An art exhibition that was planned for 2020 but due to the corona pandemic has been moved to this year. Which suits all for the best. The art organisation Open Stal has a 50 years anniversary this year! Both Avantia Damberg and Ailsa Anastatia were invited to exhibit their work.

Avantia went to Leeuwarden, where she was born, to do an artist-in-residence at Lies Keramiek. The collection she makes here is about the April killings from 1942 where Chinese stokers were killed during a strike in the kamps of Suffisant, Curacao.. Avantia illustrates the entire story on Chinese porcelain vases. This story is unknown as it has been silenced by the Dutch authorities at that time. But history is history and Damberg tells the story fitting the Friesland tradition of delft blue ceramics and of the theme of Open Stal: Imagine: Peace, Torlerance and Freedom.

She got granted by the Mondriaan Fonds to do the artist-in-residency.

Visit the exhibition from July 17 to August 15 and you can meet the artist on the festive opening on Saturday July 17th fromn 13.00 to 18.00. The address how to get there is all on the website of Open Stal: www.openstal.nl

Oosterwoldseweg 3, Oldeberkoop. For tickets (3 euro pp) Please go to the website to find the navigation.

Dear Friends of The Curaçao Museum and Art lovers!,

Coming Saturday November 25th I have the opening! Café Wandu owner recenlty purchased one of my tiles and asked if I could do an expo at his coffee shop. I made a new series of collages on tiles.

Poet Myrurgia Mutueel made poems on each work and will recite a few of them. Also the journalist Jeroen Jansen will open the evening with a speech, only the way he can.

So please come toast this opening with me with a glass of fine wine.

Unitl then!

the foundation Blue Bay Sculpture Garden has asked me and 5 more artists to make sculptures for the new Sculpture Park in Blue Bay.

I was asked to make another Map of Curacao. Each Map is different, adapting to the environment. This time I make a 2.5x5.5meter sculpture from natural rocks and sticking all the names that are stamped on little coral stones to the Map. A heck of a job. Thankfully I got assistence from Arnold Bakker and Rina Rojer. Arnold helped making the stone shape of Curacao and Rina helped stamping all those names (800) letter by letter. But this work is not finished yet. We hope to finish by the end of this month .

In the month of October I did several workshops with children who in this matter made self portrait art works for the new Children's Museum restrooms. Artist Arnold Bakker assisted me and enjoyed working with children very much. We got asked afterwards to make a fence, also with imput from kids we gathered from their after-school. The fence became a playful and happy fence, interactive and you can sit and relax in it. We hope children will enjoy it, we surely enjoyed making it. The opening of the Children's Museum Curacao is December 2, 2017. Exciting!

Faye is the dolphin therapist who approached me and Jean Girigori to do an art project with abused or traumatized children. I wrote the part of the art plan and Faye wrote the therapeutic part of the project.The kids had an amazing weekend. We collected trash at a nature park where the kids got to enjoy the beauty of their island, but also the sad side of the pollution of plastics caused by overconsumerism. And that all that plastic could be turned into art works they enjoyed immensely. The next day (read more)

Curator, art historian and museum manager Josée Thissen-Rojer wrote a very well written article in the business magazine Coaching. She nails it, I think.

Few artist live from the start only from their art, but this is certainly the goal. Many of us freelance or have side jobs. I freelance designing logo's and websites at Wèpsait Awor Awor! meaning Website Right Now! https://wepsaitaworawor.wordpress.com/. I just want everyone to have a nice website and a cool logo, to see local entrepreneurship come to the next level. When I was making this website for myself, I discovered how passioned I am to do this, I couldn't rest until the website was done. So I thought: okay, if I am zealous like this about websites, let's also earn with it. And so it began. I also give workshops to adults, schools, children, community centers etc.

Although I don't have much positive to say or make about the large sore in my eye in the middle of this beautiful island, I was asked to participate in this exhibition anyway. So I did. It is an ode and mockery at the same time about the Shell and current oil refinery displayed in 9 tiles called 'Life Stages'.

Life style magazine La Vida came to my studio and we had a very pleasant afternoon talking about many things. Discoverng how much ideas we have in common. Later the article came out online with beautifully taken pictures.

I've always dreamt of wandering the earth. Traveling while creating art. being a nomad artist. This is my first serious attempt in doing so. I started from Curaçao to Italy, Europe. Then Croatia, Slovakia and Ukraine, Kiev followed.

I flew to the United States where I am visiting 5 different states, if it all works out. And After the US I go to Africa, visiting South Africa and Kenya. Then I return to the Netherlands to take a flight fro Amsterdam back to Curaçao. I am all visiting friends, as I have friends all over the globe. My idea is to exhibit, give art talks, do assignments and more, while traveling from place to place.

I keep a blog on Facebook and people also follow me on Instagram. And now I have Patreon. Patreon is for patrons to support creators like me. You can support me and this journey and get my art back in return. But honestly, you give way more then you think.

We are a group of concerned citizens of Curaçao. We experience that Curaçao has too much pollution (air, water, litter, car wrecks etc.) and we would like to draw the attention to the fact that we should live in a cleaner environment, for our own and our children’s wellbeing. We would like to do this in an alternative way by organizing an art (sales) exhibition.

This month of July I'm at my neighboring island Aruba! Here I'm doing the Map of Aruba and hence research into the last names of Aruban families. I also give a lecture about typography to imagery in my own work and teach a daily workshop on typography and installational art with texts. It will be closed off with an exhibition showing the Map of Aruba, and the installational art that came out of the workshop.

We did it! The art work 'Map of Curaçao' the permanent version, will be unveilied coming Friday the 27th of May at 7.30pm.

For an organization called Korpodeko, they sustain durable projects in Curaçao, a traveling exhibition will be held for their 30 years anniversary.

This studio is gone, but we have more spaces. The costs are Naf.100 guilders (50 euros). If you are interested please notify me!

My mom gave me her old stamp collection when I was a kid. This was a beginning of my love for stamps, graphic design and far away countries.

New new new! Uniarte is an art platform that started in Amsterdam in 2010. The founder, Sharelly Emanuelson, returned to Curaçao end last year and now started Uniarte right here in Punda in the amazing buidling Casa Moderna.

For this year's women's day I am asked to make the award for the woman who will be Curaçao's woman of the year 2016. I have the idea to use different materials as in different virtues and strenghts women have.