SEPTEMBER 2019
Cover Photography by Allan Walrond
All information correct at time of publishing. Please phone or email relevant galleries to confirm dates of events as they may be subject to change. Updates as news of arts events comes in each month may be viewed on http://corriescott.net/page28.htm Published by Corrie Scott
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Welcome to Barbados Monthly Arts Events This is a completely free magazine created out of the need to inform so that we can get to exhibitions, artist talks, workshops and more, rather than hearing about events after they have taken place. I encourage anyone with a visual arts event to get in contact with me at corriescott@gmail.com and I will add a free page for you. Let’s get the arts out there! Please, pass this magazine on to others and so help the creative side of Barbados get all the exposure possible. Corrie
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Meet artist Heather-Dawn Scott at the upcoming BIBA Networking Mingle, who will be carrying out live painting demonstrations. Friday Sept 6th at The Grove Gallery, 6pm-9pm. Register here. http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=fyspsnlab&oeidk=a07egj34jt0d69ca1fc BIBA Members: BBD $85 Non-Members: BBD $100 Come enjoy an evening of fine conversation and even finer art in the as we take our next all-inclusive BIBA Networking Mingle to The Grove Art Gallery at the Limegrove Lifestyle Centre in Holetown, St. James on September 6.
Born in Chile to a Barbadian mother and a Scottish father Heather-Dawn has gathered inspiration for her work from many countries. Her work takes influence from many sources and surprise is the only constant. Having studied sculpture for four years at the Bournemouth and Poole College of Art she turned to water colour washes and then broke away to colorful acrylic canvases. Her subject matter varies widely from portraiture and landscape to abstracts and fantasy, but a long enchantment with the first photographic images of the Caribbean still holds a fascination for her and she enjoys bringing these small monochromatic prints to life in large vivid works. More recently alongside the paintings she has begun exploring textiles, terra cotta and found materials which can be viewed at all of the islands exciting well established art galleries such as On the Wall, the Caribbean Gallery of Art, Art Splash and Art For Everyone.
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RONALD WILLIAMS Congratulations to Ronald Williams who has been nominated and accepted a Vermont Studio Center Fellowship Award sponsored by the Reed Foundation. The 4 week international residency runs from August 4th- 30th 2019 and will be completed on campus at the Vermont Studio Center.
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Opening reception of "ART EXPRESSIONS 2019" on Monday, September 9th, 5.30pm - 7pm at the Foyer of the Ministry of Creative Economy, Culture & Sports, Haggatt Hall. All are welcome. Exhibiting are Deanne Kennedy, Ann Rudder, Laura Melendez Ward, Ricardo Skeete, Martina Pile Zahles The Ministry of Creative Economy, Culture and Sports has invited a group of artists to stage a Series of Exhibitions at the Foyer of the Ministry, under the Name: "ART EXPRESSIONS 2019"
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Frank Bowling at Tate Britain, 2019 By Richard Drayton You can't understand the power and articulacy of the paintings from photographs, you need to confront them, to be humbled by them, in a very large exhibition space (most of the paintings are many square metres in size). I was reminded of the first time I saw Monet's Waterlilies as a whole system in the MusĂŠe de l'Orangerie. In its scale and detail, its daring adventures in line and flow, the floods of colour, pools of ambiguities, the work overwhelms your instinct to frame it, you don't see it, you are seen by it. I begin to think there should be a purpose-built Bowling museum made, it is shame that on Monday this will be disassembled and the works returned to the many collections they come from. Frank Bowling is a fascinating example of the Caribbean diasporic artist. He was born in Bartica in 1934. Bartica is a very special place in Guyana, where the Cuyuni and Mazaruni rivers meet the vast Essequibo river. His first uprooting and transplantation was to New Amsterdam, a couple hundred kilometres away, on the Berbice River. Then in 1950 he went to live with his uncle in England and go to school. Via the Chelsea School of Art and the Royal College of Art he came to work at the cutting edge of contemporary modernist painting. A third decisive move was to New York in the mid-1960s, where his work entered a conversation with abstract expressionism within which he has produced his most important work for the last decades. It is important that he has maintained studios in both New York and London and moved between the two every year, and is anchored in both art worlds. I was fascinated to see a letter he wrote to John Berger in the 1950s: "All I know is that I want to paint my people: that is black people as opposed to white people. I know I have to watch the way their faces turn". If you see the photograph of his mother in the exhibition taken in 1968, you have a powerful example of an extraordinary African-Caribbean face (photo 1), that smile of pride and with a little teasing and a little sternness, aimed at her son. He did experiment a little with figuration: a striking lost piece "The Murder of Patrice Lumumba" c. 1961 (photo 2), as he experimented with all of the forms of high modernist style, I particularly like his play with five different techniques in a painting of a swan (photo 3), and of women vogueing early 1960s style (photos 4 and 5). But In the end the mature Bowling decided that what he wanted to do was not to paint faces, but to represent them, making a confrontation of ways of seeing and ways of making paint flow which represented who he was. His roots in Guyana remained and remain always present in his work, in pieces with names like Barticaborn and Middle Passage, and in the images of his mother's general store in New Amsterdam which was the home he left to go to England, and of the beggars on the streets whose feet his mother made him wash, in a ritual of humility.
