May 2025
A huge thank you to everyone who stopped by the FORGOTTEN LANDS reference library at 1-54 New York and our booth at Available Works!
It was an honor to be in such thoughtful company alongside Studio Fōr and Yale CEA in the 1-54 Lounge. Studio Fōr’s commitment to healing and equity through design, and Yale CEA’s visionary work around sustainable systems for the built environment, beautifully complemented our reference library, together creating a vibrant, reflective space for rest, reading, and conversation.
Shout out to Atlantic Arthouse for their incredible Caribbean Spotlight and group show Crossfigurations, which featured 11 artists from across the region. Big love to Bahamian-based Tern Gallery and Fridman Gallery, which featured powerful paintings by Madjeen Isaac and Naomi Lisiki.
Grateful to be in community with you all.
UPCOMING FL EVENTS
Final days of poemas de sal y tierra
🗓️ Closing May 31 | homework - 7338 NW Miami CT, Miami FL 33150
This Saturday, May 31st, is the final day to see poemas de sal y tierra (poems of salt and soil) at homework gallery in Miami. Don’t miss your last chance to experience this exhibition featuring works rooted in land, memory, movement, salt, and soil.
MCRW Festival
🗓️ May 31 | NYC 12pm - 5pm
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. This Saturday, May 31st enjoy an afternoon of live music, interactive art making, gallery chats, Queens Night Market food trucks, and more, all inspired by the remarkable art and cultures showcased in the newly reimagined galleries.
FROM OUR COMMUNITY
Third Horizon Film Festival
🗓️ May 29 - June 1 | Miami
The eighth annual Third Horizon Film Festival (THFF) returns to Miami, Florida from May 29th to June 1st, 2025. We invite you to join for an unforgettable weekend of engagement with films by the Caribbean and its diaspora’s most cutting-edge moving-image artists.
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
Rekòlte: A Night of Haitian Roots & House Music
🗓️ May 31 | About Last Night, Brooklyn 9pm - 2am
QUISQUEYA EDITION Celebrating Haitian Heritage Month & the shared island of Dominican Republic & Haiti…Quisqueya! DJ Sabine Blaizin, Oyasound, and In Cultured Co. honor the intertwined rhythms, resistance, and resilience of Haiti & the Dominican Republic. Sets by DJ Ultra Violet & Performing Artist Saso, Afro-Haitian Dance by master teacher and choreographer Julio Jean, and more.
I AM CaribBeing x Photodom.NYC: Pearl of the Antilles
🗓️ May 24 – July 1, 2025 | Colonel’s Row, Governors Island, NYC
A multidisciplinary exhibition celebrating Haiti’s artistic legacy, I AM CaribBeing, Little Caribbean NYC, and Photodom.NYC presents Pearl of the Antilles featuring photography, paintings, and installations by Haitian artists and the diaspora as part of Haitian Heritage Month.
ARTIST OPPORTUNITIES
June - July 2025
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 >>
Fresh Milk Barbados Open Call 2025 - TENDER: A Caribbean Arts Regranting Initiative (Caribbean-based) | Deadline: June 6 Apply >>
The Vilcek Foundation 2026 Creative Promise Prize in Fashion (New York, United States) | Deadline: June 9 Apply >>
Monira Foundation Residency (New Jersey, United States) | Deadline June 27 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 >>
Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA) Research Fellowship | Deadline: June 30 Apply >>
small axe journal call for submissions | Deadline: Rolling Basis Apply >>
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