Thank you for joining us for the special hybrid AIRIE Asks where we took a deep dive with January AIRIE Fellow Diana Eusebio and March AIRIE Fellow Khari Turner. Hosted by Green Space Miami and facilitated by our Residency Coordinator Arsimmer McCoy and Creative Director Cornelius Tulloch.
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 be a catalyst for action around critical social issues, collaborating with community partners and educational institutions. More about Green Space Miami.
Diana Eusebio is a Peruvian-Dominican multidisciplinary artist based in Miami, Florida. In a practice that spans wearable garments, textiles, and photography, Eusebio researches Black and Latinx diasporic stories and Pre-Columbian textile traditions. Her pieces employ color as a means to honor indigenous natural dyeing techniques and recontextualize our reciprocal connection to the natural world. By combining ancestral and modern processes such as natural dyeing and digital textile printing, her work catalogs a powerful record of contemporary Afro-Latinx and Indigenous history. More about Diana.
Khari Turner is an emerging artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Khari is currently living in Brooklyn, NY after finishing his residency in Stockholm, Sweden with CFHILL gallery. His early inspiration was his grandfather that worked as a draftsman drawing small images that Khari would recreate at an early age. Growing up in Milwaukee, his landscape consisted of vast nature and dense cityscapes fighting amongst a city well known for its continued segregation. This created a relationship with Black people, water, and his environment that plays a major role in his work now. More about Khari.
Cornelius Tulloch, AIRIE Creative Director, is a Miami-based interdisciplinary artist and designer. With work transcending the barriers of architecture, visual art, and photography, Tulloch focuses on how creative mediums can be combined to tell powerful stories. With inspiration from his Jamaican and African American heritage, his work expresses how bodies exist between cultures, borders, and characteristics to create spatial impact. More about Cornelius.
Arsimmer McCoy, AIRIE Residency Coordinator, is a Miami Gardens, Florida-based storyteller, collaborative artist, educator, and cultural worker, who has been dedicated to these disciplines for over a decade. Raised in Richmond Heights, Florida, McCoy earned her Bachelor’s degree in Arts and literature at Florida Memorial University. She has performed around the world, alongside artists of multiple disciplines and considers it her obligation to bring back the knowledge and stories to her students in South Florida. McCoy produces work in the form of poetry, short story literature, creative writing, performance, educational workshops, and creative direction. More about Arsimmer.
Photos courtesy of AIRIE and our artists.