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Miami MoCAAD's development, ongoing advisory and management are guided by a collaborative body of
community members, public officials, private sector leaders, academics, philanthropists, artists, and educator
activists.
Board of Directors of Miami -Dade North Arts &
Humanities Foundation, Inc.
Sheldon T. Anderson, former Interim President & CEO of The Miami -Dade
Beacon Council is also a Past Chair of this organization which is the Official Economic
Development Partnership for Miami -Dade County. He previously served as President
& CEO of Northern Trust, Southeast Region where he was responsible for managing
the company's investment management, trust and estate planning, private and business
banking and financial consulting business in Florida and Georgia. Active in many civic
organizations, Anderson is a board member of United Way of Miami -Dade, Carrollton
School of the Sacred Heart, Miami Dade College Foundation, Institute of
Contemporary Art, New World Symphony and other organizations. He is a member of
the Orange Bowl Committee and the President's Council of Florida International
University. A native of Miami, he earned a degree in international studies at Ohio State
University.
Marilyn Holifield is a partner in Holland & Knight LLP, an international law
firm that traces its history to the 1890s. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts in economics
from Swarthmore College and her Juris Doctorate from Harvard University. Ms.
Holifield was born in Tallahassee, Florida where she was one of three black students
to desegregate Leon High School. Her legal career at the NAACP Legal Defense and
Educational Fund in New York City, where she litigated class action employment and
prison reform lawsuits. She was General Counsel for Peter Edelman at the New York
State Division for Youth and worked as a law clerk for Judge Paul H. Roney of the
United States (former) Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. She joined Holland & Knight
in 1981 and became a partner in the firm in 1986 — the first black woman partner of a
major law firm in Florida. Ms. Holifield serves on the Board of Managers of
Swarthmore College, Executive Committee of Board of Trustees of University of
Miami and the Advisory Committee to Harvard Memorial Church. She has served on the Directors Committee of
Holland & Knight, Executive Committee of the Harvard Alumni Association and two terms as chairperson of the
ABA Conference of Minority Partners in Majority/Corporate Law Firms. She is consistently listed as a top lawyer in
The Best Lawyers in America, Florida Trend's Legal Elite and Super Lawyers and has received numerous awards.
While growing up, outreach by Florida A&M University supported her involvement in the arts (music, visual arts,
dance and children's theater). Her continuing involvement includes her collection of artwork from the African
Diaspora, which expresses vibrancy, provokes controversy or inspires tranquillity.
Hans Ottinot, Esq, serves as City Attorney for the City of Sunny Isles Beach. He
is primarily responsible for providing strategic legal advice to city officials on complex
development projects and representing the City in complex litigation. In 2014, Hans was
appointed by Governor Rick Scott to serve on the Ilth Circuit Judicial Nomination
Commission. He has served as Chair for the Executive Council of the City, County, and
Local Government Law Section of the Florida Bar. He also served as a member of Miami -
Dade County Charter Committee. He was appointed by the President of the Florida Bar to
serve as the liaison for government lawyers on the Florida Bar Board of Governors. During
his tenure as City Attorney of the City of Sunny Isles Beach, Hans has played an integral
role in the review and approval by the City Commission of numerous development projects
with a total real estate value exceeding $5 Billion Dollars. These projects include but are
not limited to internationally recognized projects such as Porsche Design Tower Miami,
Acqualina Resort, Mansions of Acqualina, Jade Signature, and Ritz Carlton Residences.
He has also acquired through negotiations and litigation real properties for the City exceeding $100 Million Dollars
in value. Due to his expertise in real estate development projects, Hans was recognized in 2008 by Florida Trend's
Magazine Legal Elite as one of the top government attorneys in the State of Florida. The South Florida Legal Guide
also recognized him in 2004 as one of the top government attorneys in South Florida. Prior to being appointed City
Attorney of Sunny Isles Beach in 2005, he served as Deputy City Attorney for the City of Sunny Isles Beach, and City
Attorney for the City of North Miami. He was the first City Attorney for the City of Miami Gardens, the largest
African -American municipality in the State of Florida. He is a former State of Florida Assistant Attorney General. He
is a former president of the Haitian Lawyers Association and holds memberships in the Wilkie D. Ferguson Bar
Association, Caribbean Bar Association, TJ Reddick Bar Association, and the Cuban -American Bar Association.
