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	Kingston, Jamaica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Other attractions include the nearby Hellshire and Lime Cay beaches, the National Gallery of Jamaica, the ruins of Port Royal, and Devon House, a mansion with adjoining park that once belonged to Jamaica's first black millionaire.
		Kingston (population 600,000) is the capital of Jamaica.
		Despite the fact that the majority of the population are Blacks, Kingston, Jamaica has a large number of non-Blacks.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kingston,_Jamaica (495 words)

	Encyclopedia: Jamaica (disambiguation)
		Jamaica, the Nation is a country in the Caribbean Sea, located south of Cuba and to the west of Hispaniola, on which Haiti and the Dominican Republic are situated.
		Jamaica, Queens, a town in Queens County and presently a neighborhood in the borough of Queens in New York City.
		Jamaica, the Nation, a nation in the Caribbean Sea.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Jamaica-(disambiguation) (456 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner - The National Gallery A year of fine performance - Saturday January 1, 2005
		THE NATIONAL Gallery of Jamaica entered its 30th year of operations in 2004.
		The National Gallery in 2004 continued its endeavours in the schools outreach programmes with round-the-year schools' tours, lectures and research support by the education desk.
		The final exhibition for 2004 was the National Biennial the last in a long tradition of national art exhibitions, which have, since the 1938 All Island Exhibition presented an opportunity for the national scrutiny of the island's art movement and output.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20050101/ent/ent2.html (1184 words)

	National Gallery of Jamaica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The National Gallery of Jamaica, in Kingston, Jamaica, is Jamaica's prime and most important art collection, housed at a part of Kingston called Kingston Mall.
		The gallery houses several important artworks, mostly by artists from Jamaica, and among them particularly Edna Manley (mother of former Prime Minister Michael Manley), whose most important work, The Ghetto Mother, decorates the lobby of the Gallery.
		Another feature is a statue of Bob Marley by Christopher Gonzalez.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Gallery_of_Jamaica (108 words)

	American Visions: Songs of Jamaica: sung in the present and future tenses - Travel
		Particularly prominent are works by Edna Manley, the wife of one of Jamaica's national heroes (Norman Manley) and the mother of one of its prime ministers (Michael Manley).
		Jamaica gave America the brightest literary star in the Harlem Renaissance galaxy, who was also that congregation's most protean political radical: Claude McKay, two of whose volumes of poetry employing the island's patois, Songs of Jamaica and Constab Ballads, were already published before McKay set foot in the United States in 1912.
		Today, in Jamaica, all that remains of Marcus Garvey's childhood home in St. Ann's Bay is the house's foundation.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1546/is_n4_v13/ai_21068803 (1190 words)

	Bradbury Gallery Exhibition
		A color catalog includes essays by David Boxer, Ph.D., Director of the National Gallery of Jamaica, and Veerley Poupeye, a respected art historian of Jamaican and Caribbean art.
		Jamaica has been independent only since 1962, and its development as a nation in the modern world has often been turbulent and painful.
		ExhibitsUSA is a national division of Mid-America Arts Alliance, a private, non-profit organization founded in 1972 and assisted by the NEA, its six partner state art agencies, and private contributors.
	asunews.astate.edu /sooncome.htm (501 words)

	National Gallery wants to attract more ordinary folk - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM
		The National Gallery, now in its 30th year of operation, has been situated downtown Kingston since 1982.
		Yesterday, guests attending the opening of the gallery's Jamaica Biennial 2004 were told that in the coming months the gallery will host weekend activities for adults and school visits.
		The Observer was unable to determine the annual revenue earned by the National Gallery or how much its managers expected would accrue from the new measures.
	www.jamaicaobserver.com /news/html/20041213T000000-0500_71308_OBS_NATIONAL_GALLERY_WANTS_TO_ATTRACT_MORE_ORDINARY_FOLK.asp (444 words)

