New case study
One home for Cayman’s arts, events, and venues
Cayman National Cultural Foundation
DevelopmentUX Design
A rebuilt website for the Cayman Islands’ leading arts organisation, bringing events, venues, programmes, and grants into one place.
Industry
Non-profit
Vertical
Website
Location
Cayman Islands
The ask
CNCF’s programme had outgrown its website. Audiences, artists, and staff all needed somewhere better to go.
CNCF is the Cayman Islands’ leading arts organisation, managing the Harquail Theatre, the Studio Theatre, the Mind’s Eye Centre, and the Helen Harquail Culture and Heritage Library, and delivering Cayfest, Gimistory, Grants for the Arts, and a year-round programme of productions and workshops. Very little of that was visible online. The existing website could not carry a live events calendar, individual venue pages, downloadable annual reports, or grant application flows, so information ended up scattered across social posts, PDFs, and email, and every update meant going back to a developer. The Foundation needed one place where audiences could find what was on, artists could find funding, and staff could publish all of it without technical help.
What we did
A content-led rebuild designed around events, venues, and self-service
We designed and built the new artscayman.org around the three things people come to CNCF for: what’s on, where it happens, and how to take part.
The events calendar sits at the centre. Audiences filter by month, category, and venue, and staff publish a listing in minutes. Each venue has its own page, so the Harquail, the Studio Theatre, the Mind’s Eye Centre, and the Helen Harquail Library each carry their own detail, photography, and booking route. Programmes, Grants for the Arts, the Artists-in-Residence programme, and the Creative Partnership Programme now have proper homes, with application downloads and enquiry forms built in. Annual reports going back to 2022 sit in a single download library.
The visual system takes its cue from Cayman itself, pairing a deep navy with Coconut Palm, Colliers Sunrise, and Catboat Sail across a responsive layout that holds up as well on a phone in a theatre lobby as it does on a desktop.
We migrated the existing content, mapped redirects, and handed over a WordPress build the in-house team maintains without a developer, so the site now moves at the speed of the programme.
Coconut Palm
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Colliers Sunrise
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Catboat Sail
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