Let us zoom in on “Who’s afraid of Barney Newman?” (1968, Photo 6) in which he announced to the New York art world, via this riposte to Barnett Newman, that he was going to play with the big boys of abstract expressionism as an equal. Not only are images of South America and Guyana stencilled in white, but the choice of the colours is highly symbolic. The green, red and gold are of course the colours of the new flag of Guyana, independent just two years earlier in 1966. But much earlier across the African diaspora, the colours of the Ethiopian flag - red, gold and green, had become identified with Pan-African solidarity, joined often, here and in the flag of Guyana, to the red, black and green of Marcus Garvey’s UNIA. Bowling seems to be saying there is no contradiction between my playing this game and my feeding from and honouring the roots which make me strong. It is both “I won’t be confined to the ‘savage slot’ of angry ‘black’ artist, I won’t be your exotic provincial” and what I know I am, that mother/land I come from, makes me fearless, your invincible equal. By the early 1970s his work became wholly abstract. His work developed via a series of experiments with printing, with pouring paint, with playing with the physicality of paint so that 2 dimensional canvases became like works of sculpture and relief, and later with embedding objects, using collage as a means of bringing out tensions and complexity in the paint. He seems to have carried with him a sense of Caribbean light and colour, as much as he brought in to his work both the subdued skies of London and New York's geometry and glow. The last piece is one of my favourites, done in his 80s, with strips of cloth from Africa running vertically like a psychedelic army hiding behind its magenta polka-dot shields. I wonder how many people thought how right it was that Bowling was at the Tate. Underpinning the Tate was of course Tate and Lyle, the sugar company, which was joined to Bookers, which once controlled the economy of the British Guiana which the artist was born in, so much so that the initials B.G. were humorously parsed in the 1940s and 50s as "Booker's Guiana". The forces which forced Bowling's family to send him to England at the age of 15, are not disconnected from the forces which created the space in which this exhibition sits. I am reminded of George Lamming's remark, "Such are the contradictions in this imperial arrangement that this same power which had organized the castration of our creative energies would be responsible for returning our names where they belonged".
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TAISHA CARRINGTON “Thinking of how the future of our islands partly depend on the power of the artists to redirect our communities to a healthier future, socially and environmentally, through our work. We are the creative problem solvers, educators, informants, collectors of knowledge and the seams of the fabric of society and there’s a lot of work to be done very carefully in our fickle environments.” Taisha Carrington
Visual Arts Barbados magazine May 2016 issue was delighted to grace the cover with Taisha’s designs with a feature inside ( pages 6-21) https://issuu.com/corriescott/docs/may_2016_arts_event_magazine_barbad
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‘Young Artists’, an exhibition by recent graduates of BCC Fine Arts Division. Sunday 11th August - 24th August at the Barbados Arts Council’s Gallery, #20 Pelican Craft Centre . Mon - Fri 10am-5pm. Sat 10am-1pm Featuring Simone Asia, Jadisa A. Andwele, Theresa Bailey, Keisha Carrington, Joanna Crichlow, Doreen Edwards, Alanis Aaliyah Forde, Anna Gibson, Versia Abeda Harris, Nyssa Haynes-holder, Gabrielle Moore, Akilah Watts, Karen Birch. Sade Phoenix, Shari Phoenix , Sheri AnnMarié Nicholls, Kia Redman. . Curated by Kathy Yearwood “Every year I look forward to the Graduates exhibition, amazed by the quality and diversity. But after that they are seldom seen again. Some fly, some find their wings early, but they all need help as they set out. Too many drift away and with the promise of the long awaited National Gallery we can’t afford to lose them. This is the first of a series of exhibitions to give them a chance to become known to a much wider public.” Kathy Yearwood Online magazine of the exhibition https://photos.app.goo.gl/MQVfPG4SRQcn7Wgq7
Opening Speech at gallery reception by curator Kathy Yearwood "Welcome to this exhibition which highlights the work of some of our younger female artists. No I am not a feminist , but the space is restricted and there is a further problem with the young men; there a number who are already making their own way but they are not graduates and I cannot in all conscience omit them As soon as I can I hope to be able to hold an exhibition for them. There are a number of problems regarding the visual arts and it is hard to decide which to deal with. But young artists are our future and in a very uncertain world we need to help them grow and develop. in the past too many have just disappeared for many reasons. There are a multitude of reasons why talent falls away. Art is no easy career and yes those first years are such an uphill struggle. Yet this gathering of budding visual artists is upbeat and determined. But as far back as the nineties Alison Chapman Andrews in her column Gallerie in the Sunday Nation wrote of the need to help them after they graduate. The creative industries are the future and even if they do not continue as artists and enter other fields, films, theatre, cultural studies at UWI and maybe one become a future Peter Minshall. they will have a solid basis for their future careers.
