The New Year is fast approaching as I type these words. As you read them, we are in it, as they say. 2025 is with us! We ran the quick-paced marathon of 2024 with, hopefully, good results and success.
Reflecting on my musings closing off 2023, 2024 has indeed been a better year for art in Guyana. Then I wrote, “I am hopeful that 2024 will be a year of growth and maturity for our community evidenced by well-functioning networks and formal associations, strong and harmonious collaborations, better art, and better exhibition-making.” While all I hoped for did not materialise – and there was no expectation of this in 365 days – I feel most did. 2024 was a year of growth evidenced by better art-making and improved exhibition-making, which made going to exhibitions more enjoyable. While one formidable formal association remained dormant (Guyana Women Artists’ Association) or may have silently gone the way of other less formal but regularly exhibiting groups of the past (Guyana United Artists), intensified networking bore successful collaborations.
