Collect Art, in Community
A collaborative approach to supporting artists.
A collaborative approach to supporting artists.
The art world needs a collaborative approach to collecting art. Through membership, we commission artists, visit artist studios and collector homes, and connect with each other to build a more accessible, artist-invested community.
Your membership helps us commission four artists at pivotal stages in their careers per year. Every quarter we announce the artist commissioned to create new original and limited-edition artwork special for our Collector members. The future of collecting art is collaborative and community-led.
On the exhibitions of Philip Smith and Vickie Pierre at MOCA: “These exhibitions together introduced us to worlds beyond worlds—unseen worlds—thinking through the landscapes of our minds, creation, and imagination.”
“Creativity for me is a way of life rather than something bound to one form. Writing, teaching, movement, and making all become languages for what I’m trying to understand or express.” Read the Q&A with Nicole Combeau—the artist and educator behind our first art-making session of Season Eight.
With cranes looming in the sky and the 1940s award-winning housing development demolished to make space for new construction, O’Neal invited us to become stakeholders and stewards of a shared history through art—a new limited edition piece titled 20th that remembers Rainbow Village. Watch the video, see the photos.
Rainbow Village, completed in 1970, offered a modest response to the mass displacement and disruption caused by Interstate 95’s annihilation of residential and commercial districts in one of Miami’s oldest Black communities, Overtown. Read the full essay by community historian Nadege Green.