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Miami MoCAAD Knight New Work Winner

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MIAMI SOUL BASEL KICK OFF WITH OVERTOWN LONGSHOREMEN’S PRIDE

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Charlie Farrell named Romare Bearden fellow at the Saint Louis Art Museum

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Mural honoring Judge Lawson Thomas unveiled

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Celebrating Juneteenth at Miami MOCAAD

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This Unique Art Exhibit Is Using Technology To Highlight Black Life, Identity Across The Diaspora

“To understand the complexities of Black life today is to grasp in many ways how the world operates. Black life brings to the fore what the African-American thinker W. E. Du Bois once called a ‘second sight’ into this world,” said Anthony Bogues, Ph.D., Curator and inaugural Director of the Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice at Brown University, in a release shared with ESSENCE. “Each of the artists presented in this documentary and virtual exhibition engages with the world in unique ways. Their art tells us something specific and yet common about the world we live in,” he states.‍

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Miami’s rich Black history showcased in museum event at historic Overtown site

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Miami Museum to Host Gifted and Black Panel Celebrating Black Artists and Culture Landscape

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Juan Roberto Diago Picks at the Scars Left by Racism in His Native Cuba

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The rise of Peter London and his dance company

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Art exhibit honors lives lost from social injustice

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Miami MoCAAD to Host Gifted and Black Panel Celebrating Black Artists and Culture Landscape

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Miami MoCAAD hosts Pop Up Exhibition curated by Donnamarie Baptiste, June 6-27

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This summer shows deserve applause, and so do the local artists who created the works

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Honoring Dr. Carter G. Woodson & Closing Black History Month

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New Year Greetings & Honoring the Haitian Revolution

First of all, we wish you a Happy and Blessed New Year! Thank you for helping us make 2024 so memorable. Miami MoCAAD is excited to share new creative journeys with you in 2025!

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2024 Happenings & Highlights | Miami MoCAAD Annual Report

Miami MoCAAD brings the future by merging art and technology to modernize art experiences. Let’s reflect on a year of groundbreaking art, impactful community programs, and innovative storytelling during Miami MoCAAD’s journey in 2024.

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Exploring Black Art at the 2024 Venice Biennale

The 2024 Venice Biennale, a landmark event in the world of contemporary art, continues to captivate global audiences with its exhibitions of boundary-pushing work from across the world.

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April 9, 2020

Dear Friends,‍Miami MoCAAD wants you to know that our thoughts are with you. The health and well-being of our community is our number one priority. We seek to be a source of encouragement and strength. Throughout centuries, the resiliency of African Diaspora culture and art inspired a way forward. In seeking to provide encouraging moments, we begin by featuring several women artists and images of their art in recognition of April as International Black Women’s History Month. In this difficult time, their work reminds us that black women have proven themselves the backbone of our strength. We include other “Moments” for taking a break to explore music, a virtual workout with Venus Williams and resources to support artists, you and our community.‍We wish you and your families, friends and colleagues well during this difficult time. We thank all who are working to help us in this time of need from first responders and health care workers to food deliverers and social service providers. We protect ourselves, each other and our community by staying inside to stay away from COVID-19.‍We are in this together,The Miami MoCAAD TeamOnward!

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​April 24, 2020

Dear Friends,‍We made it through another week of hibernation and social distancing. We hope that during this time of quarantine, everyone is finding innovative ways to remain in touch with family and friends. It’s great connecting with you as Miami MoCAAD tries to provide a little relief during this crisis. In continuation of our celebration of April as International Black Women’s History Month, we bring you diversity within diversity by highlighting Black women artists from the global diaspora. We offer resources for artists and home schooling, and “Moments” of inspiration and exploration through artists’ videos, art news, reflections on Black Miami, spoken word, and our congratulations to Miami-based film director, Dudley Alexis.‍We continue to thank all of those who are working to support our community and pray for a smart and safe transition back to life as we knew it not so long ago.‍We are in this together,The Miami MoCAAD TeamOnward!

