blank Canvas: November 28, 2018, Max Taylor
The NAGB brings variety to the holidays: The holidays are for friends, family and art!
The Life and Death of Street Trees: Jenna Chaplin’s call to attention for the importance of street trees for the upcoming NE9
Blank Canvas: November 21, 2018, Jodi Minnis and Angelika Wallace-Whitfield
Art of The Bahamas: An era of negotiating self-definition
Blank Canvas: November 14, 2018, Richardo Barrett and Natalie Willis
Whimsical Bahamian Teapots: Book Launch & Exhibit for Jessica Colebrooke
Reporting from the 2018 Creative Time Summit screening at the NAGB: Showing up for our Future
The Architecture of Loss: Memorials, Memento Mori, and the Man from Milton Street
Blank Canvas: November 7, 2018, Jessica Colebrooke and Chantal Bethel
The long eye of culture.: A mash up, a hybrid
Making the connection: In conversation with Sasha Dees about her time of travel and research across the Caribbean
From the Collection: “The Bussett and the Monkey” (1991) by Amos Ferguson
Blank Canvas: October 31, 2018, Travolta Cooper
The Case for Lavar Munroe: The Son of Soil
Prominent International Conference Screening at the NAGB
Blank Canvas: October 24, 2018, Sasha Dees
“The Story of “ETA”: Blue/Green Ragged Island” Ideation in Art and Design
Murky Histories and Futures: “Digging Upward in the Sand” (2018) by Plastico Fantastico
Participating artists announced for National Exhibition 9
Friday Night Live! Scares at the NAGB: The NAGB hosts a special Night at the Museum
Blank Canvas: October 17, 2018, Janice Hall and Jarette Stubbs
Potcake Adopt-a-thon and Workshop at the NAGB
NAGB’s free Film Series returns: An interview with Travolta Cooper
Blank Canvas: October 10, 2018, Fusion Superplex
UBS Donates a National Treasure: The NAGB and the Bahamian people inherit a Malone masterpiece
Strange Darknesses: Lavar Munroe’s sinister fantasy creatures in the “specimens” series.
Blank Canvas: October 3, 2018, “POTCAKE” artists and Kim Aranha
The NAGB’s Film Series Returns
The Future of Democracy: Growing participation and engagement to shift thinking
“Who the Hell Do I Think I Am?” (2012) by Margot Bethel
Blank Canvas: September 26, 2018, E. Clement Bethel National Arts Festival
Painting a Park Anew
“Burma Road” (c2008) by Maxwell Taylor
The Aesthetics of Debt: Double Consciousness and Vision in the age new a new modernity
Blank Canvas: September 19, 2018, Dwight Laadan Ferguson and “The Future of Democracy”
Blank Canvas: August 12, 2018, Lavar Munroe
Lavar Munroe’s “Son of the Soil” and Potcake Exhibitions opens at the NAGB.
The art of connectivity: Sinking our roots further down.
From the Collection: “Cycle of Abuse” (2017) by Sonia Farmer
Blank Canvas: September 5, 2018, Expo2020 UB
The Art of Living in the Tropics, Part Three: Silence
Teachers’ Seminar at the NAGB jump-starts the new school year
From the Collection: “Untitled (Boat Scene)” (c.1920) by James “Doc” Sands
Blank Canvas: August 29, 2018, ALIV and EXPO 2020
NAGB Summer Camp comes to a close: Campers proudly show their work at the MMASC exhibition
“When The Lionfish Came”: Tamika Galanis chimes in for the people of the reef in dangerously rising tides.
Double Dutch “Hot Water” Opens!: Climate change, Ragged Island and vulnerable ecologies explored.
Bahamian Arts and Culture: The Fruit and the Seed Part 2
Blank Canvas: August 22, 2018, Plastico Fantastico
The Provocative: Drew Weech plays with the history of the nude in Western Art
Sinking: Field Notes on Loss and Belonging
National Exhibition 9 Deadline Extended till August 26th: Jurors and collaborations announced
Blank Canvas: August 15, 2018, Michael Edwards and Dr. Ian Bethell-Bennett
Remedies for Remembering: Darchell Henderson’s new mural on Hospital Lane reminds us of our histories of healing.
Friday Night Live draws great crowd in spite of the rain: Jazzing up the summer!
Boiling: Field Notes on Loss and Belonging
Blank Canvas: August 8, 2018, Mixed Media Art Summer Camp in Review
The art of living in the tropics. Part II: Hand come, hand go
Rebirth: Field Notes on Loss and Belonging
Blank Canvas: August 1, 2018, Tilting Axis
The NAGB wins awards for exhibition catalogues: Pushing design forward
A De-colonial Soundclash: The cacophonous chorus of the post-colony marks the end of “We Suffer To Remain”
The Fruit and the Seed – Part One: A conversation with the NAGB’s chief curator, Holly Bynoe, on the upcoming 9th National Exhibition.
Blank Canvas: July 25th, 2018, Sonia Farmer, Jason Evans and Yasmin Glinton
The art of living in the tropics: An art of survival?
NE9 open to musicians, spoken word artists, poets, writers and performance artists
Aftermath: Field Notes on Loss and Belonging
The Wisdom of Amos Ferguson: Reflections on the NAGB’s “Hard Mouth: From the Tongue of the Ocean”
Art Centering Woman: HARD MOUT GYAL, GOT A TONGUE LIKE THE OCEAN
Blank Canvas: July 11, 2018, Robin Hardy
National Exhibition 9: “The Fruit & the Seed” Call for Works
A Body Of My Own: Anina Major reclaims the body
NAGB hosts Open Community Forum: Making room for conversation and inquiry
Blank Canvas: July 4, 2018, Scharad Lightbourne and John Cox
On Our Memorial Gaps: Review of new exhibition, “Hard Mouth: From the Tongue of the Ocean,”
Africa, Agency, and Atom Spirits: Does the body remember the journey across the Atlantic?
NAGB Responds to British Council Decision
Blank Canvas: June 27, 2018, Delton Barrett and Sofia Whitehead
The Problems of Paradise: Thoughts on the NAGB’s Traversing the Picturesque
Mixed Media Summer Camp Spotlight: On Sharvez Woodside
CATALYST: Harmonising Actions and Trust Building in the Caribbean Creative Ecology
Blank Canvas: June 20, 2018, Eddie Chambers
Tilting Axis Curatorial Fellowship 2018: Bahamian, Natalie Willis, awarded!
Are We One With Nature? G. Paul Dorfmuller’s Nassau Corner
The NAGB welcomes Eddie Chambers: Cultural critic and writer presents public lecture at the NAGB
Blank Canvas: June 13, 2018, Nicole Yip
The Moving Image: The First Turn of the Revolution
Indigenous art takes the lead at the Mixed Media Art Summer Camp
Tall Order: An interview with Nicole Yip of LUX Scotland on meaningful exchange and working to decolonize the archive
Troubling Narratives: This is how we suffer to remain
Blank Canvas: June 6, 2018, Comm-Ed
Introducing Tilting Axis 2018 Curatorial Fellow, Natalie Willis
Blank Canvas: May 30, 2018, Jalan Harris and Furniture Plus
Blank Canvas: May 23, 2018, The Current Artists-in-Residence
Partnerships Present Opportunities for NAGB: NAGB is reaching beyond New Providence to Support Family Island Schools
From the Collection: “Crawfish Lady” (c2000) by Wellington Bridgewater
Sorry for What: I am not the sugar in your cup of tea
Blank Canvas: May 16, 2018, Netica Symonette and Angelika Wallace-Whitfield
“West Street” by Hildegarde Hamilton
NAGB’s Mural Programme
: Eleuthera: “Freedom” of Creative Expression
Eye on The Bahamas
Blank Canvas: May 9th, 2018, Mark Aronson
Care in the Craft: “Young Children” (nd) by Frank Otis Small
It’s not just black and white: It is also colour, light, shift and feeling
Friday Night Live! Review: Art and entertainment collide to create a special night
Blank Canvas: May 2nd, 2018, “We Suffer to Remain” Bahamian Artists
Traversing the Picturesque: A thought
The NAGB’s second travelling exhibition closes in Eleuthera
My Mouth is a Heartbreak: Anina Major’s “Wisdom Teeth” (2017)
Blank Canvas: April 25th, 2018, Steffon Grant
Open Call for Potcakes: Show us your potcakes!
 From the Collection: “East Street With Donkey and Cart” (1914) by E J Read
The Magic School Bus Initiative: The Central Bank partners with the NAGB to encourage school tours
Blank Canvas: April 18, 2018, Communication-Education
Potter’s Cay: Markets and the importance of public spaces
Over 800 Million Souls: An interview with Graham Fagen (Pt II) on his work in “We Suffer To Remain”
Fiona’s Theatre Opens: A moment of remembrance, celebration and love
MMSAC 2018 goes “Back to da Island”: The NAGB opens early registration for its annual summer camp
Reflecting on the life a gentle giant: George Cox, Pioneer and Visionary
Other Tongues: An interview with Graham Fagen (Pt I) on Scottish cultural amnesia and gazing into the mouth of silenced histories.
Blank Canvas: April 11, 2018, Annalee Davis and Gemma Hollington
Blank Canvas: March 28th, 2018, The Current at Baha Mar
Locked in our Bodies: A resurrection of voices
Beadle, the Mechanic: An Interview with John Beadle on his work for “We Suffer To Remain”, part II
Blank Canvas: March 21st, 2018 with Graham Fagen
“Who do we speak for?” An interview with John Beadle for the upcoming exhibition “We Suffer To Remain”
“Traversing the Picturesque: For Sentimental Value” – The Colonial Gaze
Blank Canvas: March 14th, 2018, Camilo Alvarez
Celebrating Bahamian Art: The Elliott Museum Exhibition Wrap Up
Vision, Materiality and Creativity: A pathway to innovation and development?
Time Travel and Building Bridges in “A True & Exact History”: An interview with Sonia Farmer, Pt II
Blank Canvas: March 7th, 2018, Transforming Spaces
Speaking of culture: Thinking about change
What Makes “A True & Exact History”?: An Interview with Sonia Farmer on her work for the upcoming exhibition “We Suffer To Remain”.
“TRANS: A Migration of Identity”: The National Collection Travels to Eleuthera.
Blank Canvas: February 28th, 2018, Team NAGB
“To Have and Not To Own”: An Interview with Anina Major (Part II) on bodies and history
Blank Canvas: February 21st, 2018, Steve Shane
Mural Walk & Talk: Introducing works from the National Collection in a whole new way
Lamenting Slavery: Unearthing our history through art.
Movements and Memory: An interview with Anina Major on art practice and the hauntings of history.
A Walk with Nettie: Communing with art, nature and culture
“Defender of the Faith”: Rembrandt Taylor’s Dragon-slayer.
Blank Canvas: February 7th, 2018, “Tamarind Journal”
“Prayer in a Dark Place” (2013) by Jace McKinney: Hope in spite of sinking feelings
William Sweeting’s “Two Natives at the Gate” (1971): As seen by our youth.
Blank Canvas: January 31st, 2018, Tru-Tru Bahamian Festival
From the Collection: “Untitled (Balcony House on Market Street)” (ca 1920) by James Osborne “Doc” Sands
The NAGB hosts Portfolio Workshop for Teens: Workshop gives students a memorable experience
Blank Canvas: January 24th, 2018, Tamika Galanis
This has all been said before: Art, Racism and the words of representation
NAGB hosts Portfolio Workshop for Teens
Open call for works featuring your Potcakes
Gaia Reimagined: “Mother Earth” (1992) by Clive Stuart
Blank Canvas: January 17th, 2018, DC Pratt
“That Vodou that who do?”: Ancestry, heritage, memory, and light in the work of Eric Jean-Louis.
Majority rule: A snapshot of our identity.
The Power of Imprisonment through language: The Eye for the Tropics and Majority rule in 2018 Bahamas
In Memoriam: Deon Dario McHardy aka Slime (1976-2017). The Bahamas loses another artistic talent.
Blank Canvas: January 3rd, 2018, Wendy Coakley-Thompson
Blank Canvas: December 27th, 2017, Bill Strickland
Blank Canvas: December 20th, 2017, ALIV and the University of The Bahamas
Spirituality without religion and religion without spirituality? The magic meeting of both
The NAGB celebrates an unforgettable night: Spirituality fills the air with hope.
Amos Ferguson’s “Jesus and the Good Semeriton” (nd): The Colour of God and Histories of Faith
Blank Canvas: December 13th, 2017, Jace McKinney and Steven Schmid
A Glitch in Time: Who’s in for the Saving?
Angelic Remembrance: Antonius Roberts’ memorialises women of faith
Interview with “Medium” artist Jace McKinney: McKinney shares insights into his practice
Blank Canvas: December 6th, 2017, Michael Edwards and Dr. Ian Bethell-Bennett
Prospect New Orleans Art Triennale: Bahamian and Caribbean artists celebrated
The NAGB Takes a New Look at Membership
Sitting with the Dead: “Medium,” a show of Bahamian Religion and Spirituality
Blank Canvas: November 29th, 2017, Lauren Holowesko and Natascha Vasquez
Seeking Divine Creativity: Allan Wallace’s new works revisits his religious upbringing
Golden Touch and Go: Jace McKinney’s imagines golden kings and living dangerously in “Trumped” (2013)
Unpacking Identity with Joiri Minaya
Blank Canvas: November 22nd, 2017, Pierre Richard Parsien, Pam Burnside and Holly Bynoe
Building empathy through culture: Taking a seat at your table
Blank Canvas: November 15th, 2017, Pro Gallery Celebration
Two Arts Professionals: One Mission
Creative Youth: Reevaluating our values and the work of young people.
The MAX/AMOS Exhibition: Last Stop, Exuma
From the Collection: “A Distant View of Nassau” (c.1857-1904) by Jacob F. Coonley
From Nassau to Long Beach: Bahamian artists participate in “Relational Undercurrents” exhibition at Museum of Latin American Art.
Blank Canvas: November 8th, 2017, Marina Reyes Franco
Some (Re)assembly Required: Melissa Alcena’s takes a soft lens on Black masculinity
Blank Canvas: November 1st, 2017, Melissa Alcena
(Un)Monumental: How do we re-contextualise historic sculptures for contemporary life?
Blank Canvas: October 25th, 2017, David Gumbs
Fabric Printing Workshop brings crowd to NAGB: NAGB Kicks off Fall Programming
The Domestic Not-So-Tourist: Marina Reyes Franco visits The Bahamas as recipient of the CPPC Travel Award
Re-Encounter: Thoughts of a Mad Mind
Blank Canvas: October 18th, 2017, Averia Wright and Spurgeonique Morley
The Nature of Art: In proverbial bloom
Re-encountering Identity: The newest Double Dutch exhibition, “Re: Encounter”
Searching for Empathy: Revaluing self in relation to others
Blank Canvas: October 11, 2017, DeDe Brown and Joiri Minaya
Cultivating the Local: In the wake of change
From the Collection: Maxwell Taylor’s “The Immigrants No.3” (c1990)
Mural Project Transforms Exuma International Airport
Blank Canvas: October 4, 2017, Kareem Mortimer
Boundaries, Borders and Brotherhood: “Proxemics: Personal Space/Commanding Stance” (2015) by John Beadle
In the wake of storms:  Moving forward as a nation displaced
Blank Canvas: September 27, 2017, The “Tingum Collective”
From the Collection: “Metamorphosis” (1979) by R Brent Malone
If an entire population moves, is it still a nation?: Post-Irma and Post-Colonial devastation
The Clapboard House: A Disappearing Relic within The Bahamian Landscape
Blank Canvas: September 20, 2017, Michael Edwards, Patricia Glinton-Meicholas and Dr. Ian Bethell-Bennett
The Art of Survival: Rebuilding for the future
Internationalising The Bahamas and its Orange Economy: Creating industries for the 21st Century
We Lost Two Cultures That Day: Hurricane Irma and the Loss of Cultural Material
Living in the Shadows of Empire: territories of dark and light
Max/Amos Bids Farewell in Exuma: The masters take a bow
Blank Canvas: August 30, 2017, Sofia Whitehead, Melissa Alcena and Tessa Whitehead
From the Collection: “Woman With Flamingoes” (1996-97) by R. Brent Malone
The Culture of Space: Places for Art
Blank Canvas: August 23, 2017, Lavar Munroe
Generational Inheritance: Art institutions shape family and community and nation
Reporting from Sonia Farmer’s Infidelities Book Launch
From the Collection: “On the Way to Market” (ca. 1877-78) by Jacob F. Coonley
Blank Canvas: August 16, 2017, Mixed Media Summer Art Camp Recap
What’s in the frame: Tourism, art, installation and rebuilding the old whore of a body
From The Collection. “Bay Street on Fire” (2002) by Blue Curry
If an entire population moves, is it still a nation?: The consequences of censoring self.
Blank Canvas, August 9th, 2017, Alistair Stevenson
Studio Visit: Robin Hardy “Turning and Refining Salvaged Wood”
Mixed Media Summer Art Campers Shine at August Opening: The Joy of Fostering Creativity
The Blank Canvas: August 2nd, 2017, with John Cox and Natascha Vazquez from The Current at Baha Mar
Gendered norms and deconstruction: The body, the image and the ability to speak out for self.
Reporting From Rome: The Care in Curating
Studio Visit: Jessica Colebrooke “Crafting a Sustainable Future for Ceramics”
The Blank Canvas: July 26th, 2017 featuring Da Spot 242
Gender and the Dream: Confronting Stereotypes in Black masculinity.
From the Collection: “Let Us Prey” (1984-86) by Dave Smith
Studio Visit: Lavar Munroe. Finding New Meaning to a Familiar Space
From the collection: “Built on Sand,” (2003) by Dionne Benjamin-Smith
Blank Canvas, July 19th, 2017, Leasho Johnson and Edrin Symonette
What’s On at the NAGB: Resuscitating the land, reclaiming lost spaces
Art Documenting History: Intersecting complex histories with art
From The Collection: Amos Ferguson’s “Junkanoo Cow Face”
From the Collection: ‘Bishops, bishops everywhere and not a drop to drink’ (2003) by Dionne Benjamin-Smith
Blank Canvas, July 5, 2017, “The Bahamian Project”
Mixed Media Summer Art Camp: Igniting creativity
World Oceans Day Mural: Protecting our seas and supporting public artworks
From the Collection: Lynn Parotti’s “The Blastocyst’s Ball: A Journey Through the Drug Induced stages of IVF”
The Mark of a Woman: Portraits of black womanhood in the work of Gabrielle Banks.
