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Rockstone and Bootheel:
Contemporary West Indian Art
Curated by Kristina Newman-Scott and Yona Backer
Saturday, November 14, 2009 - Sunday, march 14, 2010
"Rockstone & Bootheel is a brilliant mélange of sights, sounds and stories, through which the colorful culture of the West Indies springs alive."
- Benjamin Genocchio, New York Times
Public Art Project - Free Library
Karyn Olivier, as part of Rockstone & Bootheel: Contemporary West Indian Art, created a Free Library in ACA Foods Grocery Store in Hartford. Books from the Caribbean were strategically placed among the shelves of the grocery store. Come check it out.
ACA Foods Store
3155 Main Street, Hartford, CT 06120
Rockstone and Bootheel features work from emerging and established artists in the West Indies and the diaspora.
"Rockstone and Bootheel?"
This exhibition's name, which comes from a Jamaican dub-metal song ("Rockstone and Bootheel" by Ginny), is a colloquial phrase that means "taking a journey." Rockstone and Bootheel is, in fact, an exhibition composed of many journeys, sometimes conflicting, all influenced by the social, political, and economic conditions of life in the West Indies and the diaspora. "West Indies" refers to a group of islands in the Caribbean formerly under British control.
Curators Kristina Newman-Scott and Yona Backer have selected some of the most challenging work by new artists from the Anglophone Caribbean and diaspora for this unconventional exhibition. Discarding more formal, traditional ways of presenting group exhibitions, Rockstone and Bootheel is evocative of a high-energy “mash-up.”
Rockstone & Bootheel
multimedia e-magazine:
• Get Issue #1
• Get Issue #2
• Get Issue #3
• Get Issue #4
• Download in PDF format (10MB)
• Get Adobe Acrobat Reader
Download a Sound System audio sample by Christopher Cozier.
West Indian Film Series
Real Art Ways showed a series of West Indian films to coincide with Rockstone and Bootheel. A full schedule of films, which will include post-film Q & As and discussions, can be found here.
| The exhibition's 39 participating artists are: | |
Akuzuru |
Christina Leslie |
Rockstone and Bootheel is made possible by generous support from:
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- Real Art Ways members
- The Reed Foundation, Inc.
- The J. Walton Bissell Foundation
- The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
- The Greater Hartford Arts Council's United Arts Campaign
- Travelers
- The Hartford Foundation for Public Giving
- Sandy and Howard Fromson
- Robinson and Nancy Grover
- The Wallace Foundation
- Lincoln Financial Group
- Gary E. West