Location: Red Rooster, Miami
920 NW Second Ave. Miami

Prizm opens its ninth edition with our annual Prizm Preview event at Red Rooster in Overtown with visual artists Bisa Butler, Stephen Towns, and Amber Robles Gordon. This panel explores the power of contemporary visual art through the practices of the Diaspora’s most preeminent artists who innovate through the use of textiles. The panel will also share how their works are impacted by black existential thought. Cocktails and light bites provided by Vranken Pommery and Red Rooster.

Join our panelists as they journey through texts by Octavia Butler and bell Hooks, Parable of the Sower and Salvation: Black People and Love. They will explore and discuss parallels and intersections between themes posited in these seminal texts and their own individual curatorial/artistic practices.

*Note this panel will be on ZOOM only

Location: Red Rooster, Miami
920 NW Second Ave. Miami

Connecting Diasporic Spaces through Art and Diplomacy: Redefining the Museum Model for Africa with Raphael Chikukwa (Director of National Gallery, Zimbabwe), Freda Isingoma (CEO of KIISA), and Odile Tevie (Founder of Nubuke Foundation)

*Note: Panelists will be remote. The Zoomcast can be viewed at Red Rooster or from your location via Zoom. Register for details.

Location: Red Rooster, Miami
920 NW Second Ave. Miami

Creole-unanswerables: THE positioning of a Caribbean-American artist, Geoffrey Holder

Dr. Daniela Fifi, Ed.D an Art Educator and Curator that has worked in museums and galleries in the Caribbean and The United States. She is a doctoral graduate in Art and Art Education at Teachers College, Columbia University and holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Pratt Institute, New York, and a Master of Arts in Art Gallery and Museum Studies from the University of Manchester, UK.

This presentation explores concepts of creolization that characterize the aesthetic and artistic production of the Caribbean-American artist, Geoffrey Holder during the Civil Rights movement. Holder defined his work as belonging in the realm of “unanswerables”, that is, positioning his artistic production within conversations of creolization that are centered on transculturalism, transnationalism, and hybridization.

*Note: Panelists will be remote. The Zoomcast can be viewed at Red Rooster or from your location via Zoom. Register for details.

Location: Red Rooster, Miami
920 NW Second Ave. Miami

Prizm x Lightwork Panel: Black Freedom & the Queer Community

Speakers: Terrell Villiers x Octavia Yearwood
Selected passages from Audrey Lorde and James Baldwin will be discussed and dissected through the lens of an artist panel. The texts will provide a framework for questioning the ways in which these two critical thinkers have reimagined Black liberation within the queer identity. Panelists will speak about their own first-hand experience of being Black queer artists, creating safe spaces through art and community, and the work they do to upend and break down negative stereotypes of Black queer people within pre-existing Black communities, bring marginalized from within but also outside of these social groups.

Location: Red Rooster, Miami
920 NW Second Ave. Miami

This panel will consist of artists, cultural producers, and educators whose grassroots efforts are contributory in strengthening South Africa’s existing arts ecosystem.

Panelists:
Thuli Mlambo James (Cultural Producer and Curator)
Andile Magengelele (Curator and co-founder of the Black Collectors Forum (BCF)
Senzeni Marasela (Visual Artist)
Nkhensani Mkhari (multidisciplinary Curator and Artist)

*Note: Panelists will be remote. The Zoomcast can be viewed at Red Rooster or from your location via Zoom. Register for details.

Location: Red Rooster, Miami
920 NW Second Ave. Miami

Join us for a conversation with writer/curator Angela N. Carroll and art historian/curator Dr. Leslie King Hammond about the release of their latest catalog and exhibition: Exploring Presence: African American Artists in the Upper South.

Exploring Presence: African American Artists in the Upper South, identifies a succinct selection of prolific visionaries who create from and are informed by the liminal realms between northeastern art metropolises and the South. Featured artists include Schroeder Cherry, Linda Day Clark, Oletha DeVane, Espi Frazier, Aziza Claudia Gibson Hunter, Martha Jackson Jarvis, Ed Love, Tom Miller, Joyce J Scott, and Paula Whaley. Though most were not born or bred in Washington, D.C. or Baltimore, MD, they each found, grounded, educated, and affirmed themselves in the belly of Black enclaves situated at the border of the Mason Dixon line in a region colloquially known as Up’South or the Upper South. Exploring Presence reviews the projects, interventions, activations, and constructions that each artist engaged between 1970 and the contemporary moment.

Contributing writers include; Dr. Leslie King Hammond, Dr. Lowery Stokes Sims, Charles Moore, Dr. Deborah Britt, Jermaine T. Bell, Martina Dodd, Sarah Stefana Smith, Deyane Moses, Maleke Glee, Monifa Asante Love, and Teri Henderson. Edited and curated by Angela N. Carroll.

*Note: Panelists will be remote. The Zoomcast can be viewed at Red Rooster or from your location via Zoom. Register for details.

Location: Red Rooster, Miami
920 NW Second Ave. Miami

Panelists: Mashonda Tifrere, Musa Anwarii, and Helina Metaferia
Framework: Panelists will introduce their journey into the art world through nontraditional paths building community along the way and the ways in which collaboration has been essential to their success in the art world. In addition, we will discuss how public art of the diaspora builds a bigger community bringing exceptional art to the masses. We will discuss the importance of the acquisition of Black art in corporate collections and why nonprofit organizations provide invaluable access to art and culture to larger more diverse communities.

