Art Bytes
Admission to the National Gallery of Jamaica is free every Saturday in July and August from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm. In addition to current exhibitions, the Gallery has several permanent collections on display, including one on Edna Manley and one on Kapo.
The Gallery also hosts Last Sundays in both months, which features entertainment, and its Summer Exhibition opens July 30. That will exhibit works by emerging artists and established ones.
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Renee Cox is one of nine black artists and cultural leaders the NY Times Style Magazine recently asked for their take on cultivating black audiences and dismantling historically white institutions. |
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Jamaican born artist Jae Sterling will show Riding Horses with White Men, his debut art exhibit, in Calgary. |
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Minister of Tourism the Hon. Edmund Bartlett says there are plans to open an Artisan Village at Hampden Wharf in Falmouth, Trelawny in a few weeks. |
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Jamaican artist Nari Ward’s solo exhibition, We the People, is at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, USA July 1st to September 1st. |
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Ten Caribbean School of Architecture students made history by participating in the first ever International Dezeen Virtual Design Festival. |
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Mary Wells will be one of the artists speaking on ‘Memory is a Weapon’, an international discussion this Friday, June 26, at 1:00pm Eastern Caribbean time, 12noon Jamaica time. |