Roscoè B. Thické III is a lens based artist whose work examines themes of family, community, and intimacy through his narrative arrangements and presentation of his images. Roscoè’s work ranges from traditional photography to experimental printing techniques and unique framing concepts. Roscoè’s work is inspired by literature and contemporary documentary practices. He creates environmental lifestyle images that give context clues to his subject state of being. Roscoè’s education into the arts started while enlisted in the U.S Army. While stationed at Camp Casey, Korea Roscoè studied Photography and Art. Roscoè continued his studies of Photography and Design at Broward College in Fort Lauderdale, Fl. His work has been exhibited at the The Bass museum, the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), and several other institutions. He has participated in multiple residencies like Oolite Arts Studio Residency in Miami, Florida , Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, African American Research Library residency in Fort Lauderdale, Fl., Mass Moca Studio Residency in North Adams, Massachusetts. He has won numerous grants and awards like the Ellie Schneiderman award from Oolite Arts, a Suncoast Emmy Award for his 1402 Pork N Bean project, A Wavemaker Grant from The Locust Foundation.

Roy travels with the DVCAI team as Photographer and Logistics Manager. He is detailed and enjoys the mechanics of preparation and documentation. The DVCAI artists depend on Roy to bring equipment to enhance and support their presentations. His techical ability provides our team with practical “can do support” and building infrastucture for our exhibitions. “I produce my image in response to the demand to be an image. And yet it is a decentering act: there is no transparent, total subject; there is full knowledge of self.“ Roy loves photography and is a committed student of the craft. Born in Jamaica, he is an avid tennis player and coach. Educated at The University of Florida and Florida International University he is a core working member to the DVCAI Team.

Ruddy Marc Roquelaure works and lives in Guadeloupe. After several years spent in France, and Vancouver in the west coast of Canada, he returned to his native land in 2013, where he reaffirmed his Afro-Caribbean “identity.” As a visual/graphic artist, his journey is sown with beautiful encounters, memorializing the fundamentals of excellence and pride of the leading thinkers of ancestral Africa. Guided by Ancestral African Spirituality, Roquelaure’s art invites the public to think about social, political and metaphysical issues. He considers his work of public utility, a group therapy towards awareness, by transporting the viewer in a journey into the Spiritual Nature of the Human Being.

Sanjit Sethi is President of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and has over two decades of experience as a cultural leader. Sethi’s previous positions include Director of the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at George Washington University, Director of the Center for Art and Public Life, at California College of the Arts; and Executive Director of the Santa Fe Art Institute. Sanjit has a BFA from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, an MFA in Ceramics from the University of Georgia, and an MS in Advanced Visual Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As an artist, writer and curator, Sethi’s work has spanned different media and geographies. Past works include the Kuni Wada Bakery Remembrance; Richmond Voting Stories and a body of ceramic work completed at the acclaimed Archie Bray Foundation. Curatorial and writing projects have included Spiked: The Unpublished Political Cartoons of Rob Rogers, 6.13.89: The Canceling of the Mapplethorpe Exhibition and the essay, Leading with Panic,Why Leaders Need to Talk More Openly About Anxiety. He is invited to speak internationally and nationally on such topics as creative leadership, cultural equity, and radical accessibility. Sanjit serves on the boards of the Jerome Foundation, the Archie Bray Foundation, the Association for Independent Colleges of Art and Design and the Artist Communities Alliance where he is currently the board chair.

Sarah MK Moody (b. Chicago, 1988) is a multi-disciplinary artist, curator, doula, healing arts guide, space builder and creator, community justice advocate and feminist based in Erie, Penn by way of Miami, Fla, and New York City. Her work is rooted in bringing people together through the arts and healing modalities. She is passionate about creating and building spaces that act as allies to the underrepresented, underserved, and those without voice, as a means to heal and empower all to rise up to their greatest purpose with joy, and sanctuary. Sarah began her creative pursuits as a child constantly working in painting, drawing, clay sculpture, and photography by age ten. Her passions of bringing people together, and teaching in creative methodology started in high school, and curatorial arts while at Parsons School of Design in NYC. She founded Maggie Knox, a gallery, incubator and collaborative space in Miami in 2014, focused on creating brave, safe spaces for women. Maggie Knox had over a dozen artists in residence and exhibitions during its tenure in Little Haiti from 2014-2017, as well as co-created and produced a five day festival, and over 100 events with IIIPoints. Since 2017, Sarah has moved to Erie to become a mother, and share her talents in her mother’s hometown. She has produced and curated several exhibitions, helped build two businesses from the ground up, and has expanded her studio and healing practices.

