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Art of Black Miami Cover Competition Winner

Congratulations to the 2022 Art of Black Miami Cover Competition Winner, Joanne Hampstead with her piece titled "Genesis 2.0". Each year MIA Magazine and the GMCVB host an Art of Black Miami Cover Competition edition open to all visual artists working and living in Greater Miami and Miami Beach. Congratulations also to 2nd Place Winner Dimithry Victor for his piece titled "Lost at Sea". Click here to view the M•I•A Magazine Art of Black 2022 Issue.

Art of Black Miami Spans Beyond Miami Art Week

Art of Black Miami 2022 highlighted the artistic and cultural landscape found in Miami's heritage neighborhoods and communities for another Art Week Basel Season. Exhibitions, fairs, art talks, performances and events were well represented in neighborhoods such as Historic Overtown, Little Haiti, Little Havana, Opa Locka, North Miami, The Airport Area, Design District, Downtown Miami, Miami Beach and South Dade. While most of the shows ended at the close of Miami Art Week, there is still an opportunity to see some held over exhibitions which will run through the coming months. For more information visit Art of Black Miami.

Prizm 2022: Contemporary African Art Fair

Celebrating its 10th Anniversary year, Prizm presents Vernacular À la Mode, with presentations of select galleries and artist exploring how vernacular modes of artmaking originating in global African contexts have influenced the cultivation of fine art practice worldwide. The holistic program includes four sections: Prizm Panels, Prizm Perform, Prizm Film, Prizm Preview, and, of course, Prizm Art Fair at large, exhibiting international artists from Africa and the global African Diaspora through December 11. For more information click here.

Conversations with Miami’s Cultural Pioneers: Marshall Davis

On December 20, join the Miami Emerging Arts Leaders for a virtual interview with Marshall Davis, Managing Director of the African Heritage Cultural Arts Center. Since opening its doors in 1975, the Center has served as an outstanding center of arts in Liberty City and has launched the careers of numerous established, high profile alumni. Facilitated by Marialaura Leslie, Deputy Director, Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and followed by an interactive Q&A. Register here.

Ancestral Ground

A choreographic explosion of bold, electrifying and diverse contemporary choreography, with Afro-Diasporean traditional dance fused with ballet and modern techniques. Featuring the celebration of Miami's female choreographers and brilliant commissioned scores from gifted composers. Runs December 28 - 31 at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts.

Celebrate our Cultural Community - Return & Rediscover the Arts Campaign

Launched during National Arts & Humanities Month and to kick-off the 2022-2023 cultural season, this campaign is developed by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs to invite all arts groups, artists and cultural institutions to join in promoting the non-stop and outstanding activities presented by our cultural community. Click here to learn more.

Where We Stand

Miami-Dade Public Housing and Community Development (PHCD) introduced our first in the nation Artist-in-Residence Program in Miami’s Liberty City. To commemorate the new program, local artist Addonis Parker opened his latest and final exhibit titled “Where We Stand”. The exhibit, running through January 6, encompasses a positive but spiritual view of the Black community’s silent protest. Click here for more details.

CAPTURE: a Portrait of the Pandemic

HistoryMiami Museum is pleased to announce the launch of CAPTURE: a Portrait of the Pandemic, created by one of Miami's most sought-after club DJs, Rahsaan "Fly Guy" Alexander. The museum’s Center for Photography will serve as the backdrop for Alexander's largest show to date, with dozens of never-before-exhibited photos. The exhibition's images are a visual representation of experiences and attitudes resulting from the life-altering year of 2020 when our community struggled with the realities of a pandemic, racial injustice protests, homelessness, and the entertainment industry on the brink of implosion. The images focus on themes ranging from protests to nightlife, using both black-and-white and color imagery to tell moving stories of love, disbelief, rage, and change. Along with the photography, HistoryMiami will also showcase Rahsaan's short documentary film, PIVOT: A 2020 - On view through January 8, 2023.

First Frequency

Amadlozi Gallery, at the African Heritage Cultural Arts Center, presents First Frequency, an African Diaspora art exhibition created by Bayunga Kialeuka. First Frequency exhibition showcases works displaying the First People of Knowledge. Visit the display through January 22, 2023.