Ottinot received his undergraduate degree from Colgate University and law degree from University of Miami School
of Law.
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Dr. Keshia N. Abraham is Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, Chair of
the Humanities Department, Director of International Education and Associate
Professor of English at Florida Memorial University. She earned a Ph.D. in
comparative literature from Binghamton University working with world-renowned
scholars and artists in the field of African Diasporic women's literatures, cross-cultural
feminisms, and popular education. The third generation in her family to attend an
HBCU, she holds a bachelor's degree in English with a concentration in Women's
Studies from Spelman College. Her work includes a focus on Southern African and
Caribbean Literatures. She remains deeply committed to enhancing global African
diasporic knowledge and experiential cultural exchange. Dr. Abraham is a two-time
Fulbright Scholar, having conducted research in Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and as
a participant in the Fulbright-Nehru program for International Education
Administrators in India. She has been a Fellow with the Mellon Foundation Community
Initiative, Mellon Global Citizenship Program and is active with the Salzburg Global
Seminar. She has also been an Institute for International Public Policy Faculty Fellow, an active NAFSA member and
Academy Fellow, and a CIEE- Ping Fellow. Her scholarly work appears in journals such as Alternation, SAFERE,
and Bomb; in books including MOCA: Re/Claiming Art, Power, Ideas and Vision in an Ethnically Plural Community;
Decolonizing the Academy; Reflections on Gender in Africa; and the Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora, of which
she is also a local editor. Dr. Abraham is a contributor to the Routledge Encyclopedia of Women's Studies and also
has several forthcoming book projects including Under the Bridge and Underground: Creative Theoretical Essays,
which builds on her research as a Fulbright Scholar in Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago: "Warrior Queens and Wise
Women in the African Diaspora." She edited The Caribbean Woman Writer as Scholar: Imagining, Creating,
Theorizing, published in 2009 by Caribbean Studies Press. Dr. Abraham has lived, worked and travelled in Southern
Africa (Zimbabwe, South Africa, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia); North Africa; Europe; India; and the Caribbean.
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Malik S. Benjamin is Senior Instructor and the Inaugural Changemaker Faculty
Fellow at Florida International University (FIU). He holds a BArch from Cornell
University and a double March — Computing & Design and Urban Design — from the
University of Miami. He is a member of the inaugural Young American Leaders
Program at Harvard Business School Class 12015, former Knight Foundation Scholar,
Miami Foundation Fellow, FIU graduate thesis professor and Managing Director of the
IoCI, where he conducts applied research focused on the "evolution of cities controlled
by tangible, intangible and defunct networks". He is the founder of Creative
Mornings/Miami and co-founder of Awesome Foundation/Miami, and serves on the
AP Executive Committee of the Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science, board
of the Opa Locka Community Development Corporation, Miami Dade County Art in
Public Place Selection Committee and Miami Dade County Architecture &
Engineering Services Selection Committee. Through IoCI he pursues two missions —
to create platforms that bring together design thinkers, social entrepreneurs and social justice lawyers/organizers for
the sake of spawning creative solutions for the disadvantaged; the other is to develop private -public partnerships
between communities, infrastructure operators and commercial developers with the purpose of positively impacting
the quality of life and consumer well-being of surrounding neighborhoods. As the Faculty Fellow, he coordinates the
FIU Changemaker initiative including working with the Changemaker leaders in curricular and co -curricular activities,
research, innovation and entrepreneurship and philanthropy and community engagement. He promotes social
innovation and entrepreneurship strategy to faculty and student researchers; guides and maintains Changemaker
activities to align with the FIU Beyond Possible 2020 Strategic Plan; and leads the planning and management of
internal/external communications campaigns which promote activities and student, faculty and staff achievements.
Lastly, he oversees budgets and pursues opportunities for revenue enhancement from a variety of sources. His
expertise is in curating teams, brokering creative partnerships and breaking down barriers to institutional change
through innovation.
