Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is dedicated to showcasing excellence in international modern and contemporary art while highlighting our unique perspective at the crossroads of the Americas. We highlight Miami-based artists both in our collection and on a monthly basis by way of Local Views at PAMM. As we continue to function in a digital sphere, PAMM remains dedicated to Miami-based artists and is excited to offer our Local Views at PAMM series weekly. Artists will discuss their artistic practice, their creative process, and how it relates to the museum.
This week will feature PAMM Teaching Artist Artist Santiague Deprez. Catch this Live Virtual Local Views series on PAMM Facebook Live and YouTube Live.
Santiague Deprez is a visual artist originally from the vibrant Caribbean island of Haiti. Born of the arts, she is a lifelong artist herself. Graduating from the prestigious Design and Architecture Senior High in Miami, she pursued her major in anthropology, accompanied by a minor in psychology, crowned with a certificate in African Diaspora Studies from Florida International University.
With over two decades of experience as an early childhood educator and practicing community artist, Deprez has maintained her insatiable appetite for both teaching and learning. She hopes to pass on a legacy of scholarship and community engagement through the arts onto her own three gifted and imaginative children who are the pillars of her ventures in art education. Her work ranges from garment design and construction, mural management and installation, author, poet, storyboard and script layout, to photography and filmed performance dance. Her latest body of work entitled Dark Maternal Matters is a series dedicated to maternal anxiety in relation to our deep reverence yet historic mistrust of our feminine bodies.
A teaching artist at PAMM for the past five years, one of her most honored adventures has been to serve and learn from Miami’s eclectic community by engaging students, educators, parents, and visitors of various ages and abilities in conversations led by their very own inquisitions through current and intriguing social concepts. She also accepts contracts from various art institutions throughout Miami and beyond including Arts 4 Learning Miami (A4L), Art Studio Miami (ASM), MOCA, MoCCAD, and ArtServe Ft. Lauderdale.
