Art Bytes
This year, the National Gallery of Jamaica will present the Dawn Scott Award to a participating artist in its Summer Exhibition 2019, which runs from July 28 to October 27, 2019. The presentation was previously part of the Jamaica Biennial. The Dawn Scott Memorial Award comes with a monetary prize and is sponsored by art critic, art historian, and curator Edward M. Gómez to honour the memory and legacy of his close friend and colleague, the late Jamaican artist Alison Dawn Scott.
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Deborah Anzinger has been chosen as a 2020 Soros Art Fellow. |
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Jamaican photographer Barry Harley is one of 120 winners of the 61st annual Communications Arts magazine photography competition. |
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Google recently created a doodle to honour Jamaican-born British activist Olive Morris's 68th birthday. |
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Jamaican Stuart Robertson is one of 16 artists who contributed to a 245’X17’ Black Lives Matter street mural in Palo Alto, California. |
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Jamaican Environmental Filmmaker Esther Figueroa has curated the first Global Extraction Film Festival that streams online at https://www.caribbeancrea |
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Kingston Creative will open Jamaica’s first Creative Hub in Downtown Kingston on Monday July 27th. |