NE12 is now open for submissions. The 12th National Exhibition explores the theme Ringplay—submit by 8 June 2026.
NE12 is now open for submissions. The 12th National Exhibition explores the theme Ringplay—submit by 8 June 2026.
The Curatorial Director is responsible for directing the curatorial department, overseeing all exhibitions and publications, and developing, managing, and displaying the permanent collection.
Cin’s intention for this work was to talk about the precarity of the straw industry, in which so many workers and materials are underpaid.
National Exhibition 11 Call for Works “A community has one of three options for developing its vision. Unfortunately, two of […]
On Blank Canvas, host Amard Rolle (the NAGB’s Executive Assistant) discusses all things Education at the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas with Zearier Munroe Wilkinson, Community Outreach Officer, and Reagan Farrington, Educational Assistant.
By Holly Bynoe
September 1, 2019…the day that the sky opened up and tried to swallow a country.
– Bernard Ferguson. Hurricane Dorian Was a Climate Injustice. New Yorker, September 2019
The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas acknowledges the dawning of a new chapter in our country’s history after the passage of Hurricane Dorian. Collectively we have made a decision to suspend our planned exhibition for the end of the year and rather, extend an open call to our creative community to start a larger conversation on the personal and collective impacts after the passage of the storm. This new era has led us to explore the mission of the NAGB even further and what it means to be a socially responsible institution in the age of climate crisis. We are a population on ground zero of this transformation, and as we work to regroup, reconcile and rebuild–now and into the future–the NAGB commits to providing safe space for all who rise within the nation’s borders to heal, to be seen and heard through creating.
We cannot go back to how things were. Our world, and our Bahamas, was changed forever. How we move forward, […]