Locust Projects Annual Highlights Report 2020-2021

Annual Highlights September 2020 - August 2021

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Locust Projects is an arts incubator producing and presenting exhibitions, programs and projects. Our mission is to...

CREATE opportunities for visual artists at all career stages INVITE risk-taking and experimentation ACTIVATE conversations around new art and ideas ADVOCATE for artists and creative practices

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Exhibitions

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Next Generation

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Artist Resources

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Activating Conversations on New Art and Ideas

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Getting Social and Seen

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Fundraisers and Friendraisers

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Supporters

600 open call applicants

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public programs

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exhibitions

23 artists

10 Miami artists

non-Miami based artists

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YEAR IN REVIEW

Photo by World Red Eye

EXHIBITIONS Supporting local, national and international artists at all career stages produce and present ambitious and experimental installations and offering the public access to artists, critics, and curators through programming.

We are distinct in supporting artists in creating large-scale installations and providing them with curatorial guidance, artist fees, production budgets, and two to ten week residencies. We foster connections to Miami’s arts community and the public through free public programs and free admission. Locust Projects has presented more than 170 commissioned projects by over 400 local, national and international artists.

Juana Valdes: Rest Ashore September 12 October 24, 2020 Learn more

Artist portrait by Pedro Wazzan

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An Artist in the Archives: Juana Valdes

by Wolfson Archive

“The video is dedicated to those who don’t make it, whose lives and voices are lost at sea.

It could be any of us at any particular point in time.” — Juana Valdes

Closing Program: A Virtual Roundtable with Arlene Dávila, Donette Francis, María Elena Ortiz, & Juana Valdes

Raul Romero: Onomonopoetics of a Puerto Rican Landscape September 12 October 24, 2020 Learn more

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Traveled to Taller Puertorriqueño in Philadelphia.

Learn more here.

Joelle Dietrick and Owen Mundy: Tally Saves the Internet September 12 October 24, 2020 Learn more

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Mette Tommerup: Made by Dusk November 21, 2020 February 13, 2021 Learn more

Artist portrait by Pedro Wazzan

“Mette Tommerup’s large-scale installation at Miami’s Locust Projects isn’t meant to merely exist. Her installations evolve through the visitors who interact with them, the space they are in, and the process that was used to create them, from inception to completion.”

— Michelle F. Solomon, Miami Herald

“This bellicose setting is here reworked to evoke a more feminine and womblike place of refuge where visitors can avail themselves of the healing potential of the great pause.”

— Eleanor Heartney, click here to read

Heartney’s full essay on Mette Tommerup’s show.

Performances & Activations Miami Art Week Performance: Liminal Members-Only Activation: Ethereal Live-streamed Performance: To a God.dess Unknown

by Danié Gómez Ortigoza Live-streamed Performance: When and Where I Enter

by Loni Johnson

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Photo by World Red Eye

Photo by Celia D. Luna

“During Miami Art Week, the artist invited participants to drip honey on dry ice as one of the activations. Entitled “Liminal,” it was an outdoor activation that included video projections, where participants gathered in the gallery’s parking lot for four 30-minute performances.

A second was held indoors with MexicanAmerican multi-media artist Danié Gómez Ortigoza. The performance, “To a God.dess Uknown” was described by the artist as “the exploration of the process by which divinity unfolds itself from the universal to the individual.”

Multidisciplinary artist Loni Johnson’s performance and live activation officially closed the show on Saturday, Feb. 13 at 3:33 p.m. Johnson says the synergy of the space for her to create and contribute her own work holds much meaning.”

— Michelle F. Solomon, Miami Art Zine

Janine Antoni & Stephen Petronio: Honey Baby November 21, 2020 February 13, 2021 Learn more

Artists portrait by Hugo Glendinning

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Honey Baby (2013) by Janine Antoni and Stephen Petronio is a mesmerizing, provocative video inspired by motion in utero of a folding and tumbling body suspended in a honey filled environment from 2013 that plays with our notions about birth, the body, movement, and eroticism.

Janine Antoni and Stephen Petronio, Honey Baby, 2013. Video (still).

