This October, the historic Tower Hotel in Little Havana will play host to a new set of guests when Juggerknot Theater Company premieres “Miami Motel Stories” in its lovingly restored halls and rooms.
Felaspora is an art exhibit dedicated to the musician, pioneer, and legend, Fela Kuti, the Nigerian king of Afrobeat music, his impact on the Diaspora and the commemoration of the 20th year anniversary of his death.
Above: Manzel Bowman Place from Within. One is a US$60 billion global market. The other has a global market cap of US$68 billion as of writing this.
Nadine Natalie Hall is originally from Bull Bay, a small coastal community in East Rural, St. Andrew, Jamaica. She completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degree in Textiles and Fibre Arts at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts.
Miami artist, Christina Nicola creates work that explores abstraction within the human body through a variety of traditional and non-traditional expressions.
Above: Stephen Arboite. Photo by Dario Calmese. Stephen Arboite has just completed a stay at the Fountainhead Residency in Miami, FL, where I arranged to meet him for a studio visit.
Jamilah Sabur is an artist working across various disciplines including performance, video, and installation. Sabur was born in Saint Andrew, Jamaica and is interested in embodied cognition, social mimicry, dissonance, ritual, and the uncanny.
It’s an unlikely yet seamless and poignant mashup, that is one part history lesson; one part guided tour; one part activism-all driven by gamification.
The National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC) has been named a grant recipient of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in support of its 360 Incubator + Fund and its newest initiative, WOKE!
Above: Larry Achiampong, PAN AFRICAN FLAG FOR THE RELIC TRAVELLERS ALLIANCE, 2017. Launched by 1:54 in 2014, Special Projects champions the work of nonprofit cultural organisations and art centres with the aim of realising unique projects and collaborations during its fair editions.
