The Container Project: What’s in Your Container?
OPENING RECEPTION: November 20, 2025, 6PM to 9PM
DVCAI at Barry University
Experience The Container Project, a curatorial initiative exploring the personal and collective histories of containment, memory, and resilience within Caribbean diasporic communities.
Curated by Rosie Gordon-Wallace and Breeana Thorne, this exhibition asks: What’s in Your Container? Through the lens of the shipping container—a vessel of movement, migration, and memory—19 artists transform grief, care, and cultural legacy into acts of preservation and renewal.
TONIGHT: November 20 | 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Opening Reception with featured performance TUAPUTI by Asser Saint-Val and Jessica Freites at 7:00 PM
SATURDAY: Saturday, November 22 | 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Performance of Telegraph Valley by L.A. Samuelson, followed by conversation with Dr. Alix Pierre
Featured Artists: Rimaj Barrientos, Jevon Alexander Brown, Patricia Cooke, Michael Elliott, Natou Fall, Rosa Naday Garmendia, Miguel Keerveld, Shayla Marshall, Sydney Rose Maubert, Lance Minto-Strouse, Shawna Moulton, Kurt Nahar, Amarachi Odimba, Evelyn Politzer, L.A. Samuelson, Asser Saint-Val with Jessica Freites, Clara Toro, and Leandro Vazquez.
| This exhibition is presented by Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator (DVCAI) in partnership with the Barry University Institute of Immigration Studies and the Monsignor William Barry Library. Telegraph Valley is a National Performance Network Creation & Development Fund Project supported by the Doris Duke Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Special thanks to Victor Romano, PhD, Vice Provost for Student Success & Undergraduate Studies, Giselle Elgarresta Rios, PhD, Endowed Chair of the Monsignor Bryan O. Walsh Institute for Immigration Studies, and Vivica Smith Pierre, MLIS, PhD, Director of Library Services at the Monsignor William Barry Library. |
| Accessibility and Accommodation: The exhibition venue is accessible. To request materials in an accessible format at least five days in advance, please contact Rosie Gordon-Wallace, DVCAI President |Curator at [email protected] or by phone at (305) 542-4277. |
| About The Monsignor William Barry Library at Barry University Located in the center of Barry University’s Miami Shores campus, the Library is named in loving memory of Monsignor William Barry, one of its founders and an inspirational figure in the Catholic Church within the Archdiocese of Miami. Vivica Smith Pierre, MLIS, PhD, Director of Library Services, an accomplished educator, academic librarian, and researcher, leads the library’s administration and vision. |
| About Barry University Institute of Immigration Studies A gift from Max and Ester Alvarez ’71 and family made it possible to endow the position of Giselle Rios, PhD, Founding Director, to guide and implement the vision of the Institute. As Rios, professor of music, assistant chair of fine arts, and now endowed chair of the Monsignor Bryan O. Walsh Institute for Immigration Studies, Though the institute isn’t a brick-and-mortar building, the ideas and research behind it give scholars and students the ability to study the immigration experience in South Florida and to identify ways to better that experience for the state’s roughly 4.5 million immigrants. |
| About DVCAI Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator, Inc. is a virtual artist space dedicated to promoting, nurturing, and cultivating the vision and diverse creativity of emerging artists from the Caribbean and Latin American Diaspora through experimentation, exhibitions, artists-in-residence programs, international cultural exchanges, and dialogue in contemporary art. www.dvcai.org. DVCAI partners with organizations to enhance residency experiences in the Caribbean region, nationally, and internationally. For more information, please visit www.dvcai.org and follow our activities at https://www.instagram.com/dvcai/ https://twitter.com/DiasporaVibe. |
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