This was the first hybrid AIRIE Asks of the 2024 year with January Fellow, Morel Doucet, born in 1990 in Pilate, Haiti, a Miami-based multidisciplinary artist and arts educator. Drawing from his Haitian roots, Doucet explores climate gentrification, migration, and displacement within Black diaspora communities using ceramics, illustrations, and prints. He reflected on his time in residency at Everglades National Park and shared an intimate look at his practice, process, and month-long stay in the Florida Everglades. Doucet was in conversation with Melissa Hunter Davis, the founder of Sugarcane Magazine, an internationally lauded digital and print platform dedicated to global Black art and culture. Hunter Davis now has an art book, featuring work and conversations by established and emerging black artists from all over the world. This was a free event hosted by Green Space Miami.

Green Space Miami is the Green Family Foundation’s new art space. Guided by the Foundation’s principles of inclusion, community empowerment, and education, Green Space Miami centers marginalized stories at the intersections of lived experience, hosted in a space for dialogue. Green Space Miami’s mission is to catalyze action around critical social issues, collaborating with community partners and educational institutions. More about Green Space Miami.