The Museum’s premier family-focused fundraiser supports free and low-cost programming for local communities, while inviting children and their grown-ups to engage in art-making and gallery exploration.
(MIAMI, FL — April 20, 2026) — Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) welcomed families, artists, and supporters on Sunday, April 19, for KIDS JAMM at PAMM, the museum’s premier annual family fundraiser supporting the museum’s arts and educational programming. The morning-long event invited children and their grown-ups to engage directly with the creative process through hands-on art-making, live performances, and gallery exploration led by a dynamic group of multidisciplinary artists. This year’s event had 350 attendees and raised nearly $150,000 in support of PAMM’s arts education initiatives.
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Designed to foster early connections to art and culture, KIDS JAMM reflects PAMM’s ongoing commitment to accessibility and community engagement. Through its “Buy One, Donate One” initiative, each ticket purchased enabled a child from a PAMM community outreach program to attend the event at no cost, expanding access to arts education across Miami-Dade County. The museum’s arts education program is the largest of its kind outside of the Miami-Dade County public school system.
The 2026 edition featured interactive programming with participating artists including Noah Cribb, Morel Doucet, Nereida Garcia-Ferraz, Gonzalo Hernández, Amanda Linares, Bex McCharen, Jared McGriff, Daniel Ochoa, Sandra Ramos, Karen Starosta-Gilinski, Sheherazade Thénard, Roscoè B. Thické III, Cornelius Tulloch, Lisu Vega, and Tom Virgin, offering young attendees the opportunity to create alongside leading voices in contemporary art and design.
The event was co-chaired by Sarah Arison, Kastyn Pérez, Volha Singer, and Tanvi Vattikuti Abbhi, with honorary co-chairs Jessica Plair Sirmans and Alexa Isbell Wolman, and supported by a dedicated host committee of cultural advocates and patrons. KIDS JAMM was made possible with the generous support of Visionary Sponsor Purchase Capital, Activity Sponsors Arison Arts Foundation, The Jorge M. Pérez Family Foundation and Creative Sponsor The Vattikuti Foundation.
All proceeds from KIDS JAMM at PAMM directly benefit the museum’s year-round education initiatives, which serve thousands of students, families, and educators through free and low-cost programming.
For more information on upcoming programs, visit www.pamm.org.
ABOUT PAMM
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), led by Sandra and Tony Tamer Director Franklin Sirmans, promotes artistic expression and the exchange of ideas, advancing public knowledge and appreciation of art, architecture, and design, and reflecting the diverse community of its pivotal geographic location at the crossroads of the Americas. The 42-year-old South Florida institution, formerly known as Miami Art Museum (MAM), opened a new building, designed by world-renowned architects Herzog & de Meuron, on December 4, 2013 in Downtown Miami’s Maurice A. Ferré Park. The facility is a state-of-the-art model for sustainable museum design and progressive programming and features 200,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor program space with flexible galleries; shaded outdoor verandas; a waterfront restaurant and bar; a museum shop; and an education center with a library, media lab, and classroom spaces.
