{"id":89585,"date":"2025-12-19T18:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/89585\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T18:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:52:09","slug":"pamms-caribbean-cultural-institute-receives-5-million-gift-for-new-partnership-with-fiu-arts-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/89585\/","title":{"rendered":"PAMM\u2019s Caribbean Cultural Institute receives $5 million gift for new partnership with FIU | Arts Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"

The P\u00e9rez Art Museum Miami this month\u00a0announced\u00a0<\/a>receiving a gift totaling $5 million from the Green Family Foundation to support its Caribbean Cultural Institute, a program that advances the study of Caribbean art connecting the region to the U.S. The institute is being renamed The Green Family Foundation Caribbean Cultural Institute.<\/p>\n

Kimberly Green and Iberia Per\u00e9z Gonzal\u00e9z, members of the Green Family Foundation and the Caribbean Cultural Institute, respectively, told WLRN that preservation is something deeply important for people in the arts and they hope to keep the importance of Caribbean artists alive.<\/p>\n

While the donation benefits the PAMM, it also helps with younger artists at Florida International University, allowing them access to the extensive Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center.<\/p>\n

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Iberia P\u00e9rez Gonz\u00e1lez is the Andrew W. Mellon Caribbean Cultural Institute Curatorial Associate at P\u00e9rez Art Museum Miami.<\/p>\n

(Courtesy P\u00e9rez Art Museum Miami )<\/p>\n

\u201cCCI is just really one of a kind,\u201d said Gonzal\u00e9z, CCI\u2019s curatorial associate at the PAMM. \u201cThere’s no other institute dedicated to Caribbean art within a museum institution, at least that I know of, in the US or even in the\u00a0Caribbean\u00a0for that matter.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s a very special project that we’ve committed to continue working together towards its growth and further development,\u201d Gonzal\u00e9z added.<\/p>\n

The CCI\u2019s mission is to curate artworks from artists across the diaspora, but also to help fund emerging artists as well.<\/p>\n

The Other Side of Now: Foresight in Contemporary Caribbean Art\u00a0was\u00a0CCI\u2019s first exhibition with the PAMM, in 2019. Since then, the museum has held three other exhibitions. Their goal is not just to find artists creating now, but to preserve the lives and stories of all artists that came before.\u00a0\u201c\u200aIf you have the opportunity and the wherewithal to be able to invest both large and small, which is what we are fortunate enough to be able to do, this is how we like to approach it,\u201d says Green, president of the Green Family Foundation.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u200aWe have so many organizations in Miami that are doing wonderful work,\u201d Green told WLRN. \u201cYou have large institutions, and you have a myriad of small institutions around Miami that are doing brilliant work that don’t want or have an enormous budget. It’s important to support all of those as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Dr. Kimberly Green, President of the Green Family Foundation.<\/p>\n

(Courtesy Green Family Foundation)<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are attracted to Miami because of its vibrant art scene,\u201d Green said. \u201cAnd so for a foundation such as mine \u2014 a family foundation \u2014 which was established because of the opportunities that the city and the county of Miami has, we believe that it is important to support the arts because this is who we\u00a0are.\u201d<\/p>\n

The foundation is responsible for Green Space Miami, a place for local South Florida artists to hold exhibitions. Together with CCI, they hope to hold public events, gatherings, and become a space for all creative types.<\/p>\n

With new funding from the Green Family Foundation, CCI plans to collaborate with FIU\u2019s Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center. With their work together, they plan to allow students access to extensive archives, and to expand the study and preservation of art to the younger generation.<\/p>\n

This story was produced by WLRN, South Florida\u2019s only public radio station at 91.3 FM, as part of a content-sharing partnership with The Miami Times. Read more at\u00a0WLRN.org<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The P\u00e9rez Art Museum Miami this month\u00a0announced\u00a0receiving a gift totaling $5 million from the Green Family Foundation to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[48432,48433,48429,48443,48428,48439,48437,48436,48434,48442,48427,225,227,226,48435,48431,48438,48445,48426,48430,48444,48441,48440],"class_list":{"0":"post-89585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-5-million-art-donation-miami","9":"tag-caribbean-art-in-the-united-states","10":"tag-caribbean-art-museum-miami","11":"tag-caribbean-art-research-institute","12":"tag-caribbean-cultural-institute-pamm","13":"tag-caribbean-diaspora-art-preservation","14":"tag-contemporary-caribbean-art-exhibitions","15":"tag-emerging-caribbean-artists-support","16":"tag-florida-international-university-arts-partnership","17":"tag-green-family-foundation-arts-support","18":"tag-green-family-foundation-gift","19":"tag-hialeah","20":"tag-hialeah-headlines","21":"tag-hialeah-news","22":"tag-kimberly-green-latin-american-and-caribbean-center","23":"tag-miami-arts-philanthropy","24":"tag-miami-cultural-institutions-funding","25":"tag-miami-museum-funding-news","26":"tag-prez-art-museum-miami-donation","27":"tag-pamm-caribbean-cultural-institute-renamed","28":"tag-pamm-caribbean-exhibitions","29":"tag-public-art-programs-miami","30":"tag-south-florida-art-scene"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89585","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=89585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}