CArt is Jamaica bound!
New Biannual art fair for Caribbean art, all set for Mandeville
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| Painting by Jamaica's Krystal Ball |
Attention Jamaica, a group of Caribbean
Canadian art experts is about to put the
spotlight on art and artists from Jamaica and other Caribbean nations. A 3-day exhibition and sale of local art
beginning January 30th will take place in Mandeville Jamaica.
The fair is being spearheaded by
well-known founder of the Black Artists Network Dialogue and CArt’s Creative
Director. Karen Carter. She describes
the upcoming CArt Festival as a contemporary art fair connecting artists from
the Caribbean region to the international art world.
“CArt is an opportunity for fair goers
to meaningfully connect with local artists, and acquire original art to add to
their art collection,” Karen Carter told the Camera. It will take place
at the Mandeville Hotel in Mandeville. This is the first installment of CArt
which will be a biennial Art Fair.
The weekend is meant for Jamaicans and
visitors alike. It provides space where artists from Jamaica, Canada and other
Caribbean nations can show and sell their work and, to network, network,
network. In addition to a show of
original art, there are panel discussions featuring local and international
academics and curators throughout the 3-day festival.
CArt is being launched to connect local,
regional and international artists, dealers, collectors, curators, and
academics who are interested in the exploration, promotion, and development of
the arts sector across the Caribbean.
“As a Jamaican-Canadian who has been working in the arts and culture sector for over twenty years I am excited to have an opportunity to work with colleagues to help raise the profile of the artists across the Caribbean and cultivate the next generation of art collectors,” says Carter.
“Colleagues from across the diaspora
have been witnessing the impact that the West African diaspora’s engagement
with arts and culture has had locally. We believe the Caribbean is positioned
for it’s own cultural renaissance; if we begin by connecting professionals from
across the diaspora with the region in meaningful ways we can build on the
local cultural capital and support emerging artists.”
CArt programming will include a private
tour and reception to benefit the restoration of the Rex Nettleford Art
collection at the University of the West Indies, Mona. Ralston Milton
"Rex" Nettleford, was a Jamaican scholar, social critic,
choreographer, and Vice-Chancellor Emeritus of the University.
CArt is organizing panel discussions
featuring local and international academics and curators, who will, among other
things be addressing relevant issues for the curatorial practice in Jamaica and
the Caribbean. Acclaimed filmmaker John Akomfrah’s, feature documentaries,
Stuart Hall Project, about the British Jamaican Scholar and Nine Muses, the
migration story of Caribbean immigrants in the 1960’s will be screen at the
Festival
CArt has a prominent program advisory
committee from in the region and across the diaspora including; Dr. Julie
Crooks, an Assistant Curator and Photographer at the Art Gallery of Ontario in
Toronto, Asha Lovelace a Trinidadian Filmmaker and Director of African Film,
Trinidad and Tobago, and Mark Sealey MBE British curator, cultural historian,
and the Director of Autograph ABP in London to name a
few.
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