Taking over from our regular host, Dr. Ian Bethell-Bennett will be filling on the “Blank Canvas” to interview Charlotte Henay (left) and Dr. Angelique V. Nixon (right), who both have work in the current National Exhibition (N8), which this year includes not only visual artists but also writers and poets.
Continuing our series of shows highlighting Bahamian artists living abroad that are participating in the Eighth National Exhibition (NE8), on this week’s “Blank Canvas” show Amanda gets to listen to the stories of Steven Schmid (far left) and Giovanna Swaby (second from right), who both recently graduated with a BFA in Film, Video and Integrated Media from Emily Carr University in Vancouver, British Columbia, and Tamika Galanis, who recently graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in Documentary and Experimental Arts from Duke University.
In the studio with Amanda, this week are agitators and researchers, Hilary Booker and Jon Murray, whose intellectual and research endeavours cross over with artistic practice, leaning into the area of what is now called “social sculpture.”
This Wednesday’s “Blank Canvas” sees the beginning of a series of shows focussing on the participating artists in the new National Exhibition NE8, opening this Thursday evening at 6:30 p.m. at Villa Doyle (NAGB) and Hillside House on Saturday evening at 6 p.m. The Eighth National Exhibition is an exhibition featuring the works of over 60 artists, facilitators, and poets, who were asked to create work that addressed their current thoughts and discourse as citizens of The Bahamas and the world
Visiting The Bahamas from the U.S is Stephanie Smith, the recently-appointed Chief Curator at the brand new Institute of Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, which will open in October 2017. She joins host Amanda Coulson on this week’s The Blank Canvas.
On tonight’s “Blank Canvas” we celebrate visual cinematic culture with the Founder and Executive Director of the Bahamas International Film Festival (BIFF), Leslie Vanderpool, who joins us in the studio to speak about the upcoming 13th edition of BIFF.
In honour of the founding of our University of The Bahamas (UB), the Blank Canvas invited a range of guests into the studio whose vision and creative talent have helped to pave the way for the culture and vision of the new university.
This week’s “Blank Canvas” looks the artistic future of The Bahamas through three local young prize-winning artists: Jordanna Kelly, Navarro Newton and Keith Thompson.
Meet artists, Dylan Rapillard and Dede Brown, on this week’s Blank Canvas. Having just returned from a 5-month stint in Switzerland, the former Popopstudios residents join Amanda in the 96.9 studio to speak about their time in Switzerland, returning to The Bahamas, and what kind of perspective the time away has brought to their work.
Grand Bahamian artist Chantal E.Y. Bethel is the guest on this week’s Blank Canvas, with host Amanda Coulson.