Description

Amanda Coulson, Founding Director of TERN Gallery and former Executive Director of the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas leads this free webinar on how to ‘make the connection’ as an arts professional. Amanda will discuss gallery relations, collector relations, price correlations and the importance of a broad exposure at art fairs.

This webinar will be hosted on Zoom. To register, email assistantcurator@nationalgallery.org.ky.

About Amanda:

Amanda Coulson has worked for three decades as a scholar, critic, curator and cultural producer on both sides of the Atlantic, having collaborated with artists and institutions, private and corporate colleagues, in the US, Europe, and various sites in the Caribbean. As an art critic and curator, she noted a lack of platforms for galleries representing emerging art and, in 2005, co-founded the VOLTA art fairs, which takes place annually in New York and Basel. In 2011, she returned to her home in The Bahamas to take up the position of Executive Director at the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas (NAGB), where her focus was on increasing international awareness of the contemporary Caribbean art scene and on expanding the capacity and reach of the NAGB through a rigorous combination of capital works, collaborative projects and the building of strong inter-island and international networks. She served on the Davidoff Art Initiative (now the Caribbean Art Initiative) Board from 2012-2018, and served on the Board of the Museums Association of the Caribbean (MAC) until she stepped down for the NAGB, after a decade at the helm. She is the founding partner at TERN, a new Nassau-based gallery operated by three Caribbean women whose aim is to support Bahamian and Caribbean artists in telling their own stories on the global stage.