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On September 8, 2025, the WOPHA Artists in Residence, Kat Thompson, Nathyfa Michel, and Celia Irina González, visited Adler Guerrier’s studio at the Bakehouse Art Complex, engaging in dialogue around his practice and creative process. Photos by Gaby Ojeda. Courtesy of WOPHA.
Wild Flower (Lily), 1999. Lithograph and photolithograph, aluminum gold leaf, and collage. Printed and published by Tamarind Institute. via Whitney Museum.
Sant’Andrea de Scaphis on Cowboys.
Miami-Dade’s 2025-26 budget proposal,
“The budget … calls for a cut of 52 percent (almost $13 million) in county financial support for arts organizations in Miami-Dade County. On Monday the chair of the County Commission, Anthony Rodriguez, released a memo calling for restoring $6.25 million of the cultural cuts by using newfound revenues from the independent Tax Collector’s office.” via Miami Herald.
How do we find $5 million more?
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Zura Lagarde, The Silent Pulse Beneath Still Stone, Artmedia Gallery, April 25 – July 30, 2025.
“I perceive the spaces where time flickers—where déjà vu hums like a distant echo, where a breath feels borrowed from another life.”
Strange Natures features the work of three artists exploring themes of communal care, loss, resilience, and tenderness through the lens of South Florida’s ecology. While the artists use different mediums, they all engage in a process of world-building that feels both of and beyond our natural environment.
The exhibition imagines how our connection to land will change depending on our collective response, whether care or indifference, to the exploitation of our natural ecosystems. By contemplating this relationship within the context of South Florida’s landscape, the artists explore versions of reality that oscillate between dystopia and utopia, present and future, the familiar and strange.
Christine Cortes, Lee Pivnik, and Zoe Schweiger. Curated by Krys Ortega.
Bakehouse Art Complex, April 10, 2025 – July 10, 2025.
We are proud to announce that ‘poemas de sal y tierra (poems of salt and soil),’ a curatorial partnership between FORGOTTEN LANDS and homework, opens Saturday, April 12th at 5pm and runs through May 31st.
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.
“Cultural identity… is a matter of ‘becoming’ as well as of ‘being.’ It belongs to the future as much as to the past.” — Stuart Hall
‘poemas de sal y tierra (poems of salt and soil)’ is a collective living archive, an ever evolving space where sentiment, symbolism, and memorabilia come together to be held, celebrated, reimagined, and shared. The gallery space functions like a diary written in prose, where the artworks serve as entries–preserving feelings and memories beyond physical artifacts. Artists from the Caribbean and Latin America weave new layers of meaning into inherited stories, places and objects, transforming memory into an active conversation that continues to unfold.
The exhibition explores the idea that we both come from and become the places we move through. Salt and soil, fundamental to land and sea, symbolize ancestral geographies. Through the use of various mediums–painting, drawing, sound, film, photography and sculpture– artists translate ephemeral histories, embodied knowledge and shifting landscapes into tangible artworks, much like poetry makes visible the invisible threads of our existence.
Through their work, the artists transform fragments of themselves into an active, breathing record of resilience and reverence for their roots, lived experiences and their own sense of belonging. This exhibition is ultimately a reflection of how we collect, connect and preserve the intangible, and how we return to it for comfort, clarity, and renewal. Here, collective memory isn’t fixed; it shifts, grows, and evolves through each work.
-curated by FORGOTTEN LANDS and homework
April 12 – May 31, 2025
7338 NW Miami Court, Miami FL, 33150
FORGOTTEN LANDS has emerged as a leading force in contemporary Caribbean art, serving as a vital platform that amplifies voices across the diaspora and launches the careers of emerging artists. Their mission centers on illuminating the often-overlooked narratives of the Caribbean while weaving together the region’s rich historical tapestry.Founded in 2017, founders Cory Torres Bishop and Don Brodie initially conceived FORGOTTEN LANDS as a benefit exhibition in the aftermath of hurricanes Irma and Maria. What began as an immediate response to environmental disaster has evolved into a dynamic 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Today, they forge meaningful collaborations with artists, galleries, institutions, and brands to create transformative projects spanning exhibitions, community events, artist talks, publications, and beyond.
homework, founded by Aurelio Aguiló and Mayra Mejia, is a contemporary art gallery dedicated to innovative curatorial practices and fostering meaningful dialogue. By showcasing diverse artists through multidisciplinary exhibitions, homework aims to connect with global audiences, promote creative innovation, and challenge traditional artistic paradigms.
Only the plants will ever know, Wysocka / Pogo. 2021.
Michael Marder. Also at the Philosophical Salon.
A Philosophy of Stories Plants Tell, M.Marder.Plant Stories.pdf, 2023.
“plants not only silently tell us something (indeed, a great deal) about themselves and the world, but also that they tell stories, rendering witness accounts about life and death, light and darkness, middles, beginnings, and ends.
Plant-Thinking, A Philosophy of Vegetal Life, 2013.
“Reconstructing the life of plants “after metaphysics,” Marder focuses on their unique temporality, freedom, and material knowledge or wisdom. In his formulation, “plant-thinking” is the non-cognitive, non-ideational, and non-imagistic mode of thinking proper to plants, as much as the process of bringing human thought itself back to its roots and rendering it plantlike.”
Plants in Place, A Phenomenology of the Vegetal, Edward S. Casey and Michael Marder, 2023.
“vegetal existence involves many place-based forms of change: stems growing upward, roots spreading outward, fronds unfurling in response to sunlight, seeds traveling across wide distances, and other intricate relationships with the surrounding world.”
Philosophy of the Home, Emanuele Coccia, Richard Dixon (Translator), 2024. Interview in Pin-Up.
This video, made in 1986, documents some of the testimony given in the Trial of Titled Arc. The artwork on trial is Richard Serra’s public sculpture, Tilted Arc, commissioned and installed by the U.S. government in 1981. Four years later, a public hearing was held to consider the removal of the sculpture from its site in Federal Plaza in New York City. Richard Serra and other artists, politicians and community members speak in defense of Tilted Arc, on public art, and the role of the government and the of the people in shaping the public’s visual environment.
1986, 28 minutes, Paper Tiger.