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11/22/2021
Miami MoCAAD presents Afro Latin X #CreativeConversation Arte, Historia, Cultura-(Art, History + Culture) on November 28, 2021 Miami MoCAAD’s spirited, creative conversation, which kicks off Art Miami Week, will explore drivers of Afro-Latinx arts and culture that have often been in the shadows or the margins. This community dialogue celebrates Afro-Latino diasporic culture and contributions to the arts landscape and uncovers hidden histories of the Americas that influenced identities and creative expression. Miami MoCAAD’s Kickoff to Art Miami Week: Arte, Historia, Cultura / Art, History, Culture #Creative Conversation Celebrating Afro-Latinx Heritage will take place virtually on November 28, 2021, from 4 pm-5:30 pm. |
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12/01/2019
Miami MoCAAD/Lowe Museum Art Week Basel Kickoff The Miami Museum of Contemporary Art of the African Diaspora (Miami MoCAAD) and Lowe Museum will co-sponsor an Art Basel Week Kickoff reception and a conversation that features artist Juan Roberto Diago and Alejandro de la Fuente, curator and founding director, Harvard Afro-Latin American Research Institute. Erica Moiah James, University of Miami Caribbean Art History Professor will moderate the conversation. Diago: The Pasts of this Afro Cuban Present is the first retrospective of Juan Roberto Diago (b.1971). This exhibition, presented by University of Miami Lowe Art Museum and the Harvard University Hutchins Center for African & African American Research in collaboration with Miami MoCAAD, offers over two decades of uninterrupted work and traces Diago's singular efforts to construct new pasts--the pasts required to explain the racial tensions of contemporary Cuba. Email: Miamimocaad@gmail.com for more information and tickets. 5:00pm-9pm University of Miami Lowe Art Museum |
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11/20/2019
#Creativeconversations Series and Count Down to Give Miami Day! Join Miami MoCAAD for a Count Down to Give Miami Day with artists, art lovers and leaders who will discuss their passion for Contemporary art of the African Diaspora. #CreativeConversation Series Topic: Can you envision a how a museum dedicated to contemporary art of the African Diaspora can connect people in Miami? In the world? Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm Location: CIC Building-1951 NW 7th Ave #600, Miami, FL 33136 |
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10/29/2019
Facebook Live Virtual Art Chat with Miami MoCAAD Virtual conversations with artists and art lovers around the globe and Miami MoCAAD; Count Down to Give Miami Day. Panel included Prize Winning Miami Artist T Elliot Mansa and Miami MoCAAD Working Group Members: Marilyn Holifield, Hans Ottinot, and Michelle Johnson. Streamed live from N'Namdi Contemporary Fine Arts Gallery -https://www.facebook.com/MiamiMOCAAD 6:30pm-8pm Live Streamed on Facebook |
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Exhibition Dates: Thursday, June 6 -Thursday June 27, 2019
Venue: Historic Ward Rooming House, 249 NW 9th St., Miami, FL 33136 Opening Reception: June 6, 2019, 6pm-9pm Exhibition Hours: Wed-Fri 12pm to 6pm Saturday 1pm to 5pm Closing Reception: Thurs. June 27, 6pm-8pm Reconstructing Identity: An Exploration of Identity and Diaspora Through Artistic Practice brought together multidisciplinary contemporary artists of American, Haitian, Cuban, Dominican and Jamaican descent exploring issues around identity and sense of place. Featuring Local Artists: Christopher Carter - Duwane Coates - Onajide Shabaka - Adler Guerrier- Morel Doucet Kandy Lopez-Moreno - Sharon Norwood - Rhea Leonard - Asser Saint Val - T Eliott Mansa Francisco Maso Curated by: Donnamarie Baptiste |
