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The NAGB’s Summer Camp Takes a Walk Through Time

22 May 2017 Highlights

With less than two months left, the Education Department at The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas has accelerated preparations for the Mixed Media Summer Art Camp (MMSAC). Now in its third year, the camp was started in response to the need for an arts-focused camp after the FINCO Summer Art Workshop was discontinued. MMSAC has been popular since its inception and has impacted the lives of 220 students since 2014. The camp is divided into two, three-week sessions that take place between June 19 and July 7 and July 11 and 28, 2017.

The NAGB’s Mixed Media Summer Art Camp gears up for an exciting summer

11 May 2017 Highlights

Let your aspiring painter embrace their inner Brent Malone at the NAGB’s Mixed Media Summer Art Camp this June and July. They will explore the world of the expressionists and impressionists, paint from observation and sample the wonderfully expressive qualities of abstract through the lens of Bahamian history.

The Gates of Transformation: The NAGB prepares for a new welcome

4 April 2017 Highlights

The NAGB prepares for a new welcome with Tyrone Ferguson’s Gates of Transformation

Building Community Effort: The NAGB Sculpture Garden unfolds with assistance from Rotary Club of East Nassau

3 April 2017 Highlights

After many years of discussion and a solid year of hard work and collective effort, the NAGB Sculpture Garden moved closer to becoming downtown’s native plant park and preserve, on Saturday, March 24, 2017.

MAXAMOS: NAGB Travelling Exhibition to open in Hope Town, Abaco

10 March 2017 Highlights

Family Island access to the National Collection is of immense importance to the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas (NAGB). Our country, an archipelago, vast in its length and breadth presents a challenge to facilitating such a critical component of our mission. To answer the call of sharing Bahamian art with every citizen possible, the NAGB developed a travelling exhibition using the works of two iconic Bahamian masters: Max Taylor and Amos Ferguson.

Different Strokes: Learning Through Painting at the NAGB

28 November 2016 Highlights

The painting workshop series at the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas (NAGB), starting today, November 26, is just another side of our range of programming here. We have talks and openings and all the things often associated with a National Gallery, but we also offer more practical, tangible knowledge that we pass on and other learning opportunities and experiences that we expose our local public to.

Celebrating Women International: Recognition, representation, and diversity at the NAGB

24 November 2016 Highlights

The recent honour given to National Art Gallery of The Bahamas (NAGB) staff in recognition of efforts and achievements, provide a moment of deeper thought on what this success means on a larger scale. Division is, in many ways, the trend for 2016 – the year that has B.I.G. level notoriety for just about everything going wrong.

Krista Thompson Brings a Critical Eye to What is Confined to the Footnotes of Art History

31 October 2016 Highlights

Jacqueline Bishop for The Huffington Post shares: “For art historian Krista Thompson, a region like the Caribbean could do with more people studying art history since there is a booming artistic community and not enough curators and writers to document the work now being produced. “I’d wager that in the future it is the people working in more and more niche communities, some of which have formed in the Caribbean, who will have more opportunities available to them in the field of art history.”

2016 NAGB Fall/Winter Film Series presents ‘The Maestro: King of the Cowboy Artists’

13 October 2016 Highlights, Rewind

On October 27th, the NAGB will showcase American director Les Blank’s 1994 film ‘The Maestro: King of the Cowboy Artists’ starting at 8 pm.

‘The NAGB’s Eleutheran Adventure’: Rethinking Access

20 September 2016 Highlights

The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas is locally known as the NAGB; however, many people make the mistake—in speech and print—of calling us the “Nassau” Art Gallery. Perhaps this slip is well-deserved: with attention focused on the preservation and management of the historic building that houses the NAGB (Villa Doyle); the National Collection itself of over 350 art pieces, needing continual care and maintenance; and the busy rotation of exhibitions (up to 14 in a single year, not including talks, events, book launches, film screenings, and other programming), there is plenty to keep us busy.