Sharon Norwood is an artist of Jamaican heritage who’s work span several media. Norwood graduated in 2013 from the University of South Florida with a BFA in Painting, and is currently in the MFA program at Florida State University. Sharon’s work have been featured in major exhibitions, and publications. She has exhibited nationally in the USA and internationally, in Canada, South Korea and Jamaica. Noted group exhibitions include the 2016 ATLBNL, Prizm Art Fair and 2016 Aqua Miami Art Fair. Sharon is the recipient of several honors such as the Exceptional Opportunity Award and the Andy McLaughlin Memorial Award from FSU. She received the 2016 Raymond James Gasparilla Festival of the art’s emerging artist recognition and the 2016 Creative Loafing Tampa Bay’s Best of the Bay Emerging Artist honor.

Shawna Moulton is a multi-disciplinary artist and art educator based in South Florida. She was born in Freeport, Bahamas, raised in Kingston, Jamaica, and then migrated to the United States. At an early age, she discovered the magic of art-making, manifesting works of drawings, paintings, sculptures, and paper-making. In 2015 she graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Arts with a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts.

Sheena Rose is a contemporary Caribbean artist from Barbados. In 2008, Sheena graduated with a BFA degree with Honors at Barbados Community College, and in 2016, she received her Masters in Fine Arts at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a Fulbright Scholarship. Sheena works with multimedia such as hand drawn animations, drawings, paintings, performance art, mixed media, new media and performance art. Sheena has exhibited locally and internationally in the Caribbean, South America, North America, Canada, Europe, Africa and Asia. In 2011, Sheena had her first solo show “Town to Town” at the Barbados Community College and was the first passed student to have a solo show there. Sheena represented Barbados in many biennials such as the Havana Biennial, Venice Biennial, Gwangju Biennial, Jamaica Biennial, and participated in many museums and galleries such as MoCADA, Queens Museum, Turner Contemporary Gallery, Residency Gallery. Sheena has been awarded number of international artist’s residencies such as Alice Yard (Trinidad), Greatmore Art Studio (Cape Town, South Africa), Tembe Art Studio (Moengo, Suriname), and OAZO-AIR (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Art Omi (Ghent, New York) The Hermitage Artist Retreat (Florida), Diaspora Vibe and Fountain Head (Miami). Her work has also been included in Art Fairs, Film Festivals and Auctions such as Prizm Art Fair, Third Horizon Film Festival and Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation Auction- Art for Life. Sheena Rose’s work is also on the cover of three books, Small Axe 43. “See Me Here,” Christopher and Roberts Publisher and in 2015 her work is on the cover of Naomi Jackson’s book called “The Star Side of BirdHill”. The Cover has been awarded from Huffington Post and E People Magazine as one of the best book cover for the year 2015.In 2017, Sheena Rose performed a piece called “Island and Monster” at the Royal Academy of Arts in London and MoCADA. Sheena Rose was featured in the New York Times, Travel and Leisure and Vogue Australia.

Simone Pierre has been a consultant and trainer for over 15 years. Based in Guadeloupe and an expert in solidarity and social economy, she provides individual and corporate management advising to corporations and associations. She assists professionals and individuals in the areas of business creation, management, and national and international project management. She advises, teaches seminars, and trains through targeted workshops. Her core values are personal commitment, sharing, and success. Her pedagogical approach centers on empowerment with the human being as the focus of the economy and performance. For many years, Simone has lent her expertise to organizations working in the economic, educational, cultural and social sectors. Through her innovative approach, she has successfully helped connect individuals, enhanced talents and competencies, and contributed to the completion of projects.