Etzer Kenta Botes obtained his Bachelor's degree in Urban Studies from New York
University. He obtained a Master's Degree in Public Policy, Strategic Management and
Finance from the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government. He began his
career at Deloitte Consulting where he advised government agencies, Fortune 500
companies and multi -national NGOs on business strategy and technology issues. He took
a year off to work in New York City as a Broad Education Resident supporting initiatives
to improve the quality of charter schools in New York City. When he returned to Deloitte
Consulting, he relocated to South Florida where 1 hopes to make a positive impact in youth
mentorship and encouraging students toward business careers. Recently, he joined,
Kaplan, Inc. as Director of Strategy. Kaplan, a subsidiary of Graham Holdings Company, is a premier provider of
educational services for individuals, schools and businesses worldwide.
Melvin Bratton served two terms as Councilman on the Inaugural City Council
of the City of Miami Gardens. His public service has also included two terms as
Miami -Dade County Community Councilman, membership in the Miami -Dade, State
of Florida and National Leagues of Cities and elected member of the Miami -Dade
Black Caucus. Active in the community, he has been a member of the Citizen Advisory
Committee for Miami -Dade County and the Citizen Advisory Committee for the City
of Miami Gardens. His community activism has involved organizing homeowner
associations, serving as president of the Leslie Estates Homeowners Associations and
volunteering for numerous charity events. After graduating from Miami Northwestern
Senior High School, he attended Miami Dade Community College. For two years, he
served active duty in the United States Army and retired from the Army Reserve after
more than twenty years. He is also retired from the United States Postal Service.
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Dr. Benjamin Cowins, Sr,Ph.D. is semi -retired public school educator. He
is the author/co-author of six books. He is also an educational consultant to the
Urban League of Greater Miami, FL.; Vice President and co-founder of the Ralph
Hogges and Benjamin Cowins Writers Group of South Florida; member of Omega
Psi Phi Fraternity, Inca U.S. Military Combat Veteran of Vietnam and member of
Mt. Herman AME Church of Miami Gardens. Additionally, he is a proud I ite ra ry
health advocate, the Director of the Christian Community Service Agency of
Miami Gardens, a Liberty City Alumnus of Miami Northwestern Senior High, as
well as a graduate of Florida A&M University, Barry University and University
of Oklahoma. He is married to Harriet Blackshear-Cowins and the father of three
children. He also serves on the Board of Directors for the State's Florida Fund for
Marlon Hill, Esq. is a partner in the Miami office of Hamilton, Miller & Birthisel, LLP
•-�, practicing in the areas of general corporate, intellectual property/entertainment,
immigration and government transactions representing the interests of entrepreneurs,
corporations, and non-profit organizations. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Marlon is a
graduate of the Florida State University Colleges of Business & Law. Marlon is an Inaugural
+' Fellow of the Miami Foundation's Miami Fellows Initiative leadership program and has
served as a past president of the Caribbean Bar Association (2001-2003). He previously
served as Co -Chair of Obama for America Florida Finance Committee and currently serves
as a member of the board of directors for the Miami Parking Authority, Miami Foundation
(Chair, Governance Committee), Miami Book Fair International, and an active member of
the Orange Bowl Committee. Marlon is currently the advisor/mentor to the Florida
Caribbean Students Association and immediate past Jamaican Diaspora Advisory Board Member for the Southern
United States (2006-2011). Marlon is a weekly civic commentator, The Peoples Politics, on Caribbean Riddims, WZAB
880AM, every Saturday at 4pm covering issues of civic interest, legal concern, and social or cultural impact, a guest
Opinion Pages columnist with The Miami Herald, and Roundtable guest contributor to WPLG Local 10, "This Week
in South Florida."
Dr. Ralph Hogges is a retired professor and administrator of Nova Southeastern
University. He formerly held professorial and administrative positions at Florida
International University and Florida Memorial University. A scholar, writer, poet and
playwright, he is the author of sixteen books and two plays. His literary works include
poetry, memoir, biography, fiction, nonfiction, anthology and drama. A native of
Georgia, Hogges earned his B.S. and M.Ed. at Tuskegee University and the Ed.D. at Nova
Southeastern University. He has done postdoctoral studies at the University of Miami
and Harvard University. He has also attended workshops and seminars for writers
sponsored by the University of Miami Creative Writers Program. He resides in Miami
and Hollywood Beach, Florida with his wife, Lilia, a retired Professor of French and
Spanish and Director of the Study Abroad Program at Florida Memorial University.
