Blank Canvas: March 22nd, 2023 featuring Zearier Munroe Wilkinson, Community Outreach Officer, and Reagan Farrington, Educational Assistant
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Blank Canvas: March 1st, 2023 featuring John Cox and Lynn Parotti
Blank Canvas: February 22nd, 2023 featuring Vice President of the Museums Association of Caribbean (MAC) Nyasha Warren and Dean of Liberal and Fine Arts at the University of The Bahamas, Dr. Douglas Barkey
Blank Canvas: February 15th, 2023 featuring Interim Executive Director of The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, Dr. Ian Bethell Bennett
Blank Canvas: February 8th, 2023 featuring MAC Treasurer, Susan Garcia & Board Member, Katarina Jacobson along with Bahamian Conference Hosts, Ulrich Voges of Central Bank Art Gallery and Katrina Cartwright of the NAGB
Blank Canvas: February 1st, 2023 featuring Artist, Antonius Roberts and Curator, Dr. Krista Thompson
Blank Canvas: January 26th, 2023 featuring Jodi Minnis, Tern Gallery
Blank Canvas: January 11th, 2023 featuring Reagan Kemp and Marknesha Bastian from I.C.E. Bahamas
2023 MAC Conference “Power of Museums: Relevancy, Advocacy, Transformation”
The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas (NAGB), in partnership with the Central Bank of The Bahamas (CBOB), the University of The Bahamas (UB), and the Antiquities, Monuments and Museums Corporation (AMMC), is thrilled to announce that we will be hosting the Museums Association of the Caribbean’s (MAC) Conference in Nassau, March 1-5, 2023! For the first time since its inception, the Museum Association of the Caribbean’s (MAC) Conference will take place in The Bahamas under the theme “Power of Museums: Relevancy, Advocacy, Transformation”.
The Caribbean-wide conference is a forum for the exchange of information and ideas … Read more
The NAGB’s National Exhibitions: 19 Years of Bold, Biggity Bahamian Art… where do we go from here?
19 Years of Bold, Biggity Bahamian Art… where do we go from here?
Natalie Willis Whylly
Independent Curator, Writer & Cultural Worker
National Art Gallery of The Bahamas
The NAGB’s National Exhibition (NE) programming acts as a finger on the pulse of Bahamian art. As our, usually, biennial check-in on the status of creative visual culture in the country, the NE acts as a gauge to see what our creative expression says about us as Bahamians: citizens, diaspora, and residents alike. From the early days of the museum, the first few NE’s challenged what we as a nation believed art … Read more