November 2012 Arts Events Magazine Barbados

BARBADOS ARTS EVENTS

NOVEMBER 2012

Welcome to Barbados Monthly Arts Events This is a completely free and unsponsored 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 creative event or a new piece of work 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

Cover Art by Corrie Scott

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

corriescott@gmail.com

www.corriescott.net

The Arts Directory Barbados http://issuu.com/corriescott/docs/art_directory_barbados_dec_2011/1

ARTS DIRECTORY BARBADOS How It Happened I have, for so many years, wanted to create a free online reference book where anyone, in any part of the world, may access the creative people in Barbados. I could not do this on my own and Kathy Yearwood heard of my idea, offered to partner with me and I happily agreed.

What started out in March as a small book of what I thought might be a maximum of one hundred and fifty pages turned into a tome of over three hundred pages. A mixture of excitement and fear at what we had taken on. And here we are in December 2011 with a book showing off the talents in Barbados. So exciting.

The eight month adventure began. Finding artists, photographing them and their work. From March 2011 to October 2011 Kathy and I collated the artwork, the bios and statements and travelled around the island garnering images and information.

Large collections of artwork in homes. Convincing people who thought they were too old and forgotten and watching them smile as their work was photographed and having them talk about themselves so that we could create a bio for them. Literally slipping down the hills of clay at Chalky Mount to see an original kiln and spend the day with the potters.

Temple Yard with the Rastafarian community where they are blessed with talent, especially carving, and then coming away with gifts of pineapples and avocados. Photographing in the rain with an umbrella in one hand and a camera in the other to get the right angles. Going to openings and craft shows and talking to many. Coming to my home, going to Kathy’s, and going wherever was needed. Meeting the different personalities in so many locations as I photographed many of them for their portrait photo for the book. Remembering some who have left us. A labour of love, learning and fun.

The thank you part as I could not have done this on my own. Norma Springer who encouraged me to “take the book and run with it”. Kathy Yearwood who offered to partner with me collating and to create the book for artists in Barbados.

Alison Chapman-Andrews for helping Kathy and I proof read. Amazing how much you miss no matter how many times we went over it. Sue Bain for offering her professional opinion and suggestions as a copy editor. Peter Boos for all the encouragement. Laura Lin Hutchinson for her introduction. Finally, the most important people, the creative souls who put their trust in Kathy and I to show them off to their best. I hope we have done this.

Corrie Dec 7th 2011

RAS AKYEM

TRIBUTE TO RAS AKYEM with ‘A TERRIBLE BEAUTY’ PORTRAIT OF RAS AKYEM – ‘ART ANIMAL’ By L L HUTCHINSON (published in MACO magazine)

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“A TERRIBLE BEAUTY” PORTRAIT OF RAS AKYEM – “ART ANIMAL”.

BY L L HUTCHINSON (published in MACO magazine) One thing the brilliant, revolutionary Barbadian artist Ras Akyem makes clear is that he rarely distinguishes himself from his artwork. His art, from which he feeds, breathes and lives, expressed from the very core of his being, is filled with paradoxes of simplification and dark complexity. It is sacred and sensual and sacrilegious, it blows the mind and pummels the senses, seducing you with the pain and pleasure of the colour palette while beseeching you to shift your levels of consciousness and perception.

You may or may not relate to the universal themes of black struggle - the fight for survival and respect - or his peculiar iconographic language, but you must appreciate it’s raw energy, its sometimes “terrible beauty”….

As an Artist he is the consummate, sometimes consumed “Art Animal”.

PASSAGES IN A LIFE: Born in the 50s into the landscape of the Barbadian ghetto, Akyem sensed from early that he would be an artist and felt a kindred connection to famous artists like Picasso, whose work he was already familiar with at the age of nine, even sleeping with a book of his paintings under his pillow!!

In 1973/4 Akyem embraced the Rastafari faith and way of life and in 1979 he was accepted into the vibrant interactive artistic community of the Edna Manley School of Visual Arts in Jamaica..

After returning to Barbados he formed what would become a formidable and enduring relationship with another blazingly talented artist - Ras I-Shi. Out of this symbiosis they morph into ‘AkyemandIshi’, for years, one seldom referred to without the other. Sharing a mutual philosophy on life and Art, they begin the battle for Art and Artists to be recognized and respected like any other legitimate profession or institution. Refusing to be weekend artists or have a ‘day job’, they often had to choose between buying food or paint “from then we were committed to painting as the ultimate sacrifice” The now infamous 1989 VEXX Exhibition was the clenched fist, the locked jaw, bared teeth; a defiant middle finger directed at the ‘establishment’ - the silent outrage of visual subversion. These bold revolutionaries were blazing a path and pushing their own parameters, trodding on hallowed ground and invading complacent psyches - rebels with cause! Passionate, vibrant, raw, militant… the young lions had stood and roared…. the Art world in Barbados quaked!

Intent on the path of realizing their full potential they relocate to CUBA to enrol in the Instituto Superior de Arte from 1995 to 97.

Immersed in a different cultural landscape with its rich, poignant history, the stage is set for personal discovery and reinvention. Though fully appreciative of being within a society that treats its artists with honour and respect, there are challenges of language and conditions of social deprivation and confrontations with tutors who had difficulty accepting their peculiar aesthetic values and implementation of “a lot of drag and drip and passion and graffiti”, so very different from Cuban painterly traditions directly descended from Russian formalist schools of art - linear and logical.

In the end they won over the critics and both artists’ work was selected for the very prestigious Santo Domingo Bienale where they won Gold!

Ironically, in revolutionist Cuba, Akyem and Ishi were the revolutionaries. “ a cross section of a complicated man….”

