Belisario @ the NG

Opening Event March 2, 11 a.m.



Organized by the Yale Center for British Art, the ground-breaking exhibition Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and His Worlds (September 27–and December 30th, 2007) was curated by Gillian Forrester, Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings, Yale Center for British Art; Tim Barringer, Paul Mellon Professor of the History of Art, Yale University; and Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz, Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University. The exhibition examined the visual culture of slavery and emancipation in Jamaica . The exhibition was organized to commemorate the bicentenary of the abolition of the British slave trade and featured some 234 works of art and objects drawn from Yale’s own collections and from Museum and private collections in Britain , France and Jamaica . Generous support for this project was provided by The Reed Foundation.

On March 2nd The National Gallery of Jamaica will be opening an abridged and amended version of the exhibition utilising the Jamaican loans to the original exhibition and additional loans from various Jamaican collections. A total of approximately 150 objects including paintings, sculptures, furniture, rare books and documents, costumes and musical instruments will be presented. The title of this exhibition is Isaac Mendes Belisario: Art and Emancipation in Jamaica .