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Michelle Johnson is the Director of Strategic Partnerships for Concerned
African Women, Inc. in Miami Florida. She is responsible for building close
collaborative relationships with non -governmental organizations, businesses,
academic institutions and government officials that support the mission to improve
the lives of children and families by providing the highest quality services which
promotes healthy relationships, high achieving children, and advocacy that
empowers the community. Michelle has an extensive background in finance and
program management working in the private and nonprofit sector. She is also
responsible for ensuring outstanding outcomes for over 1,800 participants including
parents, youth and community members and coordinating multiple programs
including: The Independent Parent Council, New Dimensions in Parenting, Synergy Service Partnership and Youth
Violence Prevention.
Dr. Willie Logan is a founder of the Opa-locka Community Development
Corporation (OLCDC) and has served as its CEO and president since 1980. In addition
to his work with the OLCDC, Logan served in the Florida House of Representatives
from 1982 to 2000 and was elected Democrat Speaker -Designate from 1998 to 2000.
He also served as Mayor of the City of Opa-locka from 1980 to 1982. Logan earned
his Ph.D. in Community Economic Development from Southern New Hampshire
University and his M.B.A. and Bachelor's in Accounting from the University of Miami where he is an adjunct faculty
member in the School of Architecture. Dr. Logan is a sought after speaker at many different housing and community
development conferences and recently he has spoken at the First Future of Places International Conference on Public
Space and Placemaking in Stockholm, Sweden and in Rome, Italy 2013; the Future of Places International Conference
on Streets as Public Spaces and Drivers of Urban Prosperity in Buenos Aires, Argentina 2014. Finally, he spoke at the
Project for Public Spaces Conference on Public Markets, Barcelona, Spain 2015. He is also a published author and
his writing includes a chapter entitled "Revitalization & Transforming the Community" in the Future of Places book
Shifting from Objects to Places published by Ax: son Johnson Foundation, Stockholm 2014. Under Dr. Logan's
leadership, the Opa-Locks Community Development Corporation uses art as a force of transformation of a
community.
Carolyn "Kiani" Nesbitt has remained on the leading edge in the field of
youth and family development for 25 years. After moving to Miami, Florida in 1986,
she quickly became a leading proponent of parental involvement in educational
advancements for black children. In 1989, Ms. Nesbitt co-founded Concerned
African Women, Inc. and has since served as its President and Chief Executive
Officer. She spearheaded New Dimensions in Community Education, an innovative,
cultural curriculum that, combined with science -based models for academic
_ enrichment, delinquency prevention, intervention and diversion, have produced
record -setting accomplishments. Ninety percent of its program participants improve
in reading by at least one grade level within 18 weeks of specialized programming.
r� Its intervention programs produce 93% non -recidivism among previously
1 adjudicated youth, as well as a 71% decrease in school absences and an 82% drop
*i ? in school suspensions. Its parental involvement model generates 70%+ participation
rates. From its humble beginnings with 12 students and three volunteer instructors,
Concerned African Women has served more than 7,000 youth and families in its history. Concerned African Women,
which is based in the City of Miami Gardens, has executed partnership agreements to implement its Independent
Parent Council model in Northwest Miami -Dade communities, including the City of Opa-Locka, City of Miami
Gardens and Liberty City.
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Bryan Salter is the CEO of Business Diplomacy Consulting, an international
business consulting firm that assists companies seeking to expand market share in the
international market place. Among his clients is Enterprise Florida, Inc., the official
economic development organization for the State of Florida. Mr. Salter created and
has managed Enterprise Florida's African Trade Expansion Program since 2000. He
has organized and led Florida Trade Missions to South Africa, Morocco, Ghana,
Botswana, Namibia, Kenya, Uganda and Nigeria. A diplomat for more than 20 years,
Mr. Salter joined the U.S. State Department's foreign service in 1977. He first served
as the Staff Aid to the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs (1977-82),
making visits to Africa on behalf of the African Bureau, the State Department and the
White House. Mr. Salter served as the US Consul at the US Embassy in Antigua
from 1982-90, the permanent Charge d' Affaires and Chief of Mission. In 1994, he
was assigned to the Florida Governor's office as a State Department liaison officer during the 1994 Summit of the
Americas. A 1971 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, Mr. Salter currently serves on the University's Board of
Trustees. Pitt honored him with the Distinguished Alumni Award. Mr. Salter earned a Master's Degree from the
Harvard University Kennedy School of Government and has attended Law School at the University of San Diego and
Business School at the University of California at San Diego. Prior to his Foreign Service career, Bryant was a
Collegiate All -American in Track and Field and in 1971 was drafted into the National Football League by the San
Diego Chargers. Salter played in the NFL from 1971-1976 for the Washington Redskins, Miami Dolphins, Baltimore
Colts and the Chargers.
