MONDAY, MAY 31, 2021 |
JONI GORDON
ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
MAY - AUGUST 2021 |
NLS is pleased to welcome 2021 Summer artist-in-residence, Joni Gordon.
Gordon, who will be in residence from May to August, 2021, is a recent graduate of the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts and was part of the inaugural cohort of La Práctica, a group residency administered by NLS and inspired by Beta Local, Puerto Rico. Gordon’s multimedia work examines the dichotomy of racial discrimination experienced through annual Work and Travel Programs, such as Farm Work, which recruit tertiary students to The United States of America to work for minimum wage under the pretext of financial advancement.
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TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 2021 |
ADA M. PATTERSON
.GIF STREAM LAUNCH AND TALK
FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 2021 |
Join NLS for the launch of .GIF Stream, a project of the 2020 Curatorial and Art Writing Fellow Ada M. Patterson, followed by a live conversation between Ada M. Patterson and Daniella Rose King.
Friday, April 2, 2021
12 noon - 2:00 pm EST (GMT -5)
Register for the event at Eventbrite
Ada M. Patterson, in conversation with Daniella Rose King, will be discussing their research developed during the NLS 2020 Curatorial & Art Writing Fellowship. For this research, Patterson has been in close conversation with queer performers, activist groups, writers and artists in Barbados. Responding to these conversations, Patterson writes elegies as a way to remember practices that live at the edges of risk and disappearance. Fragmented and lyrical, these elegies hope to grieve and honour some of the ways queer lives navigate visibility, invisibility, disappearance, resurfacing and crisis.
This conversation marks the launch of .GIF Stream, a curatorial project imagined by Ada M. Patterson. This project is an online collection of fragments, lifted from some of the elegies written and footage gathered during the NLS 2020 Curatorial & Art Writing Fellowship.FIND OUT MORE HERE
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 2021 |
SIMONE LEIGH
GUEST ARTIST TALK
JANUARY 25, 2021 |
Join NLS and the School of Visual Art at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts for a live conversation between artists Simone Leigh and Deborah Anzinger moderated by curator Nicole Smythe-Johnson.
Monday, January 25, 2021
2:00 - 3:00 pm EST
Register at:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nls-guest-artist-series-simone-leigh-tickets-136976312839
Simone Leigh’s practice incorporates sculpture, video, and installation; all are informed by her ongoing exploration of black female-identified subjectivity. Leigh works in a mode she describes as auto-ethnographic. Her objects often employ materials and forms traditionally associated with African art; her performance-influenced installations create spaces where historical precedent and self-determination commingle.FIND OUT MORE HERE
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2020 |
DESANNA WATSON
JONI GORDON
MATTHEW MCCARTHY
SASHA-KAY HINDS
LA PRÁCTICA ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
NOVEMBER 2020 |
Clockwise from top left: Desanna Watson, Matthew McCarthy, Joni Gordon, Sasha-Kay Hinds
New Local Space welcomes four awardees to the inaugural La Práctica group residency: Desanna Watson, Joni Gordon, Matthew McCarthy, Sasha-Kay Hinds. The awardees each receive individual studio spaces, work stipends and critical support for their practices through a roster of visiting guest lectures. The program creates a space for communal sharing and learning where artists and practitioners build community and acquire the skills necessary to advance their practices and engage more nuanced conversations. Adjacent to their studio practices, the La Práctica curriculum draws on participants’ interests and knowledge, supplemented by pedagogical exercises and visiting guest lectures. FIND OUT MORE HERE
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2020 |
ADA M. PATTERSON
CURATORIAL & ART WRITING FELLOW
NOVEMBER 2020 - MAY, 2021 |
Ada M. Patterson is awarded the NLS 2020 Curatorial and Art Writing Fellowship. The Fellowship is a 5-month long mentorship program supporting a project proposed by the fellow and is geared towards addressing the dearth of archival scholarship on the work of artists in Jamaica and the Caribbean by empowering young writers and curators with the tools to write these histories. Patterson will be mentored by Daniella Rose King (Adjunct Curator, Caribbean Diasporic Art, Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational, Tate, UK) and a supporting committee of regional cultural practitioners and academics comprised of Amanda McIntyre (Writer, Trinidad and Tobago), Dave Williams (Choreographer, Trinidad and Tobago), Jovante Anderson (Writer, Jamaica) and Ronald Cummings (Assistant Professor, Brock University).