A small frame and understated manner disguise a swirling mass of multiplicity and contained energy. He is a composite being willing to shred and dissect the layers of his instinctual selves and spew his innards onto canvas in an ephemeral visual language that is brilliantly provocative and beyond one dimensional comprehension. (see paintings) He is open and accessible yet remains enigmatic. Conscious and still committed to the ‘fight’ and plight of the stigmatised people of the Diaspora, the subversion of outdated and erroneous value systems and the ‘upliftment’ of the artist.

He loves life, the creative process and – even though he has been called misogynistic – women. Marijuana is his muse. He still enjoys liming in “Temple Yard” in Bridgetown, an area of commerce for the Rasta community, and in the ghetto. He considers these to be places of inspiration, raw energy and the perpetuation of collective ‘black angst’.

In conversation, here in his studio, creative energy is contained, the restless mind shifts fluidly. He verbalizes himself smoothly, precisely… Akyem is the epitome of ‘articulate’.

His love of painting is beyond mere passion, he is so kinetically sensitised to the paint itself that certain colours evoke a response even in his taste buds. Art is his lifeline and the canvas is his home - the dwelling place of his spirit. “all the paintings are self portraits, even if it’s a landscape or still life…..it’s a characteristic portrait of something that ‘s going on inside of me….I don’t think of my work and me as being separate…”

He doesn’t justify or define his art, but is willing to share his own understanding of his self, the process and the purpose in which he invites our participation. The paintings, seldom ‘pretty’, instigate a gamut of responses from revulsion, wonder, bewilderment, even shock…with titles like “Nigger Section” “Dark Angel”, “Bitch”.

“If the intuitive becomes satisfied in the awe of the connection with the object, even if the intellect is not satisfied it is enough…

It’s important for me that it makes you feel something… not that you sit and talk about how delightful those flowers are over dinner, I want to make you vomit at the dinner table and remember your own misdeeds…”

Initially encountering his authentic visual language and peculiar iconography may indeed be puzzling - the bared donkey teeth, the barbed crown of thorns, the gloved fists, the obtrusive phallus, the profusion of incidental strokes - but when given the rare opportunity to see it in the context of a collective body, one starts to formulate a connection, to look for and find meaning… that is the compelling power of the work, the mastery of the magician, before you know it you are spellbound…

Akyem is indeed a shaman. Deliberately allowing the intuitive to override his intellect, he accesses the complex realms of non-verbal reality, primordial energy streams, and “power animals” embedded within the vastness of the human psyche. Transposing the rituals of the shamanic tradition to the dominion of the Artist is a brushstroke of genius!

As an artist in Barbados, “a space that doesn’t have much empathy or sympathy for visual expression”, the struggle to gain acceptance and respect, individually and for Art’s sake, has been long, hard and continual. The fact that his work can now command price tags as high as BDS$20,000 gives a cash value validation to the worth of that struggle and further entitlement to ‘nuff respect’. But as the barbed crown of thorns (see paintings) becomes the laurel wreath of success, Akyem hasn’t compromised his creative integrity or professional choices but remains true to his idiom and purpose. He doesn’t cater to market trends or what people think art should be, although he quite easily could, but rather he paints for himself and kindred spirits.

“If my work is selling it’s a real paradox …I’m surprised when people buy my work.

My paintings actually tend to be quite offensive…remember my art is subversive… I reinterpret (traditional images) and reinvent them in order to subvert the values that were used to denigrate us, and I do it in such a way that you’ll want to buy the work and have it…. so that’s the success of the denigrated.”

He has exhibited worldwide and gained international recognition yet Akyem - the artist, painter, poet, revolutionary, magician, griot, shaman - like his sometimes abbreviated figures, and seemingly unfinished pieces considers that ‘he is a work in progress, still becoming, incomplete, a point of endless possibilities, with no end in sight…

———————————”art is essential…. it has the capacity to give evidence to things that have no other means of manifesting themselves…”

Laura Lin Hutchinson

http://cosmiclotus.tumblr.com/

Ark Animal Welfare Society of Barbados COMING SOON: The Ark 2013 Calendar, using our dogs and cat in their new homes.

ONLY Bds$20.00 each. 1st come, 1st serve basis, so please place your order early contact one of the Committee Members or send an e-mail to ark@caribsurf.com

VERSIA ABEDA HARRIS Versia has received an acceptance letter to a residency at the Vermont Studio Center. They are giving Versia a partial grant which covers half of the residency fees and a work exchange award.

She still has to cover other expenses; such as airfares, materials and transportation.

In seeking funding Versia has put up her portfolio of art for sale.

Versia may be contacted at versheen@gmail.com or www.facebook.com/versia.harris

Link to portfolio picasaweb.google.com/105714821715531443977/VersiaAbedaHarris2012

VERSIA ABEDA HARRIS

versheen@gmail.com

RUSSELL WATSON

GORDON ASHBY timeclub8@gmail.com

ARTHUR ATKINSON ‘BAJAN LIGHT’ The Mexican Photographic Exhibition ‘COLOURS OF MEXICO’

Exhibition ends Nov 10th

BRIDGETOWN GALLERY AT SHERATON 9am - 9pm daily 230 1750 thebridgetowngallery@gmail.com

ARTHUR ATKINSON Atkinson has been exhibiting since 1968. His style of painting has been, for the most part representational, sometimes stylised, and for a period, totally abstract. His subject matter has been inspired by Barbados and things Bajan. He works mainly in acrylic, watercolour and occasionally mixed media.

Over the years he has mounted 12 solo exhibitions, 5 exhibitions partnered with another artist and participated in over 25 major national and Caribbean exhibitions in Barbados, Cuba, Guyana, Jamaica, Japan, London, Miami, Paris, Sao Paulo The Dominican Republic, and Washington. In 2008 he was honoured with a retrospective exhibition and The Lifetime Achievement Award in the Visual Arts.