But there are many other areas where we will need them. The long awaited National Gallery will open up a whole new world. Then there are the many hotels which seem to be planned; when the Hilton was built I was told there would require, I think, 1% of the construction costs to be spent on art. It obviously did not hit the statute books. Then there are small things, tax exemptions for corporations who buy art. Resumption of the practice of sending art for sale at our overseas missions. which provided excellent exposure for our younger artists. But in the meantime if they are not to drop out they need your support now! A sale is a tremendous morale booster. so do look and at least buy a small piece. Now is the time to start collecting or to add to your collection. And these very talented are more than worthy of inclusion. You will have spotted a talent which will stay the course. One is never too young nor too old to acquire art. I have sold to a 5 year old. I have sold to one collector when she was over 90. Two years on she is still enjoying it. And I could not live without my collection, so I can assure you will have no regrets. And in conclusion my most grateful thanks to the artists who are participating And all those wonderful people who have held my hand and kept me on track.“ Curator Kathy Yearwood
AMANDA TROUGHT of Reality Arts Published on 21 Aug 2019 Hear from the Recent Artist Graduates of BCC Fine Arts Division in the exhibition 'Young Artists’, curated by Kathy Yearwood. Sunday 11th August - 24th August at the Barbados Arts Council’s Gallery, #20 Pelican Craft Centre . Mon - Fri 10am5pm. Sat 10am-1pm. Artists in the show include - Simone Asia, Jadisa A. Andwele, Theresa Bailey, Keisha Carrington, Joanna Crichlow, Doreen Edwards, Alanis Aaliyah Forde, Anna Gibson, Versia Abeda Harris, Nyssa Haynes-holder, Gabrielle Moore, Akilah Watts, Karen Birch. Sade Phoenix, Shari Phoenix and Sheri AnnMarié Nicholls, Kia Redman. Thank you for joining me in this video you will hear from a group of talented artists about their work, inspiration and next steps as artist in Barbados and Internationally. https://youtu.be/_JHjXXuh0EM
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I love creating, and finding my way into Mixed Media Art has been a journey. Art expresses those things that words cannot. I love working with different materials, supplies and surfaces and you will see a range of art being created by me over time. Each piece has a story to tell, being birthed out of experiences and thoughts and characteristics being handed down the generations. Each piece is meant for someone somewhere around the world and it is my job to help the two to come together. My Art has told my story over the years of loosing a child, father, brother, and looking after my mother for 15 years who is living with Dementia, but also touches on the stories of millions of people around the world with a story to tell. I hope you join me, get involved - take one of my classes, do a challenge, try your hand at a new technique, collaborate, learn, grow and share....tell your story and allow your creativity to be a light that shines in the darkness and touches the hearts and minds of those who come across it.