Patterson proposes collaboration and intimate engagement with a divergence of queer performance practices in Barbados, between film, writing and conversation. Through these media Patterson aims to address the dichotomy between invisibility as a means of agency or mobility, versus bodies otherwise queered invisible or marked for social death. Considered through the shattered lens of crisis, Patterson’s work examines the precarious and crisis-(dis)oriented conditions which both underpin and undermine queer performance practices in Barbados.FIND OUT MORE HERE
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| THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2020 |
IN: DANIELLE PURIFOY
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Tune into the most recent episode of IN with Danielle Purifoy for a coversation about reshaping local geographies through creative practices in a global pandemic. Listen to the full podcast here.
Danielle Purifoy is a writer, lawyer, and Assistant Professor of Geography at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her work focuses on roots of contemporary environmental inequity in the U.S. South, particularly in the development of Black towns and settlements. Danielle also serves as Board Chair of the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network and as the Race and Place editor for Scalawag, a media organization devoted to Southern politics and culture. Purifoy's past work includes In Conditions of Fresh Water, a multimedia Black spatial history project in collaboration with sculptor Torkwase Dyson that tells the story of place, race, and power in the U.S. South through the lived experiences of Black people and through the abstract representations of the infrastructure and architecture that they navigate, negotiate, and transform. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST HERE. |
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| TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2019 |
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ALL THAT DON'T LEAVE
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23
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NLS is pleased to announce All That Don't Leave, curated by Ania Freer, the inaugural NLS Curatorial and Art Writing Fellow
Saturday, November 23, 2019
4:00 PM- 7:00 PM
This event is free and open to the public.
Complimentary refreshments will be served.
Ania Freer's six month curatorial fellowship culminates in a group exhibition that presents the unique craft practices and oral histories of seven artists working across Jamaica outside of mainstream knowledge. The exhibition will bring together the work of Albert ‘St John’ Phipps, Kemel Leeford Rankine, Cecil ‘Bingy’ Smith, Racquel Brown, Alexander ‘Bamboo King’ Dempster, Jeffett ‘Georgie’ Strachan and Jennifer ‘Eighty’ Stewart who work in media and practices ranging from basket weaving and crochet to sign painting and wood carving. Through her curatorial project, Freer aims to create a space of equitable commerce and an alternative system of understanding the cultural and economic value of these makers and their practices, as well as the social contexts and pressures in which they have developed their work and continue to exist.
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NLS 2019 programming is made possible in part through a partnership with the Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development Next Generation Programme. |
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| MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2019 |
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T'WAUNII SINCLAIR:
THE DIALECTICS OF TRUTH
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2
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NLS is pleased to announce The Dialectics of Truth, the solo exhibition of current NLS artist-in-residence T'waunii Sinclair.
Saturday, November 2, 2019
4:00 PM- 7:00 PM
This event is free and open to the public.
Complimentary refreshments will be served.
Must be 18 years and older for admission.
The Dialectics of Truth is the first solo exhibition and final outcome of T'waunii Sinclair's nine-week residency at NLS. Sinclair takes his own encounter with the history of the Haitian Revolution as a point of departure to configure a process of personal truth-telling which he employs to build a visual vocabulary for ideas of black liberation. Through installation Sinclair attempts to confront and engage the viewer's perceptions of the machete, positioning it as a cultural relic of political and historical significance of the African diaspora. In this body of work Sinclair uses paint and corrosive gestures to mark machetes with slivers of narratives taken from the Haitian Revolution, in which one can visualise the ties between race, gender, violence and nationhood in histories of subjugation and black liberation.
NLS 2019 programming is made possible in part through a partnership with the Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development Next Generation Programme. |
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| MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2019 |
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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
ART RESIDENCY IN HAITI
DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 1
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NLS is pleased to announce a partnership with Le Centre d’Art, Haiti in a cross residency exchange programme between Haiti and the wider Caribbean to create opportunities for women art practitioners, supported by UNESCO’s International Fund for Cultural Diversity (IFDC).
This segment of the programme invites women artists from Jamaica to apply for a fully funded, one-month residency at Le Centre D’Art in Haiti from January 15th – February 15th. The deadline for submissions is November 1, 2019.
A subsequent call for women, Haitian artists to attend a one-month residency with us at NLS, Jamaica will be released at a later date.
