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A piece of art is never a finished work. It answers a question, which has been asked, and asks a new question, says American sculptor Robert Engman. As an artist, the creative thought process is never-ending, exploring beyond the unfathomed, exploring off the beaten path and accentuating the society they live in. Exhibiting their creative acumen, the final year bachelor of fine arts and diploma programme students of the School of the Visual Arts, Edna Manley College, focused the spotlight on the contemporary Jamaican society. For 33 young artists, some thought-provoking conversations have been etched, queries painted and issues highlighted - from female sexuality and equality, to exploring ethnography or the app-mad world. The overcast May skies of Kingston and the occasional downpour were not going to be a damper, instead, the rains soaked and enhanced the creative essence of the exhibits. A walk through the exhibits was a journey, unveiling characters, colours and genr...

Albert Einstein once said, "Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere" - in the case of these set of creative minds, they took the flight of imagination from recycling cans into carnival finery. The recently concluded Red Bull Art of Can/Art of Carnival competition oozed creative juices, which centred on creating costumes using Red Bull cans as the primary material. Jodi Taylor wears Nicolette Answer's carnival costume Nicolette Answer and Traci Wong, students of Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, Kingston, recalled that their mission was to get as many cans as possible. "I used to stay back at the school parties and collect Red Bull cans," said Answer. "I started to cut up (the cans) and experimented with how I would put them together as a costume." Answer themed her costume around Red Bull's tagline - 'Red Bull gives you wings' - incorporated art and engineering by creating ...

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who, with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun, said Pablo Picasso, world-renowned Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer. A group of students from the School of Visual Arts (SVA) Textile Department, at Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts (EMC), set out to transform their spots into the sun - ­ dispelling the colours of the rainbow. These creative minds were at work to create couture for the annual alternative fashion show at the EMC. “Alternative fashion show was created to push the creative boundaries of the students,” informed Robert Hall, lecturer at the Textile Department, SVA.  “It has now become a major fund-raising occasion for School of Visual Arts Textile Department and the mission is to create designs using non-traditional materials such as plastic, aluminum cans, stones, etc.” These stude...