Stephanie J. Woods is a multi-media artist from Charlotte NC creating textile, photography, video, and community-engaged projects. Through the use of symbolic materials and imagery referencing black american culture and the southern experience, her body of work examines the cognitive effects of forced cultural assimilation, and how performance is ingrained in identity. Woods earned an MFA in Studio Art from UNC Greensboro and is the recipient of several residencies and fellowships; including Halcyon Arts Lab nine month art and social impact fellowship, the Fine Arts Work Center seven month visual artist fellowship, ACRE Residency, the McColl Center for Art + Innovation, Oxbow School of Art and Artists’ Residency, and Penland School of Crafts. Her work has also been notably recognized by the Chenven Foundation, the South Arts state fellowship, and the NC. Arts Council Fellowship.

T Eliott Mansa has developed an assemblage practice that incorporates materials from roadside memorials, applying ritual practices from West African, Carribean, and Southern religious and vernacular sculptural traditions. Mansa was born in Miami, Florida and took a circuitous educational path through the Yale School of Art, Maryland Institute College of Art, to receive his MFA from CUNY-Hunter College in 2018, and his BFA from the University of Florida in 2000. He is interested in questioning the efficacy of political art making, and looks to apotropaic art making practices, and creates with a conceit of creating a ritual practice to honor, memorialize, protect, and defend Black Lives, from state and extra-judicial violence. Recent exhibition venues include LnS Gallery and David Castillo Gallery in Miami, FL; Rush Gallery in Brooklyn, NY; and Galerie Myrtis in Baltimore, MD. His work is in the permanent collection of the African American Museum of the Arts in Deland, FL. Mansa lives and works in Miami, Fl. Mansa received the 2019 Creator Award from Oolite Arts.

Tanya is a Miami-based artist, writer, policy entrepreneur and global citizen. She believes that law, policy, facts and figures are indispensable in the work of creating a better world. So are art, design, film, music, inspiration and creativity. In her art practice, Tanya develops unique artworks, concepts and commissions inspired by community, family and movements for freedom, democracy and human rights around the world. In her Homage to Wangari Maathai mixed media art series, for example, she honors the life and work of the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Dr. Maathai founded the Greenbelt Movement and used innovative, large scale tree planting campaigns to mobilize and educate poor and rural women about the environment, economic development, climate change, women’s rights and the centrality of women’s leadership. Each painting in the series features a single, beautiful and ornate tree designed to honor the idea that simple individual and collective action – like planting a tree – can transform a life, a community, our environment or launch a movement. The series is part of Tanya’s broader commitment to create art, writing and other projects that celebrate the inspiration, ideas and innovations from the movements for freedom, democracy and human rights that have touched her life and are transforming the world. Tanya has traveled extensively and has been the recipient of a number of prestigious fellowships, residencies and public service awards, including the 2017 Blue Mountain Center Visual Artist-in-Residence fellowship. She is also completing a book project entitled, Revolutionary Matters: How and Why Citizens are Becoming the Next Global Superpower. As an advocate and analyst, Tanya is dedicated to developing a new generation “globally minded, community‐centric” innovations in leadership, policy, law, citizen action, art, economic development and the social contract. She has designed and developed a number of initiatives focused on engaging one of the most pressing issues of our time ‐ what it means to build citizen and community power in an age of intensifying globalization(s). Tanya is an experienced analyst, executive and consultant in the areas of leadership, policy and innovation for the common good. Her work has helped a wide range of local, national and international partners and clients map their strategic priorities, understand and interpret increasingly interconnected global and local phenomena and manage emergent issues and opportunities. Tanya has an MBA from Barry University and a post-graduate certificate in international human rights law from Oxford University. She has previously managed a $20+ million community investment portfolio and is active in a diverse network of campaigns and initiatives in the areas of human rights, governance, policy, economic development, philanthropy and social justice.

The Hongs is a multinational electronic rock group formed by Jamaican-born musician, Gordon Myers. The Hongs have since become one of the most popular bands of the Miami music scene. Blending elements of electro-pop with nu-wave, creating a unique sound they are spreading the dance/rock/electro/house hybrid one toe at a time. Band Members include Gordon D. Myers (Bass/Vocals), Aaron Lebos (Guitar), Didi Gutman Brazilian Girls (Synth/Keyboard), Aaron “Abomb” Johnston Brazilian Girls (Drums/Vocals), Tony “Smurphio” Laurencio (Keyboards), and Ben Stivers (Keyboards).

