About this Event
Discover Miami’s vibrant photography scene through an intimate, guided journey across the city’s most dynamic studios. Open to locals and visitors, this one-day program offers exclusive, behind-the-scenes access to leading and emerging Miami women photographers in a more reflective setting amid the city’s art-week celebrations. Meet artists, see works in progress, and hear firsthand about projects featured at museums and fairs.
Your ticket includes private group transportation between venues (skip the traffic and focus on art, conversation, and discovery), light refreshments throughout the day, and a limited-edition WOPHA tote bag. The itinerary features key creative hubs including the Bakehouse Art Complex, CITY – STATE, and Collective 62, offering an insider’s view of where Miami’s most compelling photographic practices take shape.
Perfect for collectors, curators, artists, and enthusiasts seeking meaningful encounters with Miami’s photography community, this experience is an ideal way to spend your Saturday after a full week of art events. Capacity is limited to ensure closeness with artists and a high-quality visit.
About the Artists
Maria Martinez-Cañas was born in Havana, Cuba. She received a BFA in Photography from the Philadelphia College of Art and an MFA in Photography from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. An artist who works with innovative, non-traditional photographic media, she has exhibited extensively in the United States and abroad, with 50 one-person exhibitions and over 300 group exhibitions. She is the recipient of the Oolite Arts 2020 Michael Richards Award, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation 2016 Photography Fellowship, a Civitella Ranieri Foundation 2014 Visual Arts Fellowship, a Cintas Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts award; and a Fulbright-Hays Grant, among others. Her works are included in the permanent collections of The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia; The Museum of Modern Art in New York; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the Centre Pompidou, in Paris; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco; The Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona; and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, among many others. Her works are represented by Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami. She was an Associate Professor Senior and the head of the Photography Department at New World School of the Arts, where she mentored dozens of Miami’s visual artists, since 1996. She lives and works in Miami.
Marina Font was born in Argentina in 1970. She studied design at the Martin Malharro School of Visual Arts, Mar del Plata, Argentina. In the summer of 1998 she studied Photography at the Speos Ecole de la Photographie, Paris. She earned a MFA in Photography from Barry University, Miami in 2009. Since then she has exhibited extensively at galleries, museums and cultural institution in the US and abroad. Her work is present in various public collections such as the MDC Museum of Art+Design, Miami, the Boca Raton Museum of Art, the Frost Art Museum at FIU, the LOWE Art Museum at The University of Miami, FoLA, Fototeca Latinoamericana, Buenos Aires, Argentina, The Bunnen collection in Atlanta , the Girls' Club collection in Fort Lauderdale and various private collections throughout the world. She currently lives in Miami Beach. and works at her studio at The Collective 62, located in Liberty City, Miami.
Marina Gonella is a mixed media artist born in Chicago, she moved with her family to Buenos Aires, Argentina at an early age. She is now living and working in Florida. She graduated from the School of Fine Arts Pridiliano Pueyrredón (Buenos Aires) with a degree in painting and attended classes at UNA (Universidad Nacional de Las Artes, Buenos Aires), pursuing a MFA. Marina has participated in group and solo exhibitions in Argentina, Uruguay and United States. Her art is included in national and international, private and corporate art collections.
Rose Marie Cromwell (b. 1983, Sacramento; based in Miami) is a photo and video artist whose work explores the effects of globalization on the local and the interplay between the political and the spiritual. Her first book, El Libro Supremo de la Suerte, published in 2018 by TIS books, was awarded the Light Work Photobook Prize and named one of the 25 Best Photobooks of 2018 by TIME magazine. In 2021, she published Eclipse (TIS books) and A More Fluid Atmosphere (Pomegranate Press). Cromwell has had solo exhibitions at DiabloRosso and Antítesis in Panama City, Panama; Institute 193 in Lexington, Kentucky; and Filter Photo in Chicago. Her work has also been exhibited at the Aperture Foundation in New York, the High Museum in Atlanta, PRIZM Art Fair in Miami, TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image in Philadelphia, and the Silver Eye Center for Photography in Pittsburgh, among others. She is the recipient of a Fulbright grant and a Getty Reportage grant and has been an artist in residence at Light Work and Oolite Arts in Miami.
Diana Eusebio is a Peruvian-Dominican textile artist based in Miami. Her artistic practice is centered on color and its cultural significance. She researches natural dyed textiles from Indigenous Latin American and Afro-Caribbean traditions, recognizing their connection to nature and their role as carriers of ancestral wisdom. Eusebio's fusion of ancestral and modern techniques, including dyeing and photography, contributes to contemporary cultural preservation and celebrates the rich heritage and Pre-Columbian knowledge embedded within these communities. Her work is a powerful testament to the enduring cultural tapestry of these regions. Eusebio holds a BFA in Fiber from the Maryland Institute College of Art. She has presented her work at the MoMa, Hall of Nations, Gregg Museum of Art and Design, and Rubell Museum. Studio residencies include Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Aspen, CO; Red Hook Labs, NY, NY; Oolite Arts, Miami; AIRIE Fellowship, Everglades National Park; INDEX MECA Art Fair, Dominican Republic; Deering Estate Studio Residency, Miami. Awards include the Obama administration’s U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts–the highest national honor for a young artist, National YoungArts Jorge M. Perez $25,000 Award, and the inaugural Knight Artist Housing Award supporting her current two year studio residency at Oolite Arts in Miami Beach.
Nicole Combeau is an artist, photographer and educator born and raised to Colombian migrants in Miami, Florida. She received a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in Photography and Video in 2018, and completed graduate level training in Expressive Art and Somatic Education from the Tamalpa Institute in 2021. She has exhibited nationally in New York City (Brooklyn Library), Massachusetts (Whitney Center for the Arts), and Miami (Museum of Contemporary Arts), and has created public photographic activations at the Pérez Art Museum of Miami, the Wolfsonian FIU, and the Bakehouse Art Complex, among others. She was a ProjectArt resident artist in 2022, and completed an art residency in ArteSumapaz, in San Bernardo, Colombia in 2020. Nicole is a 2023 recipient of the Oolite’s Ellie’s Artist Awards. She lives and works in Miami, Florida.
Gabriela Gamboa is a multidisciplinary artist born in Pittsburgh and raised in Venezuela. Her childhood and adolescence were greatly marked by the many moves her family made, not only within the country, but also to Europe and the United States. Displacement, transplantation and mimicry are present in her work, which include experimentations in film, performance, video, multimedia installations and photography. She explores strategies of communication and camouflage that have marked her own life through the use of the body as a medium and the personal as an act of political manifestation.
After obtaining her bachelor’s in art and Design from the University of Chicago, she co-founded the experimental multimedia ensemble POLYBURO and was a member of the electronic music collective MUSIKAUTOMATIKA, exploring connections between multiple mediums and artistic collaboration to address concerns about social and ecological issues. Gamboa obtained her Masters from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and has is an educator and arts promoter. Gabriela has exhibited artwork both regionally and internationally at renowned institutions including Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Lima, Perú, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Santiago, Chile, The Coral Gables Museum, Miami and the Boston Center for the Arts, among others. She is the recipient of the Ellies Creator Award (2021 and 2025) and the Harris Barron Fellowship (2024) -Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. She currently lives in Miami and her studio is in the Bakehouse Art Complex.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Green Space Miami, 7200 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, United States
USD 55.20 to USD 81.88