	National Gallery celebrates - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM
		The National Gallery of Jamaica commemorated its 30th anniversary on November 16th with a banquet at the Jamaica Pegasus.
		Matalon's generosity in personally funding many of the Gallery's activities was climaxed by his own outstanding gifts of over 200 works to the Gallery in 1999.
		Dinner was a sumptuous fare of smoked marlin a la crème (filled with blue cheese and special Pegasus dressing), cream of pumpkin soup, supreme of chicken du mer, fillet of snapper parametier, pomme alphonso, julienne of parrots & french cut beans, chocolate and orange mousse with a lemon strawberry sauce, coffee/tea.
	www.jamaicaobserver.com /lifestyle/html/20041126T020000-0500_70293_OBS_NATIONAL__GALLERY_CELEBRATES.asp (465 words)

	David Boxer
		He is director emeritus and chief curator of the National Gallery of Jamaica.
		He was named Commander of the Order of Distinction by the Governor of Jamaica, and has received awards including a Gold Medal at the 1992 Biennial of Painting of Central America and the Caribbean, and both the Centenary Medal and Gold Musgrave Medal from the Institute of Jamaica.
		His recent work, using photocopies and videos with images from Jamaican television, is meant to be "virtually disposable and cost effective,” part of Boxer's self-described revolt against commercialism in Jamaican art.
	www.museum.oas.org /permanent/new_expressions/bios/boxer.html (227 words)

	JAMAICA - A premier caribbean travel destination featuring the resort areas of Montego Bay, Negril, Ocho Rios, Kingston, Port Antonio and South Coast.
		Although the Institute of Jamaica has maintained a collection of Jamaican art since the late nineteenth century, it was not until 1974 that the National Gallery was founded as a division of the Institute of Jamaica.
		The main functions of the Gallery are to acquire and preserve Jamaican and Caribbean art, to mount and exhibit local and international works and to research and record the history and progression of Jamaican art.
		The entrance to the Gallery itself is located on Ocean Boulevard, and once inside, visitors are welcomed by an eight-foot bronze representation of Jamaican reggae singer Bob Marley emerging out of an elongated tree trunk, representative of the artiste’s growth from a seedling who never separates from his roots.
	www.visitjamaica.com /home/home_feature.aspx?guid=b8072dc3-4cfa-4ff7-8de2-8ee4e32dbf36 (687 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner - National Gallery hosts Colombian art show - Sunday October 20, 2002
		'Casco' (Quimbaya culture) will be part of the Colombian travelling exhibition, 'Gold of the Gods', opening this week at the National Gallery of Jamaica.
		The exhibition is being presented by the gallery, in association with the Colombian Embassy, under the Bi-national Neighbourhood Commission between Colombia and Jamaica.
		The summer language exchange, for example, facilitates the visit of 40 Jamaican students from the University of the West Indies (UWI) to Colombia for a six-week intensive language programme.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20021020/arts/arts2.html (384 words)

	Jamaican Culture
		Jamaica's popular music has achieved world fame through the emergence of reggae, a music form that emerged from traditional indigenous Jamaican music with African and Black American roots.
		The Jamaica Folk Singers led by Dr. Olive Lewin, who has researched, recorded and documented Jamaican folk music, is the most accomplished group which specializes in performing folk music.
		Jamaica's folk music is said to have its origin in West Africa.
	jamaicaway.com /culture (569 words)

	Graham Davis - Biography - continued
		He was invited to exhibit annually with the National Gallery of Jamaica, a privilege accorded few foreign artists.
		And into the nineties, there began a slew of international showings at Jamaican embassies and consulates in London, New York and Toronto as well as gallery showings in Los Angeles, Washington and Chicago.
		Ironically, it was in 1980, Jamaica's most turbulent year politically, that Graham decided to make the island his permanent home.
	www.davispaintings.com /bio4.html (372 words)

	AWAC Biographies
		He is represented in the National Collection at the National Gallery of Jamaica and The Cecil Baugh Gallery, in a special collection.
		Her vision was to ensure that AARLCC was a regional, state, national and international facility that showcased the contributions of Africans throughout the diaspora.
		Journalistic experience and environmental consciousness enable her to influence the perspectives of national opinion-makers and leaders within the black community.
	www.fyicomminc.com /awac2.htm (2350 words)

