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.
The Blank Canvas: May 3rd, 2017 with Trevor Schoonmaker
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The Blank Canvas: April 24th, 2017, Thierry Lamare
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.
The Blank Canvas: April 19, George V. Cox and John Cox
Curator and practicing artist John Cox stands in for our regular host Amanda Coulson and discusses with his father George V. Cox ideas around the upcoming experimental project “The Unseen Structure,” which will be on view in the ballroom of the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas from April 27 through July 2.
Dr Craig Smith, Dr Tiffany Austin, and Alexia Tolas
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.
Blank Canvas: March 15th, US Embassy, Transforming Spaces and NAGB Permanent Exhibition
The Blank Canvas welcomes US Embassy Nassau’s Public Affairs Officer, Penny Rechkemmer and the winners of the MLJ Jr photo contest and Transforming Spaces founder, Jay Koment, DAF curator, Rashad Adderley, and NAGB assistant curators Natalie Willis and Richardo Willis speaking about this year’s event.
The Blank Canvas: Patricia Leigh-Wood and Adrian D’Aguilar, March 8
Leaving the visual arts aside for a week, the “Blank Canvas” turns to musical arts and focuses on the festival “Eleuthera All That Jazz.” The Founder and Chairwoman, Patricia Leigh-Wood, comes on the show to speak about how the event was founded and its goal: to expose more Bahamian children to world-class music and to give them the opportunity to learn about different instruments. Also joining us is musician and “Jazz Cat” Adrian D’Aguilar, who has participated in all the editions of the festival for the last six years.
The Blank Canvas- March 1st with Cynthia Rahming, Natalie Willis and Alicia Wallace
This year’s National Exhibition (NE8) has extended beyond the walls of the NAGB to include another art space: Hillside House on Cumberland Street. Three of the artists from the NE8 OFFsite join the “Blank Canvas” to speak about their interventions, all of which deal with the issue of being a woman in general and in The Bahamas, specifically, post-referendum. This week we welcome, Cynthia Rahming, Natalie Willis and Alicia Wallace.
The Blank Canvas: Feb 22nd, 2017 featuring Dr. Ian Bethell-Bennett, Jason Evans and Dr. Michael Pateman
On tonight’s “Blank Canvas,” our host is joined by three Bahamians in the studio discussing various aspects of history and how it is addressed through different artistic practices.
The Blank Canvas: Feb 15 with Keisha Oliver and Lowree Tynes
Participating artists, Keisha Oliver and Lowree Tynes from the NE8, currently on at the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, join Amanda on “Blank Canvas” tonight.
The Blank Canvas with Jordanna Kelly, Sue Katz and Dede Brown, February 8
Continuing with focussing on participating artists in the latest National Exhibition, NE8, which is on show at the NAGB until April 16th, “Blank Canvas” host Amanda Coulson meets with three local practitioners, Dede Brown, Jordanna Kelly and Sue Katz-Lightbourn whose work starts with a personal idea but reflects a greater global concern.