Fellowship Type: Research Fellowship

During her fellowship, Rianna Jade Parker is conducting archival and collection-based research on a group of self-taught Jamaican 20th-century artists known as “The Intuitives”.

During her CCI Research Fellowship, Emilie Boone will continue developing her book project titled Haiti Chooses You: Notes on a Caribbean History of Photography. Each chapter of the manuscript proceeds chronologically along the arc of photography’s history to elucidate Haiti’s relationship to the medium, demonstrating how the history of photography in Haiti is inherently global.

Petrina Dacres’s current book project After-History?: The Heroic Image in Contemporary Caribbean Art analyzes the various ways that Caribbean artists have utilized, critiqued, and redefined the conventions of heroic representation since the 1990s. Within the context of the CCI Fellowship, Dacres plans to complete the introduction to her book while also exploring selected works by artists represented in PAMM’s collection.

Highlighting the cardinal presence of women artists within the Cuban and Caribbean modernism periods, Abel González Fernández’s research project Architecture of “enclosed spaces” attempts to expand the narrative of Cuban modernism art history, not only by reconstructing the modernist ideology that framed the creation of modern objects, but also exploring how women artists situated within it developed their voice and perspective.

Jessica Taylor, a curator and researcher from Barbados currently based in London, engaged in a close study of a selection of works in PAMM’s collection by artists from the Hispanic and English-speaking Caribbean to explore the significance of travel, movement, and cross-border exchange for creative practitioners from the region, and consider the relationship between production and travel in the formation of collections of Caribbean art today.

During the fellowship, Julián Sánchez-González expanded his research on art and spiritualities in the Caribbean by engaging with artworks from PAMM’s collection.