SaveArtSpace presents Ancient Future by SISU, a public art exhibition in Miami, Fl during Art Basel & Miami Art Week, starting November 21, 2022!

The Ancient Future by SISU selected artists are Afrocentric Keyy - Kiarra Elliott, Aldous Massie, Amanda Sage, Andrea Castillo, Carolina Niño Buro, Casey Lance Brown, Dustin Yellin, Farhad Nikfam, Hermes Berrío, Ibraheem Leone, Ivan Sawyer Garcia, Litana Somoano, Nissan Leviathan, Noëmi Manser, Pangea Kali Virga, Rob Woodcox, STUDIO J/P ROBBINS: PROJECTS, Sya Warfield, and Zoe Schwartz.

Curated by Angela Del Sol.

To connect with the emergent future, we must remember the essence of the knowledge of our ancestors, truths that will transcend time—combining these past teachings to steward the future. We must use all the tools at hand, technology. 

We call all the gentle warriors to contribute their art to help paint a more beautiful world our hearts know is possible. We are all here to contribute our gifts toward something greater! 

Ancient Future is a multimedia series by @sisu_xyz, a climate-positive web3 community that explores the connection between technology, climate, and art. How can technology help us steward natural resources? How can we reconnect with our roots to truly go to the moon? Can nature and tech truly coexist? 

Let's envision how the future might look if humanity got together to solve the most significant problem of our lives, climate change! 

During the week of November 21, 2022, SaveArtSpace launched public art installations for each selected work on billboard and bus shelter ad spaces throughout Miami, and Miami Beach, FL. SaveArtSpace is also participating in two art fairs! Visit us at Scope Art Show, Booth A03, Artist: Rob Woodcox. November 29 to December 4, 2022, 11am - 8pm. Also at Satellite Art Show, Artists: Afrocentric Keyy - Kiarra Elliott, Amanda Sage, Andrea Castillo, Casey Lance Brown, Hermes Berrío, Ibraheem Leone, Litana Somoano, Nissan Leviathan, Noëmi Manser, Pangea Kali Virga, STUDIO J/P ROBBINS: PROJECTS, and Sya Warfield. November 29 to December 4, 2022, 12pm - 7pm.


Selected Artists

Location: 17th St & Pennsylvania Ave, Miami Beach

Born and raised in Southern California now living in Brooklyn, New York I started my artist journey at a young age. I embraced my interest more in high school while attending Orange County School of the Arts- Visual Arts Conservatory. Being here solidified the seed of art expression and the artist's voice. Understanding the foundation of different mediums such as; watercolor, oil paint, and acrylic to Prisma colors and chalk I was able to take small pieces of each study and personalize them. This mix and match process helped me realize the untapped potential I had deep inside yearning to be molded into its own voice. I continued my art studies into college, diving deeper into material use and what their unlimited qualities could be. Questioning the foundation and building my own style I birthed a new way of creating. I took bits and pieces away from watercolor, oil paint, pencil etching, and even some graffiti techniques and fused them into one.

After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Arts and armed with a degree, I found myself still having an internal dialog that reached more than just the surface of medium techniques. I reflected on questions from "Where is our representation?” to “How can I use my art to shift the dialogue?” and “How can I show up authentically in these spaces” and most importantly "Who says that art has to only be made on a non organic canvas?" As a Black female artist, I want to create these spaces to challenge and question the status quo, evoke emotion(s) and start conversations around art, the use of materials and impact on the ecosystem and visual representation of those from the African, Black / African American, and Afro-Caribbean diaspora. Generating a two-way engagement involving visual interaction and Black women; which creates a mutual benefit between the viewer and artist; is my goal. Each piece stimulates the viewer enough to pause, reflect and go on a visual journey. The different aspects of my work– whether it be the scale of the painting, the choice of recycled wood as my canvas, the vivid color usage, or the fluidity of animals alongside women– provokes the viewer to explore the strength and power of the portraiture. I create a space to see the unseen - I go beyond the exterior to amplify a group of Black voices and perspectives that are more nuanced, and abundant than their traditional representations.

Connect with Kiarra on Instagram at @afrocentrickeyy.


