The quarterly Barbadian and Caribbean arts newsletter RA (Representing Artists) was produced in the early nineties, spearheaded by a group of Barbados-based artists who saw the need to create a forum for more critical writing around contemporary arts in the region.
As part of her Tilting Axis Fellowship that has seen her travel to arts spaces throughout the Caribbean, Jamaican writer and curator Nicole Smythe-Johnson has digitized all six editions of this newsletter to make them available for public access on the Fresh Milk website. This inaugural curatorial fellowship is supported by the British Council.
With so many ongoing conversations about the development and future of Caribbean art today, it is important to know the history of spaces and what has laid the foundations for these discussions. Over the last 24 years, how have things changed? What has remained the same? We hope that these texts can be a source of inspiration, evaluation and critique, both for the state of the creative environment then and for encouraging productive discourse moving forward.
Edited by: Annalee Davis
Designed by: Arthur Atkinson (Issues 1-4) and Kristine Dear (Issues 5 & 6)
Contributors: Annalee Davis, Allison Thompson, Ras Akyem, Ras Ishi, Christopher Cozier, Nick Whittle, Alison Greaves, Roger Lipsey, Ken Corsbie, Dominique Brebion, Stan Kuiperi, Marianne de Tolentino, Dennis Tourbin, Petrona Morrison, Gayle Hermick, Geoffrey MacLean, Elizabeth Barnum and Sharen Carmichael
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Featuring contributions by:
Annalee Davis, Nick Whittle, Christopher Cozier, Allison Thompson, Alison Greaves, Ras Akyem and Ras Ishi
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Featuring contributions by:
Annalee Davis, Roger Lipsey, Allison Thompson, Christopher Cozier, Ras Akyem, Ras Ishi and Ken Corsbie
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Featuring contributions by:
Annalee Davis, Alison Greaves, Christopher Cozier, Ras Akyem and Ras Ishi
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Featuring contributions by:
Annalee Davis, Dominique Brebion, Stan Kuiperi, Allison Thompson and Marianne de Tolentino
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Featuring contributions by:
Annalee Davis, Ken Corsbie, Dennis Tourbin, Petrona Morrison and Gayle Hermick
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Featuring contributions by:
Annalee Davis, Geoffrey MacLean, Elizabeth Barnum and Sharen Carmichael
*NB – RA Issue 6 was incorrectly labeled as Issue 7
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