Theresa Therilus, Esq. obtained her Bachelor's degree from University of
Miami and her law degree from Harvard Law School. She is an experienced attorney
in government, sports and entertainment and commercial litigation. Ms. Therilus has
extensive experience representing professional athletes as an NFL agent. She has served
as legal counsel to several professional artists and entertainers in licensing and
endorsement deals. Ms. Therilus is a former Assistant Attorney General for the State
of Florida and legal advisor for Miami -Dade County's Regulatory and Economic
Resources Department. Ms. Therilus has also taught Trial Advocacy at Harvard Law
School since 2010. Currently, Ms. Therilus is Assistant Director for the Miami -Dade
County Internal Services Department.
xosie voraon-wanace rounaer, t-urator, ana Director or Diaspora vioe vaiiery ana
R o Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator. Since 1996, Gordon -Wallace has initiated and
produced transnational creative programs that redefine concept of "diaspore"
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including the International Cultural Exchange program, the Caribbean Crossroads
GordSeries, the Art -In -Residence program, an ongoing contemporary exhibitions program,
and numerous community -based outreach projects. One might never have guessed
that this licensed Medial Microbiologist and former Senior Consultant for Searle
Pharmaceuticals from 1981-1999 is now the founder and senior curator of Diaspora
Wallace
Vibe, one of the most talked about Caribbean art incubators in Miami and on the east
coast. Gordon —Wallace, always a passionate lover of art, made up her mind in 1999
to devote herself full time to the gallery she created and developed. Diaspora Vibe Gallery and Diaspora Vibe Cultural
Arts Incubators specializes in Caribbean and Latin American Art with an emphasis on emerging artist. The gallery
supports the development of new work by resident artists by offering exhibitions opportunities, artist talks, workshops
and other skill -building core values for emerging artists. She is Dynamic and unstoppable and continues to create
international cultural experiences for Miami artist that add value to our cultural aesthetic and economy with activities
that bind us to "Here and There".
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Architects
Philip Freelon is the Managing and Design Director of the North Carolina
practice and leads both Perkins+Will North Carolina offices in Research Triangle Park
and Charlotte. Freelon comes to Perkins+Will as an important member of the firm
wide leadership team and has joined the Board of Directors. He is also a key leader
for the firm's cultural and civic practice. Freelon's design achievements include
cultural, civic and academic projects for some of America's most respected cultural institutions. He leads the design
team for the $500M Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, on the National Mall,
and is the design architect for the National Center for Civil Rights in Atlanta. His portfolio also includes the Museum
of the African Diaspora in San Francisco, Emancipation Park in Houston, multiple library projects for the DC Public
Library System and the Durham County Human Services Complex. He is an Obama appointee to the National
Commission of Fine Arts, a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA) and a recipient of the Thomas
Jefferson Award for Public Architecture. Phil is the founder of The Freelon Group, a Research Triangle Park, North
Carolina -based firm that joined Perkins+Will in 2014.
Zena Howard also in the North Carolina offices of Perkins+Will has more than
25 years of experience with private and public institutions, museum and cultural
facilities, libraries, and higher education facilities. Her experience focuses on clients
with specialized and/or unique design goals such as environmentally sensitive artifact
exhibit areas, environmentally and spatially sensitive spaces for autistic children,
historically and culturally significant buildings and locations, and sustainable design in pursuit of LEED° certification
and other high performance building goals. Zena earned her Bachelor of Science degree in architecture from the
University of Virginia. She is a LEED Accredited Professional, a member of the American Institute of Architects, and
the National Organization of Minority Architects.
