Pride Art Show Opens the Dialogue at CMCArts
M.A. Dworkin St. Croix - Pride Month, which takes place throughout June 2026, and celebrates LGBTQ+ history, advocacy, and culture, was commemorated in the arts community with the recent opening, at CMCArts in Frederiksted, of the exhibition Conversations on Pride, co-curated by CMCArts and Sonia Nahar Deane of Cane Roots Art Gallery. This dynamic show speaks out to many of the hopes, dreams and fears that face the LGBTQ+ community as they forge their own world within
El’Roy Simmonds 53 Years A Master Artist’s Work
M.A. Dworkin St. Croix - There comes a time in everyone’s life when you have to stop, look back, and examine the path you have taken to get to your present state of being. For the average person, the look back could be a happy one, or it might not be so easy, involving painful memories, old photos, thoughts about what might have been. But for an artist, the process may be somewhat simpler. One major question might very well occupy their mind: What have I created in my years
Last Chance to Enjoy the Wonders of Art Thursday! Maufe Gallery Now at Crucian Cafe; Sonya’s - Original St. Croix Hook
M.A. Dworkin St. Croix - All great things must come to an end. And this week’s Art Thursday marks the end of another great season for the ultra-popular Christiansted art gallery walk. What an artistic blast it has been this season to escape the day-to-day world and enter a scene filled with beauty and creativity. All the wonderful art, the fantastic jewelry, the cool people you meet along the way, it certainly has been a breath of fresh creative air. But ‘parting is su
Joyia Inspirational Jewelry Presents Artists-in-Residence
M.A. Dworkin St. Croix - Joyia Inspirational Jewelry, home of some of the most creative jewelry designs in the Caribbean, is presenting art exhibits by some of St. Croix’s hottest new artists at her wonderful new space on Queen Cross Street in downtown Christiansted. Joyia’s Artist-in-Residence program opens on Art Thursday, every month, during the Art Thursday season (Nov-May). The program presents exciting works from new artists every month. This April’s artist
Lucien Downes Spring Show Refreshes the Senses
M.A. Dworkin St. Croix - To say Spring is in the Air would be a vast understatement if applied to Lucian Downes’ Spring Equinox Art Exhibition that opened recently at CMCArts in Frederiksted. A more appropriate description might be to state that a Revolution in the Arts is in the Air, and it is sweeping through the creative minds of artists and patrons of the arts, clearing out the old conceptions and ringing in the new. Hear ye! Hear ye! Harken unto thee, a rumbling
STX Literary Icon Richard Schrader Dies
M.A. Dworkin St. Croix - Considered by many as the Poet Laureate of St. Croix, Richard Augustus Schrader, Sr. died peacefully at his home on St. Croix at 90 years young. A literary giant who was loved, adored and respected by all who knew him, Mr. Schrader blazed a trail of literary accomplishments over four decades that led him to record an intimate history of his beloved Virgin Islands. “Buck,” as many knew him, was a poet and author of 28 books that told the tales a
