Pérez Art Museum Miami Announces PAMM Presents, Featuring Global Platform HOMECOMING™ Curated by Grace Ladoja
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is pleased to announce PAMM Presents, the museum’s signature Miami Art Week celebration to take place on Thursday, December 5, 2024. This year’s edition will feature the global collective HOMECOMING™ curated by Grace Ladoja with an international lineup of Amaarae, DJ Tunez, and Dare Balogun, complemented with DJ sets by Miami’s very own music makers SATURNSARii, Kumi, and Lumin.
To RSVP, please email pamm@culturalcounsel.com.
Founded by music manager Grace Ladoja, HOMECOMING™ aims to connect Nigeria’s vibrant creative scene with the global cultural community. Launched in 2017, the annual festival bridges music, fashion, and art—fostering collaboration between local talents and international artists through live performances, panel discussions, pop-ups, and community-building activities.
“We’re thrilled to once again host PAMM Presents on Thursday of Art Week, this year with performances by Amaarae, DJ Tunez, and Dare Balogun under the creative guidance of cultural curator Grace Ladoja. And, we are especially excited to be showcasing the rising star talent Amaarae,” said PAMM Director Franklin Sirmans. “We take great pride in our commitment to make PAMM a hub for exceptional talent and diverse programming and this evening is just as important as our exhibitions every day—with a lineup that spans the globe from Miami to the world, we’re honored to bring together an international audience to experience our community in Miami and celebrate Art Week.”
PAMM Presents draws in over 4,000 guests annually to celebrate PAMM as a collecting institution with an ongoing mission to promote artistic expression and the exchange of ideas to advance public knowledge and appreciation of art, architecture, and design, while representing and cherishing the unique diversity of Miami-Dade. Through its exhibitions and programs, it aims to encourage everyone to see art as an incentive for genuine human interaction, communication, and exchange.
Throughout the evening, guests will also have the opportunity to view José Parlá: Homecoming, the Miami-born artist’s monumental exhibition including a site-specific mural painted on-site via a weekend-long live painting performance; Hurvin Anderson: Passenger Opportunity, a monumental sixteen-panel painting that culls from Caribbean immigration stories; Calida Rawles: Away with the Tides, which delves into the particular experience of Black people in Miami’s Overtown community; and Xican-a.o.x. Body, the first major exhibition to showcase work by Xicanx artists who foreground the body as a site of political agency and imagination, artistic investigation, decolonization, and alternative forms of community.
Other exhibitions on view at the museum include Jason Seife: Coming to Fruition, Every Sound is a Shape of Time, Kate Capshaw: Exclusive Tonsorial Services, Antonia Wright: State of Labor, and One Becomes Many.
PAMM Presents is by invitation only, open to PAMM Contemporary and above-level members. The event is also open to VIP pass holders to Art Miami + CONTEXT Art Miami, Design Miami, NADA Miami, Pinta Miami, SCOPE Art Show, Spectrum Miami & Red Dot Miami, and Untitled Art, Miami Beach. Quantities are limited for each fair. VIP cardholders must show a valid VIP pass along with a valid event ticket. Guests without event tickets and proper identification will be denied entry. Become a Contemporary or above-level member to receive your invitation.
WHAT
PAMM Presents HOMECOMING™ Curated by Grace Ladoja
WHERE
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) 1103 Biscayne Blvd. Miami, FL 33132
WHEN
Thursday, December 5, 2024 8–11pm
SPONSORS
Art Miami + Art Miami Context, BLESS Collection Hotels, and La Croix Sparkling Water
ABOUT HOMECOMING
HOMECOMING is a movement; igniting new cultural conversation and creative development across Africa. Our vision is to empower the continent’s young generation with the knowledge and resources they need to inspire and enable future innovation and growth.
ABOUT PAMM
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), led by Director Franklin Sirmans, promotes artistic expression and the exchange of ideas, advancing public knowledge and appreciation of art, architecture, and design, and reflecting the diverse community of its pivotal geographic location at the crossroads of the Americas. The 40-year-old South Florida institution, formerly known as Miami Art Museum (MAM), opened a new building, designed by world-renowned architects Herzog & de Meuron, on December 4, 2013, in Downtown Miami’s Maurice A. Ferré Park. The facility is a state-of-the-art model for sustainable museum design and progressive programming and features 200,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor program space with flexible galleries; shaded outdoor verandas; a waterfront restaurant and bar; a museum shop; and an education center with a library, media lab, and classroom spaces.