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Sexypink - A huge loss to Trinidad and Tobago. Thank you Geoffrey for your vision, kindness and love.

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Geoffrey's contribution to Art history. He was the definitive writer on Cazabon.

An image of one of Cazabon's paintings.

Finally, a beautiful tribute to Geoffrey MacLean from one of many friends.

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TRIBUTE TO GEOFFREY MACLEAN. In each island nation of the Eastern Caribbean, economies of scale make it so that there are only one or two (and if they are lucky, three or four) local experts in some field of study which has little to do with industry or clerical work but everything to do with the national character and its history. Because they are often without precedent, these experts often have had to travel abroad for their training or are otherwise self-trained in their chosen sector of the liberal arts/humanities/social sciences.

Trained architect and avocational art historian Geoffrey MacLean was one of these indispensable sages in the field of visual studies and the built environment. He was the world’s foremost specialist on nineteenth-century landscape and genre painter Michel Jean Cazabon. Cazabon was a partially unwitting member of a global late colonial/early post-colonial landscape painting tradition that encompassed artists such as Mexican José María Velasco, the Chartrand brothers of Cuba, Filipino painter Fernando Amorsolo, and the painters of the Hudson River School in the United States. What all of these artists had in common was their urgent need to capture and pay tribute for posterity to the natural beauty of their respective lands before that “Edenic” verdure was despoiled by then-already encroaching industrialization.

MacLean’s passion for Cazabon pressed him not only to hone further the scholastic abilities he had already developed at Presentation College in his native Trinidad and Bristol University in the U.K. but to travel back and forth between the Caribbean and Europe hunting down examples and collections of Cazabon’s work. He also assisted the government of the Republic of Trinidad & Tobago in the acquisition of some Cazabon works for display in its National Museum and Art Gallery.

MacLean was generous with his knowledge, his time, and with his published materials. Every time I visited him, I came home with an armful of books and catalogues (one of my favorites is an unassuming little pamphlet of a catalogue called Chinese Artists of Trinidad & Tobago which probably played some part in my decision to write the book about Sybil Atteck on which I am currently working with Sybil’s nephew Keith). In graduate school, I relied heavily on MacLean’s Cazabon books for the research I was doing on colonial Latin American and Caribbean painting. MacLean’s enthusiasm for Cazabon’s genre painting, especially his rapt verbal and written descriptions of the late 19th century painting Negress in Gala Dress (pictured here) revealed to me that Cazabon’s paintings of local “types” (e.g., “Negress” instead of named individual) was sometimes a form of real portraiture and thus departed the tipo de país-to-costumbrismo continuum that we sometimes use in Latin American art history. Cazabon loved his people too much and included too much implied biography and other narratives in those paintings, to reduce their subjects to mere “types.” His titles were thus deceptively taxonomic.

Architect, scholar, art gallery director Geoffrey MacLean’s contribution to the study and preservation of T&T’s architecture was legendary even before his passing. He has searched out original plans for fretwork houses and saved some of these architectural jewels from the bulldozers of “developers.” He has done the same for members of the Magnificent Seven around the Queen’s Park Savannah and taught workshops on both the civic and residential architecture of Trinidad & Tobago. As MacLean himself now passes into legend, we are left with the perennial question in these small and mid-sized islands of the Eastern Caribbean each with their two or three experts on local art and architecture – who will pick up the torch?

~ Lawrence Waldron

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Sexypink - Sherlann Peters shows some images of pieces done by students of her workshop course in portrait sculpture. Many of her students have never worked with clay before and the results are quite impressive.

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Sexypink - Sculpting a good course.

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Sexypink - Studio Zano’s portrait workshop - save the date.

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Sexypink - Museum day Dey!

Sexypink - Free workshops

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Sexypink - Get into the headspace of Christopher Cozier.

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Sexypink - From the facebook page of Michael Lee Poy - I am excited to announce that I will be hosting a 4-day Carnival bra making workshop. Participants will be exploring Caribbean Carnival and costume making. 

This series is open to youth and adults of Caribbean and BIPOC Community. Thank you to @vibeartsto and the Desires lines program for the support. 

Looking forward to designing will you all!Dates/Times: April 26th, 27th, 28th & May 1st from 5:30 PM-7:30 PMLocation: 115 Mccaul street (OCAD Rosalie Sharp Pavilion) Deadline: April 21st @11:59pm 

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Sexypink - A page from the style guide. Amanda T McIntyre looks at the Baby Doll anew.

The Making Dolly Mas Carnival Arts Workshops started two weeks ago and my heart is full. There is so much precious talent among the students. At the end of one session, a girl said, “I want to be a contemporary Baby Doll.” Imagine my pride! This is a term I introduced to the vernacular through reflective essays and lectures. The girls have been writings speeches, building costumes, and choreographing. Trinidad and Tobago Carnival is in good hands. Thanks to the teachers and parents who have been facilitating this dream of mine!

Photographer: Robert Schittko

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Sexypink - The one of a kind incomparable Dr Beryl Mc Burnie.

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from the Faculty of Culture, Creative and Performing Arts

Trinidad and Tobago's First Lady of Dance - "Determined, imperious, flighty, charming, Beryl McBurnie was born in Trinidad and went to New York in the early 1940s to study dance and drama. She also made a name for herself as a dancer and singer, Belle Rosette. But she turned her back on the bright lights to return to Trinidad. 

There she continued the work she had begun before World War II, researching and performing the dances of the Caribbean, especially those that drew on African traditions. 

