October 2026
THANK YOU STUDIO MUSEUM!
Volume 08 Release
Photo: Alain Andre (@gmclights)
Volume 08: Crossing the Horizon came to life at The Studio Museum in Harlem over a full day of dialogue, sound, and community.
Edwidge Danticat 🇭🇹, Dantaé Garee Elliott 🇯🇲, and Manuel Mathieu 🇭🇹 opened the day with Dialogue I on memory, history, and the Haitian imagination, and Manuel invited us into his olfactory universe with his perfume, île noire. Up on the fifth floor, James Allister Sprang's 🇹🇹🇬🇾 Rest Within the Wake gave us room to slow down and listen.
Back downstairs, Volume 08 guest editor Dejá Aaliyah Belardo 🇻🇮🇵🇷 joined Firelei Báez 🇩🇴🇭🇹 and Gervais Marsh 🇯🇲 for Dialogue II on the horizon as threshold. Gervais invited us into a chorus of thinkers, from Christina Sharpe to Édouard Glissant: "One way ashore, a thousand channels." Ivan "Shie" Moreno 🇨🇺 sent us home on vinyl and 45s. 🪩
Thank you to the Studio Museum and the Studio Salon series for hosting, and to everyone who filled the room. ✨ Volume 08 is available now.
FORGOTTEN LANDS EVENTS
Limited Editions Print Sale
Following the release of Crossing the Horizon, we're bringing a selection of works beyond the page with a limited-edition print series featuring Thibault Cocaign 🇬🇫, Richard Nattoo 🇯🇲, Georgia Semple 🇬🇾, and Pedro Troncoso 🇩🇴.
The prints offer another way to engage with the artists and their work, extending the experience of the publication into your own space. Explore the collection, now available online at FORGOTTEN LANDS.
SEE COLLECTION → https://www.forgottenlandsart.com/
NADA MIAMI + FORGOTTEN LANDS
Solo presentation of new work by Mark Delmont
NADA Miami at Ice Palace Studios
📍 1400 N Miami Ave, Miami, FL 33136
🗓️ December 1–5 | 10AM – 6PM | Booth D18
Miami has shown FORGOTTEN LANDS a lot of love over the years! From exhibitions to community gatherings, the city has welcomed our work and connected us with an incredible network of artists and collaborators.
This December, we're excited to return in a new capacity, making our NADA Miami debut with a solo presentation of Mark Delmont 🇭🇹 🇯🇲. Raised in Miami's Carol City neighborhood, Delmont is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist whose practice is rooted in the people, histories, and landscapes of South Florida. Drawing on over a decade of experience in construction, he brings together painting, found objects, and industrial materials to explore the intersections of ancestry, labor, and environmental stewardship, often juxtaposing the region's mangrove ecosystems with its industrial urban landscape.
Following an exciting year of exhibitions at MOCA North Miami, NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, and Oolite Arts, alongside his selection for the Harpo Foundation's Back River Road Residency, we're thrilled to close out 2026 with Delmont during Miami Art Week. As an important meeting point for the Caribbean diaspora, Miami holds special significance for FORGOTTEN LANDS, making this debut an opportunity to celebrate an artist whose practice is deeply connected to the histories and communities shaping the city.
FROM OUR COMMUNITY
Where Will Puerto Ricans Go After New York?
Where Will Puerto Ricans Go After New York? is an independent documentary about how gentrification, displacement, and migration are reshaping Puerto Rican identity. Directed by Bushwick native Elysia Hernandez 🇵🇷 🇩🇴, with producer Maya Velazquez 🇵🇷 and cinematographer Pablo Freese-Fernández 🇵🇷, the film gathers intimate conversations across the diaspora to trace the long cycle of Puerto Rican migration, from colonial displacement to urban gentrification. It asks what happens when the communities that built cultural enclaves in New York can no longer afford to stay.
The team already hit its seed funding goal, and they're now pushing past it to bring even more of these stories to the screen.
Ojos Caribe: After the Last Frame, the Caribbean Remains at MSU Broad Art Museum
📍 547 E Circle Dr, East Lansing, MI 48824
🗓️ Friday, November 6 | 7PM – 9PM
Since 2022, Ojos Caribe has traveled as a screening platform for moving images from the Caribbean, its islands, and its diasporas, with a sense of Caribbeanness that doesn't stop at the map. Co-founded by artists and scholars Patricia Encarnación 🇩🇴 (Vol. 08), Yelaine Rodriguez 🇩🇴 (Vol. 05), and Gina Goico 🇩🇴, the platform now lands at the Broad's Broad Underground series for one night, curated by Patricia.