Blank Canvas, June 22, 2017, UB Art Graduates and Keisha Oliver
From the Collection: Michael Edwards’ “Untitled II”
Balancing Act: Heino Schmid’s “Temporary Horizon” (2010)
The Blank Canvas, June 14, 2017, Abby Smith and Jackson Petit
Losing our steps: Intangible culture, living memory and the space for a culture to exist
Lamare’s Frame Building Workshop brings a crowd: Hands on experience at the NAGB
From The Collection: “A Native Sugar Mill” (ca. 1901) by William Henry Jackson
The Blank Canvas, June 7th, 2017, Tyrone Ferguson
NAGB Mural Call: Tellin’ We Story
The Blank Canvas, May 31st, 2017, Ubersee with Holly Bynoe and Jeffrey Meris
From the Collection: Blue Curry’s Nassau From Above
Cultural development and investment: The recognition of our cultural heritage
From the Collection: Lavar Munroe’s “The Migrant”
Helen Klonaris’ If I Had the Wings Book Celebration and Launch
The Blank Canvas: May 24, 2017 talking Tilting Axis 3 with Heino Schmid and Tessa Whitehead
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Lavar Munroe deconstructs “The Arrival”
A Distant Bahamas: “Native Hut” (1915) by Hartwell Leon Woodcock
The NAGB’s Summer Camp Takes a Walk Through Time
The Blank Canvas: May 17, 2017 with Owen Bethel and Renaldo Geumm
Cultural Heritage & Erasure: “Protecting our inheritance and patrimony”
Ferguson’s Fantastic Dragon: Blending the imagination with the biblical
The NAGB’s Mixed Media Summer Art Camp gears up for an exciting summer
Beauty in Bain Town: How does Over-the-Hill fit into the Bahamian picturesque?
May’s Artwork of the Month: Antonius Roberts “Procession of Females in White Uniforms”
The Blank Canvas: May 3rd, 2017 with Trevor Schoonmaker
The Liberal: Thierry Lamare’s Sincerity in Rendering Bahamian Life
The Blank Canvas: April 24th, 2017, Thierry Lamare
April Artwork of the Month – Kendra Frorup’s ‘Domestic Chickens’
Creating Thinking Spaces: Opportunity to think, opportunity to build, opportunity to grow.
The Blank Canvas: April 19, George V. Cox and John Cox
Margot Bethel’s Portal: Unpacking memories of Womanhood
The Gates of Transformation: The NAGB prepares for a new welcome
Building Community Effort: The NAGB Sculpture Garden unfolds with assistance from Rotary Club of East Nassau
The Blank Canvas: Dr. Craig Smith, Dr. Tiffany Austin and Alexia Tolas
NAGB Welcomes New Team Members: The Institution as Expansive and Limitless
“Pasting colours: Envisioning Alternatives” by Dr Ian Bethell-Bennett
March’s Artwork of the Month – Maxwell Taylor’s ‘Nassau Boy’ (1973)
“John Beadle’s Row Yah Boat: Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily life is but a dream.’ Wake up!” by Natascha Vazquez
NE8 Artist Talk at Hillside House: On Belonging
Blank Canvas: March 15th, US Embassy, Transforming Spaces and NAGB Permanent Exhibition
‘An we is woman too?’: Women and labour in the NE8
MAXAMOS: NAGB Travelling Exhibition to open in Hope Town, Abaco
The Blank Canvas: Patricia Leigh-Wood and Adrian D’Aguilar, March 8
’21st-Century Needs’: The cultural task to survive and thrive
‘Slam-Bam’ Sands: ‘The hastily hand-coloured colonial postcards of James “Doc” Sands.’
‘Picture Nassau’: Capturing and Redefining the Cultural Landscape
The Blank Canvas- March 1st with Cynthia Rahming, Natalie Willis and Alicia Wallace
Colonial desires in the 21st-Century: Using our image purposefully
The Blank Canvas: Feb 22nd, 2017 featuring Dr. Ian Bethell-Bennett, Jason Evans and Dr. Michael Pateman
The Blank Canvas: Feb 15 with Keisha Oliver and Lowree Tynes
NE8 Closing Event at Hillside House: Belonging
Kendal Hanna’s “Rainbow Explosion”: Finding self through abstraction
NE8 Artists’ Talk: In the Thick of Things
The Blank Canvas with Jordanna Kelly, Sue Katz and Dede Brown, February 8
January Artwork of the Month: Curtain call for the colonial in Sanford Sawyer’s studio photographs.
The Blank Canvas: Feb 1st, 2017: Ryan Turnquest
Considering the African Culture: Not forgetting the Asue
Just Another Version of You: A Workshop by Dede Brown
The Blank Canvas: January 25, Margot Bethel and Leanne Russell
Owning our Image: Radical reclamation of self
The Translation Conversation: Migration and navigating blackness in Bahamian womanhood
Look, Listen, Live: A space for artistic and cultural expression
Building Regional Allyship: Bridging the gap with art
The Blank Canvas: Jan 18, Christopher Cozier and Veerle Poupeye
CSA-NAGB Partnership announces Conference Booklet Cover Design Competition
The Blank Canvas: January 11th – Charlotte Henay and Angelique V. Nixon
Unearthing: Raising the voices, quieting the noise
Large Format Paper-making with Sonia Farmer
The Gall To Speak: NE8 artists venturing into Gaulin folklore
Amanda Coulson Named as Judge for the 2017 Jamaica Biennial
December Artwork of the Month: Hearth and heart – E. J. Read’s ‘Clay Oven’
Made in The Bahamas: Authentic action, authentic support
The Blank Canvas, December 28: Steven Schmid, Gio Swaby and Tamika Galanis
The Blank Canvas: December 21, 2016: Hilary Booker + Jon Murray
Activism as art, art as activism: How social practice opens dialogue for safe spaces and healing
Civil Engagement as Culture: Unearthing Voices
The Blank Canvas: Dec 14, NE8 Artists: Averia Wright and Dave Smith
Installation underway for the National Exhibition 8
Art, Culture and Representation: Reflecting on Self and Nation
The Blank Canvas, December 7: Stephanie Smith
Apathy, Antipathy, and Action: Political art and the potential for progress
NE8 presents The Moonflower Room at Hillside House
The Blank Canvas: November 30th, Leslie Vanderpool, BIFF and Derek Burrows
Different Strokes: Learning Through Painting at the NAGB
Through the eyes of a tourist: Oh Island in the Sun, Funky Nassau
Celebrating Women International: Recognition, representation, and diversity at the NAGB
From Columbus to Junkanoo Poster Competition
The Blank Canvas – November 23rd, University of The Bahamas Creative Identity Launch
The Blank Canvas, November 16 featuring Jordanna Kelly, Navarro Newton and Keith Thompson
November Artwork of The Month: “Five Children at the Water Pump” (1984) by Peggy Herring
Noted Photographer Antoine Ferrier Passes Away
The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas (NAGB) announces participating artists for National Exhibition 8.
The Blank Canvas: November 9th, Dede Brown and Dylan Rapillard
The Blank Canvas, November 2nd featuring Chantal e.y. Bethel
Indigeneity and Art: Defining our values
Krista Thompson Brings a Critical Eye to What is Confined to the Footnotes of Art History
The Eye of the Storm: Preservation and destruction
The Blank Canvas: October 26th, 2016
The Blank Canvas: October 19th, 2016
A Teetering Bimini: Thinking about The Old Man and the Sea
Bahamian contingent at MAC 2016
2016 NAGB Fall/Winter Film Series presents ‘The Maestro: King of the Cowboy Artists’
The NAGB to host FLOTSAM Workshop on October 1st, in support of ‘A Sustainable Future for Exuma: A Traveling Toolbox.’
‘The NAGB’s Eleutheran Adventure’: Rethinking Access
Our Reading Room: ‘Sustainable Exuma’ creates a comfy space for us to learn.
The NAGB hosts exhibition in Governor’s Harbour, Eleuthera
‘What’s On At The NAGB?’ A diverse lineup of exhibitions this September.
A Bahamian Aesthetic: Defining the local in the global
Urban Scrawl: The potential for public art projects in Nassau
‘A Sustainable Nassau?’ Working towards the possible
August Artwork of the Month -Amos Ferguson’s Junkanoo Cow Face: Match Me If You Can
A Sustainable Future For Exuma: Learning to live within our means, and with each other as global citizens
Cultural Tourism on Exuma: A gem for few, a gem for all
Breezes through Long Cay: Chapter 2
Fostering Curiosity: Reporting from Mixed Media Summer Camp
Breezes through Long Cay. Chapter 1: As Stories Fade
NAGB Artwork of the Month: “Pulling Nr. 1,” 1982. Woodprint by Maxwell Taylor
The Creative Industries: ‘New’ Waves of Development
A-Figuration: Emerging artist Nowé Harris-Smith’s obscured figures on view at the NAGB
San Salvador as Culture: Exploring New Economies, Working Against Collapse
Reflections on the Summer Film Series at the NAGB
June’s Art of the Month: ‘Sponge Yard’ (c. 1870): The Colonial Photography of Jacob Coonley
Lillian Blades ‘Quilts and Social Fabric: Heritage and Improvisation’
Art Supply Drive Exhibition – Sustain. Supply. Demand better.
Reporting from Gambier Mask Making Workshop
A communal effort: Helping hands build up NAGB Sculpture Garden
On EN MAS’ Exhibition responds to street festivals and masquerade
EN MAS’ opens with From Columbus to Junkanoo
NAGB hosts Mask Making Workshop at Gambier Primary
NAGB announces three exciting new exhibitions
Volunteer Weekend Brings New Life to the NAGB Art Park
A mélange of culture: Prominent intuitive artist documents heritage
NAGB Sculpture Garden Begins to Take Shape
The Drawbridge by Graycliff
What’s on at the NAGB Three new shows open this month
A lesson in preparedness
Leaving an impression: Grand Bahama’s schools get supplementary art materials, lessons
Collecting dreams: Candis Marshall’s ‘A Garden of Dreams’ is a hit
The NAGB returns to Grand Bahama A pop-up exhibition with works from the National Collection will be on view
Brent Malone’s ‘Metamorphosis’ is the March artwork of the month
What to expect at Transforming Spaces 2016
Brent Malone’s “Seaside Village” is the February Artwork of The Month
New rules eliminate hassle for artists exhibiting abroad
Conserving art in the tropical home
Both Sides of the Coin
The January Artwork of the Month is ‘Beller’
Reinforcing connection
The December Artwork of the Month is ‘Balinese Woman With Flamingoes’
The business of doing art: COB students get insight on marketing themselves
R. Brent Malone: Reincarnation Opens
Art and education at the NAGB
The NAGB moves full steam ahead: Three new team members come on board in time for upcoming exhibition
R. Brent Malone: Reincarnation opens this month at the NAGB
Max Taylor’s ‘What to Do?’ is the September Art Work of the Month
Allan Wallace’s ‘Let There Be Order’ is the August Art Work of the Month
Moving forward and upward
The writing on the wall
NAGB represents at Fiesta del Fuego
Soaking up sun and culture this July
The National Art Gallery welcomes the public to its summer events
The team behind the scenes
Cultivating connections: NAGB brings regional artists into the conversation
‘The Queen Staircase’ by Amos Ferguson is one of May’s artworks of the month!
Lavar Munroe’s ‘Migrant’
What’s on at the NAGB: Keep a lookout for the gallery’s upcoming artists’ talk and summer camp
Art’s healing properties
Members of the Caribbean visual art community demonstrate unity, progression at Tilting Axis conference.
Re-membering the past: Margot Bethel and Nicolette Bethel take on Transforming Spaces 2015 family-style
Enigmatick Funktification: Applying collaborative Junkanoo processes to painting
NE7 is just around the corner
Feature from the Exhibition: “Rootsy”
Fourth Annual AAA – 2013
Behind-the-Scenes: The John Beadle Project and Artists of The Bahamas
All-star Amateur Artist (AAA) Artwork: NE6 Edition
NAGB Out & About T-Shirt Competition
Feature From The Exhibition: Side Spaces
Feature From The Exhibition: Northeast Gallery 2
Feature From The Exhibition: The Pathways
Feature From The Exhibition: Northeast Gallery
Feature From The Exhibition: The Ballroom
NE6: Our Visitors Respond
NE6 Introduces a New Take on a Catalogue
Don’t Get Lost: New NAGB Symbols Explained
Artist Biography: Amos Ferguson
Director’s Review: Tales From New York
The All-Star Amateur Artists Night Amos Edition: Flyer, Rules and Application Form
From the Collection: John Beadle “Mass Transportation”
Highlight: Pictures from our Membership Drive Fair
Limited Edition, Hand Made T-Shirts
Straight From The Source: Interview With The Membership Department
How To: Shipping and Handling
Feature: About The Membership Department and Program
Highlight: Pictures from our Current Exhibitions
Permanent Exhibition: The Bahamian Landscape
Feature from the Exhibition: The Dragon
Ganoid’s and Madonnas: A Short Review of NAD Exhibition Two
Blank Canvas: The Creative Community
How To: The Proper Conservation and Preservation of Paintings
Feature from the Exhibition: The Middle Passage
Highlight: Pictures from Transforming Spaces
Feature from the Exhibition: Hot Summer Night
Be Firm But Be Fair: An Interview with Chief Curator, John Cox
Highlight: Pictures from the ‘As We Knew Him’ Exhibition Opening
Review: All-Star Amateur Artists Night
As We Knew Him: One Family’s Tribute to Jackson Burnside
How To: The Proper Conservation and Preservation of Artworks on Paper
Amos Ferguson Match Me If You Can: Photos of the Event
Feature: A Look Into the Role of the Curatorial Assistant
Feature from the National Collection: Emancipation Day Boat Cruise
Feature from the National Collection: Burnside Crowns a King
Review: Two Workshops, One Day, Two Stars!
The All-Star Amateur Artists Night: Flyer, Rules and Application Form
Feature: A Look Into the Role of the Curatorial Trainee
Feature from the National Collection: Crawfish Woman
New: In Gallery Guides for the Kendal Hanna Exhibition
NAGB Announces New Director and Staff Appointments
Local and Global: Kendal Hanna and William de Kooning
Feature from the Exhibition: Portrait of My Father (Unfinished)
Kendal Hanna’s “Happy Birthday To Me”
Welcome To Mixed Media!

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Blank Canvas: Nov 22, 2023
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Blank Canvas: Oct 25, 2023 featuring Leslie Vanderpool, D Sean Nottage, Kyle Turnquest, John Cox & Averia Wright
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Blank Canvas: June 28th, 2023 featuring KEEYA
Blank Canvas: June 21st, 2023 featuring Brigidy Bram co-directors and producers, Kareem Mortimer and Laura Gamse
Blank Canvas: May 24th, 2023 featuring Samantha Treco of CAB, DAF featured artist Matthew Rahming, and Romel Shearer of TERN
Antonius, AfriCOBRA, and the Aesthetics of a True-True Bahamian
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Blank Canvas April 26th, 2023 featuring NAGB’s Interim Executive Director Dr. Ian Bethell Bennet, artist-architect James Rolle and Arien Rolle
Call for Summer Camp Teachers
Blank Canvas: April 19th, 2023 featuring Chantal E.Y. Bethel, Jo Morasco, and Laurie Tuchel
Blank Canvas: April 5th, 2023 featuring Zearier Munroe Wilkinson, Nowé Harris-Smith, and Richardo Barrett
Blank Canvas: March 22nd, 2023 featuring Zearier Munroe Wilkinson, Community Outreach Officer, and Reagan Farrington, Educational Assistant
Blank Canvas: March 1st, 2023 featuring John Cox and Lynn Parotti
Blank Canvas: February 22nd, 2023 featuring Vice President of the Museums Association of Caribbean (MAC) Nyasha Warren and Dean of Liberal and Fine Arts at the University of The Bahamas, Dr. Douglas Barkey
Blank Canvas: February 15th, 2023 featuring Interim Executive Director of The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, Dr. Ian Bethell Bennett
Blank Canvas: February 8th, 2023 featuring MAC Treasurer, Susan Garcia & Board Member, Katarina Jacobson along with Bahamian Conference Hosts, Ulrich Voges of Central Bank Art Gallery and Katrina Cartwright of the NAGB
Blank Canvas: February 1st, 2023 featuring Artist, Antonius Roberts and Curator, Dr. Krista Thompson
Blank Canvas: January 26th, 2023 featuring Jodi Minnis, Tern Gallery
Blank Canvas: January 11th, 2023 featuring Reagan Kemp and Marknesha Bastian from I.C.E. Bahamas
Blank Canvas: December 14th, 2022 featuring members of the TERN team – Lauren Perez and Romel Shearer, and artists Florence St. George and Freya Bramble-Carter
Blank Canvas: December 7th, 2022 featuring female Bahamian recording artist and child protection activist, Ternielle “TaDa” Burrows
2023 MAC Conference “Power of Museums: Relevancy, Advocacy, Transformation”
Blank Canvas: November 23rd, 2022 featuring TERN (Jodi Minnis, Gallery Manager), The Current at Bahamar (Averia Wright, Curator and John Cox, Creative Director) and mixed media artist Kachelle Knowles
Blank Canvas: November 16th, 2022 featuring the new Inter-Island Traveling Exhibition (ITE), “Thirty: Island Perspectives” Curators
Blank Canvas: November 9th, 2022 featuring members of the TERN team – Amanda Coulson and Jodi Minnis—and artist Melissa Alcena, Bahamian documentarian and fine art photographer
Blank Canvas: October 26th, 2022 featuring NE10 artists Samantha Treco, Studio and Gallery Manager at CAB and Jodi Minnis, Gallery Manager at TERN
Blank Canvas: October 19th, 2022 featuring John Cox and Averia Wright from The Current at Bahamar team, Richardo Barrett from the NAGB, and “Beguile”artists DeDe Brown and Kachelle Knowles
