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ART:Jamaica

http://www.artjamaica.blogspot.com

An open forum about contemporary art in Jamaica
Resource for teachers, students, interested persons etc. Random reviews, interviews, musings, debates, thesis etc.

• Added on: Feb 12th, 2007
• Country: Jamaica
• Language: English

• Author: Oneika Russell
• Listed in: Visual Arts Independent Publishing
• Tags: art jamaica jamaican art contemporary art national gallery of jamaica edna manley college

Recent Posts

• DEFINING DIGITAL part 1

  Posted on Friday December 4th, 2009 at 23:36 in ryan, 2d animation, the princess and the frog, sita sings the blues, the pearce sisters, 3d aimation, island art and design

  This season Disney launched The Princess and the Frog(img. 1) with much hype. The fact that this was going to be the first African-American Disney Princess caused the media to take notice and was Disney’s main press kit. Another fact surrounding it...

• Exhibition Billboard Project

  Posted on Monday October 26th, 2009 at 10:09 in social network, facebook, jamaican arts scene, camille chedda, exhibition billboard, arts journalist

  Exhibition Billboard can be found here on Facebook and an interview with one of its founders, artist, Camille Chedda follows belowWhat is Exhibition Billboard and what is the idea/ aim behind it? Exhibition Billboard Jamaica is a facebook group I cr...

• Annalee Davis: ON THE MAP

  Posted on Saturday October 17th, 2009 at 21:17 in human rights, barbados, documentary film, caricom, political blogs, on the map, art activism, caribbean migrants, project 45, police and immigration, annalee davis

  Annalee Davis, experienced fine artist, activist, designer  tells us about a recent project, ON THE MAP, a documentary film project. For artists who are interested in venturing into documentary filmmaking and some activist projects, Davis sets an ex...

• Shaving Bob Marley and giving you the finger.

  Posted on Monday October 12th, 2009 at 10:06 in contemporary art, Pimp My Ride, kyoto, bob marley statue, finger gesture, shaved fur, kyoto current, 寒出 優里, yuli kande, bob marley art

  Yuli Kande's (寒出 優里) works from Kyoto Current Living in Kingston, made me realise many things. One of which is that Bob Marley is one of the nation's most imaged persons in public spaces. Visiting Kyoto Current a couple weeks ago at Kyoto M...

• VISUAL ACTIVISM: Phillip Rhoden\'s viewpoint

  Posted on Friday October 2nd, 2009 at 10:22 in edna manley college, design, facebook, contemporary jamaican art, high school drop out, graphic drawing, phillip rhoden, visual activism

  concept for "High school Drop out"Phillip Rhoden was among the recent group of final year students mounting their final exhbition at The Edna Manley College. His body of work was pointed out to me as making a particularly individual statement about c...

• Under the Sea

  Posted on Saturday September 19th, 2009 at 09:02 in grenada, environmental art, redemption song, journeyman pictures, jamaican sculpture. abstract relief sculpture, jason de caires taylor, laura facey

  Journeyman Pictures has released a film showing the under water sculptures of UK artist Jason de Caires Taylor. Haunting and surprising but it mostly puts me in mind of what Laura Facey's sculptures like 'Redemption Song' might look like if Kingston ...

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