On today’s Blank Canvas, the show on which we discuss visual culture and creative community, your host Amard Rolle is visited by NAGB colleagues Amaani Hepburn, Curatorial Assistant and Zearier Munroe-Wilkinson, Community Outreach Officer, to discuss the new Inter-Island Traveling Exhibition (ITE), “Thirty: Island Perspectives” and its accompanying programming.
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.
Governor’s Harbour, Eleuthera is the first stop for the newest iteration of the NAGB’s Inter-Island Travelling Exhibition, “From Time: Water Has A Perfect Memory”. This exhibition functions in some ways as a time capsule, using historical knowledge and visual interpretations to engage with the country’s past and present and envision a more hopeful future. With colonial works from the 1800s, to the post-independence contemporary practice of the last few decades, “From Time” opens up conversations on slavery and colonialism to examine how that era’s gross accumulation of wealth and the booming industrial era it generated, served as the catalyst for the climate injustice we are now witnessing.
This week’s “Blank Canvas” is all about big ups to the NAGB’s awesome team! Freshly back from the installation of the latest iteration of the Inter-Island Travelling Exhibition (ITE) in Long Island, you’ll hear from (left to right) Blake Fox (NAGB’s Education Assistant); to the right regulator host Amanda Coulson (NAGB Executive Director); Amaani Hepburn (artist and regular NAGB assistant); Richardo Barrett (NAGB Associate Curator); and Zearier Munroe (NAGB Community Outreach Officer), about the challenges and rewards of taking part of the National Collection to the Family Islands.
By Katrina Cartwright. The Inter-Island Travelling Exhibition brings an intense week of activities to the second city. On April 2nd, 2019 the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas’ Inter-Island Travelling Exhibition (ITE) lands in Freeport, Grand Bahama, bringing with it an extensive community outreach agenda inclusive of our public mural programme, free workshops, a curator’s talk, school visits (primary and secondary) and donations of museum literature for art teachers, schools and public libraries. The NAGB was last in Grand Bahama in 2016 with “Max/Amos”, which was showcased at the Charles Hayward Library. Now in its fourth year, with a new exhibition, “Trans: A Migration of Identity”, the NAGB team is taking the travelling exhibition to our second city, where it will be on display at the Rand Nature Centre from April 5th – 26th, 2019.
By Natalie Willis. Oh my Andros! Da Big Yard, the wild and wonderful island full of love vine, graceful-yet-sinister buzzards, and full to the brim with people showing spirit as big as they come and then some. This October, the NAGB extended itself into the open arms of this vast island (by our standards anyway!). The Inter-Island Travelling Exhibition (ITE) is a cause near and dear to our hearts here at the NAGB, and for one very simple reason: the “N” in the NAGB stands for National, not Nassau. And with this in mind, the National Collection should follow this same line of thinking. Most recently, the current iteration of the ITE, “TRANS: A Migration of Identity”, made its way to the most gracious and welcoming of hosts in Central Andros at Brigadiers Restaurant in Davis Creek. Workshops, the construction of a mural, exhibition installation, and personal visits to schools all took place over a hectic fortnight, but as always the work we do to bring art to you is the most important. Who needs sleep right?