Here/There: the Potency of Memory”
Rosie Gordon-Wallace, Exec. Dir., Diaspora Vibe Gallery, Miami - offers support & exhibition opportunities to emerging artists from Latin America & Caribbean.
Rosie Gordon-Wallace is Founder, Curator, and Director of Diaspora Vibe Gallery and Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator. Since 1996, Gordon-Wallace has initiated and produced transnational creative programs that redefine concepts of “diaspora” including the International Cultural Exchange program, the Caribbean Crossroads Series, the Artist-In-Residence program, an ongoing contemporary exhibitions program, and numerous community-based outreach projects. One might never have guessed that this licensed Medical Microbiologist and former Senior Consultant for Searle Pharmaceuticals from 1981 -1999 is now the founder and senior curator of Diaspora Vibe, one of the most talked about Caribbean art incubators in Miami and on the east coast. Gordon –Wallace, always a passionate lover of art, made up her mind in 1999 to devote herself full time to the gallery she created and developed. Diaspora Vibe Gallery and Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator specializes in Caribbean and Latin American Art with an emphasis on emerging artists.
Places We Call Home Breakfast Salon Series 2016
The Arts at St. Johns and The Betsy Hotel are co-sponsoring a new series of talks entitled: “Places We Call home.” These talks are inspired by the multiplicity of homes of our South Florida residents. According to a recent census report, ~70% of Miami’s population comes from other cities, states, regions or countries. I too, like many Miami residents, was not born here, and I have numerous places I could call home – or, conversely, no place to call home. Is this good or bad? (Carol Hoffman Guzman)