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Artists Alliance Barbados presents ‘Season of Emancipation exhibition 2019’ A multi media presentation at St George’s Parrish Church, Aug 18th - Sept 1st. Open 7am-6pm daily except for services and special events. A joint exhibition with Caribbean Freedom Fighters celebrating the Season of Emancipation. Artists exhibiting are Akilah Watts, Amanda Trought Springer, Arlette Sthill, Ashanti Trotman, Caribbean Wax Museum, Guru, Hebron Chism, Juliana Inniss, Kenneth Blackman, Margaret Herbert, Martina Pile Zahles , Nick Whittle, Oneka Small, Ronald Williams, Shane Callendar, Ann Rudder, Sian Pampellonne, and From the Collection of the late Violet Best. Curated by Oneka Small Online album https://photos.app.goo.gl/NeMhGv31VhKZkHXb7
Artist and ceramicist Goldie Spieler. “Undoubtedly, Spieler’s name is synonymous with pottery and art in Barbados. It was 47 years ago that she started Earthworks Pottery, which today is a thriving business, managed by her only child, David. Spieler, who taught art at Queen’s College, Harrison College and St Winifred schools, is also known for her tastefully crafted watercolour paintings.” https://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/240936/israel-home-goldie
Her love affair with Israel started over 30 years ago when she visited Tel Aviv for the first time. This love affair saw her making a firm and conscious decision to make Israel, and more specifically Jerusalem, her home. Well, it depends on how you look at things. You see, Goldie Spieler has triple citizenship. She is a Canadian citizen by birth; a citizen of Barbados, where she has lived since 1966, and a citizen of Israel, where she now resides approximately ten months of each year. Undoubtedly, Spieler’s name is synonymous with pottery and art in Barbados. It was 47 years ago that she started Earthworks Pottery, which today is a thriving business, managed by her only child, David. Spieler, who taught art at Queen’s College, Harrison College and St Winifred schools, is also known for her tastefully crafted watercolour paintings. In fact, it was her works of art that ultimately resulted in an invitation for her to visit Tel Aviv to stage her own art show – thanks to Israeli friends Dov and Rachel Carmi. ( When one considers the hurdles Spieler has faced as a young entrepreneur and single mother, one is sure to marvel at her long, hard journey to success. Her love affair with Israel is even more interesting, as it seemed that along that road to success, the two intertwined. One of four children born in Ottawa, Canada, to Russian immigrants and Jewish parents, Spieler admits that as a teenager she was somewhat of a rebel, and had scant respect for her Jewish upbringing. Today, she has certainly embraced those Jewish roots and has found comfort and happiness simply living the Jewish life in Israel. “I was always the rebel in the family. I did not agree with the laws that pertained to what I should or should not eat. As far as I was concerned, what went into the mouth came back out, so I could not figure out why eating bacon, for example, was wrong. I considered my father a shouter, but I would question everything Jewish – including the idea of atonement. Why would we have to go to synagogue and beat our breasts as we confessed our sins?” she said. (CH)
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Artists Alliance Barbados presents ‘MSANII’, an exhibition with Hebron Chism and Friends. Norman Centre, Bridgetown. August 23rd - September 21st. Wed - Sat 11am-4pm. Opening reception August 31st, 3pm -5pm. All are welcome. An Exhibit of wood, stone, clay and cement sculpture by Hebron Chism as well as paintings by Rolrick Donovan, Marville Alleyne, Darran Newman and Hebron Chism
Congratulations Fresh Milk team. 8 years and counting. ”Eight years ago today, on August 13th, FRESH MILK was launched. The inaugural event included an artists’ talk, an exhibition and a screening of sixteen video shorts from around the region. The focus of the FRESH MILK event was the launching of ARC III, a quarterly Caribbean art and culture print magazine published out of St. Vincent and the Grenadines by Holly Bynoe and Nadia Huggins. It was a pleasure for me to be in conversation with these two creative forces. An exhibition of the works of five Bajan artists was displayed including Alicia Alleyne, Joanna Crichlow, Jelani Ireka, Mark King and Sheena Rose. Video art pieces from around the Caribbean were screened on the lawn and included works by Nile Saulter and Russell Watson among others. Here's a review of the event by Natalie Batson. Hard to believe that was eight years ago. That was a beautiful night.” https://freshmilkbarbados.com/2011/08/16/arc-iii-and-fresh-milk-launch-review/
ARC III AND FRESH MILK LAUNCH REVIEW “Nobody is no longer controlling your narrative” Those were the powerful words of one half of ARC’s founders, Holly Bynoe, as she addressed the creative network which had descended on a Bajan dairy farm last saturday for the launch of ARC III and FRESH MILK. The former is an extensively expressive regional art magazine highlighting sometimes otherwise overlooked contemporary artists in the Caribbean. The latter, a new open platform for generating creative discussions and presentations of new and established artists. These, combined with a 2D/Video exhibition co-curated by Projects and Space, comprised the stunning and groundbreaking event, to mark how contemporary art in the Caribbean is shifting, and how so too the comprehension of the viewer must also shift. The evening started with viewers being guided through the select 2D works of five local artists: Alicia Alleyne, Joanna Crichlow, Ireka Jelani, Mark King and Sheena Rose. Alicia’s splash of bold coloured shapes in her three works seemed to reflect the atmosphere of the evening: why stay in the boundaries of a shape when you can go outside the lines and be something so much more creative? The pieces made abstract art relevant to young Caribbean artists. Joanna’s reflections on finding familiarity in anomalous surroundings even just within the Caribbean through her Blackbirds series subtly highlighted the need for more unity in the region within the creative realm. The Blackbird aspiring to engage with the mountainous regions of Trinidad was the most striking in this way. Ireka’s rattan cane and wire sculptures provided an aspect of cultural commentary, whereas a traditional Caribbean craft method has evolved from being something to use, to being something to view. In some ways it is positive to interchange practice with aesthetics, but to how much extent is it making the practice irrelevant? Mark’s photographs provided a new way to approach imagery in the Caribbean. If there is one area where there is a glut of certain stereotypical iconography, photography is it, but Mark’s prints shattered the stereotypes and presented viewers with a fresh and completely contemporary perspective of our surroundings. Not only that, the agitated colours on a muted plain created a spectacular visual that would be comfortable displayed anywhere.
