Join us for Sun and Stitch: Anthotype Printing & Stab Binding with artist Nicole Combeau—a hands-on, three-hour workshop that blends alternative photography and bookmaking traditions. 

We invite you to experiment with anthotype printing, using botanicals and ready-made negatives to create two unique sun prints. Once dried, these prints will be bound into personalized artist books using a traditional Japanese stab binding technique.

Together, we’ll also explore the history of “kitchen” and camera-less photography and look at how local artists—such as Amanda Linares, Onajide Shabaka, and Season Six commissioned artist Antonia Wright—have incorporated these practices into their work.

This workshop will be led by Combeau, a Miami-based Colombian-American artist and educator. Her practice draws on family, ritual, and resilience, creating images and intergenerational programs that reflect on how memory and connection endure across time. Through teaching, Combeau brings together photography and community practice to explore how care sustains and connects us all.


Image: Nicole Combeau, Untitled (Xiomara, Neria, and Cecilia), 2024

The good folks at Miami Pool House, along with artists Alejandro Piñeiro Bello, Juan Luis Matos, and Lauren Shapiro, invite you to a creatives’ meet-up at the inspired Edgewater hideaway.

Open to past, current, and future Commissioner members, as well as Soho’s community and invited guests, come join us for an evening of libations and discovery at the Pool House. The program will kick off with a warm introduction in the Cottage before visiting the Club Dining Room and Loft. Together, we’ll hop from one space to another, meeting the artists and connecting over their works on view.

Part guided art tour, part self-directed exploration, come for a cocktail and stay for the company—and the art collection, too!

Street and lot parking available. Soho House RSVP is essential.

Welcome to the interior worlds of two remarkable artists creating across mediums and references. Each with their own distinct and expansive painterly vocabulary, who better to guide us through their solo exhibitions than the artists themselves? 

Join us for back-to-back artist-led tours through the wildly different and symbiotic worlds of Philip Smith and Vickie Pierre. 

Vickie Pierre: The Maiden is The Warrior is the first solo exhibition by Brooklyn-born, South Florida-based artist Vickie Pierre. We’ll explore over 40 works, including immersive installations and collages that explore memory, identity, and Pierre’s Haitian heritage through a blend of the ornamental and the surreal. This meditative show curated by Adeze Wilford, transforms the gallery into a space of resilience and cultural interconnectivity.

Philip Smith: Magnetic Fields is a five-decade career survey of the Season Four commissioned artist. With over 50 works that traverse metaphysical themes through a unique pictographic language, from enigmatic early drawings to his monumental new Energy Painting, this exhibition offers a vibrant visual feast and an intellectual journey into Smith’s spiritually charged artistic world.

Follow the signs in the interior world of Philip Smith. In celebration of his solo exhibition and career survey, Magnetic Fields, at Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami (MOCA), we invite you into the private home studio of the legendary artist. Commissioned in Season Four, Smith is known for his pioneering work with the Pictures Generation movement.

“All of us live miraculous lives, whether we know it or not.”
— Philip Smith, Season Four Artist

With the seminal 1977 exhibition PICTURES, Smith, along with other emerging artists of the time such as Robert Longo, Richard Prince and Cindy Sherman, helped shift the way we see art today. Journey with the formidable storyteller through his move to New York, artistic practice, and unusual trajectory as a bestselling writer and celebrated visual artist. 

This invitation is for Collector members and is limited capacity, first come, first serve. RSVP at hello@commissioner.us. Private address will be shared the day before the event.


Photo by Oriol Tarridas, courtesy of the artist.

Presented by the inaugural Season art fair, the panel Who is the Art World For? invites a critical examination of access, equity, and power within the structures of the contemporary art world.

Through the perspectives of gallerists and cultural workers, the conversation will interrogate who benefits from existing systems and remains excluded. Topics will include gatekeeping in institutions and markets, the role of education and social capital, and emerging strategies for building a more inclusive and accountable art ecosystem. Panelists will reflect on how the art world might be reimagined to better serve its publics.

