Students explore Lucayan life before Columbus and examine whose stories get told—and why.
Before Columbus: The World of the Lucayans
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How Art Survives: An Introduction to Conservation
In this lesson, students discover an uncommon career path and see how science, and art history, and craft intersect.
Site-Specific Installation
In this advanced project, students create temporary installations inspired by art’s relationship to place and environment.
Textile Design: Fabric Futures
Students design unconventional textiles that imagine future identities, cultures, and aesthetics.
Beyond Objecthood: The Straw Baskets of William ‘Old Iron’ Colebrooke
Tradition shifts, adapts, and survives in new ways. From Colebrooke’s hands in Red Bays to contemporary artists, straw work embodies something that can’t be bought or sold.
When We Are Like the Trees
Stories When We Are Like the Trees Letitia Pratt · 18 February 2019 “You who are so-called illegal aliens must
Under Attack: Averia Wright’s Elevating the Blue Light Special and the Dualities of Bahamian Identity
Averia Wright is well-acquainted with the brand of paradise we manufacture here. Her work, which grapples with issues affecting both The Bahamas and the region at large, is particularly concerned with tourism and its role as a neocolonialist system in the country today.
The Life and Death of Street Trees: Jenna Chaplin’s call to attention for the importance of street trees for the upcoming NE9
By Natalie Willis. “Space is not a scientific object removed from ideology or politics. It has always been political and strategic.” – Henri Lefebvre. But how do you strategize something that grows organically? Cities pose that very question for us. Henri Lefebvre, a French philosopher and sociologist with a heavy Marxist influence, was interested in the fabric of our everyday lives and particularly in the ownership of spaces, particularly cities. I’d wager he’d have a field day in Nassau – with our planned and unplanned spaces, historic and new, and that the upcoming printmaking project by Jenna Chaplin for the National Exhibition 9 (NE9) might whet his appetite too.
“When the Lionfish Came”: Tamika Galanis Gives Voice to the People of the Reef amid Dangerously Rising Tides
By Natalie Willis. In Adelaide, there is a bell that has been ringing for at least a hundred years, but closer to two. Events, hurricanes, births and deaths, are all marked by the chime, and the proud denizens of this historic community for freed Blacks have, for generations, found themselves answering to its call. However, Tamika Galanis’ film, “When The Lionfish Came” (2015) is not a church bell…
It is an alarm.
The art of living in the tropics. Part II: Hand come, hand go
By Dr Ian Bethell-Bennett, The University of The Bahamas. Exuma blue recedes into Ragged Island sargasso and green. Sole inhabitant of Buena Vista Cay, Edward Lockhart, a reminder of Hemingway’s Old Man and The Sea (1952) has pulled up alongside and tied his boat to the MV Captain C and now stands with the others on the deck. Sun pounds down as the heat of living in the tropics feels much hotter than it has in forever. Art is always somewhat less strange than life, as stories come and go and fight to retain their place in a global village quickly being overtaken by overwriting of colour-blindness and leadership that throws women and minorities and their voices under the bus. Ironically, there is this romantic notion about “going back to the island”, it will all be better there, by and by. The irony is that hidden in this discourse of nostalgia for the island, is an erasure of the same island we long for.