Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts is pleased to announce the following upcoming events that will take place from February 23 – March 5 in at CMCA in St. Croix. Former Crucian resident, Kendal Henry from New York City will be making his second visit to St. Croix to follow up on a public artwork which was initiated a year ago. This project may focus on a theme of “Common Ground” and may reference the history and cultural use of the towns of Frederiksted and Christiansted. The project will be site specific and will be created during his ten-day residency. Artists and non-artists wishing to participate or just learn more about Public Art are invited to attend. It is Mr. Henry’s intention is to meet Virgin Islands artists and get to know their work. This Blog has been set up for this purpose.

Common Ground public art project and this residency is being sponsored by Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts, Virgin Islands Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Virgin Island Artists who wish to post to the blog should request an invitation from Kendal at Kendal11101@hotmail.com.

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Let The Ideas Flow Freely

I was pleasant surprised that people did the homework. And to top it off there wasn't a bad idea in the bunch. I will go into detail about the ideas in another post but for now I wanted to thank everyone for participating so far. Some of the common themes revolved around the shared history, identity - particularly when it comes to self identification and "invisible" people.

The Next meeting will be at 2PM, Monday at the Museum Center.



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  1. barbaraJanuary 18, 2010 at 4:15 AM

    Thanks Kendal for facilitating the discussion. It was fun listening and visualizing the ideas each of the artist presented. The creative juices were flowing. The process also taught me something about myself, about VI culture and our community. I also thought about the people that should be a part of the project and what their responses might be. I'm inspired. I'm also inspired to actually try to do an individual piece! HA!

    Keep up the good work everyone!

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 18, 2010 at 4:51 AM

    Thanks Kendal

    Lisa
    picture 4, chin in hand
    (holding my mouth closed, sorry for any outbursts ~ brain was storming)


    Big Band-Aid: to commemorate 40th Anniversary of Earth Day 1970 in which I participated by sticking big band-aids on Fifth Avenue.


    ALTHO one of my dreams is "Put it Back" it could be done with projectors. Supposedly there are actions to restore Durant Castle already underway.. When I came to the island in 1972, most of the old buildings did have "scenes" in the windows as you drove by. They were not ruins.

    back to the house work - homework done
    2010.1.18 g dell 8:49amAST

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  3. mike walshJanuary 18, 2010 at 9:43 AM

    I have mostly been interested in the process of how a project like this is developed and what different people bring to the discussion. So far it has not disappointed and anyone involved is beneifitting at least as much as I feel I am and so it is with regret that I will not be able to attend this afternoon's meeting.

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