Miami Artist Census: How did we get here, and what now? Panel Discussion

This talk was recorded on January 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM. FIU CARTA | Mana Wynwood.
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“The Miami Artist Census - How did we get here?”
Thinking about the students who might be in the audience and maybe not understand or fully see how we got here or why we’re doing this census… after a brief intro of the census, we would like to speak to the why, how we determined now would be a good time to launch this and how the census relates to our individual pasts and practices.
The speakers for the discussion would be Harmony Honig, Carrie Sieh, and misael soto, three of the core members of the Miami Artist Census team. Bios for each of them below.
Harmony Honig (they/them, b. 1988, Miami, FL) is a queer, disabled Jewish Brazilian-American writer, director, and interdisciplinary performance artist snow-birding between Miami, FL and Brooklyn, NY. Through a practice of theater-making that incorporates drag, somatic movement, sculptural costume, and personal field recordings, their work explores bodily failure as a pathway to liberation, communal care, and self-actualization. Honig is a co-conspirator and founding member of the audio-drama collective Theater of the Electric Mouth (ThEM), a former resident of Bakehouse Art Complex and Mana Contemporary Miami, and an alum of the San Francisco Mime Troupe. They have exhibited their work at Creative Time Summit, Miami Film Festival, and O, Miami Poetry Festival. Honig received their BFA in Theater from New World School of the Arts in 2009.
Carrie Sieh (she/they, b.1978, Los Angeles CA) is an artist, librarian, social justice advocate, and permaculture enthusiast living and working in Miami, Florida. Her work engages with intertwined histories of environmental destruction, economic exploitation, gender and sexuality, trauma, and technology. Sieh received a BA in painting and photography from University of California at Santa Cruz, and a Master’s degree in Library and Information Science from San Jose State University in California. She is a member of W.A.G.E., and is represented by Bernice Steinbaum Gallery in Miami, FL.
misael soto (they/them, b.1986, Puerto Rico) is an artist, educator, and organizer based in Miami, Florida. misael received their MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2018) and graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor’s Degree in Art History from Florida Atlantic University (2008). misael was the first ever Art in Public Life Resident with the City of Miami Beach’s Department of Environment and Sustainability and Oolite Arts, where they founded the Department of Reflection. Beyond their public artworks which they have shown extensively for many years, misael has exhibited at MCA Chicago, Open Engagement 2015, the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami, Material Art Fair in Mexico City, David Castillo Gallery in Miami, and Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, amongst others.