Moderator
Dejha Carrington — Arts Worker; Co-founder, Commissioner

Panelists
Allison Glenn — Curator 2026 Toronto Biennial and Artistic Director-at-Large, The Shepherd
Akua Hill — Director of Arts & Culture, Gilbert Family Foundation
Christian Rattemeyer — Director, Arts & Rec

Access to Talks is included with admission to the fair. 

Rainbow Village is a housing development in Overtown. Built in the 1970s, the pale gold residential community has been home to many Black families in Miami’s history, including artist Reginald O’Neal’s family. It’s the place where his mother first met his father, and where he had his very first kiss. 

Now, Rainbow Village is being torn down for something new. O’Neal wondered: how could he commemorate a place that’s held many generations of families through waves of gentrification and five major hurricanes? How do we grieve home? 

It starts with remembering.

Join us for our first-ever community commission, a collective memory-keeping project. Expanding Commissioner’s annual membership model, we invite you to participate with a one-time contribution of $450. Your participation not only secures a signed and numbered edition by O’Neal for yourself, but also helps make a work available for a former resident of Rainbow Village—someone directly attached to or displaced from this housing community.

In the spirit of surprise and delight—liberating both supporters and artists from tradition and expectations—O’Neal’s work will be unveiled at an inspired gathering featuring special guest artists Arsimmer McCoy and Nadege Green. With music, food, and a pop-up reading nook curated in collaboration with Black Miami-Dade, we’re creating a space to celebrate and share memory with the people from Rainbow Village and Overtown.

Can’t make orientation in-person on September 8 at Soho Pool House? Join us for a virtual Lunch & Learn on Zoom. 

From understanding the program’s origins and mission to what you can expect throughout the season, we’ll provide essential information to help you get the most from your membership. It’s the ideal opportunity to ask questions and connect with our team.

How does the program work? How do I get information about events? What can we look forward to?

Every fall, we kick off Commissioner with an orientation. Join us at Soho's Miami Pool House for an evening celebrating the start of Season Eight, surrounded by the artwork of commissioned artists including Morel Doucet, Edouard Duval-Carrié, Cornelius Tulloch, and Typoe. From understanding the program’s origins and mission to what you can expect throughout the season, we’ll provide essential information to help you get the most from your membership. Both educational and social, it’s also the ideal opportunity to ask questions and connect with fellow members and our team.

While all Season Eight members are invited to join, we especially recommend it for new members. 

Join us for a conversation about collecting as memory work with contemporary artist Reginald O’Neal and community historian Nadege Green, moderated by Commissioner Co-Founder Dejha Carrington.

Seven years ago, we asked folks to participate in a social experiment—to be nimble, take a risk, and move differently and outside traditional art market norms. Now Miami’s longest-running crowdfunding art program, Commissioner has brought together more than 600 visionaries to commission artists and build community through the arts. By interrogating notions of ownership and dismantling preconceptions around collecting, we have made possible what we can’t do alone. But, to what end?

Following the panel and audience Q&A, Reginald will introduce his monumental sculpture, “The Cellist”, featured in the exhibition Mirror of the Mind. There will also be an opportunity to meet El Espacio 23 artists-in-residence Carla Chaim (Brazil)  and Los Bravu (Spain) and Curatorial resident and scholar Odette Casamayor-Cisneros.

This special evening celebrating seven seasons of community collaboration is open to current and past members, alum, and conspirators. 

On the occasion of the 11th edition of NADA New York, join Commissioner and NADA members for an intimate workshop at Komal Kehar’s East Village boutique Common Things.

Led by Miami-based artist Addison Wolff, we will examine the queer symbolism of violets in the poetry of Sappho and the malleability of identity and time. We’ll explore the textural optical paintings of the artist, represented by NADA Member, Baker—Hall and in a special collaboration with Commissioner. 

At the workshop, Addison will teach members how to generate hand-taped optical moiré effects on top of limited-edition prints, embedded with lines of poetry from Sappho, creating a palimpsest documenting queer cultural objects and personal histories. An immersive approach to unmasking the layers of the artist’s process, expect to sculpt layers of textural paint and discuss the use of coded color in queer culture. Plus, leave the workshop with a personalized work of art while creating a shared history.

