Shamika Germain – fresh milk barbados

In 2024, Fresh Milk in partnership with the National Cultural Foundation, Barbados initiated the first iteration of TENDER: A Caribbean Arts Re-Granting Programme. The quality and variety of submissions was astounding, indicating an exciting future for the visual arts ecosystem emerging across all linguistic areas of the Caribbean.

We are excited to share the profiles and reflections from the twenty one successful TENDER 2024 grantees. These come in the form of written interviews, audio recordings or video logs – all available to view in full on our website.

Today we continue with the next three profiles in this interview series: Versia Harris, Shamika Germain and Waitukubuli Artist Association!

Read Versia’s Full Interview here!

Read Shamika’s Full Interview here!

Read WAA’s Full Interview here!

Thank you for your continued support of Fresh Milk!

Fresh Milk is pleased to share our 2023 highlights newsletter, including our work with amazing partners locally, regionally and internationally, while celebrating grants that have us bursting with gratitude and happiness!

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In Barbados, we collaborated with the Future Centre Trust on our project for the Healing Arts Initiative (a programme by UK-based organisation Culturunners), while regionally we worked on an offshoot of the Caribbean Linked residency programme with Ateliers ‘89 Punto di Beyas Arte Aruba, the BIAC-Réseaux and Campus Caraïbeen des Arts (CCA) in Martinique, and participated in the inaugural FUZE Art Expo in the Bahamas. Internationally, our relationships with Rotterdam- and Amsterdam-based partners have grown deeper through the Tilting Axis Fellowship.

We’re also beyond delighted to celebrate with all of you the most amazing news of Fresh Milk having been successfully awarded a grant for 2024-2026 by the US-based Mellon Foundation’s Arts and Culture programme in support of our operating and programming expenses.

Mellon believes that “Art and artists are essential to human connection,” and we couldn’t agree more. We go into action this year to work on elevating the local contemporary visual art community in exciting ways, continuing to support the region’s creative network, while also looking for new partners to come on board. Stay tuned for more information as we focus on the local and Caribbean contemporary visual art community with some exciting plans for the next three years!

Read the full newsletter here

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If you would like to support the work we do in Caribbean arts, go ahead and click on the donate button below! It’s very easy to support us and the artists we work with by making a donation through this PayPal link. Your contributions make our programmes possible, and gifts of any size are welcome.

Thank you for your continued support, and we’d like to express gratitude to the many artists who we have had the honour of working with across the Caribbean as we continue to find ways of celebrating and nurturing creativity.

We look forward to continuing our creative journey together in 2024, and hope for peace and the cessation of war and conflict the world over.