	Postdoc
		Regarding program development, she is serving on a committee headed by Louise Lincoln, Director of the DePaul Art Gallery to bring an exhibit from the National Art Gallery of Jamaica, "Soon Come: The Art of Contemporary Jamaica" to campus in the Spring of 2001.
		She was interviewed about her research and teaching for an upcoming issue of the national Latino journal, Dialogo.
		During her seven months at the Center for Culture and History of Black Diaspora, Dr. Fannie T. Rushing has presented a lecture, "A Tale of Two Cities: "Race" and National Identity in Havana, Cuba and Chicago, Illinois," based on an article for publication.
	condor.depaul.edu /~diaspora/postdoc.htm (343 words)

	program
		Cultural Emergency Response is facilitating the reopening of the National Gallery of Jamaica in Kingston that suffered considerable water damage in the wake of Hurricane Ivan.
		On the night of 10-11 September 2004, Jamaica was struck by Hurricane Ivan.The National Gallery, the only museum of art on the island, situated in the Kingston Waterfront district, suffered extensive water damage.
		The repairs are being carried out by the National Gallery and local companies.The National Gallery hopes that CER’s support will also make Jamaicans more aware of the cultural and social value of the Gallery.
	www.princeclausfund.nl /source_eng/news/2005/2005_cer_eng.html (684 words)

	Jamaican Culture and the Well-Grounded Memory
		David Boxer, director emeritus/chief curator, National Gallery of Jamaica.
		The Jamaica Artists Alliance is a non-profit group under the Jamaica Nationals Development Foundation's Cultural Committee, chaired by Mrs.
		The Jamaica Artists Alliance is a nonprofit organization dedicated to championing the interests of the Jamaican visual arts community in the Caribbean and in the Diaspora.
	www.baruch.cuny.edu /mishkin/jamaican/alliance.html (176 words)

	art
		Also please contact and visit the National Gallery of Jamaica.
		The late Everald Brown, one of Jamaica's most brilliant intuitive artists, fills his canvas with foliage and the hidden imagery of God as pictured above in one of the many paintings in the Great Huts collection.
		Jamaica inspires the artist in all of us.
	www.greathuts.com /art.htm (168 words)

	Truly Jamaica - Art
		The gallery displays Jamaican works from the 1920s to the present, including a good collection of Edna Manley's sculptures.
		Every December it hosts a national exhibition of contemporary art.
		Landscape, social concerns and abstractions are also popular themes reflecting a fusion of African, Chinese, Indian, European and Middle Eastern origins in Jamaica's population
	www.geocities.com /negado_2000/trulyjamaica/tj_art.html (163 words)

	ABOUT THE INSTITUTE OF JAMAICA
		There are six Divisions of the Institute of Jamaica: The Natural History Division (formerly the Science Museum established 1891); The National Gallery of Jamaica (established as a portrait Gallery in 1892);
		The National Library of Jamaica, formerly the West India Reference Library (WIRL), was established in 1979 as a Division of the Institute.
		In 1978, the Institute of Jamaica Act of 1879 was repealed and its scope of activities expanded.
	www.instituteofjamaica.org.jm /about_the_institute.htm (318 words)

	Redemption Songs: The Self-Taught Artists of Jamaica
		Several of the artists in this exhibition were also included in the groundbreaking 1979 exhibition at the National Gallery of Jamaica.
		All exhibitions at the gallery are free and open to the public.
		The stories and images of the artists presented here, mainly from the collection of Wayne and Myrene Cox, are part of an oral tradition and frequently an extension of that tradition.
	www.baruch.cuny.edu /mishkin/redemption (403 words)

	Hearne Fine Art Artists - Basil Watson Bio
		Born in Kingston, Jamaica, as a teenager in his early years of high school there was no denying his artistic talent and ability, nor could he ignore the growing affinity to the creative process.
		It was therefore a natural progression for him to pursue the four-year art program at the Jamaica School of Art (now the Edna Manley college of the Visual and Performing Arts).
		He has done commissioned works for the Government of Jamaica as well as for parks, hotels, companies and private individuals.
	www.hearnefineart.com /hfa/bio_basilwatson.html (469 words)

	Discount Vacations
		Stops also include the National Gallery of Jamaica, Hope Botanical Gardens and the Kingston Crafts Market.
		Three-hour tours of Kingston are available through most hotels and feature scenic drives past the prime minister's and governor general's houses and continue through the University of the West Indies.
		Jamaica boasts 11 golf courses and is host to many tournaments throughout the year.
	ww1.discountvacations.com /dv_DestinationToDo^destination=MBJ (457 words)