Thom Wheeler Castillo lives and works in Miami, FL; Graduated from PNCA, Intermedia. Interested in landscape, environmentalism and ecosystems, he works from an interdisciplinary approach entwining art history, earth science and anthropology. He participated in the inaugural Commuter Biennial, supplanting advertisements on public buses with a series of handmade, editioned prints. He also produces works through experimentation and partnership that nurtures his studio practice, including being one-half of Archival Feedback (along with Emile Milgrim). The duo engage in various critical dialogues of the moment, approaching the environment as a studio in the field, producing sound works in a wide variety of mediums. Since 2021, he's embarked on cultural missions throughout the Caribbean region, working with Curator Rosie Gordon-Wallace and the Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator's International Cultural Exchanges (I.C.E). He is currently an Artist-In-Residence Studio Fellowship with DVCAI and a 2023 recipient of its Catalyst award. He works with various institutions throughout the region as an Educator including Perez Art Museum Miami, O, Miami Poetry Festival, HistoryMiami, A.I.R.I.E. (Artist in Residence in the Everglades), the Rubell Museum, and the Miami Design District.

Tyler Mitchell is a photographer and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, N.Y. He was born and raised in Atlanta, GA where he got his start making skate videos and taking pictures of music, fashion and youth culture. He received his BFA in Film and Television from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. His work has been featured in American Vogue, British Vogue, Teen Vogue, M Le Monde, i-D Magazine, AnOther Magazine, Dazed Magazine, Document Journal, The Guardian and The FADER. Selected clients include Calvin Klein, Prada, Mercedes Benz, Simone Rocha x Moncler, Marc Jacobs, Givenchy, Converse, Nike and Ray-Ban.

Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz is a nationally and internationally recognized award-winning interdisciplinary visual and performance artist. Through personal narratives and experiences, her work dissects cultural and social constructs designed to isolate, “herd” and manage Otherness. Needing the immediacy of a live audience she developed the Las Reinas (The Queens), a suite of allegorical self-portrait performances where she become imagined royal archetypes anchored in personal trauma. Most recently she debuted Exodus|Pilgrimage, an endurance performance addressing the forced migration of thousands of Puerto Ricans to the United States as a result of the current humanitarian crisis post-hurricane Mari, the artist dressed in attire made completely from debris recovered from the island.

Born and nurtured in Little Haiti, Florida, where he’s currently based, Woosler Delisfort is the living embodiment of creative essence rooted in the depths of heritage and community. Delisfort is a self-taught documentary photographer and filmmaker whose mission is to explore the core principles affecting the collective Human Spirit. His practice uses storytelling to weave together anecdotes and illuminate the realities of our world. Delisfort began his career documenting the emotion, humanity, and spirituality of Little Haiti’s citizens, hoping to replace negative stereotypes with images of joy, life, and creative expression. His work crosses into the borders of the Caribbean and West Africa, where he continues to examine the complexities of spirituality and communal ceremonies. His latest work, SANCTUARY: Our Sacred Place explores the spiritual origins of Miami’s Indigenous, African, and Caribbean communities by capturing moments of divine connection in temples, churches, and mosques. The more than 100-piece exhibition highlights how these cultures are harnessing sacred spaces in Miami as vital sources of life, both politically and spiritually. This project is part of a residency presented by the HistoryMiami’s Center for Photography and will be exhibited in August 2024. Delisfort is a past recipient of the Wavemaker Awards by Locust Projects through his collaboration with Third Horizon, and the Ellies Award, by Oolite Arts. He is a member of the Iris Collective and a board member of the Haitian Cultural Alliance

Yacine Tilala Fall is an interdisciplinary conceptual artist. Using natural materials, she investigates concepts of heritage, ritual, and function through performance, sculpture, painting and installation. Inspired by her Senegalese and Mauritanian heritage, her work and practice speak to the human body and its entangled relationship with labor, history, and faith. Fall received a BFA from the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design in 2019 and is a current MFA candidate at Yale School of Art.