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On this week’s “Blank Canvas,” Amanda is visited in the studio by Bahamian artist Lavar Munroe.

Born and raised in Grant’s Town, Munroe has been moving from strength-to-strength on the global stage and is well-known in international art circles, having participated in the prestigious Venice Biennale, as well as having had museum and gallery shows. He studied at SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design) and completed a Masters at Washington University in St. Louis in 2013. Since then he has had a studio practice based largely in the United States.

Today on Blank Canvas guest host John Cox, Bahamar Creative Art Director, is joined by artist Alistair Stevenson to discuss his upcoming artist talk and exhibition “All of My Emotions”.

On tonight’s “Blank Canvas,” Amanda welcomes back the original host, John Cox (Creative Art Director at Baha Mar) and his colleague at The Current, Natascha Vasquez (Creative Arts Programme Manager) to speak about the arts programme being developed at the new resort on Cable Beach.

On tomorrow night’s “Blank Canvas,” Amanda is joined in the studio by members of “Da Spot 242,” the comedy improv troupe including  Garsekani Nash (far left), Erin Greene (middle), Candy Rigby (second from right) and Gianno Wallace (far right). 

On Wednesday evening’s “Blank Canvas,” as part of the NAGB’s continuing series of “Double Dutch,” your host Amanda Coulson (NAGB Director, middle) is visited in the studio by Bahamian artist Edrin Symonette (right) and Jamaican artist Leasho Johnson (left), who speak to their individual artistic practices and their collaborative exhibition, opening on Friday night at 7 p.m. “Of Skin and Sand.”

On this week’s “Blank Canvas,” NAGB Director Amanda Coulson speaks to participating artists in the ongoing photographic opus, “The Bahamian Project” (www.bahamianproject.com), the next leg of which opens on Thursday night at the Central Bank Art Gallery with the participation of 21 photographers, including Guilden M. Gilbert, Jr. (far right) who joins us in the studio tonight, along with the project’s founder/creative director Duke Wells (far left) and founder/project manager Ana-Lisa Wells (middle right).

Tonight’s “Blank Canvas” highlights the UB Graduate show, which is being held tomorrow night, June 22nd, at Hillside House on Cumberland Street between 6 pm to 8 pm.

Our guests are Keisha Oliver (left) Programme Coordinator for the Arts at UB; Matthew Rahming (middle right) a second year art student at UB; and Moriah Lightbourn (far right), one of the first graduates of the Art programme from the University of The Bahamas.