Rosie Gordon-Wallace
(she/her)
President & Curator, Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator, Inc

Rosie Gordon-Wallace is an advocate for racial, inclusion, equity, and access. Her leadership approach invites community participation from particularly those in marginalized communities. Her curatorial projects include international exhibitions in the English, French, Dutch, and Spanish speaking Caribbean with the most recent installation of Inter|Sectionality: Diaspora Art from the Creole City mounted at the Corcoran Museum in Washington DC and then at the Harvey B. Gantt African American Center for Art + Culture in Charlotte, North Carolina. Additionally, she served as guest curator for National YoungArts and with Joan Mitchell Artist in Residence Center in New Orleans. Gordon-Wallace is the Founder President and Curator for Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator, a Miami-based nomadic museum and incubator that brings segregated communities, people, and experiences together through art. Under her leadership, DVCAI intentionally develops artistic platforms that promote, nurture, and encourage the maturation of emerging Caribbean artists, African American, Afro Latino, and Latinx artists. DVCAI encourages connections beyond traditional engagements with art and culture. Gordon-Wallace has served on grant review panels for the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, Miami-Dade Department of Cultural Affairs, The Knight Foundation, Amherst University Grant Review Panel, In the Company of Women Panel, EnFoco Photography Panel and National YoungArts Selection for Scholastics jury. She has managed funding from The Andrew Mellon Foundation, The Knight Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation, The Ford Foundation, Surdna Foundation, The Miami Foundation CreArte Funds, Wege Foundation, SouthArts and general operation funding from Miami-Dade Department of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs. Family Foundation funding from the Garner Foundation, The Green Family Foundation, and the Delacour Family Funds. DVCAI was named South Arts’ Southern Cultural Treasures in July 2022.

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