Museum Circle and International Women’s Committee members are invited to join artist Calida Rawles, PAMM Associate Curator Maritza Lacayo, and PAMM Director Franklin Sirmans for a special reception and exclusive preview of Calida Rawles’s first solo museum exhibition.
Rawles merges hyperrealism, poetic abstraction, and the cultural and historical symbolisms of water to create unique portraits of Black bodies submerged in and interacting with bright and mysterious bodies of water. In this exhibition, Rawles delves into the particular experience of Black people in Overtown, a Miami neighborhood that went from a thriving cultural and commercial hub for Black people to a subject of gentrification, systemic racism, and mass displacement. The exhibition’s focus is on the stories and experiences of those who live in this historic, once bustling neighborhood.
