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The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas is pleased to announce that we have extended our hours to allow the Bahamian public and our visitors more opportunities to engage and experience our wonderful Gallery and the art within.

On January 1st, 2012, John Cox, the founder of the artists’ cooperative Popopstudios International Center for the Visual Arts, took on the position of Chief Curator at The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, appointed by incoming Director, Amanda Coulson.

The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas is looking for volunteers to work part-time in its gift store.

Covering his 75 years of life and his artistic career with 143 paintings, “Happy Birthday To Me” reflects the complicated journey of a man before his time practicing a form of art that had not caught on in the landscape of the Bahamian art world, a form of art that is difficult to engage with and was not readily accepted by viewers to be “authentically Bahamian” art.

Twelve Bahamian amateur artists are finally getting their chance to shine. The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas is preparing to host their one-night-only spotlight honoring the creative visions of non-established or non-professional artists in society with their All-Star Amateur Artist Night at the Gallery grounds this Friday, January 20, 2012.

It’s a new era for the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas (NAGB). Under the directorship of Dr. Erica James, the national institution set the bar for Bahamian art, stretching the boundaries of the Bahamian cultural imagination and establishing Bahamian visual art within a historical context at home.

Earlier this year, the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas began a comprehensive and transparent search, locally and worldwide, to fill a number of positions including Director, Assistant Educational Officer, Curatorial Assistant and Curatorial Trainees.

On sale now at The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas are a recently donated collection of vintage art magazines and journals, the proceeds of which will be used to buy new material for the NAGB Library. We will be selling these items every Saturday until the end of 2011.

On sale now in the NAGB Gift Shop is the beautifully designed catalogue for the Kendal Hanna Retrospective Exhibition

Dr. Erica James’ eight-year leadership at The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas comes to a close.