Edition of 6 + 3 APs. Duration: 13 minutes 58 seconds. Performer: Nick Sciscione, Videographer: Kirsten Johnson, Composer: Tom Laurie, Editor: Amanda Laws. © Janine Antoni and Stephen Petronio; Courtesy of the artists and Luhring Augustine, New York

Paula Wilson: On High November 21, 2020 February 13, 2021 Learn more

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"Looking at this work now, in the current moment, it feels aspirational, linking past and the present, ushering in the potentials of the future."

— Paula Wilson

Closing Program: Taking on Monuments A virtual conversation with artists Paula Wilson and Maren Hassinger investigating how the artists’ respective site-specific and performance works reflect the moment with daring, emotional, and artist-driven expressions. Drawing our attention to the now, this conversation, moderated by Alpesh Kantilal Patel, sets its sights on the nature of monuments in art.

GeoVanna Gonzalez: HOW TO: Oh, Look at Me March 6 - May 22 Learn more

Artist portrait by World Red Eye

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"Gonzalez’s work has this tension about it - it’s rarely satisfied with a one-dimensional view and challenges the viewer. She brings us into a new realm of possibility, one with rigid lines and hard structures that bend at our will. In the end, she seems to say, it’s all about what we make of it." — Nicole Martinez

Video: HOW TO: Oh, Look at Me “A film that captures the multi-layered, interdisciplinary performance by GeoVanna Gonzalez, conceived as an activation of her sculptural installation of the same name.

The performance features an original musical score by Batrypowr, involves two dancers, Cheina Ramos and Alondra Balbuena, and two poets, Zaina Alsous and Arsimmer McCoy, who interact with and exist within the structure.

Gonzalez’s film functions as an added layer of meaning, a translation of a translation.

The diversity of mediums simultaneously occurring and occupying creates a living installation where each of the performers is communicating with and in spite of one another. HOW TO: Oh, look at me is a compendium of movements, sounds, voices, a space for otherness.”

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Photos by Juan Luis Matos

Video Premiere Given the circumstances of the pandemic that did not allow the gatherings and exchange essential to Gonzalez’s work, Locust Projects commissioned a new video work that documents the performance within the exhibition, with support from Miami Light Project, the City of Miami Beach, and Commissioner. The video premiered to the public for free at New World Symphony’s SoundScape Park on April 15 in conjunction with the City of Miami Beach’s Culture Crawl and Poetry Month.

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Closing Program: HOW TO: Oh, look at me A participatory virtual roundtable with Gonzalez and Jackson discussing their longtime collaboration. Participants were invited to view, comment on, and add their questions to a shared Google Doc in real time, influencing the course of the conversation.

Disembodied Cara Despain Julie Fliegenspan Alexa Lim Haas Jillian Mayer Nicole Salcedo Lorna Simpson Siena Stubbs Guest-curated by Dennis Scholl March 6 - May 22 Learn more

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“Enter the world of a continuous loop of works that are part of the thought-provoking video exhibition "Disembodied." Guest curated by Dennis Scholl, the founding board chair of Locust Projects from 20012006, the idea was in the works before COVID-19. But, with its theme of a sense of absence in the body and the disconnection people are feeling through the pandemic, it may hold even deeper meaning for visitors.”

— Michelle F. Solomon, Miami Art Zine

Tal Amitai-Lavi & Tal Frank: Homeline June 11 - August 7 Learn more

Artists portrait by Rafael Paula

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“With a simple, reduced syntax of opposites, Amitai-Lavi and Frank have successfully achieved a metaphysical transformation of the space— the three domestic elements hover in the dark, luminous, floating like a feather and, at the same time, powerful and monumental” — Tami Katz-Freiman, read her full blog post here.

Juan Ledesma: Rhythm of Speech June 11 - August 7 Learn more

Artist portrait by Mariano Cayo

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Closing Program: Rhythm of Speech (Reprise) Immersed in his installation, Ledesma created a soundscape of tonal and rhythmic improvisations which further explore the musical potential of spoken accents. This performance aims to reframe language as a collective repository of sounds that can be used towards creative musical compositions.

Victoria Ravelo: Hidden in Plain View June 11 - August 7 Learn more

Photos by Arnaud Pages

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Closing Program: Hidden in Plain View A Roundtable with Victoria Ravelo and Dr. Marvin Dunn, moderated by Darwin Rodriguez.

Using the artist’s chosen material as a point of departure, the conversation explored the history, cultural legacy, local impact, mythology, stories, and aesthetics of sugar.

