SPECIAL EDITION OF SATURDAY ART-TIME TO BE HELD ON MAY 27

Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow – 8 Years to Freedom (2017), performance on February 26

Di-Andre Caprice Davis – put_togeher.gifS (1) (2017) (detail)

Rex Dixon – September Song (2016)

Alica Brown – Exchange (2016)

Shoshanna Weinberger – Invisible Visibility: 30 Day Portraits, Month of September (2016), ink/collage on paper

Alexander Cooper – Port Royal Tower, 1961

On Saturday, May 27, 2017 as a part of closing activities for the Jamaica Biennial 2017 exhibition at the National Gallery of Jamaica, the Saturday Art-Time child art programme will be a conducting a special one-day edition of the well subscribed workshop series entitled Collage-A-Thon, to be held from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm.

The workshop will feature a series of activities focused on teaching children how to create artworks utilizing various collage techniques, while referencing contemporary works of art on display in the Jamaica Biennial exhibition. Parents and guardians are invited to take young participants aged 8 to 15 years old to be a part of the workshops as well as to view the biennial exhibition.

The workshop will be free of cost. Space is limited, so interested persons should register as early as they can by calling the National Gallery of Jamaica’s Education Department at 922-1561. Registration for the workshop will remain open until 10:45 am on Saturday, May 27.