Simone Leigh: Trophallaxis

Trophallaxis encapsulates artist Simone Leigh’s emphasis on the female body, particularly the Black female body, as a culturally loaded signifier. The title references a scientific term that describes the behavior of adult social insects as they transfer nourishment from their own bodies to the collective’s larvae, a significant gesture that entails cooperative care and communal labor. View this arresting sculpture at Perez Art Museum Miami through February 12, 2023.

Global Borderless Caribbean XIV

Visit the Little Haiti Cultural Complex, through Februrary 28, to view Global Borderless Caribbean XIV: Vernacular, Vènakilè, Asụsụ obodo. Featuring artists of the global African Diaspora, with a focus on the Caribbean, this year's theme explores how vernacular modes of art making originating in global African contexts have influenced the cultivation of fine art practice worldwide.

FAMA Presents Threading the City

Threading the City Celebrates Miami and the Burgeoning of the World of Textile Arts. A great range of textile art exhibitions, installations, and events will thread across Miami from through January 2023. Threading the City is a fusion of the Fiber Artists Miami Association (FAMA) and the accumulated experiences of local and international curators, art historians, and artists. The city-wide events are an investment in economic, cultural, and social platforms that revitalize and showcase the extraordinary talent of local and international textile artists. Learn more here.

The AI Art World of Artist Brigitte Andrade

Join us as we immerse ourselves into the new unique world of AI Art by Artist Brigitte Andrade. The exhibition will run through January 2023 and all art is for sale on site at Nathan's Video Bar. More details can be found here.

Mariano: Variations on a Theme at the PAMM

Mariano: Variations on a Theme is the first major retrospective exhibition of the work of Cuban artist Mariano Rodríguez in the United States. Widely known simply as “Mariano”, the artist is considered one of the most important painters of the second avant-garde, the second generation of Cuban modernists who, in the 1940s and 1950s, used his work to construct and express their vision of the essence of Cuban national identity. On view at the PAMM through January 22, 2023.

Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow

Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow explores the struggle for full citizenship and racial equality that unfolded in the 50 years after the Civil War. When slavery ended in 1865, a period of Reconstruction began, leading to such achievements as the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution. By 1868, all persons born in the United States were citizens and equal before the law. But efforts to create an interracial democracy were contested from the start. A harsh backlash ensued, ushering in a half-century of the “separate but equal” age of Jim Crow. On view through February 12, 2023, click here to learn more.

Flesh and Water

Come to The Haitian Heritage Museum to view “Flesh and Water” by Artist Markenzy Julius Cesar. In an era where “Black Beaches” are long gone or on the cusp of extinction, to facilitate driving waves in the real estate market, the artist explores our interconnectedness with water as individuals and as communities through his work. The exhibition runs through April 15, 2023.

Didier William: Nou Kite Tout Sa Dèyè

Come see the largest retrospective of Didier William's career on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art through April 16, 2023. The exhibit features over forty works spanning multiple mediums, including some of William's newest paintings as well as printmaking works that include new drawing and artists books.

Open Studio by 4726

Every third Saturday, Warehouse 4726 opens its doors for an evening with the artists and creative community of the Bird Road Arts District. As an artist-run space, they offer a unique insider’s view and invite you into the private world of the working artist. See where the magic happens and talk with Miami-based artists about their work and their process. Community. Conversation. Creativity. Click here to learn more.

Mayor Daniella Levine Cava and the Proposed County Arts and Cultural Budget

Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava convened a virtual town meeting about the proposed FY 22-23 budget for the arts and cultural community. Mayor Levine Cava shared the great news that her proposed budget includes increased support for the arts and progressively addresses many other key issues facing our community. The Mayor asked to share the presentation from last night’s meeting and it is linked here for your reference. The town meeting was very well-attended and represented the incredible diversity of arts organizations and artists that are making our community one of the most inclusive and dynamic places in the world. For further information visit Miami Dade Arts.

Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs Grant Guidelines

The Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs has released guidelines and deadline schedules for the fiscal year 2022-2023 fall cycle of arts and cultural grants programs available to Miami-Dade County based non-profit cultural groups. Guidelines containing information regarding eligibility requirements, funding requests and program criteria can be downloaded here. Grant guidelines can also be requested by calling the Department of Cultural Affairs at (305) 375-4634 or via email at culture@miamidade.gov.

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