On tonight’s “NAGB’s Blank Canvas” we meet four artists in two different exhibitions now showing in New Providence, yet the conversation seamless ties all the work together in a larger narrative around culture, its erasure and how we can address that in our practises as cultural workers, gallerists, museum professionals and artists.
On tonight’s “NAGB’s Blank Canvas”, we talk to John Beadle, sometimes referred to as a “master artist”—a label that he reveals causes him some discomfort—a Junkanooer, craftsman, and a self-described tinkerer.
On this “NAGB’s Blank Canvas”, we continue meeting artists participating in the NAGB’s latest show, curated by Deime Ubani, “The Evolution of the Arc” Shaquille Coleby, Leanne Russel, Yasmin Glinton and Joinel Jeune.
Tonight on “NAGB’s Blank Canvas” we start to meet the artists Allan Jones, Dorlan Curtis and Caroline Anderson from the NAGB’s latest show “Evolution of the Arc,” an exhibition that speaks to the development of The Bahamas as an archipelagic nation.
On this week’s “NAGB’s Blank Canvas”, we meet Rhojai Burrows, Apryl Burrows and Kathy Hamilton whom are Bahamian women working in is the creative and fashion industry who all currently have work on display in the TERN Concept Store.
Joining host, Amanda Coulson, on The Blank Canvas tonight are Deime Ubani of The Salus Project and “The Evolution of the Arc” Judges.
On “NAGB’s Blank Canvas,” your guest host Katrina Cartwright, NAGB Education and Outreach Manager, is joined in the studio by Ulrich Voges, Curator at the Central Bank of The Bahamas and Ruthjeana Johnson, a young, upcoming artist who was one of the winners of Central Bank’s Open Category prize in 2020.
On “NAGB’s Blank Canvas,” your guest host Katrina Cartwright, NAGB Education and Outreach Manager is joined in the studio by colleague Education Officer Blake Fox who speaks to the launch of the museum’s new “Get Set For Fall” programme, the current Mixed Media Art Summer Camp exhibition and his participation in the upcoming MAC Conference 2021.
As your regular host Amanda Coulson (NAGB Executive Director) stays home and safe during this COVID-19 pandemic, we visit the “Blank Canvas” archives to bring back some great shows and pay tribute to those we have lost.
Tonight we re-air a “ Blank Canvas” show from a little over one year ago when the NAGB invited art critic and writer Seph Rodney to give a lecture as part of the ACE Series (Art, Culture, Education) on the importance of his practise in a talk entitled “What Art Criticism Does.” The talk can be viewed on our Vimeo page here https://vimeo.com/335514827.