19 Years of Bold, Biggity, Bahamian Art: Where Do We Go From Here?
Blank Canvas: October 12th, 2022 featuring Moya Thompson and Abby Smith from The Department of Cultural Affairs at The Ministry of Youth Sports and Culture
Blank Canvas: September 28th, 2022 featuring MAC President Joanne Hyppolite and Vice President Nyasha Warren
Blank Canvas: September 21st, 2022 featuring Averia Wright, Sue-Katz and Dylan Rapillard from “Fowl Play” at The Current at Baha Mar
Blank Canvas: September 14th, 2022 featuring NE:TEN “Mercy” artists Sonia Farmer and Yasmin Glinton Poitier and curator John Cox
Blank Canvas: August 24th, 2022 featuring artists Amaani Hepburn and Matthew Rahming from TERN’s “FIVE”
Blank Canvas: July 13th, 2022 featuring Bodine Victoria
Blank Canvas: June 29th, 2022 with Guest host Katrina Cartwright, NAGB Education and Outreach Manager, featuring Sann Sann Lam, Exuma Arts Network founder and colleagues Blake Fox (Education Officer) and Zearier Wilkinson (Community Outreach Officer)
Blank Canvas: June 15th, 2022 featuring BahaMian Trae
Blank Canvas: June 8th, 2022 featuring Dyah Neilson and Shacqeel Coleby of The D’Aguilar Art Foundation’s, “Salt & Earth”
Blank Canvas: June 1st, 2022 featuring Sonovia Pierre of the Department of Culture and Amard Rolle of the NAGB
The Graham Foundation Grant to Krista Thompson for “Antonius Roberts: Art, Ecology, and Sacred Space”
Blank Canvas: May 25th, 2022 featuring Tierra Ndlovu, Zearier Wilkinson and Amard Rolle
Blank Canvas: May 18th, 2022 featuring Cultural Icon, Timmay
Blank Canvas: May 11th, 2022 featuring Artists, Richardo Barrett, Averia Wright and Christina Wong, Curator of “11 Strong”
NAGB exhibition featured in ARTFORUM
Blank Canvas: March 23rd, 2022 featuring Artist, Kendra Frorup and Averia Wright, Curator, of “The Whimsical Collector”
Blank Canvas: March 17th, 2022 featuring John Cox , Curator of the NE10 Exhibition “Mercy”
Blank Canvas: March 9th, 2022 featuring Kachelle Knowles, Christina Wong and John Cox
Blank Canvas: March 2nd, 2022 featuring Sann Sann Lam and Zearier Wilkinson
Blank Canvas: February 23rd, 2022 featuring Travis Miller
Blank Canvas: February 16th, 2022 featuring Dawn Davies
Collecting Plates Project
Dawn Davies Book Donation
Blank Canvas: January 19th, 2022 featuring Antonius Roberts
Blank Canvas: January 12th, 2022 featuring Tiera Ndlovu
Blank Canvas: December 22nd, 2021 featuring artists Elkino Dames and Sofia Whitehead
Blank Canvas: December 15th, 2021 featuring artists Dr Ian Bethell Bennett, Errol Brewster, Averia Wright and Kachelle Knowles
Blank Canvas: December 8th, 2021 featuring John Beadle
Blank Canvas: December 1st, 2021 featuring artists from “The Evolution of The Arc”
Blank Canvas: November 24th, 2021 featuring Allan Jones, Dorlan Curtis and Caroline Anderson
‘Evolution of the Arc’
A Repository of Memories
Blank Canvas: November 17th, 2021 featuring Rhojai Burrows, Apryl Burrows and Kathy Hamilton
Blank Canvas: October 27th, 2021 featuring Deime Ubani of The Salus Project and “The Evolution of the Arc” Judges
Blank Canvas: October 20th, 2021 with Guest Host Katrina Cartwright featuring Ulrich Voges and Ruthjeana Johnson
Blank Canvas: October 13th, 2021 featuring Melissa Alcena, Tamika Galanis and Rodell Warner
Blank Canvas: October 6th, 2021 featuring Keisha Oliver
Blank Canvas: September 29th, 2021 featuring Marielle Barrow and Sonia Farmer
Blank Canvas: September 22nd, 2021 featuring Guest Host Katrina Cartwright and Blake Fox
Blank Canvas: September 8th, 2021 featuring Jodi Minnis and Tiffany Smith
Blank Canvas: August 25th, 2021 featuring Leanne Russell and Lynn Parotti
Blank Canvas: August 18th, 2021 featuring Bahamian filmmaker Kareem Mortimer and partner Julia Chatwin
Blank Canvas: August 11th, 2021 featuring guest host John Cox and Amanda Coulson
Blank Canvas: August 4th, 2021 featuring Katrina Cartwright and Exuma Arts Network Founder, Sann Sann Lam
Blank Canvas: July 28th, 2021 featuring Giovanna Swaby
Blank Canvas: July 21st, 2021 featuring Sound Waves Founder Tim Daniels and Exhibiting Artists
Blank Canvas: July 14th, 2021 featuring Ashley Cooper, June Collie and Jason Evans
Blank Canvas: July 7th, 2021 featuring Dominique Knowles and Heino Schmid
Blank Canvas: June 30th, 2021 featuring Averia Wright and Navarro Newton
Blank Canvas: June 22nd, 2021 featuring Education and Outreach Department
MMASC returns with “Jammin Visuals”
“Full Fathom Five” Mural Unveiled in North Eleuthera
Blank Canvas: June 16th, 2021 featuring Denzel Lightbourn and Deime Ubani
Blank Canvas: June 9th, 2021 featuring Tessa Whitehead and Leasho Johnson
Blank Canvas: June 2nd, 2021 featuring Pam Burnside, Nadine Ramphal and Sosefina Christie
Blank Canvas: May 26th, 2021 featuring Curators Natalie Willis, Richardo Barrett and artist Benjamin Ferguson
Blank Canvas: May 19th, 2021 featuring Floating Rib artists Kendra Frorup, Averia Wright and Jodi Minnis
Blank Canvas: May 12th, 2021 featuring Curator Natalie Willis, Floating Rib artists Margot Bethel and Khia Poitier
Blank Canvas: April 28th, 2021 featuring Anina Major and Tamika Galanis
Blank Canvas: April 21st, 2021 featuring April Bey, Margot Bethel and Tiffany Smith
Blank Canvas: April 14th, 2021 featuring Curator Natalie Willis
Blank Canvas: April 7th, 2021 featuring Lynn Parotti, Alison Thompson and Tatina Flores
Blank Canvas: March 31st, 2021 featuring Matthew Wildgoose and Brian Maycock
Blank Canvas: March 24th, 2021 featuring Kaché Knowles of iisabahamianbey
Blank Canvas: March 10th, 2021 featuring Central Bank Art Competition Open Category Prize Winners
Blank Canvas: March 3rd, 2021 featuring Rodell Warner
Blank Canvas: February 24th, 2021 featuring Kishan Munroe
Blank Canvas: February 17th, 2021 featuring Curators Bettina Pérez Martínez and Simone Cambridge with special guests artists Edrin Symonette and Nadia Huggins
Blank Canvas: February 10th, 2021 featuring Jodi Minnis and Kendra Frorup
Blank Canvas: February 3rd, 2021 featuring Jeffrey Meris
Blank Canvas: April 15th, 2020 – featuring George and John Cox
Blank Canvas: April 1st, 2020 featuring Larry Ossel-Mensah
Blank Canvas: March 25th, 2020 (featuring Kristin and Dede Brown)
Everybody and Dey Grammy
So Close Yet So Far
Blank Canvas: March 18th, 2020, ITE North Eleuthera
Blank Canvas: March 11th, 2020, Grand Bahamian “Refuge” Artists
Blank Canvas: March 4th, 2020, Transforming Spaces
Blank Canvas: February 26th, 2020, Christina Wong, Cydney Coleby and Heino Schmid
Blank Canvas: February 19th, 2020, Romel Shearer, Zearier Munroe and Jevon Thompson
Blank Canvas: February 12th, 2020, Bahamas Junkanoo Art & Music Festival
Max and Amos: Enchantment and Magical Realism in Service to Freedom
Blank Canvas: February 5th, 2020, Tamika Galanis
Blank Canvas: January 29th, 2020, Sonia Farmer and Orchid Burnside
Blank Canvas: January 22nd, 2020, Jodi Minnis, Nowe Harris-Smith and Spurgeonique Morley
Blank Canvas: January 15th, 2020, Lemero Wright, Jenna Chaplin and Dyah Neilson
Blank Canvas: January 8th, 2020, Leanne Russell
Blank Canvas: December 18th, 2019, Ritchie Eyma, Roshanne Minnis Eyma, Yutavia George and Matthew Rahming
Blank Canvas: December 11th, 2019, Arnold J. Kemp
Blank Canvas: December 4th, 2019, Amard Rolle and Blake Fox
Blank Canvas: November 27th, 2019, ITE Long Island
Blank Canvas: November 20th, 2019, Stan Burnside
Blank Canvas: November 13th, 2019, Angelika Wallace-Whitfield, Chantal Bethel and Jodi Minnis
“To Throw Rocks” Exhibition Opening at UB
Blank Canvas: November 6th, 2019, Central Bank of The Bahamas High School Art Competition
Blank Canvas: October 30th, 2019, Kendra Frorup
Blank Canvas: October 23rd, 2019, Deime Ubani
The Straw Paradox
I’s Man: Ian Strachan’s documentary on masculinity in The Bahamas captures the polemics of today’s ‘Man Crisis’. 
The Sea as Life: Cargo and VLOSA
Peggy Hering’s “Lilies” (1984): On Being Both Student and Teacher
From the Collection: “Solomon” (2000) by Stan Burnside
Blank Canvas: October 16th, 2019, Create Space reair
Blank Canvas: October 9th, 2019, Lynn Parotti
Blank Canvas: October 2nd, 2019, Max Taylor
Adaptability & Draughts(woman)ship: Kachelle Knowles Builds a Practice of Representation That Takes Action
Create Space: Art as Therapy
Open Call for “Refuge”: The NAGB stages a call for artwork as we recover, rebuild and restore the nation’s spirit.  
Hope Is All Around Us
Open Call for Works for “Refuge”
Blank Canvas: September 25th, 2019, Create Space
Traditional Knowledge Living in the Tropics: Respecting Lifeways
From the Collection​: “North Star” (2007-8) by Heino Schmid
Blank Canvas: September 18th, 2019, Kachelle Knowles and Richardo Barrett
We Live at the Undersides
Climate Refugees: On Becoming Climate Refugees or Building Back Differently
Blank Canvas: September 11th, 2019, The Brenton Story
Blank Canvas: September 4th, 2019, Small Axe reair
“Duran Duran”: Exploring Themes of Longevity and Survival in Kendra Frorup’s Work
Blank Canvas: August 28th, 2019, Dyah Nielson and Jonnique Beadle
From the Collection: John Paul Saddleton’s “West Hill Hidden Garden”
From the Collection: “The Deanery” (1979) by Alton Lowe
Epistemic and Cultural Violence: Powercutting as Light
Blank Canvas: August 14th 2019, Kim Smith and Andrew Ash
Summer Camp ends on a festive note: MMASC Exhibition and Awards Ceremony held at the NAGB
The Visual Life Of Social Affliction: Structures of Violence in the Caribbean
From the Collection: “Poor Man’s Orchid” (1989) by Sue Bennett-Williams
Blank Canvas: August 7th, 2019, Walteria Tucker-Rolle, Heino Schmid and Keisha Oliver
Finding Our Voices: Resisting Violence and Oppression
From the Collection: Jolyon Smith’s “Transformation” (1987) and imagining Black Bahamian futures
Blank Canvas: July 31st, 2019, Women’s Wednesdays
NAGB Announces Departure of Chief Curator, Holly Bynoe
Designing for Space: Working with Possible Futures in Mind
The Blank Canvas: July 24th, 2019, Mixed Media Art Summer Camp
From the Collection: “Untitled (Rake Bird)” by Tyrone Ferguson
The Blank Canvas: July 17th, 2019, WE Collective
From the Collection: Chelsea Pottery “A Brief Bahamian History of Clay”
Timelines: Developing Blackness
The Blank Canvas: July 3rd, 2019, John Paul Saddleton and June Collie
Demure Facade, Colourful History: Sterling Miller’s “Villa Doyle” (ca. 1969)
The NAGB “Parades through the Caribbean”
The Blank Canvas: June 26th, 2019, Jarrette Stubbs, Blake Fox and Ulrich Voges
There are several ways of finding yourself: Reporting from Tilting Axis 5
Unplugged Sessions at Fiona’s Theatre
Blank Canvas: June 19th, 2019, Vizcaya Museum and Gardens
Check Yourself: Thinking About Stereotypes and Chan Pratt’s Sincerity in Painting Over-the-Hill
“Wellington Street Dwelling”: Exploring the Bahamian Vernacular
UB and NAGB formalise agreement for the arts
Blank Canvas: June 12th, 2019, Richardo Barrett
Tilting Axis 6 to be hosted by NAGB in 2020!
Blank Canvas: May 29th, 2019, Rowena Poitier-Sutherland
Dialect and Diaspora: The Intuitive Art of Joseph “Joe Monks” Weaver
The Blank Canvas: May 22nd with Anthony “Big Mo” Morely
A Choice Landscape: The Early Work of the Late Chan Pratt and How Art Practice Gets Shaped by the Environment
Beauty and Loss in Tessa Whitehead and Chan Pratt’s Work: A Death Foretold, yet Not Dying
Blank Canvas: May 15th, 2019, The Current at Bahamar
From the Collection: “Ain’t I A Good Mother?”
Reconnecting to the Divine Feminine
Blank Canvas: May 8th, 2019, Diana Nawi
Of Beauty, Community, and Healing
The NAGB presents two breathtaking exhibitions: Chan Pratt and Tessa Whitehead shine a light on the landscape and personal stories.
The Blank Canvas: May 1st with Tessa Whitehead
Chan Pratt’s Work Speaks to the Urbanisation of the Bahamian Landscape
From the Collection: Rembrandt Taylor’s Madonna and Child
Blank Canvas: April 24, 2019, Lillian Blades
Blank Canvas: April 17th, 2019, Popeyes and Matthew Rahming
The Role of the Arts in Addressing Climate Change
“Rafiki– more than just friends” Honouring and fighting for love.
Blank Canvas: April 10th, 2019, Larry Ossei-Mensah
The Black Woman Body Paradox
Sitting Pretty Political: Amos Ferguson and the Reclining Women of Art History
NAGB Travel Grant in collaboration with Tilting Axis 5
The Blank Canvas: April 3rd with Saskia D’Aguilar and Alex Timchula
Saucy Expressions presents ‘Riddim n Tingum’ for the National Exhibition 9
The NAGB takes the ITE to Grand Bahama
Blank Canvas: March 27th, 2019, Allan Jones
Considering culture: More than a smile
Talking to the Dead: Tamika Galanis’ repatriates materials from the Alan Lomax archive and brings them home.
Blank Canvas: March 20, 2019, Dr. Amatoritsero Ede, Shivanee Ramlochan and Sonia Farmer
The God Self: Lessons on Self-Love from Emerging Artist Cydne Coleby
Tender Seedlings: Anina and A.L. Major Reflect on Pain and Love in the Bahamian Diaspora
Blank Canvas: March 13th, 2019, Jalan Harris and Kendra Frorup
Something About Failure: Tessa Whitehead’s intimate questioning on success, failure, and what makes art work.
Blank Canvas: March 6th, 2019, Eric Rose, Danny Davies and Jenna Chaplin
The Beauty and Charm of Colonialism: April Bey’s “Power Girl” Series
Push Out: Jodi Minnis and Ian Bethell-Bennett Investigate the Mythologies and Futures of Gentrification in Over-the-Hill
The Blank Canvas: February 27th, 2019: Seph Rodney
Mhudda: Jackson Burnside’s socially aware look at the struggles of the Bahamian “everyday”
Leaning on your community to create: Natascha Vazquez speaks on her first time National Exhibition
Blank Canvas: February 20th, 2019, Bahamas Junkanoo Art and Music Festival and “The Coloured Museum”
The National Exhibition 9 (NE)9) – An Opportunity for Reflection Part 2
The National Exhibition 9 (NE)9) – An Opportunity for Reflection Part 1
When We Are Like the Trees
Blank Canvas: February 13th, 2019, Cydne Coleby and Letitia Pratt
The Island Repeated: Toni Alexia Roach’s Patterned Approach to Confronting the Past
Blank Canvas: February 6th, 2019, Jalan Harris and Kendra Frorup
A Botanical of Grief: Yasmin Glinton and Charlotte Henay Connect with Ancestors’ Voices and Put Mother Tongue to Poetry
To Heal We Must Remember: Katrina Cartwright’s power figure uproots the past
Blank Canvas: January 30th, 2019, DC Pratt and the Island House Film Festival
The Grave Silence: Sonia Farmer and Shivanee Ramlochan give voice to victims of rape in The Caribbean
Under Attack: Averia Wright’s Elevating the Blue Light Special and the Dualities of Bahamian Identity
A Garden: Letitia Pratt Creates New Folklore in Response to Biblical Patriarchal Storytelling
Blank Canvas: January 23rd, 2019, Amaani Hepburn, Dwynette Rolle and Jarette Stubbs
“Water: The giver and the taker of life”: Edrin Symonette’s “Salt of the Earth”
Painting to heal: Artist Gabrielle Banks lays bare the burdens of her troubled past in NE9 submission
Strange Fruit: Kendra Frorup’s poignant banana plumes in “Inflorescence/Influence” for the NE9
Vulnerable ecologies: This Woman’s Work
Blank Canvas: January 16th, 2019, Charlotte Henay and Sonia Farmer
The Weight We Bear: Heino Schmid’s monumental drawings for the NE9
MasC Off: NE9 brings artists of different disciplines together to challenge social binary views on gender.
