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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 2024 |
CURATORIAL AND ART WRITING FELLOWSHIP
SYLVIA MONASTERIOS
FEBRUARY - AUGUST, 2024 |
We are pleased to announce that Sylvia Monasterios is the awardee of the 2024 NLS Curatorial & Art Writing Fellowship,
a 5-month mentorship generating archival scholarship regarding artists in the Caribbean. The fellowship offers a work stipend and mentorship,
empowering promising curators & writers to develop a body of writing in our regional art histories. This year Rianna Jade Parker,
Eddie Chambers and Jessica Lynne serve as mentors.
Sylvia Monasterios is a Venezuelan-Puerto Rican curator & cultural manager based in Brazil.
She has served as a Curatorial Assistant for the 35th Bienal de São Paulo, choreographies of the
impossible, and curator for the Visual Arts department at Centro Cultural São Paulo and Pivô Arte e Pesquisa.
Sylvia will study the work of migrant artists within the Caribbean & Brazil, documenting ways artists navigate belonging,
resistance and challenge imperialism.
Primary mentor, Rianna Jade Parker is a writer, historian, critic & curator based in South London, England and Kingston,
Jamaica. She is contributing editor to Frieze and co-curator of “War Inna Babylon: The Community’s Struggle for Truths and Rights”,
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. Her first book “A Brief History of Black British Art” was published by Tate.
Eddie Chambers is the David Bruton, Jr. Centennial Professor in Art History at University of Texas. His work has focused
on artists such as Eugene Palmer, Frank Bowling and Alberta Whittle. Recent publications include, “World is Africa: Writings on Diaspora Ar” (Bloomsbury, 2021)
and “T’waunii Sinclair, and the Ongoing Cultural Life of the Machete” (Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art, 2022).
Jessica Lynne is founding editor of ARTS.BLACK, an online journal of art criticism. Her writings feature in Artforum,
The Believer, and Frieze. She is recipient of a 2020 Research & Development award from the Graham Foundation for Advanced
Studies in Fine Arts, and is inaugural recipient of the Beverly Art Writers Travel Grant.
This fellowship is possible through a grant from the Open Society Foundations (OSF).
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THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 2023 |
CURATORIAL AND ART WRITING FELLOWSHIP
OPEN CALL
DEADLINE: AUGUST 10, 2023 |
NLS is now accepting submissions for the 2023/2024 Curatorial and Art Writing Fellowship
The Curatorial & Art Writing Fellowship is a 5-month long mentorship program geared towards
addressing the dearth of archival scholarship on the work of artists in Jamaica and the Caribbean by
empowering young writers and curators with the tools to write these histories. This program aims to develop
diverse curatorial practices with a strong research and writing foundation equipping young curators to work
on future projects at larger institutions and in their own initiatives, thereby generating an archive on
specific concerns and artists of focus. For the program one early career fellow will be selected per year
to work with a professional curatorial mentor in the development of the fellow¡¦s project.
The program awards fellows a work stipend of JMD $300,000, professional development from an experienced mentor, access to Creative Sounds
audio recording studio for podcast recording, and a project space for the final project execution and public talks.
Download the application form here.
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2022 |
SIMONE CAMBRIDGE
CURATORIAL & ART WRITING FELLOW
FEBRUARY 2022 - JULY 2022 |
Simone Cambridge is awarded the NLS 2021 Curatorial and Art Writing Fellowship.
For her fellowship project, Cambridge departs from research and documentation previously conducted by
her grandmother centering on Bahamian straw work. Cambridge's proposed project dialogues
between archival material and contemporary artwork, examining themes of gender, local industries,
the environment, and colonialism, providing a framework for historicised curatorial engagement with straw work in the Bahamas.
Cambridge is a recent graduate of McGill University, Quebec, where she completed a Bachelor of Arts
(double major) in Art History and International Development Studies with a minor in Geography Urban Systems.
Her publications include: “The Headwrap in Transatlantic Fugitive Slave Advertisements,” May 2020,
Chrysalis: Black Canadian Studies Journal, and "To Make and Destroy: Sculptures of Anne Whitney," April 2020, Canvas:
The McGill Journal of Art History and Communications Studies (Montreal, Quebec: McGill University). She is co-author of “Bill of Sale for William (1786),”
October 2020, Chrysalis: Black Canadian Studies Journal, along with Lucia Bell-Epstein and Bella Silverman.
The Fellowship is a 5-month long mentorship program supporting a project proposed by the fellow.
