Art has always been important to the UWI and is frequently in focus at the UWI Museum. At the founding campus, Mona, the Main Library maintains a significant collection including the ‘AD Scott’ collection of paintings by a range of well–known Jamaican artists (Barrington Watson, Edna Manley, Eugene Hyde, Carl Abrahams, Karl Parboosingh among others); works by Ras Dizzy: and works by Gloria Escoffery and other artists. UWI campuses at St. Augustine in Trinidad & Tobago, Cave Hill in Barbados, and the Open Campus all have art collections or public art, as does the UWI Regional Headquarters. To mark the UWI’s 50th anniversary, a travelling exhibition of UWI art and companion book, Shared Visions, was produced.
From time to time, the UWI Museum has focused on the art pieces in its care.
