Category: Jamaica

  • Jamaican-born Charles Campbell wins Canadian top prize

    Jamaican-born Charles Campbell wins Canadian top prize

    Charles Campbell, a visual artist who was born in Jamaica, is the winner of the 2022 Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation for the Visual Arts VIVA Award, which brings with it a $15,000 grant. Campbell is a painter, sculptor, and performance artist based in Fernwood who has been working in…

  • MAVIS IONA PUSEY

    MAVIS IONA PUSEY

    African-American artist Mavis Iona Pusey was born in Kingston, Jamaica on September 17, 1928, and grew up in the small rural village of Retreat. Her aunt taught her to sew and by the age of nine, Mavis was designing and making her own clothes. Throughout her youth what she wanted…