Category: Barbados

FRESH MILK’s Current Artist in Residence: Alberta Whittle

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FRESH MILK is pleased to introduce our current artist in residence, Alberta Whittle. She has been joining us at the Milking Parlour Studio from October 1st, participating in an eight to ten week residency titled ‘Second Armour.’

Alberta is a Barbadian artist, currently based in Glasgow. She has undertaken residencies at CESTA (Czech Republic), Market Gallery (Scotland), Collective Gallery (Scotland), Thupelo Wellington Artists’ Workshop (South Africa) and looks forward to taking part in a residency with the Visiting Artists’ Programme at The Bag Factory in Johannesburg next year.

She choreographs interactive installations, interventions and performances as site‐specific artworks in public and private spaces, including at the Royal Scottish Academy (Scotland) and has exhibited in various solo and group shows in Europe, the Caribbean and South Africa, with an upcoming show at the CAS Gallery, University of Cape Town in March 2013. Her practice is concerned with the construction of stereotypes of race, nationality and gender, considering the motivation behind the perpetuation and the different forms in which they are manifested.

Her time at FRESH MILK will include a series of performances, open forum discussions about anxieties surrounding race, workshops with the Fine Art students at BCC, and an exhibition/intervention stemming from her experiences and research done during her stay with us.

Alberta will be doing a performance piece titled ‘Hustle de Money – a Performance by Bertie aka Big Red aka General outta Glitter Zone’ at our next public event, FRESH MILK IX. Stay tuned for more information!

UNESCO Workshop on Creative Entrepreneurship

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FRESH MILK was asked to be the venue for two of four workshops hosted by The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Creative Entrepreneurship in Barbados.

Andrew Senior, the internationally respected expert on entrepreneurship and business development in the creative sector, led the workshops with groups of young, creative Barbadians age 35 and under, to help shape his report on “Developing wider entrepreneurship in Barbados’s cultural and creative industries”.

Discussions in the morning sessions revolved around the challenges of building a creative business in Barbados, while the afternoon was reserved for focused seminars on leveraging more from your networks (October 4th) and working internationally (October 9th).

FRESH MILK is glad to have facilitated these talks among the youth, stimulating ideas and encouraging them to be proactive with their ambitions. This initiative aligns  with our vision to engage with young creatives and advance dialogue in relation to the creative economy.

Aruba Linked/Caribbean Linked: A Collaborative Project between Ateliers ’89 and FRESH MILK

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ARUBA LINKED/CARIBBEAN LINKED is a collaborative project coordinated by Ateliers ’89 and the Fresh Milk Art Platform Inc. From October 12th to15th, visiting creatives Rocio Aranda Alvarado – curator at El Museo del Barrio, NYC; Paco Barragan – Independent curator, Madrid, Spain; Holly Bynoe – Visual Artist and co-founder of ARC, St. Vincent & the Grenadines; John Cox – Visual Artist, founder of Popop Studios and co-curator at the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas and Annalee Davis – Visual Artist and founder/director of the Fresh Milk Art Platform Inc., Barbados, will gather at Ateliers ’89, Aruba.

Individual presentations about their own work as curators, editors and founders of informal networks will take place on October 13th. The panel of five on October 15th will focus on the shaping of a creative industry for practitioners from the Caribbean. Discussion about challenges and emerging possibilities in the region, the importance of mentoring young creatives, the development of new Caribbean products, the expansion of the critical arena, the role of the web and its power to democratise the field, the need to expose art production beyond ‘Caribbean’ themed exhibitions, and the promotion of artists working in non-mainstream locations will be explored.

ARC magazine will launch Issue 6 and John Cox will record a version of Blank Canvas at the Ateliers. ‘Aruba Linked’ – the Youth Biennial will open at Ateliers ’89 on October 15th bringing the programme to a close.