This publication is the result of a fifteen-month research project, mapping out the available infrastructure for Contemporary Art in the Caribbean by Sasha Dees. Over the period from November 2017 to May 2019, she visited Anguilla, Aruba, the Bahamas, Barbados, Curacao, Cuba, Haiti, the Cayman Islands, the US Virgin Islands, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Sint Maarten, Saint Martin, Trinidad & Tobago, and Suriname. She interviewed over 800 artists and art professionals, resulting in 3000 hours of recordings.
The book begins with a chapter that gives the reader a general idea of the region today and continues with chapters that reflect the infrastructure of the arts and the art marketplace: Education, The economy of art, Galleries, Project Spaces and Residencies, Museums, Biennales, and Funding. While Dees refrains from writing about individual art practices, the book includes a 50-page selection of artwork made by artists working and living within the conversations of Contemporary Art in the Caribbean.