Blank Canvas: January 9, 2019, Anina Banks and Natascha Vazquez
Dave Smith “Violence, the beauty of paradise”: The art of capturing the lingering impact
“I ga’ gee’ you what you lookin’ for!”: Tamika Galanis gets to the heart of the Caribbean’s history of “looking”
Blank Canvas: January 2, 2019, Carlos Bain and Jay Koment
Utopian Ecologies: Alex Timchula’s microcosmic garden sculpture for the NE9
Speaking to views and gazes in the work of Eric Rose: Education, Space and Knowing your Place
Returning the Gaze: Melissa Alcena’s work for the NE9 seeks to challenge the gaze on the Black Bahamian body
Seeing the God in me: Jalan Harris’s “Self-Pollinate” and Cydne Coleby’s “A God Called Self” works
Field Notes on Planting Seeds in Uprooted Gardens
Everybody is hoping for something
NE9 Talks and Thoughts: Artists share their thoughts on the NE9
Blank Canvas: December 19, 2018, NE9 Artists
NAGB opens National Exhibition 9 (NE9) to wild acclaim
Blank Canvas: December 12, 2018, NE9 Artists
A Night in Pictures and Sound: Cultural Heritage Month Kicks Off at the NAGB
Danny Davis brings a colonial interpretation to NE9’s “The Fruit and The Seed.”
Blank Canvas: December 5, 2018, Abby Smith and Matthew Rahming
Denis Knight: An Incredible Journey (1926-2018)
Big Yard, Big Heart, Big Art: The NAGB Inter-Island Traveling Exhibition in North and Central Andros!
Blank Canvas: November 28, 2018, Max Taylor
The NAGB brings variety to the holidays: The holidays are for friends, family and art!
The Life and Death of Street Trees: Jenna Chaplin’s call to attention for the importance of street trees for the upcoming NE9
Blank Canvas: November 21, 2018, Jodi Minnis and Angelika Wallace-Whitfield
Art of The Bahamas: An era of negotiating self-definition
Blank Canvas: November 14, 2018, Richardo Barrett and Natalie Willis
Whimsical Bahamian Teapots: Book Launch & Exhibit for Jessica Colebrooke
Reporting from the 2018 Creative Time Summit screening at the NAGB: Showing up for our Future
The Architecture of Loss: Memorials, Memento Mori, and the Man from Milton Street
Blank Canvas: November 7, 2018, Jessica Colebrooke and Chantal Bethel
The long eye of culture.: A mash up, a hybrid
Making the connection: In conversation with Sasha Dees about her time of travel and research across the Caribbean
From the Collection: “The Bussett and the Monkey” (1991) by Amos Ferguson
Blank Canvas: October 31, 2018, Travolta Cooper
The Case for Lavar Munroe: The Son of Soil
Prominent International Conference Screening at the NAGB
Blank Canvas: October 24, 2018, Sasha Dees
“The Story of “ETA”: Blue/Green Ragged Island” Ideation in Art and Design
Murky Histories and Futures: “Digging Upward in the Sand” (2018) by Plastico Fantastico
Participating artists announced for National Exhibition 9
Friday Night Live! Scares at the NAGB: The NAGB hosts a special Night at the Museum
Blank Canvas: October 17, 2018, Janice Hall and Jarette Stubbs
Potcake Adopt-a-thon and Workshop at the NAGB
NAGB’s free Film Series returns: An interview with Travolta Cooper
Blank Canvas: October 10, 2018, Fusion Superplex
UBS Donates a National Treasure: The NAGB and the Bahamian people inherit a Malone masterpiece
Strange Darknesses: Lavar Munroe’s sinister fantasy creatures in the “specimens” series.
Blank Canvas: October 3, 2018, “POTCAKE” artists and Kim Aranha
The NAGB’s Film Series Returns
The Future of Democracy: Growing participation and engagement to shift thinking
“Who the Hell Do I Think I Am?” (2012) by Margot Bethel
Blank Canvas: September 26, 2018, E. Clement Bethel National Arts Festival
Painting a Park Anew
“Burma Road” (c2008) by Maxwell Taylor
The Aesthetics of Debt: Double Consciousness and Vision in the age new a new modernity
Blank Canvas: September 19, 2018, Dwight Laadan Ferguson and “The Future of Democracy”
Blank Canvas: August 12, 2018, Lavar Munroe
Lavar Munroe’s “Son of the Soil” and Potcake Exhibitions opens at the NAGB.
The art of connectivity: Sinking our roots further down.
From the Collection: “Cycle of Abuse” (2017) by Sonia Farmer
Blank Canvas: September 5, 2018, Expo2020 UB
The Art of Living in the Tropics, Part Three: Silence
Teachers’ Seminar at the NAGB jump-starts the new school year
From the Collection: “Untitled (Boat Scene)” (c.1920) by James “Doc” Sands
Blank Canvas: August 29, 2018, ALIV and EXPO 2020
NAGB Summer Camp comes to a close: Campers proudly show their work at the MMASC exhibition
“When The Lionfish Came”: Tamika Galanis chimes in for the people of the reef in dangerously rising tides.
Double Dutch “Hot Water” Opens!: Climate change, Ragged Island and vulnerable ecologies explored.
Bahamian Arts and Culture: The Fruit and the Seed Part 2
Blank Canvas: August 22, 2018, Plastico Fantastico
The Provocative: Drew Weech plays with the history of the nude in Western Art
Sinking: Field Notes on Loss and Belonging
National Exhibition 9 Deadline Extended till August 26th: Jurors and collaborations announced
Blank Canvas: August 15, 2018, Michael Edwards and Dr. Ian Bethell-Bennett
Remedies for Remembering: Darchell Henderson’s new mural on Hospital Lane reminds us of our histories of healing.
Friday Night Live draws great crowd in spite of the rain: Jazzing up the summer!
Boiling: Field Notes on Loss and Belonging
Blank Canvas: August 8, 2018, Mixed Media Art Summer Camp in Review
The art of living in the tropics. Part II: Hand come, hand go
Rebirth: Field Notes on Loss and Belonging
Blank Canvas: August 1, 2018, Tilting Axis
The NAGB wins awards for exhibition catalogues: Pushing design forward
A De-colonial Soundclash: The cacophonous chorus of the post-colony marks the end of “We Suffer To Remain”
The Fruit and the Seed – Part One: A conversation with the NAGB’s chief curator, Holly Bynoe, on the upcoming 9th National Exhibition.
Blank Canvas: July 25th, 2018, Sonia Farmer, Jason Evans and Yasmin Glinton
The art of living in the tropics: An art of survival?
NE9 open to musicians, spoken word artists, poets, writers and performance artists
Aftermath: Field Notes on Loss and Belonging
The Wisdom of Amos Ferguson: Reflections on the NAGB’s “Hard Mouth: From the Tongue of the Ocean”
Art Centering Woman: HARD MOUT GYAL, GOT A TONGUE LIKE THE OCEAN
Blank Canvas: July 11, 2018, Robin Hardy
National Exhibition 9: “The Fruit & the Seed” Call for Works
A Body Of My Own: Anina Major reclaims the body
NAGB hosts Open Community Forum: Making room for conversation and inquiry
Blank Canvas: July 4, 2018, Scharad Lightbourne and John Cox
On Our Memorial Gaps: Review of new exhibition, “Hard Mouth: From the Tongue of the Ocean,”
Africa, Agency, and Atom Spirits: Does the body remember the journey across the Atlantic?
NAGB Responds to British Council Decision
Blank Canvas: June 27, 2018, Delton Barrett and Sofia Whitehead
The Problems of Paradise: Thoughts on the NAGB’s Traversing the Picturesque
Mixed Media Summer Camp Spotlight: On Sharvez Woodside
CATALYST: Harmonising Actions and Trust Building in the Caribbean Creative Ecology
Blank Canvas: June 20, 2018, Eddie Chambers
Tilting Axis Curatorial Fellowship 2018: Bahamian, Natalie Willis, awarded!
Are We One With Nature? G. Paul Dorfmuller’s Nassau Corner
The NAGB welcomes Eddie Chambers: Cultural critic and writer presents public lecture at the NAGB
Blank Canvas: June 13, 2018, Nicole Yip
The Moving Image: The First Turn of the Revolution
Indigenous art takes the lead at the Mixed Media Art Summer Camp
Tall Order: An interview with Nicole Yip of LUX Scotland on meaningful exchange and working to decolonize the archive
Troubling Narratives: This is how we suffer to remain
Blank Canvas: June 6, 2018, Comm-Ed
Introducing Tilting Axis 2018 Curatorial Fellow, Natalie Willis
Blank Canvas: May 30, 2018, Jalan Harris and Furniture Plus
Blank Canvas: May 23, 2018, The Current Artists-in-Residence
Partnerships Present Opportunities for NAGB: NAGB is reaching beyond New Providence to Support Family Island Schools
From the Collection: “Crawfish Lady” (c2000) by Wellington Bridgewater
Sorry for What: I am not the sugar in your cup of tea
Blank Canvas: May 16, 2018, Netica Symonette and Angelika Wallace-Whitfield
“West Street” by Hildegarde Hamilton
NAGB’s Mural Programme
: Eleuthera: “Freedom” of Creative Expression
Eye on The Bahamas
Blank Canvas: May 9th, 2018, Mark Aronson
Care in the Craft: “Young Children” (nd) by Frank Otis Small
It’s not just black and white: It is also colour, light, shift and feeling
Friday Night Live! Review: Art and entertainment collide to create a special night
Blank Canvas: May 2nd, 2018, “We Suffer to Remain” Bahamian Artists
Traversing the Picturesque: A thought
The NAGB’s second travelling exhibition closes in Eleuthera
My Mouth is a Heartbreak: Anina Major’s “Wisdom Teeth” (2017)
Blank Canvas: April 25th, 2018, Steffon Grant
Open Call for Potcakes: Show us your potcakes!
 From the Collection: “East Street With Donkey and Cart” (1914) by E J Read
The Magic School Bus Initiative: The Central Bank partners with the NAGB to encourage school tours
Blank Canvas: April 18, 2018, Communication-Education
Potter’s Cay: Markets and the importance of public spaces
Over 800 Million Souls: An interview with Graham Fagen (Pt II) on his work in “We Suffer To Remain”
Fiona’s Theatre Opens: A moment of remembrance, celebration and love
MMSAC 2018 goes “Back to da Island”: The NAGB opens early registration for its annual summer camp
Reflecting on the life a gentle giant: George Cox, Pioneer and Visionary
Other Tongues: An interview with Graham Fagen (Pt I) on Scottish cultural amnesia and gazing into the mouth of silenced histories.
Blank Canvas: April 11, 2018, Annalee Davis and Gemma Hollington
Blank Canvas: March 28th, 2018, The Current at Baha Mar
Locked in our Bodies: A resurrection of voices
Beadle, the Mechanic: An Interview with John Beadle on his work for “We Suffer To Remain”, part II
Blank Canvas: March 21st, 2018 with Graham Fagen
“Who do we speak for?” An interview with John Beadle for the upcoming exhibition “We Suffer To Remain”
“Traversing the Picturesque: For Sentimental Value” – The Colonial Gaze
Blank Canvas: March 14th, 2018, Camilo Alvarez
Celebrating Bahamian Art: The Elliott Museum Exhibition Wrap Up
Vision, Materiality and Creativity: A pathway to innovation and development?
Time Travel and Building Bridges in “A True & Exact History”: An interview with Sonia Farmer, Pt II
Blank Canvas: March 7th, 2018, Transforming Spaces
Speaking of culture: Thinking about change
What Makes “A True & Exact History”?: An Interview with Sonia Farmer on her work for the upcoming exhibition “We Suffer To Remain”.
“TRANS: A Migration of Identity”: The National Collection Travels to Eleuthera.
Blank Canvas: February 28th, 2018, Team NAGB
“To Have and Not To Own”: An Interview with Anina Major (Part II) on bodies and history
Blank Canvas: February 21st, 2018, Steve Shane
Mural Walk & Talk: Introducing works from the National Collection in a whole new way
Lamenting Slavery: Unearthing our history through art.
Movements and Memory: An interview with Anina Major on art practice and the hauntings of history.
A Walk with Nettie: Communing with art, nature and culture
“Defender of the Faith”: Rembrandt Taylor’s Dragon-slayer.
Blank Canvas: February 7th, 2018, “Tamarind Journal”
“Prayer in a Dark Place” (2013) by Jace McKinney: Hope in spite of sinking feelings
William Sweeting’s “Two Natives at the Gate” (1971): As seen by our youth.
Blank Canvas: January 31st, 2018, Tru-Tru Bahamian Festival
From the Collection: “Untitled (Balcony House on Market Street)” (ca 1920) by James Osborne “Doc” Sands
The NAGB hosts Portfolio Workshop for Teens: Workshop gives students a memorable experience
Blank Canvas: January 24th, 2018, Tamika Galanis
This has all been said before: Art, Racism and the words of representation
NAGB hosts Portfolio Workshop for Teens
Open call for works featuring your Potcakes
Gaia Reimagined: “Mother Earth” (1992) by Clive Stuart
Blank Canvas: January 17th, 2018, DC Pratt
“That Vodou that who do?”: Ancestry, heritage, memory, and light in the work of Eric Jean-Louis.
Majority rule: A snapshot of our identity.
The Power of Imprisonment through language: The Eye for the Tropics and Majority rule in 2018 Bahamas
In Memoriam: Deon Dario McHardy aka Slime (1976-2017). The Bahamas loses another artistic talent.
Blank Canvas: January 3rd, 2018, Wendy Coakley-Thompson
Blank Canvas: December 27th, 2017, Bill Strickland
Blank Canvas: December 20th, 2017, ALIV and the University of The Bahamas
Spirituality without religion and religion without spirituality? The magic meeting of both
The NAGB celebrates an unforgettable night: Spirituality fills the air with hope.
Amos Ferguson’s “Jesus and the Good Semeriton” (nd): The Colour of God and Histories of Faith
Blank Canvas: December 13th, 2017, Jace McKinney and Steven Schmid
A Glitch in Time: Who’s in for the Saving?
Angelic Remembrance: Antonius Roberts’ memorialises women of faith
Interview with “Medium” artist Jace McKinney: McKinney shares insights into his practice
Blank Canvas: December 6th, 2017, Michael Edwards and Dr. Ian Bethell-Bennett
Prospect New Orleans Art Triennale: Bahamian and Caribbean artists celebrated
The NAGB Takes a New Look at Membership
Sitting with the Dead: “Medium,” a show of Bahamian Religion and Spirituality
Blank Canvas: November 29th, 2017, Lauren Holowesko and Natascha Vasquez
Seeking Divine Creativity: Allan Wallace’s new works revisits his religious upbringing
Golden Touch and Go: Jace McKinney’s imagines golden kings and living dangerously in “Trumped” (2013)
Unpacking Identity with Joiri Minaya
Blank Canvas: November 22nd, 2017, Pierre Richard Parsien, Pam Burnside and Holly Bynoe
Building empathy through culture: Taking a seat at your table
Blank Canvas: November 15th, 2017, Pro Gallery Celebration
Two Arts Professionals: One Mission
Creative Youth: Reevaluating our values and the work of young people.
The MAX/AMOS Exhibition: Last Stop, Exuma
From the Collection: “A Distant View of Nassau” (c.1857-1904) by Jacob F. Coonley
From Nassau to Long Beach: Bahamian artists participate in “Relational Undercurrents” exhibition at Museum of Latin American Art.
Blank Canvas: November 8th, 2017, Marina Reyes Franco
Some (Re)assembly Required: Melissa Alcena’s takes a soft lens on Black masculinity
Blank Canvas: November 1st, 2017, Melissa Alcena
(Un)Monumental: How do we re-contextualise historic sculptures for contemporary life?
Blank Canvas: October 25th, 2017, David Gumbs
Fabric Printing Workshop brings crowd to NAGB: NAGB Kicks off Fall Programming
The Domestic Not-So-Tourist: Marina Reyes Franco visits The Bahamas as recipient of the CPPC Travel Award
Re-Encounter: Thoughts of a Mad Mind
Blank Canvas: October 18th, 2017, Averia Wright and Spurgeonique Morley
The Nature of Art: In proverbial bloom
Re-encountering Identity: The newest Double Dutch exhibition, “Re: Encounter”
Searching for Empathy: Revaluing self in relation to others
Blank Canvas: October 11, 2017, DeDe Brown and Joiri Minaya
Cultivating the Local: In the wake of change
From the Collection: Maxwell Taylor’s “The Immigrants No.3” (c1990)
Mural Project Transforms Exuma International Airport
Blank Canvas: October 4, 2017, Kareem Mortimer
Boundaries, Borders and Brotherhood: “Proxemics: Personal Space/Commanding Stance” (2015) by John Beadle
In the wake of storms:  Moving forward as a nation displaced
Blank Canvas: September 27, 2017, The “Tingum Collective”
From the Collection: “Metamorphosis” (1979) by R Brent Malone
If an entire population moves, is it still a nation?: Post-Irma and Post-Colonial devastation
The Clapboard House: A Disappearing Relic within The Bahamian Landscape
Blank Canvas: September 20, 2017, Michael Edwards, Patricia Glinton-Meicholas and Dr. Ian Bethell-Bennett
The Art of Survival: Rebuilding for the future
Internationalising The Bahamas and its Orange Economy: Creating industries for the 21st Century
We Lost Two Cultures That Day: Hurricane Irma and the Loss of Cultural Material
Living in the Shadows of Empire: territories of dark and light
Max/Amos Bids Farewell in Exuma: The masters take a bow
Blank Canvas: August 30, 2017, Sofia Whitehead, Melissa Alcena and Tessa Whitehead
From the Collection: “Woman With Flamingoes” (1996-97) by R. Brent Malone
The Culture of Space: Places for Art
Blank Canvas: August 23, 2017, Lavar Munroe
Generational Inheritance: Art institutions shape family and community and nation
Reporting from Sonia Farmer’s Infidelities Book Launch
From the Collection: “On the Way to Market” (ca. 1877-78) by Jacob F. Coonley
Blank Canvas: August 16, 2017, Mixed Media Summer Art Camp Recap
What’s in the frame: Tourism, art, installation and rebuilding the old whore of a body
From The Collection. “Bay Street on Fire” (2002) by Blue Curry
If an entire population moves, is it still a nation?: The consequences of censoring self.
Blank Canvas, August 9th, 2017, Alistair Stevenson
Studio Visit: Robin Hardy “Turning and Refining Salvaged Wood”
Mixed Media Summer Art Campers Shine at August Opening: The Joy of Fostering Creativity
The Blank Canvas: August 2nd, 2017, with John Cox and Natascha Vazquez from The Current at Baha Mar
Gendered norms and deconstruction: The body, the image and the ability to speak out for self.
