Nine Mornings Museum opens Wednesday

A new offering will be injected into the National Nine Mornings festivities with the mounting of an art exhibition and educational project entitled Nine Mornings Museum in Kingstown from December 14-23.

The free public exhibition will be set up by second generation Vincentian, Akili Tommasino and his wife Dr. Amanda Herrera Tommasino under the auspices of the emerging non-profit organization Pana Projects.

It will be held at the C.A.G. complex directly opposite the General Post Office in Kingstown, a release on behalf of the organisers state.

Pana Projects was Founded in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico in 2020 by the husband and wife team. It is an arts and education initiative focused on strengthening Caribbean unity by fostering community among artists, young scholars, and lifetime learners across languages and cultures within the Caribbean.

As a curator of modern and contemporary art proud to be of Vincentian heritage, Akili is eager to deliver a unique and edifying experience of contemporary art to
Vincentians.

The Nine Mornings Museum will have three components:

1) Eye & Eye, an exhibition of photographs by St. Vincent-based photographer Nadia Huggins

(b. 1984) and paintings by Brooklyn-based Vincentian artist, Samuel Thom (b. 1954) featuring common and disparate landscapes, textures, colours and points of view.

2) A banner reproducing internationally renowned Vincentian-American artist Fred Wilson’s (b.

1954) Untitled (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines), 2009, which recasts the graphic elements of the Vincentian flag as an abstract geometric painting open to a multitude of meanings.

3) Free daily programmes for the duration of the project including public conversations with the artists, lectures, art making workshops, and a concert with local instrumentalists, Organic Natural Energy.