Sheena’s outlook in life can be seen as absolutely emulated in her pieces Fashion Police: finding bursts of colour in the everyday mundane. What was distinct was the twists on daily interaction by confronting the fashion prejudice and showing the beauty in uniqueness. The viewer is walked through the artist’s experience and reaction to situations such as going into Town dressed somewhat unorthodoxly. Side notes of finding identity through fashion were also explored through these works The next aspect of the evening was a conversation between FRESH MILK founder Annalee Davis and ARC founders Holly Bynoe and Nadia Huggins, as well as the present stimulated audience. Issues such as the creation of ARC, it’s relevance towards the metamorphosis of art in the Caribbean, and it’s impact on the founders as creative professionals themselves was covered. The atmosphere was electric and those present could feel the restraints of Caribbean Art being released in an attempt to free itself from the stigma of the past and the commercial suppression of the present. No one could deny the passion and determination of the speakers, just as they could not deny this was just the beginning, and to push forward the collective would have to keep those qualities. After the intellectual work out, everyone was treated to refreshments and then the presentation of the video aspect of the exhibition. The open air setting under an abundant moon, the projection onto a converted swingset, the blankets and the bugs. It was just all so appropriate for the viewing of 16 video art pieces from 13 Caribbean artists, and suddenly the traditional ‘white cube’ installation spaces seen internationally seemed outdated. The 70 plus congregation were delighted with an un-interrupted slew of what our region has to offer in the way of contemporary video art: from Nile Saulter’s romanticism in The Young Sea to Russell Watson’s neo-realism through his Dust Bodies: Fatima series, to Annalee Davis’ political confrontations in The Hatchling (A Requiem). With each work the emphasis of talent and understanding of how to convey video art became more powerful, and by the completion it was hard to ignore that this medium may be the strongest to voice the shift in this region’s art. And, when studied, this seems logical: Video Art itself is a fairly current category in the art world, and has little history within a Caribbean context. Also, it is not an easily sellable commodity and therefore is not bound by the cultural-tourism-commercial ropes that has other art mediums under wraps. As Holly said there is nothing “controlling your narrative”. To conclude, the 13th August 2011 is a date that will be etched in the invisible timeline of shifting perception in Caribbean Art. The reaction of viewers, the topics raised, and the positive atmosphere is one that must have been relative to when Duchamp displayed a urinal in a gallery, Degas blurred his painted reality, or Kosuth stuck a couple chairs in a room. In other words, get ready, because things are going to change ’bout hay . – NATALIE MCGUIRE
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Congratulations to Annalee Davis who has been awarded a Vermont Studio Center Fellowship Award sponsored by the Reed Foundation. "Super, super delighted to announce that I have been awarded a Vermont Studio Center Fellowship Award sponsored by the Reed Foundation!! I will be in residence for four weeks just in time to see the magic of the fall and to interact with fellow creatives in what looks like a very beautiful environment. Excited to walking in the footsteps of many Bajan and Caribbean artists who have taken up residencies at the VSC. "The Vermont Studio Center is the largest international residency program in the US, hosting more than 50 visual artists and writers each month from across the country and around the world." Annalee Davis http://www.annaleedavis.com/
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Barbados Bu'n-Bu'n This amazing book by Rosemary Parkinson is on island. Two hard cover coffee table books, with a sleeve that encloses both, 656 pages and 1400 plus photos filled with history, tradition, culture, stories and recipes from Barbados.
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Barbados Bu'n-Bu'n, a collector's item, has won 4 awards for Barbados – Best Photography, Best Design, Best Historical Recipes, Best Self-published Book – then against 5 of the best books in the world WON Best Self-Published Book In The World and honoured at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2015 with Best of the Best In The World by the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2015.
