{"id":20623,"date":"2012-04-17T10:32:22","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T14:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=20623"},"modified":"2012-04-17T10:32:22","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T14:32:22","slug":"public-treasury-art-program-nurturing-brotherhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/04\/public-treasury-art-program-nurturing-brotherhood","title":{"rendered":"Public Treasury Art Program Nurturing Brotherhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_20624\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20624\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a class=\"lightbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ptap-brotherhood.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20624\" title=\"ptap-brotherhood\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ptap-brotherhood.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ptap-brotherhood.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ptap-brotherhood-96x150.jpg 96w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ptap-brotherhood-161x250.jpg 161w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ptap-brotherhood-516x800.jpg 516w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20624\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PTAP Nurturing Brotherhood - click for larger view<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Last fall the Public Treasury Department celebrated the launch of its new art initiative, the Public Treasury Art Program (PTAP), which transformed the foyers of its building into gallery spaces to showcase original art by both professional and emerging artists.<\/p>\n<p>After its well received five-month inaugural exhibition \u2018Bahama Mama\u2019, an amalgamation of visual and literary works from twenty-five talented Bahamian female artists and writers, PTAP will be returning this May with an exciting new exhibition, \u2018Nurturing Brotherhood\u2019. PTAP aims to build upon its reputation for empowering aspiring artists by allowing art students to take center stage of the creative arts industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Nurturing Brotherhood\u2019 will not only exhibit work from some of the most talented men in The Bahamas, but also mark the beginning of a promising mentorship program. In an effort to unify the young male Bahamian community through the arts, PTAP has paired both professional artists and designers with high school students to produce a body of work that they will exhibit alongside each other.<\/p>\n<p>PTAP invites the general public to attend the opening of the exhibition on Friday, May 18th 2012 to support these young men and their journey that serves as creative building blocks for the future of our nation\u2019s young men.<\/p>\n<p>For updates on the exhibition and participating artists visit PTAP\u2019s blog, and facebook page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After its five-month inaugural exhibition \u2018Bahama Mama\u2019, the Public Treasury Art Program (PTAP) will be returning this May with an exciting new exhibition, \u2018Nurturing Brotherhood\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"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":[18],"tags":[26,133,104],"class_list":["post-20623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-arts","tag-community","tag-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20623","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}