For more information on open call download PDF Guidelines here:
DOWNLOAD PDF GUIDELINES
DOWNLOAD APPLICATION FORM
Implemented by le Centre d’Art in partnership with NLS. |
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| FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 2019 |
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T'WAUNII SINCLAIR, FALL ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
AUGUST 1
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NLS is pleased to welcome 2019 Fall Artist-in-residence Twaunii Sinclair
During his residency Sinclair will be exploring revolutionary narratives within black history and identities using the Haitian Revolution as his point of departure. Over the course of his residency Sinclair will engage with visiting and resident artists and faculty including Dr. Eddie Chambers (Professor, The University of Austin Texas), Tessa Mars (Visual artist, Port-Au-Prince, Haiti), Kearra Amaya Gopee (Visual artist, Trinidad and Tobago) and Nicole Smythe-Johnson (writer and curator, Austin, TX/ Kingston). Stay tuned for T’Waunii Sinclair’s public open studio dates and podcast episode.
The NLS Fall Art Residency is made possible through a partnership with the Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development Next Generation Programme. |
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| FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 2019 |
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ANIA FREER, CURATORIAL/ ART WRITING FELLOW
MAY 1
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NLS is pleased to announce our 2019 Curatorial and Art Writing Fellow, Ania Freer.
Over the next 5 months freer will be working with artists across Jamaica; documenting her research through film, photography and creative writing. Stay abreast with Ania’s intensive as she shares video blogs over the duration of her program.
NLS Curatorial and Art writing Fellowship is made possible by partnerships with the Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development Next Generation Programme.
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| FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2019 |
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ONEIKA RUSSELL: THE GOLDEN FANTASY
MAY 4
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Join NLS for The Golden Fantasy, a solo exhibition of recent work by Oneika Russell.
Saturday, May 4, 2019
5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
New Local Space, 190 Mountain View Avenue, Kingston 6
This event is free and open to the public. Complementary refreshments will be served.
Oneika Russell's work searches to describe and represent the hybridity and fragmented nature of a Caribbean experience and identity. Notions about the culture and space of the Caribbean from Western hegemonic spaces and the degree to which the Jamaican persona and body to perform supports flattened ideas about paradisal and exotic lands are major points for exploration in Russell's work. Revising the visual culture that supports the paradise industry is of significance in her work as well as exploring the tensions between the desired and the repulsive in popular tropes of paradise.
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| WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2019 |
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IN: EMERGING ART ECOLOGIES
APRIL 1
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Tune into the latest episode of IN on iTunes and on YouTube for a conversation featuring guests O'neil Lawrence, Dan Brown, Amanda Coulson and Raphael Fonseca. Episode 31 Titled ‘Emerging Art Ecologies’ of IN engages active voices from curatorial, critical and historical positions within the art industry to interrogate the social significance and functions of building art ecosystems in various geographical contexts. We interview professionals about the roles they and their institutions play in their respective art ecologies.
Now on iTunes and YouTube
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| TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 2019 |
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EMILY MOTTO: INTERVALS
MARCH 23
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Join NLS for INTERVALS, a solo exhibition of recent work by Emily Motto and the final event of her residency at NLS.
Saturday, March 23, 2019
4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
New Local Space, 190 Mountain View Avenue, Kingston 6
This event is free and open to the public. Complementary refreshments will be served.
INTERVALS consists of a series of piecemeal compositions in cement and pigment on paper. These works were constructed incrementally while at NLS from shapes, outlines and collective gestures created in group workshops held during the residency. Motto has been exploring ways of making marks stand, and how they can be viewed, related, and used to articulate a space.
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| THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2019 |
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OPEN STUDIO: EMILY MOTTO
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16
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Come see the work in progress of current artist-in-residence Emily Motto. Motto's studio will be open to the public on Saturday, February 16 from 3 to 6 p.m.
This event is free and open to the public. Complimentary refreshments will be served.
Emily Motto is a London-based artist whose work looks at ways bodies contain and consume space. She received her BFA from The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University and has received numerous awards including most recently The Derek Hill Foundation Scholarship (2017 - 2018) and shortlisted for the Mark Tanner Sculpture Award (2016). Motto has recently completed residencies at The British School at Rome, Rome Italy (2017) and Beaconsfield Contemporary Art, London, UK (2016). Her work has been included in numerous exhibitions in the UK, Italy and Switzerland. Recent exhibitions include a two-person show titled Nexus Space at Platform Southwark and a solo show, POSTURES, RICE + TOYE in London.
