The Container Project by DVCAI
Monday, 11/20/2025-12/02/2025, 06:00 pm-09:00 pm
DVCAI Space at Barry University
11300 NE 2 Avenue,
Miami, Florida, 33161
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Cost: Free
Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator, Inc. (DVCAI) invites audiences to experience its curatorial initiative, The Container Project, at DVCAI at Barry University. The exhibition includes a six-month run of activations and interactive works from November 20, 2025, to April 17, 2026. Curated by DVCAI Founder, Curator Rosie Gordon-Wallace, based in Miami, and independent curator and creative wellness strategist Breeana Thorne, based in Los Angeles, the trans-coastal, transcontinental, and Caribbean diasporic project poses the question, “What’s in Your Container?”
The shipping container—a vessel of movement, transportation, and memory—serves as a lens through which we explore the personal and collective histories of containment. For Caribbean communities, containers and barrels symbolize both migration and support: they carry essentials, treasures, and the intangible legacies of family, culture, and resilience. These structures, physical and metaphorical, hold the weight of memory, trauma, care, and joy, reflecting the ways we navigate histories shaped by colonialism, displacement, and global exchange.
The works on view serve as sites of refuge—both physical and emotional. In response, artists turn inward, using their creative practice as containers for memory, grief, harmony, and regeneration. Students and visitors are invited to consider their own vessels of memory.
What’s in Your Container? How do we hold our histories? What structures sustain us? And, how can we transform grief and loss into acts of preservation, care, and renewed community?
“The Container Project challenges us to see both the fragility and the resilience of memory, and encourages us to preserve the legacies of the past while imagining new forms of collective care and renewal.” – Breeana Thorne, Curator.
Exhibiting artists are Rimaj Barrientos, Jevon Alexander Brown, Patricia Cooke, Michael Elliott, Natou Fall, Jessica Freites, Rosa Naday Garmendia, Miguel Keerveld, Shayla Marshall, Sydney Rose Maubert, Lance Minto-Strouse, Shawna Moulton, Kurt Nahar, Amarachi Odimba, Evelyn Politzer, L.A. Samuelson, Asser St. Val, Clara Toro, and Leandro Vazquez. Exhibition design by Danielle Coates, and visual Identity by Izia Lindsay. Exhibition scholarship will be developed by DVCAI Scholar-in-Residence, Alix Pierre, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer, African Diaspora and the World at Spelman College, and Grace Aneiza Ali, Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Art History and affiliated faculty in the Native American and Indigenous Studies Center at Florida State University.
Schedule of Events
Exhibition Run: November 20, 2025, to April 17, 2026
The Container Project’s activities take place at DVCAI at Barry University, located at the Monsignor William Barry Library, 11300 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL 33161. Please refer to the attached campus map for directions and parking information.
Visit the project during regularly scheduled Library hours: Monday through Thursday, 7:30 am – 10:00 pm; Friday, 7:30 am – 10:00 pm; Saturday, 9:00 am – 8:00 pm; Sunday, 10:00 am – 10:00 pm. (Closed Wednesday – Friday, November 26 – 28, 2025). Please check the Library website for https://www.barry.edu/en/library/working-hours for other holiday closures, exceptions, and updates.
Opening Week and Performance: Please RSVP on the DVCAI website.
Thursday, November 20, 2025, Opening Event, 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Thursday, November 20, Featured Performance, 7:00 pm
Saturday, November 22, 2025, Performance and Artist Talk, 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Miami Art Week Events and Hours: December 1 – December 7, 2025;
The exhibition will be on view during the Library’s regular hours.
Monday, December 1, 2025, Performance at 6:00 pm
Tuesday, December 2, 2025, Performance at 6:00 pm
Exhibition Details
The contemporary arts programming at DVCAI at Barry University is presented by the non-profit Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator (DVCAI) in partnership with the Barry University Institute for Immigration Studies and the Monsignor William Barry Library to benefit the community. Special thanks to the Barry University community and the support of Victor Romano, PhD, Vice Provost for Student Success & Undergraduate Studies, Giselle Elgarresta Rios, MM, DMA, Endowed Chair of the Monsignor Bryan O. Walsh Institute for Immigration Studies, and Vivica Smith Pierre, MLIS, PhD, Director of Library Services, Monsignor William Barry Library. With appreciation for the talents of exhibition designer Danielle Coates, visual identity designer Izia Lindsay, and photographer Roy A. Wallace.
Happens on the following Dates:
Nov 20, 2025, 6:00pm to 9:00pm Timezone: Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Nov 22, 2025, 2:00pm to 4:00pm Timezone: Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Dec 1, 2025, 6:00pm to 7:00pm Timezone: Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Dec 2, 2025, 6:00pm to 7:00pm Timezone: Eastern Time (US & Canada)