NEW PUBLIC PROJECT George Sánchez- Calderón: CENTRUST June 8, 2021 - June 9, 2025 Locust Projects’ parking lot is now the current home to CenTrust, 2012 by George Sánchez-Calderón, the latest addition to the public artworks at Locust Projects, which also include Tom Scicluna’s 6’ Custom Concrete Bench and Ivan Toth Depeña’s Lapse [The Visions].

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NEXT GENERATION For 11 years we have inspired the next generation of artists through Locust Art Builders Summer Art Intensive for Teens, providing scholarships for teens from across Miami to collaboratively build an exhibition from scratch and learn about creative careers from professional artists and other arts professionals.

This year’s diverse and ambitious group of 30 aspiring young artists from 18 Miami-Dade high schools worked on fast paced art challenges, learned from seven artist mentors about creative careers, and collaborated on building an exhibition and designing a zine.

The 12 zoom sessions took place from July 6-29, with an optional in-person field trip to the Museum of Graffiti, Locust Projects, and ICA and an optional in-person installation day.

Photo by ICA

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Locust Art Builders 2021 Exhibition: Network Not Found July 29 - August 7

“My experience with Locust has been amazing, I’ve been exposed to many different artist mentors who taught me things about collaboration, making art, and being in an art journey.”

— Rachel Buchanan, 2021

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Locust Art Builders 2021 Zine: Network Not Found View the Zine here

“My favorite part of LAB was definitely working on the zine...

I loved seeing everybody’s style and their process.”

— Janessa Suarez, 2021

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Photo by Juan Luis Matos

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Photo by Pedro Wazzan

Photo by Arnaud Pages

Photo by Rafael Paula

ARTIST RESOURCES Locust Projects supports Miami-based artists with a number of resources helping to support and sustain their creative careers including incubator grants and professional development opportunities.

WAVEMAKER GRANTS - Through WaveMaker incubator grants more than $450,000 in funds have been awarded to 90 projects over the last five years supporting new, publicly accessible projects in non-traditional spaces across Miami-Dade. As a national regranting program of the Warhol Foundation, WaveMaker grants have provided seed funding for several of Miami’s artist-run initiatives and projects.

LEGALARTLINK - Artists of all disciplines can empower and expand their careers with support from LegalARTLink’s pro bono legal services and professional development resources including online webinars.

WaveMaker Incubator Grants Since 2015, WaveMaker has awarded over $450,000 to 90 of Miami’s visionary artists. Awardees receive up to $6,000 each in three categories: New Work / Projects, Long-Haul Projects, and Research & Development + Implementation. In the spirit of Locust Projects’ artist-centric mission, WaveMakers experiment and take risks, creating innovative work that is shared with the public beyond traditional exhibition spaces.

After a dynamic selection process among 97 applicants, the Cycle 8 WaveMakers are: Carolina Cueva, Liz Ferrer & Bow Ty, Violenta Flores, Sage Gee, Nick Gilmore, Amanda Keeley, Summer Jade Leavitt, Dan Mathis, Arsimmer McCoy, Michelle Lisa Polissaint, Chire Regans, and Ema Ri. The 2021 WaveMakers were selected by Robert Blackson, Nisa Floyd, Reginald O’Neal, and Anita Sharma.

WaveMaker Grants are made possible by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts’ Regional Regranting Program, a network of 32 partner organizations across the country.

Learn more about the 2021 WaveMakers here.

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LEGALARTLINK LegalARTLink at Locust Projects is a vital pro bono legal resource supporting local artists of all disciplines to protect their work and empower their careers.

LegalARTLink provides artists, dancers, composers, writers and other creatives with access to free legal advice, referrals to pro bono attorneys, one-on-one counseling, and professional development webinars and workshops on a broad range of legal issues.

This year, LegalARTLink attended 157 cases related to contracts, copyright, business, litigation, trademark, immigration, employment, COVID-specific, and other legal issues. We also started offering monthly virtual office hours, one-on-one 30-minute phone calls for artists with questions about the program or in need of help with a new legal issue.

Since 2016, the LegalARTLink Director has been hosted by the University of Miami Law School where they have access to academic and research facilities to assist artists with their legal needs. In addition, the University’s law students are able to gain practical experience by assisting artists with legal issues through externships supervised by LegalARTLink.

