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Jacqueline Bishop is a writer, visual artist and scholar born in Jamaica who now lives in the United States, where she is a professor in the school of Liberal Studies at New York University.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionThe Importance of Place1. Wendy Nanan Talks about the Importance of Place in Her Works2. Annalee Davis Uses Art to Unearth and Interrogate3. For Deborah Anzinger, Ecology Is of Utmost Importance4. Puerto Rico’s Lionel Cruet’s Artworks Are Focused on the Intimate Relationship with the Environment5. The In-between Places of Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow’s Visual Art Practice6. Robin Farquharson, Unplugged The Process of Art-Making7. Garfield Morgan Discusses an Intuitive Approach to Art-Making8. Jasmine Thomas-Girvan Utilizes the Subject of Loss to Right the Wrongs of the Past and the Present9. Alicia Brown Revisits and Revises Colonial Narratives within the Languages of Portraiture and Painting10. Living Gratefully: An Interview with Earl McKenzie11. Katrina Coombs Discusses Her Fetish for Creating Fine-Art Fiber Works12. Olivia McGilchrist Explores Caribbean Futures in Virtual Reality NarrativesWomen and Visual Culture13. Using Objects to Convey Meaning and Break Silences: An Interview with Material Culture Expert Steeve Buckridge14. Master Jamaican Mat-Maker Sane Mae Dunkley Wove Together the Story of the Jamaican People15. Women and Art: An Interview with O’Neil Lawrence16. Jamaica’s Rich Bio-Diversity Is Painter Amy Laskin’s Muse17. Oneika Russell Engages the Tropical Body and Caribbean Identity18. For Amanda Coulson, Women Artists in Particular Should Remain VigilantChallenging Boundaries19. Jaime Lee Loy Walks the Fine Line between the Familiar and the Unfamiliar20. Sheena Rose Seeks to Challenge People (and Boundaries) with Her Work21. Exploring the Art of Female Sexual Desires22. Llanor Alleyne’s Female Figures Grounded in Nature as an Assertion and Reclamation of Inner Selves23. La Vaughn Belle’s Contemporary Art Practice of Speaking in Layers24. Artist Kereina Chang Fatt Uses Her Work to Address Relationships, Community, and ConnectednessDefying Easy Categorization25. Krista Thompson Brings a Critical Eye to What Is Confined to the Footnotes of Art History26. For Art Historian Edward J. Sullivan, the Caribbean (and Caribbean Artists, like Puerto Rico’s Francisco Oller) Defy Easy Categorization27. Queen Victoria Give We Free: Tackling Victorian Jamaica in the Visual Arts28. Pre-Raphaelite Sisters Exhibition Features Jamaican: An Interview with Jan Marsh29. Art Historian and Curator Allison Thompson Believes That Art Is a Forum to Envision What IsPossible30. Where Others See Fragmentation, Tatiana Flores Sees Continuity in Caribbean ArtAppendixAbout the Author

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