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NAGB Welcomes New Team Members: The Institution as Expansive and Limitless
During the first two months of 2017, The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas welcomed its newest staff members, Malika Pryor-Martin and Katrina Cartwright. Since their arrival, they have dived into their roles of Development and Communications Officer and Education Officer respectively, and have seamlessly integrated with the existing NAGB team.
Amanda Coulson Named as Judge for the 2017 Jamaica Biennial
Preparations for the Jamaica Biennial 2017 are moving into high gear next week with the selection of the juried section of the exhibition, which will take place on Monday, January 9 and Tuesday, January 10, 2017. The juried section of the Biennial is open to artists resident in Jamaica and artists living elsewhere but who were born in Jamaica or are of Jamaican parentage. For the juried section of the Jamaica Biennial 2017, the National Gallery has received 176 qualifying entries by 110 artists.
The NAGB announces participating artists for National Exhibition 8.
The National Art Gallery of the Bahamas (NAGB) will open the Eighth National Exhibition (NE8) on December 15, 2016, at 6:30 pm. For the past 13 years, the NAGB has committed itself to the nurturing and fostering of a healthy creative ecosystem and it continues to push the frontiers and foundations of cultural value and consciousness across the nation and its diasporas.
NAGB announces three exciting new exhibitions
The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas (NAGB) is pleased to announce the official opening of its three newest exhibitions: EN MAS’: Carnival, Junkanoo and Performance Art of the Caribbean; Genesis: The beginning of souls in time; and From Columbus to Junkanoo.
New rules eliminate hassle for artists exhibiting abroad
Bahamian artists, like others in the region, have been amping up participation in exhibitions abroad. Hoping to share ideas that [...]
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