Resident artist Lauryn Lawrence is photographed inside her studio at the Tunnel Projects, a multifaceted art space dedicated to supporting local artists on Saturday, April 11, 2026, in Little Havana, Miami, Florida.
Carl Juste
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Looking unsure and a bit lost, VIPs from the Institute of Contemporary Art in Miami straggle into the dim underground garage of a nondescript Little Havana strip mall on a recent Saturday morning. They’re here for a tour, but can this be the right place?
It is.
Featured artist Sterling Rook, 42, left, talks with Drew Eccleston, 35, right, as he and other ICA cohorts are given a tour of the Tunnel Projects, a multifaceted art space dedicated to supporting local artists on Saturday, April 11, 2026, in Little Havana. Carl Juste cjuste@miamiherald.com 
Alex Gartenfeld, ICA Miami artistic director, center/right, speaks with artists as museum cohorts gather for a tour of Tunnel Projects, an art space dedicated to supporting local artists, on Saturday, April 11, 2026, in Little Havana, Miami. Carl Juste cjuste@miamiherald.com
This is the home of Tunnel Projects, Miami’s newest, most unlikely — and perhaps buzziest — center for art-making and exhibition. Rarely before has a name so perfectly captured the look and feel of an endeavor that has, almost surreptitiously, dug its way into a space where it’s not supposed to be.
“It’s underground, literally and figuratively,” said Sterling Rook, a Miami multimedia artist whose show of silkscreened images, “Shupingagua,” his Peruvian mother’s Indigenous family name, is on display through April 25 in the Tunnel’s compact parking-garage gallery. “It’s kind of the allure. It feels like you’re on the ground floor of a new thing.”
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Mix discipline artist David Correa, 27, takes a moment to gather his thoughts as he waits for the arrival of ICA cohorts at the Tunnel Projects, a multifaceted art space dedicated to supporting local artists on Saturday, April 11, 2026, in Little Havana, Miami, Florida. Carl Juste cjuste@miamiherald.com 
ICA artistic director Alex Gartenfeld, center, waves to other museum cohorts as they assembled at the underground garage for a tour of the Tunnel Projects, a multifaceted art space dedicated to supporting local artists on Saturday, April 11, 2026, in Little Havana, Miami, Florida. Carl Juste cjuste@miamiherald.com 
Resident artist David Olivera describes his art practice while waiting for ICA cohorts during a tour of the Tunnel Projects, a multifaceted art space dedicated to supporting local artists on Saturday, April 11, 2026, in Little Havana, Miami, Florida. Carl Juste cjuste@miamiherald.com 
Resident artist Marie Franco describes her art practice while waiting for ICA cohorts during a tour of the Tunnel Projects, a multifaceted art space dedicated to supporting local artists on Saturday, April 11, 2026, in Little Havana, Miami, Florida. Carl Juste cjuste@miamiherald.com 
Fharid Latorre is one of the fifteen resident artists of the Tunnel Projects, a multifaceted art space dedicated to supporting local artists on Saturday, April 11, 2026, in Little Havana, Miami, Florida. Carl Juste cjuste@miamiherald.com 
Resident artist Fharid Latorre works out of his studio at the Tunnel Projects, a multifaceted art space dedicated to supporting local artists on Saturday, April 11, 2026, in Little Havana, Miami, Florida. Carl Juste cjuste@miamiherald.com 
Resident artist Shelby Slayden explains her art practice as ICA cohorts visited her Tunnel Projects studio, a multifaceted art space dedicated to supporting local artists on Saturday, April 11, 2026, in Little Havana, Miami, Florida. Carl Juste cjuste@miamiherald.com 
Resident artists Shelby Slayden, left, and Lauryn Lawrence talk in their studio at Tunnel Projects as ICA cohorts visit during a tour of the art space in Little Havana, Miami, Saturday, April 11, 2026. Carl Juste cjuste@miamiherald.com 
A detail map is displayed outside of the Tunnel Projects, a multifaceted art space dedicated to supporting local artists on Saturday, April 11, 2026, in Little Havana, Miami, Florida. Carl Juste cjuste@miamiherald.com 
Tour participants exist the underground garage of the Tunnel Projects, a multifaceted art space dedicated to supporting local artists on Saturday, April 11, 2026, in Little Havana, Miami, Florida. Carl Juste cjuste@miamiherald.com
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