Summer Open 2026

Dona Altemus is a Miami native and interdisciplinary artist with a sculptural practice that explores labor and structure through construction-based processes rooted in material experimentation. Altemus has participated in the Deering Estate Artist-in -Residence Program in 2025/2024 and the Keyholder residency at IS Projects in 2021. She has been awarded the Miami Individual Artists Stipend from the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs in 2022 and the Delaware Public Humanities Institute Fellowship from the University of Delaware in 2017 where she earned her MFA. She has been included in group exhibitions including “Draw: Point to Point” at the Frost Museum of Art in 2023 and the AIM biennial in 2020.

Lucia Aquino is a Miami-based visual artist whose practice has evolved from murals and painting into sculpture and installation. Her work draws from industrial environments and construction processes, shaped by nearly a decade working in warehouse spaces in New Orleans. She is of Salvadoran and Midwestern American heritage, which informs her interest in labor, hands-on construction, working materials, and material-driven processes. Working primarily with concrete, metal, and increasingly ceramics, she creates sculptural forms that explore structure, endurance, and the physical act of making.

Jevon Alexander Brown is a multidisciplinary artist based in Miami, Florida. He graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Textiles. A native Miamian of Bahamian, Jamaican, and Black Southern heritage, Brown draws inspiration from the intersections of identity, community, and belonging. He creates bold, immersive spaces—both ethnographic and physical—where sensation, memory, and history intertwine to give fullness to untold stories. His work intimately explores Black masculine kindred spaces, drawing on fashion, painting, collage, interior design, silkscreen printing, dyeing, embellishment, and photography. Within these environments, heirlooms and cultural icons transcend their traditional contexts, defying pattern, gravity, and personal history, each fiber imbued with meaning. Brown uses textiles to weave narratives that connect his Miami, Caribbean, and Black Southern diasporas. Every thread of his fabric installations pulses with Black queer affirmations, symbols, and colors. Drawing inspiration from popular culture, Caribbean poetry, and queer "yardie" dynamics, his practice challenges conventional spaces of belonging, creating room for Black men to explore their identities, experiences, and expressions of masculinity. Brown’s work has been exhibited in institutions such as the Klima Wien Biennale in Vienna, Austria; the University of Miami Lowe Art Museum; The Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida; and the Centrum Foundation in Port Townsend, Washington. He has been featured in Dwell Magazine’s "24 Global Emerging Designers" list and Frieze Digital Art Basel 2023. He was also awarded the inaugural Eleanor Merritt Fellowship at The Ringling Museum of Art. His residencies include Project Art (Miami), the Centrum Foundation (Washington), and most recently completed, the Oolite Arts Resident Artist program in Miami Beach.

Agua Dulce Gloriosa is a queer, neurodivergent, and transdisciplinary artist, community organizer, and energy worker born and based in Miami, FL. They hold two Bachelor's degrees, in Psychology and Art History, from Florida International University and creates via performance, assemblage, installations, poetry, metal, ceramics, tattoo, and sound. Agua’s practice is influenced by community organizing, transformative justice, and a deep commitment to exploring themes of memory, identity, and ancestral connection. Their initiation into sound healing began through mentorship by Guadalupe Maravilla, and their apprenticeship in metalworking has developed under the wisdom of Sterling Rook. Their work integrates intuitive connections with ancestors, spiritual practices related to the land, and a diverse range of mediums to cultivate a liberatory expressive practice. Agua is an Associate Artist at the Bakehouse Art Complex. They were a 2024-25 ProjectArt Resident Teaching Artist, and a Resident Artist at Oolite Arts Project Space for 2024. Agua has received an Ellie’s Creator Award in 2023 for a series in metalwork, and two MIA Art Grants (2024, 2025). They have shown work in art institutions and festivals in Miami and abroad including: ICA Miami, ICA Richmond, NADA Art Fair, Satellite Art Fair, MOCA, Oolite, OMiami, Airie, BFI, Commissioner, Deering Estate, The Bass Museum, Mana Contemporary Art Museum, Edge Zones, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Aspen Ideas, and more. Agua is a trained circle keeper through Fanm Saj. Additionally, they previously served as the Narrative Teaching Artist for ICA Miami (2022-2023) and as a Healing Educator for The Healing and Justice Center (2022). They have collaborated with community organizations such as The Alliance for LGBTQ Youth, WeCount!, and Miami Workers Center, and were a member of the queer feminist art collective Fempower.

Jonathan Melo is a Miami-born multi-discplinary artist that establishes cultural gatherings through forms stacked with material mythology and visual dialogue. Arising from experimentation, Melo’s practice fuses Indigenous traditions with present gestures like acts of cooking, and material transformation. Corn, cochineal and agave are reshaped through heat, chemistry, and hand. Melos’ practice moves with the cyclical changes in material. Through sculpture and installation, he dialogues with indigenous technologies, allowing objects to settle into temporal compositions that tell their mythology. He holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Anthony Magnetti is a sculptural based-artist that prioritizes using locally sourced discarded materials. Usually found on the side of the road or at construction sites in a kind of urban mining approach. The resulting works are portraits of the cities from which the materials hail and underscore the aesthetic tastes, values, and embedded memories inherent to the places. Magnetti graduated with a Masters of Fine Art degree from the University of Miami focusing on ceramic as a primary material. Raised in the rugged beauty of Southern Utah's deserts he cultivated a deep appreciation for nature leading him to a twelve year long career as a wildland firefighter. In 2020, Magnetti made the decision to transition from the USDA Forest Service to pursue his art full-time and currently divides his time between Ogden, UT, and South Beach, FL, where he continues to create thought-provoking artworks that reflect his deep connection to nature and his commitment to environmental stewardship.

Leticia Sanchez Toledo is a Cuban painter whose work reflects a refined personal vision shaped by years of study and exploration. She graduated in 2013 from the prestigious Instituto Superior de Diseño (ISDI) in Havana, where she developed a disciplined approach to composition and a sensitivity to color and light. Raised in a family of artists, she was immersed from an early age in an environment that encouraged experimentation, dialogue, and respect for craftsmanship. Now based in Miami, Sánchez Toledo has evolved her practice, translating formative influences into a body of work both intimate and resonant. Her paintings are recognized for their poetic focus on the female figure, whose inner worlds emerge through layers of atmosphere and tone. A fascination with cinema informs her narrative style, allowing her canvases to resemble stills from unspoken stories. Through her art, she examines dimensions of identity, particularly women’s lives.

Victoria Ravelo is a Cuban-American interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Miami, FL. Her practice spans installation, photography, drawing, and sculpture, rooted in the landscape and communities of the Cuban diaspora. She holds an MFA from Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University. She serves as adjunct faculty at the University of Miami and Florida International University, and as an educator at the Pérez Art Museum Miami, where she develops digital accessibility content to make contemporary art more accessible to the public. Ravelo is a 2025 Individual Artist Grant recipient through the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs. Her work is the subject of an essay in Nourish and Resist: Food and Feminisms in Contemporary Global Caribbean Art, published by Yale University Press (2024), and has been exhibited in "Meditations on Waking Up" through Tunnel Projects in Miami's Design District and "poemas de sal y tierra" at Homework Gallery in collaboration with Forgotten Lands (2025). She held a residency at Yaddo in 2023 and created a collaborative artwork at Project Row Houses in Houston (Oct 2022–Feb2023). Her practice is grounded in deep community engagement, including collaborative organizing and ongoing research into how spiritual knowledge moves across diasporic communities.