ARC Magazine Launch NYC

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To view photographs from our event please click above and stroll through our

celebration and welcome of ARC to NYC. Thank you for the support, encouragement

and get the word on ARC out there.

Blessings.

Holly

ARC Magazine Launch NYC

Two Vincentians – Holly Bynoe, a visual artist and Nadia Huggins, a

digital photographer – launch the inaugural issue of ARC Magazine, a collection

of works by contemporary artists practicing in the Caribbean and its diaspora.

Featured artists from Suriname, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, Barbados,

St. Lucia, Dominica, Haiti and Jamaica, represent a variety of media, including

photography, film and video, painting, graphic illustration, mixed media,

performance and poetry.

Join the founders and a selection of our featured artists and contributors at

the launch/signing, which will be hosted at the ICP Museum Lobby and

Bookstore. ARC Issue 1 will be on sale so bring along you special pens

to collect our various scrawls.

Special reading by Ishion Hutchinson from his new collection "Far District". Limited

Edition Photographic prints will be available to the first 20 patrons, all sales and

proceeds will go to securing printing for 2011. Refreshments and DJ to accompany

the celebration. Invite your friends.

ARC Magazine is a quarterly, independent visual arts magazine dedicated to

showcasing Caribbean Art and Culture. It is made possible by the subscription

and support of its readers.

For more information visit: http://www.arcthemagazine.com/

Up, out and beyond with ARC

Cover of the first issue of ARC; image courtesy the publishers

Creative work can’t thrive in isolation. Every artist, writer, musician, performer, or filmmaker needs contact with creative peers, a creative tradition, and an attentive audience, but also access to a critical space, a forum for sharing and discussing ideas. To put it more simply, an artist needs not only working time and the tools of her craft, but venues in which her work can be encountered, documented, and evaluated: galleries and museums, catalogues and magazines. For Caribbean visual artists, the latter are in short supply. In the Anglophone Caribbean particularly, visual art publications produced to international standards are rare.

ARC is a bold and brave intervention into this circumstance. Published by two young artists from St Vincent and the Grenadines, ARC defines itself as “a Caribbean art and culture magazine dedicated to highlighting emerging and established artists.” Holly Bynoe, ARC’s editor in chief, and Nadia Huggins, the magazine’s creative director, both work in the medium of photography.ARC is an ambitious extension of their creative practice, and a decisive engagement with the work of their contemporaries in the Caribbean and its diasporas.

The magazine’s website went live this week, and the first quarterly print edition of ARC will be launched later this month (find out how you can get a copy here). It features work by the Jamaican photographer Radcliffe Roye, the British filmmaker (with St Lucian roots) Isaac Julien, and the young Barbadian Sheena Rose, among other artists. Via email, Bynoe and Huggins answered a few questions about the project’s inspiration and intent.

for the rest of the interview please visit: http://caribbeanreviewofbooks.com/2011/01/20/up-out-and-beyond/

Inside ARC

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ARC Magazine Launches

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Shots of ARC on press.

we will be soft launching on the 17th of January.

Nadia and I are in the process of organizing three

launches for ARC in NYC, St. Lucia & St. Vincent

here are some shots of ARC and ODDI

xx

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Wrestling with the Image

Four of my collages will be previewed in Wrestling with the Image from the

January 21st to March 10 2011 at the Museum of the Americas.

The Art Museum of the Americas (AMA) announces the opening of Wrestling

with the Image: Caribbean Interventions, an exhibition of contemporary art

from twelve Caribbean countries. Featuring work by artists from the Bahamas,

Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis,

Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, and Trinidad and

Tobago, the exhibition is curated by artist and curator Christopher Cozier

and art historian Tatiana Flores.

Wrestling with the Image: Caribbean Interventions presents works in a variety

of media, including photography, video, painting, graphic arts, sculpture, and

installation. The scope of the objects demonstrates how the region’s

contemporary artists are confronting stereotypes about the Caribbean without

denying their own surroundings or rejecting the worlds in which they operate.

Through investigations on history, tourism, globalization, popular culture, and

gender, these artists urge us to reconsider our own expectations on how a

Caribbean image should look.

Wrestling with the Image: Caribbean Interventions includes work by John Cox,

Blue Curry, Kishan Munroe, Heino Schmid, (The Bahamas); Ewan Atkinson,

Joscelyn Gardner, Sheena Rose, Tonya Wiles (Barbados); Santiago Cal (Belize);

Pauline Marcelle (Dominica); Roshini Kempadoo, Hew Locke (Guyana);

Maksaens Denis, Jean‐Ulrick Désert, Barbara Prézeau‐Stephenson (Haiti);

Charles Campbell, Keisha Costello, Marlon James, Ebony Patterson, Oneika

Russell, Phillip Thomas (Jamaica); Terry Boddie (Saint Kitts and Nevis);

Nadia Huggins, (Saint Lucia); Holly Bynoe, (Saint Vincent and the

Grenadindes);Sri Irodikromo, Patricia Kaersenhout, Marcel Pinas, Dhiradj

Ramsamoedj,(Suriname); Nicole Awai, La Vaughn Belle, Marlon Griffith,

Jaime Lee Loy,Richard Fung, Abigail Hadeed, Nikolai Noel, Rodell Warner,

and Natalie Wood (Trinidad and Tobago).

Wrestling with the Image: Caribbean Interventions forms part of the About

Change emerging artists’ program, an initiative of the World Bank in partnership

with the Inter‐American Development Bank, the OAS, and the Caribbean

Community (CARICOM) Secretariat. About Change is a series of juried

exhibitions of contemporary art from Latin America and the Caribbean that

will take place throughout 2011 and 2012 at different venues in Washington,

D.C., including the World Bank, the Art Museum of the Americas, and the

galleries of the Inter‐American Development Bank. It has been organized

by the World Bank Art Program under the auspices of the World Bank Vice

\Presidency for Latin America and the Caribbean Region.