2020 marks the 12th anniversary of the Haitian Cultural Arts Alliance’s ongoing exhibition series, Global Caribbean/Borderless Caribbean. It is also an unusual year when the public stands more than ever to benefit from contact with the arts. Social distancing creates a challenge for Art Basel, Miami Art Week as well as all institutions and organizations devoted to the arts in general but yet it presents an opportunity to develop creative solutions.
Over the years, Global Caribbean / Borderless Caribbean has engaged with multiple countries, organizations, and institutions. Alongside annual exhibitions, we have organized seminars, workshops, and encounters between artists, curators, and researchers to facilitate contemporary cultural dialogues on the Caribbean. All of this occurs within the context of a major international art fair. Miami, as a major intersection point for the Caribbean, is a natural home for this program. Global/Borderless Caribbean has had a significant impact on Miami and the larger contemporary art community by focusing on our neighbors to the south. Many Caribbean artists were first widely seen in these exhibitions, and a conversation around the idea of “Global Caribbean” continues to develop. We have along the years invited guest curators and other academics to formulate what a cultural production from the region could consist of. The goal is to form a dialogue focused on a region whose vibrant visual production is now gaining greater visibility and still may not even see itself as a unified group of places and cultures with a common history.
This year's program centers on outdoor reproductions of work that has been shown through Global Caribbean / Borderless Caribbean since its inception, bringing visual art out into the open air space of the Little Haiti Cultural Complex
We thank our many partners such as Miami-Dade County Cultural Affairs, The Knight Foundation, Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States amongst so many others for their generous support as well as the Little Haiti Cultural Complex whose director Ms. Sandy Dorsainvil and its cultural advisor Ms. Marie Vickles have shown constant support and dedication to this ongoing program.
Edouard Duval Carrié
HCAA Director
