Art Foundation Curacao
is a non-profit organization
Founded in 2014 to help raise awareness of the creativity and talent within the art community of Curacao. We make our best efforts to help promote the art community and to educate and encourage the public to develop their artistic talents in the widest sense.
Through the years we've developed a range of programs and activities that support artistic exchange, education, and community engagement.
These initiatives have taken place alongside and between festival editions, contributing to the foundation’s broader cultural presence. These programs are not currently active as the foundation reviews its structure and future direction. Opportunities and updates will be shared as they become available.
WE BELIEVE THAT
Curacao has all the ingredients to become an art destination,
which is a proven means to help boost the economy in a creative way.
Bringing artists from abroad brings at the same time exchange of new techniques for our local artists. Exporting paintings of Curacao, made in Curacao, promotes our island in a most creative and inexpensive way, as it is the foreign artists who take the paintings with them and sell them in their respective countries. Having more than 50 painters working together at the same time creates high and positive vibrations and a feeling of pride in the beauty of the island.
The youth of Curacao play an important part in our activities. Free art classes are given at schools, we give workshops for teens and free workshops for youngsters at JJIC (former GOG), which is the youth correctional institution. When beautiful art is being created, there is less room for getting into mischief.
Our organization is young but has already earned respect from similar foreign festivals and artists who attended in the past, as well as the local and international media.
The team is professional and tireless, very result oriented and creative, with the capacity to make big things happen for art in Curacao. We are looking for less expensive ways to communicate this to the general public and our local and international partners/clients, so that more persons, especially the youth, can benefit from the organized art projects and activities.
Top to bottom, left to right: Giovanni Abath, Hortence Brouwn, Isabel Berenos, Joanne den Dulk, Ilienne Nahr, Hilma Koelman, Enny Tan, Diana Minguel, Katy Branum.
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