After a difficult year for the arts and culture community and the creative economy, the Cayman National Cultural Foundation (CNCF), organiser of Cayfest 2021, is looking forward to once again highlighting the cultural diversity and artistic talent that flourishes in Cayman.
Dr Stephanie Fullerton-Cooper is an Associate Professor of English at the University College of the Cayman Islands. She has a passion for promoting Caribbean, and Cayman, literature, and Caymanian Times has provided this space for her to do so on a fortnightly basis.
Her Majesty’s Cayman Islands Prison Service (HMCIPS) work with inmates to tackle all facets of rehabilitation using different approaches designed to address the many challenges which contribute to their offending behaviour.
An exhibition called Consumed that is a thought-provoking and fascinating explosion of colourful artwork is currently running at the National Gallery, created by Marc Laurenson, who runs the Stoak’d design company.
Arts entities in the Cayman Islands have been hit hard by lockdown and the subsequent closing of Cayman’s borders.
A brilliant showcase of two years of hard work, Yonier Powery’s ‘Innovate’ exhibition is currently being held at a pop-up Awardart gallery site where the Mac store used to be, opposite Books and Books, and it is well worth a viewing.
A new art exhibition is opening on Friday 31st July that will give viewers the welcome chance to refocus on something other than the coronavirus for a while.
Art Under Lockdown is an online exhibition intended to spotlight the creativity of artists and members of the public who have turned to making art as a means of expression during the current COVID-19 pandemic.
Artists and musicians are free spirits, and they don’t like restrictions, such as those brought by the COVID-19 rules. Painters of landscapes and seascapes, or photographers who like to catch the hustle of town scenes, are naturally going to feel restricted.
The opening night of a new art show at The Ritz-Carlton Art Gallery was well attended last week, a collaboration of 61 local artists featuring around 300 pieces including paintings, photographs, sculpture, mixed-media artwork and more, all celebrated under the collective theme of ‘Whimsical Cayman’.
