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.