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Miami MoCAAD's mission to discover, commission, collect and preserve the work of the most advanced contemporary artists of the Global African Diaspora.

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@MiamiMOCAAD is set to start its summer celebration of #AfricanDiaspora Heritage with an exhibition entitled, “Reconstructing Identity: An Exploration of Identity and Diaspora Through Artistic Practice.”
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Ellen Gallagher (1965) is a talented American artist known for her "revision and repetition" style and approach to her craft. With work exploring race, advertisements, history, and more, she breaks the boundaries of mediums, materials, and concepts. #BlackFemaleArtists

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Heitor dos Prazeres (b. 1898) was a Brazilian artist who, after his wife's passing, picked up a paintbrush and taught himself how to create it by decorating his house's walls.

#HeitordosPrazeres
#BrazilianModernism
#BlackBrazilianArtists

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Beauford Delaney (1901-1979) was an artist inspired by the Harlem Renaissance and moved to New York to continue his passion for art. There his early work of trained realism evolved with the change in environment.

#BeaufordDelaney
#AfricanAmericanArtists
#AmericanModernism

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Khadija Saye (b 1992-2017), also known as Ya-Haddy Sisi, was a Gambian-British photographer. Her photography explores aspects of her Gambian-British identity and mixed-faith background (her mother was Christian, and her father is Muslim).

#KhadijaSaye #Blackartist #womeninart

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Adam Pendleton (b. 1984) is an American conceptual artist who works in painting, drawing, video, and other media to recontextualize history and culture through the appropriation of imagery.

#americanartist #blackartist #history #Blackamericanhistory #multimediaartist

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Tunji Adeniyi-Jones (b. 1992) Inspired by modernist artists such as Henri Matisse and Ben Enwonwu Adeniyi-Jones works in painting, drawing, and printmaking to explore his Nigerian Yoruba background.

#TunjiAdeniyiJones #Nigerian #Yoruba #contemporaryart

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Henry Taylor (b. 1958) is an American artist. Taylor's work has been said to have spontaneous, full of empathy, and natural expressiveness.

For information about Henry Taylor’s current exhibit, go to https://t.co/QZavA7FOKK

#Henrytaylor #americanartist #blackartist

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Throwback Thursday. to last year's art+tech. "Create Your Own AR World" with @techgirlpower!

#community #tech #AR #branchefl #girltech #artandtech #artandtechnology #miamimocaad
#tbt

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Our last sculpture in the series is believed to be one of the only sculptures depicting Dr. King and his wife, Coretta Scott King, together.

Ed Dwight, Martin Luther & Coretta Scott King Memorial, (Mark Luethi Photography), 2011, Allentown, Pennsylvania

#MLK

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The Embrace is one of the newest sculptures celebrating Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by Hank Willis Thomas ( b.1947 ). It represents an embrace between Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King.

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The sculpture Homage to King was a gift from the Spanish host city of the 1992 Summer Olympics, Barcelona, to the host of the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Xavier Medina-Campeny, "Homage to King," 1996, Atlanta,
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Tiffany Alfonseca @tiffanyalfonseca (b 1994-)
a Dominican-American mixed-media artist and contemporary painter based in New York. She uses various items to compose her pieces.

(2)Tiffany Alfonseca, From the hands that created us, 2021T

#blackartist #dominican

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Ebony G. Patterson is a visual artist and curator. Patterson's striking tapestries reflect societal topics in Jamaica, from femininity to dancehall culture.

(1)Ebony G. Patterson, . . . they were just boys (. . . when they grow up . . .), 2016

#blackartist #jamaican

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This Public Monument is located on the grounds of the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta, whose design is based on a picture of King walking with Bayard Rustin during the Montgomery bus boycott.

Andy Davis, The statue of MLK, 2017, Atlanta, Georgia

#martinlutherking

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Devan Shimoyama @devonshimoyama is an American visual artist who combines a variety of elements to explore the intersectionality of blackness and queerness.

(1)Devan Shimoyama, Tasha, 2018
(2)Devan Shimoyama, Midnight Rumination, 2019
#blackartists #queerartist

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Miami MoCAAD celebrates Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by sharing some of our favorite sculptures dedicated to his memory.
Lisa Reinertson, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, 1989, Kalamazoo, Michigan

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Edouard Duval-Carrié’s art focuses on Haitian culture, its complex sociopolitical history, and Vodun—one of the many African diasporic religions based in Haiti and other parts of the West Indies.

(1)Edouard Duval-Carrié, After Heade-Moonlit Landscape, 2014
#haitian

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Vaughn Spann (b. 1992-) is a contemporary artist and Florida native. His style focuses on abstraction and figuration.

(1)Vaughn Spann,Big Black Rainbow,(For US),2018.
(2)Vaughn Spann,Marfa Girls, 2019.
(3)Vaughn Spann,Big Black Rainbow(Smoky Eyes),2019

#AfricanAmericanArt

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Adler Guerrier explores the visual identities of urban spaces by using various materials and techniques developed primarily in the media of photography and recording.

Adler Guerrier, Untitled (Field Guide–exposure to enchanted forms) I, 2022.

#AdlerGuerrier #haitianartist

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Joiri Minaya (b 1990-) is a Dominican-American multi-disciplinary artist who explores the female body and the constructed identities that social spaces and hierarchies assign to it.

(1)Joiri Minaya, #dominicanwomengooglesearch, 2016
(2)Joiri Minaya, Container #4, 2020