Tonight, Bahamian artist Jeffrey Meris, will be on the “Blank Canvas” to speak about his journey from the Junkanoo shack to Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia for his Bachelors’ and from Columbia University in New York for his Master’s to recently completing the prestigious residency NXTHVN in New Haven.
As your regular host Amanda Coulson (NAGB Executive Director) stays home and safe during this COVID-19 pandemic, we visit the “Blank Canvas” archives to bring back some great shows and pay tribute to those we have lost.
Tonight we will reair the April 10th, 2019 episode, featuring international curator, Larry Ossei-Mensah who came to scope out the art scene in The Bahamas and we’re really pleased to have had him in the Blank Canvas studio!
The NAGB is currently closed due to COVID-19, but when the museum reopens please visit us to view the stunning “Refuge” show. Your regular host Amanda Coulson invites artistic duo, the sisters Kristin and Dede Brown, into the Blank Canvas studio to discuss their moving piece, “In the Faces of Tragedy” which is one of the showstoppers at the NAGB’s post-Hurricane Dorian exhibition.
On tonight’s Blank Canvas guest host Katrina Cartwright, NAGB Education and Outreach Manager, is joined by NAGB colleagues Natalie Willis, Assistant Curator and Blake Fox, Education Assistant. Both Willis and Fox have recently returned from North Eleuthera where, they worked with Zearier Munroe, Community Outreach Officer, to take the newest iteration of the NAGB’s Inter-Island Travelling Exhibition (ITE), “From Time: Water Has A Perfect Memory” and its accompanying programming.
On a very special Blank Canvas, your regular host Amanda Coulson (NAGB’s Executive Director, centre) gathered together all of the Grand Bahamian artists participating in the exhibition “Refuge,” currently on view at the NAGB, to give them the opportunity to speak about their work and their continued challenges post-Dorian. For listeners to understand just how complicated life still is for our creatives in the areas most badly hit, it took us about 5 weeks to organise this show!
On tonight’s Blank Canvas we learn all about this year’s “Transforming Spaces” now in its 16th year! This annual cross-island bus tour will include six spaces this year — the new Project ICE (Incubator for Creative Expression by Antonius Roberts (far left) in collaboration with Central Bank of The Bahamas (second from left: CBoB Curator, Ulrich Voges); The Current at Baha Mar, presenting artist Jodi Minnis (third from left with Natascha Vasquez-Pyfrom from The Current); the NAGB (middle: Richardo Barrett, Associate Curator and your host Amanda Coulson); the D’Aguilar Art Foundation (far right, DAF curator Tessa Whitehead), Doongalik and University of The Bahamas (UB).
Tonight the Blank Canvas studio hosts three artists in the “Refuge” exhibition, currently on view at the NAGB until March 29th, 2020.
On tonight’s Blank Canvas, guest host Katrina Cartwright, NAGB Education and Outreach Manager, is joined by artist Jevon Thompson and NAGB team members Romel Shearer (Project Assistant) and Zearier Munroe (Community Outreach Officer). They discuss their experiences at the museum and their participation in the NAGB’s mural programme.
On tonight’s Blank Canvas, the Executive Director, Amanda Coulson, is joined by representatives of the Bahamas Junkanoo Art & Music Festival.
Angelique McKay is the Founder and Artistic Director and she shares her artistic vision for the Bahamas Junkanoo Art & Music Festival. It must be noted that she is also the CEO and Founder of the Cacique Award-winning Junkanoo Commandos.