PopopStudios: Summer Exhibition - "Scrimmage 08"

Popop Studios
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Courtesy of SMITH + BENJAMIN's
Bahamian Art / Culture / Community Mailing Service
"uplifting the creative spirit of our community"

Popop Artist Talk: Natalia Vasquez - Wed. May 28

Popop Studios : Center for the Visual Arts
invites you to attend an

art conversation

with Popop's Artist-in-Residence

Natalia Vasquez

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 @ 7pm
Popop Studios : Center for the Visual Arts
26 Dunmore Avenue, Chippingham
tel: 242.322.7834
www.popopstudios.com

Popop Studios: Anya Metcalf Talk - Wed. May 14

Popop Studios presents an

O P E N S T U D I O

featuring artist

Anya Antonovych Metcalf

Wednesday, May 14, 7-10pm
Popop Studios
26 Dunmore Avenue
Chippingham
Nassau
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Bahamian Art / Culture / Community Mailing Service
"uplifting the creative spirit of our community"

PopopStudios: Jason Bennett - Fri. May 9

PopopStudios: Centre for the Visual Arts
presents

knots.
featuring new artwork by
Jason Ayer Bennett

Opening Reception: Friday, May 9th, 2008
PopopStudios: Centre for the Visual Arts
Dunmore Avenue, Chippingham
6.30 to 10pm

Show Dates: May 2nd - June 5th, 2008
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Bahamian Art / Culture / Community Mailing Service
"uplifting the creative spirit of our community"

Parotti Sisters Exhibition - Fri. Apr. 11th

Courtesy of SMITH + BENJAMIN's
Bahamian Art / Culture / Community Mailing Service
"uplifting the creative spirit of our community"

PopopStudios Opening/Max Taylor Exhibition

Courtesy of SMITH + BENJAMIN's
Bahamian Art / Culture / Community Mailing Service
"uplifting the creative spirit of our community"

Kim Riedel Jewellery Open Studio

K I M R I E D E L
Design Studios
cordially invites you to a

VALENTINE'S OPEN STUDIO

Wednesday, Feb. 13th, 2008
From 3pm to 7pm

Private Studio at Popopstudios Center for the Visual Arts,
Dunmore Avenue and Howard Street, Chippingham


Courtesy of SMITH + BENJAMIN's
Bahamian Art / Culture / Community Mailing Service
"uplifting the creative spirit of our community"

COB presents "Then 'til Now" Group Exhibition

The College of The Bahamas
Invites you to the Opening of a Group Exhibition:
The 200th Commemoration of the Abolition of the British Trans-Atlantic
Slave Trade

THEN 'til NOW
Friday, February 15, 2008 • 6-9pm
Popopstudios Centre for the Visual Arts & Gallery
Chippingham • www.popopstudios.com

Courtesy of SMITH + BENJAMIN's
Bahamian Art / Culture / Community Mailing Service
"uplifting the creative spirit of our community"

Film Festival Fundraiser - Thu. Nov 8

The Bahamas International Film Festival
in conjunction with
Popopstudios Centre for the Visual Arts
invites you to

The Big Screen Art Scene
Thursday, Nov. 8th at 7pm
Popopstudios in Chippingham

An interactive art event hosted by the Bahamas International Film Festival.
For more info, call tel: 356-5939 or sponsor@bintlfilmfest.com.


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SMITH + BENJAMIN
Art + Culture + Community Mailing Service
"uplifting the creative spirit of our community"

Bahamas International Film Festival - Big Screen Art Scene

By STAFF WRITER, For The Guardian


In partnership with the local art community, the Bahamas International Film Festival (BIFF) will stage the first annual Big Screen Art Scene - an interactive art event with a twist.

BIFF Founder and Executive Director, Leslie Vanderpool, announced that the event will take place November 1, 2007 at 7 p.m. in the newly opened gallery at Popopstudios on Dunmore Avenue.

"We're really excited to officially align BIFF with another community of artists," says Vanderpool. "It's important that all artists, whether they are filmmakers, painters, musicians or sculptors gather and collaborate under The Bahamas' cultural umbrella."

At the Big Screen Art Scene, holders of collector's tickets will choose from 51 pieces of local art as their number is drawn until no more tickets — and no more art pieces — remain. Only 51 collector's tickets will be sold at a cost of $250. Non-collectors who wish to attend the function can purchase an Aficionado's ticket for $25. Tickets will be available starting Friday, October 19 at the BIFF office, Fourth Terrace at Collins Avenue, Building #10, 2nd Floor. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Brent Malone Artist-in-Residency Fund managed by the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas (NAGB).

Popopstudios is an independent art studio and gallery which serves to advance Bahamian visual culture. The space itself is a multi-functional venue - working studios, artist's residences, art gallery, learning center and meeting place.

"We exist to harbor both seasoned and developing artists interested in new media and mixed media processes, while projecting these efforts to a national and international audience," says John Cox. "We're excited to partner with BIFF and to host this event in our new gallery space."

Guests at the Big Screen Art Scene will be invited to try their hand at sketching live models and enjoy other interactive art-themed activities. Several short films will be playing throughout the night. Drinks and finger foods will be served. The Big Screen Art Scene takes place Thursday, November 1, 2007.

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Bahamian Art Goes Beyond Tourist Trade

By ELISA TURNER The Miami Herald

elisaturn@aol.com

Sweeping sand.

Slaying dragons.

Savoring color.

It's all in a day's work to make art in the Bahamas.

These jobs come to fruition in the art for WORK! at Diaspora Vibe Gallery, organized with Popopstudios in Nassau. It's a challenging show of art made with sand, color and even a dragon -- but this beast is more verbal than vicious. It appears as a word on a painting by John Cox, who founded Popopstudios eight years ago in Nassau.

It makes sense that art from the islands comes to Diaspora Vibe in Miami's Design District. ''I've been exposed to so many Caribbean artists by coming here,'' Cox said at the opening party on Aug. 9. ``I've met artists here from St. Martin, Trinidad and Cuba. Miami is definitely a hub for the Caribbean.''

''It's a smaller version of the world,'' said Heimo Schmid, another artist in the show. ''The Bahamas is extremely diverse. . . . We have Germans, Americans, Canadians, Jamaicans, Haitians, people from Europe and Asia.'' Cox named Popopstudios for the grandfather he never knew, a furniture maker who died before Cox was born. For a time Cox, who studied at the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design, made furniture in his no-nonsense building.

About 2 ½ years ago, Cox, Schmid, and the others in WORK! got together in the place and started talking about how they might broaden their audience. Artists Blue Curry, Toby Lunn, Jason Bennett and Michael Edwards have been friends for years with Cox and Schmid. Their resumes show they've had sophisticated art education and exhibits far beyond their island home. All but one of the artists came home to make art in Nassau full-time.

Back in the Bahamas, they ran into the same barriers.

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POPOP "Work!" Discussion

The POPOP artists are back from the successful opening of their group show at the Diaspora Vibe Gallery in Miami and will
be having a discussion of the work currently on exhibition there on Wed August 22, 7pm at Popop Studios.

Please click on image invite and pass it on to anyone who might be interested. Hope to see you there.