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NAGB x Tin Ferl: Open Call
NAGB receives generous donation from Atlantis
National Exhibition Eleven Call for Works
Interim Executive Director Departure
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
Antonius, AfriCOBRA, and the Aesthetics of a True-True Bahamian
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: 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
The Graham Foundation Grant to Krista Thompson for “Antonius Roberts: Art, Ecology, and Sacred Space”
NAGB exhibition featured in ARTFORUM
In Memory of F. Marina D’Aguilar
‘Evolution of the Arc’
A Repository of Memories
MMASC returns with “Jammin Visuals”
“Full Fathom Five” Mural Unveiled in North Eleuthera
Blank Canvas: April 8th, 2020 (Seph Rodney Re-air)
Blank Canvas: April 1st, 2020 featuring Larry Ossel-Mensah
NAGB Team Member Favourite Artwork – Stan Burnside’s “Solomon”
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
NAGB Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update
The Inter-Island Travelling Exhibition goes to North Eleuthera
Blank Canvas: February 12th, 2020, Bahamas Junkanoo Art & Music Festival
Transforming Spaces Announces 2020 Tour
Max and Amos: Enchantment and Magical Realism in Service to Freedom
Blank Canvas: September 25th, 2019, Create Space
The NAGB a collection site for hurricane relief supplies
The NAGB’s Film Series Returns
National Exhibition 9: “The Fruit & the Seed” Call for Works
NAGB hosts Portfolio Workshop for Teens
NAGB Closed until Thursday, December 14th at 6 p.m.
Leaving an impression: Grand Bahama’s schools get supplementary art materials, lessons

Museum News

Executive Director Opportunity
The Nation/The Imaginary Reading List
Vantage: Justin Benjamin
NAGB x Tin Ferl: Open Call
Environmental Force: On Abstraction and the Nature of Survival
NAGB receives generous donation from Atlantis
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
The NAGB’s National Exhibitions: 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”
Artwork Highlight: Melody in the Men’s Room
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
In Memory of F. Marina D’Aguilar
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 8th, 2020 (Seph Rodney Re-air)
Blank Canvas: April 1st, 2020 featuring Larry Ossel-Mensah
Blank Canvas: March 25th, 2020 (featuring Kristin and Dede Brown)
NAGB Team Member Favourite Artwork – Stan Burnside’s “Solomon”
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
NAGB Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update
The Inter-Island Travelling Exhibition goes to North Eleuthera
Blank Canvas: February 12th, 2020, Bahamas Junkanoo Art & Music Festival
Transforming Spaces Announces 2020 Tour
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
Cubism, Glyphing and Solidarity In and Through Art
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’. 
No mud, no lotus
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
Hope is all around us
Blank Canvas: September 25th, 2019, Create Space
Traditional knowledge living in the tropics: Respecting lifeways
Alleviate: An Art Auction for Hurricane Relief
From the Collection​: “North Star” (2007-8) by Heino Schmid
NAGB collating data to help displaced artists affected by Hurricane Dorian
Blank Canvas: September 18th, 2019, Kachelle Knowles and Richardo Barrett
NAGB Donation Drive
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
The NAGB a collection site for hurricane relief supplies
“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
CACIQUE ARTIST IN THE SPOTLIGHT | TESSA WHITEHEAD 2.0
THERE ARE SEVERAL WAYS OF FINDING YOURSELF: Reporting from Tilting Axis 5
Unplugged Sessions at Fiona’s Theatre
ETHAN KNOWLES’ FRESH MILK RESIDENCY – WEEK 1
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 Formalize 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 – literal and imagined.
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: Tessa Whitehead challenges the perception of contemporary Bahamian painting
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: “Resurrection” – 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: Kendal Hanna explores the environment through abstraction
“Rafiki– more than just friends” Honouring and fighting for love.
Blank Canvas: April 10th, 2019, Larry Ossei-Mensah
The Black Woman Body Paradox: Joann Behagg draws attention to the struggle of Black Women of size and celebrates their strength.
Sitting Pretty Political: Amos Ferguson’s contribution to 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 Weight of the Tide: Lynn Parotti’s “Time Under Tension” in Review
The NAGB takes the ITE to Grand Bahama
Blank Canvas: March 27th, 2019, Allan Jones
Unveiling Ceremony for Lewis St Mural Project!
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 Cultural Surface: In conversation with visual artist Christopher Outten on the becomings of his debut exhibition
The God Self: Lessons on self-love from emerging artist Cydne Coleby
Tender Seedlings: Anina and A.L. Major put words and form in motion to give us the pain and love of the Bahamian diaspora
Blank Canvas: March 13th, 2019, Jalan Harris and Kendra Frorup
He is living in the hands of the finance man: Review of Der Real Ting
Something About Failure: Tessa Whitehead’s intimate questioning on success, failure, and what makes art work.
In Then Again… Drew Weech
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 Bethel 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
Gabrielle Banks’ works supported at upcoming Sotheby’s Auction “By Women for Tomorrow’s Women”
Blank Canvas: February 13th, 2019, Cydne Coleby and Letitia Pratt
The Island Repeated: Toni Alexia Roach’s patterned approach to confronting the past
The Miseducation of Cameron Post: A much-needed education in empathy for the region
Transforming Spaces 2019!
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 the biblical patriarchal storytelling surrounding women and their sexualities
“TIME UNDER TENSION” with Lynn Parotti at the D’Aguilar Art Foundation
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
BRIDGET JONES TRAVEL AWARD 2019
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
✨Happy Holidays from Your Team NAGB ✨
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
All the Small Things: Jordanna Kelly and the Process of Creation
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 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
June Collie and the Construction of Beauty
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
MYSC Summer Youth Programs: Giving youth a sense of hope
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.
The Hon. Minister Lanisha Rolle visits the campus of the NAGB
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
Letter to the Editor: “The Power of Art” by Pam Burnside
Delton Barrett’s Imagined Landscape: Photographer finds new self in solitude.
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