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| MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2018 |
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IN: KEARRA AMAYA GOPEE
DECEMBER 30
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Tune into the latest episode of IN on iTunes and on YouTube for a conversation featuring current NLS artist-in-residence Kearra Amaya Gopee. Gopee gives insight into their process, what inspires them and what they've been working on at NLS during the residency.
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| SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2019 |
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KEARRA AMAYA GOPEE:
TERRA NULLIS
JANUARY 2
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Join us for Artifact #3: Terra Nullis, a solo exhibition of recent work by Kearra Amaya Gopee and the final event of their residency at NLS.
Wednesday, January 2, 2019
6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
New Local Space, 190 Mountain View Avenue, Kingston 6
This event is free and open to the public. Complementary refreshments will be served.
Artifact #3: Terra Nullis is the self-referential final peg of a three-part work that visualizes how personhood, family and intimacy are influenced by lineages of trauma and spirituality within diasporic Caribbean identity. This piece closes the Artifacts series, a trilogy exploring how migration and memory affects manifestations of the Anglophone Caribbean family from the pre-Independence period to the present, using my own family history as a point of reference.
Employing scrying and speculative non-fiction to demonstrate agency in crafting models of communication and care within the present, Terra Nullis abandons nostalgic desires for the biological family structure in favour of alternative kinships. Terra Nullis is “used in international law to describe territory that may be acquired by a state’s occupation of it.” Here, the state refers that of being, one that is constantly being renegotiated with the entry/exit of new modalities with which we engage each other and subsequently reconstruct the self.
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| FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2018 |
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WIKI WORKSHOP
DECEMBER 22
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Join us for a public workshop led by current NLS artist-in-residence Kearra Amaya Gopee.
Saturday, December 22, 2018
Noon - 3:00 p.m.
National Gallery of Jamaica, 12 Ocean Boulevard, Kingston
Have you ever wondered how and why on a free platform like Wikipedia, some accomplished and culturally significant individuals don't have pages while others do? Ever wondered why representation of individuals on Wikipedia seems to be disproportionately based in "Western", white canons and within colonial spaces of power? Kearra Amaya Gopee addresses and actively rectifies this in a series of Wikipedia edit-a-thons. These workshops will teach participants how to create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles pertaining to the lives and works of Jamaican artists, curators and art workers of the African diaspora. Historical documents will be produced that respond to the urgent need for a reconstruction of the art historical record. No specialized knowledge of the subject or Wikipedia editing experience is required; however, participants must come prepared with a laptop. A brief overview of the basics of Wikipedia editing will be given at the start of the edit-a-thon.
Please, click here to RSVP.
This event is free and open to the public - with RSVP.
Complementary refreshments will be provided.
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| SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2018 |
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GUEST ARTIST TALK: NARI WARD
OCTOBER 24
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Image courtesy Nari Ward and Lehmann Maupin gallery
The Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts in partnership with NLS presents a public talk by guest artist Nari Ward on Wednesday, October 24 from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Bert Rose Studio, School of Dance
Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts
1 Arthur Wint Drive, Kingston 6
Nari Ward (b. 1963, St. Andrew, Jamaica; lives and works in New York) is known for his sculptural installations composed of discarded material found and collected in his neighborhood. He has repurposed objects such as baby strollers, shopping carts, bottles, doors, television sets, cash registers and shoelaces, among other materials. Ward re-contextualizes these found objects in thoughtprovoking juxtapositions that create complex, metaphorical meanings to confront social and political issues surrounding race, poverty, and consumer culture. He intentionally leaves the meaning of his work open, allowing the viewer to provide his or her own interpretation. One of his most iconic works, Amazing Grace, was produced as part of his 1993 residency at The Studio Museum in Harlem in response to the AIDS crisis and drug epidemic of the early 1990s. For this large-scale installation, Ward gathered more than 365 discarded baby strollers—commonly used by the homeless population in Harlem to transport their belongings—which he bound with twisted fire hoses in an abandoned fire station in Harlem. Echoing through the space was an audio recording of gospel singer Mahalia Jackson’s Amazing Grace on repeat. The lyrics speak about redemption and change, generating optimism and a sense of hope. As with most of his work, this installation explored themes informed by the materials, community, and location in which he was working. The work has since been recreated at the New Museum Studio 231 space in 2013, and in several locations across Europe. With each change of context, the significance of the work changes as each community differently associates with these found objects.
