Still Here: Generations of Black Miami Artmaking

Historic gathering of intergenerational Black Miami visual artists working from the 1960s to the present to explore aesthetic practices, life histories, and creative archives of artists from the city’s heterogenous Black neighborhoods. Interdisciplinary plenaries and panels examined how artists have represented Miami’s dynamic and intersectional social histories as a Jim Crow City in the US South with deep national, transnational and hemispheric ties.

Donette Francis

Co-convener

Dejha Carrington
What Participants have said
"I was a student here, at the University of Miami, enrolled in 1968. When I look back, I am so proud of what we have here now. This is a JEWEL. It was worth it all, because of what we have here today. This is a part of the art community that we need. We can’t survive without this."
Roland Woods, Jr.
Photo Gallery
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Schedule at a Glance
Welcome and Opening

Dr. Donette Francis, Center for Global Black Studies & Associate Professor of English, University of Miami
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Dejha Carrington, Commissioner
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Germane Barnes, Community Housing & Identity Lab and Associate Professor, University of Miami School of Architecture

Given Me Back Myself

Zora Neale Hurston's Postwar Sojourn in Miami and Honduras
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Dr. Sharony Green, Associate Professor of History, University of Alabama

Migration & Memories

Artists: Juana Valdés and Morel Doucet
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Moderator: Nhadya Lawes, Knight Foundation

Black Interiors

Artists: Chris Friday, T. Elliot Mansa, and Sydney Maubert
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Moderator: Donnamarie Baptiste, Independent Curator and Producer

Black Exteriors

Artists: Jared McGriff and Roland Woods, Jr.


Moderator: Dr. Donette Francis, Center for Global Black Studies & Associate Professor of English, University of Miami   

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Reflections

Franklin Sirmans, Pérez Art Museum Miami

Welcome

Edouard Duval-Carrié, Artist

Opening Performance

Arsimmer McCoy, Poet and Artist

Curating Black Miami

Tanya Desdunes, DVCAI
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Dejha Carrington, Commissioner
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Moderator: Nhadya Lawes

Black Photography

Artists: Michelle Lisa Polissaint, Terence Price II, and Roscoè B. Thické III
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Moderator: Aldeide Delgado, Women Photographers International Archive

Making Art Public

Artists: Chire Regans, Charles Humes, Jr., and Reginald O’Neal
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Moderator: Marie Vickles, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Little Haiti Cultural Complex

Materials and Embodiment

Artists: Loni Johnson and Kandy G. Lopez
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Moderator: Lauren Baccus, Artist, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami

Reflections & Connections

Dr. Donette Francis, Center for Global Black Studies & Associate Professor of English, University of Miami

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