{"id":11011,"date":"2011-08-11T10:12:34","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T14:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=11011"},"modified":"2011-08-11T10:12:34","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T14:12:34","slug":"grand-bahama-artists-launch-art-nucleus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/08\/grand-bahama-artists-launch-art-nucleus","title":{"rendered":"Grand Bahama Artists Launch &#8216;Art Nucleus&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Art Nucleus is situated in L&#8217;Utiopia, Les Fountains, E. Sunrise Highway Grand Bahamas, The Bahamas. We are a collective of fine artists; painters, sculptors, poets, writers, filmmakers, play writers, conceptual artists, photographers, who are committed to encouraging and supporting each other in our art process and work. We offer a place in the community to foster art and artists through space, equipment, mentoring, exhibitions, events, workshops, and talks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jacki Boss and Susan Moir Mackay are professional artists living in Grand Bahama who have a common understanding that artists thrive when supported by each other and communities thrive when art is entrenched in the fabric of its society.<\/p>\n<p>Joined by photographer and writer Omar Smith, filmmaker Patrick Forbes and aspiring artist Tamee Ferguson, together they have started a &#8216;collective of artists&#8217; who are committed to encourage and support each other.<\/p>\n<p>Their dream to offer a place in the community to nurture art and artists through space, equipment, mentoring, exhibitions, events, workshops and talks resulted in the creation of the concept &#8220;ART NUCLEUS:&#8221; An idea that needed a home and in March 2011, with a beautiful synchronicity a space was found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few Grand Bahama artists have opened a new communal space &#8211; a &#8216;collective of artists&#8217; committed to encouraging and supporting each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[26,133,104],"class_list":["post-11011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-arts","tag-community","tag-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}