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| SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2018 |
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IN: BLACK BRITISH ARTS MOVEMENT
ALBERTA WHITTLE
ANNA ARABINDAN KESSON
JANICE CHEDDIE
PAUL GOODWIN
SUMESHWAR SHARMA
TIFFANY BOYLE
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Listen to Episode 29 of the NLS podcast IN now on iTunes featuring guests Alberta Whittle, Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Janice Cheddie, Paul Goodwin, Sumeshwar Sharma and Tiffany Boyle interviewed by Nicole Smythe-Johnson.
Episode 29 of IN invites a group of artists, historians and curators to recapture and analyse circumstances preceding and following the Black Arts Movement of Britain's 1980s creative landscape. How did the movement begin and how has the movement evolved to exist in this contemporary moment and what has effected its traces in the present day? The conversation approaches this theme from several angles. What is the relationship of the British Black Arts Movement to transnational relationships defined largely by the conditions of empire? Have spaces outside of the UK, such as the Caribbean, impacted or influenced black consciousness and output in the UK and if so how? What are the ripple effects of the Black Arts Movement in the UK and how have these legacies influenced the development of particular forms of consciousness/influenced the development of particular modes of art making/political movements/ in/amongst/within black and non-black communities in the UK and the Commonwealth?
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| MONDAY, JULY 23, 2018 |
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OPEN STUDIO: MARIA DE LOS ANGELES RODRIGUEZ JIMENEZ
JULY 23
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NLS invites you to attend the open studio of current NLS studio artist María de los Angeles Rodriguez Jimenez, Monday, July 23 from 6 - 9 p.m.
María de los Angeles Rodriguez Jimenez' work is about the position of herself, a Cuban born body, in a permanent state of displacement and her relationship to space. According to the artist "I cannot go back to Cuba and be the way I was before, now I am someone else. My paintings try to express the state in which this happens. They are about the inability to belong in any defined structure.” De los Angeles Rodriguez Jimenez has developed an index of color relations to determine specific emotions and memories. The colors can be autonomous or have a new meaning altogether when encountering other colors and the forms they inhabit.
María de los Angeles Rodriguez Jimenez was born in Holguín, Cuba in 1992 and immigrated to New Orleans, USA in 2004. She received a Bachelor’s in Fine Art from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 2015 and participated in a residency at Skowhegan school of Painting and Sculpture on 2016. De los Angeles Rodriguez Jimenez is currently enrolled in the MFA programme in Painting at Yale University.
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| SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 2018 |
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LIFE AFTER ART SCHOOL + DAK'ART REPORT
JUNE 23
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Life After Art School is a casual presentation and discussion of options and strategies for approaching an art career and art practice as a new artist led by Tide Rising Art Projects. While this event was created to help provide new art graduates go forward in the art field by providing information all interested persons are welcome. We will be discussing topics such as higher education, building a network, portfolio sharing tools, studio practice, representation etc. Please RSVP.
The 'Life After Art School' presentation began in 2016 as a one-off event as part of Oneika Russell's contribution to The Edna Manley College's Painting Department art talk series facilitated by Omari Ra (Head of Department)
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Dak'Art Report is a slideshow presentation of observations and highlights of the scope of the 13th Dakar Biennale which opened on May 8th 2018 by Biennale participant, Oneika Russell. It will provide a look at Contemporary African and African diaspora Art as well as a survey of the strategies used by the Bienniale body to activate the city.
Both events are free and open to the public.
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| THURSDAY, MAY 31, 2018 |
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IN: EXPLORING AFRO-LATINIDAD
JAMILA AISHA BROWN
MARIA MAGDALENA CAMPOS-PONS
DR. ARIANA CURTIS
MARIA ELENA ORTIZ
THIAGO DE PAULA SOUZA
LUIS VASQUEZ LA ROCHE
MAY 31
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NLS invites you to tune into our most recent episode of In, a conversation hosted by Nicole Smythe-Johnson with Jamila Aisha Brown, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Dr. Ariana A. Curtis, Maria Elena Ortiz, Thiago de Paula Souza and Luis Vasquez La Roche.