The program centers Caribbean histories that official archives lost, buried, or never kept, and the ways they keep returning on film. Presented alongside the exhibition Laas / Absan / Peldía: Caribbean Cinema Cultures, the six films hold onto suppressed histories, people no longer here, and places reshaped by military occupation, extraction, tourism, and ecological crisis.
The lineup: Beatriz Santiago Muñoz 🇵🇷, Post-Military Cinema (2014); Christopher Cozier 🇹🇹, Gas Men (2014); Miryam Charles 🇭🇹, Une forteresse / A Fortress (2018); Nicolás Guillén Landrián 🇨🇺, Los del baile (1965); Sofía Gallisá Muriente 🇵🇷, El Enviado (aunque no sea más que una tregua) (2022); and Tamika Galanis 🇧🇸, When the Lionfish Came (2015). Registration is free.
International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival across New York City
📍 El Museo del Barrio, CENTRO at Silberman School of Social Work
🗓️ November 10 – 15
The International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival returns November 10 to 15 with six days of film from Puerto Rico and the diaspora. Opening night lands at El Museo del Barrio, and CENTRO hosts a free screening of Esta Isla and Mataron a Pedro with the filmmakers. 🇵🇷🎬
Ecologies of Care at Socrates Sculpture Park
📍 32-01 Vernon Blvd, Astoria, NY
For her Adobe Creative Residency at MoMA, Lizania Cruz 🇩🇴 (Vol. 04) brings an interactive kiosk to the Queens waterfront that explores how people, wildlife, and the built environment depend on one another. Visitors add to a collective map of the connections they find in the park, and a series of pamphlets guides them through ecological relationships, from monarch butterflies and milkweed to the shoreline and the park's neighbors.
Reparative Encounters: SILA / DEMSELF / AGBETEGBÉE / EFTERLIV at CMCArts
📍 CMCArts STX, 10 Strand St, Frederiksted, St. Croix
La Vaughn Belle 🇻🇮 (Vol. 01, Vol. 08) joins five artists from Reparative Encounters, a network linking the USVI, Greenland, Ghana, and Denmark to repair the separations of Danish colonialism. Its most expansive show to date brings together video, textiles, performance, and site-specific work made during a three-week residency, before traveling to Denmark, Ghana, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands.
Ayizan at Galerie Poggi
📍 Online livestream
Edwidge Danticat's 🇭🇹 (Vol. 08) latest novel is a Fiction finalist. Named for the Haitian Kreyòl word for mourning, Dèy follows Magnolia, a Haitian American real estate agent in Miami who survives a mall shooting and tells no one. Moving between Haiti, Brooklyn, and Miami, the book holds grief and joy side by side as she reexamines her ties to her daughter, her partner, and her aging parents. Watch the ceremony on the free livestream.
ARTIST OPPORTUNITIES
November - December
A.I.R. Fellowship Program (New York City) | Deadline: November 10 Apply >>
Manhattan Arts Grants, LMCC (New York City) | Deadline: November 12 Apply >>
Voces del Caribe Call for Papers (Caribbean, Online) | Deadline: November 15 Apply >>
The Hopper Prize (International) | Deadline: November 17 Apply >>
Queens Arts Fund New Work Grant (New York City) | Deadline: November 17 Apply >>
The John Ruskin Prize (International) | Deadline: November 17 Apply >>
Banff Centre Visual Arts Residency: Sounding Like a Mountain (Canada) | Deadline: November 18 Apply >>
Miss Sarah Fellowship for Black Women Writers (North Carolina) | Deadline: November 19 Apply >>
Visual AIDS Postcards From the Edge Call for Artwork (International) | Deadline: November 20 Apply >>
khōréō Fiction Submissions for Immigrant and Diaspora Writers (Online) | Deadline: November 30 Apply >>
Jan van Eyck Academie Residency 2028 (Netherlands) | Deadline: December 1 Apply >>
EFA Studio Program (New York City) | Deadline: December 1 Apply >>
Smack Mellon Studio Program 2027-28 (New York City) | Deadline: December 1 Apply >>
Smack Mellon Summer 2027 Group Exhibition Open Call (New York City) | Deadline: December 1 Apply >>
Responsa Foundation Open Call for Textile Art: This Memory (International) | Deadline: December 4 Apply >>
Cove Park Awarded Residencies 2027-28 (Scotland) | Deadline: December 11 Apply >>
Triangle Arts Association 2027-2028 Residency (Brooklyn) | Deadline: December 15 Apply >>
Raia Project (New York City) | Deadline: December 30 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 >>