2020
The Green Space Initiative
The Green Space Initiative – Green Space Miami Announces Open Call for BIPoC Artists
Green Space Miami is the Green Family Foundation’s new art space. Guided by the Foundation’s principles of inclusion, community empowerment and education, Green Space Miami centers marginalized stories, hosted in a space for dialogue. Green Space Miami’s mission is to be a catalyst for action collaborating with community partners and educational institutions. Located in the MiMo Biscayne Boulevard Historic District, Green Space Miami will open to the public as soon as possible. Today Green Space Miami launches its inaugural initiative, to begin working with artists in our community currently unable to exhibit or teach, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Green Space Initiative is an open call for BIPoC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) artists based in Miami-Dade County. The Green Space Initiative will grant $5,000 each to ten visual artists selected by an advisory committee of arts and education leaders. The works of selected artists will be brought together in an exhibition as soon as it is safe to do so. Through a series of online events and a group exhibition, The Green Space Initiative works to support and promote Miami-Dade County’s artists.
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WHO: The Green Space Initiative seeks to support BIPoC professional artists based in Miami-Dade County who have lost income due to projects, exhibitions, and educational roles being cancelled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Excludes currently employed full-time college professors and K-12 teachers.
ELIGIBLE WORK: Painting, photography, other two-dimensional art processes and techniques, sculpture, installation and video. The Green Space Initiative seeks artists whose practice illuminates the conversations around critical social issues such as race, gender identity, immigration, justice system reform, access to healthcare, and education.
SELECTION PROCESS: The Green Space Initiative invites artists to submit artworks until October 31, 2020. All applications will be reviewed, and ten works will be selected by the Green Space Initiative advisory committee.
AWARDS: A one-time grant of $5,000 each will be made to ten visual artists in recognition of artworks selected by the advisory committee. The Green Space Initiative will announce the selected artists before the end of the year. Selected artworks will be exhibited together when it is safe to do so.
Artists are invited to apply here. Please help us reach Miami’s artists by sharing this announcement with your networks.
The Green Space Initiative Advisory Committee
Chad Bernstein, Guitars Over Guns Organization
M. Stephanie Chancy, Green Family Foundation/Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) Fellow at FIU Green Library
Jodi Farrell, AVP of Advancement, Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts
Amy Galpin, Chief Curator, FIU Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum
Chana Budgazad Sheldon, Executive Director, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) North Miami
Franklin Sirmans, Director, PAMM - Pérez Art Museum Miami
Mikhaile Solomon, Director, PRIZM Art Fair
Marie Vickles, Director of Education, PAMM, Curator-in-Residence, Little Haiti Cultural Center
The Green Space Initiative Team
Michelangelo Bendandi
Mireille Louis Charles, Executive Director, Green Family Foundation
Kimberly Green, President, Green Family Foundation
Pedro Jermaine, Initiative Coordinator and Artist
Pamela Lopez del Carmen, Initiative Coordinator and Principal, ZDC Consulting
Green Space Initiative is grateful for the support of
David Everett Marko, Founding Partner at Marko & Magolnick, P.A.
Davide Proietti, Associate at Marko & Magolnick, P.A.
Contact:
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