On Monday, October 16, the National Gallery of Art (NGA) Castellani House along with the Faculty of Education and Humanities of the University of Guyana hosted the opening of “Musings, Guyanese Folktales, and Figures of the Ramlila”, an art exhibition featuring works from the two prospective graduates of the university’s BA in Fine Art Programme, current students, recent alumni, and two lecturers of the Division of Creative Arts (DCA). The exhibition features approximately 40 works, mostly paintings, and a substantial room transformation.
Musings follows the DCA’s last exhibition, “The Seven Orishas and the Scarlet Thread”, which was also mounted at the NGA, in late 2022. Then the two young artists of the recently graduated Class of 2022 showed their work alone, with their final-year project taking prominence. Thus, while the closures precipitated by Covid affected art training negatively, the DCA was able to meet the challenges with sufficient success to be able to host back-to-back art exhibitions of students’ work.