This episode of IN brings together artists and art practitioners of color living within and outside the Caribbean and Latin America to discuss, contribute, and decenter discussions around blackness. Who is black? And what does/might being black mean in different contexts? Certainly, there are examples of how the experience of blackness has inflected creative production in the Caribbean and Latin America, already expanding hegemonic discourses of blackness. What opportunities are there for solidarity across our cultural and national boundaries? These matters seem especially pressing in the aftermath of the assassination of Afro-Latina activist and politician Marielle Franco in Rio de Janeiro. What is to be done? Participants share their relationship to blackness, Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Latin identities, defining these terms, and thinking through what the implications of these identities are for life and work.
Now on iTunes and YouTube
Above image courtesy María Magdalena Campos-Pons
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| THURSDAY, APRIL 05, 2018 |
IN
COOKING SECTIONS
JAMES HUTCHINSON
SUSANNE WINTERLING
APRIL 6 |
NLS invites you to tune into our most recent episode of In, a conversation hosted by Nicole Smythe-Johnson with artist collective Cooking Sections, Glasgow-based artist and curator James Hutchinson, and Berlin-based artist Susanne Winterling in the second of two conversations on creative practices focused on decolonisation and nature. This podcast episode is presented in partnership with the British Council with the support of our parent company Creative Sounds Limited.
Now on iTunes.
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| WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 2018 |
IN
DAYNE BUDDO
DEBORAH JACK
MARINA REYES FRANCO
PABLO GUARDIOLA
TJ DEMOS
URSULA BIEMANN
JANUARY 29 |
Join us for episode 26 of IN with Ursula Biemann (artist & curator, Zurich, Switzerland), TJ Demos (director, Center for Creative Ecologies, UC Santa Cruz, U.S.A.), Pablo Guardiola (artist & curator, Beta Local, San Juan, Puerto Rico), Deborah Jack (artist, St. Maarten/U.S.A.), and Marina Reyes Franco (writer & curator, San Juan, Puerto Rico) about new creative practices dealing with decolonisation and nature.
Part 1 on iTunes
Part 2 on iTunes
Part 3 on iTunes
2017 marked a significant tipping point in anthropogenic climate events, the projection of which gained consensus in the scientific community in the late 1980s. Disaster steadily unfolds not just in the seemingly distant arctic but finally greets us here in the Americas. Looking at unprecedented events in the Caribbean alone, during the summer of 2017 two category 5 Hurricanes hit the region in the space of one week destroying fiscally indebted, historically exploited post-colonial nations such as Dominica, Guadeloupe, eradicating the country Barbuda, and bringing current colonies to their knees such as St. Martin (owned by France) and Puerto Rico (owned by the United States). What viable options are there for indivisuals living in the Caribbean have?
As the ideological and practical framework of Rights of Nature, a legislative and philosophical commitment which took shape in Bolivia in 2010, slowly gains global attention and adoption through activists, creative practitioners, and academics, we bring together a conversation on the viability and applicability of Rights of Nature to spaces like the Caribbean—which has historically been a locale of imperial rebellion in war and culture. How is our current environmental crisis an economic, political, cultural and ecological one? The conversation will focus on methodologies in individual practices that weave through and connect anthropogenic climate events, colonial/post-colonial economics, environmental activism, gender studies and culture.
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| TUESDAY, JANUARY 09, 2018 |
BLUE CURRY
ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
JANUARY 19 |
Blue Curry will be in residency at NLS this month. During his residency Blue will be considering reggae music as regional cliché. One of the Caribbean’s most beloved cultural exports, born out of struggle and inequality, layered with politics and religion, reggae is now employed as a representative music of leisure globally. The jaunty reggae beat activates fantasies of sipping poolside cocktails on a carefree island getaway; it entices visitors to the region while reinforcing stereotypes and cultural singularity. Blue will be collaborating with the audio engineers at Creative Sounds recording studio during his three week residency to produce a new work reflecting his investigation into the ways that economic geography influence cultural production and consumption. Taking an experimental approach Blue will bring together his current sculptural concerns with this new audio component for the NLS space.
More information here.
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| SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2017 |
IN
PHILLIP THOMAS
OCTOBER 23 |
NLS invites you to tune into our most recent episode of In, a conversation with artist Phillip Thomas about his work and opinions on the broader contexts of art and society. In is a series of live conversations with practitioners in the visual arts from Jamaica and across the globe. The podcast is presented with the generous support of our parent company Creative Sounds Limited. Listen on iTunes here.
More information on IN here.
