As part of PAMM Free Second Saturdays, create a work of art inspired by Calida Rawles’s new exhibition, Away with the Tides.
In keeping with the inspirational theme of water, enjoy the ongoing screening of the art film And Still I Rise / The Water Dancer Monument. Rawles’s work engages with Miami’s water-entwined climate and dives into the history of beauty, oppression, and resilience in the downtown community of Overtown and the waterways of historic Virginia Key Beach. Using an art kit, create your own figures suspended in water scenes like the ones seen in the exhibition.
For the rest of the day, explore the galleries, grab a meal at Verde, or sit back and enjoy the breeze on the waterfront terrace. Art activities and film screening of water dancers are from 11am–3pm.
About “And Still I Rise / The Water Dancer Monument”
Created by multidisciplinary artists Karen D. McKinnon & Caecilia Tripp the film is born out of the urgency of Black Lives Matter and the desire to rediscover the “long-drowned” history of South Florida. Reminiscent of Octavia Butler’s “Xenogenesis” trilogy, a new species, the Water Dancer, merges half a human and half an alien, “Rising from an otherworldly Dialogical Identity of Freedom in their own right of Becoming and of Opacity.” “And Still I Rise / The Water Dancer Monument” is a collaboration with Diving With a Purpose (DWP), Support for WATER DANCER was provided by Locust Projects through WaveMaker Grants, part of the Andy Warhol Foundation’s Regional Regranting in Co-Production with the Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio.