Kunle Adeyemi is an architect, designer and urban researcher. He is the
founder/principal of NLE and Aga Khan Design Critic in Architecture at Harvard
University Graduate School of Design. Born and raised in Nigeria, Adeyemi studied
architecture at the University of Lagos where he began his early practice, before
joining the world renowned Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in 2002. At
OMA, working closely with its founder Rem Koolhaas for nearly a decade, he led the
design, development and execution of numerous projects in Europe, Asia, Africa and
the Middle East. These projects include the award winning Samsung Museum of Art,
the Seoul National University Museum, NM Rothschild Bank in London, Shenzhen
Stock Exchange tower in China, Prada Transformer in South Korea, Qatar National
Library, Qatar Foundation Headquarters and the 4th Mainland Bridge and master
plan in Lagos. Adeyemi's notable works include 'Makoko Floating School', an
innovative prototype floating structure located on the lagoon in the heart of Lagos,
Nigeria. The new, improved iteration of Makoko Floating School at this year's La Biennale di Venezia, received the
Silver Lion Award. Other projects include Chicoco Radio Media Center— an amphibious community building in Port
Harcourt, Nigeria; ROCK —Lakefront Kiosk in Chicago, USA; CDL Head Office in Lagos, Nigeria and Serpentine Summer
House at the Royal Kensington Gardens in London, UK. Adeyemi is an international speaker and thought leader
serving as a juror for the 2014 AIA award and 2016 RIBA international Prize. He is a multiple award winner and holds
an honorary doctorate degree in Architecture from Hasselt University, Belgium. He has taught at Cornell University
and was an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia
University, New York, researching architecture and urban solutions that are closer to societal, environmental and
economic needs.
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Advisors
Anthony Bogues is Director of the Brown University Center for the Study of Slavery
and Justice, Asa Messer Professor of Humanities and Critical Theory and affiliated
Professor of History of Art & Architecture. Anthony Bogues (Ph.D., 1994, Political
Theory, University of the West Indies, Mona) is a writer, scholar, curator, and the
Director of the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice; Professor of Africana
i Studies, Royce Professor of Teaching Excellence (2004-2007. He is also an affiliated
faculty member of the departments of Political Science and Modern Culture and
Media , History of Art and Architecture and an affiliated faculty with the Center for
Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Bogues's major research and writing interests
are intellectual, literary and cultural history, radical political thought, political theory,
critical theory, Caribbean and African politics as well as Haitian, Caribbean, and
African Art. He is the author of Coliban's Freedom: The Early Political Thought of C.L.R.
James (1997); Black Heretics and Black Prophets: Radical Political Intellectuals (2003); and Empire of Liberty: Power,
Freedom and Desire (2010). He is the editor of From Revolution in the Tropics to Imagined Landscapes: the Art of
Edouard Duval -Carrie. ( 2014 ) as well as two volumes on Caribbean intellectual and literary history: After Man,
Towards the Human: Critical Essays on Sylvia Wynter (2005) and The George Lamming Reader: The Aesthetics of
Decolonisation (2011) Additionally he has curated shows in the United States and South Africa and has published
numerous essays and articles on the history of criticism, critical theory, political thought, political philosophy,
intellectual and cultural history as well as Haitian Art. Bogues is an associate director of the Center for Caribbean
Thought, University of the West Indies, Mona; a member of the editorial collective for the journal boundary 2 and
an honorary professor at the Center for African Studies, the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He teaches
courses on Africana political philosophy, cultural politics, intellectual history and contemporary critical theory and
comparative literature of Africa and the African Diaspora as well as courses on the history of Haitian society and art.
Recently, he curated "Metaphorphosis: The Conjunctural Art of Edouard Duval -Carrie" at the Museum of
Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida.
Tony E. Crapp, Sr., is President of CMDI Solutions, a management consulting
company providing services to public and private organizations. Mr. Crapp, Sr.
holds a Master of Public Affairs with a concentration in Urban & Domestic Public
Policyfrom the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton
University and a Bachelor of Arts in Government, cum loude, from Harvard University.
