Atlantic World Art Fair 2022 Curator's Choice with Rosie Gordon-Wallace and Albertine Kopp
Rosie Gordon-Wallace is a recognized curator, arts advocate, community leader, and pioneer in advancing contemporary diaspora art. She founded the Diaspora Vibe Culture Arts Incubator (DVCAI) to serve as a local and global laboratory dedicated to promoting, nurturing and cultivating the vision and diverse talents of emerging artists from the Caribbean Diaspora, artists of color, and immigrant artists.
Albertine Kopp is an independent cultural worker. She has extensive experience in the creative industries and outreach with artists, corporations, and institutions. She works as an independent consultant for cultural projects and is the founder Caribbean Art Initiative, a non-profit program funded in 2019, that supports and promotes contemporary art from across the Caribbean.
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Rosie Gordon-Wallace is a recognized curator, arts advocate, community leader, and pioneer in advancing contemporary diaspora art. She founded the Diaspora Vibe Culture Arts Incubator (DVCAI) to serve as a local and global laboratory dedicated to promoting, nurturing and cultivating the vision and diverse talents of emerging artists from the Caribbean Diaspora, artists of color, and immigrant artists. Twenty-five years later, DVCAI is recognized as a global resource and one of the region’s leading platforms dedicated to providing diaspora artists with a venue to explore and experiment with new forms and themes that challenge traditional definitions of the Caribbean and Latin American art. DVCAI artists have traveled and engaged in conversations with artists in France, Barbados, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Antigua, Suriname, Belize, and Guadeloupe. In addition to her service on several prominent boards, she is an active member of the PAMM Fund for African American Art and serves on The Cultural Affairs grant panels for Miami Dade County and Florida’s Department of Cultural Affairs. She serves on the Museum Association of the Caribbean curatorial selection board. Her awards include the Knight Foundation Cultural Award, The African Heritage Cultural Arts Center Third Annual Calabash Amadlozi Visual Arts Award, International Businesswoman of the Year, One of South Florida’s 50 Most Powerful Black Professionals to name a few. Her most recent curation of Inter | Sectionality: Diaspora Art from The Creole City opened at the Corcoran Art in DC and traveled to the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Art + Culture then to The Miami Design District. Illuminate Coral Gables: A City Looks to Light; a temporary Outdoor Public Art Project included Rosie on the curatorial team with Lance Fung. Chromatic Cogitations: Rhythm Reboot highlighted thirty Denver artists at Redline Contemporary Art Center that opened in Denver Colorado through to February 2022. Starting the new year in Miami with Order My Steps: there are no answers here curating for Oolite Arts and featuring Roscoe B. Thicke, photographer. DVCAI continues to provoke and catalyze artistic conversations in Miami with her at the helm.
Albertine Kopp is an independent cultural worker. She has extensive experience in the creative industries and outreach with artists, corporations, and institutions. She works as an independent consultant for cultural projects and is the founder Caribbean Art Initiative, a non-profit program funded in 2019, that supports and promotes contemporary art from across the Caribbean. Through her previous role at Davidoff Art Initiative, she was able to promote Caribbean arts at international art fairs, including Art Basel, Venice Biennale, Frieze, ARCO. She also connected local artists to institutions in New York, London, Berlin, Beijing and Bogota and created different artist residencies exchange that allowed various international artists to work. Her work was recognized with the European Corporate Art Awards in 2017. Prior to the Caribbean Art Initiative and becoming independent, Kopp worked with Volta Show, Deutsche Bank Collection and Louis Vuitton Communications in New York, Paris and Frankfurt. Albertine is on the board of Kunsthalle Basel and the steering committee of the Caribbean Cultural Fund.
