Arts & Culture

Ateliers ’89, the Aruban foundation and center for art and cultural education, is hosting a 2-month exposition of the works produced by their most recent classes in Raku pottery and Video, titled “Capturing Modern Hieroglyphs.”

The Raku course was taught by guest instructor Ellen Spijkstra, originally from Holland but a resident of Curacao since 1980, and the video course featured Erla Haraldsdóttir and Craniv Boyd, from Berlin, Germany as instructors, who also work extensively in Erla’s nation of birth, Iceland. Craniv is a Liberian/American born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y.

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For the next two months, the Westin Art Gallery is the proud host of an exhibition by Aruban artist Danilo Geerman titled “Transmutation.” Danilo Geerman is an accomplished local artist with seven successful solo shows to his credit and several group exhibitions in Aruba and Holland. The newest collection opened to the public in the Palm Beach resort on Thursday evening, July 21, with an appreciative analysis by noted artist and teacher, Nigel Matthew. He pointed out how appropriate is the name of this present exhibit as it reflects extensive personal evolution on the part of the artist since he first began showing his work in 1986.

This is Danilo’s first solo show since “Between Heaven & Earth” in 2008 at the Toyota Gallery. He continues to explore a surrealistic style which captured his creativity a few years ago and revealed with a solo show titled “Tree of Life” at Access Art Gallery in 2007.

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It is a rare and remarkable occasion in the life of any Jewish person anywhere in the world to participate in a Siyyum Sefer Torah, the occasion of welcoming a new, kosher Torah into the synagogue. Members of the congregation of Temple Beth Israel of Aruba were so blessed on Monday evening, January 24.

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The history and culture of Aruba is fascinating; the island’s natural beauty reaches beyond glittering world-renowned beaches and brillliant sunsets. For the past ten years, American Home Assurance Company has been celebrating Aruba’s rich heritage and natural resources in a very special calendar based on popular Aruban themes.

In the past, these have included ‘Money of Aruba’, ‘50 years of Carnival in Aruba’, ‘Flora y Fauna di Aruba’ and ‘Nos Pais’. For the years 2009 and 2010, the theme was ‘Imagine Aruba’. On popular demand, American Home has decided to repeat this theme for 2011 in a tribute to Aruba’s extraordinary birdlife.

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