She was part of an anticolonial movement that recognized the unique culture of the country and the region and eventually led Trinidad and Tobago to independence.Artistically, McBurnie's work influenced dancers throughout the region and beyond. 

She also devoted years to building the Little Carib Theatre. Intended as a home for folk dance, it also housed Derek Walcott's Theatre Workshop and became a crucible for the performing arts." 

(UWI Press)https://www.encyclopedia.com/.../encyclope.../mcburnie-beryl

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Sexypink - Holly Gayadeen has passed.

Rest In Peace.

Ceramic Artist Bunty O’Connor had this to say on his life.

I am sad today to give news of the passing of Holly Gayadeen. Holly was a well known Trinidad artist and member of the Trinidad and Tobago Art Society who started his career in pottery making. He was trained in the UK in the 1960s at Redland Teacher Training College, Bristol in the art of slip decorated pottery. On his return to Trinidad he taught at the University of the West Indies. I was one of the lucky students who attended his evening classes at the Victoria Institute, Trinidad and Tobago Museum. His workshop was a model of efficiency where we learned to throw pots on the wheel, make moulds from plaster of Paris, to glaze and fire our masterpieces. Holly was a gentle, patient teacher who encouraged his students to develop their own style. My condolences go to the Gayadeen family at this sad time.

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Sexypink - Ceramics in Jamaica - Sharon Norwood - SAVE THE DATE

Join us tomorrow for the opening of our collaborative art installation entitled Dry Head.

This site-specific ephemeral installation incorporates handmade clay coils that depict curly lines or black hair which are both suspended and resting on the ground among other objects.

Sharon Norwood - A peak at her look at ‘afro hair’ represented in ceramics

This is the result of a two-week workshop led by Sharon Norwood with students of the InPulse Art Project and the Edna Manley College.

Location: Edna Manley College Ceramic Department 

Time: Friday May 5, 10am-3pmA few words at 12pm

Free and open to the public.

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SEXYPINK | RESIDENCY Opportunities 2023

New Local Space is pleased to announce the first iteration of the Sustainable Sculpture Residency program.The NLS Sustainable Sculpture Residency is a residency programme based in Maroon Town, St. James, within the Cockpit Country Protected Area of Jamaica. 

The residency takes place over the course of 7 weeks in the Summer and Winter months. The residency is awarded on a merit basis to two artists at a time, providing them with accommodations in a three bedroom historic house located on an idyllic farm, as well as a shared outdoor workspace. 

The residency comes with workshops in the use of sustainable materials found readily in the environment, opportunities to learn about local history and culturally significant landmarks, as well as the opportunity for an exhibition in the gallery at New Local Space in Kingston, Jamaica. 

Full financial assistance is available for qualified applicants based in the Caribbean. 

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~Sexypink~ Save the date...Jason Mirch of Stage 32 will be your Business of Film ‘Script to Screen’ facilitator. Jason is a feature film, television, branded entertainment, and digital content producer and executive with over 15 years of experience. He recently produced a 3D animated feature film starring Jacob Tremblay, Christopher Lloyd, Mel Brooks, Kenan Thompson, and Carol Kane.

Click on the link https://filmtt.co.tt/script-to-screen-facilitators/ to learn more about Jason. Plus get all the details on our Business of Film workshop ‘Script to Screen’, starting June 10.

Cost to attend workshop is ONLY TT$500.

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~Sexypink~ Veteran actor Nigel Scott has died at the age of 73.Scott passed away on Sunday morning. He survived cancer for 18 years and held on for as long as he was able to. He leaves to mourn his wife Minnie Gopaulchan, sister Radio 97 announcer Celia Scott, children Jason, Dominic, Crystal and Kimiko, four grandchildren. Scott was a founding member of the Trinidad Theatre Workshop and had a long relationship with its founder the late Nobel laureate Derek Walcott since 1968.He acted in several of Walcott’s plays including The Joker of Seville, Pantomime, The Odyssey and O Starry Starry Night. He also worked on film projects with Walcott including The Rig and Hart Crane, the latter for PBS television. Scott also played the role of Serge in Art, Captain Von Trapp in the Sound of Music and Cassio in Othello. Scott was also the voice for several documentaries, radio and television commercials. His credits include Wild T&T, Inward Hunger and Unfinished Sentences by Mariel Brown. He also produced several plays including ManTalk and The Last of the Redmen which were both Cacique Award winners for Best Production. In a 2015 interview, Scott said: “When you get involved in theatre as a practitioner, you bare your soul. You see others bearing their souls. You bond with people. You make lifelong relationships with people in theatre. I see my good friends pass away one by one, but those memories linger. ”Among the man people he has worked with are the late Wilbert Holder, Stanley Marshall and Errol Jones. Also sharing the stage with him were Albert La Veau, Helen Camps, Wendell Manwarren, Roger Roberts, Noel Blandin and many others. Apart from his pursuits in the theatre, Scott was a freelance sales/marketing consultant and has been in business management for over 45 years. He operated his own company Scott’s Trading Limited for 21 years. His last substantive position was chairman of a medium-sized electronics and appliance company. He credited his success over the years to his fervent passion for delivering excellent customer service. Scott served as a director on several boards including CTC Electronics, Trinidad Theatre Workshop, Junior Achievement of T&T, and Rebirth House. He was also chairman of Hololo Club Investments Ltd — an investment company formed 22 years ago.

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A Sense of Arrival: An Exhibition of Essays continues at Medulla Art Gallery until Nov 14