Remember the Sky:
Memory Landscapes, Real and Imagined
ProjectArt Miami Resident Artist Exhibition
In partnership with Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
Exhibition On View
May 27 - June 3, 2021
Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami (MOCA NoMi)
The Pavilion Gallery
www.mocanomi.org
Opening Reception
Friday, May 27th
MOCA Members:
7:00 PM
General Public:
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
RSVP for Tickets:
email daniellest@projectart.org
ProjectArt Miami presents Remember the Sky: Memory Landscapes, Real and Imagined, an inward explorationof the way time impacts personal recollections and shapes new perspectives. Drawing inspiration from the residency year as both arts educator and art practitioner, ProjectArt resident artists present a multimedia, visual representation of the power and fluid nature of memory. This multimedia and immersive residency showcase investigates the act of embracing a holistic identity, familial reverence, and our existence as evidence of our ancestry.
Remember the Sky honors Mvskoke/Creek Nation, Poet Laureate Joy Harjo’s poem Remember, which expresses the importance of one's history and relationship to all living things. ProjectArt resident artist’s exhibited work is a culmination of their residency year in which they take time weekly as arts educators to teach and mentor Miami youth at seven Miami-Dade Public Libraries. ProjectArt Miami’s annual resident exhibition, Remember the Sky, will take place Friday, May 27, 2022, alongside
MOCA’s monthly live jazz event. ProjectArt Resident Artists: Angela Bolanos, Nicole Combeau, Kerry Phillips, Laura Prada, Nicole Salgar, Tori Scott, and Pangea Kali Virga will be present to discuss the artwork created during their residency with attendees.
The event is free and open to the public. RSVP by emailing daniellest@projectart.org
ProjectArt’s Miami program is offered in 7 Miami-Dade Public Libraries including Culmer/Overtown, North Central, Arcola Lakes, Naranja, Shenandoah, Kendall, and Model City.
Special thanks to our supporters including the
Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, The Miami Foundation, The Kirk Foundation, The Batchelor Foundation, and Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation. As a longtime partner, ProjectArt acknowledges the MOCA’s impact on our community by providing local artists the space and support to present their work. Former Mayor Carlos Gimenez has praised the ProjectArt’s partnership with the Miami-Dade Public Library System, saying that, “teaching arts to children in our neighborhoods enhances their quality of life by providing them with invaluable opportunities to learn, grow, and excel. Once again, this collaboration proves that libraries in the 21st
century can provide the kind of programs and services that make our neighborhoods great places to live and raise families.”
About the Artists:
Angela Bolanos is a Honduran born, Miami-based artist. Using textiles, reflective surfaces, found objects, food
items, traditional media and experimental techniques, Angela creates work centered in the act of making. Focusing
on organic and geometric shapes, patterns, color, visual and tactile texture, the process is fluid, and in collaboration
with the materials, driven by a sense of discovery.
Kerry Phillips is an installation artist whose artwork borders on performance and social practice. Phillips’ work with
found objects is intuitive, often site-specific, and steeped in remembrance and storytelling. She uses common
objects in unexpected ways, working collaboratively with viewer-participants to reveal an exchange of value, the
importance and limitations of memory, and the vitality of play.
Laura Prada is an artist exploring ideas in sustainability and fashion, using photography as a medium of expression.
Born and raised in Cuba, she began her career as an artist and a performer from early on. She’s created work both
in performance and visual form, collaborated with other artists and showcased work in local galleries. Her artistic
expression has evolved into unifying and expressing both worlds, the visual and the somatic, which is her main
source of inspiration as an educator in the arts.
Nicole Combeau is a photographer, trauma-informed expressive art educator, and paper artist living and working in
Miami, Florida. She believes in cultivating a culture of care by bringing artistic expression to classrooms and other
communal spaces. She teaches workshops on meditation, zine and book making, photography and collage art,
among more.
Nicole Salgar is a multimedia visual artist and accomplished muralist from Miami, FL who spent over 14 years of
her life studying and working in NYC. The forms and subjects she creates are intended to invite their viewers to
become co-authors and witnesses. Nicole finds that experimentation is the key to creation and without it, nothing
truly effective has the chance to reveal itself.
Pangea Kali Virga is an enthusiastic creator whose work spans many sides of the art and fashion industry. She is a
fiber artist, fashion designer, stylist, curator, creative director, teacher, and producer with high standards and a
conceptual spirit. Her aim is to build collaborative inclusive networks and moving experiences through her work
and all of her projects.
Tori Scott is a multifaceted visual artist who originates from Miami, Florida. Growing up as an underrepresented
minority, Scott became devoted to embracing her black identity and culture. Her love for bold colors and
symbolism became a key aesthetic in much of her later work. The bulk of her work often examines the black
experience and promotes positive imagery.
About ProjectArt
ProjectArt empowers youth, emerging artists, and communities through partnerships with public libraries in 8 cities
from coast to coast. ProjectArt’s resident artists teach tuition-free, after-school art classes to children in divested
areas while developing new artwork informed by their experience working with the community and utilizing library
resources.
Social Media
Facebook, Instagram, Twitter: @projectartusa
EXHIBITION CONTACT
ProjectArt Miami Director
Danielle Steele
daniellest@projectart.org