ARTHUR ATKINSON ‘BAJAN LIGHT’

Bridgetown Gallery at Sheraton

ARTHUR ATKINSON ‘BAJAN LIGHT’

Bridgetown Gallery at Sheraton

ARTHUR ATKINSON ‘BAJAN LIGHT’

Bridgetown Gallery at Sheraton

ARTHUR ATKINSON ‘BAJAN LIGHT’

Bridgetown Gallery at Sheraton

ARTHUR ATKINSON ‘BAJAN LIGHT’

Bridgetown Gallery at Sheraton

ARTHUR ATKINSON ‘BAJAN LIGHT’

Bridgetown Gallery at Sheraton

ARTHUR ATKINSON ‘BAJAN LIGHT’

Bridgetown Gallery at Sheraton

ARTHUR ATKINSON ‘BAJAN LIGHT’

Bridgetown Gallery at Sheraton

HENRY FRASER www.profhenryfraser.com

WINSTON KELLMAN

dekellmanart@hotmail.com

MARK KING

cargocollective.com/markings

KRAIG YEARWOOD

Kraigyearwood@gmail.com

JOSCELYN GARDNER joscelyn-gardner.blogspot.ca/

RAS ISHI www.rasishi.com

’SWEET GOSSIP’ is a collaborative project with artist Sheena Rose, photographer Adrian Richards and writer Natalie McGuire. The project looks at the Pop culture of Barbados and the phrases or comments that Barbadians use when gossiping or in a certain situation. This project wants to express more of the Barbadian culture than the familiar stereotypes of beaches and sun, and look at the way we Barbadians speak. In the paintings, Sheena Rose references some of the stereotypes and places them within everyday situations in the paintings. Click on the link to see more of the digital art show, documents, review by the Sweet Gossip Team, Artist: Sheena Rose Photographer: Adrian Richards Art Writer: Natalie McGuire www.facebook.com/sweetgossipart

SHEENA ROSE bajanrose27@hotmail.com

ADRIAN RICHARDS anrichards@gmail.com

LISA HERRERA

lisaherreragrenada@gmail.com

www.lisaherrera.com

HEATHER-DAWN SCOTT https://picasaweb.google.com/105714821715531443977/HeatherDawnScottRecentArt#

CORRIE SCOTT

www.corriescott.net

SIMONE PADMORE

simone.asia@hotmail.com

LILIAN STEN www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1413804023617.2052737.1188049245&type=3

RAYMOND BANCROFT raymond.bancroft@hotmail.com picasaweb.google.com/105714821715531443977/RaymondBancroft#

NEVILLE LEGALL

www.nevillelegall.com

Beyond Publishing Caribbean is a group of artists, illustrators, graphic novels,graphic artists from Barbados and you can contact them or liking their page by click on the link, Matthew Clarke Tristan Roach Rivenis Black Julian Moseley https://www.facebook.com/pages/Beyond-Publishing-Caribbean/218731298152892?ref=ts&fref=ts

MARC MENARD (246) 828-7869 arteaser@yahoo.com

WALTER BAILEY

WALTER BAILEY

ARTHUR ATKINSON

DENYSE MENARD - GREENIDGE

RAS AKYEM

KATHERINE KENNEDY

RUSSELL WATSON

EMMA CHAPMAN

STANLEY GREAVES

RASHIDA BUTCHER

ANN RUDDER heraldryannart@sunbeach.net

ROSEMARY PARKINSON

www.rosemaryparkinson.com

AMI AQUI (Trinidad) photography, murals, commissioned paintings, belly henna and casting thelotusbox@gmail.com

HEIDI BERGER India Journal www.facebook.com/media/set/? set=a.10151164532772720.470542.602142719&type=1

KIRK WATKINS

www.watkinsbarbados.com

ON THE WALL ART GALLERY

www.onthewallartgallery.com

VANITA COMISSIONG

www.onthewallartgallery.com

RODELL WARNER

www.rodellwarner.com

CHERISE WARD

www.facebook.com/pages/Cherise-Ward-Illust

JOHN WEBSTER jwebster@caribsurf.com

ROGER HANNANT

rogerhannant45@gmail.com

RAYMOND MAUGHAN

raymondmaughan@gmail.com

RUSSELL WATSON russanthonywatson@yahoo.com

Gallery NuEdge Fine Arts Ltd. Limegrove Lifestyle Centre Holetown St. James Barbados Mon 10am – 7pm Sun 10 am – 5 pm Tel: (246) 621- 0067 Fax: (246) 621- 0069 galerienuedge.com https://www.facebook.com/media/set /? set=a.298255470290593.72397.10299 6463149829&type=1

ANNALEE DAVIS www.annaleedavis.com

TARIK BROWNE tbrowne@gmail.com

RON CUMBERBATCH worshipdrummer@live.com

ANDRE WILLIAMS www.andrewilliamsphotography.net

LAURALIN MAYNARD lauralinmaynard.daportfolio.com

RIVENIS BLACK www.facebook.com/rivenisart

MATHEW CLARKE animekonexpo.com/gallery/category/9/5/

JOEL LAING ( DAVI-GO) davi-go.deviantart.com/

PETER BOOS

pnboos@gmail.com

NIKOLAS SEALY nsdesigns74@gmail.com www.facebook.com/pages/NSDesigns/446661088688420?ref=hl

CATHY CUMMINS cathy.coast@caribsurf.com

ROMAL JONES

artcrush@hotmail.com

https://picasaweb.google.com/105714821715531443977/RomalJonesAnimalTesting#

BARBADOS ARTS COUNCIL BAC Gallery, Pelican Craft Centre, Bridgetown (246) 426 4385 mail@barbadosartscouncil.com www.barbadosartscouncil.com

BAC Gallery Schedule 2012- 2013 (subject to change. Please call gallery to confirm dates and events)

Pelican Craft Centre, Bridgetown +1 (246) 426 4385 mail@barbadosartscouncil.com www.barbadosartscouncil.com

The Barbados Arts Council Gallery is available to rent for an exhibition at the heavily subsidized price of $150Bds per week during certain weeks of the year. If you would like to have your own show, either solo or a Group Show, please apply in writing to the President of the BAC.

