Caribbean Culture Fund CR10PP 3-nation visual art exhibition, 2025

Reparations Now! Caribbean visual art collaboration Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago will be collaborating on the visual art project “Reparations Now!”, funded by the new Caribbean Culture Fund (CCF). The CCF, launched earlier this year, aims to promote social and cultural justice and foster intercultural dialogue and mutual understanding, by providing financial resources and programs to support individual and collaborative projects led by artists and cultural organizations based in the region.

The “Reparations Now!” project will result in a simultaneous visual art exhibition in the three Caribbean countries, and is themed around the CARICOM 10-Point Plan for reparative justice. This project is led by Andrea King of Culture&Arts for Love&Living (CALL) from Barbados in partnership with Junnel Lewis of Lewis Art Collection from Trinidad and Tobago and Katrina Coombs of Blaqmango Consultants from Jamaica.

“We are delighted to be among the inaugural winners of this important new grant in the Caribbean. The grant affords multiple arts organisations and creative practitioners the opportunity to execute transformational projects, and generate employment along the value chain of arts production,” declared King, expressing her gratitude that the funders saw the social and cultural justice intent of the visual arts project.

Lewis, a visual artist already known in Trinidad for her particular style of work, expresses, “I feel great, a sense of honour winning the grant. I hope we achieve a regional exchange of knowledge and experience, through this initiative of visual arts, especially being part of CARICOM, and understanding the importance of the CARICOM 10 Point Plan, and its impact,” she shared.

Coombs of Blaqmango Consultants, underscores the importance of the theme of the project:

Blaqmango Consultants is elated to be a part of the initiative being spearheaded by Culture&Arts for Love& Living (CALL), and congratulate CALL on this bold step to draw attention to this very important topic of Reparation. We hope that this partnership will provide a strong platform for diversity and collaboration through the islands and the visual arts,” Coombs said.

Participation in the visual art exhibition is by open call which was launched this week. Click here to apply. The deadline for submission of applications is November 30th, 2024.

For more information interested people can email crj10pp@gmail.com. The exhibitions in the nation states will be mounted in February 2025.

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