A visual journey of Caribbean art profiling more than 60 Contemporary Caribbean artists, curated by award winning multidisciplinary artist and textile surface designer, Malene Barnett.
Smith, an interdisciplinary artist of Trinidadian and Haitian ancestry whose fluid stream of consciousness is expressed through objects, performance, music, and moving image..
Croix who draws from archival sources to interrogate colonial legacies
Sonya Clark, a textile artist and educator of Jamaican, Trinidadian, and Bajan heritage who works with hair and other meaningful materials to explore issues of power, race, and gender; and Nyugen E.
Meet Anina Major, a Bahamian visual artist whose work attempts to reclaim the significance of straw basketry through her ceramics
Basil Watson, a Jamaican figurative artist and sculptor famous for his stunning bronze figures that are exhibited outdoors all over the world
Renee Cox, a Jamaican photographer whose work celebrates Black womanhood
La Vaughn Belle, a multidisciplinary artist from St.
Included are Makers working across all mediums.
Curated by Malene Barnett, an award-winning multidisciplinary artist and textile surface designer of Jamaican and Vincentian descent, Crafted Kinship is the first book in which Caribbean Makers share the intimate stories of their art-making process and how their countries of origin influence and inform how and what they create.
An art that is more often than not multidisciplinary, created by Makers who eschew traditional labels by reshaping the boundaries around art and design.
Their art explores and reflects deeply on themes like African origins, ancestors, Black womanhood/Black manhood, identity, joy, memory, and the complicated and painful history of migration and diaspora.
Each maker crafts a kinship with the land, the people, the culture of their country of origin.
Through powerful interviews with more than 60 artists and designers of Caribbean heritage, accompanied by gorgeous photographs, Crafted Kinship takes readers on a unique journey through the world of Black Caribbean creativity.
A visual journey of Caribbean art profiling more than 60 Contemporary Caribbean artists, curated by award winning multidisciplinary artist and textile surface designer, Malene Barnett