The Curatorial and Art Writing Fellowship is geared towards addressing the dearth of archival
scholarship on the work of artists in Jamaica and the Caribbean by empowering young writers and curators
with the tools to write these histories. Simone Cambridge will be mentored by Marina Reyes Franco, curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Puerto Rico,
Yina Jiménez Suriel, editor, Contemporary &, and Kim Robinson-Walcott, chief editor, Caribbean Quarterly.
NLS programming is made possible in part through a partnership with the Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development Next Generation Programme.
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| THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2020 |
ADA M. PATTERSON
CURATORIAL & ART WRITING FELLOW
NOVEMBER 2020 - MAY, 2021
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Ada M. Patterson is awarded the NLS 2020 Curatorial and Art Writing Fellowship. The Fellowship is a 5-month long mentorship program supporting a project proposed by the fellow. The Curatorial and Art Writing Fellowship is geared towards addressing the dearth of archival scholarship on the work of artists in Jamaica and the Caribbean by empowering young writers and curators with the tools to write these histories. Patterson will be mentored by Daniella Rose King (Adjunct Curator, Caribbean Diasporic Art, Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational, Tate, UK) and a supporting committee of regional cultural practitioners and academics comprised of Amanda McIntyre (Writer, Trinidad and Tobago), Dave Williams (Choreographer, Trinidad and Tobago), Jovante Anderson (Writer, Jamaica) and Ronald Cummings (Assistant Professor, Brock University).
Patterson proposes collaboration and intimate engagement with a divergence of queer performance practices in Barbados, between film, writing and conversation. Through these media Patterson aims to address the dichotomy between invisibility as a means of agency or mobility, versus bodies otherwise queered invisible or marked for social death. Considered through the shattered lens of crisis, Patterson¡¯s work examines the precarious and crisis-(dis)oriented conditions which both underpin and undermine queer performance practices in Barbados.
ABOUT THE FELLOW
Ada M. Patterson received their Masters of Education in Arts at the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam and their Bachelors of Fine Art with honours from Central Saint Martins, London, UK. Their solo exhibitions include The Whole World is Turning at TENT, Rotterdam, Netherlands; and Things You Threw in the Gully at Roodkapje Rotterdam, Netherlands. Their Curatorial and pedagogical work includes Wukshop: Kanga for the Present, Wukshop: Magic Portals at Tender Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands; and Plastic Love Island at Roodkapje Rotterdam, Netherlands. Their published writing includes Catching Their Rhythm: On Shimmer Rotterdam in Metropolis M; A-Z of Caribbean Art, Robert & Christopher Publishers, Trinidad & Tobago;...and my intentions are never fixed: On Frank Bowling, in Sugarcane Magazine; and ...only a Fool looks at the finger: On the 10th Berlin Biennale, Sugarcane Magazine. Past residencies include Hamburger Community of Art in Roodkapje Rotterdam, Netherlands in 2019 and Studium Witte de With: Parallel Curriculum at Witte de With in Rotterdam, Netherlands, as well as Alice Yard, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad & Tobago.
NLS 2020 programming is made possible in part through a partnership with the Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development Next Generation Programme.
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2020 |
CURATORIAL & ART WRITING FELLOWSHIP
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The Curatorial/Art Writing Intensive is a 5-month long mentorship program geared towards addressing the dearth of archival scholarship on the work of artists in Jamaica and the Caribbean by empowering young writers and curators with the tools to write these histories.
This program aims to develop diverse curatorial practices with a strong research and writing foundation equipping young curators to work on future projects at larger institutions and in their own initiatives, thereby generating an archive on specific concerns and artists of focus.
For the program one young mentee will be selected per year to work with a professional curatorial mentor and advisory committee in the development of the mentee¡¯s project addressing one or more of the following themes:
- Gender: Ecology/Environment
- Gender: Economy
- Gender: Politics/Space
Advisory committee: Daniella Rose King (Adjunct Curator, Caribbean Diasporic Art, Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational, Tate, UK). Rose King, Amanda T. McIntyre (Writer, Trinidad and Tobago), Dave Williams (Choreographer, Trinidad and Tobago), Jovante Anderson (Writer, Jamaica) and Ronald Cummings (Assistant Professor, Brock University)
Awarded applicants will receive:
- Work stipend of JMD $300,000
- Publication and exhibition budget
- Professional development from an experienced mentor
- Access to Creative Sounds audio recording studio for podcast recording
- Project space for the final project execution
- Space for panel discussion
Deadline: March 31, 2020
This program is funded in part by the Prince Claus Fund For Culture Next Generation Partnership.