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| WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 2017 |
KELLEY-ANN LINDO
ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
MAY 18 - AUGUST 20 |
This Summer Kelley-Ann Lindo will be in residency at NLS expanding her discourse surrounding Barrel Children syndrome. The term Barrel Children refers to minors left behind by one or both parents who have migrated and substitute their presence with the provision of material goods and remittance for the children. The barrels, usually packed with items representing basic food stuff, help families and kin maintain short term nutrition and sustainability.
This residency will extend the research Lindo embarked on during her residency at Alice Yard in Trinidad last year; where she focused on the concept of the barrel as a means to communicate. Lindo will further decode the contents sent in barrels and the understandings communicated within them, developing conversation around the formulation of self-identity through childhood experience.
An open studio date will be announced.
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| SUNDAY, APRIL30, 2017 |
IN
JOANNA HELFER
SUNDAY, APRIL 30 |
Tune into the the current episode of IN by subsribing on iTunes to NLS In or on the NLS Kingston Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJhI7gIgz6Q.. We chat with Scotland-based artist Joanna Helfer, currently in residence at Alice Yard, Port of Spain, Trinidad
More information here.
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| FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 2017 |
Strange, how glad I am to mourn
ROSANNA MCLAUGHLIN
SATURDAY, APRIL 22 |
Image courtesy Jillian Steinhauer
NLS is pleased to invite you to Strange, how glad I am to mourn, a talk and exhibition of posters by the Guerilla Girls presented by Rosanna McLaughlin. This event is presented as part of the Trans Atlantic Artists' Residency Exchange (TAARE) at NLS, sponsored by the British Council.
Opens: Saturday, April 22, 7 p.m.
Free and open to the public, complimentary refreshments
More information
The TAARE programme is made possible in part by support from the British Council.
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| THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 2017 |
ROSANNA MCLAUGHLIN:
TAARE WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE |
NLS welcomes writer-in-residence Rosanna McLaughlin as our inaugural TAARE Resident. McLaughlin is an art writer whose interests lie in reportage, feminist practices, and the cultural and economic narratives that dictate the type of art that gains prominence. McLaughlin is currently researching into the death of Cuban-born artist Ana Mendieta and the protest movement that followed her death.
Listen to the episode of our podcast IN with Rosanna McLaughlin.
The TAARE programme is made possible in part by support from the British Council.
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| SUNDAY, FEBRUARY19, 2017 |
IN:
INSIDE ART RESIDENCIES |
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| SUNDAY, JANUARY 29, 2017 |
LEASHO JOHNSON:
BELISARIO & THE SOUNDBOY
FEBRUARY 4 - 17 |
NLS presents the debut solo exhibition of new work by Leasho Johnson. The opening reception takes place on Saturday, February 4 at alternative location 10A West Kings House Road.
In his newest paintings and sculptures Johnson inserts his dancehall-influenced female avatars into colonial depictions of plantation life in Jamaica culled from Isaac Mendes Belisario’s 18th century paintings. Johnson uses Belisario’s depictions to create a counterpoint to the music of Vybz Kartel as a means to question power heirarchies, legitimacy, and subjugation within Jamaican culture. In this body of work Johnson deftly moves between techniques he has employed for the last seven years ranging from Japanese anime, street art, graphic design, ceramic sculpture, and 18th century painting creating humour as a means to cutting commentary about social mores.
Free and open to the public.
For more information click here.
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| MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 2017 |
CHRISTOPHER COZIER: ACTIONS BETWEEN TERRITORIES
JANUARY 11 |
Join us at the Edna Manley College on Wednesday for a public lecture by Trinidadian artist Christopher Cozier. Cozier’s lecture will discuss the potential free/play spaces that Caribbean artists are constantly imagining, constructing, and navigating, including in his own creative practice and at Alice Yard. He will also discuss how the established idea of the Caribbean persists—as a viable fiction, as a site of exchange, an owned product or territory traded between various beneficiaries, internal and external. This event is free and open to the public.
Presented by the National Gallery of Jamaica in partnership with the Edna Manley College and NLS.
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| MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2016 |
IN:
AUTUMN KNIGHT
JESSICA BELL BROWN
JOIRI MINAYA
JULIA PHILLIPS
LAUREN KELLEY
ONEIKA RUSSELL
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11 |
"#DominicanWomenGoogleSearch". Image Courtesy Joiri Minaya
Join us online for the next episode of IN airing on Sunday December 11, on the NLS Youtube Channel bringing together six art practitioners whose work addresses black female subjectivity. NLS is pleased to present a conversation between Autumn Knight, Jessica Bell Brown, Joiri Minaya, Julia Phillips, Lauren Kelley and Oneika Russell. Send in your questions during the live episode to us on Twitter at @NLSKingston or on our YouTube channel.
