The story of Fresh Milk has always had its origins in the Division of Fine Arts at the Barbados Community College, the only institution offering tertiary level education in visual arts in the island.

Allan Lowe (Coordinator, Graphic Design BFA programme), Katherine Kennedy (Fresh Milk representative & part-time tutor, Fine Arts Division), Zann Taylor-Ward (Head of Fine Arts Division), Ewan Atkinson (Coordinator, Studio Art BFA programme) and Terry Edwards (Studio attendant, Fine Arts Division)

FM’s founding director Annalee Davis taught at the college as a part-time tutor from 2005-2018. Seeing the incredible artwork and creative potential of the emerging artists coming out of the programmes, and the desire to support their continued development were catalysts for the birth of the space, and everything we have worked on in an effort to stimulate the local and regional contemporary arts environment is done in the hopes that artists will have the opportunities, support and motivation to keep their practices going.

Thirteen years in, and with FM’s communications & operations manager Katherine Kennedy also now a part-time tutor in the division, it’s Fresh Milk’s honour to be able to make a donation of some much needed equipment to BCC’s visual arts department as our first major contribution after receiving a grant from the Mellon Foundation this year.

Huge gratitude to the tutors and staff that persevere and go above and beyond for Barbados’ emerging artists 🙏🏽✨🙏🏽🫶🏽 we look forward to continuing to support you as best we can over the next three years.