The PAMM Fund for Black Art was initiated with a $1 million grant, funded equally by Darlene and Jorge M. Pérez and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, for the purchase of contemporary art by Black artists for the museum’s permanent collection. Through the Fund, the museum first acquired works by Al Loving, Faith Ringgold, and Xaviera Simmons. In 2018, the museum created an endowment with a challenge grant from the Knight Foundation, in order to maintain the Fund in perpetuity.

The Ambassadors for Black Art is a membership group that supports the PAMM Fund for Black Art, a fund dedicated to the acquisition of works by Black artists and related programming. Your support will ensure that South Florida’s flagship art museum represents the diversity of the community it serves for years to come, while elevating appreciation of Black art and culture.

The PAMM Ambassadors for Black Art enjoy benefits including free museum admission, invitations to quarterly events, recognition on PAMM’s website, and much more. This important opportunity and your invaluable participation are part of what makes Miami special. Many of Miami’s most influential business, civic, and cultural leaders and advocates have already signed on. Will you?

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Upcoming Events

Arthur Jafa, Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death, 2016

artwork

Single-channel digital video, color, with sound, 7 min., 25 sec.

100 Highlights and African and African Diaspora

© Arthur Jafa. Courtesy the artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels

Ai Weiwei, Jade Handcuffs, 2012

artwork

Jade

© Ai Weiwei studio

José Bedia, Isla venado (Deer Island), 2006

artwork

Acrylic on canvas

Caribbean and Caribbean Diaspora, Latin American and Latinx, and Miami-based artists

© José Bedia

Yoan Capote, Island (see-escape), 2010

artwork

Oil, nails, and fishhooks on jute mounted on plywood

100 Highlights, Caribbean and Caribbean Diaspora, and Latin American and Latinx

© Capote Studio

Eamon Oré-Girón, Infinite Regress LXXV, 2019

artwork

Flashe on linen

Latin American and Latinx

© Eamon Ore-Giron

Lorna Simpson, ID, 1990

artwork

Gelatin silver prints and plastic plaques

African and African Diaspora and Caribbean and Caribbean Diaspora

© Lorna Simpson. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth

Lilian Garcia-Roig, Hyperbolic Nature: La Florida, 2012–13

artwork

Oil on canvas

100 Highlights, Caribbean and Caribbean Diaspora, and Latin American and Latinx

© Lilian Garcia-Roig

Nari Ward, Homeland Sweet Homeland, 2012

artwork

Cloth, plastic, megaphones, razor wires, feathers, chains, and silver spoons

100 Highlights, African and African Diaspora, and Caribbean and Caribbean Diaspora

© Nari Ward. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, and Seoul

Christina Quarles, Forced Perspective (And I Kno It’s Rigged, But It’s tha Only Game in Town), 2018

artwork

Acrylic on canvas

100 Highlights and African and African Diaspora

© Christina Quarles. Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth, and Pilar Corrias, London

Teresita Fernández, Fire (America) 5, 2017

artwork

Glazed ceramic

100 Highlights, Caribbean and Caribbean Diaspora, and Latin American and Latinx

© Teresita Fernández

Viktor El-Saieh, Fet Chaloska (Chaloska Festival), 2005–16

artwork

Acrylic on canvas

Caribbean and Caribbean Diaspora

© Viktor El-Saieh

Miriam Schapiro, Feathered Fan, 1983

artwork

Mixed media acrylic and fabric on canvas

100 Highlights

© 2022 Estate of Miriam Schapiro / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Henry Taylor, Everyone’s Momma, 2013

artwork

Acrylic on canvas

100 Highlights and African and African Diaspora

© Henry Taylor. Courtesy of Blum & Poe and Hauser & Wirth 

Michael Craig-Martin, Common History: Dance, 1999

artwork

Acrylic on canvas

© Michael Craig-Martin

Tschabalala Self, Chopped Cheese, 2017

artwork

Acrylic, watercolor, flash, crayon, colored pencil, oil pastel, graphite, hand-colored photocopy, and hand-colored canvas on canvas

African and African Diaspora

© Tschabalala Self

Faith Ringgold, Black Light Series #1: Big Black, 1967

artwork

Oil on canvas

100 Highlights and African and African Diaspora

© 2022 Faith Ringgold / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, Courtesy ACA Galleries, New York

Kenturah Davis, Black As the Most Exquisite Color, 2019

artwork

Oil applied with rubber letters on embossed and debossed Igarashi kozo paper

African and African Diaspora and Word/Image

© Kenturah Davis. Courtesy Matthew Brown

Terry Adkins, Behearer, 2004

artwork

Steel and brass

100 Highlights and African and African Diaspora

© 2022 The Estate of Terry Adkins / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Carlos Estévez, La batalla permanente de la vida transitoria (The Permanent Battle of the Transitory Life), 2010

artwork

Oil and watercolor pencil on canvas

Caribbean and Caribbean Diaspora, Latin American and Latinx, and Miami-based artists

© Carlos Estévez

Goshka Macuga, Aby Warburg on Madness and Ritual, set for Scene 2, 2014

artwork

Tapestry

© Goshka Macuga

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Past Events

Arthur Jafa, Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death, 2016

artwork

Single-channel digital video, color, with sound, 7 min., 25 sec.

