DOONGALIK STUDIOS ART GALLERY NEWSLETTER

March 2017 Volume 11 Issue 3

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PROMOTING THE VISION: By the Year 2020 more visitors will be attracted to The Bahamas by Bahamian Art,
Culture and Heritage than by merely sun, sand and sea.

The Transforming Spaces Committee is promoted worldwide as an art destination, a trend

busy preparing for this years 13th Art Tour
on Saturday and Sunday, April 1 and 2.
The weekend tour will include a morning
and afternoon tour on Saturday, and a
morning tour on Sunday.
This year, TS will be returning to the origi-
nal format of a dedicated guided Bus Tour
transporting patrons to and from the vari-
ous participating galleries which will in-
clude: the DAguilar Art Foundation (DAF),
Doongalik Studios Art Gallery, Hillside
House, the National Art Gallery of The
Bahamas (NAGB), New Providence Art & Antiques (NPAA), and
PopopStudios International Centre for Visual Arts (ICVA)
Each gallery is curating its own exhibition for the event and ap-
proximately 40 artists will be exhibiting their artworks at the vari-
ous venues. DAF will mount an exhibition of selections from their
Collection under the theme The Art of Losing; Doongalik Studios
Art Gallery has attracted a mixture of eleven artists who will exhibit
inside the gallery as well as outside in the gardens in response to
their theme Inside/Outside Naturally; Hillside House will exhibit
the works of owner Antonius Roberts, along with Chantal Bethel,
June Collie, Tyrone Ferguson, and Jessica Colebrooke, whilst
NAGB will curate a new permanent exhibition, Revisiting An Eye
for the Tropics which reconsiders both the National Collection and
local private collections in regards to the colonial gaze and our
post-colonial lives today, featuring the work of over 20 artists;
NPAA will once again curate a separate exhibition on the Popop
grounds entitled In the Beginning: Sketch and Build with original
drawings for the Genesis Junkanoo Organizations 2016 season
by Allan Pachino Wallace and Rick Albury, as well as installations
by Juan Cartwright and Gino Rolle; and PopopStudios ICVA, in
response to the damage wrought by Hurricane Matthew last year,
is geared to showcase Popop Forever featuring the phenomenal
figure drawings of Master Abstract Artist-in-residence, Kendal
Hanna, whilst tracing the history of the art space through the
works of a group of artists in open studios.
With the ever present goal of exposing Bahamian Art to a larger
global audience during the annual art tour, the Committee is ex-
tremely pleased to have garnered the support of the Bahamas
Ministry of Tourisms PR machine, which is promoting the event
through their various global portals to draw art lovers to our shores
from all around the world to experience unique, world-class Baha- TRANSFORMING SPACES 2017
mian art . We are extremely excited about this partnership, stat-
DOONGALIKS OFFERINGS FOR TS2017
ed TS Secretary, Pam Burnside, since The Bahamas is not
that has been profitable for ages in other parts of
the world. As the recipient of a prestigious
UNESCO designation in 2014, the City of Nassau
is primed for exposing an entirely new offering of
Bahamian art. Without a doubt, the amazing talent
of our Bahamian artists will resonate with the
many millions of our visitors. TS Treasurer, Anto-
nius Roberts agreed: For too long, and to our
detriment, Bahamian Art and Heritage has been
ignored as important cultural offerings, not only to
our visitors, but to locals as well. These are the
elements that can move this country forward and
provide significant economic development to this destination. So
we are very happy that the Ministry of Tourism has recognized the
value in this collaboration which bodes well for the future of the
industry.
In this vein we extend our appreciation to the Charitable Arts
Foundation who have continually assisted us since the inception of
the tour, recognizing the importance of this showcase of the arts to
the wider public. We also thank Bahamas Experience Tours who
has been our initial sponsor offering first class transportation ser-
vices to our patrons.
Box offices at Hillside House, NAGB, Doongalik Studios, and The
Place for Art, are now open and tickets, priced at $35, are going
fast! More information can be found on the TS website
www.tsbahamas.com and the TS facebook page.
TS Committee photo below courtesy of Dede Brown Photography
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Doongalik is thrilled about this years Transforming Spaces artist line-up

which will include a fabulous mix of offerings and mediums from these
dynamic artists: top to bottom: master sculptor Antonius Roberts will
install a new SACRED SPACE in the Doongalik gardens on MONDAY,
MARCH 27 from 9.30am until 3pm. The public is
invited to attend; multi-media artist Candis Mar-
shall is also designing a garden installation;
Doongaliks three wood turners: Jeremy Delancy,
Robin Hardy and David McGorrin will exhibit
their art pieces inside the gallery; floral artist
Omar Williams of Wild Seeds Designs; Ceramicist
Alistair Stevenson is shipping his unique garden
installation all the way from China; Freeport pa-
per artist Del Foxton;
Beverly Taylor of
straw haute couture
fame; ceramicist Imo-
gene Walkine; and
multi media artist
Dwight Ferguson.
THE NEW ART WALK AT MARINA VILLAGE, ATLANTIS BEGINS
Doongalik and Creative Nassau congratulates and thanks
Atlantis, Paradise Island, for inviting us, along with master
artist, Antonius Roberts, to be a part of their visionary col-
laboration with Bahamian artists and artisans to bring the
Art Walk in Marina Village to fruition! The Art Walk, which
began on March 11, will take place on the second and last
Saturday of each month from 10am to 4pm to celebrate
and promote Bahamian fine art, crafts, and foods on the
porches and under tents along the walkway of the Marina
Village, an architectural gem that was designed by the late
Jackson Burnside III in homage to our rich Bahamian ar-
chitecture. Atlantis has made a bold step forward to ex-
pose our visitors and locals to the phenomenal creativity of
the Bahamian people, and we are indeed that much closer
to achieving the Doongalik vision statement by the year
2020!! Please come and join us on Saturday, March 25!