Commissioner with Pioneer Winter Collective and Maven Leadership Collective is changing the way communities shape collective memory by examining what is at stake and who gets a say in determining what we value most.
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For Haitian-American artist Stephen Arboite, the machèt carries an energetic charge as a tool used to cultivate the land, and as a weapon of resistance during the Haitian Revolution. Relieve our Season Eight reveal finale with the commissioned artist.
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Founded on models of mutual care and collective support, we’re thrilled to introduce new programs that bring people together to support artists and collect art in Miami, Detroit, Philadelphia, and Charlotte, North Carolina.
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In a season of world-building as transformation—engaging artists for whom shape-shifting, alchemy, and materiality are core to their process—it’s only fitting that Stephen Arboite is the finale artist. Learn more in this brief video portrait, captured in his Little Haiti studio by Alexa Caravia.
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Embodying rebellion through non-functionality, what happens when we reject our assigned roles? Follow the making of The Life and Death of Bluegill Prime and learn more about the practice of commissioned artist David Correa in this short video portrait, made with care by Juan Luis Matos.
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What narratives are shaping our historical record? Whose experiences, perspectives, and voices influence our cultural consciousness? On May 21, Commissioner, in community with Pioneer Winter Collective and Maven Leadership Collective, presented Searching for Collective Memory—an embodied program inspired by Sir Issac Julien's two-channel installation, Vagabondia (2000), during Third Thursdays at The Bass Museum of Art.
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Earlier in May during New York art fair week, our community gathered at the home studio of Michele Oka Doner and husband Fred Doner. In her wisdom, the Season Five commissioned artist reminded us that the sublime of the natural world is all around us—if only we care and slow down enough to take notice.
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On May 8, we gathered at YoungArts for the artwork unveiling of commissioned artist David Correa. The evening began in the Frank Gehry-designed gallery, where artists-in-residence Catherine Camargo of QUEUE Gallery welcomed our extended community. After on the plaza, Correa’s work, The Life and Death of Bluegill Prime, unfolded as a durational play. Read the reflection by Lance Minto-Strouse and see the photography.
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On April 10, we found ourselves at the intersection of First and First at perhaps one of the most contentious of civic spaces. Guided by Amanda Sanfilippo Long, Curator and Manager of Art in Public Places and Director of the South Florida Cultural Consortium, we explored new commissions—many of them by Commissioner artists—at the Osvaldo N. Soto Miami Dade Justice Center.
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