Pérez Art Museum Miami Receives $1 M. Gift from Mellon Foundation
The Pérez Art Museum Miami has been given a $1 million gift from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, a New York-based organization that regularly offers to fund to arts institutions across the United States.
“It’s something that is in our DNA, and we’ve been talking about this for a long time,” Franklin Sirmans, PAMM’s director, told ARTnews. “Now we’re really going to be able to move the dial.”
On Thursday, PAMM will open “The Other Side of Now: Foresight in Contemporary Caribbean Art,” a mini-survey that includes work by Deborah Anzinger, Angel Otero, Jamilah Sabur, and others. Such surveys have been rare in Miami-Dade County, which has the largest population of Caribbean immigrants in America.
In recent years, PAMM has hosted various exhibitions of Caribbean art, but Sirmans said the Caribbean Cultural Institute will help to round out its programming. “It’s a new way of thinking for the institution: the creation of new knowledge and acknowledging we don’t know everything,” he said. “We’re looking to expand on that.”