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Photo by Juan Luis Matos

Photo by World Red Eye

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ACTIVATING CONVERSATIONS ON NEW ART & IDEAS In line with Locust Projects’ vision that art and artists are essential to society, we inspire curiosity in new art and the exchange of new ideas through free public programs and partnerships with local artists and peer organizations, allowing us to go beyond the walls of Locust Projects and reach a wider audience. This year’s partnerships included: Care - partnering with local artists to create experiences that nourish the whole artist, the creative force in each of us, and the communities we form and sustain.

Talks Miami - in partnership with Oolite Arts, Talks provides direct access to the top curators and ideas driving contemporary art today.

Where’s Your Favorite Place for Political Art at Home? - art-on-loan program in partnership with Francisco Masó and Women Photographers International Archive.

Jade Alley Films - art video feature in partnership with the Miami Design District.

NEW PROGRAM LAUNCH: CARE NOURISHING EXPERIENCES BY ARTISTS FOR YOU Inspired by the many ways artists across Miami-Dade have deepened their resolve to care for themselves, for each other, and for our communities, Locust Projects has launched a new program called Care, featuring local artists who work at the intersection of self-care, relational care, and/or community care. Artists will create experiences at Locust Projects and beyond that nourish the whole artist, the creative force in each of us, and the communities we form and sustain. Workshops hosted this far include: Arsimmer McCoy: Make a Masterpiece of Me: workshop on empowering ourselves and our communities through poetry.

Violenta Flores: Respite: immersive, calming visual experience and guided meditation for caregivers.

Rev. Houston R. Cypress: Big Listening, Deep Cypress: deep listening ramble through diverse plant communities of the Big Cypress National Preserve.

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TALKS MIAMI Talks provides direct access to the top curators and ideas driving contemporary art today, through a year-long series of conversations presented by Locust Projects and Oolite Arts.

Since launching the partnertship in 2018, we’ve invited 21 arts leaders to Miami to talk about their curatorial vision and practice, the art and artists that have shaped their careers, and how they support the work of artists whether in museums or non-traditional spaces. Each also visits the studios of local arists, providing feedback and visibility that can build a bridge between artists working in Miami and the international cultural community.

Due to the covid-19 pandemic, all Talks for the 2020 - 2021 Season were streamed via Facebook Live.

Watch them here.

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Photo by Esteban Pulido

2020 - 2021 SEASON Dan Cameron | Independent Curator, Former Chief Curator, Orange County Museum of Art Erin Christovale | Associate Curator at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Co-founder of Black Radical Imagination Nicholas Baume | Director and Chief Curator of Public Art Fund Photo by Paley Fairman

Photo by Kelly Taub

Hamza Walker | Executive Director, LAXART, LA Julie Rodrigues Widholm | Director, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA Rujeko Hockley | Assistant Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY

Photo by Whitney Bradshaw

Photo by Jody Rogac

Francisco Masó: Where’s Your Favorite Place for Political Art at Home?

Locust Projects partnered with Francisco Masó and Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA) as the pickup location for the second edition of Where’s Your Favorite Place for Political Art at Home? This art-on-loan program seeks to maintain a physical experience with the artwork while broadening the discussion around the exhibition as an in-progress, open-ended system of relationships. It responds to urgent questions about the role of art institutions in moments of crisis and the dynamics of consumption and circulation of political art.

Participating artists: Elia Alba, Lola Flash, Alicia Grullon, Tina La Porta, Peggy Levison Nolan, Sue Montoya, Labkhand Olfatmanesh, Anne Vetter, and Antonia Wright.

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Jade Alley Films: Jennifer Levonian and Eva Wylie: Outage, 2019 From April 1 to June 30, the Miami Design District featured Outage by Jennifer Levonian and Eva Wylie in its Jade Alley Films Series, a collaborative year-long art video feature of four artist video selections by the District’s key institutions, including Locust Projects, de la Cruz Collection and ICA Miami. The video was viewable 24/7 at the Garden Building Lobby in Jade Alley.

Originally commissioned and premiered by Locust Projects in 2019, Outage is a video that utilizes Levonian’s signature cut paper animation technique, which incorporates deftly rendered watercolors into short films that wryly depict prescient social narratives and Eva Wylie’s unique printmaking techniques.

