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Caribbean

Situated largely on the Caribbean Plate, the region comprises more than 700 islands, islets, reefs and cays.

August 2023
Sign Up for Writivity 2023 The National Gallery of Jamaica will once again be hosting its educational workshop Writivity: How to Look at Artwork. The workshop will run from Monday August 14 to Wednesday August 16, 2023 at 9:30am -2:30pm. The Writivity programme was developed in 2015 to assist Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) Visual Arts students with the research […]
Happy Emancipation Day Happy Emancipation Day from the Board of Directors, management and staff of the National Gallery of Jamaica. Today we commemorate the abolishment of slavery following the reading of the Emancipation Proclamation in King’s Square, Spanish Town on August 1, 1834.
July 2023
NGJ Hosts Successful IRPC Auction On Saturday July 1, 2023 the National Gallery of Jamaica successfully hosted its third auction for the International Reggae Poster Contest (IRPC) in support of The Alpha Institute. The auction consisted of the top one hundred posters that were featured in the 29th Art of Reggae Exhibition. Also auctioned were nine posters from Maria Papaefstathiou’s […]