This gathering will center the aesthetic practices, life histories, and creative archives of artists from the city’s heterogenous Black neighborhoods including West Coconut Grove, Overtown, Brownsville, Liberty City, Carol City, Miami Gardens, Cutler Ridge, South Miami, Richmond Heights, Homestead and Little Haiti. Miami is celebrated as the crossroads of people, ideas, and multicultural “Americanness.” Black displacement, however, has been and currently stands at the center of the city’s urgent housing crisis, neighborhood shifts, climate change, and gentrification. Throughout the two-day convening, interdisciplinary plenaries and panels will examine 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. Participants will include artists, scholars, and writers, who will engage the ritual practices and memory work of Black place-making in Miami.

Participants include: Lauren Baccus, Donnamarie Baptiste, Dejha Carrington, Aldeide Delgado, Donette Francis, Rosie Gordon-Wallace, Allison Harris, Nhadya Lawes, and Marie Vickles

And artists:

Morel Doucet, Chris Friday, Charles Humes, Jr., Kandy G Lopez, T Eliott Mansa, Sydney Rose Maubert, Jared McGriff, Reginald O’Neal, Terence Price II, Johanne Rahaman, Chire Regans, aka VantaBlack, Roscoè B. Thické III, Juana Valdes, and Roland Woods, Jr.

Still Here: Generations of Black Miami Visual Artmaking is a program created by the University of Miami Center for Global Black Studies in partnership with Commissioner, and sponsored by the Mellon Foundation and the Terra Foundation of American of Art.

Image credit: Jared McGriff, Taking the Time (2018), commissioned by Commissioner