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| SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2019 |
CURATORIAL & ART WRITING FELLOW
JUNE - NOVEMBER 2019 |
Ania Freer's six month curatorial fellowship culminates in a group exhibition that presents the unique craft practices and oral histories of seven artists working across Jamaica outside of mainstream knowledge. The exhibition will bring together the work of Albert St. John Phipps, Kemel Leeford Rankine, Cecil "Bingy" Smith, Racquel Brown, Alexander "Bamboo King" Dempster, Jeffett "Georgie" Strachan and Jennifer "Eighty" Stewart who work in media and practices ranging from basket weaving and crochet to sign painting and wood carving. Through her curatorial project, Freer aims to create a space of equitable commerce and an alternative system of understanding the cultural and economic value of these makers and their practices, as well as the social contexts and pressures in which they have developed their work and continue to exist.
ABOUT THE CURATOR
Ania Freer is a documentary filmmaker based in Kingston, Jamaica whose practice centers on creating equitable systems of representation and commerce for indigenous craft makers and artists, most recently with the project Goat Curry TV during which she traveled across Jamaica archiving oral histories. Freer's work is currently on exhibit in the 2019 Summer Exhibition, National Gallery of Jamaica (Kingston, Jamaica).
Ania Freer's NLS curatorial and art writing fellowship was supported by the following committee members: Dr. Erica James, assistant professor, University of Miami and editorial committee member for Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism; Henry Murphy, art production coordinator, Friends of the High Line; Raphael Fonseca, curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Niteroi; and Rosanna McLaughlin, art editor, The White Review and Nicole Smythe-Johnson, writer and curator, Austin, TX/ Kingston, Jamaica.
NLS 2019 programming is made possible in part through a partnership with the Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development Next Generation Programme.
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2018 |
CURATORIAL/ART WRITING FELLOWSHIP
NLS is pleased to announce the inauguration of The Curatorial/Art Writing Fellowship, a 5-month long mentorship program geared towards addressing the dearth of archival scholarship on the work of artists in Jamaica and the Caribbean by empowering young writers and curators with the tools to write these histories.
This program aims to develop diverse curatorial practices with a strong research and writing foundation equipping young curators to work on future projects at larger institutions and in their own intitiatives, thereby generating an archive on specific concerns and artists of focus.
For the program one young mentee will be selected per year to work with a professional curatorial mentor and advisory committee in the development of the mentee¡¯s project addressing one or more of the following themes:
- Gender: Ecology/Environment
- Gender: Economy
- Gender: Politics/Space
Adivsory committee: Dr. Erica James, assistant professor, University of Miami and editorial committee member for Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism; Henry Murphy, art production assistant, Friends of the High Line; Raphael Fonseca, curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Niter¨®i; and Rosanna McLaughlin, art editor, The White Review.
Awarded applicants will receive:
- Work stipend of JMD $300,000
- Publication and exhibition budget
- Professional development from an experienced mentor
- Access to Creative Sounds audio recording studio for podcast recording
- Project space for the final project execution
- Space for panel discussion
DOWNLOAD APPLICATION HERE
Open call: December 29, 2019
Deadline: February 19, 2019
This program is funded in part by the Prince Claus Next Generation Partnership.
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 2015 |
SURVEY OF VISUAL ARTISTS IN JAMAICA IN 2015 - 2018
THIS STUDY IS CLOSED
Results will be published in August 2018
If you have any questions, please contact us at
info@NLSkingston.org.
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 2015 |
PUBLIC CONSUMPTION OF VISUAL ART IN JAMAICA IN 2015 - 2018
THIS STUDY IS CLOSED
Results will be published in August 2018
If you have any questions, please contact us at
info@NLSkingston.org.
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 2015 |
SURVEY OF VISUAL ARTISTS IN JAMAICA IN 2015 - 2018
THIS STUDY IS CLOSED
Results will be published in August 2018
If you have any questions, please contact us at
info@NLSkingston.org.
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MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 2012 |
STUDY OF VISUAL ARTISTS IN JAMAICA IN 2012
VIEW RESULTS OF STUDY
Of the 64 working artists in Jamaica who participated in the 2012 study, the majority lived in Kingston (66.7%) while 22.7% resided in other parts of the country. A diverse group of artists working in various mediums and disciplines were represented in the study. Artists in the study identified as one or more of the following: photographer, videographer, sculptor, performance artist, computer/digital artists, and painters. Only a few of these artists claimed to be self-taught, with 55.3% reporting to have been academically trained.
Of the participants, 81.7% reported exhibiting only once or less than once per year. read more...
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