Barrington Watson is no stranger to founding similar organisations himself. He adds to his many accomplishments, patron of the OAaSIS International.
Read MoreCategory: Jamaica Art Scope
Updates on Jamaica’s art scene – artists, their work, etc
ART CAREER: Building your own website, then for others
Although you may not be an expert website designer, or developer, there is opportunity for you, once creative to be the extended arm of a website developer. You can create website for others.
Especially as the budgetary constraints have forced persons to go scurrying for a low end website to market themselves online.
VISUAL ART CAREERS: Photography
Photography is definitely not just about pointing and shooting, that is, if you move beyond experimenting with the features of the camera.
Photography in its truest sense is really painting with light, with your camera as your paintbrush, and the film, as your canvas, when likened to a painter.
EDITORIAL: Jamaica’s Art and Culture, Tourism product
Jamaica’s art, artists and their creative products should be closer examined as tourism products.
Read MoreART CAREER: Art critic
The art critic is one of the most sought after persons in this creative field. For one, its always good to have someone to bounce your ideas on. On the other hand, critics sometimes reflect the views of the public or potential client.
Read MoreEDITORIAL: ART Careers for Jamaicans everywhere
Suprisingly although Jamaica has surpassed boundaries, and, somehow manages quite well in the first world, many Jamaicans remain clueless on art as a career.
Read MoreArtists to stroke in Jamaica’s history as one
Jamaican artists are being given opportunity to add their strokes to the pages of Jamaican history in a national way. Through the eyes of the visual artists, Jamaica history and art history will be documented by yet another person who realises the value of the country
Read MoreBarcelona, forever in my heart writes Jamaican Lorna Chong
Lorna who believes that all humans ARE CONNECTED shares from her diary notes on her September 2008 trip to Barcelona, Spain.
Read MoreCaradise, caribbean paradise on display!
Following is an excerpt from an article by the Gleaner’s Georgia Hemmings, on the first solo exhibition of Anthea McGibbon.
“VERY SUCCESSFUL” is how photographer and graphic designer, Anthea McGibbon, describes her first solo exhibition, held recently in the United States (U.S.).
Read MoreJamaica’s Hoyes Takes a Bit of Africa in Europe Tour
Jamaican born visual art master, Bernard Stanley Hoyes has been enjoying a powerful year. Upon the recent New York installation of his six-foot blue fin tuna sculpture, titled “The Grand Catch”, which he crafted from granite in Fuzhou City in the Fujian Province of China, one might think the acclaimed artist might be ready to rest on his laurels for a bit.
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