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​May 14, 2020

Dear Friends,‍Thank you for supporting Miami MoCAAD during #GivingTuesday. We are grateful and inspired by your generosity.‍As cities all over the world reopen, we seek to be a source of positivity to help weather uncertainties of this pandemic. This newsletter celebrates May as Haitian Heritage and National Photography Month. We bring a virtual Flag Day Celebration and a cadre of photographers whose works highlight struggle and beauty. In other fun and educational “Moments”, we explore a photographic archive of Black Miami; talks on love and photography; home school ideas; our Miami MoCAAD quiz, and virtual commencements, featuring speeches by Oprah Winfrey and former President Barack Obama for the class of 2020.‍From nurses to food retail workers, we thank you for keeping our communities going. By being safe and smart, we protect ourselves and each other.‍We are in this together,The Miami MoCAAD TeamOnward!‍

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May 29, 2020

Dear Friends,As we move forward in hope, Miami MoCAAD aspires to be on the front lines of crafting our new future. In this moment of international loss and strife, may our love of art of the African diaspora be a unifying force and reminder of the beauty that can persist despite the struggles of the human experience.‍In continuation of our celebration of May as National Photography Month, we salute photographers who use color and light to convey emotion, elegance and power. We also continue our celebration of Haitian Heritage Month with an array of highlights in children’s literature. In other fun and educational “Moments”, we explore our Miami MoCAAD quiz, an art talk and exhibition at the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art, and a virtual commencement celebration with Michelle Obama and Beyoncé.‍Remember that by being safe and smart, we protect ourselves and each other.‍Onward!The Miami MoCAAD Teamhttps://www.miamimocaad.net

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Weekly Artist Feature | Howardena Pindell

Howardena Pindell is a groundbreaking American artist whose pioneering work merges formal innovation with deep political consciousness. Working across painting, collage, and video, Pindell incorporates punched paper dots, grids, text, and personal ephemera to challenge systemic racism, sexism, and erasure.

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Weekly Artist Feature | Luana Vitra

Luana Vitra is a Brazilian multidisciplinary artist whose work spans sculpture, installation, drawing, and performance. Drawing from Afro-Brazilian spirituality and her upbringing in the mining landscapes of Minas Gerais, Brazil, Vitra transforms raw materials like iron, clay, and soot into charged sculptural forms. Her practice reimagines tools, amulets, and ritual objects as vessels for ancestral memory, decolonial healing, and spiritual resistance.

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Weekly Artist Feature | William Pajaud

William Pajaud was a New Orleans–born artist and curator whose expressive watercolors honored the beauty, resilience, and spirituality of African American life. Merging Southern memory with modernist form, his work depicted jazz funerals, street scenes, and Black womanhood with lyrical warmth.

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Weekly Artist Feature | Isaac Julien CBE

Isaac Julien CBE is a visionary British filmmaker and installation artist whose powerful works blend cinema, choreography, and archival imagery to confront colonial legacies, Black identity, and social justice. Through richly layered visual storytelling, Julien transforms art into a space of resistance, remembrance, and radical possibility.

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Weekly Artist Feature | Firelei Báez

Firelei Báez is a Dominican-American artist whose lush, intricate paintings breathe new life into historical narratives. Drawing from Caribbean folklore, Black feminist theory, and colonial archives, Báez creates worlds where mythology and memory collide—centering diasporic identities and reconfiguring the past through a radical, transformative lens.

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Weekly Artist Feature | Carlos Martiel

Carlos Martiel is a bold Afro-Cuban performance artist whose visceral, body-centered works confront systems of power, colonialism, and racial injustice. Using his own body as a medium, Martiel stages powerful acts of endurance that expose political and social violence—transforming pain into protest and the personal into the political.

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Weekly Artist Feature | Tau Lewis

Tau Lewis is a visionary Jamaican-Canadian artist whose hand-sewn sculptures and assemblages transform discarded materials into spiritual testaments of Black identity, healing, and ancestral memory. Rooted in diasporic traditions, her work honors the resilience and creativity of Black communities through tender, otherworldly forms.

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Weekly Artist Feature | Mickalene Thomas

Mickalene Thomas is a groundbreaking queer Black artist whose dazzling, rhinestone-studded portraits center Black women in all their strength, sensuality, and complexity. Drawing on art history, pop culture, and her own life, Thomas reclaims the visual narrative—challenging traditional notions of beauty and representation.

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