With cranes looming in the sky and the 1940s award-winning housing development demolished to make space for new construction, O’Neal invited us to become stakeholders and stewards of a shared history through art—a new limited edition piece titled 20th that remembers Rainbow Village. Watch the video, see the photos.
Read MoreRainbow Village, completed in 1970, offered a modest response to the mass displacement and disruption caused by Interstate 95’s annihilation of residential and commercial districts in one of Miami’s oldest Black communities, Overtown. Read the full essay by community historian Nadege Green.
Read MoreThink landscape of imagination. Think world-building. Think speculative futures. Watch our Season Eight’s virtual orientation video for a refresher on how to get the most out of the program, best ways to connect, and the enduring ripple effect of your support.
Read MoreIn our first-ever open community commission, we’re honored to present Reginald O’Neal: Remembering Rainbow Village—a meaningful intervention in art ownership and collective memory. Watch the film by Margo Hannah and Terence Price II.
Read MoreWhen we asked artist Edouard Duval-Carrié about the inspiration behind his commissioned work, he introduced us to the powerful figure of Ayizan or Ayzan from Haitian Vodou cosmology, “the mother of all initiates.”
Read MoreMeet Edouard Duval-Carrié, our fourth and final commissioned artist of Season Seven. Born in Haiti and based in Miami, his practice is firmly rooted in a legacy of liberation, imagination and world-building.
Read MoreAs we celebrate seven years of nurturing an arts ecosystem, Commissioner hosted a meaningful conversation, Collecting Art as Memory Work, with contemporary artist Reginald O’Neal and community historian Nadege Green of Black Miami-Dade at El Espacio 23.
Read MoreNestled between a church and an income tax office, Luna Palazzolo-Daboul, our third commissioned artist of Season Seven, welcomed us into Tunnel Projects’ retail-turned-studio and exhibition space to share a poem across 50 unique sculptures.
Read MoreSelf-taught, our third commissioned artist of Season Seven explores themes of morality, identity, and the human condition. Learn more about her work and Tunnel Projects in our latest artist video.
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