As We Knew Him: Exhibition

Tuesday 27th March 2012  10:00 AM

?As We Knew Him?
A Junkanoo Tribute to
Jackson Burnside
One Family Warriors Boxing Day, December 2011

Current Exhibition



February 3 ? April 28, 2012

In December 2011, the One Family Junkanoo Group and Community Organization produced a theme so touching, so artistic, so creative, that the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas felt the need to open its doors and suitably honour the men and women who made it happen. The theme was ?As We Knew Him, A Tribute to Jackson Burnside III,? one of the master artists of The Bahamas, who passed away suddenly and unexpectedly in May of 2011.

A key figure of the Bahamian art scene, he was someone who was invested in so much of Bahamian cultural life, from The National Art Gallery itself to the One Family Warriors group, of which he was a co-founder. Like the Gallery, Jackson believed that creativity leads to positivity and to a full, well-rounded human being, who would be an asset to society....


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