September 17- October 8 'Little Gems' Group Show Album of over 60 of the pieces showing here https://picasaweb.google.com/105714821715531443977/LittleGemsAtBAC2012 October 10- November 3 November 5-December 8

Group Show 'Independence' Group Show

December 10-January 19, 2013

'Christmas' Group Show

Back Issues of the FREE monthly

Arts Magazine Barbados may be found on http://issuu.com/corriescott/docs

STEWART JENKINS 9am-noon at Holders Farmers Market Every Sunday Sittings $40, from photo $100

CORRIE SCOTT ‘Caribbean Doors’ Online Catalogue issuu.com/corriescott/docs/caribbean_doors

Many of these wooden houses are now lost to us and so I have tried to preserve them visually so that we may not forget the traditional architecture of our Caribbean. I love the worn, weathered and much fixed doors, windows and structures. 11” by 14” with a mat that brings it up to 16” by 20” ready for framing. Printed on archival photographic paper. $280Bds ($140USD). corriescott@gmail.com. +1(246) 424 3965. www.corriescott.net

'Blooming Roses' by Corrie Scott.

This series is from my iphone using the Hipstamatic App with just a 60watt bulb. I decided to exhibit these to show that photography is open to any camera and any interpretation (and any modern app).

No corrections of any kind have been made on these images except for re sizing the image to 5" by 5" at 300dpi. It is as it was photographed.

Printed with archival inks on acid free paper.

Series of 17.

CORRIE SCOTT www.corriescott.net

https://picasaweb.google.com/105714821715531443977/BloomingRoses

FRESH MILK is pleased to collaborate with the IBB in November 2012 as a part of our Satellite Programme, working to link informal artistic networks throughout the region and in the diaspora. Barbadian creative and Assistant to Director at Fresh Milk Katherine Kennedy (who is collaborating with Barbadian art historian and Fresh Milk Liaison Officer Natalie McGuire, currently based in New Zealand) and Vincentian artist, writer and co-founder of ARC Magazine Holly Bynoe will be residing together at the IBB headquarters in Curaรงao. They will engage with the students and artistic community through a series of interviews and a Master Class respectively, as well as developing their own ideas and practices.

Blog: http://freshmilkbarbados.wordpress.com/ FRESH MILK, The Milking Parlour Studio, Walkers Dairy, St. George (M. 230 8897)

Image of Annalee Davis' art piece "Sweet Island Cookie Cutters - Sweet Fuh So!" currently on display at El Museo del Barrio, New York, in the exhibition 'Caribbean: Crossroads of the World.'

Alberta Whittle is a Barbadian artist, currently based in Glasgow. Alberta is at the FRESH MILK Platform from October 1st to take part in an eight to ten week residency under the title ‘Second Armour.’

Her time will include a series of open forum discussions surrounding race, workshops with the Fine Art students at BCC, and finally an exhibition/intervention stemming from her experiences and research undertaken during her time at Fresh Milk.

Alberta will be doing a performance piece titled ‘Hustle de Money – a Performance by Bertie aka Big Red aka General outta Glitter Zone’ at our next public event, FRESH MILK IX, to be held on November 29th at 7pm.

COLLEEN LEWIS READING ROOM Bibliography of The Colleen Lewis Reading Room now available online The list of books FRESH MILK has in The Colleen Lewis Reading Room is now available online!

Visit The Colleen Lewis Reading Room segment of our blog, and follow the link leading to http://dl.dropbox.com/u/38727381/deliciouslibrary/index.html to see what we have to offer in our collection.

We welcome you to book a session in the library by emailing freshmilkbarbados@gmail.com.

TROY BURGESS troyburgess@live.com

JULIANNE GILL www.juliannegill.com

TIYI BY DESIGN Tiyi by Design is an exclusive Caribbean label, producing exquisite, hand-crafted jewelry. Each piece is individually designed by professional metalsmith/jeweller, Ichia Tiyi. www.tiyibydesign.com

www.barbadosphotographicsociety.com

ANDREA URLASS aurlass@yahoo.com

www.fineartamerica.com/profiles/andrea-urlass.html

JANE SHATTUCK-HOYOS

planetbarbados@gmail.com

SUE HOLDER whatever2photo@gmail.com

NIFCA CALENDAR Nov 2-5 & 7 NIFCA 2012 Literary Arts Book Fair, FCH Terrace, 6pm-9pm Nov 02 NIFCA 2012 Finals Dance FCH 7p.m.

Nov 03 NIFCA 2012 Finals Music FCH 7p.m.

Nov 04 NIFCA 2012 Finals Drama/Speech FCH 6p.m.

Nov 05 NIFCA 2012 Finals - Music FCH 7p.m.

