Stories

Strange Fruit: Kendra Frorup’s Poignant Banana Plumes

From the Collection: “Untitled (Balcony House on Market Street)” (ca 1920) by James Osborne “Doc” Sands

Creative Youth: Reevaluating Our Values and the Work of Young People

The Problems of Paradise: Thoughts on Traversing the Picturesque

Pasting Colours: Envisioning Alternatives

A Sustainable Future For Exuma: Learning to live within our means, and with each other as global citizens

Activism as art, art as activism: How social practice opens dialogue for safe spaces and healing

To Heal We Must Remember: Katrina Cartwright’s power figure uproots the past

The January Artwork of the Month is ‘Beller’

From the Collection: Chelsea Pottery “A Brief Bahamian History of Clay”

Kendal Hanna’s “Rainbow Explosion”: Finding Self Through Abstraction

A Distant Bahamas: “Native Hut” (1915) by Hartwell Leon Woodcock

Remedies for Remembering: Darchell Henderson’s new mural on Hospital Lane reminds us of our histories of healing.

Look, Listen, Live: A Space for Artistic and Cultural Expression

The Liberal: Thierry Lamare’s Sincerity in Rendering Bahamian Life

Seeing the God in me: Jalan Harris’s “Self-Pollinate” and Cydne Coleby’s “A God Called Self” works

The Moving Image: The First Turn of the Revolution

Troubling Narratives: This is how we suffer to remain

From the Collection: ‘Bishops, bishops everywhere and not a drop to drink’ (2003) by Dionne Benjamin-Smith

Justin Benjamin Explores Interiority in Vantage

Vulnerable ecologies: This Woman’s Work

When We Are Like the Trees

Ferguson’s Fantastic Dragon: Blending the imagination with the biblical

Denis Knight’s Lucayan Woman

Sinking: Field Notes on Loss and Belonging

The Clapboard House: A Disappearing Relic within The Bahamian Landscape

Returning the Gaze: Melissa Alcena in NE9

Gendered Norms and Deconstruction: The Body, the Image, and the Ability to Speak Out for Self

Dave Smith “Violence, the beauty of paradise”: The art of capturing the lingering impact

The Mark of a Woman: Portraits of Black Womanhood in the Work of Gabrielle Banks

Care in the Craft: “Young Children” (nd) by Frank Otis Small

Gender and the Dream: Confronting Stereotypes in Black Masculinity

Adaptability & Draughts(woman)ship: Kachelle Knowles Builds a Practice of Representation That Takes Action

Considering the African Culture: Not forgetting the Asue

Searching for Empathy: Revaluing self in relation to others

The art of living in the tropics: An art of survival?

The Nature of Art: In proverbial bloom

From the Collection: John Paul Saddleton’s “West Hill Hidden Garden”

From the Collection: “Cycle of Abuse” (2017) by Sonia Farmer

There’s a Man on the Floor: Edrin Symonette’s Man Skin Rug

From the Collection: “Poor Man’s Orchid” (1989) by Sue Bennett-Williams

How To: The Proper Conservation and Preservation of Paintings

Hearth and Heart – E. J. Read’s ‘Clay Oven’

From the Collection: “Woman With Flamingoes” (1996-97) by R. Brent Malone

Some (Re)assembly Required: Melissa Alcena’s Tender Look at Black Masculinity

Push Out: Jodi Minnis and Ian Bethell-Bennett Investigate the Mythologies and Futures of Gentrification in Over-the-Hill

San Salvador as Culture: Exploring New Economies, Working Against Collapse

“West Street” by Hildegarde Hamilton