New Atlantis Opens at Green Space

October 17, 2025

Continuing Green Space Miami’s focus on elevating and preserving Miami’s culture, the 2025 open call invited artists to submit proposals that recognize and celebrate the communities that built this city. Communities prevailing, singing, dancing and speaking their language while development slowly paves over. A city subsiding under the weight of its own skyline, eroded by geological and economic forces, a mosaic melting into something new – a new Atlantis.

7200 Biscayne Boulevard
Unit A and Unit B
Miami, FL 33138

Plato’s Atlantis is an enduring myth about a thriving utopia that swiftly disappeared beneath the waves. Atlantis was in fact an allegory about a rapidly advancing society crumbling under its own hubris. A political parable for Athenians, on vigilance in upholding democratic values, an illustration of governance adrift.

How did Miami become this relevant so young? A tourist playground rapidly populated by immigrants that became a city. Now a metropolis with a reputation perpetuated by tourists, replenished by ongoing waves of migration. Misunderstood, mocked, revered, feared, Miami doesn’t go unnoticed, yet its definition remains elusive. Amongst shifting sands and rising tides, descendants of the people who built Miami are carrying on in places spared glamorization by Miami Vice and Vice City, sustaining their culture and shaping Miami’s identity.

A special thank you to punk legend and Miami resident for over two decades, Iggy Pop, who kindly gave Green Space Miami his blessing to include his ode to Miami, a song titled New Atlantis, as a prompt for the artists:

NEW ATLANTIS
Song and lyrics by Iggy Pop

Somewhere south of Alabama and north of Cuba
There lies a beautiful whore of a city
She accepts all donations and attracts an endless stream of lovers

Colombian pushers and murderers
American swindlers and Slavic thugs
Because here a man can be himself
But now, she′s sinking into the sea

New Atlantis, lying low
New Atlantis, sinking slow
New Atlantis, dumb as dirt
New Atlantis, she’s a flirt

As her doom became apparent
Her magic only accelerated
Because people are desperate
For love and beauty

You and I are designed for love
Love, there is no chance of
The Earth is ready to detonate
In a fire of imperial emptiness

New Atlantis, lying low
New Atlantis, sinking slow
New Atlantis, dumb as dirt
New Atlantis, she′s a flirt
New Atlantis, lying low

2025 Grantees

Priscilla Aleman
Jason Aponte
Elisa Benedetti
Diana-Eusebio
Heaven Jones
Shayla Marshall
Phillip Norville
Cristina Maingrette
Alan David Mejia
Luna Palazzolo Daboul
Kandi and Katie Stirman
Julia Zurilla

2024 Grantees

Alexander Zastera
Cara Despain
Chris Friday
John DeFaro
Josh Aronson
MaiYap
Ọmọlará Williams McCallister
Pangea Kali Virga
Sheherazade Thenard
Tony Chirinos

2023 Grantees

Asser Saint-Val
Carolina Cueva
Dudley Alexis
Enma Saiz
Jacob Stiltner
Karla Kantorovich
María Gabriela Chérrez
The Premonition Bureau
Sydney Maubert
Xiomara Forbez

2022 Grantees

Cornelius Tulloch
Diana Eusebio
Arsimmer Mccoy
Lauren Baccus Lyzbeth Lara & Prem Lorenzen
Morel Doucet
Nicolle Nyariri
Daniella Silvera
Stefanie Paredes
Lauren Shapiro
Coralina Rodriguez Meer
Diego Waisman

2021 Grantees

Alexander Zastera
Cara Despain
Chris Friday
John DeFaro
Josh Aronson
MaiYap
Ọmọlará Williams McCallister
Pangea Kali Virga
Sheherazade Thenard
Tony Chirinos