Prizm invites our Patrons to enjoy an evening hosted by Actress, Activist and Collector, CCH Pounder with Executive Director and Chief Curator of the New Orleans African American Museum, Gia Hamilton, and Independent Curator and Co-Founder of ARTNOIR Larry Ossei Mensah.

Prizm & Art Seen 365 visit Miami-based artist Jared McGriff at his studio to learn more about his art-making process.

Prizm & Art Seen 365 visit Miami-based artist Mark Fleuridor at his studio to learn more about his art-making process.

Prizm & Art Seen 365 visit Georgia-based artist N.Masani Landfair at her studio to learn more about his art-making process.

Prizm & Art Seen 365 visit Miami-based artist Sofía Córdova at her studio to learn more about his art-making process.
Born in 1985 in Carolina, Puerto Rico, and currently based in Miami, Florida, Sofía Córdova makes work that considers sci-fi as alternative history, dance music’s liberatory potential, the internet, colonial contamination, mystical objects, and extinction and mutation as evolution, within the matrix of class, gender, race, late capitalism, and its technologies.

Yanira Collado lives and works, Miami, FL. Collado identifies as a Dominican born in New York. She attended Miami’s New World School of the Arts for high school, studied at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and later pursued studies in Early Childhood Education.

Morel Doucet (b. 1990) is a Miami-based multidisciplinary artist and arts educator that hails from Haiti. He employs ceramics, illustrations, and prints to examine the realities of climate-gentrification, migration, and displacement within the Black diaspora communities. Through a contemporary reconfiguration of the black experience, his work catalogs a powerful record of environmental decay at the intersection of economic inequity, the commodification of industry, personal labor, and race.

Actress, Activist, and Consummate Collector, CCH Pounder, shares her 2020 collecting journey in support of artists in what has been an unpredictable year on many fronts. Enjoy a tour of her new acquisitions and her gallery Corentyne Cottage House

In 2018, Prizm had the honor of hosting A living Legacy conversation featuring Distinguished University of Maryland Professor Emeritus of Art David C. Driskell in conversation with the David C. Driskell Center’s Executive Director, Professor Curlee R. Holton as part of the “Living Legacy National Speaking Tour”. Their conversation highlighted Driskell’s contributions as an artist, scholar, and cultural historian and the contributions of African American artists to the American art canon. Dr. David C. Driskell was a giant, a mentor to many, and an unwavering ambassador for the arts.

In 2017, Nyugen Smith(USA/Trinidad/Haiti) and Marvin Fabien (Dominica/Martinique) presented, Lest We Forget, a multi-sensory performance derived from their on-going dialog related to the impacts of hurricanes and climate change in the Caribbean and the most venerable parts of the United States. Marvin Fabien had a penchant for, through his hypnotic use of sound, conjuring the aesthetics of the popular music culture of the Caribbean whilst simultaneously rendering hair raising Digital Performances that address key issues affecting the Caribbean region. Fabien was easily becoming an indelible force in the continued development of contemporary practice in the Caribbean/Global South. May we continue to remember his work through our continued efforts to amplify Diasporic narratives and perspectives.

On Tuesday, December 1 at 6:30-7:30 PM, Join PRIZM and CMXNR for a lively chat and for a curator tour and talk about emerging trends in art from the Diaspora with Mikhaile Solomon of Prizm Art Fair, Lauren N’Namdi of N’Namdi Contemporary, Tiana Webb Evans of Yard Concept, and Dejha Carrington of Commissioner. Panelists will discuss various topics including how to advance the novice collector’s access to art, strategies for building a collection, the role of institutions in building community, and more.

Susanne Fredricks art advisor, gallerist, and Founder and Director of Jamaica-based platform Suzie Wong Presents ‘the Caribbean, seen,’ and Tiana Webb Evans writer, cultural entrepreneur, and Founder and Creative Director of Yard Concept. discuss the historical and contemporary dynamics of collecting art in Jamaica.

An in-depth analysis of the 40th Anniversary of the life and untimely death of Arthur Lee McDuffie at the hands of Miami Dade police officers.

Prizm presents a conversation between Filmmaker Dudley Alexis and exhibiting Prizm artist Johanne Rahaman moderated by storyteller and journalist, Nadege Green, in a discussion covering the events accounted in Alexis’s film, documenting Miami and South Florida through the lens of Rahaman, and black archival memory in Florida.

Programmed by Monica Sorelle

YARD CONCEPT X PRIZM ART FAIR
Yard Concept Reading Circle 06 | Poetics of Relation by Edouard Glissant | Saturday, December 12th at 12pm
Readers: Tiana Webb Evans, Nyugen Smith, Lucia Hierro, and Mikhaile Solomon

To conclude Prizm’s 8th Edition, we will end with a Collectors’ talk hosted by CCH Pounder in conversation with John Ellis, moderated by Halima Taha. The panel will share their 2020 collecting journey in support of artists in what has been an unpredictable year on many fronts. You can also enjoy a video tour of CC’s new acquisitions and her gallery Corentyne Cottage House in this video preparation for tomorrow’s chat. We look forward to seeing you online!