About the Team
Oneika Russell
Petrina Dacres
Petrina Dacres is the Head of Art History at The Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Art. Her teaching and research centers on Caribbean and African Diaspora Art, Public sculpture and memorials, and memory studies. She has also worked as a curator, most recently on the exhibition, ‘Uprising’ at the National Museum Jamaica in 2016. And, was recently the inaugural Stuart Hall fellow at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center. Petrina has been working with the initiative as an independent curator on two projects currently in process and is active in our other digital curated projects. Petrina has worked as curator on our exhibition projects and as creative consultant on Season 3 of our Art Docs. She has also produced and hosted some of our digital art events
Danielle Russell
Danielle Russell is a local filmmaker who has participated in both The British Council’s script development workshop and the JAMPRO/JAFTA PROPELLA script to screen development film project. Both projects have seen the short film she developed through the programme be screened at The Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival. She has also acted as art director and producer on other local films. She studied Communication at CARIMAC at The University of the West Indies in Kingston and Film and television at The Communication University of China in Beijing. She has also taught ‘Storytelling’ and ‘Scriptwriting’ in the University of Technology, Jamaica’s Animation BSc. programme. Danielle has worked as videographer and production consultant for our Art Docs series of videos on our YouTube channel. She has also produced and hosted some of our digital art events
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