Check out this new video by Sheba Sahlemariam – singer, songwriter and producer – who made her video debut last night on TVJ with “Love this Lifetime”, featuring Bounty Killer and directed by Jay Will.

We know that the picture is not altogether rosy in Jamaica and hasn’t been for some time now…but surely all is not lost as this article seems to suggest especially when compared to many other countries. After all, unemployment in some US cities is close to 20%…. Read more at

RISE Life Management Services is offering cards for sale this Christmas. The packages of six cards are available for both companies and individuals and use images that were photographed from a beautiful mural painted by a group of inner city children involved in RISE’s remedial education and creative arts project. See YardEdge interview with Sonita

The Grosvenor Galleries Christmas Art and Craft Fair is on December 4th and 5th from 10a.m. to 6 p.m. There is no admission charge. The fair features a wide array of jewelery, pottery, orchids, woodcraft, art, photography, henna tattoos, aromatherapy products, handmade soaps, ceramics, candles, mosaics, driftwood furniture, ceramics, stained glass, hand painted glassware, calabash

Jamaican artist Berette Macaulay is part of the Annual International Group Show which opened on November 22 in Numberg, Germany – the Wintersalon 2009 – being held at Nord Galerie Haus. On Berette’s recent trip to Germany, curator Margit Mohr offered her the opportunity to show selected works from the

Susan Alexander’s work can almost be viewed as a documentation of her extended sojourn in Jamaica. Whether she paints in oil, pastel or charcoal, or renders her figures in poliform or bronze, her work has persistently been inspired by themes close to her heart – Jamaican culture, our people, our

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What is your definition of beauty? See what the women at the Shakti Love Fest had to say… Fore more on the Shakti Love Fest

The National Gallery of  Jamaica has recently launched a blog which they describe as a “blog about the National Gallery of Jamaica and Jamaican art”. The blog is reasonably well done and worth checking out. National Gallery of Jamaica Blog