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We are pleased to announce that Issue 5 of the Open Arts Journal has recently been developed for\u00a0publication as a book<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Caribbean, with its transnational diaspora stretching to all the shores of the Atlantic and beyond, is one of the liveliest cultural landscapes in the world today. It is also one of the most troubled. A major new anthology of material edited by Leon Wainwright (OU) and Kitty Zijlmans (Leiden), published this year by Manchester University Press, presents the contemporary perspectives on the challenges facing Caribbean communities and shows how the arts can play a crucial role in improving sustainability through a shared ground of experience, enjoyment and understanding.<\/p>\n The book promotes the view that visual art in particular has an important contribution to make in enhancing the Caribbean\u2019s networks and re\ufb02ecting on the nature of its connections. It addresses a topic that spans the scholarly, artistic, curatorial and professional \ufb01elds of art and heritage, exploring constructive comparisons between key linguistic regions \u2013 namely the Anglophone and the Dutch \u2013 and identifying new parallels and contrasts in global-local relations, capital, patronage, morality, sustainability and the bene\ufb01ts of knowledge exchange. Ultimately, it makes the case for social justice in the arts within a complex and little-studied global geography.<\/p>\n Sustainable Art Communities<\/em>\u00a0is a landmark collaboration between artists, policymakers, arts organisers, art historians and critics, drawing from such diverse settings as Jamaica, the Bahamas, Barbados, Suriname, Cura\u00e7ao, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Germany and the United States.<\/p>\n This exciting anthology is the outcome of a recent international\u00a0project\u00a0that explored how the understanding and formation of sustainable communities for the English and Dutch-speaking Caribbean and their diasporas may be supported by art practice, curating and museums \u2014 in a partnership between the OU and Leiden University, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). You can read\u00a0more about this project here<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We are pleased to announce that Issue 5 of the Open Arts Journal has recently been developed for\u00a0publication as a book. The Caribbean, with its transnational diaspora stretching to all the shores of the Atlantic and beyond, is one … Continue reading