About
A different Museum conception as a Museum institution outside the museum space to promote extended contemporary practices for participation, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
This museum fits perfectly in the recent ICOM Museum definition even had been operating since 2002.
In Prague, on 24 August 2022, the Extraordinary General Assembly of ICOM has approved the proposal for the new museum definition with 92,41% (For: 487, Against: 23, Abstention: 17). Following the adoption, the new ICOM museum definition is:
“A museum is a not-for-profit, permanent institution in the service of society that researches, collects, conserves, interprets and exhibits tangible and intangible heritage. Open to the public, accessible and inclusive, museums foster diversity and sustainability. They operate and communicate ethically, professionally and with the participation of communities, offering varied experiences for education, enjoyment, reflection and knowledge sharing.”
Board
Andreina Fuentes (Enzyme Catalyst)
Gerardo Zavarce (Panza Kurator )
Gerardo Zavarce holds a BA from the Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV, 2000) and is a researcher, developer, and advisor in the field of culture and visual arts. He has a strong background in academia, Gerardo has actively participated as an organizer and speaker at both national and international events, showcasing his expertise in the field.
DREAMERS
Muu Blanco
In 1992, he completed a master’s degree in Theoretical and Practical Contemporary Art Systems.
From 2014 to 2016 he was a fellow of the Art Connection Foundation in Miami.
Currently since 2017 he has a production scholarship in the Multimedia Arts Foundation Saltamantis in Miami.
Muu Blanco lives and works in Miami. He began his career with painting, drawing, photography and
assembly, then set about producing videos and art sound work. He has also held a steady job in media: television and radio programs from the 90s until now.
At this moment he is working Mixmedia facilities where he uses every means of expression in contemporary forms of exhibition.
Since 1990 Blanco has participated in numerous group exhibitions in various areas of Latin America, USA, Europe and Canada.
Throughout 2016 he made 10 sessions of latin sound connection, a monthly meeting of music and video in Midtown, Miami at the Headquarters of Art Connection Foundation.
His work is present in important Institutional Collections: Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Foundation (Caracas-New York), the Urban Foundation Collection Photography (Caracas) and Mercantil Collection (Caracas), and in private collections in Caracas, Maracaibo, New York, Los Angeles, Houston, Miami, San Francisco, Milan, Madrid, Porto Alegre, Berlin, Lisbon and Barcelona.
Milagros Gonzalez
Based in Miami since 2009, in 2010 she was invited as a speaker at “Crossroads. II International Congress of Sculpture”, Institute of Aesthetic Research, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Puebla. Since 2014 she has worked for Arts Connection Foundation and has been in charge of the production of the Miami New Media Festival. Gonzalez also works as an art teacher at Robert Morgan Educational Center in Miami.
Elaiza Irizarry
Elaiza Irizarry is a Cultural Manager and artist with an emphasis in Performing Arts. Her trademark has been commonsense and equality in work relations; credibility and excellence in the final product.
She has worked in cultural foundations and theater companies in Caracas, New York, and Miami. In 1984, her career jumped to the highlights when she cofounded with Isaac Chocrón La Compañía Nacional de Teatro. The popular success of the company in producing classics from Shakespeare to Goldoni to Miller made it an unprecedented phenomenon in the Venezuelan Theater.
Elaiza Irizarry’s sensibility for art and artists has put her in collaboration with visual artists and actors in independent projects of high quality and visibility. From working with the playwright to originate a new script to working with the director and actors to set it on stage. From producing actors’ training workshops to producing art installations, performances, and ethnographic research. Her collaborations include Jacobo Borges, Ibsen Martínez, Marisol Escobar, Carlos Mota, Fernando Calzadilla, Carlos Giménez, Victor Valera, to name just a few.
In 2021, Elaiza and Fernando Calzadilla founded Casa Ocumare Artists In Residency in Cheste, Spain, a non-for-profit association set in a rural environment dedicated to research, education, promotion, and presentation of art and culture in partnership with many artists and the support of Arts Connection Foundation in Miami, USA.
Carlos Cuellar Brown
Carlos Cuellar Brown is a performance artist, new media artist and essayist. In 2013 his essay “Intermedial Being” was published by A Journal of Performance and Art PAJ #106 MIT Press Journals. Carlos has utilized live streaming and digital media as an essential aspect of his work. In 2013, He curated an art and science live stream performative workshop out of the White Box NYC for PERFORMA 13. Carlos has also curated 5 seasons of “HoeskteenExtras” 2007-2012. This innovative “virtual performative space” was streamed live via Skype and Youtube for Raul Marroquin’s De Hoeksteen TV Amsterdam. Originally from Venezuela, Brown studied Video Art and Intermedia with Hans Breder. The experiential nature of his work reflects his preoccupation with perception and the role of the observer in the artistic experience. His early Video Art was featured as part of a group show at the Anthology Film Archives Video Program, New York 1984. Carlos is currently curator and artist of the Miami New Media Festival for which he has contributed since 2013.
Felix Suazo
Felix Suazo. Curator, art critic and professor. In 2018 he conceptualized and implemented the educational program for the XIV Cuenca Biennial in Ecuador. In 2021 and 2022 he was in charge of the Special Projects of the Pinta Miami Art Fair. His texts on contemporary art in Latin America are regularly published in several specialized magazines of the continent. He is Co-editor of the newsletter About Images, edited by Art Media Gallery, Miami, and Curator of the art space IDArtLab, Miami. He is the author of the books “A Diestra y Siniestra. Comentarios sobre Arte y Política” (2005), “Umbrales de la Museología” (2013), and “Panorámica. Arte Emergente en Venezuela. 2000-2012” (2014).
Sofia Imber
Sofia Imber was a great woman to the arrival of modernity in Venezuela, to her contributions to journalism and the institutional development of culture in Latin America. The ideals and values that inspired her work as well, also a tribute to her strength in the struggle for freedom and democracy, all of which make her an exceptional Venezuelan and Latin-American personality,
The work of Sofía Imber is remarkable in the promotion of modern art in Venezuela, especially because of the creation and growth of the Sofía Imber Contemporary Art Museum (MACSI) in 1974.
Rummie Quintero Verdu
A dancer, coach, and transgender rights activist, Rummie Quintero Verdú is the founder of Venezuelan Divas [Divas de Venezuela A.C]. That longstanding organization struggles for the rights of the Venezuela’s dissident sex-gender community since 2004. She passed away January 31, 2023.
David Palacios
David Palacios (1967-2023) Cuban -British was a multidisciplinary and multimedia artist that focused his artistic work on a visual register of events and themes from social reality, taking the concept of Art Report as a programmatic axis. His is a language rooted in the intentional combination of several disciplines (art, social sciences, media), to which he adds elements related to people’s cultural habits and ways of life.