Prizm Patrons will enjoy a first look at the fair on December 5th, Prizm Preview, from noon to 5 p.m. at 1501 Biscayne Blvd followed by our signature annual dinner curated by acclaimed Chef Amaris Jones at 5 pm – 10 pm for Galaxy and Universe Patrons. Visit the link below to become a Prizm Patron.

With the generous support of GMCVB, Miami Dade Department of Cultural Affairs and the Green Family Foundation, Prizm welcomes Miami and its Fairgoers to Prizm’s 11th Edition. Prizm visitors will view 651 artists and 10 galleries from Africa and its Diaspora from locales including Barbados, Kenya, Martinique, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, the United Kingdom, and many more.

Prizm’s annual Patron Cocktail/Dinner will be hosted at 1501 Biscayne Blvd with bespoke dinner service lovingly prepared by Chef Amaris Jones and a keynote Collector’s Panel. Become a Prizm Patron to enjoy an elevated experience at Prizm’s 11th Edition.

“TONE is a cultural space in Memphis, Tennessee empowering Black artists and communities, sharing creativity and knowledge across the spectrum of Blackness to elevate Memphis as a global cultural beacon. Join Victoria Jones, Executive Director of Tone, and Anasa Troutman, president of The Big We and Clayborn Temple as they discuss Tone’s role in creating sacred space in Memphis, Anasa Troutman’s Film Blackhaven, which will screen at Prizm, and its visualization of TONE’s vision for preserving the storied history of Activism and Civil Rights in Memphis and designing its future cultural landscape as envisioned by Memphis’ contemporary creative community.”

The Blanchard House Institute combines historical and cultural research, best of education and innovation, economic development, and good governance principles, to create best practices in public-private-philanthropic partnerships for local elected officials and all leaders. In honor of the nation’s semi-quincentennial in 2026 BHI is embarking on a national cultural heritage project, The Black Wall Street Trail and Seminole Maroon Freedom Trail that will restore and preserve 250+ under invested and rural communities across the United States.

Join Jaha Cummings, a former state councilman from Florida and the founder of the Black Wall Street trail, and artist Dindga McCannon, who will be the trail ambassador for the project in the 250 cities.

Performance Art is an interdisciplinary medium with various entry points on observation, context, content, dialogue on culture, history, politics, resistance messaging, figurative and literal translations, and performance as storytelling. A prominent marker in performance art is the human connection. Moderated by Alexis Alleyne-Caputo, the PRIZM Perform panel is comprised of Chovitta Ariza, Sian Morson, Stéphanie Melyon Reinette and Tony Seepersad.

Giana De Dier is a Panamean artist of Barbadian origins. Her interest in the Afro-Caribbean experience in the Canal might be linked to that specific history. She was recently invited to be a new artist of the Museo del Canal (Panama), setting a landmark on the Panamean contemporary art scene and in its history. This is, matter-of-factly, a revolutionary gesture and decision by the Museo del Canal to shed light on the craftwomanship, talent and growth potential of an afrodescendent, Black woman artist. Globally, the advancement, valuing and rewarding of women’s artworks remains an issue that needs being tackled. At the core of this panel moderated by Chrystelle Merabli / Krystel Ann Art Gallery, Guadeloupean gallery owner settled in Brussels (Belgium), will be scrutinized the everlasting, seemingly unbreakable glass ceiling or glass box, women are confined under or into. Subalternization. Instrumentalization. Containment. Here are many challenges ahead and around. Thus, when women thrive and fight and advocate for their own success and their female peers’s, create events to celebrate and commemorate Black women’s achievements, offer opportunities, fostering a conversation is essential. Museum director Ana-Elizabeth Gonzalez (Museo del Canal) and Sociologist and artivist Stéphanie Melyon-Reinette (founder of YABISI SERIES / Cri de Femmes Festival, since 2012) will share their own curating experiences.