THE BARN ART CENTRE The Barn Art Centre. A new art space. "We are offering approximately 650 sq. ft. of space for short term rentals for art and craft related workshops, classes, events, summer camps, yoga, etc., in an old plantation yard at Small Ridge in Christ Church. Juliana Inniss - 231-0335 Jo Anne Johnson - 253-8702 Email - thebarnartcentre@gmail.com
Created in 2016, The Barn Arts Centre is dedicated to the promotion and development of art-based learning. Our mission is to provide a unique learning environment for diverse audiences to experience a range of art based programs. The Centre provides a space for the community and local resource persons to offer and conduct classes and workshops in painting, drawing, pottery, and textiles. We are dedicated to providing an environment that is meaningful to the arts in Barbados. Located on the breezy Small Ridge Plantation in Christ Church, (just ten minutes away from Sheraton Centre. The Barn Arts Centre offers an escape from the quickening pace of life. Here you can be immersed in an environment that fosters your creativity. Our 570 square foot studio is equipped to provide more than adequate space to conduct a variety of classes and workshops. The studio is well lit and ventilated and can comfortably accommodate up to 15 persons. We offer a variety of opportunities for learners, including exhibitions, artist lectures, and single workshops, as well as adult and youth classes. Our artistic programming continues to be essential to our goal of inspiring creativity, fostering self-discovery, and nurturing an appreciation of the arts. The Founders of The Barn Arts Centre are Jo- Anne Johnson and Juliana Inniss. Jo Anne started doing ceramics as a hobby in 1982 and has operated a ceramics studio since 1987, providing services and supplies to people who wished to do slip casted ceramics as a hobby. She has taught many different finishing techniques to her students and learnt many more through experimenting, and trial and error. Juliana has been working with pottery and ceramics since 1992. She began by hand-painting local pottery with bold and colourful designs. After graduating University she made the decision to pursue her passion for art through the medium of ceramics. Juliana has worked with a number of techniques such as casted ceramics, handbuilding, surface decoration and raku firing. Juliana was first introduced to Raku in 2006 during a two week residency in St. Thomas USVI, with this exposure Juliana began mixing her own glazes, constructed her own kiln and has been Raku firing since then. https://www.facebook.com/thebarnartcentre /
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Fresh Milk would like to thank everyone who worked with us, supported us, or took an interest in our programming & the fabulous work being done in the Caribbean arts last year. We look forward to an exciting year ahead, and invite you to reflect on 2017 with us through our annual year in review newsletter! https://mailchi.mp/d52406dc901a/fresh-milks-2017-in-review
Fresh Milk supports excellence in the visual arts through residencies and programmes that provide Caribbean artists with opportunities for development and foster a thriving art community. Founded in 2011, the organization offers professional support to artists from the Caribbean and further afield. Fresh Milk seeks to stimulate critical thinking and cultivate excellence in contemporary visual art. Its goal is to nurture artists, raise regional awareness about contemporary arts and provide Caribbean artists with opportunities for growth, excellence and success. Website: http://freshmilkbarbados.com Facebook: http://facebook.com/FreshMilkBarbados Twitter: http://twitter.com/FreshMilkBdos Instagram: http://instagram.com/freshmilkbarbados Youtube: http://youtube.com/FreshMilkBarbados Tumblr: http://freshmilk-books.tumblr.com
GINE ON MAGAZINE·Gine On?! is the online magazine brainchild of cultural practitioners DJ Simmons & Empress Zingha published every other Thursday on GineOn.com. The husband and wife duo developed the digital publication with artists, entrepreneurs, and all the persons who support them in mind. Too many times do we hear; “Where else does events like this happen?” “Where can I hear live music?” “Anything else going on other than fetes?” “I didn't even know that was happening”. This online, access anytime hub is here; so YOU can find your next favourite time! We broadcast bare Bajan culture to thousands of users to any device connected to the world through the web portal GineOn.com. Link with us for original video content highlighting various art personalities, new music, videos, blogs, podcasts, I mean a couple clicks opens a wealth of entertainment. We build an engaging experience for hundreds of our supporters on social media connecting the world to know wuh gine on with arts and culture right here at home. See you somewhere sometime soon... Sign up to our mailing list to make sure you always in de know at: GineOnMagazine@gmail.com Hosting or performing at a live entertainment event, or doing any activity progressing performing arts in the island? Forward us an email (GineOnMagazine@gmail.com) with more information so we can help push it for you. Let's help and support each other in the arts! Come and hear wuh Gine On! https://www.facebook.com/gineonmagazine/