Reporting From Rome: The Care in Curating
Studio Visit: Jessica Colebrooke “Crafting a Sustainable Future for Ceramics”
The Blank Canvas: July 26th, 2017 featuring Da Spot 242
Gender and the Dream: Confronting Stereotypes in Black masculinity.
From the Collection: “Let Us Prey” (1984-86) by Dave Smith
Studio Visit: Lavar Munroe. Finding New Meaning to a Familiar Space
From the collection: “Built on Sand,” (2003) by Dionne Benjamin-Smith
Blank Canvas, July 19th, 2017, Leasho Johnson and Edrin Symonette
What’s On at the NAGB: Resuscitating the land, reclaiming lost spaces
Art Documenting History: Intersecting complex histories with art
From The Collection: Amos Ferguson’s “Junkanoo Cow Face”
From the Collection: ‘Bishops, bishops everywhere and not a drop to drink’ (2003) by Dionne Benjamin-Smith
Blank Canvas, July 5, 2017, “The Bahamian Project”
Mixed Media Summer Art Camp: Igniting creativity
World Oceans Day Mural: Protecting our seas and supporting public artworks
From the Collection: Lynn Parotti’s “The Blastocyst’s Ball: A Journey Through the Drug Induced stages of IVF”
The Mark of a Woman: Portraits of black womanhood in the work of Gabrielle Banks.
Blank Canvas, June 22, 2017, UB Art Graduates and Keisha Oliver
From the Collection: Michael Edwards’ “Untitled II”
Balancing Act: Heino Schmid’s “Temporary Horizon” (2010)
The Blank Canvas, June 14, 2017, Abby Smith and Jackson Petit
Losing our steps: Intangible culture, living memory and the space for a culture to exist
Lamare’s Frame Building Workshop brings a crowd: Hands on experience at the NAGB
From The Collection: “A Native Sugar Mill” (ca. 1901) by William Henry Jackson
The Blank Canvas, June 7th, 2017, Tyrone Ferguson
NAGB Mural Call: Tellin’ We Story
The Blank Canvas, May 31st, 2017, Ubersee with Holly Bynoe and Jeffrey Meris
From the Collection: Blue Curry’s Nassau From Above
Cultural development and investment: The recognition of our cultural heritage
From the Collection: Lavar Munroe’s “The Migrant”
Helen Klonaris’ If I Had the Wings Book Celebration and Launch
The Blank Canvas: May 24, 2017 talking Tilting Axis 3 with Heino Schmid and Tessa Whitehead
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Lavar Munroe deconstructs “The Arrival”
A Distant Bahamas: “Native Hut” (1915) by Hartwell Leon Woodcock
The NAGB’s Summer Camp Takes a Walk Through Time
The Blank Canvas: May 17, 2017 with Owen Bethel and Renaldo Geumm
Cultural Heritage & Erasure: “Protecting our inheritance and patrimony”
Ferguson’s Fantastic Dragon: Blending the imagination with the biblical
The NAGB’s Mixed Media Summer Art Camp gears up for an exciting summer
Beauty in Bain Town: How does Over-the-Hill fit into the Bahamian picturesque?
May’s Artwork of the Month: Antonius Roberts “Procession of Females in White Uniforms”
The Blank Canvas: May 3rd, 2017 with Trevor Schoonmaker
The Liberal: Thierry Lamare’s Sincerity in Rendering Bahamian Life
The Blank Canvas: April 24th, 2017, Thierry Lamare
April Artwork of the Month – Kendra Frorup’s ‘Domestic Chickens’
Creating Thinking Spaces: Opportunity to think, opportunity to build, opportunity to grow.
The Blank Canvas: April 19, George V. Cox and John Cox
Margot Bethel’s Portal: Unpacking memories of Womanhood
The Gates of Transformation: The NAGB prepares for a new welcome
Building Community Effort: The NAGB Sculpture Garden unfolds with assistance from Rotary Club of East Nassau
The Blank Canvas: Dr. Craig Smith, Dr. Tiffany Austin and Alexia Tolas
NAGB Welcomes New Team Members: The Institution as Expansive and Limitless
“Pasting colours: Envisioning Alternatives” by Dr Ian Bethell-Bennett
March’s Artwork of the Month – Maxwell Taylor’s ‘Nassau Boy’ (1973)
“John Beadle’s Row Yah Boat: Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily life is but a dream.’ Wake up!” by Natascha Vazquez
NE8 Artist Talk at Hillside House: On Belonging
Blank Canvas: March 15th, US Embassy, Transforming Spaces and NAGB Permanent Exhibition
‘An we is woman too?’: Women and labour in the NE8
MAXAMOS: NAGB Travelling Exhibition to open in Hope Town, Abaco
The Blank Canvas: Patricia Leigh-Wood and Adrian D’Aguilar, March 8
’21st-Century Needs’: The cultural task to survive and thrive
‘Slam-Bam’ Sands: ‘The hastily hand-coloured colonial postcards of James “Doc” Sands.’
‘Picture Nassau’: Capturing and Redefining the Cultural Landscape
The Blank Canvas- March 1st with Cynthia Rahming, Natalie Willis and Alicia Wallace
Colonial desires in the 21st-Century: Using our image purposefully
The Blank Canvas: Feb 22nd, 2017 featuring Dr. Ian Bethell-Bennett, Jason Evans and Dr. Michael Pateman
The Blank Canvas: Feb 15 with Keisha Oliver and Lowree Tynes
NE8 Closing Event at Hillside House: Belonging
Kendal Hanna’s “Rainbow Explosion”: Finding self through abstraction
NE8 Artists’ Talk: In the Thick of Things
The Blank Canvas with Jordanna Kelly, Sue Katz and Dede Brown, February 8
January Artwork of the Month: Curtain call for the colonial in Sanford Sawyer’s studio photographs.
The Blank Canvas: Feb 1st, 2017: Ryan Turnquest
Considering the African Culture: Not forgetting the Asue
Just Another Version of You: A Workshop by Dede Brown
The Blank Canvas: January 25, Margot Bethel and Leanne Russell
Owning our Image: Radical reclamation of self
The Translation Conversation: Migration and navigating blackness in Bahamian womanhood
Look, Listen, Live: A space for artistic and cultural expression
Building Regional Allyship: Bridging the gap with art
The Blank Canvas: Jan 18, Christopher Cozier and Veerle Poupeye
CSA-NAGB Partnership announces Conference Booklet Cover Design Competition
The Blank Canvas: January 11th – Charlotte Henay and Angelique V. Nixon
Unearthing: Raising the voices, quieting the noise
Large Format Paper-making with Sonia Farmer
The Gall To Speak: NE8 artists venturing into Gaulin folklore
Amanda Coulson Named as Judge for the 2017 Jamaica Biennial
December Artwork of the Month: Hearth and heart – E. J. Read’s ‘Clay Oven’
Made in The Bahamas: Authentic action, authentic support
The Blank Canvas, December 28: Steven Schmid, Gio Swaby and Tamika Galanis
The Blank Canvas: December 21, 2016: Hilary Booker + Jon Murray
Activism as art, art as activism: How social practice opens dialogue for safe spaces and healing
Civil Engagement as Culture: Unearthing Voices
The Blank Canvas: Dec 14, NE8 Artists: Averia Wright and Dave Smith
Installation underway for the National Exhibition 8
Art, Culture and Representation: Reflecting on Self and Nation
The Blank Canvas, December 7: Stephanie Smith
Apathy, Antipathy, and Action: Political art and the potential for progress
NE8 presents The Moonflower Room at Hillside House
The Blank Canvas: November 30th, Leslie Vanderpool, BIFF and Derek Burrows
Different Strokes: Learning Through Painting at the NAGB
Through the eyes of a tourist: Oh Island in the Sun, Funky Nassau
Celebrating Women International: Recognition, representation, and diversity at the NAGB
From Columbus to Junkanoo Poster Competition
The Blank Canvas – November 23rd, University of The Bahamas Creative Identity Launch
The Blank Canvas, November 16 featuring Jordanna Kelly, Navarro Newton and Keith Thompson
November Artwork of The Month: “Five Children at the Water Pump” (1984) by Peggy Herring
Noted Photographer Antoine Ferrier Passes Away
The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas (NAGB) announces participating artists for National Exhibition 8.
The Blank Canvas: November 9th, Dede Brown and Dylan Rapillard
The Blank Canvas, November 2nd featuring Chantal e.y. Bethel
Indigeneity and Art: Defining our values
Krista Thompson Brings a Critical Eye to What is Confined to the Footnotes of Art History
The Eye of the Storm: Preservation and destruction
The Blank Canvas: October 26th, 2016
The Blank Canvas: October 19th, 2016
A Teetering Bimini: Thinking about The Old Man and the Sea
Bahamian contingent at MAC 2016
2016 NAGB Fall/Winter Film Series presents ‘The Maestro: King of the Cowboy Artists’
The NAGB to host FLOTSAM Workshop on October 1st, in support of ‘A Sustainable Future for Exuma: A Traveling Toolbox.’
‘The NAGB’s Eleutheran Adventure’: Rethinking Access
Our Reading Room: ‘Sustainable Exuma’ creates a comfy space for us to learn.
The NAGB hosts exhibition in Governor’s Harbour, Eleuthera
‘What’s On At The NAGB?’ A diverse lineup of exhibitions this September.
A Bahamian Aesthetic: Defining the local in the global
Urban Scrawl: The potential for public art projects in Nassau
‘A Sustainable Nassau?’ Working towards the possible
August Artwork of the Month -Amos Ferguson’s Junkanoo Cow Face: Match Me If You Can
A Sustainable Future For Exuma: Learning to live within our means, and with each other as global citizens
Cultural Tourism on Exuma: A gem for few, a gem for all
Breezes through Long Cay: Chapter 2
Fostering Curiosity: Reporting from Mixed Media Summer Camp
Breezes through Long Cay. Chapter 1: As Stories Fade
NAGB Artwork of the Month: “Pulling Nr. 1,” 1982. Woodprint by Maxwell Taylor
The Creative Industries: ‘New’ Waves of Development
A-Figuration: Emerging artist Nowé Harris-Smith’s obscured figures on view at the NAGB
San Salvador as Culture: Exploring New Economies, Working Against Collapse
Reflections on the Summer Film Series at the NAGB
June’s Art of the Month: ‘Sponge Yard’ (c. 1870): The Colonial Photography of Jacob Coonley
Lillian Blades ‘Quilts and Social Fabric: Heritage and Improvisation’
Art Supply Drive Exhibition – Sustain. Supply. Demand better.
Reporting from Gambier Mask Making Workshop
A communal effort: Helping hands build up NAGB Sculpture Garden
On EN MAS’ Exhibition responds to street festivals and masquerade
EN MAS’ opens with From Columbus to Junkanoo
NAGB hosts Mask Making Workshop at Gambier Primary
NAGB announces three exciting new exhibitions
Volunteer Weekend Brings New Life to the NAGB Art Park
A mélange of culture: Prominent intuitive artist documents heritage
NAGB Sculpture Garden Begins to Take Shape
The Drawbridge by Graycliff
What’s on at the NAGB Three new shows open this month
A lesson in preparedness
Leaving an impression: Grand Bahama’s schools get supplementary art materials, lessons
Collecting dreams: Candis Marshall’s ‘A Garden of Dreams’ is a hit
The NAGB returns to Grand Bahama A pop-up exhibition with works from the National Collection will be on view
Brent Malone’s ‘Metamorphosis’ is the March artwork of the month
What to expect at Transforming Spaces 2016
Brent Malone’s “Seaside Village” is the February Artwork of The Month
New rules eliminate hassle for artists exhibiting abroad
Conserving art in the tropical home
Both Sides of the Coin
The January Artwork of the Month is ‘Beller’
Reinforcing connection
The December Artwork of the Month is ‘Balinese Woman With Flamingoes’
The business of doing art: COB students get insight on marketing themselves
R. Brent Malone: Reincarnation Opens
Art and education at the NAGB
The NAGB moves full steam ahead: Three new team members come on board in time for upcoming exhibition
R. Brent Malone: Reincarnation opens this month at the NAGB
Max Taylor’s ‘What to Do?’ is the September Art Work of the Month
Allan Wallace’s ‘Let There Be Order’ is the August Art Work of the Month
Moving forward and upward
The writing on the wall
NAGB represents at Fiesta del Fuego
Soaking up sun and culture this July
The National Art Gallery welcomes the public to its summer events
The team behind the scenes
Cultivating connections: NAGB brings regional artists into the conversation
‘The Queen Staircase’ by Amos Ferguson is one of May’s artworks of the month!
Lavar Munroe’s ‘Migrant’
What’s on at the NAGB: Keep a lookout for the gallery’s upcoming artists’ talk and summer camp
Art’s healing properties
Members of the Caribbean visual art community demonstrate unity, progression at Tilting Axis conference.
Re-membering the past: Margot Bethel and Nicolette Bethel take on Transforming Spaces 2015 family-style
Enigmatick Funktification: Applying collaborative Junkanoo processes to painting
NE7 is just around the corner
Feature from the Exhibition: “Rootsy”
Fourth Annual AAA – 2013
Behind-the-Scenes: The John Beadle Project and Artists of The Bahamas
All-star Amateur Artist (AAA) Artwork: NE6 Edition
NAGB Out & About T-Shirt Competition
Feature From The Exhibition: Side Spaces
Feature From The Exhibition: Northeast Gallery 2
Feature From The Exhibition: The Pathways
Feature From The Exhibition: Northeast Gallery
Feature From The Exhibition: The Ballroom
NE6: Our Visitors Respond
NE6 Introduces a New Take on a Catalogue
Don’t Get Lost: New NAGB Symbols Explained
Artist Biography: Amos Ferguson
Director’s Review: Tales From New York
The All-Star Amateur Artists Night Amos Edition: Flyer, Rules and Application Form
From the Collection: John Beadle “Mass Transportation”
Highlight: Pictures from our Membership Drive Fair
Limited Edition, Hand Made T-Shirts
Straight From The Source: Interview With The Membership Department
How To: Shipping and Handling
Feature: About The Membership Department and Program
Highlight: Pictures from our Current Exhibitions
Permanent Exhibition: The Bahamian Landscape
Feature from the Exhibition: The Dragon
Ganoid’s and Madonnas: A Short Review of NAD Exhibition Two
Blank Canvas: The Creative Community
How To: The Proper Conservation and Preservation of Paintings
Feature from the Exhibition: The Middle Passage
Highlight: Pictures from Transforming Spaces
Feature from the Exhibition: Hot Summer Night
Be Firm But Be Fair: An Interview with Chief Curator, John Cox
Highlight: Pictures from the ‘As We Knew Him’ Exhibition Opening
Review: All-Star Amateur Artists Night
As We Knew Him: One Family’s Tribute to Jackson Burnside
How To: The Proper Conservation and Preservation of Artworks on Paper
Amos Ferguson Match Me If You Can: Photos of the Event
Feature: A Look Into the Role of the Curatorial Assistant
Feature from the National Collection: Emancipation Day Boat Cruise
Feature from the National Collection: Burnside Crowns a King
Review: Two Workshops, One Day, Two Stars!
The All-Star Amateur Artists Night: Flyer, Rules and Application Form
Feature: A Look Into the Role of the Curatorial Trainee
Feature from the National Collection: Crawfish Woman
New: In Gallery Guides for the Kendal Hanna Exhibition
NAGB Announces New Director and Staff Appointments
Local and Global: Kendal Hanna and William de Kooning
Feature from the Exhibition: Portrait of My Father (Unfinished)
Kendal Hanna’s “Happy Birthday To Me”
Welcome To Mixed Media!

Exhibition News

Teachers at Work: Art Across Disciplines
95%: Jordanna Kelly and Jenna Chaplin’s NELEVEN Installation
Portfolio Workshop: Lessons from Neoclassicism, The Romantics, and Ourselves
21 Artists Selected for the Eleventh National Exhibition at the NAGB
Villa Doyle and Beyond: Expanding the NAGB’s Footprint
Sounding the Alarm: Tanicia Pratt’s Blow the Whistle
Maelynn Ford Appointed Executive Director of the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas
NAGB Opens The Lobby: A Satellite Space in Grand Bahama
NAGB Announces Two Compelling Exhibitions: A Celebration of Straw Craft and an Exploration of Ecohorror  
Executive Director Opportunity
The Nation/The Imaginary Reading List
Justin Benjamin Explores Interiority in Vantage
Environmental Force: On Abstraction and the Nature of Survival
NAGB Receives $55K Donation for the National Collection
National Exhibition Eleven Call for Works
Interim Executive Director Departure
Blank Canvas: Nov 22, 2023
Blank Canvas: Nov 15, 2023 “Re: IMAGE” & “Invisible Returns”
Blank Canvas: Nov 8, 2023 Transforming Spaces
Blank Canvas: Nov 1, 2023 FUZE Art Expo Recap
Blank Canvas: Oct 25, 2023 featuring Leslie Vanderpool, D Sean Nottage, Kyle Turnquest, John Cox & Averia Wright
NAGB presents “Re: IMAGE” Short Film Series
Blank Canvas: Oct 18, 2023 featuring Steven Schmid, John Cox, Averia Wright, and Letitia Pratt
Blank Canvas: August 23, 2023 featuring Zearier Munroe-Wilkinson, Nowé Harris-Smith, and Sann Sann Lam
Welcome to the Past, Present, and Future: A Caribbean Futurist Read of Antonius Roberts’ Mabrika
Director’s Note on the Passing of NAGB Chairperson Emerita, Dr Gail North-Saunders
Blank Canvas: June 28th, 2023 featuring KEEYA
Blank Canvas: June 21st, 2023 featuring Brigidy Bram co-directors and producers, Kareem Mortimer and Laura Gamse
Blank Canvas: May 24th, 2023 featuring Samantha Treco of CAB, DAF featured artist Matthew Rahming, and Romel Shearer of TERN
Antonius, AfriCOBRA, and the Aesthetics of a True-True Bahamian
Blank Canvas May 3rd, 2023 featuring NAGB’s Interim Executive Director Dr. Ian Bethell Bennet, Pat Rahming and Arien Rolle
Blank Canvas April 26th, 2023 featuring NAGB’s Interim Executive Director Dr. Ian Bethell Bennet, artist-architect James Rolle and Arien Rolle
Call for Summer Camp Teachers
Blank Canvas: April 19th, 2023 featuring Chantal E.Y. Bethel, Jo Morasco, and Laurie Tuchel
Blank Canvas: April 5th, 2023 featuring Zearier Munroe Wilkinson, Nowé Harris-Smith, and Richardo Barrett
Blank Canvas: March 22nd, 2023 featuring Zearier Munroe Wilkinson, Community Outreach Officer, and Reagan Farrington, Educational Assistant
Blank Canvas: March 1st, 2023 featuring John Cox and Lynn Parotti
Blank Canvas: February 22nd, 2023 featuring Vice President of the Museums Association of Caribbean (MAC) Nyasha Warren and Dean of Liberal and Fine Arts at the University of The Bahamas, Dr. Douglas Barkey
Blank Canvas: February 15th, 2023 featuring Interim Executive Director of The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, Dr. Ian Bethell Bennett
Blank Canvas: February 8th, 2023 featuring MAC Treasurer, Susan Garcia & Board Member, Katarina Jacobson along with Bahamian Conference Hosts, Ulrich Voges of Central Bank Art Gallery and Katrina Cartwright of the NAGB
Blank Canvas: February 1st, 2023 featuring Artist, Antonius Roberts and Curator, Dr. Krista Thompson
Blank Canvas: January 26th, 2023 featuring Jodi Minnis, Tern Gallery
Blank Canvas: January 11th, 2023 featuring Reagan Kemp and Marknesha Bastian from I.C.E. Bahamas
Blank Canvas: December 14th, 2022 featuring members of the TERN team – Lauren Perez and Romel Shearer, and artists Florence St. George and Freya Bramble-Carter
Blank Canvas: December 7th, 2022 featuring female Bahamian recording artist and child protection activist, Ternielle “TaDa” Burrows
2023 MAC Conference “Power of Museums: Relevancy, Advocacy, Transformation”
Blank Canvas: November 23rd, 2022 featuring TERN (Jodi Minnis, Gallery Manager), The Current at Bahamar (Averia Wright, Curator and John Cox, Creative Director) and mixed media artist Kachelle Knowles
Blank Canvas: November 16th, 2022 featuring the new Inter-Island Traveling Exhibition (ITE), “Thirty: Island Perspectives” Curators
Blank Canvas: November 9th, 2022 featuring members of the TERN team – Amanda Coulson and Jodi Minnis—and artist Melissa Alcena, Bahamian documentarian and fine art photographer
Blank Canvas: October 26th, 2022 featuring NE10 artists Samantha Treco, Studio and Gallery Manager at CAB and Jodi Minnis, Gallery Manager at TERN
Blank Canvas: October 19th, 2022 featuring John Cox and Averia Wright from The Current at Bahamar team, Richardo Barrett from the NAGB, and “Beguile”artists DeDe Brown and Kachelle Knowles