	Public Relations Office, The University of West Indies, Mona
		The National Gallery of Jamaica wishes to advise the UWI Community that effective Tuesday, June 3, 2003, its entrance fees have been increased as follows: adults $100.00, tertiary students $50.00 and children in uniform $10.00.
		The National Gallery is also inviting staff and students of the UWI to become members of the Gallery.
		Membership guarantees free entry and official invitations to all exhibitions held at the Gallery.
	www.mona.uwi.edu /proffice/uwinotebook2.asp?autonumber=136&offset=30 (129 words)

	foster-pr.htm
		It is the first time the Gallery has purchased a contemporary Bermudian work from the Biennial and was chosen on the recommendation of the show’s international jurors: Dr. David Boxer, Director Emeritus and Chief Curator of the Jamaica National Gallery; and Dr. Virginia Mecklenburg, Senior Curator for the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
		David Mitchell, the National Gallery’s Curator commented: “21st Century Fetish Family, which was the centrepiece of our recent Bacardi Limited Biennial, is a major piece by one of Bermuda's contemporary masters.
		Opened in 1992, the Bermuda National Gallery is both the home of Bermuda’s national art collection and the centre of the Island’s thriving arts scene.
	www.bermudanationalgallery.com /foster-pr.htm (1351 words)

	Jamaica National Heritage Trust News
		Some of these are on display in Kingston in the foyer of the Institute of Jamaica and in the National Gallery of Jamaica.
		In 1524 the renowned humanist and Councillor of the Indies, Don Pedro Mártir de Anglería was appointed as the fourth Abbot of Jamaica, and although he never traveled to the island, he sent funds for the construction of a stone church.
		Some 80 settlers founded their primary settlement and first capital of Jamaica on the shores of St. Ann’s Bay in 1509 and named Sevilla la Nueva – New Seville.
	www.jnht.com /currnews/rensculptor.htm (660 words)

	Caribbean Beat: Current Issue - THE ART OF BEING DIFFERENT
		Opening at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1998, the exhibition went on tour to the National Gallery of Jamaica and, a year later, the National Gallery of Barbados.
		Building a permanent gallery to house its work, and that of Autograph, the Black Photographers’ Association — both organisations chaired by Stuart Hall — is meant to address this problem.
		Young Bangladeshi women said that this was the first time they had been in an art gallery and had seen work that talked to their experience.
	www.meppublishers.com /online/caribbean-beat/current_issue/article.php?id=cb73-1-70 (2328 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner - The Jamaica National Gallery - Wednesday October 25, 2000
		I decided I had to go to the Jamaica National Gallery to see her work and the work of other Jamaican artists who have played such an important part in Jamaica's renaissance.
		Bit by bit, each day I read through a large book on their coffee table: Edna Manley, Sculptor, by David Boxer from the National Gallery.
		That is part of why people come to countries like Jamaica, to experience the unique culture.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20001025/letters/letters3.html (293 words)

	Afiwi.Com - Your Caribbean Online
		Although her work has been exhibited at the National Gallery of Jamaica and the Mutual Life Gallery in Kingston, this is the first time that Mrs.
		Pinto was born in Kingston, Jamaica and is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design.
		Artwell also received the Bronze Musgrave Medal from the Institute of Jamaica earlier this year.
	www.afiwi.com /news2.asp?id=2564 (317 words)

	Jamaican & Cuban Painters Biographies
		His name is renowned in Jamaica's national JCDC Festival of Art Competition, where he has been presented with three Certificates of Merit, two in 1996 and the other in 1998.
		Her work is also at Coyaba Resort, Mobay Hope, the Gallery of West Indian Art and Décor Gallery in Montego Bay, in Harmony Hall and Wassi Art, Ocho Rios, and at WB Framing in Kingston.
		Paintings of vibrant colours and the lush scenery of the rolling hills and forest vegetation, are a direct result of her frequent travels to Jamaica, over the last thirty years.
	www.galleryofwestindianart.com /jamaicanbiographies.htm (4512 words)

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