To participate in the workshop, please email us at hello@commissioner.us. Spaces are limited and first come, first serve.

Baker—Hall will present a solo exhibition of Addison Wolff at NADA New York. The gallery is part of the fair’s guided tour program led by Komal Kehar and Commissioner. Everything is connected.

About Addison Wolff

Addison Wolff born in Winter Park, Florida; lives and works in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Addison received a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana (2010). Addison’s practice explores issues of self-identity, intimacy, and interiority. Themes of transformation, transcendence, time, and fluidity are explored through non-objective compositions of broken color, collage, layering, erasure, and optical effects, on canvas and hand-built, hollow ceramic forms. Selected solo exhibitions include: “at the Baths,” NSU Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, (2025); “lOOking,” Baker- Hall Gallery, Miami, Florida, (2025); “Addison Wolff,” The Frank C. Ortis Gallery, Pembroke Pines, Florida, (2022). Selected group exhibitions include: “Young, Fresh, Different | Miami,” Zilberman Gallery, Miami, Florida, (2024); “South Florida Cultural Consortium Exhibition,” MOCA North Miami, North Miami, Florida, (2023); “Mes del Orgullo Gay,” Mexican Cultural Institute, Miami, Florida, (2022). Addison has received the South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship Award (2022), Broward County Cultural Division, Artist Innovation Grant (2023), and Artist Support Grant (2022). They have works in the NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, FL; Broward County Cultural Division; and Boca Raton Innovation Center collections. 

Join us for a virtual masterclass with Magnus Resch, the celebrated author of How to Collect Art.

Recognized by CNN as "the world’s leading art market expert," Magnus will share his insights on art investment and elaborate on the inner workings of this $65+ billion industry. Together, we’ll delve into the market’s finer points by offering a distinct perspective on art collecting, and provide a preview of Commissioner’s Miami Art Week program, replete with tips for requesting fair passes and getting the most out of your experience. This event is ideal for both seasoned collectors and curious newcomers. A Q&A session will follow the presentation.

Get a free book! The first 20 members to register will receive a complimentary book of How to Collect Art by Magnus Resch, with an introduction by Pamela J. Joyner. Recipients will be notified this week and can pick up their copy at Antonia Wright’s artwork reveal on Saturday, November 16.

Register for the virtual masterclass here. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information to join.

About the author: Magnus Resch, Ph.D., is a bestselling author and entrepreneur. With a Ph.D. in economics, he has studied at Harvard and lectures at Yale University. His career has been highlighted in a Harvard Business School case study. Magnus resides in New York City and Miami.

About the book: Navigating the world of collecting can be a tricky process, especially for those just starting out. The world’s leading art market expert, Magnus Resch, explains the core principles of the art market and reveals his secrets on how to build and grow an art collection.

He answers questions such as:
• What art should I invest in?
• Where do I start?
• Which gallery should I visit?
• How do I get VIP tickets for Art Basel?
• Where's the best place to sell my art?
• Is this price fair?

This book is a comprehensive guide for anyone interested in collecting art, novice or expert. Readers will learn:
• How the art market really works;
• How to navigate the art world;
• How to start and develop a sustainable collection strategy for every budget. 

Featured alongside Magnus’s advice for collecting are quotes and case studies from esteemed art world professionals, including mega collectors Shelley and Philip Aarons, Beth Rudin DeWoody, Jorge M. Pérez, Howard E. Rachofsky, and Komal Shah; museum directors Adam Weinberg and Heidi Zuckerman; art fair founder Touria El Glaoui; mega art dealers Marc Glimcher, Adam Lindemann, Jeffrey Deitch, and Simon de Pury; leading art curator Hans Ulrich Obrist; superstar art advisor Amy Cappellazzo; and artist Julian Schnabel. The book also features a foreword written by leading art collector Pamela Joyner.

This virtual engagement is generously supported by Art Moves.