Stories

Timelines: Developing Blackness

Demure Facade, Colourful History: Sterling Miller’s “Villa Doyle” (ca. 1969)

From the Collection: “On the Way to Market” (ca. 1877-78) by Jacob F. Coonley

Traditional Knowledge Living in the Tropics: Respecting Lifeways

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

“Wellington Street Dwelling”: Exploring the Bahamian Vernacular

Aftermath: Field Notes on Loss and Belonging

Amos Ferguson’s ‘The Queen Staircase’

Re-membering the past: Margot Bethel and Nicolette Bethel take on Transforming Spaces 2015 family-style

Lamenting Slavery: Unearthing our history through art.

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

Breezes Through Long Cay—Chapter I: As Stories Fade

Speaking to views and gazes in the work of Eric Rose: Education, Space and Knowing your Place

When We Are Like the Trees

If an entire population moves, is it still a nation?: The consequences of censoring self.

Indigeneity and Art: Defining Our Values

“Five Children at the Water Pump” (1984) by Peggy Hering

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

Chan Pratt’s Work Speaks to the Urbanisation of the Bahamian Landscape

“Burma Road” (c2008) by Maxwell Taylor

Exploring Themes of Longevity and Survival in Kendra Frorup’s Work

Boundaries, Borders and Brotherhood: “Proxemics: Personal Space/Commanding Stance” (2015) by John Beadle

Strange Darknesses: Lavar Munroe’s Sinister Fantasy Creatures

‘Slam-Bam’ Sands: ‘The hastily hand-coloured colonial postcards of James “Doc” Sands.’

Considering the African Culture: Not forgetting the Asue

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

A Death Foretold: Whitehead & Pratt on Beauty and Loss

In the wake of storms:  Moving forward as a nation displaced

Mhudda: Jackson Burnside’s socially aware look at the struggles of the Bahamian “everyday”

The Straw Paradox

Considering culture: More than a smile

Welcome to the Past, Present, and Future: A Caribbean Futurist Read of Antonius Roberts’s Mabrika

Field Notes on Planting Seeds in Uprooted Gardens

The Sea as Life: Cargo and VLOSA

The Provocative: Drew Weech plays with the history of the nude in Western Art

95%: Jordanna Kelly and Jenna Chaplin’s NELEVEN Installation

Tender Seedlings: Anina and A.L. Major Reflect on Pain and Love in the Bahamian Diaspora

The Role of the Arts in Addressing Climate Change

The Clapboard House: A Disappearing Relic within The Bahamian Landscape

The Art of Living in the Tropics, Part Three: Silence

From The Collection: “A Native Sugar Mill” (ca. 1901) by William Henry Jackson

From the Collection: Dave Smith, Let Us Prey, 1984-86

Cultivating the Local: In the wake of change

Villa Doyle and Beyond: Expanding NAGB’s Footprint

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

Dialect and Diaspora: The Intuitive Art of Joseph “Joe Monks” Weaver

Earthenware figurines of women, featuring rounded forms, sit on a ledge against a peach-pink wall.

The Black Woman Body Paradox

Are We One With Nature? G. Paul Dorfmuller’s Nassau Corner

How To: The Proper Conservation and Preservation of Paintings

The art of living in the tropics. Part II: Hand come, hand go

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

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

From the Collection: Lynn Parotti’s “The Blastocyst’s Ball: A Journey Through the Drug Induced stages of IVF”

The Aesthetics of Debt: Double Consciousness and Vision in the age new a new modernity

A Repository of Memories

Balancing Act: Heino Schmid’s Temporary Horizon (2010)

Feature from the Collection: Burnside Crowns a King

What’s in the frame: Tourism, art, installation and rebuilding the old whore of a body

Inside The Silverfish: Cin on Craft, Culture, and Consumption

Something About Failure: Tessa Whitehead’s intimate questioning on success, failure, and what makes art work.

Cultural Heritage & Erasure: “Protecting our inheritance and patrimony”

The Life and Death of Street Trees: Jenna Chaplin’s call to attention for the importance of street trees for the upcoming NE9

Under Attack: Averia Wright’s Elevating the Blue Light Special and the Dualities of Bahamian Identity

Gender and the Dream: Confronting Stereotypes in Black Masculinity

Everybody and Dey Grammy

From the Collection: “A Distant View of Nassau” (c.1857-1904) by Jacob F. Coonley