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Along with a constantly updated cool callendar of events, the site is basically set up in the categories Art, Crumbs & Rums, Follow Fashion, Community. Under Arts we tell the stories of powerful cultural influencers through video Features. Highlight strong up and coming talent in Artist Peeps. Digest the experiences of stalwarts in the industry in Craftsmen Of Our Men. We link you directly to Bajans producing quality content all over the web through the page New Brand. And coming soon you will be able to attend online workshops and masterclasses in Arts Training. Bajans love to eat and drink and through Crumbs & Rums we take you into the lives of our local farmers and vendors in Bridgetown Market. Share homegrown recipes and food & beverage blogs in Eat Bajan. Explore the diner things around here in Eating Out In Bim and link up with those street stalls who save our bellies in On De Side. Nuff content coming to fill these pages just now! Culture is only as strong its Community. Connect with some of the most engaging Bajans through our Features. See and hear the experience patrons and performers had at events under So How It Was. Discover new places to lime and truly treasure Barbados in Part You Carring Me. We are so fussy to announce Gine On TV. A variety of video specials with a Bajan flair. Be uniquely entertained by some of your favourite local personalities. Real Reactions, Ask Me Anything and Top Ten Talk already in production, with more right around the corner. You know Bajans know how to take care of ourselves and in Follow Fashion Features we direct you to some the local designers in the industry. Get tips and tricks in trends, hair and body care through Looking Like A Bajan and receive online masterclasses in hair and make up through Fashion Training. This page will be filled with vibrant content very soon so make sure you subscribe for the updates. Of course our official Gine On merchandise is also available. Hats and mugs; with fitted tees and tote bags coming soon! This site is building an archive documenting Barbadian culture to connect our passions and creativity. Make sure you hit that link to receive notifications when we post something good. Any questions, suggestions, queries or just want to send some love; contact us at gineonmagazine@gmail.com Enjoy your space to be a Bajan online and make sure you check regularly because we will be pushing out consistent content for you to enjoy. Join our social media community over at @gineonmagazine on Instagram and Facebook. Love all de time. See you somewhere sometime soon
Tides Gallery Tides Restaurant Balmore House, Holetown, St. James Tel : (246) 432-2084 Email: tidesart@caribsurf.com
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Deebles Point Art Gallery & Cafe. Featuring artists Frank Cossey, Trudi Johnson, Hilary Armstrong, Clermont Mapp, Nancy Cole-O'Geest, Keisha Hinds, Joshua Simpson, Claire EvansonCeppi, Keren Evanson. Industry Hall. East Point, St Philip. Tel 423 7943
QUEEN’S PARK GALLERY
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Our Mission To fuel the development of culture through training, research and the creation of opportunities in cultural industries. The Role of the NCF The NCF’s two major roles are: developmental and commercial. In its developmental role, the Foundation uses culture as a tool for national development fostering and supporting the various art forms and new cultural products. In its commercial role, the Foundation is responsible for the promotion, production and hosting of cultural festivals and associated events that are considered economically viable or socially acceptable. A key part of this function now includes the responsibility for the staging and execution of major governmental and national events. In addition, as culture becomes more pivotal to national and international policy, the National Cultural Foundation continues to re-assess its responsibilities in light of all its functions. FUNCTIONS of the NCF are: To stimulate and facilitate the development of culture generally To develop, maintain and manage theatres and other cultural facilities and equipment provided by Government To organize cultural festivals Assist persons interested in developing cultural expression. OBJECTIVES of the NCF are: To provide opportunities for Barbadian artists/artistes to showcase their talents with the end result being an increased demand for local work To educate Barbadians concerning their heritage To offer Barbadians and visitors alike a high quality product that informs, educates and entertains To equip our cultural workforce with technological skills and training to excel in their particular art forms To strengthen the local cultural product and in the process increase profits to the shareholders To create high quality products that will be competitive on the local, regional and international markets To maximize the role of the cultural sector in the tourism industry Rodney Ifill, Cultural Officer Visual Arts 424-0909 ext.234 rodney-ifill@ncf.bb www.ncf.bb Annette Nias Cultural Officer - Film and Photography 424-0909 Ext 238 annette-nias@ncf.bb
