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Pérez Art Museum Miami
Join Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) and Flip It & Reverse It for convening centered around creativity and community featuring artists, curators, Indigenous knowledge bearers, spiritual leaders, and cultural organizers from four continents who come together with the local Miami community to share strategies for creative change-making, and forging connections. Flip It & Reverse It explores how spirit can re-envision how art world structures, methodologies, and resources can be re-imagined and will feature a series of conversations, lectures, and presentations on subjects from socially engaged art to the Haitian Revolution’s legacy in contemporary art making.
Through the sharing of tactics, strategies for building community, and protecting nature, we’ll come together to create a roadmap for creating change and healing the planet. Schedule 11:15–11:30am Chapter 1—The Queen Mother’s Blessing 11:30am–12:15pm Chapter 2—Grounding in this Project Universe 12:15–12:40pm Chapter 3—Reaching Each Other Across Oceans 12:40–2pm Chapter 4—Breaking Bread Together (Lunch Break) 1:20–2pm PAMM Exhibition Focus: Basquiat: Figures, Signs, Symbols tour with william cordova 2–3:15pm Chapter 5—Origin Story: Collective Movements Powered by Nature 3:15–4:20pm Chapter 6—The Secret Unfurls For full program schedule and details, including Saturday August 15th in Little Haiti, visit the Flip It & Reverse It website here .
Join Us! This program is included with museum admission.
Admission is $18 for adults and free for members. RSVP Featured Participants Francine Birbragher (Executive Director-Curator ArtNexus Space, North Miami; Artistic Director, Bienal Paiz, Guatemala), Rashida Bumbray (Artist; Curator, Loophole of Retreat: Venice; Former Director, Culture & Art, Open Society Foundations), Adrian Castro (Poet, Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine), william cordova (Artist; Cultural Producer; Founding Director, AIM Biennial), Christopher Cozier (Artist; Co-Director of Alice Yard, Trinidad and Tobago), Her Royal Majesty Queen Mother Dr.
Dòwòti Désir (Queen Mother of the African Diaspora, crowned in Benin; Manbo Asogwe in Haitian Vodou; Master of Arts in Contemporary Art and Critical Theory, Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies), Becky (Nahom) Donovan (Director of Exhibitions at ICI [Independent Curators International]), Keyna Elieson (Co-Curator at Large of the 36th São Paulo Biennial, 2025; Director of Research and Content for the Amazon Biennial, 2025; Curator of the first Amazon Biennial, 2023; Artistic Director of the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro (MAM Rio), 2020-23; Curator of the 10th SIART International Biennial in Bolivia, 2018), Astrid González (Artist), Eileen Jeng-Lynch (Director of Curatorial Affairs, The Bronx Museum), Khanyisile Mbongwa (Curator of Art in the Public Realm, Amos Rex, Helsinki, Finland; Founding Curator, Stellenbosch Triennale, Cape Town, South Africa; Curator, Liverpool Biennial 2023; Zulu Sangoma; PhD Candidate), Amy Rosenblum-Martín (Former staff curator at PAMM and The Bronx Museum; Co-Curator, Bienal de Cuenca, Ecuador, 2025-26), Adenike Sharpley (Former Oberlin professor, Yoruba Priestess of Ochún), Franklin Sirmans (Sandra and Tony Tamer Director, PAMM), and Marie Vickles (Senior Director of Education, PAMM). About the Convening Flip It and Reverse It is a global art initiative, curatorial collective, and research platform that centers global Indigeneities and intersectional environmentalisms.
Rooted in the vision of the late Dr. Yesenia Selier, this project brings together women who are simultaneously curators and/or artists as well as Indigenous spiritual leaders, to reimagine the role of art as a tool for flipping and reversing limiting beliefs to re-create reality collectively.
Conceived over five years of collective dreaming, research, theorizing, and organizing, the project launched at the 40th annual Bienal de Cuenca in Ecuador (2025) and expands through convenings, exhibitions, and publications acr
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