Moderator: Chrystelle Merabli (Guadeloupean gallery owner, Krystel Ann Art Gallery, Brussels, Belgium).
Panelists: Ana-Elizabeth Gonzalez (Museo del Canal), Stéphanie Melyon-Reinette (Guadeloupe)
Empowered by: Krystel Ann Art Gallery

Hear directly from leading creators and entrepreneurs within the creative, culture + tech ecosystem. How does new tech and cultural movements, unlock new business models that enable more equity, creative, and economic freedom? Will these technologies live up to the hype? From the rise of global African youth to crypto winter, to open payments, the terrain is constantly changing.

Hear from some of the leading minds in creativity, innovation, and the next wave of digital monetization to address the intersection of culture, creativity, and community. What does the future hold for creators? Meet some of the faces leading this charge across the diaspora and provide their insights from their lived experience.

According to the latest Art Basel | UBS report the median expenditure on art reached $65,000 in the first quarter of 2023 up by 19% compared to 2021. The majority of this spending was spent on paintings (58%) with works on paper making up the second largest expenditure (13%) how are collectors discovering art? Who are the high net worth individuals paying for Black art, and who are the women led art entities introducing the market to emerging Diaspora artists? Join Cierra Britton, and Tanya Weddemire as they explore new paradigms and celebrate Black female gallerists changing the game. moderated by Kirsten Magwood.

Prizm & Art Seen 365 visit Miami-based artist Jared McGriff at his studio to learn more about his art-making process.

Prizm & Art Seen 365 visit Miami-based artist Mark Fleuridor at his studio to learn more about his art-making process.

Prizm & Art Seen 365 visit Georgia-based artist N.Masani Landfair at her studio to learn more about his art-making process.

Prizm & Art Seen 365 visit Miami-based artist Sofía Córdova at her studio to learn more about his art-making process.
Born in 1985 in Carolina, Puerto Rico, and currently based in Miami, Florida, Sofía Córdova makes work that considers sci-fi as alternative history, dance music’s liberatory potential, the internet, colonial contamination, mystical objects, and extinction and mutation as evolution, within the matrix of class, gender, race, late capitalism, and its technologies.

Yanira Collado lives and works, Miami, FL. Collado identifies as a Dominican born in New York. She attended Miami’s New World School of the Arts for high school, studied at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and later pursued studies in Early Childhood Education.

Morel Doucet (b. 1990) is a Miami-based multidisciplinary artist and arts educator that hails from Haiti. He employs ceramics, illustrations, and prints to examine the realities of climate-gentrification, migration, and displacement within the Black diaspora communities. Through a contemporary reconfiguration of the black experience, his work catalogs a powerful record of environmental decay at the intersection of economic inequity, the commodification of industry, personal labor, and race.

Actress, Activist, and Consummate Collector, CCH Pounder, shares her 2020 collecting journey in support of artists in what has been an unpredictable year on many fronts. Enjoy a tour of her new acquisitions and her gallery Corentyne Cottage House

In 2018, Prizm had the honor of hosting A living Legacy conversation featuring Distinguished University of Maryland Professor Emeritus of Art David C. Driskell in conversation with the David C. Driskell Center’s Executive Director, Professor Curlee R. Holton as part of the “Living Legacy National Speaking Tour”. Their conversation highlighted Driskell’s contributions as an artist, scholar, and cultural historian and the contributions of African American artists to the American art canon. Dr. David C. Driskell was a giant, a mentor to many, and an unwavering ambassador for the arts.

In 2017, Nyugen Smith(USA/Trinidad/Haiti) and Marvin Fabien (Dominica/Martinique) presented, Lest We Forget, a multi-sensory performance derived from their on-going dialog related to the impacts of hurricanes and climate change in the Caribbean and the most venerable parts of the United States. Marvin Fabien had a penchant for, through his hypnotic use of sound, conjuring the aesthetics of the popular music culture of the Caribbean whilst simultaneously rendering hair raising Digital Performances that address key issues affecting the Caribbean region. Fabien was easily becoming an indelible force in the continued development of contemporary practice in the Caribbean/Global South. May we continue to remember his work through our continued efforts to amplify Diasporic narratives and perspectives.