Adults: $25.00 Children: $10.00 (5 - 12 years) (No children under 5 years) NIFCA Literary Arts Gala November 7 @ 7p.m. at F C Hall Adults: $15.00 Children: $5.00 (5 - 12 years) (No children under 5 years) Box Offices: C. S. Pharmacy, NCF Headquarters 424-0909, At the Door Sat Nov 10th, 10am – 4pm Culinary Arts Exhibition & Cook off at Hilton Sun Nov 11th, 6.30pm VISUAL ARTS/PHOTOGRAPHY/FILM & VIDEO Preview and Official opening at Spirit Bond, Bridgetown. Exhibition continues daily until Sat Nov 24th. 10am – 6pm.

Sunday 18th Nov, 6pm Thursday Nov 22nd, 6pm Shed.

NIFCA Performing Arts Gala at Garfield Sobers Gymnasium NIFCA Film & Video screenings, at Queen’s Park Steel

SALLY HENRY rsally.henry@gmail.com

MORE GALLERIES GANG OF 4 The Cottage, Springvale Plantation.St. Andrew . tel 438 7883.

CONSTANT GALLERY OF FINE ART Sculpture and fine art (by appointment only), (246) 429 2654 and 232 7830. email: tradersrealty@caribsurf.com A GALLERY, By appointment please contact: Catherine Forter-Chee-ATow Curator/Artist Tel: 246 262 6238 or 246 262 6241 e: c.forter.cheeatow@caribsurf.com Royal Westmoreland, St James & The Mews Restaurant, Holetown

RECENTLY UPDATED On The Wall Gallery www.onthewallartgallery.com Barbados Arts Council www.barbadosartscouncil.com

Scan me with your smart phone

Corrie Scott www.corriescott.net

THE FESTIVAL ART GALLERY Hastings Farmers Market on the first Saturday of each month.

Festival Art Gallery is a mobile art gallery showing in excess of 50 local Barbadian artists who are painters, ceramic artists, photographers and sculptors. Bringing Art To The People kathyyearwood@hotmail.com www.festivalartgallery.com

ART SUPPLIES THE ART HUB ( 2 locations) Art Hub New location from the 7th September Retail Store and Gallery James Forte Building Hincks Street Bridgetown, Convenient Parking (Old Zemicon space), Open Monday- Friday 8am- 4.30 pm, Saturday 8am-1pm. Tel: 436 2950 cell 231 6847 Sunset Crest will still be open for your convenience Monday 9am- Noon, Tuesday 9am3.30pm Thursday 9am-3.30pm Saturday 9am -1pm. # 163 Amaryllis Row,Sunset Crest, St. James.

QUEEN’S PARK GALLERY http://ncf.bb/about/culdev/queens.htm

Queen's Park Gallery is temporarily located at Pelican Craft Centre #12 on Harbour Rd, Bridgetown

QUEEN’S PARK GALLERY SCHEDULE

Oct. 7th - Nov.3rd SCULPTURE GROUP EXHIBITION Nov. 11th - 24th THE BLUE AND WHITE SHOW Dec.2nd - 29th ART SUPERMARKET Queen's Park Gallery is temporarily located at Pelican Craft Centre #12 on Harbour Rd, Bridgetown QPG tel.#427-2345

SAVE QUEEN’S PARK GALLERY www.facebook.com/SaveQueensParkGallery

MORNINGSIDE GALLERY Division of Fine Arts, BARBADOS COMMUNITY COLLEGE morningsidegallery@bcc.edu.bb 426-2858, ext.5262

VERY VANITA Great gifts that reflect the color and vibrancy of Barbados can be found in the Very Vanita line of products available at On The wall Galleries both at Earthwork and Champers and a few specially selected stores.

Choose from the very popular throw cushions, tote bags, prints and assorted stationery totake home as a lasting memory of Barbados.

A new line of kitchen, table accents and scarves will be available for the 2011 winter season.

Items can be ordered on line at onthewallartgallery.com or veryvanita.com

THE NATIONAL ART GALLERY COMMITTEE

Visit www.nagc.bb - website for the National Art Gallery Committee in Barbados for NEWS on current happenings.

The site includes ArtistNet, the database of Barbadian visual artists; a click on ‘Artists’ will take you there. Visual artists are invited to post their profile and images on ArtistNet. Artists already on ArtistNet are reminded to send in their profile updates and new images.

ArtistNet is a FREE NAGC service for artists.

For further information contact the NAGC at +1 (246) 310 2700 or e-mail contact@nagc.bb

ART CLASSES IN BARBADOS Fielding Babb at THE MAIN GUARD Introductory Art Classes. To confirm this and for more information please contact BARP or Fielding Babb fieldinggallery@yahoo.com MARK MAYNARD Art Classes on Saturdays. All Year Through. Under the tutelage of Mark Maynard. Tel 828-7869/432-0762 ARTS SPLASH For more information call Elayne on 834 7758 or 228 0776 www.artsplashbarbados.com

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

AA FRAMING & DECORATION. #4, 1st Avenue Belleville, St. Michael, Tel: (1-246)-435-0513 Fax: (1-246)-426-6004 | E-mail: aaframing@caribsurf.com www.aaframingartonglass.com

FRAMING STUDIO At the Best of Barbados Head Office, Welches Plantation, H’way 2A, opposite Automotive Art. Lovely setting, easy parking, good prices and a large selection of frames and matt boards. We also repair paintings, stretch canvas and laminate.

Open 8am- 3.30pm weekdays. Call Patrick or Elvina 421-6900 ext 29

“Art is about the core elements of our lives, manifested in what we see, hear, taste, make, read and write, wear, and how we move.

It is the creative footprint that becomes the discernible difference between people of different countries and experiences. It is a unique cultural trademark and the magnet that draws us to explore the corners of the world in search of those aspects of life that make us different from each other.

