On August 9th, 2025 The Ripple Effect took place at Caribbean Brushstrokes Gallery, Barbados — an event launching the new partnership between the Clara Lionel Foundation (CLF), the Mellon Foundation, and The Fresh Milk Art Platform.

Video by The Snap Happy Collective

These exciting relationships were celebrated with the exhibition Where are the Tendernesses? featuring work by Barbadian artists Simone Asia, Anna Gibson, Russell Watson and Ronald Williams, who are the inaugural recipients of the Fresh Milk/Clara Lionel Foundation Fellowship. Additionally, the Barbadian grantees — Deandra Daniel,  Lyneisha Ince, Alexander Newton, Safia Stoute, Kia Redman, Akilah Watts, Kraig Yearwood, and Punch Creative Arena —  were announced for the 2025 edition of Fresh Milk’s TENDER Regranting Programme,  of which the CLF and Mellon Foundation are also generous supporters alongside the National Cultural Foundation and the Panta Rhea Foundation.

Take a look here at some of the fantastic footage and moments documented of that special night!

Photographs by Dondré Trotman

L-R: Ronald Williams, Anna Gibson, Simone Asia, Russell Watson – the inaugural Fresh Milk/Clara Lionel Foundation Artistic Fellows, 2025-2026

L-R: Ronald Williams, Katherine Kennedy, Anna Gibson, Simone Asia, Russell Watson, Annalee Davis

L-R: Katherine Kennedy – Fresh Milk; Jessie Schutt-Aine, Rosanna Saladin, Wonlyn Lewis, Israel Mapp, Krystle Francis, Amina Doherty – Clara Lionel Foundation; Annalee Davis – Fresh Milk; Justin Garrett Moore – Mellon Foundation

FM/CLF Fellowship Nominators: (L-R) Dr. Natalie McGuire, Jason Fitzroy-Jeffers and Dr. Therese Hadchity (missing: Mark King).

L-R: Where are the Tendernesses? curatorial extract; DECOHERENT 02 by Russell Watson

L-R: Festering Fantasy: Sweet Fuh Days; Festering Fantasy: The Yard; and Rebirth III by Anna Gibson

Lost + Found, Simone Asia

All Dogs Go To Heaven I and All Dogs Go To Heaven II by Ronald Williams

DECOHERENT 02 by Russell Watson

Lost + Found and Procession by Simone Asia

Barbadian TENDER Grantees 2025 with the Fresh Milk Team. L-R: Katherine Kennedy (Fresh Milk), Kraig Yearwood, Safia Stoute, Kia Redman, Deandra Daniel, Ewan Atkinson (PUNCH), Akilah Watts, Allison Thompson (PUNCH), Lyneisha Ince, Alexander Newton, Annalee Davis (Fresh Milk). Photo by Dondré Trotman