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Crick Crack, Lopinot

by ap | Aug 20, 2022 | Amanda T. McIntyre, Art-icles, Highlights 9, PREE 9 | 0 |

Douens had stolen the baby and hidden her in the village dirt oven. This was the treasured oven that baked many treats for the villagers, like their daily bread, special cakes, and Christmas ham. It was now part of the scheme of the impish douens to bake the baby.

Sexually Expressed, Violently Possessed

by ap | Jan 8, 2022 | Art-icles, Carol-Anne McFarlane, PREE 8 | 0 |

Carol-Anne McFarlane
Nice nipples.” This comment was directed towards me after I exited my car, less than 15 feet from my studio. I parked in the closest spot to the door, in a futile hope to not be harassed.

Island Influences

by ap | Feb 18, 2021 | Aquille Dunkley, Art-icles, Highlights 6, PREE 6 | 1 |

ACQUILLE DUNKLEY
I must start off with a disclaimer. These images are not photographs. They were created digitally on a computer.

Proposal for a New Necropolis

by ap | Aug 4, 2020 | Art-icles, PREE Views 2 | 8 |

We had an unprecedented opportunity to grapple with the reality that Caribbean countries needn’t have a white majority to uphold neocolonial, supremacist systems.[6] Yet, some Trinbagonians retreated into denial and defensiveness.

Shells and shores: Wendy Nanan and Andre bagoo

by ap | Jun 20, 2020 | Andil Gosine, Andrae Green, Andre Bagoo, Art-icles, Articles 5, Nadia Huggins, PREE 5 Brawta, Wendy Nanan | 0 |

WIth COVID 19 forcing the temporary closure of the museum, curator Andil Gosine called upon three poets to virtually open Nanan’s exhibtiion–the first and largest for a Caribbean woman at the AMA–on June 11, 2020. Among them was Andre Bagoo, whose engagement with the artist includes a suite of poems that invoke and weigh the site of Nanan’s shell-collecting, along Trinidad’s vulnerable Atlantic coast.

circa no future: Nadia Huggins

by ap | Jun 20, 2020 | Art-icles, Articles 5, Nadia Huggins, PREE 5 Brawta | 0 |

Mesmerizing video of a black body in seeming freefall

Bodies of water: recent work by ANDRAE GREEN

by ap | Jun 20, 2020 | Andrae Green, Art-icles, Articles 5, PREE 5 Brawta | 0 |

I used the sea as a backdrop in my exploration of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in my M-E-T-A series.

Beach as Plot?

by ap | Apr 19, 2020 | Annalee Davis, Art-icles, Articles 5, Highlights, PREE 5 | 0 |

In this article artist Annalee Davis draws a thread between the one-dimensional notion of tourism as the panacea for small island economies (with a particular focus on Barbados), and the potential role of contemporary visual art and artists in offering other lenses through which we can see ourselves and consider our contexts. COVID-19 will infect this text. How can it not?