As part of the Scholl Lecture Series, the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) will host a panel conversation in celebration of the opening of Calida Rawles’s first museum solo exhibition, “Away with the Tides,” on Thursday, June 27, at 7:00pm. The exhibition runs through February 23, 2025. Also see previous post Calida Rawles: Away with the Tides.

Description: Rawles’s work engages with Miami’s water-entwined climate and dives into the history of beauty, oppression, and resilience in PAMM’s neighboring community of Overtown and the waterways of historic Virginia Key Beach.

The panel will open with the screening of a short documentary, “Wade in the Water,” by Cathleen Dean, setting the tone for a discussion around the visual exploration of Black people’s relationship to water and Rawles’s envisioning of water as a space for Black healing. Following the short film, artist Calida Rawles, filmmaker Cathleen Dean, and Overtown community leader and life-long resident Trina Harris, will engage in a lively conversation moderated by Chire “Vanta Black” Regans, a South Florida-based visual artist and community advocate.

Rawles’s work engages with Miami’s water-entwined climate and dives into the history of beauty, oppression, and resilience in PAMM’s neighboring community of Overtown and the waterways of historic Virginia Key Beach.

The panel will open with the screening of a short documentary, “Wade in the Water,” by Cathleen Dean, setting the tone for a discussion around the visual exploration of Black people’s relationship to water and Rawles’s envisioning of water as a space for Black healing. Following the short film, artist Calida Rawles, filmmaker Cathleen Dean, and Overtown community leader and life-long resident Trina Harris, will engage in a lively conversation moderated by Chire “Vanta Black” Regans, a South Florida-based visual artist and community advocate.

Before the conversation, view the new exhibition in the galleries and celebrate on the terrace from 5–7pm with happy hour and live jazz to celebrate the rich musical roots of our neighbors in Overtown.

For more information, see https://www.pamm.org/en/exhibition/calida-rawles-away-with-the-tides/

[Shown above, photo by Marten Elder (detail): Calida Rawles’s ‘The Space in Which We Travel’, 2020. Acrylic on canvas. 84 x 144 inches. Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Seoul, and London.]