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| MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2016 |
CANYON POP UP SHOP
DECEMBER 8 -11 |
Join us at NLS for the CANYON Shop from December 8 to 11 from 10 a.m, to 10 p.m . CANYON is an eclectic lifestyle brand for those who love life, colour and the magical things of the world. Vintage clothing, fun, active wear and jewelry will be on sale.
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| TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2016 |
NLS + BRITISH COUNCIL: TRANSATLANTIC ARTISTS' RESIDENCY EXCHANGE (TAARE)
DEADLINE: DECEMBER 2 |
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| SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2016 |
OPEN STUDIO: DEMI WALKER
NOVEMBER 12 |
Join us for the open studio of our current studio artist Demi Walker on Saturday, November 12, from 2 PM - 5 PM.
Currently, Walker is working on a project titled City Bikkle at NLS. She is a multi-media artist who produces photographs of ‘natural’ surroundings and unsuspecting subjects, and creates biomorphic pieces using recycled/recyclable materials along with organic forms. Her present work involves imagery and structures that are symbolic of gastronomical rifts and habits within the cityscape of Kingston.
Walker is enrolled in her final year at the University of the West Indies (UWI) – in affiliation with the Edna Manley College of Visual and Performing Arts (EMCVPA) – where she majors in the Visual Arts, and minors in Film Studies.
Free and open to the public.
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| THURSDAY,JUNE 2, 2016 |
DI-ANDRE C. DAVIS + LEASHO JOHNSON:
BLUECOAT LIVERPOOL
JULY 10 |
In partnership with the Royal West of England Academy and Bluecoat, NLS is pleased to announce a collaborative residency between Di-Andre C. Davis and Leasho Johnson at Bluecoat, Liverpool.
Through their residency the artists seek to open up a space for the recognition of broader narratives around female bodies and sexuality within contemporary Jamaican society. The project (presented in tandem with Jamaican Pulse exhibition at the RWA) aims to encourage conversation and connections between the UK Jamaica Diaspora and Jamaica, raising public awareness of the social / political milieu by creating a cultural exchange and collaboration between artists from Jamaica and the UK.
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| MONDAY, MAY 23, 2016 |
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2016 SUMMER ART RESIDENCY
Susanne Winterling
Kelley-Ann Lindo
David Gumbs
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NLS welcomes the 2016 Summer Residents: David Gumbs, Kelley-Ann Lindo and Susanne Winterling, three brilliant artists from Martinique, Jamaica and Germany with diverse art practices.
Over the nine-week residency, Gumbs, Lindo and Winterling will bring their unique backgrounds in 3-D mapping, video, painting and marine bioluminescence together to create a responsive mental and social landscape that investigates the vulnerability of water-associated ecologies and their link to our individual and cultural experiences and memories.
Aesthetically the artists approach the project with diverse materials, combining amorphous sculptural cues, a lab aesthetic, and a focus on heightening sensibilities and consciousness within audience participation. The artists draw inspiration from Jamaica's marine ecology-- particularly bioluminescent algae and the conch shell, as well as the context of that ecology within human experience of water-- natural disasters, history, practices and politics.
Donate to the Summer Residency Kickstarter fundraising campaign here.
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| FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 2016 |
FORUM: SIMON BENJAMIN
MARCH 10 - APRIL 15 |
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NLS introduces FORUM, an exhibition of recent work by Jamaican-born, Brooklyn-based artist Simon Benjamin. This body of work is based on Benjamin's visit to the mystery-enshrouded, abandoned hotel The Forum in Port Henderson, just outside of Kingston. The work consists of a series of Photographs and site-specific installation at NLS.
The Forum opened its doors in 1973 and closed in 1978, coinciding with a tumultuous period of Jamaica’s history. For the artist's entire life the Hotel has been defunct and largely left to deteriorate with starts of re-usage in various capacities. For the first time on a visit back to Jamaica, Benjamin trespassed into the property to investigate and learn more about this building, the product of which is this exhibition.
Opening reception: Saturday, March 12, 2016 from 5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Artist Talk: Sunday, March 13, 2016 from 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m., featuring invited panelist Judith Bruce, and moderated by LinYee Yuan.
These events are free and open to the public.
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