June 2026
Volume 08 Contributors
This month the Caribbean played on the world's biggest stage, the World Cup. Haiti for the first time since 1974 and Curaçao as the smallest nation ever to qualify. Although their runs ended in the group stage last week, we're proud of what they accomplished. Volume 08 claims a different stage with the same insistence: engaging the horizon not as a border, but as a threshold. The Caribbean seen on its own terms, without translation.
Guest edited by Deja Belardo , this volume brings together twenty-six artists from across the Caribbean who engage the horizon not as a backdrop or a border, but as a threshold. Their work pushes back against the long-standing expectation that Caribbean art must be figurative, narrative, or ethnographic to be legible. Instead, it opens a speculative zone where memory drifts, ancestral knowledge surfaces, and alternative futures take shape. In this collision of reality and fantasy, these artists honor the past, confront the present, and reach toward what lies just past the line where sea meets sky.
NEW WORKS:
Patricia Encarnación & Stephen Arboite
FORGOTTEN LANDS brings together Patricia Encarnación and Stephen Arboite , in an online curation. Two Caribbean artists who treat objects and materials as carriers of history, critique, and ancestral knowledge. Through machetes, coffee, fire, clay, ceramics, and image-making, their practices read the Caribbean through what has been handled, cultivated, extracted, repurposed, and remembered. Check out the latest artworks you can collect directly from our viewing page.
FROM OUR COMMUNITY
IN CONVERSATION WITH GUARIONEX RODRIGUEZ, JR.
Photographer and DJ Guarionex Rodriguez, Jr. (Vol. 05) spent a month inside Ace Hotel Brooklyn scanning through years of photographs. The result is Planets in Transit, a decade in the making. Curated by Field Meridians, the exhibition is one of four artists selected for Ace Hotel's 2026 artist-in-residence program and is on view through July 31.
FORGOTTEN LANDS co-founder Cory Torres Bishop sat down with Guario to talk about community, the dance floor as liberation, and what it means to document people at their most free.
Under a Plantain Tree: Notes on Liberation at JCAL
📍 161-04 Jamaica Ave, Jamaica, NY 11432
Dr. Margarita Lila Rosa (Vol. 06) curated Under a Plantain Tree: Notes on Liberation at the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning (JCAL), bringing together Ronald "EFE" Ramirez, Jeffrey Meris, Zion Estrada, Laurena Finéus, and Luis Gutierrez to sit with freedom as something iterative, fugitive, and unfinished.
Mark Delmont: For a Lifetime at Windows @ Walgreens
📍 67th St and Collins Ave, Miami Beach, FL 33141
Mark Delmont's For a Lifetime installation at Windows @ Walgreens in Miami Beach unfolds across painting, photography, and video as an examination of labor, interdependence, and embodied knowledge. The work draws from Delmont’s background in construction and his time in a fishing village near Paramaribo, Suriname, developed during his participation in the Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator (DVCAI) Artist-in-Residence (AIR) program.
To Hell With Hibiscus at Henry Art Gallery
📍 Henry Art Gallery, UW, Seattle, WA 98195
Joiri Minaya (Vol. 04) opens To Hell With Hibiscus at the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle this month, a textile-based exhibition that critiques how the Tropics have been constructed, marketed, and consumed, from the Caribbean to the Pacific.
Love Letter at Hannah Traore Gallery
📍 150 Orchard Street, New York, NY 10002
Jorian Charlton (Vol. 04) and Sandra Brewster (Vol. 06) are among sixteen Toronto-based artists in Love Letter, a group exhibition at Hannah Traore Gallery in New York. Curated by gallerist Hannah Traore, the exhibition is an ode to her hometown.
NEW “DECOLONIZE THE CARIBBEAN” HATS
ARTIST OPPORTUNITIES
July - August
Tomorrow's Ancestors: The Wall Open Call for Creative Collaborators (New York, NY) | Deadline: July 5 Apply >>
Pioneer Works Visual Arts & Music Residency (Brooklyn, NY) | Deadline: July 13 Apply >>
Loghaven Artist Residency (Knoxville, TN) | Deadline: July 15 Apply >>
Oolite Arts Programs (Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, Monroe counties) | Deadline: July 31 Apply >>
MacDowell Fellowship (Peterborough, NH) | Deadline: September 10 Apply >>
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant | Deadline: Rolling Basis Apply >>
small axe journal call for submissions (Caribbean, Online) | Deadline: Rolling Basis Apply >>
Moko Magazine (Caribbean, Online) | Deadline: Rolling Basis Apply >>