The Barbados Photographic Society held its AGM Sunday 20th January, 2018 at UWI, Cave Hill, Barbados. We would like to welcome the new Executive and officers (please see listing below). The new Executive looks forward to serving you, with the help of all our members. Do write to us and put your ideas for events, workshops, exhibitions and more. Please know that the BPS Executive gives of their time, expertise (in different fields and knowledge) for free so we ask that members be willing to step up to collaborate and work on their ideas. Write to us at membersinfo@barbadosphotographicsociety.com Within a few weeks we will have a draft for members of Field trips, events, monthly themes on our Facebook page for you to join into, exhibition ideas and much more. Members plus those who may like to join the BPS who could not make it to the meeting may contact our Treasurer, Sherlock Lord (231-5053) and make arrangements to pay. $65 for new members, $45 for annual renewal. Being a member gives you Open Wall with talks and workshops, Field Trips, exhibitions at galleries plus online exhibitions, competitions (with prizes), travel to countries with the BPS, percentages off at supporting businesses and more. BPS Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/groups/Barbadosphoto / BPS Website https://barphotosoc.wixsite.com/home BPS email membersinfo@barbadosphotographicsociety.com
TANDEM "where function, form and meaning coexist ". This cooperative project and design store showcasing contemporary design by Barbados resident designers and artists continues at The Colonnade Mall, 1st Floor, East Wing, Broad Street, Bridgetown, Barbados. Monday ( by appointment). Tuesday - Saturday 10AM - 4PM. https://www.facebook.com/tandemovement/
BARBADOS ARTS COUNCIL BAC Gallery, #2 Pelican Craft Centre, Bridgetown (246) 426 4385 thebarbadosartscouncilgallery@gmail.com
Barbados Arts Council Gallery Schedule 2019 (Subject to change. Please call the Gallery to confirm) Jan 27 - March 09 All Bajan Group show March 10 - April 06 Members Group Show April 07 - May 04 Members group show May 05 - May 18 Rental May 19 - June 22 Our Heritage [group show] June 23 - August 10 Crop Over Group Show Aug 11 - Aug 24 Rental Aug 25 - Oct 05 Little Gems Group Show Oct 06 - Oct 19 Rental Oct 20 - Dec. 07 Simply Barbados Group Show Dec. 08 - Jan 18, 2020 The Christmas Show Barbados Arts Council Gallery, # 2 Pelican Craft Village, Bridgetown, Barbados.
THE FRAME & ART COMPANY & GALLERY Millhouse, Canewood • St. Michael, BB 11005 • Phone (246) 271-6509 • Cell (246) 266-9432
ICIL PHILLIPS’ Theatre Eyes Very up to date on both local theatre and overseas happenings. Link here https://www.facebook.com/groups/354529934596080/964541386928262/
Museum of parliament The Museum is open on: Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Guided tours are conducted subject to availability. Barbadian students with ID have free admission to the Museum. http://www.barbadosparliament.com/page.../show_conte nt/59
Purple Palm is a local business supplying homes and businesses with the highest quality Print and Mirror furnishings. Using the artwork of many local artists in Barbados and the Caribbean plus work from around the world. We have been supplying to the hotel and villa industry for ten years, including prestigious clients such as Sandy Lane, Coral Reef, The Crane Beach Resort, Sugar Cane Club and Sandridge among others. We have also supplied numerous private villas, and work closely with local interior designers. Being directly affiliated with a 40,000 sq ft framing factory our prices are very competitive. Appointments to view our gallery at Rockley Resort can be made through Paul Hoad or Karen McGuire. 246-2332173 paulhoad@caribsurf.com
THE ARTSPLASH CENTRE Paint * Draw * Create & Have Fun! artsplashbarbados@gmail.com www.artsplashbarbados.com
To boldly and brilliantly pursue the adventure in everything artistic and to be a vital and uncommon cultural force in Barbados. www.artsetcbarbados.com
BARBADOS MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY www.barbmuse.org.bb
BARBADOS MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY SHOP www.barbmuse.org.bb
FRANK COLLYMORE HALL AND GRAND SALLE www.fch.org.bb
A monthly programme is produced of all lectures, music and theatre events . To receive it by email or post please email fchmail.com or tel 436 9083 or 84
Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination, UWI For further information, contact De Carla Applewhaite at 417-4776 decarla.applewhaite@cavehill.uwi.edu www.cavehill.uwi.edu/ebcci
FRAMING YOUR ART FINE ART FRAMING LTD, Pelican Industrial Park, Bridgetown, Barbados - (246) 426-5325 FAST FRAME FACTORY, Dayrell’s Road, St Michael (246) 426 9994 shaka@fastframefactory.biZ FRAMING STUDIO At the Best of Barbados Head Office, Welches Plantation, H’way 2A
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THE FRAME & ART COMPANY Millhouse, Canewood • St. Michael, BB 11005 • Phone (246) 271-6509 • Cell (246) 266-9432 ART SUPPLIES THE ART HUB James Fort Building, Hincks Street, Bridgetown, St. Michael. Tel: 436-2950Monday - Saturday 8.30am - 5.00pm (Easy access to parking by the old Heliport Pad) LAURIE DASH, Bay Street, Bridgetown.
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