Joining host, Amanda Coulson, on The Blank Canvas tonight are Tessa Whitehead, curator of the upcoming show at The D’Aguilar Art Foundation, entitled “Diversions” and participating artists Melissa Alcena and Sofia Whitehead.
Take a deep dive into the artistic journey of Antonius Roberts – one of the most revered Bahamian artists of our time. In this exclusive interview conducted by the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas (NAGB), Antonius shares his insights into the creative process and the inspiration behind his current exhibition “Antonius Roberts: Art, Ecology, and Sacred Spaces.”
On Blank Canvas, host Amard Rolle (the NAGB’s Executive Assistant)is joined by Brigidy Bram co-directors and producers, Kareem Mortimer and Laura Gamse.
On Blank Canvas, host Amard Rolle (the NAGB’s Executive Assistant)discuss a busy two weeks of exciting exhibitions for the art community with Samantha Treco of CAB, DAF featured artist Matthew Rahming, and Romel Shearer of TERN.
On tonight’s Blank Canvas, host Amard Rolle (the NAGB’s Executive Assistant) is joined by Antonius Roberts and Dr Krista Thompson, in anticipation of the opening of his retrospective exhibition this Thursday.
On today’s Blank Canvas, the show on which we discuss visual culture and creative community, your guest host Katrina Cartwright, NAGB Education and Outreach Manager is joined by TERN (Jodi Minnis, Gallery Manager), The Current at Bahamar (Averia Wright, Curator and John Cox, Creative Director) and mixed media artist Kachelle Knowles.
On this week’s Blank Canvas, our host, Amard, was visited by Averia Wright, Sue-Katz and Dylan Rapillard to discuss the quirky, endearing and very vibrant exhibition “Fowl Play” on display at The Current at Baha Mar from Friday, September 23rd through October.
On today’s Blank Canvas, the show on which we discuss visual culture and creative community, your Guest host Katrina Cartwright is joined in the studio by “Mercy” artists Sonia Farmer and Yasmin Glinton Poitier and curator John Cox, as they delve into this complex and thought-provoking theme and share tidbits on the show which opens October 6th, 2022.
Kendra Frorup’s “Melody in the Men’s Room” (2010) sees an old, polished brass handrail becomes the amplifier of the most contrarily inconspicuous-yet-sizeable music box many of us will ever have the pleasure to encounter. The tubing of the handrail becomes a megaphone for the delicate mechanisms of a tiny coconut-rose ballerina perched lightly atop its surface. There is a deftness and sophistication with which she repurposes – or rather, reinvigorates – these found pieces of material from the mundane to the magical.
