Let's keep fingers crossed for Joy Gregory this month. She has been shortlisted in the prestigous Mary Seacole Statue Memorial competition that will pay tribute to the 19th century Jamaican heroine.
Petrine Archer.com welcomes two artists as new supporters; Ebony G.
After much deliberation, I have created a page on Facebook to support my course Caribbean Dialogs 09. What took me so long?
It's been quite a summer, after completing my distance course at the end of June I moved straight to teaching a Caribbean Dialogs course on Cornell's campus to Telluride TASP students.

Ebony G. Patterson was in Kingston last week for the opening of her exhibition Gangstas, Disciplez + the Doiley Boyz at the CAGe.

I have just completed my first week of teaching for my Caribbean Dialogs course and I am excited. After numerous month of preparation and a trip to Trindad (see we seem to off to a good start. I have seven seniors who are working from various points in the USA.
II've been concerned about virtual worlds, ever since I saw my first presentation about Second Life where black people were represented as ‘cool’ but also bank robbers. Apparently, the stereotypes prevalent in this world seem to have been carried over to a virtual one.

Art and Emancipation: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his Worlds returned to Jamaica after a successful showing at the Yale Center for British Art in the USA. An abridged, retitled and amended version of the show opened at the National Gallery of Jamaica this week.

We’ve just returned from carnival in Trinidad. It was intense. The first days away were spent visiting pan yards and restaurants before the Port of Spain gave itself over completely to street food and carnival competitions. In the end, time ran out and Monday morning’s masquerade called jouvert found us bleary eyed but enthralled by its night devils, and the muddy throng who came out to play.

Diaspora Dialogs welcomes Laura Facey as an artist member to this site. Laura is a Jamaican based artist renowned for her exquisite installations and powerful sculptures. Her most famous commission is the controversial Redemption Song that has sparked a furious public debate about how the black Diaspora remembers and commemorates past pains and triumphs.