THE ARTIST AS ACTIVIST: Miami-Dade County Budget Public Hearing Workshop
During the exhibition run of THE ARTIST AS ACTIVIST at Touché Boutique in Little Havana, join Motyko Morales—participating artist and Advocacy & Policy Director for Engage Miami—for a Miami-Dade County public budget hearing workshop.
Rent and costs of living are going up. Eviction diversion, small business, and arts & culture support is getting cut. And people are still being illegally detained at the Everglades concentration camp. With two budget town halls left, come through to workshop your public comments and questions.
Parking is free and available on-site in the first two floors of the garage.
The following Zoom link is also available to tune in to the workshop: https://miami.zoom.us/j/95639176199
About The Artist as Activist
THE ARTIST AS ACTIVIST is a three-person exhibition featuring artist-activists Fola Akinde, Agua Dulce, and Motyko Morales. The exhibition considers collaging, screenprinting, and altars as mediums in which these three artists grapple with the weight of pressing civic issues facing Miami-Dade County in this present moment. Active within organizer spaces as well, such as WeCount, the Alliance for LGBTQ Youth, and CaribePouvwa, the three artists contend with the realities of heat protection regulations for migrant workers, climate gentrification, and life under immigration in their interdisciplinary practices, each of which is rooted in community via collaboration with organizations, accessible workshops, and grassroots fundraising and crowdfunding. Akinde, Dulce, and Morales advocate for liberation of these harmful realities through compositions that reimagine alternative futures that prioritize care and a better Miami for all. Across the presentation of the three artists’ work, the role of the activist takes center stage in considering the question: how can artists spearhead palpable change in Miami?
About Artists for Artists: Miami
THE ARTIST AS ACTIVIST is Artists for Artists: Miami's (A4A:MIA) first exhibition effort and was envisioned in response to an open call to its members. A4A:MIA is an open collective, independently founded at the start of 2023 to begin building collective power amongst Miami-based artists.