Tonight’s “Blank Canvas” highlights the UB Graduate show, which is being held tomorrow night, June 22nd, at Hillside House on Cumberland Street between 6 pm to 8 pm.
Our guests are Keisha Oliver (left) Programme Coordinator for the Arts at UB; Matthew Rahming (middle right) a second year art student at UB; and Moriah Lightbourn (far right), one of the first graduates of the Art programme from the University of The Bahamas.
This week’s Blank Canvas is hosted by the NAGB’s Communication & Development Officer, Malika Pryor-Martin, filling in for our Director, Amanda Coulson. Joining her in the studio are our Community Outreach Officer, Abby Smith and Jackson Petit, Digital Media Administrator.
Joining Amanda in the studio tonight is one of The Bahamas’ foremost artists: Mr. Tyrone Ferguson. An expert in metalwork, Tyrone speaks to his discovery of his talent as a blacksmith and the young age of 14, his training and his calling. The NAGB is extremely proud to announce that the Board has sanctioned the commissioning of a monumental set of gates for the poverty on West Hill Street; the Gates Commission is currently underway and will be unveiled at the end of June.
On today’s episode of the Blank Canvas host, Amanda Coulson, is joined in the studio by NAGB Chief Curator, Holly Bynoe and practicing artist Jeffrey Meris to speak about their involvement in Übersee: Cuba and The Bahamas, Contemporary Art from the Caribbean, curated by Bynoe and Cuban independent curator, Tonel. The show is on view at Halle 14 through August 6th in Leipzig, Germany.
This week’s “Blank Canvas” hosts part of the Bahamian contingent of delegates who attended the pan-Caribbean conference for art professionals, “Tilting Axis,” hosted this year at the National Gallery of the Cayman Islands. “Tilting Axis” is a roving conference, conceived by the NAGB’s own Chief Curator, Holly Bynoe (while she was still the publisher of ARC Magazine), and Annalee Davis, Director of the Fresh Milk Art Platform in Barbados.
This week’s “Blank Canvas” takes a look at fashion in The Bahamas, with studio guests including cultural producer Owen Bethel (left) and Bahamian designer Renaldo Geumm (right). Both are in the studio to talk about the upcoming event, “Islands of the World Fashion Showcase,” (ITWS) which is now in its seventh edition and will take place in the lush tropical outdoor setting of Graycliff’s Humidor Piazza on Saturday, 20th May 2017.
Regular host Amanda Coulson returns with international guest and visitor, Trevor Schoonmaker, the Chief Curator at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.
Regular host Amanda Coulson is back from a hiatus to discuss the exhibition “Love, Loss, Life,” a retrospective of the artist Thierry Lamare who is her guest in the studio. The show gathers together artworks from over a 20 year period and allows the visitor to follow the arc of his progression, from seascapes to architecture, from watercolours on paper to his use of both canvas and wooden supports.
Engineer George V. Cox talks with his son, curator John Cox, about The Unseen Structure—an experimental project exploring the invisible backbone of civil engineering.
On this week’s Blank Canvas, we welcome our stand-in host Dr. Craig Smith, Chair of School of English at the University of The Bahamas (UB), who is spearheading the first annual UB Spring Book Fair and Literary Festival set to take place over three days starting Thursday, March 30 through Saturday, April 1st.