{"id":70430,"date":"2025-12-04T01:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T01:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/70430\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T01:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T01:19:10","slug":"soul-basel-links-wildlife-loss-and-black-community-displacement-in-overtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/70430\/","title":{"rendered":"Soul Basel links wildlife loss and Black community displacement in Overtown"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Humans have more in common with animals than many would like to admit \u2014 even in how we move. A new three-day art activation in Miami highlights the connections between human migration and animal displacement through an array of murals.<\/p>\n

\u201cKindred Spirits,\u201d\u00a0a\u00a0Soul Basel public-art activation<\/a>, draws parallels between wildlife habitat loss and the displacement of Black communities, such as the I-95 expansion in the 1960s that uprooted 12,000 Black residents.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of the people who are educated, more upwardly mobile and successful ended up leaving the community,\u201d said Miami native artist Nate Dee, an FIU alum who is an influential artist in South Florida\u2019s art scene.<\/p>\n

Featuring roughly 8-by-8-foot outdoor murals \u2014 paintings, photography, mixed media, plants and textiles \u2014 and a sculpture garden installed along the 9th Street Pedestrian Mall in Historic Overtown, the activation seeks to elicit larger questions about how the community can \u201cadapt\u201d after losing so much of its history to\u00a0crushing politics and public policy.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd how do we take what we have, who\u2019s here, and kind of foster it and grow it so that the community isn\u2019t completely lost?\u201d Dee added.<\/p>\n

To activate the outdoor space, curator Bart Mervil invited eight renowned artists to display their work. The project is a partnership between Mervil\u2019s nonprofit MUSE 305 and Historic Overtown\u2019s Soul Basel. Artists include Edouard Duval Carrie, Oscar Martinez, Inna Malostovker, Tawana Dixon, Rico Melvin, Jose Wesly and Nica Sweets.<\/p>\n

Dee says the exhibition urges coexistence as redevelopments impact people and endangered animals. The exhibition, he adds, centers on both the craft of the murals and the theme of environmental protection.<\/p>\n

For Dee, his art stems from the\u00a0leafwing butterfly, which is federally listed as endangered. Its historic pine rockland habitat in Miami-Dade and Monroe counties is fragmented, and the butterfly survives mainly in Everglades National Park. Dee said, much like human migration, animal displacement occurs for several historical reasons working in tandem.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd that one [leafwing butterfly] specifically is endangered because of habitat loss and because of climate, because of development, and also because of invasive species,\u201d Dee said. \u201cWhich all could be connected.\u201d<\/p>\n

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IF YOU GO
What: Kindred Spirits
When:\u00a0December 4th through December 6th
Where: Ninth Street Pedestrian Mall in Overtown: NW 9th Street, Miami, FL 33136
More details\u00a0here<\/a><\/p>\n

\"John<\/a><\/p>\n

JOHN PACENTI is a correspondent of the Key Biscayne Independent. John has worked for The Associated Press, the Palm Beach Post, Daily Business Review, and WPTV-TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Humans have more in common with animals than many would like to admit \u2014 even in how we…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[40690,589,3086,225,227,226,40691],"class_list":{"0":"post-70430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-art-base","9":"tag-featured","10":"tag-free","11":"tag-hialeah","12":"tag-hialeah-headlines","13":"tag-hialeah-news","14":"tag-overtowm"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}