It is the goal of the Barbados Summer Arts Festival to encourage the celebration of these seven elements that reflect our cultural identity and as we do so, to foster their development, allowing gainful and sustainable development for their practitioners.“ Ronnie Carrington www.barbadosartsfestival.com

MOSAIC GIFTS 246 437 0794 mosaicgifts@gmail.com

The 3rd Annual CaFA Fair Barbados is scheduled March 6 - 10, 2013.

Please visit www.cafafair.com/exhibitoinfo

Building communities of practice one book at a time...

We are dedicated to creating books and journals of exquisite beauty and cultural significance; to surveying the broader horizons of Caribbean thought; to celebrating the Caribbean sense of life. www.strategyforuminc.org www.strategyforuminc.org/FR__Volume_III__Issue_2.html

THE BRIDGETOWN GALLERY @ SHERATON Sheraton Mall upstairs on the second floor, at the top of the escalators, across from the radio station.

9am to 9pm daily

230-1750

thebridgetowngallery@gmail.com

THE CARMICHAEL PRIZE AT THE BRIDGETOWN GALLERY DECEMBER 2012 The Carmichael Prize exists to encourage the creation, sale and promotion of fine art painting in Barbados.Paintings will be accepted for the prize in Mid-November (exact date still being debated! Will let you know soon!)

This non-acquisitive prize offers 3 chances for competing artists $1000 for each of the following categories: Best Painting by an Emerging Artist Best Painting by an Established Artist The Public Prize The submissions for the Carmichael Prize must be original works of art, painted in any medium, on any subject inspired by Barbados. They must be signed by the artist, painted within the last calendar year, and never have been shown in Barbados before. Participating Artists must be residents of Barbados . All submissions must be for sale to the public. There will be a nonrefundable fee of $25 for each painting submitted payable to the Bridgetown Gallery. Each painting must be submitted ready to hang on the wall and tagged with the name of the painting, the name of the artist, the painting size, medium, and price. No prints or photography can be accepted. No drawings or collage is acceptable for this competition. The minimum size is one foot square; the maximum is five feet square More details and registration forms to follow 230-1750 thebridgetowngallery@gmail.com

ELIZABETH HARDWICK

www.facebook.com/MyShootingStarsPhotogaphy

DONNA GRANDIN

donna@bluerootsartstudio.com

ASHER MAINS ashermains@gmail.com

SUSAN MAINS

www.susanmains.com

BRIANNA MC CARTHY

www.facebook.com/brianna.mccarthy

PETER SHEPPARD (Trinidad) petersheppard@tstt.net.tt

ESTAS TONNE

www.estastonne.com

In Barbados at Holders Season

www.youtube.com/estastonne

http://youtu.be/vXY6u_RK2Tl

Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination, UWI EBCCI at 417-4776 www.cavehill.uwi.edu/ebcci

To boldly and brilliantly pursue the adventure in everything artistic and to be a vital and uncommon cultural force in Barbados. www.artsetcbarbados.com

info@futurecentretrust.org

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Issue #6 just out!

ARC MAGAZINE ARC Magazine is a quarterly Caribbean Art and Culture Print Magazine published out of St. Vincent and the Grenadines by artists, Nadia Huggins and Holly Bynoe. www.arcthemagazine.com www.facebook.com/arcmagazine twitter.com/arcthemagazine

ARC Magazine is a non-profit Caribbean Art and Culture publication www.arcthemagazine.com Company Overview ARC Magazine is a non-profit Caribbean Art and Culture Print and E-Magazine published out of St. Vincent and the Grenadines by artists, Nadia Huggins and Holly Bynoe. “We are endeavoring to form a creative platform to offer insight into current practices across the burgeoning creative industries while bridging the gap between established and emerging artists.

Within the recent motions of integration there is a critical space developing, where, for the first time we can envision a converging nexus of artists who want to share their creative experience.�

Description - To foster and develop dialogues and opportunities for individual and collaborative visual and literary artists across the region.

- To showcase artwork that encapsulates a pan-Caribbean focus, also paying respect to meta-archipelago lack of boundaries and center. We aim to connect artists in the diaspora, with artists practicing in the region and continental Caribbean.

- To stimulate sharing and creativity by providing an outlet for self expression and uniqueness.

- To encourage the sustenance of our intangible and tangible heritages while building a deeper understand of the value and need for the artists work.

- To engage with literary and visual arts in a way that reflects the power and dynamic of both traditions.

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 Dale A. Christie-Bourne (Mrs.) Secretary,Frank Collymore Hall Tel: 246-436-9083/84 Ext 6639 Direct Line: 227-8371 Fax 1-246-228-2703 email DAChristie-Bourne@centralbank.org.bb or Joanna E Hinds JEHinds@centralbank.org.bb

GALLERY # 6 Rafza Nehaul is a structural artist who works with natural materials, making a true comment on sustainability, recycling, education and a green world which creating contemporary art.

Available are her art pieces as well as printed canvases and posters of her work, mirrors and her book on her art.

The current exhibition covers India Visited, cricket and Joule.

100% locally produced items.

The gallery and studio are both in her home.

The gallery is open on Tuesdays. If you can't make Tuesdays, call 421-8188 for an appointment. 10AM - 3PM Gallery no 6, 6 Brighton Beach, off Spring Garden Highway, St. Michael

FRANGIPANI ART GALLERY, Sugar Cane Club, Hotel and Spa, St. Peter. (246) 422 5026 info@sugarcaneclub.com

BRIDGETOWN FILM ACADEMY Our mission is to train and/or upgrade the skills of Caribbean people by conducting workshops in the areas of screenwriting, acting for film and television and digital filmmaking.

In Barbados and the Caribbean our cultural landscape has evolved and we now sit at the threshold of what is for us a new frontier of cultural expression, the creation of a film industry.

