Mapping Miami’s Margins: Visualizing Intersectional Futures
A panel discussion and roundtable lunch exploring issues on feminism in contemporary art.
$15 Non-members $10 for MOCA members & NoMi residents
Tuesday, 08.02.16 | 12–2pm
Moderator:
Donette Francis, Chair, Department of American Studies, University of Miami
Donette Francis directs the American Studies Program at the University of Miami where she is Associate Professor of English. She is the author of Fictions of Feminine Citizenship: Sexuality and the Nation in Contemporary Caribbean Literature. Dr. Francis is currently working on two book projects: The Novel 1960s, an intellectual history of the Anglophone Caribbean’s transnational literary culture; and Creole Miami: Black Arts in the Magic City, a sociocultural history of black arts practice in Miami from 1980s to present. She specializes in transnational American Studies, Caribbean literary and intellectual histories, African diaspora literary studies, globalization and transnational feminist studies, and theories of sexuality and citizenship.
Panelists composed of Intersectionality exhibition artists:
Juana Valdez

The World Upside-down and Flat, 2008-2009
mixed media
108 inches x 14 x 16 feet
Jamilah Sabur and Veronica Mills

Weight of Words, 2016
mixed media
dimensions variable
Curated by Richard Haden and focusing on the works of South Florida artists this exhibition explores concepts and issues of intersectionality, namely the ways in which oppressive institutions are interconnected and cannot be examined separately from one another.
Intersectionality Programs
Saturday, 07.23.16 | 6–9pm
MOCA Performance
Lip Service, Miami Book Fair’s premier showcase for true stories, out loud, and Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) present:
Storypalooza!: “When Identities Collide.”
Free with museum admission. $5 for non-members | Free for MOCA members & NoMi residents
Friday, 07.29.16 | 6–8pm
MOCA Workshop
Hands-on workshop featuring an Intersectionality exhibition artist Alex Trimino.
$20 for non-members $15 for MOCA members & NoMi residents (includes admission, materials fee, cocktails and refreshments)
Tuesday, 08.02.16 | 12–2pm
MOCA Contemporary Dialogues
Mapping Miami’s Margins: Visualizing Intersectional Futures
A panel discussion and roundtable lunch exploring issues on feminism in contemporary art.
Moderator: Donette Francis, Chair, Department of American Studies, University of Miami
$15 Non-members $10 for MOCA members & NoMi residents
Thursday, 08.11.16 | 6–8pm
MOCA Contemporary Dialogues
Censorship in South Florida and Beyond
Lecture and discussion with Richard Haden, Intersectionality curator and moderator; Edwin King, artist; Griselle Gaudnik, artist; Wendy Salkin, Ph.D. Candidate, Philosophy, Harvard University; Laura Luna, artist
$15 Non-members $10 for MOCA members & NoMi residents Free for exhibition artists
Sunday, 08.14.16 | 2pm
MOCA Performace | Closing Reception
Erotic City: The legacy of Prince and the social dream of brown and black queer worldmaking
Keynote Address by Professor Tavia Nyong’o, New York University Dept. of Performance Studies. Closing program and reception for Intersectionality exhibit. Musical Tribute to Prince by DJ T Lyfe. In partnership with Reading Queer, University of Miami Dept. of American Studies, and Equality Florida.
$10.00 for Non-members, $5.00 for MOCA members & NoMi residents. Free for exhibition artists
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MOCA Contemporary Dialogue: “Censorship in South Florida and Beyond”
The Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami (MOCA) will host a discussion and lecture panel in conjunction with its summer exhibition Intersectionality. The panel will focus on censorship, the handling of exhibitions in public institutions, and the impacts on South Florida artists, with a tradition in western art of censorship from Michelangelo to Mapplethorpe.