19 Years of Bold, Biggity, Bahamian Art: Where Do We Go From Here?
Blank Canvas: October 12th, 2022 featuring Moya Thompson and Abby Smith from The Department of Cultural Affairs at The Ministry of Youth Sports and Culture
Blank Canvas: September 28th, 2022 featuring MAC President Joanne Hyppolite and Vice President Nyasha Warren
Blank Canvas: September 21st, 2022 featuring Averia Wright, Sue-Katz and Dylan Rapillard from “Fowl Play” at The Current at Baha Mar
Blank Canvas: September 14th, 2022 featuring NE:TEN “Mercy” artists Sonia Farmer and Yasmin Glinton Poitier and curator John Cox
Blank Canvas: August 24th, 2022 featuring artists Amaani Hepburn and Matthew Rahming from TERN’s “FIVE”
Blank Canvas: July 13th, 2022 featuring Bodine Victoria
Blank Canvas: June 29th, 2022 with Guest host Katrina Cartwright, NAGB Education and Outreach Manager, featuring Sann Sann Lam, Exuma Arts Network founder and colleagues Blake Fox (Education Officer) and Zearier Wilkinson (Community Outreach Officer)
Blank Canvas: June 15th, 2022 featuring BahaMian Trae
Blank Canvas: June 8th, 2022 featuring Dyah Neilson and Shacqeel Coleby of The D’Aguilar Art Foundation’s, “Salt & Earth”
Blank Canvas: June 1st, 2022 featuring Sonovia Pierre of the Department of Culture and Amard Rolle of the NAGB
The Graham Foundation Grant to Krista Thompson for “Antonius Roberts: Art, Ecology, and Sacred Space”
Blank Canvas: May 25th, 2022 featuring Tierra Ndlovu, Zearier Wilkinson and Amard Rolle
Blank Canvas: May 18th, 2022 featuring Cultural Icon, Timmay
Blank Canvas: May 11th, 2022 featuring Artists, Richardo Barrett, Averia Wright and Christina Wong, Curator of “11 Strong”
NAGB exhibition featured in ARTFORUM
Blank Canvas: March 23rd, 2022 featuring Artist, Kendra Frorup and Averia Wright, Curator, of “The Whimsical Collector”
Blank Canvas: March 17th, 2022 featuring John Cox , Curator of the NE10 Exhibition “Mercy”
Blank Canvas: March 9th, 2022 featuring Kachelle Knowles, Christina Wong and John Cox
Blank Canvas: March 2nd, 2022 featuring Sann Sann Lam and Zearier Wilkinson
Blank Canvas: February 23rd, 2022 featuring Travis Miller
Blank Canvas: February 16th, 2022 featuring Dawn Davies
Collecting Plates Project
Dawn Davies Book Donation
Blank Canvas: January 19th, 2022 featuring Antonius Roberts
Blank Canvas: January 12th, 2022 featuring Tiera Ndlovu
Blank Canvas: December 22nd, 2021 featuring artists Elkino Dames and Sofia Whitehead
Blank Canvas: December 15th, 2021 featuring artists Dr Ian Bethell Bennett, Errol Brewster, Averia Wright and Kachelle Knowles
Blank Canvas: December 8th, 2021 featuring John Beadle
Blank Canvas: December 1st, 2021 featuring artists from “The Evolution of The Arc”
Blank Canvas: November 24th, 2021 featuring Allan Jones, Dorlan Curtis and Caroline Anderson
‘Evolution of the Arc’
A Repository of Memories
Blank Canvas: November 17th, 2021 featuring Rhojai Burrows, Apryl Burrows and Kathy Hamilton
Blank Canvas: October 27th, 2021 featuring Deime Ubani of The Salus Project and “The Evolution of the Arc” Judges
Blank Canvas: October 20th, 2021 with Guest Host Katrina Cartwright featuring Ulrich Voges and Ruthjeana Johnson
Blank Canvas: October 13th, 2021 featuring Melissa Alcena, Tamika Galanis and Rodell Warner
Blank Canvas: October 6th, 2021 featuring Keisha Oliver
Blank Canvas: September 29th, 2021 featuring Marielle Barrow and Sonia Farmer
Blank Canvas: September 22nd, 2021 featuring Guest Host Katrina Cartwright and Blake Fox
Blank Canvas: September 8th, 2021 featuring Jodi Minnis and Tiffany Smith
Blank Canvas: August 25th, 2021 featuring Leanne Russell and Lynn Parotti
Blank Canvas: August 18th, 2021 featuring Bahamian filmmaker Kareem Mortimer and partner Julia Chatwin
Blank Canvas: August 11th, 2021 featuring guest host John Cox and Amanda Coulson
Blank Canvas: August 4th, 2021 featuring Katrina Cartwright and Exuma Arts Network Founder, Sann Sann Lam
Blank Canvas: July 28th, 2021 featuring Giovanna Swaby
Blank Canvas: July 21st, 2021 featuring Sound Waves Founder Tim Daniels and Exhibiting Artists
Blank Canvas: July 14th, 2021 featuring Ashley Cooper, June Collie and Jason Evans
Blank Canvas: July 7th, 2021 featuring Dominique Knowles and Heino Schmid
Blank Canvas: June 30th, 2021 featuring Averia Wright and Navarro Newton
Blank Canvas: June 22nd, 2021 featuring Education and Outreach Department
MMASC returns with “Jammin Visuals”
“Full Fathom Five” Mural Unveiled in North Eleuthera
Blank Canvas: June 16th, 2021 featuring Denzel Lightbourn and Deime Ubani
Blank Canvas: June 9th, 2021 featuring Tessa Whitehead and Leasho Johnson
Blank Canvas: June 2nd, 2021 featuring Pam Burnside, Nadine Ramphal and Sosefina Christie
Blank Canvas: May 26th, 2021 featuring Curators Natalie Willis, Richardo Barrett and artist Benjamin Ferguson
Blank Canvas: May 19th, 2021 featuring Floating Rib artists Kendra Frorup, Averia Wright and Jodi Minnis
Blank Canvas: May 12th, 2021 featuring Curator Natalie Willis, Floating Rib artists Margot Bethel and Khia Poitier
Blank Canvas: April 28th, 2021 featuring Anina Major and Tamika Galanis
Blank Canvas: April 21st, 2021 featuring April Bey, Margot Bethel and Tiffany Smith
Blank Canvas: April 14th, 2021 featuring Curator Natalie Willis
Blank Canvas: April 7th, 2021 featuring Lynn Parotti, Alison Thompson and Tatina Flores
Blank Canvas: March 31st, 2021 featuring Matthew Wildgoose and Brian Maycock
Blank Canvas: March 24th, 2021 featuring Kaché Knowles of iisabahamianbey
Blank Canvas: March 10th, 2021 featuring Central Bank Art Competition Open Category Prize Winners
Blank Canvas: March 3rd, 2021 featuring Rodell Warner
Blank Canvas: February 24th, 2021 featuring Kishan Munroe
Blank Canvas: February 17th, 2021 featuring Curators Bettina Pérez Martínez and Simone Cambridge with special guests artists Edrin Symonette and Nadia Huggins
Blank Canvas: February 10th, 2021 featuring Jodi Minnis and Kendra Frorup
Blank Canvas: February 3rd, 2021 featuring Jeffrey Meris
Blank Canvas: April 15th, 2020 – featuring George and John Cox
Blank Canvas: April 1st, 2020 featuring Larry Ossel-Mensah
Blank Canvas: March 25th, 2020 (featuring Kristin and Dede Brown)
Everybody and Dey Grammy
So Close Yet So Far
Blank Canvas: March 18th, 2020, ITE North Eleuthera
Blank Canvas: March 11th, 2020, Grand Bahamian “Refuge” Artists
Blank Canvas: March 4th, 2020, Transforming Spaces
Blank Canvas: February 26th, 2020, Christina Wong, Cydney Coleby and Heino Schmid
Blank Canvas: February 19th, 2020, Romel Shearer, Zearier Munroe and Jevon Thompson
Blank Canvas: February 12th, 2020, Bahamas Junkanoo Art & Music Festival
Max and Amos: Enchantment and Magical Realism in Service to Freedom
Blank Canvas: February 5th, 2020, Tamika Galanis
Blank Canvas: January 29th, 2020, Sonia Farmer and Orchid Burnside
Blank Canvas: January 22nd, 2020, Jodi Minnis, Nowe Harris-Smith and Spurgeonique Morley
Blank Canvas: January 15th, 2020, Lemero Wright, Jenna Chaplin and Dyah Neilson
Blank Canvas: January 8th, 2020, Leanne Russell
Blank Canvas: December 18th, 2019, Ritchie Eyma, Roshanne Minnis Eyma, Yutavia George and Matthew Rahming
Blank Canvas: December 11th, 2019, Arnold J. Kemp
Blank Canvas: December 4th, 2019, Amard Rolle and Blake Fox
Blank Canvas: November 27th, 2019, ITE Long Island
Blank Canvas: November 20th, 2019, Stan Burnside
Blank Canvas: November 13th, 2019, Angelika Wallace-Whitfield, Chantal Bethel and Jodi Minnis
“To Throw Rocks” Exhibition Opening at UB
Blank Canvas: November 6th, 2019, Central Bank of The Bahamas High School Art Competition
Blank Canvas: October 30th, 2019, Kendra Frorup
Blank Canvas: October 23rd, 2019, Deime Ubani
The Straw Paradox
I’s Man: Ian Strachan’s documentary on masculinity in The Bahamas captures the polemics of today’s ‘Man Crisis’. 
The Sea as Life: Cargo and VLOSA
Peggy Hering’s “Lilies” (1984): On Being Both Student and Teacher
From the Collection: “Solomon” (2000) by Stan Burnside
Blank Canvas: October 16th, 2019, Create Space reair
Blank Canvas: October 9th, 2019, Lynn Parotti
Blank Canvas: October 2nd, 2019, Max Taylor
Adaptability & Draughts(woman)ship: Kachelle Knowles Builds a Practice of Representation That Takes Action
Create Space: Art as Therapy
Open Call for “Refuge”: The NAGB stages a call for artwork as we recover, rebuild and restore the nation’s spirit.  
Hope Is All Around Us
Open Call for Works for “Refuge”
Blank Canvas: September 25th, 2019, Create Space
Traditional Knowledge Living in the Tropics: Respecting Lifeways
From the Collection​: “North Star” (2007-8) by Heino Schmid
Blank Canvas: September 18th, 2019, Kachelle Knowles and Richardo Barrett
We Live at the Undersides
Climate Refugees: On Becoming Climate Refugees or Building Back Differently
Blank Canvas: September 11th, 2019, The Brenton Story
Blank Canvas: September 4th, 2019, Small Axe reair
“Duran Duran”: Exploring Themes of Longevity and Survival in Kendra Frorup’s Work
Blank Canvas: August 28th, 2019, Dyah Nielson and Jonnique Beadle
From the Collection: John Paul Saddleton’s “West Hill Hidden Garden”
From the Collection: “The Deanery” (1979) by Alton Lowe
Epistemic and Cultural Violence: Powercutting as Light
Blank Canvas: August 14th 2019, Kim Smith and Andrew Ash
Summer Camp ends on a festive note: MMASC Exhibition and Awards Ceremony held at the NAGB
The Visual Life Of Social Affliction: Structures of Violence in the Caribbean
From the Collection: “Poor Man’s Orchid” (1989) by Sue Bennett-Williams
Blank Canvas: August 7th, 2019, Walteria Tucker-Rolle, Heino Schmid and Keisha Oliver
Finding Our Voices: Resisting Violence and Oppression
From the Collection: Jolyon Smith’s “Transformation” (1987) and imagining Black Bahamian futures
Blank Canvas: July 31st, 2019, Women’s Wednesdays
NAGB Announces Departure of Chief Curator, Holly Bynoe
Designing for Space: Working with Possible Futures in Mind
The Blank Canvas: July 24th, 2019, Mixed Media Art Summer Camp
From the Collection: “Untitled (Rake Bird)” by Tyrone Ferguson
The Blank Canvas: July 17th, 2019, WE Collective
From the Collection: Chelsea Pottery “A Brief Bahamian History of Clay”
Timelines: Developing Blackness
The Blank Canvas: July 3rd, 2019, John Paul Saddleton and June Collie
Demure Facade, Colourful History: Sterling Miller’s “Villa Doyle” (ca. 1969)
The NAGB “Parades through the Caribbean”
The Blank Canvas: June 26th, 2019, Jarrette Stubbs, Blake Fox and Ulrich Voges
There are several ways of finding yourself: Reporting from Tilting Axis 5
Unplugged Sessions at Fiona’s Theatre
Blank Canvas: June 19th, 2019, Vizcaya Museum and Gardens
Check Yourself: Thinking About Stereotypes and Chan Pratt’s Sincerity in Painting Over-the-Hill
“Wellington Street Dwelling”: Exploring the Bahamian Vernacular
UB and NAGB formalise agreement for the arts
Blank Canvas: June 12th, 2019, Richardo Barrett
Tilting Axis 6 to be hosted by NAGB in 2020!
Blank Canvas: May 29th, 2019, Rowena Poitier-Sutherland
Dialect and Diaspora: The Intuitive Art of Joseph “Joe Monks” Weaver
The Blank Canvas: May 22nd with Anthony “Big Mo” Morely
A Choice Landscape: The Early Work of the Late Chan Pratt and How Art Practice Gets Shaped by the Environment
Beauty and Loss in Tessa Whitehead and Chan Pratt’s Work: A Death Foretold, yet Not Dying
Blank Canvas: May 15th, 2019, The Current at Bahamar
From the Collection: “Ain’t I A Good Mother?”
Reconnecting to the Divine Feminine
Blank Canvas: May 8th, 2019, Diana Nawi
Of Beauty, Community, and Healing
The NAGB presents two breathtaking exhibitions: Chan Pratt and Tessa Whitehead shine a light on the landscape and personal stories.
The Blank Canvas: May 1st with Tessa Whitehead
Chan Pratt’s Work Speaks to the Urbanisation of the Bahamian Landscape
From the Collection: Rembrandt Taylor’s Madonna and Child
Blank Canvas: April 24, 2019, Lillian Blades
Blank Canvas: April 17th, 2019, Popeyes and Matthew Rahming
The Role of the Arts in Addressing Climate Change
“Rafiki– more than just friends” Honouring and fighting for love.
Blank Canvas: April 10th, 2019, Larry Ossei-Mensah
The Black Woman Body Paradox
Sitting Pretty Political: Amos Ferguson and the Reclining Women of Art History
NAGB Travel Grant in collaboration with Tilting Axis 5
The Blank Canvas: April 3rd with Saskia D’Aguilar and Alex Timchula
Saucy Expressions presents ‘Riddim n Tingum’ for the National Exhibition 9
The NAGB takes the ITE to Grand Bahama
Blank Canvas: March 27th, 2019, Allan Jones
Considering culture: More than a smile
Talking to the Dead: Tamika Galanis’ repatriates materials from the Alan Lomax archive and brings them home.
Blank Canvas: March 20, 2019, Dr. Amatoritsero Ede, Shivanee Ramlochan and Sonia Farmer
The God Self: Lessons on Self-Love from Emerging Artist Cydne Coleby
Tender Seedlings: Anina and A.L. Major Reflect on Pain and Love in the Bahamian Diaspora
Blank Canvas: March 13th, 2019, Jalan Harris and Kendra Frorup
Something About Failure: Tessa Whitehead’s intimate questioning on success, failure, and what makes art work.
