#Sexypink/Barbados/Art 2020

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~Sexypink~ BCC Studio Art Portfolio 2021Visit the webpage for information:https://studioartbfa.wixsite.com/portfolio

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This Studio Art BFA programme has been through a lot. In our part of the world these initiatives are few, far between and fraught with challenges. They need to be supported in every way possible.​ Do read the information on BCC Studio Portfolio and tell others about it.

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~SEXYPINK 2020~ The year in pictures ~ Catapult Winners, Akuzuru’s short film, Lockdown Moments at Arnim’s Gallery, The Mighty Sparrow Sculpture controversy. State of Confinement Group Show and The Portrait Show.

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~Sexypink~  CaFA Fair Barbados 2021 - A Virtual Fair, and Other News Please save the dates, March 10-24, 2021, for the 11 Edition of Caribbean Fine Art Fair Barbados - A Virtual Fair. In response to the impact of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, the organizers of CaFA will introduce a digital platform for 2021. Patrons will have full online access to artwork in a range of media from a full complement of artists from across the Caribbean and the Diaspora. We look forward to a return to Courtney Blackman Grande Salle Gallery & Annex in 2022.Special events for 2021 will be held in Barbados. 7 emerging Barbadian artists will exhibit at the Exchange Center Gallery, Bridgetown from March 10-24, 2021 and the Bridgetown International Arts Festival will present performing arts and fashion at the Grande Salle Inner Courtyard, Bridgetown on the weekend of March 19 – 21, 2021.Here are images from the 10th Anniversary 

Celebrationhttps://cafafair.com/.../cafaf.../spotlight-on-cafafair-2020View works for sale by CaFA Fair artists at www.diaspora-now.com

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~Sexypink~ · La Vaughn Belle is a visual artist working in a variety of disciplines that include: video, performance, painting, installation and public art. She explores the material culture of coloniality and her art presents counter visualities and narratives that challenge colonial hierarchies and invisibility. She has exhibited in the Caribbean, the USA and Europe. Her work has been featured in a wide range of media including: the NY Times, Politiken, VICE, The Guardian, Caribbean Beat, the BBC and Le Monde. She holds an MFA from the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana, Cuba, an MA and a BA from Columbia University in NY. Her studio is based in the Virgin Islands. Photo credit: Nicole Canegata

#Sexypink~ Sofia Gallisá Muriente is a Puerto Rican visual artist working mainly with video, film, photography, and text. Through multiple approaches to documentation, her work deepens the subjectivity of historical narratives, examining formal and informal archives, popular imaginaries and visual culture. She has been a resident artist of Museo La Ene (Argentina), Alice Yard (T&T), Solar (Tenerife) and the Smithsonian. She was also Co-director of the artist-run organization Beta-Local from 2014 to 2020. Her work has been exhibited in the Whitney Biennial, the Getty’s PST: LA/LA, ifa Galerie in Berlin and CCA Glasgow, among others.

~Sexypink~  Taisha Carrington is a multidisciplinary artist working in performance, sculpture, body adornment, and installation. Her work seeks to promote solidarity with the land and investigate the liminality of life in the Caribbean after colonialism and into the Anthropocene. Taisha invents ‘devices’ and explores performances for self-healing and facilitation of social dialogue about climate justice while proposing methods for rebirth, reclamation, and reimagining the value of Caribbean people and communities. Taisha received her BFA from Pratt Institute in 2018 and currently works in Barbados collaborating with biochemists, farmers and medical practitioners to pool knowledge and resources and shed light on climate change.

~Sexypink~  Patrick Lafayette is a blind individual who has made significant contributions the lives of persons with disabilities in Jamaica, the Caribbean, and internationally. He was the first visually disabled individual to be employed to a major commercial radio entity in Jamaica in the 1980’s when he worked with Radio Jamaica’s Fame FM. He was a founding member of KLAS FM and later Kool 97 FM. He went on to become station manager at Kool 97 FM before leaving to start his own production company, Twin Audio Network in 2007. He also started his online radio station in 2015. Currently he works with persons with disabilities in Jamaica and the US re the use of the I-phone and other adaptive technologies and was featured by Apple in 2017. Lafayette has collaborated with foreign and local organisations, including the Dennis Brown Trust, VP Records, the British Broadcasting Corporation BBC, Choice FM in London, and XM Satellite Radio in the USA, to document and produce the history of Jamaica’s music culture. He is married to Indi and has two children, Leila and Djvan.

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~Sexypink~  𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒔𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑪𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑰𝑮𝑹 @igr_love we we are heading to Barbados to spend time with contemporary Caribbean artist @sheenaroseinc y’all! We are really looking forward to finally catching up with her and have so much to talk about since Sheena’s epic guest blog post with us last year. We’ll be exploring not only Sheena’s creative expression but also her journey with lupus, her passion for swimming and how she has pivoted personally and professionally in 2020. 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐯𝐢𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐢𝐧 𝐛𝐢𝐨 to join us on Sunday, August 23rd - 6pm GMT/1pm Bim Time! 𝑺𝒉𝒆𝒆𝒏𝒂 𝑹𝒐𝒔𝒆 is a contemporary Caribbean artist who lives and works in Barbados. She is a Fulbright Scholar and holds a BFA Honors degree, Barbados Community College, 2008 as well as an MFA from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, 2016. She has a multi-disciplinary practice and her oeuvre includes hand-drawn animations, drawings, paintings, performance art, and new media. Sheena has exhibited regionally and internationally. Her work has been shown in the Caribbean, South America, The USA, Canada, Europe, Africa, and Asia This rocking island girl has been featured in the New York Times, Huffington Post, Travel & Leisure Magazine, and Vogue. In 2018, Sheena created poster artwork for the play "Emma and Max", written and directed by Todd Solondz. In 2019, She created a two-story mural at the Inter- American Development Bank Headquarters in Washington DC. Sheena also created nine feet tall women mural for an exhibition called "The Other Side of Now" in the Perez Art Museum Miami. 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒇𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘 𝑺𝒉𝒆𝒆𝒏𝒂’𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒂𝒅𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒔 @𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒆𝒏𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒕

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~Sexypink~Sheena Rose’s latest mural.

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from her Facebook page....I am happy to reveal the mural “Pause and Breathe, We Got This” exhibiting at the @wamuncg , curated by @emilystamey !!!!!! A native of Barbados, where she continues to live and work, Rose attended UNC Greensboro as a Fulbright Scholar from 2014 to 2016.

“UNCG gave me a place to think about where I come from—my race, gender, sexuality, and culture as a Black woman from the Caribbean,” she said, reflecting on her time in North Carolina. “It gave me a chance to face myself and move forward with brave steps and to take risks in the studio.

”Since graduating, the artist has had her work featured internationally and recently received the 2020–2021 UNC Greensboro Distinguished Alumni Award in the College of Visual and Performing Arts.

For the Weatherspoon’s atrium, Rose is creating a large-scale mural rich in colors and patterns, each of which she links to a particular thought about our current moment in time. 

While working on the commission, she said she’s been thinking about such terms as: “reflection, future, new era, anxiety, fears, positivity, new movement, new language, innovation, creative, flexible, observant, listen, meditation, pause, and breathe.” 

The last two words from this list provide the work’s title: Pause and Breathe, We Got This.