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Amanda Coulson talks with Holly Bynoe and Jeffrey Meris about  Übersee: Cuba and The Bahamas, Contemporary Art from the Caribbean , now on view at Halle 14 in Leipzig, Germany through 6 August. The exhibition features 38 artists, including 20 Bahamians, and includes works from NE6, NE7, NE8, plus new pieces. Meris shares his experience creating a site-specific work during a residency in Germany.

Amanda Coulson talks with Heino Schmid and Tessa Whitehead about  Tilting Axis , the pan-Caribbean art conference held at the National Gallery of the Cayman Islands. The roving platform, co-founded by Holly Bynoe and Annalee Davis, connects curators, artists, and cultural workers to strengthen Caribbean art networks globally.

This week on  Blank Canvas , Amanda Coulson talks with Owen Bethel and Renaldo Geumm about the  Islands of the World Fashion Showcase , happening Saturday, 20 May, at Graycliff’s Humidor Piazza. Bethel shares the vision behind ITWS, and Geumm introduces his  Haute Arte Couture  collection, blending fashion and art.

Tonight on  Blank Canvas , Amanda Coulson talks with Trevor Schoonmaker, Chief Curator at the Nasher Museum and Artistic Director of Prospect New Orleans, about his curatorial journey and his visit to The Bahamas to engage with our art community.

This week on  Blank Canvas , Amanda Coulson talks with Thierry Lamare about  Love, Loss & Life , a retrospective spanning 20 years of his work—from seascapes to architectural studies, and from delicate watercolours to pieces framed in driftwood.

A conversation about structure, collaboration, and the hidden systems that hold everything together. Engineer George V. Cox talks with his son, curator John Cox, about  The Unseen Structure —an experimental project exploring the invisible backbone of civil engineering. George reflects on decades of shaping Bahamian infrastructure, from the NIB building to the Glass Window Bridge in Eleuthera, and...

This week on  Blank Canvas , Amanda Coulson talks with Patricia Leigh-Wood and Adrian D’Aguilar about  Eleuthera All That Jazz , a festival blending music, education, and community support. The event raises funds for Haynes Library and offers free masterclasses for kids. It runs 29 March–2 April.

NE8 artists Cynthia Rahming and Alicia Wallace speak about their interventions, all of which deal with the issue of being a woman in general and in The Bahamas, specifically, post-referendum.

This week on  Blank Canvas , Amanda Coulson talks with Jordanna Kelly, Sue Katz-Lightbourn, and Dede Brown about their NE8 works—projects that start with personal stories but speak to broader global issues.

On this week’s Blank Canvas, we meet Ryan Turnquest, a man drawn back to his art practice to mourn and memorialise the passing of his brother. After obtaining an associate’s degree in Art from the College of The Bahamas, Turnquest entered Savannah College of Art and Design in 2007 where he studied industrial design but left his studies early to return home to support his children and family in the...

NE8 artists Margot Bethel and Leanne Russell join Blank Canvas to speak about their immersive, material-driven works in NE8, exploring gender roles and perception. Margot's Portal: There's a WHole in the Bucket invites viewers into an environment addressing the burdens women carry. Leanne's Muddle and Match: Moral Luck uses repurposed materials to explore gender fluidity. They discuss...

Special episode from Kingston, Jamaica! Recording at the legendary Creative Sounds Studio on Mountain View Road, BC host Amanda Coulson joins Veerle Poupeye, Director of the National Gallery of Jamaica, and Trinidadian artist/curator Christopher Cozier. Amanda and Chris were invited as international selectors for the Jamaica Biennial—alongside local selectors artist/lecturer Omari Ra and art deale...

This week in the studio with Amanda are agitators, researchers, and facilitators whose work intersects with artistic practice in the realm of “social sculpture.” Peri Redwood, a Bahamian based in New York and recent Hunter University graduate, presents part of his larger project under  The Commission of The Queer . His NE8 contribution,  An Exhibition of Queer Findings From the Royal Bahamian Empi...

Visiting The Bahamas from the US is Stephanie Smith, the recently-appointed Chief Curator at the brand new Institute of Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University (ICA at VCU),  which will open in October 2017.  Moving from Associate Curator to Deputy Director of the SMART Museum in Chicago after a tenure of 15-years, Stephanie left to head the curatorial department at the Art Gallery of...

In honour of the founding of the University of The Bahamas (UB), Blank Canvas invited a range of guests whose vision and creative talent helped pave the way for the creative culture and vision of the new university. Institutions, businesses, and companies will only get off the ground with a good mandate and outstanding input in the form of branding, encapsulating a vision for the corporate “cultur...