March 2026
WATER at CARA
Join us Saturday, April 11 at 4pm
The Earth, the Fire, the Water, and the Winds: For a Museum of Errantry with Édouard Glissant unfolds as four Saturday convenings, featuring invited artists whose practices engage Glissant’s thinking, their collaborators and communities, and special musical guests. These gatherings respond to earth, fire, water, and winds through dialogue, shared poetics, and polyvocality.
We continue with WATER on Saturday, April 11 at 4pm, considering diaspora, fluidity, creolization, migration. A member of CARA’s curatorial team opens the evening with a reading from Glissant’s work.
FORGOTTEN LANDS brings together multi-genre writers Chenée Daley 🇯🇲(Vol. 07) and Yaissa Jiménez 🇩🇴(Vol. 06) alongside percussionist Okai Musik 🇭🇹. Through poetry, music, and movement, the artists explore water as a vessel for memory and trace intimate connections across Caribbean geographies. Las Mariquitas, a queer and trans salsa collective, concludes the day with a performance that holds migration and kinship in sound.
TEAM SPOTLIGHT
Azi Jones 🇯🇲
We're thrilled to welcome Azi to the FORGOTTEN LANDS team as our new Art Advisory & Sales Manager!
Azi Jones is a curator and researcher from Kingston,Jamaica whose practice is dedicated to advancing Caribbean art on a global stage. She has worked in galleries and museums across the region including the National Gallery of Jamaica, the Barbados Museum, and TERN Gallery. Her practice brings together artists, institutions, and collectors to expand visibility and long-term support for Caribbean creative economies. In her role at FORGOTTEN LANDS she is excited to deepen these connections and support artists across the region through thoughtful and strategic advisory and engagement.
FORGOTTEN LANDS EVENTS
Other Islands Book Fair | April 25-26
📍Pfizer Building630 Flushing Ave., Brooklyn, NY, 11206
Tis year, the Other Islands Book Fair will take place on Saturday, April 25 and Sunday, April 26, in a new location on the street-facing ground floor of the Pfizer Building.
ICP Book Fest 2026 | May 8-10
📍84 Ludlow Street, New York, NY
Tickets are now on sale for the ICP Photobook Fest 2026! Join us at this three-day celebration of photobook publishing from around the world, hosted at the International Center of Photography on the Lower East Side.
NADA New York | May 13-17
📍 The Starrett-Lehigh Building, New York, NY
The New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA), the definitive non-profit organization dedicated to the cultivation, support, and advancement of new voices in contemporary art, is pleased to announce the exhibitor list for the 12th edition of NADA New York, the organization’s annual art fair championing galleries at the forefront of contemporary art.
FROM OUR COMMUNITY
NCECA Annual Exhibition Absence Takes Form
📍3434 Russell Street, #502 Detroit, MI
In partnership with the National Council on Education for Ceramic Arts (NCECA), Wasserman Projects presents Absence Takes Form, curated by Adrienne Spinozzi. The exhibition explores how artists express their individual diasporic journeys in clay, taking its inspiration from Detroit, a place with a rich history shaped by the Great Migration and featuring Anina Major 🇧🇸 (Vol. 7).
Molt at the Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech
📍190 Alumni Mall, Blacksburg, VA
Abigail Lucien 🇭🇹 (Vol. 7) presents Molt at the Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech. Working across sculpture, literature, and time-based media, Lucien transforms the ephemeral, molted palm fronds cast in iron, fruit immortalized in bronze, hibiscus steeped into pigment, into meditations on belonging, place, and the transitional states that exist between.
BIRTH PAPERS at El Kilometro
📍El Kilometro, 802 Ave. Roberto H. Todd, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Dach + Zephir 🇬🇵🇫🇷 (Vol. 07), Suzanna Missenberger 🇯🇲 (Vol. 06), and Sebastian Meltz-Collazo 🇵🇷 (Vol. 02) are among the participating artists in BIRTH PAPERS, a traveling Caribbean design show presented by Lehwe Projects, a Caribbean design platform. Bringing together 15 artists from 15 origins, the exhibition opens May 7 at El Kilometro in Santurce, Puerto Rico.
In Another Man's Yard at The 61st Venice Biennale
📍San Trovaso Art Space, Venice, Italy
Lavar Munroe 🇧🇸 (Vol. 07) represents The Bahamas at the 61st Venice Biennale this May, the country's first return in thirteen years. In Another Man's Yard, curated by Dr. Krista Thompson, stages a posthumous dialogue between Munroe and the late John Beadle 🇧🇸 🇯🇲, rooted in Junkanoo and Bahamian visual culture.
Joiri Minaya: Unseeing the Tropics at the Museum
Joiri Minaya 🇩🇴 (Vol. 04) presents Unseeing the Tropics at the Museum at the Syracuse University Art Museum. Pairing her work with objects from the museum's collection, the exhibition invites a critical reconsideration of how nature, landscape, culture, and race have been deployed as tropes in visual culture.
Know Your Caribbean x CCCADI's 50th Anniversary Exhibition
📍 120 East 125th Street, New York, NY
CCCADI celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, partnering with Know Your Caribbean as Curator-at-Large for a milestone exhibition. Beginning May 22, the Community Archiving Lab opens at the CCCADI Firehouse, inviting visitors to witness the active recovery of the organization's history in real time.
ARTIST OPPORTUNITIES
April - May
Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Art Grants (USA) | Deadline: April 7 Apply >>
The Latinx Project Artist-in-Residence (NYC, USA) | Deadline: April 13 Apply >>
Perelman Performing Arts Center x Civis Foundation –The Democracy Cycle’s 2026 Open Call | Deadline: April 20 Apply >>
The Vilcek Foundation 2026 Open Call for Grants (USA) | Deadline: April 30 Apply >>
Center for Craft 2026 Craft Archive Fellowship (USA) | Deadline: May 20 Apply >>
Jonathan and Barbara Silver Foundation 2026 Grant for Writing on Sculpture (USA) | Deadline: May 31 Apply >>
small axe journal call for submissions (Caribbean, Online) | Deadline: Rolling Basis Apply >>
Moko Magazine (Caribbean, Online) | Deadline: Rolling Basis Apply >>