April 2025

🥳 Thank you to everyone who made it out to the opening of poemas de sal y tierra (poems of salt and soil)’ featuring works by Nathalie Alfonso, Stephen Arboite, Jonathan Carela, Raymel Casamayor, Nicole Combeau, Adler Guerrier, Amanda Linares, Elisa Bergel Melo, Devin Osorio, Charlie Quezada, and Victoria Ravelo.

The show runs through May 31st at homework gallery, 7338 NW Miami CT, Miami, FL.

Not in Miami? We got you, hit the button below to check our virtual viewing room!

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UPCOMING FL EVENTS

1-54 Art Fair

🗓️ May 8 - 11 | NYC

Join us at one of the most influential fairs dedicated to contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora. With three editions per year—in London, New York, and Marrakech—as well as an annual pop-up fair in Paris, 1-54 draws reference to the fifty-four countries that constitute the African continent.

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Available Works Book Fair

🗓️ May 16 - 18 | NYC

We’ll be tabling at this independent book fair, featuring innovative and collectible works that push the boundaries of publishing. Presented by Something Special Studios in partnership with Water Street Associates and Wrong Answer.

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MCRW Festival

🗓️ Saturday, May 31 | NYC

To celebrate the reopening of Michael C. Rockefeller Wing (MCRW), dedicated to the Arts of Africa, the Ancient Americas, and Oceania, we’ve been invited as a select community partner. More details to come!

FROM OUR COMMUNITY

Burnaway & CCCADI: Centering Caribbean Writers

Burnaway and the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI) are pleased to announce their new collaboration: Care in Precarity, an open call for Caribbean writers to reflect on practices of care in the context of climate-based instability and crisis.

Image by La Vaughn Belle, Storm

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Anthotype Printing with Ready-Made Negatives

🗓️ Wednesday May 14 | Miami

This workshop invites participants into the poetic process of anthotype printing—a historical photographic technique that uses plant-based emulsions and ultraviolet light to produce delicate, ephemeral images.

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Joiri Minaya: Venus Flytrap by Blackstar

May 29 – June 1, 2025 | Bartram’s Garden Philadelphia, PA

BlackStar presents a new site-specific performance series and installation by artist Joiri Minaya (featured in FORGOTTEN LANDS Vol 04) at Bartram's Garden. Curated by Dessane Lopez Cassell, the work explores connections between freedom, extraction, and ecology in North America's oldest botanical garden

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ARTIST OPPORTUNITIES

May - June 2025

Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grants | Deadline: May 7 Apply >>
Burnaway and CCCADI Open Call Care in Precarity centering Caribbean Writers | Deadline: May 8 Apply >>
Burnaway Art Writing Incubator (AWrI) (Virtual) | Deadline May 8 Apply >>
The Bandung Residency presented by the Asian American Arts Alliance (A4) and the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) Apply >>
New York Public Library Dance Research Fellowship (New York, United States) | Deadline: May 15 Apply >>
Visual Studies Workshop Project Space Artist Residency (New York, United States)| Deadline: June 2 Apply >>
Pérez Art Museum Miami Caribbean Cultural Institute (CCI) 2025 Artist Fellowship (Florida, United States) | Deadline June 2 Apply >>
Pérez Art Museum Miami Caribbean Cultural Institute (CCI) 2025 Research Fellowship (Florida, United States) | Deadline June 2 Apply >>
Pérez Art Museum Miami Caribbean Cultural Institute (CCI) + Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA) Fellowship (Florida, United States) | Deadline June 2 Apply >>
Architectural League of New York 2025 Independent Projects Grants (New York, United States) | Deadline: June 4 Apply >>
The Vilcek Foundation 2026 Creative Promise Prize in Fashion (New York, United States) | Deadline: June 9 Apply >>
Pérez Art Museum Miami 2025 Open Call for Digital Art Commissions (Florida, United States) | Deadline: June 30 Apply >>
NYC Department of Cultural Affairs Public Artists in Residence (New York, United States) | Deadline: June 30 Apply >>
small axe journal call for submissions | Deadline: Rolling Basis Apply >>

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