In addition, the world is now recognizing the Caribbean as a vast reservoir of untapped talent.

In light of developments over the last six years, the Bridgetown Film Academy recognizes that we have reached critical mass in our effort to create a film industry in the Caribbean as a whole. We believe that it’s time for Caribbean people to tell their own stories to the world, and it is widely accepted that a viable film industry is the vehicle through which this shall be achieved. It is imperative therefore that we train persons and build capacity in the relevant areas to meet the demands of our fledgling film industry. In this regard, we believe that the Bridgetown Film Academy is the next logical step in the process. The Bridgetown Film Academy sees itself as fulfilling this role now and into the future.

Our workshops are conducted by a team of dedicated individuals who share many years of combined knowledge and practical experience, and who are committed to the process sharing in order to help develop our film industry. www.bridgetownfilmacademy.com/

GALLERY OF CARIBBEAN ART The Gallery Of Caribbean Art will be presenting the works of a variety of artists, both metal and fine art works Northern Business Centre, Queen Street, Speightstown, St. Peter, Barbados www.artgallerycaribbean.com

Tel: (246) 419-0858

GALLERY OF CARIBBEAN ART

‘Newcomers’ exhibition.

Opening reception Sun 4th Nov 5pm – 8pm.

Exhibition ends Nov 14th

Chris Alleyne and Lisa Herrera Opening reception Sun 18th 5pm-8pm Exhibition ends Dec 5th Northern Business Centre, Queen Street, Speightstown, St. Peter Monday – Friday, 9.30am to 4.30pm and Saturday, 9.30am to 2.00pm www.artgallerycaribbean.com

Tel: (246) 419-0858

Photo by Peter Boos

THE ARTSPLASH CENTRE Paint * Draw * Create & Have Fun! artsplashbarbados@gmail.com www.artsplashbarbados.com

Hastings Farmers Market is a great opportunity! Contact info@hastingsfarmersmarket.com – call 228-0776 “This arts, craft and food market is open to everyone who produces something themselves.

Whether it’s soap, sandals, paintings, pottery, music, books, good food, cakes or carrots the Hastings Farmers Market welcomes you. Its a lovely location just opposite the Hastings Rocks bandstand. “ 8am-11am

Mario Porchetta photo exhibition.

Opening Fri the 16th of Nov 6.00pm - 9.00pm and running until the 7th of Dec. ‘Art and Children of the World’ A photographic exhibition by Italian photographer Mario Porchetta This is a fun and dynamic exhibition portraying the freedom of children been creative. The children are a major part of this project as they have assisted in the decoration of the pictures. Mario will also exhibit a selection of images of people in their everyday lives. These images were taken in several countries where he lived between 1977 and 2012.

1. Life drawing classes with international renowned artist Leandro Soto (www.leandrosoto.com) where he will guide you to a contemporary approach to human life drawing. During the course you will learn various techniques like pencil, charcoal, sumi-e from Japan, acrylic and mixed media.

Wednesday 6pm- 7.30pm, Nov 7th - Dec 12th. $300 for 6 week term. $60 for drop-in class.

2. Beginner classes by Tara La Motta which starts this Tuesday the 6th of Nov. Beginner’s Painting and Drawing – Students will develop drawing and painting skills with an emphasis on concept, narrative and self awareness. By observing still and real life, students will learn drawing and painting techniques to depict colour, light, value, line, perspective and composition. Using materials such as graphite, charcoal, watercolour and acrylic paint, student will create simple sketches and finished works.

Participants will get individual attention and the chance for group interaction and discussion.

INS & OUTS BARBADOS 2012 Special Edition celebrating Barbados' prestigious Inscription of Bridgetown and its Garrison as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. http://insandoutsofbarbados.com/

BARBADOS MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY www.barbmuse.org.bb

BARBADOS MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY SHOP www.barbmuse.org.bb

‘Peripatetikos’ – A Wanderer's View of the Island of Barbados An insightful collection of images of the island of Barbados that redefine the meaning of Paradise, ‘Peripatetikos’ is the story of one artist's journey of re-discovery.

Over a period of 3 years, visual artist William St.James Cummins (native of Barbados) has seen beyond the gloss of island life through a camera trained on the unexpected, the hidden, the more mundane yet charming textures of his Caribbean home. Beautiful colour and black & white photographs (also available as prints). www.blurb.com/books/3662894 WILLIAM CUMMINS santiago20b@gmail.com

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

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

’CaribbeanTales’ is a group of companies that produces, markets and distributes Caribbean-themed films.

These include: CaribbeanTales Worldwide Distribution Inc, that links producers and buyers of quality filmed entertainment; the CaribbeanTales Film Festival Group that produces annual events in Toronto, Barbados and New York; the CaribbeanTales Incubator Program for Audio Visual Entrepreneurs that delivers training for filmmakers, and CaribbeanTales.ca, a non profit that promotes citizen participation through the medium of film, contributing to an inclusive Canadian society.

For further information visit www.caribbeantales-worldwide.com www.caribbeantales-newz.com

ROSEMARY PARKINSON www.rosemary-parkinson.com

My website - www.rosemaryparkinson.com in-shop is offering two e-books - Shake Dat Cocktail (a trip around the islands on cocktails) and Cocktails & Hors D' Oeuvres with myself and the late Grand Dame of Caribbean Cuisine Chef Norma Shirley. Both make great presents.

Nyam Jamaica is on special for Christmas at US$140 including shipping. Those living in Barbados can order through me direct for BDS$150 signed. In Jamaica, of course, the book is carried by most bookstores. If you are visiting Devon House, Grogg Shop has them and whilst you are there, do enjoy a wonderful lunch or dinner. Norma Shirley's spirit lives on.

