Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator Presents the 1st International Artists Biennale, Nassau, Bahamas February 17 – 19, 2006
MIAMI – Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator presents the 1st International Diaspora Artists Biennale, February 17- February 19 in Nassau, Bahamas, hosted by the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas and Popop Studios.
Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator presents the 1st International Diaspora Artists Biennale, February 17- February 19 in Nassau, Bahamas, hosted by the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas and Popop Studios. Artists from The Bahamas, Haiti, Cuba, Barbados, Dominican Republic, Aruba, and the U.S. along with art historians, critics, art lawyers and curators explore contemporary Caribbean art practice. This program is funded by Artography: Arts in a Changing America, a grant and documentation program of leveraging investments in Creativity, funded by the Ford Foundation.
Participating artists are Carol Campbell (Jamaica), John Cox (Bahamas), Antonius Roberts (Bahamas), Irene Peterson (Aruba), Susan Mains (Grenada), Swati Khurana (India), Rodney Jackson (Jamaica), Erman (Cuba), Teri Richardson (African-American), Danny Ramirez (Cuba), Jean Chiang (Chinese-American) Noelle Theard (Haiti), Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud (African-American), Ewan Atkinson (Barbados), Carolina Vasquez (Dominican Republic). Artists will talk with artists about hyphenated existence, art production while living in the Diaspora, border communities, creating and documenting generational memory, and documenting the process in Nassau, Bahamas side by side Bahamian contemporary artists.