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GETTING SOCIAL

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GETTING SEEN Press Highlights

“"Miami's longest-running alternative art space" has served as much more than the average gallery over the past 22 years, offering everything from summer art programs for teens to grants for local artists and even pro bono legal services for local creatives.”

— Celia Almeida, Miami New Times

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FUNDRAISERS & FRIENDRAISERS Building on our vision to provide contemporary visual artists the freedom to experiment with new ideas by creating a culture of “yes,” Locust Projects offers many opportunities to support our exhibitions and programming in impactful and direct ways. Locust Projects relies on funding from annual fundraisers such as Spring Fling, Smash and Grab, Annual Benefit dinners, and the new Incubator Fund as well as from support from members and individual donors.

Due to the covid-19 pandemic, our annual fundraisers, Smash & Grab, Spring Fling & Benefit Dinners were cancelled or reimagined.

Incubator Annual Fund - We silently launched our new annual giving program, the Incubator Fund in April 2021, with enthusiastic support from a visionary group of founding donors. These changemakers, investing in Miami’s longest running arts incubator, have become the catalyst to Make Art Happen. The fund focuses on the three core areas of Locust Projects’ mission: Exhibitions, Artist Resources, and The Next Generation. Learn more here.

2020 BINGO BASH Locust Projects hosted a sold out Bingo Bash, our inaugural virtual fall fundraiser, bringing a lively game night and disco-themed party into the homes of fifty of Miami’s collectors and arts patrons who played for art prizes including photographs generously donated by the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation in addition to Locust Projects artist editions.

Locust Projects’ executive director, Lorie Mertes, hosted the evening along with Vanna Black, the night’s Special Guest MC and Bingo Caller. More than 105 attendees played six alternating rounds of bingo between raffledrawings, a live art auction for an artwork by Miami-based artist Mette Tommerup (sold for $3,750), and trivia questions posed by special guests. Spinning infectious 70s disco classics, DJ Manuvers and lively go-go dancers kept everyone at home moving and grooving throughout the night.

The event netted $29,447, all used to support programming at Locust Projects.

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RECORD-BREAKING GIVE MIAMI DAY!

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2020-2021 SUPPORTERS FOUNDATIONS and CORPORATIONS

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs Oolite Arts Berkowitz Contemporary Foundation National Endowment for the Arts Hillsdale Fund Albert and Jane Nahmad Family Foundation VIA | Wagner Incubator Grant Funding Arts Network The Jorge M. Pérez Family Foundation at The Miami Foundation The Kirk Foundation Cowles Charitable Trust Artis Miami Salon Group The Marie Kennedy Foundation Jones Day Community Recovery Fund at The Miami Foundation The Wege Foundation

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INCUBATOR FUND FOUNDING DONORS IN-KIND

ARTEZA Art Supplies Bacardi Cultured Dacra Fever Tree Ginger Beer Gander & White Harry’s Pizzeria I’ve Been Framed Jacober Creative Kalexy Graphics and Signs LYFT Miami Design District Modern Luxury TARA Ink Tito’s Handmade Vodka Total Wine & More VANS WLRN Public Media Zachary Balber Photography

EXHIBITIONS

ARTIST RESOURCES

Major Sponsors Elizabeth Bailey Diane and Alan Lieberman

Supporting Sponsor Marie Elena Angulo and Henry Zarb Frank Destra and Alex Fluker The Marie Kennedy Foundation Lawrence Weinstein

Lead Sponsor Diane and Robert Moss

Exhibitionists Linda Adler Sunita Bhagwan Karen Boyer Tyler Emerson Dorsch and Brook Dorsch Jorge Garcia Paul Rene Jacober Malinda Krantrz Rachel Korine Steven and Rochelle Lanster Stewart Merkin Jaime Odabachian Nedra and Mark Oren Hal Phillips and Greg Kendall Amy and Richard Pollack Eric Rodriguez Debra and Dennis Scholl Mindy Solomon Debi and Jeff Wechsler

Major Sponsor Diane and Werner Grob

Friends Juan Alonso Nicole Chipi Bette Fialkov Debra and Barry Frank Brian and Jennifer Heller Scott Hodes John Joseph Lin

NEXT GENERATION

Major Sponsor Susan and Richard Arregui Supporting Sponsor Anna Mora Friends Avra Jain Doreen Lima Raúl Guijarro De Pablo Christianne Mora Faye and Jeffrey Roth Munisha Underhill