On NBC's morning show as one of the best picks for 2008/9 as Christmas presents, Nyam Jamaica makes an incredible corporate gift as it is not just a cookbook but a culinary tour that includes history, traditions and culture, meeting the people from parish to parish. It can be used from Primary to University level as an educational book and is in the hands of several international Chefs and, therefore, not only useful for a hotel or restaurant but also for culinary schools/colleges/universities. A collector's item, there are few left and there will be no more hard copies once the original stock of 6,000 copies is finished (see website for details and download for free the sponsorship proposal to learn more).

NEWS RE BARBADOS BOOK: The Barbados book - Barbados Bu'n-Bu'n - goes to the designers on January 16th and this is good news especially for me as I believe it is time to put this book to rest from my computer and have the world see it. We are going for GOLD in Paris again. Endorsed by the late Prime Minister of Barbados, David Thompson; by Mia Mottley and the Inter-American Institute for CoOperation in Agriculture - Barbados - with comments from international Chef Art Smith (Oprah's personal Chef), writer/author Barbadian Elombe Mottley (Jamaica), playright/author/artist Trinidadian Lennox Raphael (Denmark) and others, this book is carded to hit the world like a good refreshing storm!

On my website you will also find under Downloads, a synopsis for sponsorship for the Barbados book. If you would like to sponsor a double page for say a farmer, just have your corporate office's logo and details within or have an amazing food product or related product (restaurant, hotel) that you wish to go down in the annals of history, please contact me ASAP as I begin to close down this opportunity. This book is also a collector's item, will be going to be judged at the World Cookbook Awards in Paris, and I know will be one that will make Barbados proud and be placed into the annals of history.

Naturally it is a big hard-cover visual book and costly to produce, so I am asking to dig deep into your budgets and let me know if there is a bit of sponsorship available. Bless.

Do help by sending this information on to any of your contacts.

I can be contacted at rosemaryparkinson2004@yahoo.com Have a wonderful, blessed and prosperous rest of the year, Love and light, Rosemary www.rosemary-parkinson.com

ROSEMARY PARKINSON www.rosemary-parkinson.com

RAMELTON ESTATE A place to create or just to be www.rameltondominica.net

unhurried, unworried, unspoiled

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ISLAND FURNITURE LIMITED www.islandfurnitureltd.com

ART SUPPLIES

THE ART DEN Art Supplies. Stretched canvases ranging from 14”x10” to 30”x24”; acrylic paint, tear off palettes, painting boards, sketch books & sketchpads, portfolios, matboard, black & white only & presentation boards in two sizes.

BAC (Barbados Arts Council) members will receive between 10% off art supplies on presentation on their membership card.

Art Den # 437 1019, ask for Marcia, Sandra or Elsa, email krackerjackkids@gmail.com THE ART HUB Canvases, paints, brushes, stretchers, bars, mediums.Sumi supplies: Rice paper 8 by 20 Hosho, Unryu 24 by 36, Variety bamboo brushes, sumi ink.

Watercolour paper, charcoal paper, pastel paper, various drawing media, willow charcoal, graphite compressed woodless (2B,4B,6B,8B) watersoluble, India ink, fixative, textile paint, dyes, fabric markers, silk lino, block printing ink, cutters, brayers, plus more email arthub.barbados@gmail.com Art supplies. BAC (Barbados Arts Council) members will receive between 5% - 10% off most artsupplies on presentation on their membership card. tel: 432 2328 mobile: 266 5016. #163 Amaryllis Row, Cordia Avenue, Sunset Crest, St James

ONLINE NEWS, JOURNALS & BLOGS WHO SUPPORT THE ARTS

BAJAN REPORTER Supporter of the arts in Barbados. Wonderful New On Line Newspaper http://bajanreporter.com Congratulations to Bajan Reporter who has been a wonderful patron to the arts in Barbados by giving all art forms exposure in his newspaper and so helping our culture get out there. Wonderful advertising prices too.

PROMOTE YOUR EVENT AT TOTALLY BARBADOS AT NO COST !

Do you have an event that you want everyone to know about? Then list your Event on the Totally Barbados Events Calendar and let us help you generate more public awareness of what’s going on in Barbados at any given time. Simply click on the below link to Submit An Event� at no cost to you and be a part of our Monthly Events Calendar; one of the largest event calendars for Barbados! No event is too big or too small - simply fill in all relevant information such as the date, time and descriptions of each event to let it be known throughout Barbados and across the World Wide Web. www.totallybarbados.com/cgi-bin/barbados/addurlevents.cgi

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MACO Caribbean Living is the epitome of Caribbean elegance, creativity and style, showcasing the region’s finest architecture, homes, art, landscaping, and cuisine.

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Subscribe online at www.macomag.com//subscribe.htm

www.macomag.com Maco Caribbean Home Book This book is a very sexy, glamorous book featuring a collection of the best privately owned homes in the Caribbean. This book showcases 17 homes in 12 different islandsďż˝ Antigua, Barbados, Canouan, Carriacou, Curacao, Grenada, Jamaica, Mustique, St Barthelemy, St Lucia, St Vincent and Trinidad. Some of the houses featured are: Sir Cliff Richards House in Barbados, David Bowie's house in Mustique, Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves house in St. Vincent and Ric Lee's cave house in Grenada

Barbados Chattel Houses This beautiful 10" x 12" hardcover book published in 2011 features 176 pages of photography by Bob Kiss, capturing these unique gems of folk architecture through the hallowed, traditional medium of archival quality platinum-palladium prints.

Author: Henry Fraser Photographer: Bob Kiss Publisher: Toute Bagai Publishing

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SCARLET

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eat. drink. play

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