Virtual Programs

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AIRIE Asks

AIRIE Asks
T. Eliott Mansa

An intimate look at T. Eliott Mansa’s practice, process, and month-long stay in the Florida Everglades. Interviewed by guest moderator Melissa Hunter Davis, creator of Sugarcane Magazine, Mansa discussed in depth his research on the history of the Black Maroons of Florida, the Seminole Maroons, and Seminole Freedmen coming to the Florida swamps seeking liberation.

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Alejandro Rodriguez

In conversation with curator & cultural worker Zee Lopez Del Carmen and Everglades National Park Rangers, Rodriguez reflected on his time in residency at Everglades National Park. This in-depth and illuminating conversation explored the impact of AIRIE and ENP's partnership, the importance of the Everglades, as well as some work in progress from Rodriguez himself.

AIRIE Asks + Listening Party
Sydney Maubert & Atéha Bailly

On July 29th, AIRIE held “Queen of the Swamp” a two-part event with June and July AIRIE fellows Sydney Maubert and Atéha Bailly in Everglades National Park. This event includes an AIRIE Asks conversation with the artists as well as a musical performance by Atéha.

AIRIE 2024 Residency Informational

The AIRIE Team discusses the 2024 application process and the AIRIE residency followed by a Q&A.

AIRIE Asks
Diana Eusebio & Khari Turner

Diana Eusebio and Khari Turner in a special in-person conversation where they reflect on their residency in the Everglades. Hosted by Arsimmer McCoy and Cornelius Tulloch.

AIRIE 2023 Residency Informational

AIRIE Residency Coordinator, Arsimmer McCoy, shares information on the application process, residency, and her time in the Everglades. Followed by a Q&A.

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Kunya Rowley

Kunya Rowley in conversation with associate professor of musicology Dr. Melvin Butler as they reflect on Rowley’s September residency in the Everglades hosted by Residency Coordinator, Arsimmer McCoy.

AIRIE Asks
Arsimmer McCoy

Watch AIRIE Fellow Arsimmer McCoy in conversation with filmmaker Faren Humes as they reflect on McCoy's February residency in the Everglades. They discussed her experience during the residency and her project 'Homecoming', in which she invited voices from her Black community to connect with the voices of the Indigenous communities in the Everglades.

AIRIE Asks
Cornelius Tulloch

Hear from visual artist and AIRIE Fellow Cornelius Tulloch in conversation with Luisa Múnera, Associate Curator at YoungArts.

They reflect on Cornelius' January 2022 residency in Everglades National Park in which he worked to re-imagine transatlantic narratives of Black histories, cultures, and bodies within the Everglades, exploring influences from the Florida Highwaymen.

Meet the 2022 AIRIE Fellows

Meet the 2022 AIRIE Fellows! Hear from artists Germane Barnes, Lola Flash, Maya Freelon, Ania Freer, M. Carmen Lane, Arsimmer McCoy, Meg Ojala, Kunya Rowley, and Cornelius Tulloch as they discuss their current work, plans for their AIRIE residencies, and expectations about the Everglades.

Moderated by AIRIE Board Member Tommy Ralph Pace.

AIRIE Asks
Yukio Suzuki + Juraj Kojš

Japanese dancer and choreographer Yukio Suzuki and Slovakian-born, Miami-based composer, sound/multimedia artist, performer, researcher and educator Juraj Kojš, discuss their collaboration on Cross Pollination, a performance art piece presented on April 17 in the Everglades National Park. Moderated by Dale Andree, AIRIE Fellow and Founder and Director of National Water Dance Projects. In partnership with PAXy.

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Kory Reeder

Composer Kory Reeder (2021 AIRIE Fellow) in conversation with Miami-based artist, Thom Wheeler Castillo (2016 AIRIE Fellow). They reflect on Kory's June residency in Everglades National Park in which he collected field recordings of various locations around the park, capturing audio snapshots and investigating human and non-human interactions within our shared environment.

AIRIE In Conversation
Pedro Ramos, Superintendent of Everglades and Dry Tortugas National Parks

AIRIE Board Co-Chair T. Robertson Carter in conversation with Pedro Ramos, Superintendent of Everglades and Dry Tortugas National Parks. In the first of a three-part series on diversity and inclusion, listeners will learn about AIRIE’s unique partnership with Everglades National Park and the impact artists can have on creating a more accessible environment through their work as interpreters and communicators.

AIRIE Asks
Elizabeth Withstandley

Watch L.A.-based artist Elizabeth Withstandley, January’s AIRIE Fellow, for a conversation with Miami-based artist Adler Guerrier. They will discuss Withstandley’s experiences during her residency where she explored the identity of the Everglades through its stories, myths, legends, and truths.

AIRIE Asks
Alliance of the Southern Triangle

Get to know AIRIE's 2021 Research Fellows --- Alliance of the Southern Triangle (A.S.T.). In this presentation you will be introduced to A.S.T.'s body of work through conversation and their visual aesthetics. During their year-long research fellowship, A.S.T. will be exploring the theme Water as a Distributed System.

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Onajide Shabaka

Artist Onajide Shabaka discusses his practice and what he hopes to accomplish during his return residency in the Everglades. Inspired by the landscape, Shabaka says, "I have forged a path for my artistic interests that challenges the status quo, especially the exclusivity, hermeticism and austerity of the white cubic gallery space. At the same time, my work, in its engagement with nature, history, technology, and ritual allows the viewers to experience a more holistic view of the world."

AIRIE Asks
Rebecca Reeve

Rebecca Reeve is a British multidisciplinary artist based in New York. Working in sculpture, painting, and photography she produces site-specific temporal works in the natural environment, often using familial household objects to frame the scene. The landscape and biological rhythms are a source for investigation and perceptual experimentation in her lush, photographic works.

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Dara Friedman

For the inaugural episode, AIRIE Asks Dara Friedman, the internationally renowned, Miami-based artist and filmmaker, to share her experience as the artist-in-residence in January 2020. Dara Friedman is a German-born artist and filmmaker working in Miami. With a background in structural film and dance, Friedman’s cinema calls for a radical reduction of the medium to its most essential material properties. This conversation took place on Earth Day, April 22, 2020.

AIRIE In Conversation
UNTITLED, ART

Artists in Residence in Everglades (AIRIE, @airieglades) and UNTITLED, ART (@untitledartfair) present a conversation between artist Rebecca Reeve and Helen Toomer about the impact Reeve's 2012 residency in the Everglades National Park had on her photographic practice. They discuss Reeve's current work, new benefit editions and what she hopes to accomplish during her AIRIE alumni residency in February 2021.

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Dorian Emerson Munroe

The first in the AIRIE Asks series, Dorian Emerson Munroe is a first-generation local Miami creative, born to Caribbean parents who migrated from Guyana, South America. A recent winner of the Oolite Documentary Block Contest Grant, Dorian now looks to immersively showcase the animals, people, and plants of the Everglades.