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9/27/2024
Tiana Webb Evans Featured in Cultured
In a recent Cultured magazine feature, curator and activist Kimberly Drew sits down with Tiana Webb Evans, founder of the Jamaica Art Society (JAS), to discuss the transformative impact of Jamaican art on the global stage. Webb Evans shares insights on creating spaces for underrepresented voices and fostering connections that honor Jamaican heritage through exhibitions, fellowships, and collaborative storytelling.
9/07/2023
09/06/2023
5/16/2023
9/13/2022
Jamaica Art Society Names 2022-23 Fellow to Expanded Program. Eight artists and curators tapped for the nine-month professional development initiative.
The Jamaica Art Society (JAS) is thrilled to announce its 2022–23 class of In Focus Fellows - an international group of eight emerging to mid-career artists, curators, and writers who will participate in the second edition of JAS’s nine-month mentorship program, which fosters professional development, leadership, and cultural exchange in addition to spreading awareness of Jamaica’s rich visual-art legacy around the globe.
6/29/2021
Jamaica Art Society Presents Video-Art at Photo Fairs, New York
NEW YORK—Jamaica Art Society (JAS) is thrilled to present “Memories Don’t Leave Like People Do,” an exhibition of video works by five artists—Simon Benjamin, Zachary Fabri, Ania Freer, Timothy Yanick Hunter, and Jamilah Sabur—who mine archives, oral histories, and their own lives to propose alternative modes of being in the world. Curated by JAS’s founder, Tiana Webb Evans, and supported by PhotoFairs, it opens on Thursday, September 7, 2023 at PhotoFairs, New York at Jacob Javits Center, and runs through Sunday, September 10, 2023.
Q&A With Tiana Webb Evans
Tiana Webb Evans has curated her personal collection so it tells a story about the artists in her community. The founder of Jamaica Art Society, a network dedicated to the preservation of Jamaican visual arts history, Webb Evans shares in the latest PHOTOFAIRS In Focus interview what works she can’t wait to see at PHOTOFAIRS New York, opening soon at the Javits Center (September 8-10, with an invitation only VIP Preview on September 7, 2023).
Jamaica Art Society Presents “Rupture: Interventions of Possibility”
Art at a Time Like This is pleased to present the culminating digital exhibition for the 2022 In Focus Fellows of the Jamaica Art Society. Launching on May 10, 2023, the exhibition can be found at www.artatatimelikethis.com. This is the second collaboration between the organizations, which also worked together on the 2021 In Focus Fellows exhibition.
Jamaica Art Society names six In Focus Fellows
The Jamaica Art Society is delighted to announce its inaugural class of In Focus Fellows—an
international cohort of emerging artists, curators, and writers who will participate in an unprecedented nine-month mentorship program aimed at promoting cultural exchange.
The six fellows—all of whom are Jamaican or of Jamaican descent—are artists Simon Benjamin, Camille Chedda, Jasmine Thomas Girvan, and Leasho Johnson, curator Jheanelle Brown, and writer and curator Rianna Jade Parker.
5/18/2021
The Jamaica Art Society (JAS) is honored to announce its cultural partners and guest jurors for the inaugural In Focus Fellowship!
The ten organizations supporting JAS in its core mission to support the next generation of Jamaican art leaders include the following: The Armory Show, ARTERNAL, Artnet News, Association of Art Museum Curators, Brooklyn Museum, David Zwirner Gallery, Hyperallergic, National Gallery of Jamaica in Kingston, and the New Museum along with the MOMA/CCL International Curatorial Institute, along with The Museum of Modern Art/Center for Curatorial Leadership International Curatorial Institute, which welcomed the National Gallery of Jamaica’s Chief Curator O’Neil Lawrence, selected by the JAS, into its 2021 class.
03/16/2021
The Jamaica Art Society is thrilled to announce its launch.
Founded by cultural producer, writer, and entrepreneur Tiana Webb Evans, JAS pursues a unique and essential mission: to promote Jamaican art history and contemporary practice by advancing the professional development of artists, curators, and critics of Jamaican descent.