Mr. Crapp has over thirty-five years of high quality professional experience in
community redevelopment, county/city management and administration, urban and
community economic development, business development programming, economic
analysis, economic and community planning, affordable housing development and
budget and financial management/analysis. Mr. Crapp's experience includes the
planning, design, development and implementation of economic development
programs, incentives and strategies to attract new business and investment and to
facilitate the expansion and retention of existing business enterprises. Prior to CMDI, he was Executive Director
of the North Miami Community Redevelopment Agency where he worked with the City of North Miami to leverage
millions of dollars to implement infrastructure, housing and economic development projects. He has also worked
as Director of the Miami Dade County Office of Community and Economic Development and as Assistant County
Manager overseeing community redevelopment.
Alejandro de la Fuente is the Director of the Harvard University Afro -Latin American
�= Research Institute, Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and
Economics and Professor of African and African American Studies. He is a historian of
Latin America and the Caribbean who specializes in the study of comparative slavery
and race relations. He is the author of Havana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth
Century (University of North Carolina Press, 2008), and of A Nation for All: Race,
Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth -Century Cuba (University of North Carolina Press,
2001). He is also the curator of two art exhibits dealing with issues of race: Queloides:
Race and Racism in Cuban Contemporary Art (2010-12) and Grupo Antillono: The Art
of Afro -Cuba (ongoing). De la Fuente is currently working on a comparative study of
slaves and the law in Cuba, Virginia and Louisiana. He is the editor of
Transition magazine and of the journal Cuban Studies. Alejandro de la Fuente
recently curated "Diago: The Pasts of This Afro-Cuban Present" at the Cooper Gallery of Harvard University; Preview:
Juan Roberto Diago at the Harvard University Cooper Gallery: http://www.cubanartnews.org/news/preview-juan-
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Tumelo Mosaka is an independent curator from Johannesburg, South Africa. He has
been based in the United States for over two decades working within and outside
institutions. Among the many exhibitions he has curated, the following remain
influential; Turning Tide, at Memorial Acte Museum, Guadeloupe (2017), Andrew
Lyght: Full Circle, Dorsky Art Museum, New York (2016), Poetic Relations, Perez Art
Museum, Miami (2015), and the 1" edition International Biennale of Contemporary
Art in Martinique (BIAC) 2014. Prior to New York, he was the former Contemporary Art
Curator at the Krannert Art Museum (KAM) in Urbana -Champaign, Illinois where he
curated several exhibitions including: Blind Field (2013), OPENSTUDIO (2011),
MAKEBA! (2011) among others. Previous to joining KAM, Mosaka was the Associate
r Curator of Exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum where he curated Infinite Islands:
Contemporary Caribbean Art (2007), and Passing/Posing: Kehinde Wiley (2004).
Mosaka is currently the chief curator for the Cape Town Art Fair.
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the dispersion of any people from
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• African Diaspora art
• Reveals story about dispersal of
Africans throughout the world.
Presents the African American,
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• Over 150 countries
• Upwards of 500 cultures
• More than a billion people in
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artist unknown "Art is a nation's most precious heritage.
For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves
and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation.
And where there is no vision,the people perish."
Lyndon Johnson, on signing into existence the National Endowment on the Arts
Miami MoCAAD
Conceptual Program
85,000 square foot museum complex with high tech galleries and
lush, landscaped sculpture garden
Permanent and Temporary Exhibitions
Projects /New Works
Auditorium/Performance Art and Events
Artists in Residence Studios
Futuristic Interactive space
Dining and Lounge space
Education and Technology Learning Center
Roof top and terrace event space
Artist: Gavin Jantjes
Artist: David Boxer
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• Botanical walking paths
• Child Friendly walk-through fountains
Dining and Event Space
• Indoor and outdoor dining, Grab and go eating and
coffee stations with Lounge areas
• Roof top and terrace event spaces
• Show stopper space for receptions, banquets, wed-
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Gardens and Art Basel
• Interactive spaces, patios and piazzas to read, study,
meet and to exchange ideas
In Northwest Miami -Dade
• Florida Memorial University
• Miami -Dade College North Campus
• St. Thomas University
• Near 100 pre-K to senior high schools
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Conceptual Renderings Artists Credits:
Global Connections Gallery
El Anatsui
Edouard Duval -Carrie'
Sam Gilliam
Antony Gormley
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Flexible Performance Gallery
Sam Gilliam
Sculpture Atrium
Edouard Duval -Carrie'
Yinka Shonibare
Hank Willis Thomas
Zina Varta
Children's Gallery
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