100 Highlights and African and African Diaspora

© Arthur Jafa. Courtesy the artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels

Ai Weiwei, Jade Handcuffs, 2012

artwork

Jade

© Ai Weiwei studio

José Bedia, Isla venado (Deer Island), 2006

artwork

Acrylic on canvas

Caribbean and Caribbean Diaspora, Latin American and Latinx, and Miami-based artists

© José Bedia

Yoan Capote, Island (see-escape), 2010

artwork

Oil, nails, and fishhooks on jute mounted on plywood

100 Highlights, Caribbean and Caribbean Diaspora, and Latin American and Latinx

© Capote Studio

Eamon Oré-Girón, Infinite Regress LXXV, 2019

artwork

Flashe on linen

Latin American and Latinx

© Eamon Ore-Giron

Lorna Simpson, ID, 1990

artwork

Gelatin silver prints and plastic plaques

African and African Diaspora and Caribbean and Caribbean Diaspora

© Lorna Simpson. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth

Lilian Garcia-Roig, Hyperbolic Nature: La Florida, 2012–13

artwork

Oil on canvas

100 Highlights, Caribbean and Caribbean Diaspora, and Latin American and Latinx

© Lilian Garcia-Roig

Nari Ward, Homeland Sweet Homeland, 2012

artwork

Cloth, plastic, megaphones, razor wires, feathers, chains, and silver spoons

100 Highlights, African and African Diaspora, and Caribbean and Caribbean Diaspora

© Nari Ward. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, and Seoul

Christina Quarles, Forced Perspective (And I Kno It’s Rigged, But It’s tha Only Game in Town), 2018

artwork

Acrylic on canvas

100 Highlights and African and African Diaspora

© Christina Quarles. Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth, and Pilar Corrias, London

Teresita Fernández, Fire (America) 5, 2017

artwork

Glazed ceramic

100 Highlights, Caribbean and Caribbean Diaspora, and Latin American and Latinx

© Teresita Fernández

Viktor El-Saieh, Fet Chaloska (Chaloska Festival), 2005–16

artwork

Acrylic on canvas

Caribbean and Caribbean Diaspora

© Viktor El-Saieh

Miriam Schapiro, Feathered Fan, 1983

artwork

Mixed media acrylic and fabric on canvas

100 Highlights

© 2022 Estate of Miriam Schapiro / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Henry Taylor, Everyone’s Momma, 2013

artwork

Acrylic on canvas

100 Highlights and African and African Diaspora

© Henry Taylor. Courtesy of Blum & Poe and Hauser & Wirth 

Michael Craig-Martin, Common History: Dance, 1999

artwork

Acrylic on canvas

© Michael Craig-Martin

Tschabalala Self, Chopped Cheese, 2017

artwork

Acrylic, watercolor, flash, crayon, colored pencil, oil pastel, graphite, hand-colored photocopy, and hand-colored canvas on canvas

African and African Diaspora

© Tschabalala Self

Faith Ringgold, Black Light Series #1: Big Black, 1967

artwork

Oil on canvas

100 Highlights and African and African Diaspora

© 2022 Faith Ringgold / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, Courtesy ACA Galleries, New York

Kenturah Davis, Black As the Most Exquisite Color, 2019

artwork

Oil applied with rubber letters on embossed and debossed Igarashi kozo paper

African and African Diaspora and Word/Image

© Kenturah Davis. Courtesy Matthew Brown

Terry Adkins, Behearer, 2004

artwork

Steel and brass

100 Highlights and African and African Diaspora

© 2022 The Estate of Terry Adkins / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Carlos Estévez, La batalla permanente de la vida transitoria (The Permanent Battle of the Transitory Life), 2010

artwork

Oil and watercolor pencil on canvas

Caribbean and Caribbean Diaspora, Latin American and Latinx, and Miami-based artists

© Carlos Estévez

Goshka Macuga, Aby Warburg on Madness and Ritual, set for Scene 2, 2014

artwork

Tapestry

© Goshka Macuga

1 … 100 101 102 103 104 … 114

Support

Initial funding for the PAMM Fund for African American Art was provided through the generosity of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and Jorge M. Pérez.