Blank Canvas: March 6th, 2019, Eric Rose, Danny Davies and Jenna Chaplin
The Beauty and Charm of Colonialism: April Bey’s “Power Girl” Series
Push Out: Jodi Minnis and Ian Bethell-Bennett Investigate the Mythologies and Futures of Gentrification in Over-the-Hill
The Blank Canvas: February 27th, 2019: Seph Rodney
Mhudda: Jackson Burnside’s socially aware look at the struggles of the Bahamian “everyday”
Leaning on your community to create: Natascha Vazquez speaks on her first time National Exhibition
Blank Canvas: February 20th, 2019, Bahamas Junkanoo Art and Music Festival and “The Coloured Museum”
The National Exhibition 9 (NE)9) – An Opportunity for Reflection Part 2
The National Exhibition 9 (NE)9) – An Opportunity for Reflection Part 1
When We Are Like the Trees
Blank Canvas: February 13th, 2019, Cydne Coleby and Letitia Pratt
The Island Repeated: Toni Alexia Roach’s Patterned Approach to Confronting the Past
Blank Canvas: February 6th, 2019, Jalan Harris and Kendra Frorup
A Botanical of Grief: Yasmin Glinton and Charlotte Henay Connect with Ancestors’ Voices and Put Mother Tongue to Poetry
To Heal We Must Remember: Katrina Cartwright’s power figure uproots the past
Blank Canvas: January 30th, 2019, DC Pratt and the Island House Film Festival
The Grave Silence: Sonia Farmer and Shivanee Ramlochan give voice to victims of rape in The Caribbean
Under Attack: Averia Wright’s Elevating the Blue Light Special and the Dualities of Bahamian Identity
A Garden: Letitia Pratt Creates New Folklore in Response to Biblical Patriarchal Storytelling
Blank Canvas: January 23rd, 2019, Amaani Hepburn, Dwynette Rolle and Jarette Stubbs
“Water: The giver and the taker of life”: Edrin Symonette’s “Salt of the Earth”
Painting to heal: Artist Gabrielle Banks lays bare the burdens of her troubled past in NE9 submission
Strange Fruit: Kendra Frorup’s poignant banana plumes in “Inflorescence/Influence” for the NE9
Vulnerable ecologies: This Woman’s Work
Blank Canvas: January 16th, 2019, Charlotte Henay and Sonia Farmer
The Weight We Bear: Heino Schmid’s monumental drawings for the NE9
MasC Off: NE9 brings artists of different disciplines together to challenge social binary views on gender.
Blank Canvas: January 9, 2019, Anina Banks and Natascha Vazquez
Dave Smith “Violence, the beauty of paradise”: The art of capturing the lingering impact
“I ga’ gee’ you what you lookin’ for!”: Tamika Galanis gets to the heart of the Caribbean’s history of “looking”
Blank Canvas: January 2, 2019, Carlos Bain and Jay Koment
Utopian Ecologies: Alex Timchula’s microcosmic garden sculpture for the NE9
Speaking to views and gazes in the work of Eric Rose: Education, Space and Knowing your Place
Returning the Gaze: Melissa Alcena’s work for the NE9 seeks to challenge the gaze on the Black Bahamian body
Seeing the God in me: Jalan Harris’s “Self-Pollinate” and Cydne Coleby’s “A God Called Self” works
Field Notes on Planting Seeds in Uprooted Gardens
Everybody is hoping for something
NE9 Talks and Thoughts: Artists share their thoughts on the NE9
Blank Canvas: December 19, 2018, NE9 Artists
NAGB opens National Exhibition 9 (NE9) to wild acclaim
Blank Canvas: December 12, 2018, NE9 Artists
A Night in Pictures and Sound: Cultural Heritage Month Kicks Off at the NAGB
Danny Davis brings a colonial interpretation to NE9’s “The Fruit and The Seed.”
Blank Canvas: December 5, 2018, Abby Smith and Matthew Rahming
Denis Knight: An Incredible Journey (1926-2018)
Big Yard, Big Heart, Big Art: The NAGB Inter-Island Traveling Exhibition in North and Central Andros!
Blank Canvas: November 28, 2018, Max Taylor
The NAGB brings variety to the holidays: The holidays are for friends, family and art!
The Life and Death of Street Trees: Jenna Chaplin’s call to attention for the importance of street trees for the upcoming NE9
Blank Canvas: November 21, 2018, Jodi Minnis and Angelika Wallace-Whitfield
Art of The Bahamas: An era of negotiating self-definition
Blank Canvas: November 14, 2018, Richardo Barrett and Natalie Willis
Whimsical Bahamian Teapots: Book Launch & Exhibit for Jessica Colebrooke
Reporting from the 2018 Creative Time Summit screening at the NAGB: Showing up for our Future
The Architecture of Loss: Memorials, Memento Mori, and the Man from Milton Street
Blank Canvas: November 7, 2018, Jessica Colebrooke and Chantal Bethel
The long eye of culture.: A mash up, a hybrid
Making the connection: In conversation with Sasha Dees about her time of travel and research across the Caribbean
From the Collection: “The Bussett and the Monkey” (1991) by Amos Ferguson
Blank Canvas: October 31, 2018, Travolta Cooper
The Case for Lavar Munroe: The Son of Soil
Prominent International Conference Screening at the NAGB
Blank Canvas: October 24, 2018, Sasha Dees
“The Story of “ETA”: Blue/Green Ragged Island” Ideation in Art and Design
Murky Histories and Futures: “Digging Upward in the Sand” (2018) by Plastico Fantastico
Participating artists announced for National Exhibition 9
Friday Night Live! Scares at the NAGB: The NAGB hosts a special Night at the Museum
Blank Canvas: October 17, 2018, Janice Hall and Jarette Stubbs
Potcake Adopt-a-thon and Workshop at the NAGB
NAGB’s free Film Series returns: An interview with Travolta Cooper
Blank Canvas: October 10, 2018, Fusion Superplex
UBS Donates a National Treasure: The NAGB and the Bahamian people inherit a Malone masterpiece
Strange Darknesses: Lavar Munroe’s sinister fantasy creatures in the “specimens” series.
Blank Canvas: October 3, 2018, “POTCAKE” artists and Kim Aranha
The NAGB’s Film Series Returns
The Future of Democracy: Growing participation and engagement to shift thinking
“Who the Hell Do I Think I Am?” (2012) by Margot Bethel
Blank Canvas: September 26, 2018, E. Clement Bethel National Arts Festival
Painting a Park Anew
“Burma Road” (c2008) by Maxwell Taylor
The Aesthetics of Debt: Double Consciousness and Vision in the age new a new modernity
Blank Canvas: September 19, 2018, Dwight Laadan Ferguson and “The Future of Democracy”
Blank Canvas: August 12, 2018, Lavar Munroe
Lavar Munroe’s “Son of the Soil” and Potcake Exhibitions opens at the NAGB.
The art of connectivity: Sinking our roots further down.
From the Collection: “Cycle of Abuse” (2017) by Sonia Farmer
Blank Canvas: September 5, 2018, Expo2020 UB
The Art of Living in the Tropics, Part Three: Silence
Teachers’ Seminar at the NAGB jump-starts the new school year
From the Collection: “Untitled (Boat Scene)” (c.1920) by James “Doc” Sands
Blank Canvas: August 29, 2018, ALIV and EXPO 2020
NAGB Summer Camp comes to a close: Campers proudly show their work at the MMASC exhibition
“When The Lionfish Came”: Tamika Galanis chimes in for the people of the reef in dangerously rising tides.
Double Dutch “Hot Water” Opens!: Climate change, Ragged Island and vulnerable ecologies explored.
Bahamian Arts and Culture: The Fruit and the Seed Part 2
Blank Canvas: August 22, 2018, Plastico Fantastico
The Provocative: Drew Weech plays with the history of the nude in Western Art
Sinking: Field Notes on Loss and Belonging
National Exhibition 9 Deadline Extended till August 26th: Jurors and collaborations announced
Blank Canvas: August 15, 2018, Michael Edwards and Dr. Ian Bethell-Bennett
Remedies for Remembering: Darchell Henderson’s new mural on Hospital Lane reminds us of our histories of healing.
Friday Night Live draws great crowd in spite of the rain: Jazzing up the summer!
Boiling: Field Notes on Loss and Belonging
Blank Canvas: August 8, 2018, Mixed Media Art Summer Camp in Review
The art of living in the tropics. Part II: Hand come, hand go
Rebirth: Field Notes on Loss and Belonging
Blank Canvas: August 1, 2018, Tilting Axis
The NAGB wins awards for exhibition catalogues: Pushing design forward
A De-colonial Soundclash: The cacophonous chorus of the post-colony marks the end of “We Suffer To Remain”
The Fruit and the Seed – Part One: A conversation with the NAGB’s chief curator, Holly Bynoe, on the upcoming 9th National Exhibition.
Blank Canvas: July 25th, 2018, Sonia Farmer, Jason Evans and Yasmin Glinton
The art of living in the tropics: An art of survival?
NE9 open to musicians, spoken word artists, poets, writers and performance artists
Aftermath: Field Notes on Loss and Belonging
The Wisdom of Amos Ferguson: Reflections on the NAGB’s “Hard Mouth: From the Tongue of the Ocean”
Art Centering Woman: HARD MOUT GYAL, GOT A TONGUE LIKE THE OCEAN
Blank Canvas: July 11, 2018, Robin Hardy
National Exhibition 9: “The Fruit & the Seed” Call for Works
A Body Of My Own: Anina Major reclaims the body
NAGB hosts Open Community Forum: Making room for conversation and inquiry
Blank Canvas: July 4, 2018, Scharad Lightbourne and John Cox
On Our Memorial Gaps: Review of new exhibition, “Hard Mouth: From the Tongue of the Ocean,”
Africa, Agency, and Atom Spirits: Does the body remember the journey across the Atlantic?
NAGB Responds to British Council Decision
Blank Canvas: June 27, 2018, Delton Barrett and Sofia Whitehead
The Problems of Paradise: Thoughts on the NAGB’s Traversing the Picturesque
Mixed Media Summer Camp Spotlight: On Sharvez Woodside
CATALYST: Harmonising Actions and Trust Building in the Caribbean Creative Ecology
Blank Canvas: June 20, 2018, Eddie Chambers
Tilting Axis Curatorial Fellowship 2018: Bahamian, Natalie Willis, awarded!
Are We One With Nature? G. Paul Dorfmuller’s Nassau Corner
The NAGB welcomes Eddie Chambers: Cultural critic and writer presents public lecture at the NAGB
Blank Canvas: June 13, 2018, Nicole Yip
The Moving Image: The First Turn of the Revolution
Indigenous art takes the lead at the Mixed Media Art Summer Camp
Tall Order: An interview with Nicole Yip of LUX Scotland on meaningful exchange and working to decolonize the archive
Troubling Narratives: This is how we suffer to remain
Blank Canvas: June 6, 2018, Comm-Ed
Introducing Tilting Axis 2018 Curatorial Fellow, Natalie Willis
Blank Canvas: May 30, 2018, Jalan Harris and Furniture Plus
Blank Canvas: May 23, 2018, The Current Artists-in-Residence
Partnerships Present Opportunities for NAGB: NAGB is reaching beyond New Providence to Support Family Island Schools
From the Collection: “Crawfish Lady” (c2000) by Wellington Bridgewater
Sorry for What: I am not the sugar in your cup of tea
Blank Canvas: May 16, 2018, Netica Symonette and Angelika Wallace-Whitfield
“West Street” by Hildegarde Hamilton
NAGB’s Mural Programme
: Eleuthera: “Freedom” of Creative Expression
Eye on The Bahamas
Blank Canvas: May 9th, 2018, Mark Aronson
Care in the Craft: “Young Children” (nd) by Frank Otis Small
It’s not just black and white: It is also colour, light, shift and feeling
Friday Night Live! Review: Art and entertainment collide to create a special night
Blank Canvas: May 2nd, 2018, “We Suffer to Remain” Bahamian Artists
Traversing the Picturesque: A thought
The NAGB’s second travelling exhibition closes in Eleuthera
My Mouth is a Heartbreak: Anina Major’s “Wisdom Teeth” (2017)
Blank Canvas: April 25th, 2018, Steffon Grant
Open Call for Potcakes: Show us your potcakes!
 From the Collection: “East Street With Donkey and Cart” (1914) by E J Read
The Magic School Bus Initiative: The Central Bank partners with the NAGB to encourage school tours
Blank Canvas: April 18, 2018, Communication-Education
Potter’s Cay: Markets and the importance of public spaces
Over 800 Million Souls: An interview with Graham Fagen (Pt II) on his work in “We Suffer To Remain”
Fiona’s Theatre Opens: A moment of remembrance, celebration and love
MMSAC 2018 goes “Back to da Island”: The NAGB opens early registration for its annual summer camp
Reflecting on the life a gentle giant: George Cox, Pioneer and Visionary
Other Tongues: An interview with Graham Fagen (Pt I) on Scottish cultural amnesia and gazing into the mouth of silenced histories.
Blank Canvas: April 11, 2018, Annalee Davis and Gemma Hollington
Blank Canvas: March 28th, 2018, The Current at Baha Mar
Locked in our Bodies: A resurrection of voices
Beadle, the Mechanic: An Interview with John Beadle on his work for “We Suffer To Remain”, part II
Blank Canvas: March 21st, 2018 with Graham Fagen
“Who do we speak for?” An interview with John Beadle for the upcoming exhibition “We Suffer To Remain”
“Traversing the Picturesque: For Sentimental Value” – The Colonial Gaze
Blank Canvas: March 14th, 2018, Camilo Alvarez
Celebrating Bahamian Art: The Elliott Museum Exhibition Wrap Up
Vision, Materiality and Creativity: A pathway to innovation and development?
Time Travel and Building Bridges in “A True & Exact History”: An interview with Sonia Farmer, Pt II
Blank Canvas: March 7th, 2018, Transforming Spaces
Speaking of culture: Thinking about change
What Makes “A True & Exact History”?: An Interview with Sonia Farmer on her work for the upcoming exhibition “We Suffer To Remain”.
“TRANS: A Migration of Identity”: The National Collection Travels to Eleuthera.
Blank Canvas: February 28th, 2018, Team NAGB
“To Have and Not To Own”: An Interview with Anina Major (Part II) on bodies and history
Blank Canvas: February 21st, 2018, Steve Shane
Mural Walk & Talk: Introducing works from the National Collection in a whole new way
Lamenting Slavery: Unearthing our history through art.
Movements and Memory: An interview with Anina Major on art practice and the hauntings of history.
A Walk with Nettie: Communing with art, nature and culture
“Defender of the Faith”: Rembrandt Taylor’s Dragon-slayer.
Blank Canvas: February 7th, 2018, “Tamarind Journal”
“Prayer in a Dark Place” (2013) by Jace McKinney: Hope in spite of sinking feelings
William Sweeting’s “Two Natives at the Gate” (1971): As seen by our youth.
Blank Canvas: January 31st, 2018, Tru-Tru Bahamian Festival
From the Collection: “Untitled (Balcony House on Market Street)” (ca 1920) by James Osborne “Doc” Sands
The NAGB hosts Portfolio Workshop for Teens: Workshop gives students a memorable experience
Blank Canvas: January 24th, 2018, Tamika Galanis
This has all been said before: Art, Racism and the words of representation
NAGB hosts Portfolio Workshop for Teens
Open call for works featuring your Potcakes
Gaia Reimagined: “Mother Earth” (1992) by Clive Stuart
Blank Canvas: January 17th, 2018, DC Pratt
“That Vodou that who do?”: Ancestry, heritage, memory, and light in the work of Eric Jean-Louis.
Majority rule: A snapshot of our identity.
The Power of Imprisonment through language: The Eye for the Tropics and Majority rule in 2018 Bahamas
In Memoriam: Deon Dario McHardy aka Slime (1976-2017). The Bahamas loses another artistic talent.
Blank Canvas: January 3rd, 2018, Wendy Coakley-Thompson
Blank Canvas: December 27th, 2017, Bill Strickland
Blank Canvas: December 20th, 2017, ALIV and the University of The Bahamas
Spirituality without religion and religion without spirituality? The magic meeting of both
The NAGB celebrates an unforgettable night: Spirituality fills the air with hope.
Amos Ferguson’s “Jesus and the Good Semeriton” (nd): The Colour of God and Histories of Faith
Blank Canvas: December 13th, 2017, Jace McKinney and Steven Schmid
A Glitch in Time: Who’s in for the Saving?
Angelic Remembrance: Antonius Roberts’ memorialises women of faith
Interview with “Medium” artist Jace McKinney: McKinney shares insights into his practice
Blank Canvas: December 6th, 2017, Michael Edwards and Dr. Ian Bethell-Bennett
Prospect New Orleans Art Triennale: Bahamian and Caribbean artists celebrated
The NAGB Takes a New Look at Membership
Sitting with the Dead: “Medium,” a show of Bahamian Religion and Spirituality
Blank Canvas: November 29th, 2017, Lauren Holowesko and Natascha Vasquez
Seeking Divine Creativity: Allan Wallace’s new works revisits his religious upbringing
Golden Touch and Go: Jace McKinney’s imagines golden kings and living dangerously in “Trumped” (2013)
Unpacking Identity with Joiri Minaya
Blank Canvas: November 22nd, 2017, Pierre Richard Parsien, Pam Burnside and Holly Bynoe
Building empathy through culture: Taking a seat at your table
Blank Canvas: November 15th, 2017, Pro Gallery Celebration
Two Arts Professionals: One Mission
Creative Youth: Reevaluating our values and the work of young people.
The MAX/AMOS Exhibition: Last Stop, Exuma
From the Collection: “A Distant View of Nassau” (c.1857-1904) by Jacob F. Coonley
From Nassau to Long Beach: Bahamian artists participate in “Relational Undercurrents” exhibition at Museum of Latin American Art.
Blank Canvas: November 8th, 2017, Marina Reyes Franco
Some (Re)assembly Required: Melissa Alcena’s takes a soft lens on Black masculinity
Blank Canvas: November 1st, 2017, Melissa Alcena
(Un)Monumental: How do we re-contextualise historic sculptures for contemporary life?
