All posts tagged: Education

Lamare’s Frame Building Workshop brings a crowd: Hands on experience at the NAGB

13 June 2017 Highlights

By Katrina Cartwright.  As a part of his retrospective “Love, Loss and Life,” artist Thierry Lamare hosted a frame-building workshop at the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas (NAGB) on May 20, 2017. In just over three hours, he generously shared techniques that he has used to build driftwood frames for his paintings over the years. More than thirteen people from diverse backgrounds and varying degrees of experience were in attendance. Artists, art enthusiasts, craftspersons and a few do-it-yourselfers came seeking to acquire a new skill, build on existing knowledge or satisfy their curiosity.

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The NAGB’s Summer Camp Takes a Walk Through Time

22 May 2017 Highlights

With less than two months left, the Education Department at The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas has accelerated preparations for the Mixed Media Summer Art Camp (MMSAC). Now in its third year, the camp was started in response to the need for an arts-focused camp after the FINCO Summer Art Workshop was discontinued. MMSAC has been popular since its inception and has impacted the lives of 220 students since 2014. The camp is divided into two, three-week sessions that take place between June 19 and July 7 and July 11 and 28, 2017.

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‘Picture Nassau’: Capturing and Redefining the Cultural Landscape

5 March 2017 Articles

Visual art and its experiences are no longer confined to classrooms, studios, or the walls of galleries. Thanks to the digital age and an increasing demand for “interactivity” the arts have considered new ways to pique the public’s interest.  In The Bahamas, we have seen alternative approaches by gallerists, curators, and artists to engage audiences by creating a bridge between the traditional and contemporary through installations and public art experiences. With last year’s opening of The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas’ (NAGB) sculpture garden and the rapid growth of live art events, we exist in an exciting period of creative expression for our country.

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Different Strokes: Learning Through Painting at the NAGB

28 November 2016 Highlights

The painting workshop series at the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas (NAGB), starting today, November 26, is just another side of our range of programming here. We have talks and openings and all the things often associated with a National Gallery, but we also offer more practical, tangible knowledge that we pass on and other learning opportunities and experiences that we expose our local public to.

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‘The NAGB’s Eleutheran Adventure’: Rethinking Access

20 September 2016 Highlights

The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas is locally known as the NAGB; however, many people make the mistake—in speech and print—of calling us the “Nassau” Art Gallery. Perhaps this slip is well-deserved: with attention focused on the preservation and management of the historic building that houses the NAGB (Villa Doyle); the National Collection itself of over 350 art pieces, needing continual care and maintenance; and the busy rotation of exhibitions (up to 14 in a single year, not including talks, events, book launches, film screenings, and other programming), there is plenty to keep us busy.

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Fostering Curiosity: Reporting from Mixed Media Summer Camp

27 July 2016 Highlights

The NAGB Mixed Media Summer Art Camp first session started with a bang with a diverse group of young campers, staff, and volunteers eager to learn about this year’s themes which focused on major art movements such as Abstract Expressionism, Cubism, and Impressionism. We wanted to display the importance of these movements and the impact that they have had on the Bahamian art scene, artists, and their practices.

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