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Fresh Milk makes a donation to the Fine Arts Division of Barbados Community College

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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.

New Books in the CLRR!

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We are pleased to announce that the full suite of books donated to the Colleen Lewis Reading Room by Jessica Bensley, Clyde Cave, Winston Edghill and Leslie Taylor have all arrived.

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Included in the delicious suite are the following:

Caribbean Political Thought: (i) Theories of the Post-Colonial State and (ii) the Colonial State to Caribbean Internationalisms and, (iii) Caribbean Cultural Thought: From Plantation to Diaspora – edited by Aaron Kamugisha and Yanique Hume – both lecturers in Cultural Studies at the University of the West Indies.

Global Studies: Mapping Contemporary Art and Culture edited by Hans Belting, Jacob Birken, Andrea Buddensieg and Peter Wiebel. This is the third volume in a series that is part of the “GAM – Global Art and the Museum” project, providing an overview of the institutional and ideological landscape of contemporary art and culture in a global context.

The Image of the Black in Western Art – The Twentieth Century: The Impact of Africa. V Part 1, edited by David Bindman and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. looks at the history of the representation of people of African descent.

The CLRR is open by appointment on Tuesday and Thursday. Please contact us at freshmilkbarbados@gmail.com to set up a time to visit the CLRR.

Thank you to the donors.