Blank Canvas: October 25th, 2017, David Gumbs
Fabric Printing Workshop brings crowd to NAGB: NAGB Kicks off Fall Programming
The Domestic Not-So-Tourist: Marina Reyes Franco visits The Bahamas as recipient of the CPPC Travel Award
Re-Encounter: Thoughts of a Mad Mind
Blank Canvas: October 18th, 2017, Averia Wright and Spurgeonique Morley
The Nature of Art: In proverbial bloom
Re-encountering Identity: The newest Double Dutch exhibition, “Re: Encounter”
Searching for Empathy: Revaluing self in relation to others
Blank Canvas: October 11, 2017, DeDe Brown and Joiri Minaya
Cultivating the Local: In the wake of change
From the Collection: Maxwell Taylor’s “The Immigrants No.3” (c1990)
Mural Project Transforms Exuma International Airport
Blank Canvas: October 4, 2017, Kareem Mortimer
Boundaries, Borders and Brotherhood: “Proxemics: Personal Space/Commanding Stance” (2015) by John Beadle
In the wake of storms:  Moving forward as a nation displaced
Blank Canvas: September 27, 2017, The “Tingum Collective”
From the Collection: “Metamorphosis” (1979) by R Brent Malone
If an entire population moves, is it still a nation?: Post-Irma and Post-Colonial devastation
The Clapboard House: A Disappearing Relic within The Bahamian Landscape
Blank Canvas: September 20, 2017, Michael Edwards, Patricia Glinton-Meicholas and Dr. Ian Bethell-Bennett
The Art of Survival: Rebuilding for the future
Internationalising The Bahamas and its Orange Economy: Creating industries for the 21st Century
We Lost Two Cultures That Day: Hurricane Irma and the Loss of Cultural Material
Living in the Shadows of Empire: territories of dark and light
Max/Amos Bids Farewell in Exuma: The masters take a bow
Blank Canvas: August 30, 2017, Sofia Whitehead, Melissa Alcena and Tessa Whitehead
From the Collection: “Woman With Flamingoes” (1996-97) by R. Brent Malone
The Culture of Space: Places for Art
Blank Canvas: August 23, 2017, Lavar Munroe
Generational Inheritance: Art institutions shape family and community and nation
Reporting from Sonia Farmer’s Infidelities Book Launch
From the Collection: “On the Way to Market” (ca. 1877-78) by Jacob F. Coonley
Blank Canvas: August 16, 2017, Mixed Media Summer Art Camp Recap
What’s in the frame: Tourism, art, installation and rebuilding the old whore of a body
From The Collection. “Bay Street on Fire” (2002) by Blue Curry
If an entire population moves, is it still a nation?: The consequences of censoring self.
Blank Canvas, August 9th, 2017, Alistair Stevenson
Studio Visit: Robin Hardy “Turning and Refining Salvaged Wood”
Mixed Media Summer Art Campers Shine at August Opening: The Joy of Fostering Creativity
The Blank Canvas: August 2nd, 2017, with John Cox and Natascha Vazquez from The Current at Baha Mar
Gendered norms and deconstruction: The body, the image and the ability to speak out for self.
Reporting From Rome: The Care in Curating
Studio Visit: Jessica Colebrooke “Crafting a Sustainable Future for Ceramics”
The Blank Canvas: July 26th, 2017 featuring Da Spot 242
Gender and the Dream: Confronting Stereotypes in Black masculinity.
From the Collection: “Let Us Prey” (1984-86) by Dave Smith
Studio Visit: Lavar Munroe. Finding New Meaning to a Familiar Space
From the collection: “Built on Sand,” (2003) by Dionne Benjamin-Smith
Blank Canvas, July 19th, 2017, Leasho Johnson and Edrin Symonette
What’s On at the NAGB: Resuscitating the land, reclaiming lost spaces
Art Documenting History: Intersecting complex histories with art
From The Collection: Amos Ferguson’s “Junkanoo Cow Face”
From the Collection: ‘Bishops, bishops everywhere and not a drop to drink’ (2003) by Dionne Benjamin-Smith
Blank Canvas, July 5, 2017, “The Bahamian Project”
Mixed Media Summer Art Camp: Igniting creativity
World Oceans Day Mural: Protecting our seas and supporting public artworks
From the Collection: Lynn Parotti’s “The Blastocyst’s Ball: A Journey Through the Drug Induced stages of IVF”
The Mark of a Woman: Portraits of black womanhood in the work of Gabrielle Banks.
Blank Canvas, June 22, 2017, UB Art Graduates and Keisha Oliver
From the Collection: Michael Edwards’ “Untitled II”
Balancing Act: Heino Schmid’s “Temporary Horizon” (2010)
The Blank Canvas, June 14, 2017, Abby Smith and Jackson Petit
Losing our steps: Intangible culture, living memory and the space for a culture to exist
Lamare’s Frame Building Workshop brings a crowd: Hands on experience at the NAGB
From The Collection: “A Native Sugar Mill” (ca. 1901) by William Henry Jackson
The Blank Canvas, June 7th, 2017, Tyrone Ferguson
NAGB Mural Call: Tellin’ We Story
The Blank Canvas, May 31st, 2017, Ubersee with Holly Bynoe and Jeffrey Meris
From the Collection: Blue Curry’s Nassau From Above
Cultural development and investment: The recognition of our cultural heritage
From the Collection: Lavar Munroe’s “The Migrant”
Helen Klonaris’ If I Had the Wings Book Celebration and Launch
The Blank Canvas: May 24, 2017 talking Tilting Axis 3 with Heino Schmid and Tessa Whitehead
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Lavar Munroe deconstructs “The Arrival”
A Distant Bahamas: “Native Hut” (1915) by Hartwell Leon Woodcock
The NAGB’s Summer Camp Takes a Walk Through Time
The Blank Canvas: May 17, 2017 with Owen Bethel and Renaldo Geumm
Cultural Heritage & Erasure: “Protecting our inheritance and patrimony”
Ferguson’s Fantastic Dragon: Blending the imagination with the biblical
The NAGB’s Mixed Media Summer Art Camp gears up for an exciting summer
Beauty in Bain Town: How does Over-the-Hill fit into the Bahamian picturesque?
May’s Artwork of the Month: Antonius Roberts “Procession of Females in White Uniforms”
The Blank Canvas: May 3rd, 2017 with Trevor Schoonmaker
The Liberal: Thierry Lamare’s Sincerity in Rendering Bahamian Life
The Blank Canvas: April 24th, 2017, Thierry Lamare
April Artwork of the Month – Kendra Frorup’s ‘Domestic Chickens’
Creating Thinking Spaces: Opportunity to think, opportunity to build, opportunity to grow.
The Blank Canvas: April 19, George V. Cox and John Cox
Margot Bethel’s Portal: Unpacking memories of Womanhood
The Gates of Transformation: The NAGB prepares for a new welcome
Building Community Effort: The NAGB Sculpture Garden unfolds with assistance from Rotary Club of East Nassau
The Blank Canvas: Dr. Craig Smith, Dr. Tiffany Austin and Alexia Tolas
NAGB Welcomes New Team Members: The Institution as Expansive and Limitless
“Pasting colours: Envisioning Alternatives” by Dr Ian Bethell-Bennett
March’s Artwork of the Month – Maxwell Taylor’s ‘Nassau Boy’ (1973)
“John Beadle’s Row Yah Boat: Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily life is but a dream.’ Wake up!” by Natascha Vazquez
NE8 Artist Talk at Hillside House: On Belonging
Blank Canvas: March 15th, US Embassy, Transforming Spaces and NAGB Permanent Exhibition
‘An we is woman too?’: Women and labour in the NE8
MAXAMOS: NAGB Travelling Exhibition to open in Hope Town, Abaco
The Blank Canvas: Patricia Leigh-Wood and Adrian D’Aguilar, March 8
’21st-Century Needs’: The cultural task to survive and thrive
‘Slam-Bam’ Sands: ‘The hastily hand-coloured colonial postcards of James “Doc” Sands.’
‘Picture Nassau’: Capturing and Redefining the Cultural Landscape
The Blank Canvas- March 1st with Cynthia Rahming, Natalie Willis and Alicia Wallace
Colonial desires in the 21st-Century: Using our image purposefully
The Blank Canvas: Feb 22nd, 2017 featuring Dr. Ian Bethell-Bennett, Jason Evans and Dr. Michael Pateman
The Blank Canvas: Feb 15 with Keisha Oliver and Lowree Tynes
NE8 Closing Event at Hillside House: Belonging
Kendal Hanna’s “Rainbow Explosion”: Finding self through abstraction
NE8 Artists’ Talk: In the Thick of Things
The Blank Canvas with Jordanna Kelly, Sue Katz and Dede Brown, February 8
January Artwork of the Month: Curtain call for the colonial in Sanford Sawyer’s studio photographs.
The Blank Canvas: Feb 1st, 2017: Ryan Turnquest
Considering the African Culture: Not forgetting the Asue
Just Another Version of You: A Workshop by Dede Brown
The Blank Canvas: January 25, Margot Bethel and Leanne Russell
Owning our Image: Radical reclamation of self
The Translation Conversation: Migration and navigating blackness in Bahamian womanhood
Look, Listen, Live: A space for artistic and cultural expression
Building Regional Allyship: Bridging the gap with art
The Blank Canvas: Jan 18, Christopher Cozier and Veerle Poupeye
CSA-NAGB Partnership announces Conference Booklet Cover Design Competition
The Blank Canvas: January 11th – Charlotte Henay and Angelique V. Nixon
Unearthing: Raising the voices, quieting the noise
Large Format Paper-making with Sonia Farmer
The Gall To Speak: NE8 artists venturing into Gaulin folklore
Amanda Coulson Named as Judge for the 2017 Jamaica Biennial
December Artwork of the Month: Hearth and heart – E. J. Read’s ‘Clay Oven’
Made in The Bahamas: Authentic action, authentic support
The Blank Canvas, December 28: Steven Schmid, Gio Swaby and Tamika Galanis
The Blank Canvas: December 21, 2016: Hilary Booker + Jon Murray
Activism as art, art as activism: How social practice opens dialogue for safe spaces and healing
Civil Engagement as Culture: Unearthing Voices
The Blank Canvas: Dec 14, NE8 Artists: Averia Wright and Dave Smith
Installation underway for the National Exhibition 8
Art, Culture and Representation: Reflecting on Self and Nation
The Blank Canvas, December 7: Stephanie Smith
Apathy, Antipathy, and Action: Political art and the potential for progress
NE8 presents The Moonflower Room at Hillside House
The Blank Canvas: November 30th, Leslie Vanderpool, BIFF and Derek Burrows
Different Strokes: Learning Through Painting at the NAGB
Through the eyes of a tourist: Oh Island in the Sun, Funky Nassau
Celebrating Women International: Recognition, representation, and diversity at the NAGB
From Columbus to Junkanoo Poster Competition
The Blank Canvas – November 23rd, University of The Bahamas Creative Identity Launch
The Blank Canvas, November 16 featuring Jordanna Kelly, Navarro Newton and Keith Thompson
November Artwork of The Month: “Five Children at the Water Pump” (1984) by Peggy Herring
Noted Photographer Antoine Ferrier Passes Away
The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas (NAGB) announces participating artists for National Exhibition 8.
The Blank Canvas: November 9th, Dede Brown and Dylan Rapillard
The Blank Canvas, November 2nd featuring Chantal e.y. Bethel
Indigeneity and Art: Defining our values
Krista Thompson Brings a Critical Eye to What is Confined to the Footnotes of Art History
The Eye of the Storm: Preservation and destruction
The Blank Canvas: October 26th, 2016
The Blank Canvas: October 19th, 2016
A Teetering Bimini: Thinking about The Old Man and the Sea
Bahamian contingent at MAC 2016
2016 NAGB Fall/Winter Film Series presents ‘The Maestro: King of the Cowboy Artists’
The NAGB to host FLOTSAM Workshop on October 1st, in support of ‘A Sustainable Future for Exuma: A Traveling Toolbox.’
‘The NAGB’s Eleutheran Adventure’: Rethinking Access
Our Reading Room: ‘Sustainable Exuma’ creates a comfy space for us to learn.
The NAGB hosts exhibition in Governor’s Harbour, Eleuthera
‘What’s On At The NAGB?’ A diverse lineup of exhibitions this September.
A Bahamian Aesthetic: Defining the local in the global
Urban Scrawl: The potential for public art projects in Nassau
‘A Sustainable Nassau?’ Working towards the possible
August Artwork of the Month -Amos Ferguson’s Junkanoo Cow Face: Match Me If You Can
A Sustainable Future For Exuma: Learning to live within our means, and with each other as global citizens
Cultural Tourism on Exuma: A gem for few, a gem for all
Breezes through Long Cay: Chapter 2
Fostering Curiosity: Reporting from Mixed Media Summer Camp
Breezes through Long Cay. Chapter 1: As Stories Fade
NAGB Artwork of the Month: “Pulling Nr. 1,” 1982. Woodprint by Maxwell Taylor
The Creative Industries: ‘New’ Waves of Development
A-Figuration: Emerging artist Nowé Harris-Smith’s obscured figures on view at the NAGB
San Salvador as Culture: Exploring New Economies, Working Against Collapse
Reflections on the Summer Film Series at the NAGB
June’s Art of the Month: ‘Sponge Yard’ (c. 1870): The Colonial Photography of Jacob Coonley
Lillian Blades ‘Quilts and Social Fabric: Heritage and Improvisation’
Art Supply Drive Exhibition – Sustain. Supply. Demand better.
Reporting from Gambier Mask Making Workshop
A communal effort: Helping hands build up NAGB Sculpture Garden
On EN MAS’ Exhibition responds to street festivals and masquerade
EN MAS’ opens with From Columbus to Junkanoo
NAGB hosts Mask Making Workshop at Gambier Primary
NAGB announces three exciting new exhibitions
Volunteer Weekend Brings New Life to the NAGB Art Park
A mélange of culture: Prominent intuitive artist documents heritage
NAGB Sculpture Garden Begins to Take Shape
The Drawbridge by Graycliff
What’s on at the NAGB Three new shows open this month
A lesson in preparedness
Leaving an impression: Grand Bahama’s schools get supplementary art materials, lessons
Collecting dreams: Candis Marshall’s ‘A Garden of Dreams’ is a hit
The NAGB returns to Grand Bahama A pop-up exhibition with works from the National Collection will be on view
Brent Malone’s ‘Metamorphosis’ is the March artwork of the month
What to expect at Transforming Spaces 2016
Brent Malone’s “Seaside Village” is the February Artwork of The Month
New rules eliminate hassle for artists exhibiting abroad
Conserving art in the tropical home
Both Sides of the Coin
The January Artwork of the Month is ‘Beller’
Reinforcing connection
The December Artwork of the Month is ‘Balinese Woman With Flamingoes’
The business of doing art: COB students get insight on marketing themselves
R. Brent Malone: Reincarnation Opens
Art and education at the NAGB
The NAGB moves full steam ahead: Three new team members come on board in time for upcoming exhibition
R. Brent Malone: Reincarnation opens this month at the NAGB
Max Taylor’s ‘What to Do?’ is the September Art Work of the Month
Allan Wallace’s ‘Let There Be Order’ is the August Art Work of the Month
Moving forward and upward
The writing on the wall
NAGB represents at Fiesta del Fuego
Soaking up sun and culture this July
The National Art Gallery welcomes the public to its summer events
The team behind the scenes
Cultivating connections: NAGB brings regional artists into the conversation
‘The Queen Staircase’ by Amos Ferguson is one of May’s artworks of the month!
Lavar Munroe’s ‘Migrant’
What’s on at the NAGB: Keep a lookout for the gallery’s upcoming artists’ talk and summer camp
Art’s healing properties
Members of the Caribbean visual art community demonstrate unity, progression at Tilting Axis conference.
Re-membering the past: Margot Bethel and Nicolette Bethel take on Transforming Spaces 2015 family-style
Enigmatick Funktification: Applying collaborative Junkanoo processes to painting
NE7 is just around the corner
Feature from the Exhibition: “Rootsy”
Fourth Annual AAA – 2013
Behind-the-Scenes: The John Beadle Project and Artists of The Bahamas
All-star Amateur Artist (AAA) Artwork: NE6 Edition
NAGB Out & About T-Shirt Competition
Feature From The Exhibition: Side Spaces
Feature From The Exhibition: Northeast Gallery 2
Feature From The Exhibition: The Pathways
Feature From The Exhibition: Northeast Gallery
Feature From The Exhibition: The Ballroom
NE6: Our Visitors Respond
NE6 Introduces a New Take on a Catalogue
Don’t Get Lost: New NAGB Symbols Explained
Artist Biography: Amos Ferguson
Director’s Review: Tales From New York
The All-Star Amateur Artists Night Amos Edition: Flyer, Rules and Application Form
From the Collection: John Beadle “Mass Transportation”
Highlight: Pictures from our Membership Drive Fair
Limited Edition, Hand Made T-Shirts
Straight From The Source: Interview With The Membership Department
How To: Shipping and Handling
Feature: About The Membership Department and Program
Highlight: Pictures from our Current Exhibitions
Permanent Exhibition: The Bahamian Landscape
Feature from the Exhibition: The Dragon
Ganoid’s and Madonnas: A Short Review of NAD Exhibition Two
Blank Canvas: The Creative Community
How To: The Proper Conservation and Preservation of Paintings
Feature from the Exhibition: The Middle Passage
Highlight: Pictures from Transforming Spaces
Feature from the Exhibition: Hot Summer Night
Be Firm But Be Fair: An Interview with Chief Curator, John Cox
Highlight: Pictures from the ‘As We Knew Him’ Exhibition Opening
Review: All-Star Amateur Artists Night
As We Knew Him: One Family’s Tribute to Jackson Burnside
How To: The Proper Conservation and Preservation of Artworks on Paper
Amos Ferguson Match Me If You Can: Photos of the Event
Feature: A Look Into the Role of the Curatorial Assistant
Feature from the National Collection: Emancipation Day Boat Cruise
Feature from the National Collection: Burnside Crowns a King
Review: Two Workshops, One Day, Two Stars!
The All-Star Amateur Artists Night: Flyer, Rules and Application Form
Feature: A Look Into the Role of the Curatorial Trainee
Feature from the National Collection: Crawfish Woman
New: In Gallery Guides for the Kendal Hanna Exhibition
NAGB Announces New Director and Staff Appointments
Local and Global: Kendal Hanna and William de Kooning
Feature from the Exhibition: Portrait of My Father (Unfinished)
Kendal Hanna’s “Happy Birthday To Me”
Welcome To Mixed Media!