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Agustina Woodgate WASH Wash is a site-specific score and music video composed for a car wash. It will be the first in a new video series that explores the contemporary connections between moving images and transportation, focused at first on car culture and the the contradictions of the automobile in contemporary life. Wash inverts the typical music video creation and distribution process, composing a score to accompany the car wash that will be playable for anyone traveling through the machine. The score will incorporate music and sound that references the ecological, mechanistic and design aspects of car washes, while also incorporating local musical culture and sound from the communities around the car wash venue. The project has three components--an online score publically available as an accompaniment for car wash patrons, an opening concert, and a music video documenting the score available for global viewing. The project is led by visual artist Agustina Woodgate, in collaboration with Miami-based composer and conductor Teddy Abrams, public curator and writer Stephanie Sherman, and Miami-based musicians. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1456852370155-17D0G6C2YCUO2451M4CI/image-asset.jpeg 2016 Grantees - Agustina Woodgate WASH Wash is a site-specific score and music video composed for a car wash. It will be the first in a new video series that explores the contemporary connections between moving images and transportation, focused at first on car culture and the the contradictions of the automobile in contemporary life. Wash inverts the typical music video creation and distribution process, composing a score to accompany the car wash that will be playable for anyone traveling through the machine. The score will incorporate music and sound that references the ecological, mechanistic and design aspects of car washes, while also incorporating local musical culture and sound from the communities around the car wash venue. The project has three components--an online score publically available as an accompaniment for car wash patrons, an opening concert, and a music video documenting the score available for global viewing. The project is led by visual artist Agustina Woodgate, in collaboration with Miami-based composer and conductor Teddy Abrams, public curator and writer Stephanie Sherman, and Miami-based musicians. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1456852776292-183X8SE04AYYWL1KAUH1/Screen+Shot+2016-03-01+at+12.08.27+PM.png 2016 Grantees - April Dobbins Alabamaland Deep in the backwoods of rural Alabama, Herbert Jones, a 94-year-old black man, clings to his 688-acre farm--a farm that was passed along to his slave ancestors from the family’s former slave master. Despite the farm’s unique history and place in the Jones family, urbanization and the lure of the city threatens this way of life. Alabamaland is a documentary that chronicles the day-to-day life on Herbert’s farm, explores the history of small-scale black farmers in the South, and examines the overall state of American farming. Are there creative ways for this farm to survive? Are Southern communities interested in preserving this way of life, or do the economic struggles of Southern states like Alabama overshadow the preservation of local farm life? What does the future hold for small-scale farmers who have survived so much to keep their land and preserve their way of life? Alabamaland poses these questions and more as it investigates the state of farming in the South. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1456852986607-KC0AFAM3HTS24AJC7SIA/Tom_Virgin-09_2014heartland_franson_virgin.jpg 2016 Grantees - Tom Virgin Extra Virgin Press Extra Virgin Press will preserve the art of letterpress by creating a space where the community can learn and practice this hand printed form of communication. After learning, teaching and printing for forty years in South Florida, I received a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation for EVP. The Knight Arts Challenge Grant in the category of literature will bring writers to the press. Sensuous, handmade, multicolored, embossed, press printing will bring artists. EVP will work with arts organizations, writers, poets, artists, and institutions to create hand printed, small editions of books and art on paper. Common forms are chapbooks, prints, broadsheets, invitations, postcards, and posters. These forms will allow a full spectrum of individuals or collaborators to produce modestly priced, small format multiples in editions of 25-100 copies. It will also gather creative professionals around a small press to promote and document their work, in addition to creating conversations around local issues. Classes and press time will be available for students and community members. Artists/writers will also work with professional educators to bring small portable presses into schools and institutions, to give a voice to the young writers and artists in Miami. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1456853177540-FHF3BAW7CIT7XNCVWZCU/rodolfo_peraza-09_-_Pilgram_1.0.jpg 2016 Grantees - Rodolfo Peraza Pilgram 2.0 Pilgram 2.0 is a conceptual work that explores the boundaries between data visualization and art made from data collection, creating a link between scientific infovis & data sublimation. Pilgram 1.0 first iteration was made in the recently opened hotspots in Havana. This new iteration will show the invisible structures that tie the U.S. (Miami) and Cuba, monitoring and analyzing the packet data traffic. The naked links iteration will be a reflection of the existing communication infrastructure. We will display how the flow of communication between the two cities and the two countries is taking place now a days. We will document in an immersive and sublimated digital form how this communication might change through the month applying same action (acceding to a .cu domain names) during a specific period of time from different points in US (Miami-Florida). The final outcome will be the visibility of the links and infrastructure, and it will be a metaphor of the change (or not), some of these, expected changes between the two countries that in other cases wouldn’t be possible to see with the naked eye. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1456853264028-5ZJPOY2NF7F0CYBTC6RS/Screen+Shot+2016-03-01+at+11.46.21+AM.png 2016 Grantees - Michael Namkung Dragan: Interviews on Drawing Dragan*: Interviews on Drawing takes the form of a monthly, cross-disciplinary online publication that archives interviews and drawings from drawing practitioners in South Florida and beyond. Interviewees will be culled from a variety of fields, including (but not limited to): fine arts, architecture, archaeology, medicine, cognitive science, education, and mathematics. After a one-year Research and Development phase, I will leverage the relationships formed through interviews and cultivating readership both in South Florida and in the international drawing community to organize an international conference on drawing practice in Miami. *"To draw,” means to pull, deriving from the Old English dragan, meaning to drag. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1462378013554-UGM0NNG6DVCKP240Q2YM/13029707_1713349045620047_3549996976202002159_o.jpg 2016 Grantees - Andrew Horton, Odalis Valdivieso, Angela Valella, Marcos Valella, Felice Grodin, and Antonia Wright Fall Semester Fall Semester is an ongoing independent initiative for public discussion on contemporary society and culture. Through a series of public lectures, open conversations, and select online contributors, Fall Semester seeks to introduce new discourse into Miami and effect change through a cross-pollination of ideas across fields. Testing what can be achieved in a sped-up production of discourse, Fall Semester invites noted artists, theoreticians, critics, curators and cultural practitioners, to discuss ideas, then in turn calls on the participants to, in the format of a dialogue, develop a conversation from their respective positions. This initiative is in many ways an experiment in what can happen when new material—like a bomb-drop of new data—is rapidly introduced into local rhetoric. Founded in Summer 2013, Fall Semester was envisioned as an ongoing series and flexible, critical platform. The second iteration of Fall Semester will focus on identity, through discussion and overviews of the post-human, new aesthetic, capital consumption, and performativity. Public participation in Fall Semester is not limited by profession, status, merit, or income. It is a free and open forum to any who desire to contribute to or observe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1456853361994-N7K8X3K18FDEAXQO1E8O/Screen+Shot+2016-03-01+at+11.57.40+AM.png 2016 Grantees - David Rohn FELIZX FELIZX performance-styled video on the life and work of deceased artist Felix Gonzalez Torres, during the last phase of his life, spent on Miami Beach in the early '90's using advice and archival material made available by his roommate of his last years, and best friend since 8th grade at San Jorge School in Puerto Rico, Claudio Gonzalez. Our focus is the relationship between Felix's highly personal art and his last 6 years spent here in Miami Beach during the peak of the AIDS Epidemic, which claimed his life in 1996, not long before life-saving anti-viral drugs, became available. The emergent scene on Miami Beach in the late 80's and early '90's, where so many young men gathered to live out there last years, is as inseparable from the death sentence an AIDS diagnosis meant then, as it is from the work Felix created then, before the the anti-viral drugs appeared. Our mode of constructing the Piece include choreographed performative vignettes and original music based on the club music of the time and elements that refer directly to his work and South Beach at the time: strung lights, candy, billboards, beaded portieres, Drag Queens and Go-Go Dancers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1456853370677-OFK9E1470BHBV21B7R2H/Screen+Shot+2016-03-01+at+11.56.04+AM.png 2016 Grantees - Susan Caraballo The Cuba Project The Cuba Project (tentatively titled) is a platform for artists, curators and scholars about art from Cuba and the Cuban diaspora. Organized by independent curator/producer Susan Caraballo, it will engage numerous institutions ranging from museums and arts organizations to galleries and artist-run spaces across South Florida including ArtCenter/South Florida, Diana Lowenstein Gallery, Dimensions Variable, Fountainhead Studios, Pan American Art Projects, Perez Art Museum Miami, The Screening Room, among others. Each will present thematically linked exhibitions and programs about Cuban contemporary art. This collaborative initiative was born out of several projects that have been in the works by Miami-based curators and producers prior to the December 17, 2014 announcement of the easing of relations between the US and Cuba. These developments have proven the timeliness of this initiative. It will comprise large-scale and smaller exhibitions and events including a symposium. A curatorial committee will oversee the selection of projects. Funding is sought to research and develop the project for implementation in 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1456853394832-TG813Q9B7H2P6WRSMMV0/Asif_Farooq-20150819_150647.jpg 2016 Grantees - Asif Farooq Balalaika Balalaika is a slightly-larger-than-life spiritual duplicate of a Soviet era MiG-21 jet fighter. It can be viewed as an impermanent paper airplane made by a child. As a sculpture made by an adult, it is a solution incorporating all the elements of limitless imagination while retaining the refinement of age and experience. The project seeks to address the complex problems inherent in science, technology, and geopolitical realities. The project speaks to the temporary nature of life and objects. The airframe itself is approximately 52'x28'x18'. It will weigh approximately 3,200 pounds. Every switch functions—as do the landing gear, flaps, and rudder. To adhere to another element of its conceptual origin, it is all made entirely from paper (much of it custom fabricated on-site) and Elmer’s glue. The airplane is built to a 1.0588:1 scale to fit my frame. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1456853405204-ZMCMEQH8I1V3WAKPKLGE/Sofia_Bastidas-Ecuador_.jpg 2016 Grantees - Sofia Bastidas Port to Port Dwelling Projects is an itinerant residency program that develops opportunities for Miami-based practitioners to travel to Latin America and the Caribbean using Miami’s existing and historical trade routes and transient space, supporting exchange between both sites. In 2016, DP’s founder and director, Sofia Bastidas, and artistic director, Guillermo Gomez, will travel to Port of Balboa, Panama, with the intention of developing Port to Port, a traveling research program to Latin American and Caribbean port cities for Miami based researchers, architects, urban planners, and artists. Port to Port research program will facilitate in the research of regional port cities in relation to Port of Miami. Current global cities are being built on Free Trade Zones, with standardized architecture and city planning existing within them. Miami exists to be the next global economic power player, with an expanding port that will change its current global position. It is important to give an opportunity to Miami based artists, practitioners and researchers interested in urban ecologies to expand their current practice abroad, while still connecting and contributing to local issues. After 2017’s first iteration to Port Balboa, residents will return to Miami to present their findings in a public conversation and publication or exhibition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1456853817050-LQFNYVIFGDRHVL4TNN07/Elite_Kedan-Screenshot-close_AST.jpg 2016 Grantees - Elite Kedan Alliance of the Southern Triangle AST (Alliance of Southern Triangle) is an experimental initiative exploring the ramifications of a speculative secession of South Florida from the State of Florida, in light of current and projected State policy relating to climate change. We are an independent collaborative of artists and architects interested in how extrapolative line-drawing through Florida might be a catalyst towards the creative investigation and leveraging of networks, forces, ruptures and flows already in play. Miami and the South Florida region of which it is part, frame a unique matrix of land use, trade patterns, borderline legality, immigration porosity, mixed ecologies, contemporary art, real-estate development and various instruments of financial exchange. Viewed globally it represents, perhaps, the shape of things to come. AST aims to be a platform where geospatial, political, urban, ecological, cultural and artistic possibilities, in light of climate change and political volatility, can be reimagined, visualized, and materialized in ways that leverage the dynamics already in process. Through collaborative efforts we hope to develop artistic strategies and practices that envision alternative trajectories for Miami and the South Florida region in a global context; as well as speculate on the possibilities for what an art practice might become in this historical moment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1461000224729-MA2SVCX1LFH0477J8NE4/Despain_Site+of+Sound_Proposal+Image.jpg 2016 Grantees - Cara Despain the sight of sound for Fringe Projects the sight of sound uses simple sound displacement to create an alter-environement that looks backward and forward. Situating small, wireless speakers in 3-5 storm drains (with the co-operation of the City), I want to bring lost or out of place sounds into part of the (unlikely) built environment that will naturally amplify them. By using sound rather than sight, I hope people will be able to experience their surroundings in a different way, using different sensitivities. For the astute listener, this may conjure larger ideas, such as the loss of silence, of habitat, the approaching sea, industrialization. However, I hope it also creates a magical, uncanny encounter with art. There is the set, and then there is the soundtrack. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1456854249023-4IXYBCMFE9QS0BAV7CM0/Screen+Shot+2016-03-01+at+12.43.42+PM.png 2016 Grantees - Erin Elder LOT LOT is a process-driven and research-based project located in Miami, FL that investigates the legacies and possibilities of the fenced vacant lot. Co-curated by Erin Elder and Felecia Carlisle, the project includes 3-5 artists in an address of these unique spaces with temporary site interventions as one of several possible outcomes. Miami is one of the fastest growing cities in the United States. It is home to a wealthy paradox of influences, histories, personas, agendas, fantasies, exploits, economies, languages, cultures, and dreams. LOT highlights the city’s vacant lots as a point of departure for a considered, complex, and creative investigation of current trends in development, land use, speculation, space, and power. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1456944127265-TZ7KEZZPDK2HT57T3E0U/Michelle_Weinberg-MWeinberg_PolygonProjection.jpg 2016 Grantees - Michelle Weinberg Moving Parts Moving Parts will assemble 4-5 collaborators from varied disciplines to conceive and produce an original work of theater for a compact, portable stage (approx 4’ x 4’ x 4’). Through a series of meetings and workshops, the company will share ideas and develop set architecture/scene changes, a libretto/text, figurines/props, video/film projections, sound/music/voice and performance. The resulting work will be presented free of charge to the public at venues including public libraries, museums, and non-profits, especially targeting underserved community venues. Meetings will take place at Available Space in Little River, my new studio/exhibition space opening Feb 1. As Artistic Director of Moving Parts, I envision a new production annually, involving different collaborators from all possible disciplines. Moving Parts will present a unique theater of objects, architecture, sound and image using modest economic means. We will develop our own techniques and intimate mechanics, our own stagecraft, to experiment with figuration and abstraction, pictures and language, space and time, narrative and transformation. In a condensed, concentrated way, Moving Parts will expand the art and performance scene here, and be a new platform for artists to express themselves. http://www.wavemakergrants.org/2017-grantees-1 daily 0.75 2023-07-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1487860198496-PBIRPHEBL9PQ9GH5WX4M/aja.jpg 2017 Grantees - Aja Monet Bacquie  Negro SpiriTTuals Negro SpiriTTuals is the debut music project by Love Riott: a music/poetry duo of Miami artists Aja Monet & Umi Selah in collaboration with Smoke Signals Studio based in Little Haiti, Miami. Negro Spirituals are closely linked to the history of African Americans in this country. The lyrics were intimately connected to the lives of their authors: black slaves imagining a free future. Then and now, these songs hold an incredible resonant power. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1487860198496-PBIRPHEBL9PQ9GH5WX4M/aja.jpg 2017 Grantees - Aja Monet Bacquie  Negro SpiriTTuals Negro SpiriTTuals is the debut music project by Love Riott: a music/poetry duo of Miami artists Aja Monet & Umi Selah in collaboration with Smoke Signals Studio based in Little Haiti, Miami. Negro Spirituals are closely linked to the history of African Americans in this country. The lyrics were intimately connected to the lives of their authors: black slaves imagining a free future. Then and now, these songs hold an incredible resonant power. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1487860260552-Q7TVCH5OV05OZB8X738P/Capture.JPG 2017 Grantees - Keisha Rae Witherspoon  T T is a film that follows three participants of the 50th Annual Black T Ball in which community members of one of Miami’s most violent inner city zones assemble to model wildly innovative “R.I.P.” T-shirts designed to honor their deceased loved ones. Set in a dystopian, mega-surveilled Miami 40 years into the future, T is a meditation on the absurd, foundational culture of death and destruction that is sadly widely accepted in Miami’s black inner city, a condition which parallels with our drowning city. This short whirlwind of surveillance drones, absurd costuming and the increasing threat of heightened racial violence tugs on the futurism of Mad Max, parodied racial themes of Bamboozled and the dark satire and aesthetic of Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb… all set in Liberty City. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1487860412291-PISOLYZ9K3VH1QP8WG2B/04_Moreno_Helga_copy.jpg 2017 Grantees - Gean Moreno  Tabloid: Decolonial Aesthetics It is hardly surprising—but not because of this excusable—that in a city squeezed between luxury condos and art fairs, there is a dearth of discourse around what seems to me the most important task we face in light of both climate change and the reassertion of white supremacy in the social sphere: a decolonization of our of thinking and our practices. It is the glaring absence of this discourse in Miami, along with the new political landscape we find ourselves in, that determines the motivation behind the proposal to generate, over the next year, four tabloids (quarterly) to be freely distributed at different culturally-related sites (galleries, museums), activist locations, and universities. The tabloids will include original scholarship on decolonial aesthetics from the leading thinkers in the field, as well as material on the practices of Indigenous artists throughout the Americas. The impact of such a project will be to render more robust, dynamic, and diverse the critical conversations in the city and, by extension, have an impact of local cultural production and pedagogical practices (and perhaps even further afield). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1487860457763-REQR559HBAB0NAUKW38P/AHM.Still015.jpg 2017 Grantees - Jamilah Sabur  Animals with tails do not jump over fire "Animals with tails do not jump over fire" is a feature length experimental film exploring the U.S. occupations of Haiti including the current Brazilian led U.S. backed UN (MINUSTAH) operation. The recent exodus of Haitians from Brazil, has magnified the acceptance of deplorable exploitation and modern day slavery as part of the workings of globalization. Haitians have lived under decades of brutal U.S. backed dictatorships. This, and their race, lands Haitians deep in what Frantz Fanon's called the "zone of non-being." It is important to recognize degrees of racial privilege even among oppressed groups, and call attention to the rights that are lost by those shoved deeper into the zone of non-being. The piece is to be filmed in three temporal stages (1805, 1915-1935, and present day 2017), I will assemble a narrative using Susan Buck-Morss' "Hegel and Haiti" as a guide, and the lead character will be performed by a Haitian refugee who made the gruesome 7,000 mile journey from Brazil to the U.S. - whom I've been in communication with over the past 2 months. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1487860793794-37I3Y3FDR7JP7AL63UFL/CaraballoSusan-TheFutureIsntWhatItUsedToBe-small_format.jpg 2017 Grantees - Susan Caraballo  The Cuba Project The Cuba Project (tentatively titled) is a platform for artists, curators and scholars about art from Cuba and the Cuban diaspora. Organized by independent curator/producer Susan Caraballo, it will engage numerous institutions ranging from museums and arts organizations to galleries and artist-run spaces across South Florida including ArtCenter/South Florida, Diana Lowenstein Gallery, Dimensions Variable, Fountainhead Studios, Pan American Art Projects, Perez Art Museum Miami, the Screening Room, among others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1487860792182-3Y8B7G7ZAM46RSTA0SJC/Commissioner_Tools.jpg 2017 Grantees - Dejha Carrington  Commissioner As Miami’s arts scene matures, we are faced with challenges of sustainability, discovery and local impact. While more Miami artists find success on the national and global stage, the city remains a difficult community for mid-career local artists to grow in their craft. How might we attract new local collectors to support these artists, build more art around Miami’s culture, and ultimately build a more sustainable arts community? Commissioner will offer a quarterly subscription to small-scale, limited-edition artworks from mid-career Miami artists and experiential programming around our city’s artists, art, and culture. The series will provide a much-needed art commissioning and cultivation platform for local artists and inspire new Miamians to take an active role as patrons in the community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1487860799162-U2GNE315O364NXR2IUTT/comp_hands.jpg 2017 Grantees - Jillian Mayer  DAYLITE DAYLITE is a 360-degree virtual reality art piece that is based in a hyper-saturated world. Aesthetically, the artificial environment will be constructed and conceptualized by my paintings, sculptures, and installations that address contemporary human’s dependency on technology. This experience will blend motion activated soundscapes that modify and react as the user moves through the virtual space. Three-dimensional footage will be captured of people performing with my interactive sculptures and the player will be pulled in and out of a narrative that questions dystopia digital integrated life with computer generated ideals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1487860800922-39DWS4JI140LQ0BIN26D/CU_DV_0660.jpg 2017 Grantees - Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova  Dimensions Variable Since 2009, Dimensions Variable has been inviting local and international artists to produce solo projects in Miami as well as curating projects outside its exhibition space. DV is interested in supporting experimental practices and ideas as a way to contribute additional dialogue within Miami. The belief that more opportunities should be available to artists and audience outside conventional art world platforms is important. Independent spaces like DV are often the breeding ground for new innovative work by emerging artists that lead to greater opportunities. These activities make up part of the foundation of any dynamic cultural city. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1487860800918-JEO0DACLW0R0POJFTQXJ/IMG_8589.JPG 2017 Grantees - Sofia Bastidas  Port to Port Dwelling Projects is an itinerant residency program that develops opportunities for Miami-based practitioners to travel to Latin America and the Caribbean using Miami’s existing and historical trade routes and transient space, supporting exchange between both sites. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1487860829273-NGAD9PJZVWYQN6Z5TD7J/Miami_Zine_Fair_2016_Tent_shot.jpg 2017 Grantees - EXILE BOOKS/ Amanda Keeley  Activating the Miami Zine Fair with Art & Identity On Saturday April 22, 2017, EXILE Books will produce their annual Miami Zine Fair in partnership with University of Miami’s Special Collections and O, Miami Poetry Festival at the Lowe Art Museum. The Miami Zine Fair features over 120 local artists, writers, publishers, and activists gathered together on the University of Miami campus, with an educational symposium hosted by the Special Collections department. With the support of the Wavemaker Grant, we will include five activations in conjunction with the Zine Fair featuring local and visiting artist’s and writer’s public arts interventions as well as participatory projects such as zine stations and workshops, performances, live printing and demonstrations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1488145394415-SFPMST7AWNH5H8XU3Q6F/YALE_MYTH.jpg 2017 Grantees - Justin Long  YáLE Club Social Themed as a Mexican cantina, YáLE Club Social is an artist-founded alternative exhibition space created by the Miami-based artist Justin H. Long and located in the burgeoning creative cluster of Little Haiti. Humorously responding to the elitist tone of an Ivy League school, YáLE is uniquely positioned as a platform for creatives including artists, gallerists, musicians and those who are self-taught to exhibit work in an experimental, supportive space. With only 250 square feet, since its inception in February of 2016 YáLE has solidified itself as a creative hub and peer environment, in response to the sudden populating of galleries, artist studios and alternative spaces cropping up in Miami’s upper east side. In 2017 YáLE will expand its operations to embrace support for alternative education and create longevity and support for the creative community by offering stipends to exhibiting artists. http://www.wavemakergrants.org/2018-grantees daily 0.75 2023-07-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1521058341137-TGG6FZKO4GNNTRKMPEID/shellyne_rodriguez.jpg 2018 Grantees - Alex Nuñez Sunday Painter Sunday Painter began in 2016 as a platform to shine a light on local talent and peer into their sacred creative process. Weekly interviews have granted access to inspiring creatives working across multiple mediums. This podcast is a collage of sound that mirrors their current motivations, ongoing projects and upcoming shows; allowing artists to story-tell through various selected tracks. Artists are encouraged to invite a guest to collaborate with them on a show, forging new connections in the creative community. Group exhibitions at the end of each season of recording promote awareness of the program and encourage local engagement in the community. Listeners are invited to a physical manifestation of the project. Seeing these works in relation to these episodes allow the viewer a unique insight into the intention and craftsmanship of the artwork. Site specific performances, panel programming and live broadcasting from local businesses encourage interaction during the run of the program. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1521058341137-TGG6FZKO4GNNTRKMPEID/shellyne_rodriguez.jpg 2018 Grantees - Alex Nuñez Sunday Painter Sunday Painter began in 2016 as a platform to shine a light on local talent and peer into their sacred creative process. Weekly interviews have granted access to inspiring creatives working across multiple mediums. This podcast is a collage of sound that mirrors their current motivations, ongoing projects and upcoming shows; allowing artists to story-tell through various selected tracks. Artists are encouraged to invite a guest to collaborate with them on a show, forging new connections in the creative community. Group exhibitions at the end of each season of recording promote awareness of the program and encourage local engagement in the community. Listeners are invited to a physical manifestation of the project. Seeing these works in relation to these episodes allow the viewer a unique insight into the intention and craftsmanship of the artwork. Site specific performances, panel programming and live broadcasting from local businesses encourage interaction during the run of the program. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1521056952408-IC5HN0SANT4HJIUUNR7B/Sample_Website_for_MWAA.png 2018 Grantees - Anita Sharma Miami Women's Artist Archive In the last three decades, Miami’s art activity has proliferated but where are the records, archives and documentation of this activity located? At present in Miami, there is no comprehensive support for the documentation and preservation of artist archives. The handful of traditional archives that exist in Miami while fulfilling an important objective are not focused primarily on the visual arts. And archives that are tied to institutions often have selection criteria that are founded on the historic principles that conceptualize the process of preservation as a measure of the monolithic past and often ignore the complexities of archiving as a dynamic, post-custodial and culturally sensitive practice. My project will bring the practices of women artists to the forefront by offering them democratic technologies to document their art making process and archives. The Miami Women’s Artist Archive (MWAA) will be a participatory user driven platform that will enable users to upload their content to a user friendly website. The digital archive will be available to diverse audiences. The mission of the MWAA will be to facilitate the preservation and documentation of artist archives of women of diverse artistic backgrounds and nationalities. Learn more GET A CLOSER LOOK into the artist’s writing on the blog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1521059892644-1JUADRF7HLNJX3FCPIZZ/Tai_Crane_5.jpg 2018 Grantees - Antonia Wright Tai Crane Tai Crane is a proposed large-scale public performance, where two commercial tower cranes are choreographed to the traditional poses of tai chi. The cranes will weave around each other as if they were set to the deliberate pace of human hands, resulting in mechanical, flowing gestures 200 feet high. I will be stationed below the cranes, orchestrating the machines as they follow my movements. The performance will public; captured on video and to increase access to the citizens of Miami, will be broadcast live, projected onto a nearby video screen. The audience will witness the machines’ attempt to replicate the fluidity of organic motion as we move in tandem through a sequence of gestures. GET A CLOSER LOOK into the project on the blog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1613601754317-5WB6X6PKUP5NVLODB812/WeGotTheBeat_FreshArtINTL_JoltRadio_photoMonica_McGivern2017.jpg 2018 Grantees - Cathy Byrd - Fresh Art International We Got the Beat: Art Talk Radio Inspires Miami's Creative Community Fresh Art International’s weekly talk show on Jolt Radio has the beat of Miami’s art scene. Live streaming with host Cathy Byrd, our conversations with culture makers—artists, curators, architects, writers and filmmakers—inform and inspire creative communities in our region and introduce South Florida to the world. We’re in this for the long haul! Launched in 2011 from a park bench in Brooklyn, Fresh Art International is now a Miami based, globally engaged, live streaming talk radio show, podcast and free online audio archive. In 2017, we received a Knight Arts Challenge Grant to support the growth and outreach of the inventive audio program that transports 20,000 monthly listeners to sites of creativity at the center and fringe of art scenes in Florida and across six continents. Infusing art talk radio about today’s art, design and film with unique sonic experiences and incisive conversations, our mission is to make contemporary art and culture relevant, fresh, inspiring and educational for the cognoscenti and the curious. We aim to stimulate listeners for decades to come! Learn more GET A CLOSER LOOK into the project on the blog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1613601642256-LTI7Y7LD4MAWELETRAG7/SERGE_TOUSSAINT_PH.jpg 2018 Grantees - Danielle Bender Public Hives Public Hives promotes community pollinators by placing beehives in neighborhoods and parks in Miami. By creating greater access to educational opportunities, and presenting with the arts in mind , Public Hives inspires community members to learn alongside one another while observing and learning from other communities: bees! Programming encourages discourse about pollinators from an arts & culture standpoint, with a specific focus on visual arts, poetry, and sound installations. Funding will support artistic workshops and commissions. GET A CLOSER LOOK into the project on the blog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1521061297772-TGE28TNDO0OCF7EA44FP/Bargeprojectbegins.JPG 2018 Grantees - Julian Yuri Rodriguez The Flagler Ecobarge The Flagler Ecobarge will serve as a mobile decentralized food source and education center for the homeless living along the Flagler Canal system from NW 57th ave to NW 72nd ave. The barge functions as a floating garden made from trash collected from the canals with plants bearing fruits and vegetables along with an aquaponics/ irrigation system using water directly from the lake. Free workshops revolving around DIY agriculture will be held directly on the site. The goal of this work is to lay the foundation for these individuals living under the canal bridges to engage in sustainable practices with minimal resources to be fed organically and, ultimately, survive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1519754094292-N6CXQBCYQYFQHV5OB9YV/Bitcoin_Charts_in_Hackthon_Demo.png 2018 Grantees - LCHN Experiment .001: FocusCoin and CryptoSymphonics by LCHN .001: FocusCoin and CryptoSymphonics is an experiment focused on cryptocurrencies and their power. This experiment is aimed at finding new ways to work with and disseminate cryptocurrency, and how cryptocurrencies and the decentralized communities surrounding them shape our world today. This experiment includes three components. The first being the development of a new cryptocurrency as the central unit for the experiment called: FocusCoin. The second involves using OpenBCI (an open source Brain-Computer Interface) to translate synchronized EEG waves to generate and mine for the token of exchange that we have built. The final component is an auto generated score, with an accompanying performance, utilizing the fluctuations in price of cryptocurrencies in real time as the source for the sounds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1521051142729-6BPKHHGBBORTM0MBPB7U/02_Castaneda_Leo.jpg 2018 Grantees - Leo Castaneda Levels and Bosses Funds are requested for the development of Levels and Bosses: a digital game deconstructing the binaries and hierarchies that pervade not only video games, but also the mythologies and social structures of our globalized world. Subverting the boundaries between antagonist and protagonist, environment and individual, abstraction and representation, fine art and video game design, Levels and Bosses challenges understandings of sequential order, progression, and time that govern our late-capitalist imaginations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1613601694576-9YLLZ2NO55EHH1LR3DFL/Doucet05.jpg 2018 Grantees - Morel Doucet White Noise: When Raindrop Whispers and Moonlight Screams in Silence The body of work developed at the African Heritage Cultural Center residency program in Miami, FL would be an extension of an ongoing series titled "White Noise." White Noise examines the relationship between the living and malleable in coral reef bleaching, nostalgia as a reconstituted memory, and the socio-environmental experience of the African diaspora, particularly Afro-Caribbean’s, through ecological metaphors of black fragility, skin bleaching, and colorism. My goal for this solo exhibition is to develop a holistic body of work where communities of color are the keystone in conversations about seawater rise, climate change, and emergency preparedness. GET A CLOSER LOOK into the project on the blog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1521067304695-57VUHSGVNHM7NJNJEZZN/02-domingo-castillo-memory-lab-history-miami-2017.png 2018 Grantees - OCR OCR: Lincoln Memorial Park OCR: Lincoln Memorial Park, a cemetery in Brownsville, and burial site of black luminaries like D.A. Dorsey, Gwen Cherry, Father John Culmer and countless others whose lives and narratives may illuminate our understanding of Brownsville and of Historic Miami. OCR will mount an exhibition and publish a book featuring on the research, findings and newly commissioned texts in the 1st Quarter of 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1613601943461-TYYOR82LWGRWMRMK9GZU/06_20170711_1570vv2.jpg 2018 Grantees - Onajide Shabaka “Alosúgbe: remembering (as far as the sun)” “Alosúgbe: remembering (as far as the sun),” focuses on colonial era and contemporary ethnobotany of the Caribbean region as material source for understanding the migrations of both humans and plants during those periods. Today the resultant botanicals and food traditions of the Caribbean regional societies provides a long overdue opportunity for discussion of a greater Caribbean culinary heritage now fully integrated, but whose African contribution is still not yet fully appreciated. Miami as a regional community comes from various parts of the Caribbean and the historical relationships through forced and voluntary migration, both people and food, are part of the region’s legacy. GET A CLOSER LOOK into the project on the blog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1613601843117-XXPNC4T00YEXWSZEZOXH/zineCU.JPG 2018 Grantees - PageSlayers SIDE X SIDE PageSlayers, a 2016 Knight Arts Challenge winner, is dedicated to cultivating the next generation of artists- and writers-of-color in South Florida. We are partnering with EXILE ooks to produce SIDE X SIDE, a dynamic, interactive correspondence art project that will engage with young artists and writers in Opa-Locka and Little Haiti. We aim to bridge our respective Miami-Dade neighborhoods together by means of mail art, highlighting their unique experiences and neighborhoods. Inspired students between the ages of 8 to 10 years old living and attending public school in Little Haiti and Opa-Locka will be paired with each other as pen pals, creating correspondence art – stamps, envelopes, and other snail-mail memorabilia – while learning about life in another diverse community through the lens of a new friend. By the end of SIDE X SIDE, the not-so-long-distance pals will finally meet IRL and create their own zine together! Separate then together, separate and together, these students will both expand their literary horizons beyond community borders and instill in themselves a civic sense of pride from where they read, write, live and play. GET A CLOSER LOOK into the project on the blog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1521063641941-1FBS3QWV66Q99I8V6GMN/TILH1.JPG 2018 Grantees - Third Horizon This is Little Haiti "This is Little Haiti" is a multimedia exploration of the people, history and culture of Miami’s fastest gentrifying neighborhood, Little Haiti. Through a new film by award-winning documentarians supplemented by a transmedia website featuring a web series, photography, and essays, the project aims to investigate and preserve the history and cultural vitality of this neighborhood, which is quickly slipping away in the face of potentially intrusive new development and increasing public disparagement of the Haitian community. http://www.wavemakergrants.org/2019-grantees daily 0.75 2023-07-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1553895667893-H57OFXFG1IE62G0WURI2/AG_LGBTQ+sculpture+event.jpg 2019 Grantees - A.G. Untitled (forms from MEDIAPRO HD ULTIMATE F/X 18 COLOR MAKEUP PALETTE) A celebratory public event highlighted by a curated program of time-based queer expressions staged at Miami-Dade’s first and only public artwork dedicated to the contributions of Miami-Dade County’s LGBTQ Community. A public event utilizing the artist’s permanent sculpture Untitled (forms from MEDIAPRO HD ULTIMATE F/X 18 COLOR MAKEUP PALETTE) as a site for a curated program of time-based queer expressions ranging from drag performances to spoken word. GET A CLOSER LOOK into the project on the blog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1553895667893-H57OFXFG1IE62G0WURI2/AG_LGBTQ+sculpture+event.jpg 2019 Grantees - A.G. Untitled (forms from MEDIAPRO HD ULTIMATE F/X 18 COLOR MAKEUP PALETTE) A celebratory public event highlighted by a curated program of time-based queer expressions staged at Miami-Dade’s first and only public artwork dedicated to the contributions of Miami-Dade County’s LGBTQ Community. A public event utilizing the artist’s permanent sculpture Untitled (forms from MEDIAPRO HD ULTIMATE F/X 18 COLOR MAKEUP PALETTE) as a site for a curated program of time-based queer expressions ranging from drag performances to spoken word. GET A CLOSER LOOK into the project on the blog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1554912233647-GIYD84BCT7MNPLXX6H0N/Photo_Feb_27_10_50_44_AM.jpg 2019 Grantees - the BLCK family BLCK Freedom Sessions A mobile, monthly series highlighting sound based work activating a variety of live music venues and arts institutions. Formatted as a 45 minute live performance with non-hierarchical dialogue taking place thereafter, this program facilitates space for artists to participate in, appreciate and discuss their practice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1554912206280-Q4YMUUNIWASE8TSONIDM/04_Bosque_Liene.jpg 2019 Grantees - Liene Bosquê HamacaS An ongoing project exploring the cultural dissonance and emotional displacement experienced by immigrants in the United States, consisting of an interactive installation and research hub activated through collective-weaving sessions and workshops. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1554912208558-5SQPII1EOVFXLXONJOK8/05_Franky_Cruz_Viverium_Meconium_Laboratory.jpg 2019 Grantees - franky cruz Vivarium Meconium Laboratory A native butterfly rearing and painting laboratory where the artist collaborates with South Floridian species of butterfly to collect their meconium later releasing them back into South Florida’s ecosystem. GET A CLOSER LOOK into the project on the blog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1554912235600-WC8C38JXR8D62S4LGQ14/OCR2019-LM_1530199a.jpg 2019 Grantees - OCR OCR : Lincoln Memorial An art and research project, diving into less-often-celebrated spaces in Miami gathering knowledge and narratives that interrogate its shaping and history in order to present the findings to a larger audience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1613602231015-JZ5VJHYCX71MNZY4KL4I/KashiaBW1.jpeg 2019 Grantees - Evan Marcus and Maya Billig Emahoy In Miami: Prophesy of The Future In Exile A community engagement project using dance performance and film to simulate the future reality of environmental instability for people living in South Florida featuring the music of Ethiopian composer Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, whose work is reflective of her experience in political exile. GET A CLOSER LOOK into the project on the blog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1554912216598-FLOTLVGNOMQD7GXIQW5G/8.png 2019 Grantees - Ani Mercedes FEARLESS A short documentary film that reveals the spiritual side of boxing through an unexpected group of boxers, teenage girls and women who uncover their power both inside and outside the ring. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1613602014880-MYDAEMNZRUUXT0U6CGHB/IMG_1079.JPG 2019 Grantees - Buenezas Buenezas A project exploring, identifying, and experimenting with edible weeds around Little Haiti through a series of workshops, panels and activities addressing the topic of these local weeds and their forgotten, ancestral benefits. GET A CLOSER LOOK into the project on the blog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1554912222304-9RRV39UEFVTVBHHH518R/IMG_2558.JPG 2019 Grantees - Oscar Rieveling Auto-mariachi A group performance bringing together approximately 50 musicians from different mariachi groups to serenade each other. Presented in the context of a Central American flea market in South Florida, the project will aim to address questions of national identity, gender, and migration in a US context. GET A CLOSER LOOK into this artist’s other work on the blog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1613602072693-9IDZFCALSOYMWE8F8X2O/DSC_0020.JPG 2019 Grantees - Aurora Molina and Alina Rodriguez Quilting Stories, Narrating Through Their Eyes An outreach project engaged in distilling the essence of the immigrant experience as seen through the eyes of children and the prism of textile art. Using the personal narratives of immigrant Haitian children, this project will revitalize and increase the visibility of traditional Haitian drapo sèvis (ceremonial Vodou flags). GET A CLOSER LOOK into the project on the blog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1554912231860-F8VQO90L8G9JVEUNGP1V/img20180916_0200v3.jpg 2019 Grantees - Onajide Shabaka “Alosúgbe: remembering (as far as the sun)” A research based project focusing on colonial era and contemporary ethnobotany of the Caribbean region as material source for understanding the migrations of both humans and plants during those periods/ GET A CLOSER LOOK into the project on the blog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1613602147397-S2VDQDE4E15E6NI73IHI/4.Silicone_Molds_detail.jpg 2019 Grantees - Lauren Shapiro Temporary Terrains A site-specific installation of endangered flora housed Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, recreated in unfired clay attached to a wooden and wire mesh framework mounted to an architectural element: overtime the unfired clay will dry and crack. GET A CLOSER LOOK into the project on the blog. http://www.wavemakergrants.org/2020-grantees daily 0.75 2023-07-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1586879978354-6MK4X0HYY9MFPRVDK468/Anita+Sharma+-+Women%27s+Artist+Archive+Miami+%28WAAM%29+-+Image.jpg 2020 Grantees - Anita Sharma Women’s Artist Archive Miami (WAAM) A platform that documents the contribution of women and female-identifying artists using principles of participatory archiving and digital preservation strategies. These models emphasize democratic processes of selection and curation, where the artist or cultural producer is in control of shaping their living legacy. By creating peripheral archival access points within the community, WAAM will reframe how archival institutions can engage and support local artists, obtaining content from artists across all career stages. WAAM continued to expand its database after the pilot year by inviting artists to upload content to the digital archive to reflect the diverse and rich cultural production in Miami. Learn more GET A CLOSER LOOK into this artist’s own writing on the blog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1586879978354-6MK4X0HYY9MFPRVDK468/Anita+Sharma+-+Women%27s+Artist+Archive+Miami+%28WAAM%29+-+Image.jpg 2020 Grantees - Anita Sharma Women’s Artist Archive Miami (WAAM) A platform that documents the contribution of women and female-identifying artists using principles of participatory archiving and digital preservation strategies. These models emphasize democratic processes of selection and curation, where the artist or cultural producer is in control of shaping their living legacy. By creating peripheral archival access points within the community, WAAM will reframe how archival institutions can engage and support local artists, obtaining content from artists across all career stages. WAAM continued to expand its database after the pilot year by inviting artists to upload content to the digital archive to reflect the diverse and rich cultural production in Miami. Learn more GET A CLOSER LOOK into this artist’s own writing on the blog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1588777739661-XSLLQGGWXYEXOGNVUGMK/Laurencia+Strauss+-+The+Bubble+Pops+Popsicle+Project+_+PROJECTIONS+-+Image.jpg 2020 Grantees - Laurencia Strauss The Bubble Pops Popsicle Project / PROJECTIONS For over two years, Miami residents contributed their advice learned from adaptive experiences like immigrating or surviving hurricanes in exchange for a hand-crafted bubble popsicle. Each participant’s advice was then integrated into the next iteration of popsicles as the body of knowledge grows and circulates. With collaborator Zlatko Cosic, The Bubble Pops Popsicle Project / PROJECTIONS expands this communal adaptation advice archive by projecting it as a video on the façade of a Miami building. Visitors and locals will be able to view these collective responses –and contribute their own –as they engage with each other during pop-up iterations of the popsicle stand. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1586879995498-7Y0W6GKETFEBFTAZLG7O/Summer+Jade+Leavitt+-+Queer+Theory+Library+-+Image.jpg 2020 Grantees - Summer Jade Leavitt The Queer Theory Library The Queer Theory Library is a free community library and collective space for discussion, experimentation, creation, and knowledge. Hosting texts, books, essays, and zines--and making them available to the public--The Queer Theory Library will provide a scene for greater community dialogue. The Queer Theory Library will also function as an actively growing archive for local artists, writers, and residents to submit their work, writings, and ephemera. With a mission to radically shift and create new possibilities for queer thought, culture, and creation, the library is focused on futurism. How we frame our past and present influences our future-building; how we perceive and write our realities creates new worlds. The Queer Theory Library, through education and collaboration, aims to enable, empower, and inspire our queer community. GET A CLOSER LOOK into this artist’s other work on the blog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1586879985412-C7I615CBUZ2CN9E560L6/Luna+Goldberg+-+At+Memory%27s+Edge+-+Image.jpg 2020 Grantees - Luna Goldberg At Memory's Edge Monuments and memorials have often served as placeholders for historical events--physical manifestations of memorialized legacies. Yet they have also functioned as acts of power reinforcing narratives written by the “victors.” At Memory’s Edge is a Miami-based multidisciplinary exhibition and symposium focused around contested monuments. The exhibition will bring together new works by Ashley Freeby, Efrat Hakimi, Iris Helena, and Lihi Turjeman. Examining structures across the U.S., Israel, and Brazil, the exhibition will investigate monuments as wounds of the past--structures that have manipulated the built environment and how we as individuals navigate and negotiate public space and memory. The exhibition will further be activated through a day long symposium featuring panels and roundtable discussions with artists, architects, and scholars aimed at investigating this topic from a historical and global perspective. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1586879993168-D8NW3OB96T060ZHD5CQC/Rachelle+Salnave+-+Madame+Pipi+-+Image.JPG 2020 Grantees - Rachelle Salnave Madame Pipi Madame Pipi is a short documentary that follows the lives of three Haitian female bathroom attendants who work at the hottest nightclubs in Miami. Relatively invisible, underpaid, and under-appreciated, their stories are a journey of triumph, as they massage the temperaments of their patrons for tips. Despite the rising cost of living, these women send remittances to Haiti, fueling a large part of their home country’s GDP. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1586880133071-V6480V886CMC0MGYUDL3/Sebastian+Duncan-Portuondo+-+Club+EXILE+-+Image.png 2020 Grantees - Sebastian Duncan-Portuondo Club EXILE Club EXILE is a hybrid disco-chapel installation that celebrates diverse exile identities through social engagement and community driven content. An exile is an uprooted person who permanently leaves their homeland in response to force. Club EXILE looks beyond this definition to ask how marginalized peoples experience different forms of exile. The installation resembles a shrine; it is filled with metallic fabric, mirror mosaics and multi-colored lights leading to an ornate jukebox. Visitors find a mosaicked bar with a countertop memorial holding 49 ceramic stars for the victims of the 2016 Pulse Nightclub Shooting. The wall is covered with flowers, dedicated photographs, postcards, and a blinking neon sign that announces EXILE. The jukebox houses mix CD contributions that communicate personal histories in response to the prompt: what 10 songs make you think of exile? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1586879995834-0LZ1T7Z28DHOFUB10VVU/Rosa+Naday+Garmendia+-+Rituals+of+Commemoration%2C+Public+Art+-+Image.jpg 2020 Grantees - Rosa Garmendia Rituals of Commemoration, public art As the nation debates the role of monuments that commemorate slave owners and Jim Crow, this public counter-monument will commemorate black lives, serving as a placeholder and memorial that ensures the names of victims of police misconduct around the country are not forgotten. Rather than taking a “this too will pass” attitude, Rituals of Commemoration documents the lives of black men and women killed by police or other law enforcement since 1979: 1,252 so far, and the documentation of murdered lives continues. This interactive historical marker gives families an opportunity to mourn, while it is also an invitation for viewers to participate in a project that features reflection, social interaction, objects, and actions. Rituals of Commemoration is a physical and reflective space that is indelible to the conversations taking place across the United States regarding police brutality, systemic racism, inequality, and poverty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1586879993763-8KD39UDLVGOTF15B0YN3/Reginald+O%27Neal+-+18+Years+and+Counting+-+Image.jpg 2020 Grantees - Reginald O'Neal 18 Years and Counting Through 18 Years and Counting, I explore the life of my father, Reginald O’Neal Sr., from the year 2002 until now. My father has been incarcerated for 18 years in Florida state prison, and I will be telling his story through paintings, photos, letters, installations, and audio. The purpose of this project is to give others insight into the experience of someone who is incarcerated. Intimate and personal, the artwork will stem from the perspective of those who are affected by my father’s incarceration, allowing the audience to view him from the point-of-view of his friends and family, as opposed to the rest of society. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1586879994936-FKDQKX0D5QGDVWTVUP7O/Robert+Colom+-+Cinemo%CC%81vil+-+Image.png 2020 Grantees - Robert Colom Cinemóvil Cinemóvil is a mobile repertory cinema that operates a state of the art digital projector and sound system out of a 2010 Ford Transit Connect, touring around Miami-Dade County to play films in unexpected outdoor community spaces. But the vision for Cinemóvil goes beyond the kitsch of a traditional mobile cinema project to serve as an essential conduit for exploring cultural permanence in Miami’s increasingly impermanent communities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1586879979401-0N7OARZISTA53O3TNHTX/Juan+Carlos+Zaldivar+-+Variety+Reinspires+-+Image.jpg 2020 Grantees - Juan Carlos Zaldivar Variety Reinspires Moving into a senior living community can make older adults feel as if their freedom is limited. Research has shown that social isolation is as detrimental to health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. In fact, more than 50% of senior-living residents will experience depression or isolation during their stay, making loneliness among seniors a modern mental health epidemic. Variety Reinspires aims to overcome social isolation through the power of virtual reality and shared experiences. Our project provides opportunities for senior residents to virtually leave the four walls of their community. A curated selection of experiences, each with a discussion guide, will help staff lead conversations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1586879979420-W4TS7H8L7PQ0C0POU5XD/GeoVanna+Gonzalez+-+Supplement+Projects+-+Image.jpeg 2020 Grantees - GeoVanna Gonzalez Supplement Projects Supplement Projects is a non-commercial arts platform with a focus on highlighting marginalized or under-represented artists, curators, activists, and cultural practitioners. Every exhibition/program occupies spaces outside of the traditional gallery structure, such as residential homes, empty lots, and vehicles. The project explores ideas of collectivity, inclusivity, and resistance. As a place of comfort and courage, communication and rest, each iteration offers a provocative alternative to the often over-commercialized spaces of art galleries and institutions. Supplement Projects acts as a community meeting-point run by artists for artists. GET A CLOSER LOOK at other works from this artist on the blog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1586879993521-7J58FILJMEM5QYLWXI8B/Oscar+Rieveling+-+Auto+Mariachi+-+Image.jpg 2020 Grantees - Oscar Rieveling Auto-Mariachi Auto-Mariachi will bring a performance and related cultural programming to Homestead, Florida, a community that is often excluded in relation to other sites closer to the urban core of the city. The project aims to disrupt typical presentations of mariachi and to show how folk tradition is not static but actively reflects present socio-political conditions. This performance and related programs work to untangle colonial legacy, folk tradition, constructions of masculinity, and conceptual frameworks as a means of understanding Mexican and Latin-American/Latinx identity. The culminating performance will bring several mariachi groups to serenade each other in the context of the Redland Market Village, a publicly accessible site that boasts a family-friendly environment and free parking. A music workshop organized with the Homestead-Miami Mariachi Conservatory and the Mexican American Council will be organized to introduce the instruments and basic song patterns to an all ages audience. An accompanying lecture will be delivered by Jonathan Clark, UCLA ethnomusicology professor and mariachi historian, to present a more formal analysis of the development of the musical form and traditions. GET A CLOSER LOOK into the project on the blog. http://www.wavemakergrants.org/2015-grantess daily 0.75 2023-07-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1586982783476-D4EHTLGBH08HYCP0WB8B/leyden.jpg 2015 Grantees - Frances Trombly, Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova Dimensions Variable Dimensions Variable was founded in 2009 by artists Frances Trombly and Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova who currently collaborate and co-direct the project space. With the award of a 2015 WaveMaker Grant, Dimensions Variable is able to double the stipend provided to an artist, or groups of artists, in support their project, to facilitate more ambitious exhibitions from both local and international artists, strengthen the quality of programming, and increase public hours. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1586982783476-D4EHTLGBH08HYCP0WB8B/leyden.jpg 2015 Grantees - Frances Trombly, Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova Dimensions Variable Dimensions Variable was founded in 2009 by artists Frances Trombly and Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova who currently collaborate and co-direct the project space. With the award of a 2015 WaveMaker Grant, Dimensions Variable is able to double the stipend provided to an artist, or groups of artists, in support their project, to facilitate more ambitious exhibitions from both local and international artists, strengthen the quality of programming, and increase public hours. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1586982780408-54VT7M0S4NKRMQL9H2VU/ag.jpg 2015 Grantees - Alan Gutierrez Line Script Diary Line Script Diary's primary goal is to serve as a mediated and discursive site for the exploration of ideas and executions within the realm of text-based works. Functioning as a quarterly journal, Line Script Diary compliments existing Miami-based publications as a more abstract and inclusive site of experimentation, not only as a publication for the immediate community, but also as a venue of exchange between new contributors, locally and non-locally. Contributors of the premier issue are local and non-local artists, writers, poets, curators, scholars, and philosophers. Line Script Diary will be available at no cost to the public, while offering honorariums to its contributors. The publication will launch each quarter with a public event in Miami which will focus on the content of the current issue. The premier issue is launched in the Spring of 2015 at Locust Projects, with a performance by New York-based artist Ben Vida, which utilized his text piece within the premier issue as a “script” for a new iteration of Slipping Control. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1586982786449-A1XI5H8UCGXZV0FGTEGU/marie+vickles.png 2015 Grantees - Marie Vickles Open Source Art Open Source Art is a series of free art-making workshops for groups of inter-generational participants with any level of experience or background in art-making. These engaging and high intensity art-making workshops are led by various Miami-based artists and explore the current processes, inspirations, and techniques of each presenting artist. Workshop participants are offered extended opportunities to support the artists via hands-on, artist-directed collaboration in the creation of new work that will be commissioned for a culminating exhibition related to the idea of art as an “open-source” mode of expression and creation. The entire project is documented to share with wider audiences the experience of both artist and participant as they engage in collaborative art-making, which will serve as a catalyst for people of all ages, working together in the process of creatively exploring life and community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1586982784162-8M78OCV5U5YK9S6LQF4N/malena+barrios.jpg 2015 Grantees - Malena Barrios Me, Japanese Me, Japanese focuses on the life of Jose Kozer, the foremost Cuban poet of the 1960s. Born in 1940 in Havana to Jewish immigrants, Kozer moved to New York and taught at Queens College. Kozer is associated with the “Neobarroco Movement,” a poetic style similar to Surrealism. The film introduces us to Kozer in a similar fashion, disregarding narrative and chronology as the poet reads from his work, muses on his philosophy and his search for the truth about his identity as an expatriate. Kozer challenges us to examine our own definition of identity as we question whether he is a literary genius or a deeply troubled individual finding refuge in his poems. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1586982782776-9L5XWYT2X3924N1KTNR9/leila.jpg 2015 Grantees - Leila Leder Kremer and Juana Meneses Portable Editions: LAB With their 2015 WaveMaker Grant, Leila Leder Kremer and Juana Meneses launched Portable Editions: LAB, an itinerant edition and zine making unit that adds an education component to their existing publishing projects Artists Making Books and Portable Editions. Portable Editions: LAB embraces a collaborative model of project-driven exhibitions, events, and workshops that occur regularly as pop-up events at temporal or like-minded spaces across Miami. Artist Making Books is a curated project that supports the production of short run artists’ books by artists with ties to South Florida. Leila Leder Kremer & Juana Meneses founded Portable Editions, a small self-publishing operation to foster appreciation and understanding for artists’ books as portable, intimate, democratic, and as works of art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1586982781270-EIKDZCUF1PE0OWLQ1P0G/felecia.jpg 2015 Grantees - Felecia Chizuko Carlisle Sounding Room Sounding Room is a meeting place in which sound, object, and gesture merge to form a multi-layered and visceral experience for the viewer. A collaborative project conceived both as an environment of discreet sculptural works created to produce abstract sounds and a series of performances that physically activate objects within a traditional art exhibition, Sounding Room unites artists from both the East and West coasts. Sounding Room also provides a space for local artists and musicians working within similar spheres of interest and experimentation to cross-pollinate in terms of audiences and ideas. Sounding Room fosters dialogue about sound as a medium, hybrid forms, making community through collaboration, and building a historical narrative. The premiere exhibition of Sounding Room took place February 28th –April 18th, 2015 at Locust Projects Miami, FL. In a series of three performances, organizers and co-founders of the project Felecia Chizuko Carlisle and Valerie George, were joined by Mindy Abovitz, Terry Berlier, Luciano Chessa, Christy Gast, Daren Kendall, Eli Lehrhoff, and Molly Zuckerman-Hartung. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1586982783257-COYFR40DVDF78M42S5P3/guillermo.png 2015 Grantees - Guillermo Leon Gomez Transitory Moments Transitory Moments is a live performance consisting of one male dancer, an all female string trio, and a passing train. The performance will later exist as a two-channel video and sound installation, exhibited free and open to the public at Spinello Projects. Inspired by the passing of time and the division of space, Transitory Moments creates an absurd “happening,” displacing a group of performers amongst the everyday. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1586982779700-W720T503G8LP0WW71VPP/amanda.jpg 2015 Grantees - Amanda Sanfilippo Fringe Projects Informed by world-class public art agencies Creative Time (New York) and Artangel (London), Fringe Projects are site-determined commissioned artworks that integrate, investigate, and interrogate Downtown Miami’s less conventional spaces in a wide range of practices from interventions, to context specific installation, and participatory performance-based works. Now in its 4th year, Fringe Projects has grown from a component of the three-day Downtown Art Days event produced by the Miami Downtown Development Authority to and independent agency for commissioning site-determined public art on an ongoing basis. Curated by Amanda Sanfilippo, the steadfast curatorial vision of privileging artist’s ideas to realize challenging, cutting-edge works in the public realm at sites determined by the artists holds firm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1586982782039-701F0ELBCRLF48VJ2IPA/kevin+arrow.jpeg 2015 Grantees - Kevin Arrow and Barron Sherer Obsolete Media Miami O.M.M. (Obsolete Media Miami) is a picture and moving-picture resource for artists, designers, and film makers. Kevin Arrow and Barron Sherer have joined forces, as well as their personal image archives, to make Obsolete Media Miami publicly accessible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1586982778113-D0JGFXP8T8RFGXTRS77W/5_Pepe_Mar_-_Parco_dei_Mostri.jpg 2015 Grantees - Pepe Mar VERSUS VERSUS by Pepe Mar is temporary installation taking the form of a gay bar. The the installation incorporates Mar's recent body of work involving the artist's own designer clothing worn during the halcyon club days of the 90’s and early 2000’s framed in baroque-style frames and a collection of queer ephemera and eclectic art from Reniel Diaz. VERSUS also hosts performances by queer artists Jacolby Satterwhite and Elijah Burgher, art exhibits by young queer artists including Brian Kokoska. VERSUS offers vestiges of a gloried gay past, now virtually forgotten, and fills a void in Miami’s mainland which is completely without this kind of venue. The project will operate as a real bar, inviting the community to engage with a queer aesthetic. GET A CLOSER LOOK at other works by this artist on the blog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1586982787540-TEJGJSO17O1O9DJ35EXG/SynchronizedSwimmersUnderwaterExample.jpg 2015 Grantees - Monica Lopez de Victoria Galactic Sirens Galactic Sirens is the working title of a film and a water-based theatrical performance based on glamorous Miami Beach water ballerinas, Wikee Wachee mermaids, and vintage bathing beauties. All have a rich history in Miami that has helped to build much of Florida's identity. These women create immense power with their grace and fluidity, in and under the water, with strong aquatic maneuvering. Using current day athletic synchronized swimmers as the actresses and recalling the films of Esther Williams, Galactic Sirens is a modern day drama, interpreting sci-fi and native Seminole Indian tribe stories. Underwater becomes a new galactic world where these goddesses fly through the “air” with Miami flair! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1586982787039-YLV7W49LM5QJIQSLVIUH/michaelzell.png 2015 Grantees - Michael Zell Dressur With his 2015 WaveMaker Grant, Michael Zell will present a series of public performances of “Dressur” (1977), a musical work by German-Argentine composer Mauricio Kagel (1931-2008), in which 3 players perform a rigorously detailed and theatrically-driven 30-minute piece of percussion music. The performances take place within an art gallery setting, with multiple performances over a three-day period. The structure of the performance within the venue allows for flexibility so that those who choose to observe are free to move about the performance area as it is taking place, and would be welcome to observe some, all, or none of the performance at their own discretion. The project allows for further interaction between audience and performers immediately following performances, providing the opportunity for audience members to directly interact with the performers and experience the set design up-close. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1586982781086-ZPXP3PB76GUI9B8IQ2JB/barron_sherer.jpg 2015 Grantees - Felice Grodin Residential Properties Real estate speculation, virtual environments, and developments in technology and fabrication now require a reconsideration of what 'dwelling' is. How does the scale of a home adjust in relation to these new, "fluid" elements and forces? Residential Properties explores recent shifts in living spaces through site-specific interventions within an existing house/artist residency in a Miami neighborhood, The Fountainhead Residency. Contributors to this exhibition come from a range of disciplinary backgrounds including visual artists, industrial designers, architects, filmmakers, web designers, and writers. Residential Properties generates a positive entanglement between creative disciplines, between The Fountainhead Residency and its surrounding neighborhoods, and between local and global definitions of "dwelling." The exhibition widens and deepens critical conversations within the local community about what is possible within the borders of our homes, and invites viewers to reconsider the nature of these borders. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1586982783972-8F4W75B8L2BSWOJ24UN6/LOT1.jpg 2015 Grantees - Erin Elder LOT LOT is a process-driven and research-based project located in Miami, FL that investigates the legacies and possibilities of the fenced vacant lot. Co-curated by Erin Elder and Felecia Carlisle, the project includes 3-5 artists in an address of these unique spaces with temporary site interventions as one of several possible outcomes. Miami is one of the fastest growing cities in the United States. It is home to a wealthy paradox of influences, histories, personas, agendas, fantasies, exploits, economies, languages, cultures, and dreams. LOT highlights the city’s vacant lots as a point of departure for a considered, complex, and creative investigation of current trends in development, land use, speculation, space, and power. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1586982778275-BMHQN9721O9KROM34957/adler.jpg 2015 Grantees - Adler Guerrier Untitled Untitled (Watts – Price/Frye gestures towards the Uprising) is a film conceived to ponder images of the 1965 Watts Rebellion and the scenario of the arrest of Marquette Frye and Rena Price - the catalyst for the Rebellion, the pantomime of the encounter - as well as images of present-day landscape of Watts, Los Angeles, West Coconut Grove and Liberty City, Florida. Images of the 6-day Uprising centered in Watts were broadcast widely and became a clarion call for resistance and solidarity, heard across many cities in the United States and the world. The film considers the dialogue between sites and landscape shaped by a common view on history and power structures. Through footages of walks and drives, the film depicts the landscape of Los Angeles and Miami as scenes within a larger narrative of criticality of place. Expanding on artist Adler Guerrier's photographic work engaging the flaneur and a series of videos that trace movement through the cityscape, this new film continues a conversation on the poetics of place and the resonances of history, taking on a new subject and geography. http://www.wavemakergrants.org/2021-grantees daily 0.75 2023-07-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1657122698390-6S416EK7H9YAA8VO3QA7/cueva.image.1.jpg 2021 Grantees - Carolina Cueva A Reflective Guide: 12 Artists on Inclusive Practice in Youth Education Highlighting 12 local artists who integrate teaching into their art practice, this free publication will serve as a document, collection, and resource distributed at arts and education centers across Miami-Dade County. Focusing on social justice and healing, each teaching artist’s spread will include images, commentary, and an original art lesson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1657122698390-6S416EK7H9YAA8VO3QA7/cueva.image.1.jpg 2021 Grantees - Carolina Cueva A Reflective Guide: 12 Artists on Inclusive Practice in Youth Education Highlighting 12 local artists who integrate teaching into their art practice, this free publication will serve as a document, collection, and resource distributed at arts and education centers across Miami-Dade County. Focusing on social justice and healing, each teaching artist’s spread will include images, commentary, and an original art lesson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1657123026571-76888GXEXEHB64SJIMA7/CriiesinSpanishPosterSample.jpg 2021 Grantees - Liz Ferrer & Bow Ty [Cries in Spanish] In the style of melodramatic telenovelas, camp comedies, and reality TV, [Cries in Spanish] is a bilingual episodic web series that follows the story of six immigrant Latinx femme characters breaking free from oppressive systems and living their chosen realities. The show is inspired by a viral meme of the tear-stained face of novela villain Soraya with the mocking subtitle [Cries in Spanish]. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1623353580101-U2Q9M0BFG9BNCAJZP1U0/MOM_WaveMaker_BIKE.jpg 2021 Grantees - Violenta Flores / Juan Carlos Zaldivar Variety Reinspires Holistically integrating their artistic practice with their experience as a full time caregiver for their elderly mother, Variety Reinspires is a curated selection of Virtual Reality events accompanied by a simple guide to help organizers lead discussions. Partnering with senior centers, these guided experiences offer elders an escape from social isolation through the power of VR. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1623353325767-PCMVYNSP7ZPSTE9K5RE1/DSC01537.jpg 2021 Grantees - Sage Gee The Royal Painting Florence Griffith-Joyner broke the 100 meter world record three times at the U.S. Olympic Trials, but the media paid more attention to her nails. While scrutinizing the beauty aesthetics of Black women, pop culture appropriates these same styles. The Royal Painting reclaims this discourse with a series of photographs inspired by Flo Jo, royal portraits, and more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1623353363848-Q7B0T5807C4YEMYOEWX2/long_pine_key_trail.jpg 2021 Grantees - Nick Gilmore Going Home A rotating group of pallbearers will carry a lone Dade County pine beam (6”x6”x16')--salvaged from a home built in 1925 and demolished in 2017--back into the heart of Long Pine Key, where it will be laid among the pines in a modest ceremony preceded by a Land Acknowledgement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1623353393215-R0AAH6Y9339U35QVIQ7H/30daysofversailles_Page_2.jpg 2021 Grantees - Amanda Keeley 30 Days of Versailles In celebration of its 50th anniversary, for 30 days Miami’s iconic Cuban restaurant Versailles will replace its usual paper products with menus, placemats, table tents, and cafecito cups featuring stories, poems, and imagery related to the restaurant, local history, and Cuban identities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1623353424880-RU1FEY9ZUUFJSJFFGSEN/web_catalogue.png 2021 Grantees - Summer Jade Leavitt The Queer Theory Library A library and archive focused on creating a collective space for discussion, experimentation, creation, and knowledge, The Queer Theory Library provides access to academic texts and activates them with curated cultural programming, inviting an engaged, imaginative experience and greater community dialogue. The Queer Theory Library also functions as an actively growing archive for local artists, writers, and residents to submit their work, writings, and ephemera. GET A CLOSER LOOK at the artist’s past works on the blog https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1623353449343-3EMRJ0HN5P0JTDFGQRSR/Dan+Mathis.png 2021 Grantees - Dan Mathis On the Run On the Run is a visual command of Black bodies pounding pavement in Black communities. For many Black folks, to run means to run away—moving not towards something, but away from something decidedly worse. What do we run towards? Connecting Black runners to Black community in a form of kinetic advocacy, a run group will document itself as it traverses Miami’s historic Black neighborhoods. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1623274418480-NKDA04Y5B8P7IW15TY1V/Arsimmer+Mccoy.jpg 2021 Grantees - Arsimmer McCoy Ms. Mary’s House | The Carol City Museum “Ain’t Nothing but Space and Opportunity.” Ms. Mary’s House | The Carol City Museum is a call to action against the unyielding extirpation of Black historic sites, dwellings, and haunts. By turning her grandmother’s home, which was passed on to her, into a space for house parties, pop-up shops, jazz sessions, writing workshops, and more, the artist preserves the lived history of her community. GET A CLOSER LOOK into the artist’s previous work on the blog https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1623353501338-ZIG75CEFPC63JN0LTP5O/Hair_flip.jpg 2021 Grantees - Michelle Lisa Polissaint WAKE Based on the artist’s own experiences, WAKE is a narrative short film that follows two best friends living under the control of a cult leader. By humanizing--not demonizing--cult members, WAKE explores indoctrination, propaganda, and manipulation, compelling us to investigate how we come to believe what we believe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1623353524973-42TK3P044BN7PLAD8QBF/MemorialPortraits.jpg 2021 Grantees - Chire Regans Digital Memorial Archive Beginning with five portraits of victims of violence in Miami-Dade County and beyond, this memorial series has grown to include over 200 works. To collect these stories in one accessible space, the artist will build a Digital Memorial Archive composed of portraits, items families have given her, collected writings, personal accounts, and other materials. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1623353547628-IIV9C3S1RB2CJUR2L8U8/Fallen_Flowers_series.jpg 2021 Grantees - Ema Ri 2nd Iteration of Fallen Flowers Fallen Flowers is an ongoing exploration and research practice. Inspired by red and yellow flamboyant flowers, the series began with time-based ephemeral sculptures made entirely from compressed flowers, twigs, leaves, and seed pods. This is its 2nd iteration. http://www.wavemakergrants.org/2022-grantees daily 0.75 2023-07-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1658247219908-ADBFKQHF5T1SVJHTWVH6/image-asset.jpeg 2022 Grantees - Juan Barquin & Trae DeLellis The Bitter Tears of South Florida Queers A one-night, multidisciplinary celebration of queer cinema, design, and performance. Hosted by Flaming Classics, the evening commences with a 50th anniversary screening of The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant, which remains a touchstone of queer cinema. A fashion show inspired by the film and its characters will follow, spotlighting garments created by local queer designers and modeled by local drag artists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1658247219908-ADBFKQHF5T1SVJHTWVH6/image-asset.jpeg 2022 Grantees - Juan Barquin & Trae DeLellis The Bitter Tears of South Florida Queers A one-night, multidisciplinary celebration of queer cinema, design, and performance. Hosted by Flaming Classics, the evening commences with a 50th anniversary screening of The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant, which remains a touchstone of queer cinema. A fashion show inspired by the film and its characters will follow, spotlighting garments created by local queer designers and modeled by local drag artists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1659136732965-V1D7V9KYQG8I1PRIR6PB/52B1AC46-BA59-456B-841D-B6F3CDDB7E8F%2B%25281%2529.jpg 2022 Grantees - Pamela Largaespada Guerrillera A short film about a sex worker whose child is taken from her due to a false accusation and the case worker assigned to them. In collaboration with sex workers and using elements of surrealism, Guerrillera is an overdue positive representation of sex work and motherhood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1655238353864-8VBQG2B4IDGS97ZJETJM/Screen+Shot+2022-06-13+at+7.02.21+PM.png 2022 Grantees - Philip Lique artDeli At the center of an immersive deli environment with food-themed wallpaper, deli posters, butcher paper, and more, artworks are displayed in a deli case and sold in increments, cut by a band saw, paper slicer, hammer, scissors, blender, or other tools. Using performativity, chance, and humor, artDeli shifts the commodity of art collecting out of the gallery and into a context more familiar and accessible to a general audience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1655237797711-NUY0VKEC8EDYA2OB5KD5/Wavemaker.jpg 2022 Grantees - Julian Montalvo & Fredo Rivera island bound: an exercise in decolonizing drag A collaborative performance project by artists KUNST (Julian Montalvo) and Lolita Cabrón (Fredo Rivera) exploring decoloniality in a specifically Puerto Rican context. Drawing from historical archives, cartography, the built environment, soundscapes, and contemporary visual cultures of the “postcolonial colony,” the durational performance, which uses sculptural installation to visualize Puerto Rico and its diasporas, will provide an intimate and dramatic rendering of queer resistance in relation to coloniality. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1655237795851-IROMZ1N9VY86KHL5JNWC/random2.jpg 2022 Grantees - Terence Price II Finding Sue This experimental short documentary aims to use archive images and footage to tell the story of finding and meeting Price II’s grandmother Susana White, his father’s long-lost mother, after 53 years. This story of perseverance and love is meant to propel folks to continue searching. This project also shines a light on the many stories from black, indigenous and people of color that are missing and how family agencies are failing to provide information to help uphold these histories so that loved ones can continue to search. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1655238532170-53AZV01F59K3V83OW4Z8/Screen+Shot+2022-06-14+at+4.28.41+PM.png 2022 Grantees - Roscoè B. Thické III Fabrication of Fatherhood An intimate study of the myths, stereotypes, perceptions, and truths of fatherhood in the Black community. Beginning with conversations about the role fathers have played in their lives, collaborators will be invited to offer materials connected to their memories or thoughts on fatherhood. They will then participate in a photography session guided by the conversation to capture how Black fatherhood feels to them. The photographs and materials will be shared in a space created by a father for fathers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1655238794578-H7B3DORDMC7RM3QZC9CU/P1010914.jpg 2022 Grantees - Loni Johnson What We Hold Sacred What We Hold Sacred invites guests to use meaningful objects--such as photographs, memorabilia, crystals, jewelry, and more--to build small altars as offerings to their ancestors. Participants will be guided to reflect on how we claim, navigate, and hold space; how ancestral and historical memory informs where, when, and how we occupy spaces; and how we carry and honor our ancestors in the spaces we move through. The workshops offer Black women and girls a shared space of healing and rest where they are visible and validated. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1655237796857-0M9LBH14Q1W8C0AUIDYO/Nicole+and+Ashley%2C+2018.jpg 2022 Grantees - Monica Uszerowicz Dreaming as the Water Rises Are you dreaming of water rising? Dreaming as the Water Rises is a living archive of the sea-level rise and water dreams of Florida residents. These dreams might constitute data, a record of the subconscious, shaped by our shared experience of climate change. Perhaps they can also act as calls to action, from deep in our psyches, to care for the planet and imagine new possibilities for the future. Dreaming as the Water Rises will culminate in a presentation of the multilingual, virtual archive; an essay; and a collaborative zine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1655237802920-KTJL4JTCCW7JF2RE2TVZ/Cries_in_Spanish_Concept_Image.jpg 2022 Grantees - Liz Ferrer & Bow Ty [Cries in Spanish] Written in the style of melodramatic telenovelas, camp comedies, and reality TV shows, [Cries in Spanish] is an episodic series highlighting the variety of fem Latinx experiences through individual narratives. Using animation, digital backgrounds, and framing analysis, and designed for accessibility, [Cries in Spanish] blends real and fictional stories in English and Spanish. The series follows displaced fems and queer people as they deal with various issues, from familiar struggles with language and immigration status to lesser discussed complications that appear at the intersection of queer Latinx identity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1655237806617-Q3W53GDKL87O4YBC7K6K/AG_QST_l.jpg 2022 Grantees - A.G. Queer Strategy and Tactics Modeled after the United States Army's longstanding practice of classified intelligence debriefing, Queer Strategy and Tactics is a performative lecture presenting solution-based ideas for queer-identifying people navigating within a normative regime. Subverting concepts found in theatrical training--character development, art-direction, production tradecraft, set design, costume, hair & makeup, scene studies, partner-work, and much more--Queer Strategy & Tactics offers a set of conceptual tools for practical approaches to the limitless potential of bodies, preferences, and styles of living. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1655237795683-FXQC2X8DMVWWGB9TV2AQ/Transfer_-_Still_from_Wedding.jpeg 2022 Grantees - Monica Sorelle Linking intimate family moments to the Caribbean diaspora at large, Transfer is a video project relating the transfer of physical media into digital data to the passing down of nostalgia, folklore, trauma, and genetic memory from family and community members by utilizing home movies, video projection mapping, and the degradation of media otherwise known as generation loss. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1655237806249-DKFTX40EHKNJ32LSFY4J/Ema_Ri_Here_WIith_You_Assortment_of_dehydrated_flowers_2022.png 2022 Grantees - Ema Ri Here With You After researching local flowers as sculptural material, Here With You culminates in a large-scale flower bed where people lay over the silhouettes of bodies imprinted in the bed by those who visited the immersive sculpture before them. The work is experienced with all senses and invites a moment of healing and grounding. http://www.wavemakergrants.org/2023-grantees daily 0.75 2023-08-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1690719439043-4U3RU90M3O2LFFH4MQUE/image.jpg 2023 Grantees - Trish Gutierrez & Nicole Pedraza Quiero Bailar Contigo Quiero Bailar Contigo is a transdisciplinary art experience led by movement artist and educator Nicole Pedraza and transdisciplinary artist Trish Gutierrez. It combines visual, audio and movement elements to awaken the creativity of local community members who interact with the projection interface. Nicole will demonstrate dance phrases for the audience to mimic in front of a depth sensor and observe how the visual and audio elements evolve and transform in response to their gestures. This will culminate in a visual record of art and technology’s accessibility, inclusive of all backgrounds and serve as a launching pad for attendees to begin their own creative journey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1690719439043-4U3RU90M3O2LFFH4MQUE/image.jpg 2023 Grantees - Trish Gutierrez & Nicole Pedraza Quiero Bailar Contigo Quiero Bailar Contigo is a transdisciplinary art experience led by movement artist and educator Nicole Pedraza and transdisciplinary artist Trish Gutierrez. It combines visual, audio and movement elements to awaken the creativity of local community members who interact with the projection interface. Nicole will demonstrate dance phrases for the audience to mimic in front of a depth sensor and observe how the visual and audio elements evolve and transform in response to their gestures. This will culminate in a visual record of art and technology’s accessibility, inclusive of all backgrounds and serve as a launching pad for attendees to begin their own creative journey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1689175207219-63WY0BHEHUB9BUYSOLNA/image-asset.jpeg 2023 Grantees - Monica Lopez de Victoria Swamp Deco An immersive interactive extended reality (XR) art experience where players dive into the year 2500 were climate change has happened and Miami’s historical Art Deco architecture is underwater. Monica Lopez de Victoria is a digital and aquatic creator who believes people need to feel the reality of our city disappearing under the waves, and wants Swamp Deco to be a soft way of awakening consciousness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1690719017468-A20AV5T19I0LB2VQG06R/Laura+Marsh%2C+Dear+Washington+Correspondence.jpg 2023 Grantees - Laura Marsh Dear Washington Correspondence Dear Washington Correspondence is a textile project and wordsmith workshop series held at South Florida art centers, aimed to connect with teens and recent college graduates who have both assumed and are about to enter the higher education system. This is a new project arriving out of correspondence that Laura Marsh had with White House staff, that she’s converting into new embroideries and banners. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1691669919369-V9O802GAKZYNMYZLRW6H/Karen+McKinnon+and+Caecilia+Tripp%2C+And+Still+I+Rise+%3A+The+Water+Dancers.jpg 2023 Grantees - Karen McKinnon and Caecilia Tripp And Still I Rise / The Water Dancers And Still I Rise / The Water Dancers is an uprooting “Afrofuturistic Water Dancer” Film installation monument . A memorial and act of empowerment to the deep souls lost in the shipwrecks off the coast of Key West and beyond, its entanglement with the drowned History . A tribute to Black Lives Matter and a celebration of Black Joy. The project will be done in collaboration with Diving With A Purpose and NY choreographer Okwui Okpokwasili. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1690719051953-KM0LUBFTRAE00XHZUCDB/misael+soto%2C+Bridge+Deconstruction+Site.jpeg 2023 Grantees - misael soto "Bridge Deconstruction" by the Department of Reflection Bridge Deconstruction is a sustained creative investigation undertaken by the Department of Reflection for The Wolfsonian-FIU. The research-based, and context and site-specific collaborative endeavor uses bridges and related infrastructure as vectors for individual and communal ideation, storytelling, and creative expression. Bridge Deconstruction takes direct inspiration from The Wolfsonian-FIU’s collection, particularly its Bridge Tender House (aka the Josephine Baker Pavilion), which is seen as a launchpad from which a public installation and collaborative programming will take place. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1690719114259-92LBN97DWDB0G41W5N17/Hsieh+Yi+Chin%2C+The+Dinner+Party.jpg 2023 Grantees - Hsieh Yi Chin The Dinner Party The Dinner Party is a project that explores the exhibition as a medium of art practice, a storytelling platform, and more. The Dinner Party will bring small groups of people together and experience the exhibition by looking, touching, hearing, and sharing stories with the participating artists at gathering events with food. The project is event based with several workshops; artist talks will also be held to have in-depth discussion about relationships towards food in different cultures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1689176824411-EIAH3BQJ91QPP8404ZQN/Nicole+Nyariri%2C+In+Conversation%2C+Sex+Work+is+Real+Work-4.jpeg 2023 Grantees - Nicole Nyariri In Conversation: Sex Work is Real Work An engaging and thought-provoking conversation evening that explores what it means to be a sex worker today, following the release of Nicole Nyariri’s coffee table book "Sex Work Is Real Work." Through a panel discussion with sex workers, advocates, and academics, they will delve into the complexities and realities of the industry. This evening aims to provide a space where sex workers can share their stories and experiences, and where allies and community members can listen and learn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1689176925941-9J1URBBJJUMEJPRBZOOX/Third+Portal%2C+The+Writing+on+the+Bathroom+Wall%2C+A+Portrait+of+Club+Saints+and+Icons.jpg 2023 Grantees - Third Portal The Writing on the Bathroom Wall: A Portrait of Club Saints and Icons A long haul project that will serve as a community investigation into the real and imagined coming-of-age stories of Miami’s queer and fleeting nightlife as it pertains to Black communities here in South Florida. 3rdPortal’s research will document the black Miami clubs scene as they know it, feel it, and understand it. They hope to make the musing of their communities into a zine that will be shared with folks in alternative art spaces and donated to community archives in Miami for others to reference and reflect on. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1690973191401-M70DYUZOHWN3W6SG832O/Isabella+Garcia%2CWhat+Happens+When+the+Dust+Settles%3F.jpg 2023 Grantees - Isabella Marie Garcia What Happens When the Dust Settles? What Happens When the Dust Settles? will investigate holistic aftercare in relation to death and grief, and in proximity to Latinx, BIPOC, and Indigenous communities. Isabella Marie Garcia will study the history of burial practices and cremation within subtropic / tropic communities. Fueled by interview-based field studies of how these communities take care of loved ones who have passed away and careful documentation of ritual practices through respectful photo captures, What Happens When the Dust Settles? will honor the rhetoric of loss. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1689177128191-QMLTSQ9OHD440IQ6FCGR/Luna+Palazzolo%2C+Text-a-poem+%28La+constitucio%CC%81n+i%CC%81ntima+de+las+cosas%29.jpg 2023 Grantees - Luna Palazzolo Text-a-poem Text-a-Poem is an innovative SMS service that automates the delivery of poetry via code. Drawing inspiration from the iconic Dial-A-Poem service established by the late poet, artist, and activist John Giorno in 1968, Text-a-Poem aims to bring public poetry to the digital age. During a successful test in January, Luna Palazzolo experimented with a phone number generator page. Participants who texted the word ‘POEM’ to a specific number received a new poem every day for two weeks. With the generous support of the Wavemaker grant, we plan to automate and extend these poetic processes for a period of two months. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1690719174739-D2JNTINY7EABSES6QUIB/Christina+Pettersson%2C+The+Abortifacient+Garden.jpeg 2023 Grantees - Christina Pettersson The Abortifacient Garden Throughout human history, writers in many parts of the world have described abortifacients - "that which will cause a miscarriage", any substance that induces abortion. Christina Pettersson will grow an artist-led ‘garden’ devoted to the history of botanical abortifacients, focused on our specific region and local population. This will be a widely sourced local community based project, seeking naturalists, gardeners, healers, scientists, historians, etc. who study plant and human histories. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1690719203939-2T56QPQWGUSCANQ2NX3P/Martina+Potlach%2C+Miami+Placemats%2C+Mapping+Biscayne+Bay+for+Resilience.jpg 2023 Grantees - Martina Malka Potlach Mapping Waterscapes Inspired by Golden Age Miami cafe culture, Floridian coastal ecology, and anthropology, Martina will create a distributable placemat, powered by ESRI-GIS environmental data, highlighting the region’s native land and waterscapes, with a focus on Biscayne Bay, sea-level-rise, and our sacred relationship to water. This visual storytelling project will engage both tourists and locals of all ages and literacy to connect with our Bay and develop coastal resilience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1690719259638-YUKXBC62X2OXT52W9BRT/Monica+Sorelle%2C+Transfer.jpeg 2023 Grantees - Monica Sorelle Transfer Linking intimate family moments to the Caribbean diaspora at large, Transfer is a series of video works relating the transfer of physical media into digital data to the passing down of nostalgia, folklore, trauma, and genetic memory from family and community members by utilizing home movies, video projection mapping, and the degradation of media otherwise known as generation loss. http://www.wavemakergrants.org/2024grantees daily 0.75 2024-08-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1722978330329-6FENNXDMLRZEJC0FU5Y1/image-asset.jpeg 2024 Grantees - Akia Dorsainvil Orishas of Miami: Namesake Origins and Finding Our Offerings Orishas of Miami: Finding Our Offerings is a project that seeks to find the true meaning of our cities’ names on a spiritual level. As Queer folks, we choose our names and as people of color, we have often had to leave our rightful names behind. In that same vein, we have had to live covertly and suppress our ancestral spiritualities. In this project, we will be excavating the characteristics of Opa Locka, Little Haiti, Liberty City, and Miami Beach. The city has recognized the connection between the communities’ spiritual livelihood and its advancement. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/66b23e055f638f18d81afbcb/66b23f63117155652784d561/1722957686676/ 2024 Grantees https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1722978330329-6FENNXDMLRZEJC0FU5Y1/image-asset.jpeg 2024 Grantees - Akia Dorsainvil Orishas of Miami: Namesake Origins and Finding Our Offerings Orishas of Miami: Finding Our Offerings is a project that seeks to find the true meaning of our cities’ names on a spiritual level. As Queer folks, we choose our names and as people of color, we have often had to leave our rightful names behind. In that same vein, we have had to live covertly and suppress our ancestral spiritualities. In this project, we will be excavating the characteristics of Opa Locka, Little Haiti, Liberty City, and Miami Beach. The city has recognized the connection between the communities’ spiritual livelihood and its advancement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1722957980938-3QV9GRJJ5NOXN1HLGNXU/AmyGelb%2C+Stiched+With+You%2C+A+Bride.jpg 2024 Grantees - Amy Gelb Stitched With You Stitched With You is a feminist textile photo series that documents female elders, capturing their perspectives about aging and society's take on invisibility at Collective 62 and other Miami Art Centers. The act of stitching serves as a metaphorical bridge, connecting generations and cultures while symbolizing the passage of time. Through workshops and storytelling, I’ll invite participants to engage in dialogues that transcend temporal and spatial boundaries, fostering empathy and understanding across diverse backgrounds. At its core, Stitched With You employs the act of stitching as a metaphorical conduit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1722958006203-89FFJAH7TKX5857QDIT1/Christina+Pettersson%2C+The+Abortifacient+Garden+.jpeg 2024 Grantees - Christina Pettersson The Abortifacient Garden Throughout human history, writers in many parts of the world have described abortifacients - "that which will cause a miscarriage", any substance that induces abortion. Christina Pettersson will grow an artist-led ‘garden’ devoted to the history of botanical abortifacients, focused on our specific region and local population. This will be a widely sourced local community based project, seeking naturalists, gardeners, healers, scientists, historians, etc. who study plant and human histories. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1722958005922-A8S5MQSNXBIOKZR20DT7/Dejha+Carrington%2C+Commissioner+as+Social+Practice.jpg 2024 Grantees - Dejha Carrington Commissioner as Social Practice A creative guide for imagining new models to collect art and support artists in community. A hard copy and interactive guide that documents, illustrates, and open-sources the learnings and successes of Commissioner’s community-driven model. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1722958007916-3R4QVKA4REHG0BW7Y2RU/Jillian+Mayer%2C+SCREENERS-+energy+producing+series+of+sculptures+for+the+public+using+solar+technology+.png 2024 Grantees - Jillian Mayer SCREENERS- energy producing series of sculptures for the public using solar technology SCREENERS are a new body of work by Mayer. These multimedia sculptures are crafted from custom metalwork and artisanal glass. SCREENERS serve as aesthetic focal points and will display video projects while simultaneously functioning as energy generators, illuminating themselves and other devices with sustainable electricity. This project marries sculptures with utility, embodying the benefits of creative solar energy harvesting while fostering interactive engagement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1722958027965-LTRUT8Y0JGPIOA9V08M2/Lee+Pivnik%2C+The+Living+Room%2C+A+Symbiotic+Home.jpg 2024 Grantees - Lee Pivnik The Living Room: A Symbiotic Home The Living Room reimagines the home as a site of climate care and environmental repair as he reconstructs a South Beach studio apartment into a sprawling aquaponics sculpture to experiment with how regenerative design can function without direct land access. Using water impacted by nutrient runoff in the greater Everglades watershed, the aquaponics system is being designed to filter and clean water, grow food for the home, and evolve into a natureculture learning center, a domestic-scaled institution, where dwelling becomes an opportunity to “live our climate politics” by reshaping our relationships to water, power, and food production. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1722958011206-5AA34D7XR26J5PIFYBWG/Margo+Hannah%2CBetween+Earth+and+the+Sun.png 2024 Grantees - Margo Hannah Between Earth and the Sun An experimental documentary that intimately explores the collective memories and inner worlds of Black men, with a specific focus on those raised in Miami. Using a non-linear narrative approach, the film delves into everyday life, dreams, memories, and existential inquiries. It functions as a collective stream of consciousness, unveiling the diverse experiences and shared symbols that shape the contemporary identity of Black men. Through in-depth interviews, including dream exploration, Between the Earth and the Sun aims to function as an archive, capturing and preserving the personal narratives and cultural nuances of its participants. These narratives not only provide insight into individual journeys but also serve as a reflection of broader societal contexts and historical legacies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1722958012736-TNQJGWGPULISNB52NBQ2/Nadia+Wolff%2C+kin.jpg 2024 Grantees - Nadia Wolff kin A ceremony of release and offering to the ocean honoring the weight of the Atlantic coastline as a site of hope, grief, and dreaming for Afro-diasporic queer subjects. In staging the intimate gesture of hair braiding– an act which normally occurs in the interior– in nature, “kin” is a transgression of public space which encourages its audience to question the boundaries of intimate queer expression. Inspired by the garments of Egungun masquerade, the spectacularity of Carnaval costume, and Haitian drapo, the scale of the garment isolates braider and model from the other activations occurring simultaneously outside of the protective perimeter of the “salon cape.” While braiding occurs, performers activate the beach around the perimeter of the garment, as the rising tide draws the garment’s hem into the waves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1722958026773-Y1Q53PKTBPI2AN40YZET/Suanay+Hernandez%2C+UndrBelly%2C+4th+Edition.png 2024 Grantees - Suanay Hernandez UndrBelly A magazine focused on celebrating Miami's vibrant food culture through community events and multimedia projects. We aim to create events that bring the local community together, celebrating the rich culinary traditions of Miami. Our video content and photography projects will further highlight the essence of Miami’s diverse food scene. By showcasing local culinary stories, generational recipes, and unique food-related art, we support local creatives and promote cultural preservation. Our events are designed to foster a sense of community, encouraging locals to engage with and appreciate the diverse flavors and culinary heritage that make Miami unique. Through compelling visual storytelling and engaging community activities, UndrBelly strives to preserve and elevate Miami’s authentic food culture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1723668183982-M16R1W7UJ0DO3KS7SXXU/AD_4nXd7IUcaqZaqBEVR8zZy2U1kVe2Y6rzJ4hkjRdGvufx7w8LN0dH5-EjZ-jYowExlw5aGCtfUHifuTuTksUuNEZxu7fiaB1KXxYlsmbCySK_5FRQHmGehIEWO.jpg 2024 Grantees - Iman Clark Behind the TEASE Behind the TEASE highlights the lives of two Miami burlesque artists through performance, film and photography. Those witnessing this project will be lured into a journey that extends beyond the glitz and glamor of the stage and into the rawness of what goes into being a tantalizing entertainer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1722958028457-P0X8S85DWLXAH14VCB6N/Yanira+Collado%2C+Zafa%3APreserving+the+oral+history.jpeg 2024 Grantees - Yanira Collado Zafa, Preserving the oral history Zafa, Preserving the oral tradition, is a performance and video site-specific installation work, utilizing an ethnographic approach in documenting research through audio field recordings and individual interviews in different geographic locations in the Dominican Republic and Haiti. The island of Quisqueya-Ayiti is an island affluent in religious, spiritual, folkloric traditions as well as supernatural beliefs. This project focuses specifically on recording and preserving personal accounts with many of the island's mythical beings. These traditions make up cultural narratives that are deeply woven into the fabric of everyday life and are original accounts that may be lost or forgotten if not properly preserved directly from those who practice and maintain these legacies. http://www.wavemakergrants.org/2025-grantees daily 0.75 2025-07-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1753806223382-HDXWGJCJDPCBUFB4CP3G/Christopher+Mitchell%2C+Mystic+Triangle.jpg 2025 Grantees - Christopher Mitchell Mystic Triangle Mystic Triangle is a decade-long film and research project exploring sacred Vodou ceremonies in Souvenance, Badjo, and Soukri, three of Haiti’s most spiritually significant Lakou, or ceremonial compounds where ritual, oral history, and ancestral memory converge. Using interviews, field recordings, and layered soundscapes, the project honors Haitian spiritual life through a cinematic lens shaped by cultural intimacy and lived experience. Screenings and public conversations in Little Haiti at venues including Lakou Café and the Little Haiti Cultural Complex aim to open dialogue and reflection across the Haitian diaspora. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1753806223382-HDXWGJCJDPCBUFB4CP3G/Christopher+Mitchell%2C+Mystic+Triangle.jpg 2025 Grantees - Christopher Mitchell Mystic Triangle Mystic Triangle is a decade-long film and research project exploring sacred Vodou ceremonies in Souvenance, Badjo, and Soukri, three of Haiti’s most spiritually significant Lakou, or ceremonial compounds where ritual, oral history, and ancestral memory converge. Using interviews, field recordings, and layered soundscapes, the project honors Haitian spiritual life through a cinematic lens shaped by cultural intimacy and lived experience. Screenings and public conversations in Little Haiti at venues including Lakou Café and the Little Haiti Cultural Complex aim to open dialogue and reflection across the Haitian diaspora. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1753806257478-1C6LOEVGXUFS1CXSFWXH/Luci%CC%81a+Morales%2C+Sinpay%3ATrenzar.png 2025 Grantees - Lucía Morales Sinpay|Trenzar Sinpay|Trenzar is an ongoing participatory project that uses braiding as a collective action for storytelling and community connection across the Andean diaspora. Beginning in Miami and expanding through gatherings in Chicago, Perú, and Indiana, the project invites participants to contribute to evolving trenzas made of hemp rope and local materials while sharing personal histories of hair, memory, and heritage. With each braid, new stories are woven into the work, which also incorporates video documentation and community-led activations. Supported by the North Miami Beach Public Library and other cultural partners, Sinpay|Trenzar supports cultural visibility, shared dialogue, and connection among Andean communities in South Florida and beyond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1753806042363-V8RBJOJITS3JPBQH7RBD/Angela+Rio%2C+B0YG1RL.jpg 2025 Grantees - Angela Rio B0YG1RL B0YG1RLMUS1C is a feature-length experimental film that follows a Black queer and trans artistic collective in 2025 Miami as they document their lives in the moment before what they believe to be their inevitable big break. Parallel to their story, a sentient supercomputer in the year 2225 ruminates on the city’s collapse, searching for meaning in humanity’s demise. Blending vérité documentary with surrealist sci-fi, the film juxtaposes spirituality, artificial intelligence, environmental decay, and queer futurism. Developed through Masisi Studio, the project includes an original electronic score by local collaborators and will screen in alternative venues across Miami, from clubs to community spaces. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1753806250033-6AP6MJ7DSD1K4SV38E9Y/Gabriela+Serra%2C+Canto+al+A%CC%81rbol.jpeg 2025 Grantees - Gabriela Serra Canto al Árbol Canto al Árbol is an intergenerational songbook and multimedia project that honors the trees of Miami and the wisdom of community elders. Rooted in a series of free workshops led by Serra alongside her mother, grandmother, and local musicians, the project invites participants to share cultural and spiritual relationships with trees. Drawing from Venezuelan traditions where plant knowledge is passed down through song, Canto al Árbol re-centers nature and elders as vital teachers. Through public performances and video portraits, the project preserves these stories in lasting form, connecting memory, land, and song. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1753806235876-7655CE15SGG74P7WC56C/Ermol+Sheppard%2C+First+Come%2C+First+Serve.png 2025 Grantees - Ermol Sheppard First Come, First Serve First Come, First Serve is a documentary film that traces the layered history of the Fort Lauderdale Swap Shop, a chaotic, iconic flea market and drive-in that has long served as a launchpad for South Florida’s immigrant communities. Blending personal storytelling, archival footage, and visual collage, the film weaves together three narratives: the Swap Shop’s rise as a cultural and economic hub, the artistic journey of painter Marie Franco, and the uncertain future of this rapidly changing landmark. Presented alongside a portrait exhibition, the film captures a vanishing landmark through layered, personal perspectives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1753806146072-HNALX1XUZX6CYDMO6K0D/Barron+Sherer%2C+Moving+Image+Alliance+-+16mm+for+Contemporary+Artists.png 2025 Grantees - Barron Sherer Moving Image Alliance - 16mm for Contemporary Artists Moving Image Alliance is a hands-on workshop series designed to introduce digital-native artists to the practices and poetics of analog filmmaking. Led by media artist Barron Sherer, the program focuses on 16mm techniques including Bolex camera operation, hand-processing black-and-white film, and scanning footage for digital use. Through free, juried workshops hosted at Miami-based arts and archival spaces, participants will explore the material and historical possibilities of celluloid while developing their own moving image works. The project equips a new generation of experimental filmmakers while expanding Sherer’s ongoing initiative to preserve legacy cinema technologies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1753806694680-V43SH9AGSOG31PLSQHMV/Sofia+Vailente%2C+Kahayatle.png 2025 Grantees - Sofia Vailente Kahayatle Kahayatle is a collaborative multimedia installation that centers the Miccosukee Tribe’s sovereign relationship to the Everglades and the cultural memory embedded in the land. Developed in partnership with the Tribe’s archives department, the project documents oral histories, field recordings, and video footage tied to sites such as the Everglades Study Research Trip, the Tamiami Trail, and a community garden impacted by diverted water flow. Taking its name from the Indigenous word for “a bright, lit place” and “water that is bright,” Kahayatle brings together sound, memory, and story to illuminate the intertwined ecological histories of the Everglades and Miami. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1753806263153-7ZMXV5PFDPDY0G3PIC8J/Roxana+Barba%2C++Constructs.jpg 2025 Grantees - Roxana Barba Constructs Constructs is a site-specific, durational installation that unfolds over three hours, beginning at sunset and ending at nightfall. Blurring the line between sculpture and performance, the work evokes an illusory construction site—part artifact, part inhabited structure—in a slow crescendo of movement, sound, and shifting form. Using bricks, sand, wood, aluminum, and light, performers activate the space through choreographed actions and live sound loops captured by embedded microphones and sensors. Themes of displacement, fragility, resilience, and transformation emerge as materials are built up, broken down, and rearranged. Without being fully participatory, the installation invites audiences to enter and witness its evolution from multiple vantage points, becoming part of a sensory environment where image and sound build toward a totality. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1753806470271-6V2DVKHXE5GDC724PI6U/Sydney+Rose%2C+Still+Tippin.JPEG 2025 Grantees - Sydney Rose Maubert Still Tippin’ Still Tippin’ is an installation that reimagines Southern car culture as monument, archive, and site of performance. Featuring full-scale metal car sculptures tilted in motion, the work draws from the legacy of the Great Migration and the Afro-Indigenous aesthetic traditions that traveled from South Florida to the Midwest. Blending metalwork, sound design, and architectural scale, Rose’s sculptural environment honors Black design processes while centering joy as a radical expression of resilience. This marks the artist’s first foray into metal and sound, expanding her painting-based practice into an immersive spatial installation that reclaims the gaze and maps the built environment through Black and Indigenous authorship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1753805874952-ZPHWM2KIQM2VG5JBMMUX/image-asset.jpeg 2025 Grantees - Akia Dorsainvil When We Get Together to Talk About God . . Created with Jasmine Repress, When We Get Together to Talk About God . . explores Miami’s ancestral spatiality through dialogue with spiritual leaders and community members rooted in Afro-diasporic traditions. Centered on neighborhoods like Opa-Locka, Little Haiti, Liberty City, and Miami Beach, the project gathers and archives oral histories as zines, transcripts, and audiovisual recordings to better understand the city’s spiritual landscape. Culminating in a live altar and performance honoring Erzuli Danto in Little Haiti, the work invites community members to co-create ceremony and access the research, artifacts, and embodied knowledge it activates. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1753806239967-Q7WAWR2Q0UTCFB6DQOFR/Gabriel+Soomar%2C+Ah+Lil%27+Noise+Later.png 2025 Grantees - Gabriel Soomar Ah Lil' Noise Later Ah Lil’ Noise Later is a site-specific research project by Miami-based artist Gabriel Soomar that explores how Black Atlantic sonic cultures shape public space, memory, and architectural perception. Proposed for Green Haven in Overtown, the project centers on the design of a custom-built modular sound system inspired by Caribbean sonic traditions. Part sculpture, part platform, the system functions as a material study in how sound choreographs emotion, animates ritual, and shapes collective space. Alongside the structure, Soomar will develop a montage film using archival footage, field recordings, and experimental editing to examine how sound records, distorts, and reimagines place. Together, the installation and film consider how sound might shape our experience of architecture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ea3d8ee4b09ab249f4a496/1753806454130-PET8WFYXGIY6DIC14U2G/Teri+Watson%2C+SEED+Erosion+Blocks+.png 2025 Grantees - Teri Watson SEED Erosion Blocks SEED Erosion Blocks is a research-driven installation that repurposes invasive sargassum seaweed into modular concrete blocks designed to stabilize shorelines and support coastal plant growth. 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