Art of Black Miami Continues to Provide A Critical Platform To the Resilient South Florida Artistic Community
(Black PR Wire) MIAMI, FL – The rich cultural landscape of Miami’s heritage communities is something that the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau and the Art of Black Miami (AOBM) program has been intentional about promoting. The celebration of the vibrancy of the arts and history within Greater Miami’s diverse neighborhoods is even more poignant this year. AOBM, led by the GMCVB’s Multicultural Tourism & Development Department, creates opportunities to showcase the community’s rich heritage.
The signature kick-off event to celebrate the art season will be virtual and will feature a chat with American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator Nikki Giovani on Monday, November 30 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Giovani will discuss her latest body of work, “Make Me Rain: Poems and Prose,” as well as some of her struggles and triumphs which have inspired her love of the art of poetry. The conversation is free and will be moderated by Connie Kinnard, GMCVB’s Vice President, Multicultural Tourism & Development. Following the chat, the AOBM Cover Competition winner will be unveiled, in partnership with MIA Legacy Magazine. The evening celebrates the artistic diversity of exhibitions, events and activations (virtual and in-person) happening in Greater Miami’s heritage neighborhoods and communities throughout Miami’s Art Season and the GMCVB’s Art, Culture & Heritage Months program. For information on registration visit AOBM Kick-Off.
“Arts and culture in Miami-Dade continue to serve a key role in the GMCVB’s tourism marketing and promotion initiatives. Showcasing the arts by working collectively with the creative minds and spaces that are a part of the Art of Black Miami marketing platform serves to connect to the community and tourism. There is a combination of virtual and in-person activations still taking place during these difficult times which shows the spirit and resiliency of our community,” said William D. Talbert III, CDME.
This year Art of Black Miami celebrates the hybrid and online exhibitions and cultural talks produced by arts organizations and creatives, highlighting communities that include Historic Overtown, Little Haiti, Little Havana, North Miami, Coral Gables, Downtown Miami, Miami Beach, and other surrounding areas. As online events become a viable option for exposure, organizers are able to expand artist engagement and reach. Annual events like PRIZM Art Fair will present an online exhibition featuring artists and galleries representing countries across the African continent, the Caribbean and Americas taking place from December 1 to 21, 2020.
“We are excited about this year’s Art of Black Miami. More than ever, it was key for us to spotlight organizations and artists that use their art platform in a tangible way within their prospective communities. This is a year the artists have redefined the way they are showcasing their work and cultural assets,” said Connie Kinnard, VP of Multicultural Tourism & Development.
A few Art of Black Miami featured events are listed below and a full list of events can be found on Art of Black Miami’s website www.ArtofBlackMiami.com.
COCONUT GROVE
For Those Gathered in the Wind, A Solo Exhibition of T. Eliott Mansa at LnS Gallery,
Curated by Donnamarie Baptiste
The much-anticipated solo exhibition of T. Eliott Mansa, a Miami-based assemblage artist, will provide both a visually striking and emotionally touching experience to showcase his latest series of amuletic wall-mounted sculptors that capture ritual practices to honor, memorialize, protect, and defend Black Lives from state and extra-judicial violence. Throughout his work Mansa enriches a visual culture that serves these functions by using techniques within each assemblage that transcend bounds of geography, holding Caribbean and African roots.
For Those Gathered in the Wind will be open to groups of ten or less, regulated using time slots to allow visitors in and out of the space. December 2, 2020 – February 9, 2021 LnS Gallery in Coconut Grove 9 a.m. – 9 p.m.
DOWNTOWN MIAMI
Black Diasporic Feminism, Intersectionality, and Solidarity in the Age of Protest
Black Diasporic Feminism, Intersectionality, and Solidarity in the Age of Protest is a panel that highlights the critical role of Black womxn artists and cultural producers within the current social and political landscapes and how Black womxn across the diaspora support and amplify each other’s work and voices. The discussion will explore how Black womxn’s experience of racism, sexism, and classism are inseparable and how these “isms” and all other isms are being addressed by artists – specifically those on the panel. The conversation will take place in conjunction with the special exhibition Allied with Power: African and African Diaspora Art from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection and will include exhibition artists Genevieve Gaignard, Naudline Pierre, and Deborah Roberts, exhibition curator María Elena Ortiz, and will be moderated by Marie Vickles.
Panel Discussion – 2:00 p.m. December 2, 2020
Exhibition Date: Through – Summer 2021
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) – 1103 Biscayne Blvd, Miami, FL 33132
DESIGN DISTRICT
Voices and Votes: Democracy in America
Voices and Votes: Democracy in America is a partnership between the Haitian Heritage Museum, the Smithsonian Institute and Florida Humanities. The exhibition is based on the current exhibition by the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. More than just waging a war of independence, American revolutionaries took a great leap of faith and established a new government based on the sovereignty of the people. It was truly a radical idea that entrusted the power of the nation not in a monarchy but in its citizens. Each generation since continues to question how to form “a more perfect union” around this radical idea. December 17, 2020 – February 6, 2021 Haitian Heritage Museum, 4141 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami 33137
HISTORIC OVERTOWN
Point Comfort: Uncover. Discover.
Point Comfort Art Show 2020 will feature “Dennis Manuel: The Eye of Afropunk”. Dennis Manuel is a performance photographer who has captured images of Black performance art for 20 years. Recognized as the go-to photographer of the New York musical performances, he reaches his apex in the genre as the official photographer of the Afropunk Festival. Afropunk is a cultural movement with its origins in the groundbreaking 2013 documentary that resulted in a movement featuring the clash of Punk and Afrofuturism. The documentary by James Spooner,
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