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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.

It is with deep sadness that we mourn the passing, yet celebrate the life and ascension of Jackson Logan Burnside.

The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas announces the return of its Director, Dr. Erica James, from leave and her future appointment as Assistant Professor in The History of Art and African American Studies at Yale University.

Haiti – Catastrophic magnitude 7.0 earthquake. Chile – Catastrophic magnitude 8.8 earthquake. Turkey – Catastrophic magnitude 6.0 earthquake. Iceland – Volcanic eruption causes floods and disrupts air travel for weeks. The Gulf of Mexico – 4.9 million barrels of crude oil spilled. Azerbaijan, Sri Lanka, Philippines, Afghanistan – Catastrophic Flooding. Kyrgyzstan and Bangladesh – Landslides displacing people and threatening lives. Pakistan – More than 20 million people injured or homeless due to flooding. Sumatra – Volcano eruption relocates 12,000 people — and all of this in the first 8 months of 2010 alone!

The NAGB invites its members and the general public to an Artist Talk with Barbadian artist Ras Ishi Butcher on Tuesday, June 29 at 6.30pm. He will give a presentation of his work and also take us through a final walk through of his stunning exhibition at the NAGB.

The National Art Gallery announces the leave of absence of its Current Director, Dr. Erica James, and the appointment of David A. Bailey as Acting Director and Visiting Resident Curator in her absence. The founding director of the National Art Gallery Dr. Erica James will take a year long sabbatical to serve as a Post Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri in 2010.

To Paint, the Lord gives a vision, a sight that you goes by….” - Amos Ferguson On the morning of October 19, 2009, Bahamian Artist and National Monument Amos Ferguson went home to be with the Lord he had spoken to and communicated with through his paintings for the past fifty years.

Livable Neighborhoods Partnership On Wednesday, 24th September, 2008, The National Art Gallery in collaboration with the Marathon Community, The Wulff Road Police Station and the Nature Conservacy launched the Livable Neighborhoods Project at Lou Adderley Park.