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Debra Scholl, chair Jorge A. Garcia, vice chair Linda Adler Juan Alonso Richard Arregui Stephen Bander Elizabeth Bailey Joan Blackman Karen Boyer Westen Charles, founder Nicole Chipi COOPER, founder Nick D’Annunzio John Devine Dawn Adels Fine Debra Frank, secretary Lauren Gnazzo Diane Grob Adler Guerrier

LOCUST PROJECTS STAFF

ABOUT LOCUST PROJECTS

Raúl Guijarro De Pablo René Gonzalez Brian Heller Scott Hodes Paul Jacober Avra Jain Carlos R. Lago Steven Lanster, treasurer Doreen Lima John Joseph Lin Stewart Merkin Jaime Odabachian Amy Pollack Munisha Underhill Elizabeth Withstandley, founder Antonia Wright

Executive Director Lorie Mertes

Founded by artists for artists in 1998, Locust Projects is Miami’s longest running nonprofit alternative art space.

We produce, present, and nurture ambitious and experimental new art and the exchange of ideas through commissioned exhibitions and projects, artist residencies, summer art intensives for teens, and public programs on contemporary art and curatorial practice. As a leading incubator of new art and ideas, Locust Projects emphasizes boundary-pushing creative endeavors, risk-taking and experimentation by local, national and international artists. We invest in South Florida’s arts community by providing artists with project grants and empower creative careers by supporting the administrative work of being an artist through an onsite artist resource hub and access to pro bono legal services.

Paul Berg, emeritus

Preparator and Projects Coordinator, PT Clifton Childree

Director of Development Charity Von Guinness Gallery and Exhibitions Manager Jordyn Newsome Communications Coordinator Alexandra Contreras Programs Coordinator, PT Monica Peña LegalARTLink Director, PT Allyn Ginns Ayers

All installation images by Zachary Balber Photography and all event images by Locust Projects staff, unless otherwise specified.

Locust Projects 2020-2021 exhibitions and programming are made possible with support from: The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; The Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners, The Children’s Trust; Berkowitz Contemporary Foundation; The National Endowment for the Arts Art Works Grant; Hillsdale Fund; the Albert and Jane Nahmad Family Foundation; VIA Art Fund | Wagner Incubator Grant; Funding Arts Network; The Jorge M. Pérez Family Foundation at The Miami Foundation; Susan and Richard Arregui; Kirk Foundation; Miami Salon Group; Scott Hodes; Jones Day; Community Recovery Fund at The Miami Foundation and the Wege Foundation.

Juana Valdes: Rest Ashore was made possible, in part, with support from Oolite Arts’ 2018 Ellies Creator Award, Funding Arts Network, and University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMASS) 2019 Research Healey Endowment Grant. Special thanks to Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives, The Cuban Heritage Collection at the University of Miami Libraries, and History Miami Museum.

Raul Romero: Onomonopoetics of a Puerto Rican Landscape was awarded $5,000 from the Velocity Fund Grant, an Andy Warhol Foundation regional regranting program grant for its iteration in Philadelphia and a NALAC Fund for the Arts (NFA) grant.

GeoVanna Gonzalez: HOW TO: Oh, look at me, exhibition made possible, in part, with support from Oolite Arts, Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator (DVCAI), and Pulp Arts.

Video made possible with support from Miami Light Project, The City of Miami Beach, Commissioner and New World Symphony.

Tal Amitai and Tal Frank: Homeline was made possible, in part, by support from Artis, www.artis.art. Tal Amitai-Lavi’s work in Homeline was made possible, in part, by support from the Ministry of Culture, Foundation for Independent Artists, Israel.

Juan Ledesma: Rhythm of Speech was funded in part by The Ellies, Miami’s visual arts awards, presented by Oolite Arts.

Locust Art Builders 2021 was made possible through lead support from the Hillsdale Fund Inc. and the Albert and Jane Nahmad Family Foundation. Additional support provided

by The Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor Board and County Commissioners, The Children’s Trust; The Kirk Foundation; Susan and Richard Arregui and the Friends of Next Generation. We also want to thank ARTEZA Art Supplies, the official art supplies sponsor of LAB 2021, and VANS, our special 2021 design partner.

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