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National Trust receives Art contribution for Mille Fleurs
The National Trust of Trinidad and Tobago is pleased to announce the receipt of two art pieces that have been generously donated by Trust member Dr. Yvonne Bobb-Smith.
This exchange took place recently at Mille Fleurs with Dr. Bobb-Smith herself presenting both pieces to the Chairman of Council of the National Trust Mrs. Margaret McDowall.
The pieces donated are Roy Crosse’s “
Pan in Action” (1970) and John Newel-Lewis’ “
The Harbourmaster’s Office with the Lighthouse” (1957).
Crosse (1945-2014) was a multi-media artist whose talents included composing, sculpting, art, teaching, photography and writing. He was deeply passionate about Art and Pan, receiving many awards, most notably the Ontario Arts Council Award and the New York Foundation of the Arts Award. His work is exhibited both locally at the National Museum and Art Gallery, and abroad at the Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists (NC
âPre-Covid, nobody talked agriculture. Post-Covid, theyâre talking agriculture. This is the knowledge weâve been sharing for decades but still people are not listening. That sugar to sugarloaf story is a science farmers have kept very close to their hearts and now our farming group is sharing information both on and off the farm.â
âOur ancestors produced most of what we consumed. When the foreigners came, they wanted the sugar, then it was the cocoa. Today what youâre seeing is pineapple. Weâre the only farming group that took 30 to 40 acres of cocoa land over the last four decades and created this pineapple industry, the sugarloaf segment with our bare hands.â