BOLD. BLACK. BALDWIN. - MIAMI ART WEEK

Commemorating the 100th year of James Baldwin’s birth, this exhibition, a collection of original, mixed media pieces and documentary photographs combined with a handful of Baldwin’s powerful and poignant words, highlights the deep connection between the written word and the visual language.  Bold. Black. Baldwin. enters the national conversation at a fortuitous moment. This moment is the moment to be brave and to acknowledge that the world that Baldwin helped to build and that the promise he left behind is viciously under attack anew. We invite poets, musicians, community leaders, and artists to celebrate and elevate Baldwin’s legacy.

iWitness @ The Betsy is the marriage of The Betsy Hotel and iWitness: IPC Institute of Visual Journalism at FIU – which represents a collaborative commitment to a community partnership that brings together creativity in art, hospitality, and education to excite crowds about the need to continue to support democracy and justice, wherever they are found. Kilombo – the documentary photography of visual anthropologist and documentary photographer Maria Daniel Balcazar – is a tribute to the resilience and vitality of the African legacy in Brazil. As an award-winning photographer, Maria Daniel Balcazar focuses on the vitality of cultural traditions in the constant remaking of identity.  Her images provide profound hope for the eyes, mind, and soul.

A night of jazz featuring Nicole Yarling, Jim Gasior, Renee Cruz, and Brandon Lee Lewis and a sneak peek @ Maria Daniel Balcazar’s Kilombo. The program is presented in partnership with the City of Miami Beach Black Affairs Committee and the GMCVB. 

Josephine Baker was a trailblazer. She was a fabulous dancer playing with the norms or “codes” of her time, a wonderful singer with a timeless performance in many languages, including French, Spanish, Portuguese, and even Yiddish, one of the first black actresses to star as the main character in major motion pictures, a great humanist, a war hero, and a Civil rights fighter and 1951  she was credited with desegregating audiences on Miami Beach at the COPA.

iWitness @ The Betsy, featuring Kilombo by Maria Daniel Balcazar

E. Ethelbert Miller book reading and signing with Books and Books

Peter London Global Dance Company, newly commissioned work to the ‘Everglades’ music of Jose Elias & Curtis Lundy Quartet ( performance at 6 PM to 12 AM)

Bold. Black. Baldwin.

E. Ethelbert Miller on Baldwin with Dr. Shawn Christian, FIU Chair of English

Performance by Curtis Lundy Quartet

The Ocean Drive Promenade Concert Series – Lummus Park / The Betsy Hotel

Performance by Curtis Lundy Quartet

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

IPC ArtSpace, 225 Northeast 59th Street, Miami, United States