Aldous Massie The Patterned Mirror

Location: N Miami Ave & NE 20th St, Miami

Aldous Massie is a Sydney-based artist, designer, illustrator, animator and author. He is the creator of See Pala; the healing modern adaptation of mythology.

Connect with Aldous on Instagram at @aldousmassie.


Amanda Sage Xochitlanenzi - Flowering Sunrise

Location: W 41st St & Prairie Ave, Miami Beach

‘Through my work I aim to shatter the ‘illusion of separation’, to challenge the viewer to question, and evolve out of ignorance, conditioning and ingrained genetic habits.

In life I strive to take responsibility for the effect of my existence, and through my actions and images, inspire others to think/dream beyond their immediate capacity. Ultimately I seek to create portals that open to the infinite possibilities of being and expressing, so that we may remember and re-discover who we are, where we originate from and where we are headed.

My aspiration is to paint messages, visions and narratives that communicate with an ‘older & wiser us’, awakening ancient memory; as well as the ‘present us’, that we may grow up and accept the responsibilities towards ourselves, each other and the rest of existence on this planet… now.

Connect with Amanda on Instagram at @amandasageart.


Andrea Castillo High Priestess

Location: Collins Ave & Indian Beach Park, Miami Beach

The project Neural Milk is the result of an exploration that started in 2020 using paper collages and clay as a way to reconnect with my senses and develop an awareness of the world we experience. After a while, I began doing digital research to explore different ways to conceive images and forms, which led me to experiment with 3D prints and designs. Eventually, I started incorporating these designs and prints into my everyday life as both practical items and decorative pieces; I was seeking an outlet to not only express myself visually but one that would also aid in my creative growth and build a spiritual and aesthetic atmosphere.

All the experiences, concepts, and learnings we have shared in the transit of life converted into words can be used to materialize and communicate deep ideas in what we may call a portrayal: This portrayal can be generated with Artificial Neural Networks. This exercise aims to turn the impressions that defined my ways of seeing the world into wider perspectives.

Neural networks are computer systems that are modeled after the brain and nervous system. These systems learn by example and improve over time. After I began working on conceptions about the unconscious, archetypes, and Jungian Symbolism that I felt drawn to at the time, I started experimenting with different ways of making spiritual notions into visions.

I began utilizing Google Collab workflows where I found researchers already sharing their coding notebooks; this is how I was able to explore using Artificial Neural Networks in an early stage to generate images by materializing concepts that had always been abstract words and ideas into physical form. The first project as Neural Milk is called Metaverse Archaeology (Winner of the Future Art Awards 2022). I developed the first images with coding and other A.I. resources in real-time research and made post-processing edits with image editing software to make them look more like pieces I enjoyed looking at and also allowing me to see from other points of view the way I can relate myself to subjective ideas and how those generated images could reflect the pass of time and transmutation of the self, using technology as a mirror.

Connect with Andrea on Instagram at @neuralmilk.


Carolina Niño Buro Indigenous Wisdom

Location: 17 St & Convention Center Dr, Miami Beach

Carolina Niño Buro is a collage and digital artist that uses strong textures and colors to transport the viewer to otherworldly places. Born in Colombia, traveler by nature, Carolina has lived in several countries including Spain, Guatemala, Brazil and currently living in Argentina.

She felt the need to create from a very early age, and was surrounded by nature, art and music all her life, and that inspired her to follow this artistic path.

Studied graphic design in Guatemala and photography in Spain. Her sources of inspiration are nature, animals, geometry, and the harmony found in empty spaces. Passion for color leads her to experiment with the most subtle color combinations.

Client list include: AMV BBDO, Wired UK, Camaron Brujo, Adidas, Creative Debuts, Lucid Dreaming Records, Adobe, Azzur, ZZK Records, Smile for a while, Red Bull, and Lost Language Records among others.

She uses various digital techniques to create pieces with strong visual impact.

Guardian of the earth, Carolina gets inspiration from the force of nature, in the wisdom and mystery of life, in people’s hearts, in the collective consciousness, in the impulse to create and become better beings, music inspired her because it is a global language and of course, she’s inspired by love, she dedicates her life to following her heart and intuition.

Connect with Carolina on Instagram at @carolinaninoburo.


Location: Alton Rd & 16th St, Miami Beach

Through digital visualization techniques, I rework abandoned ruins, invasive species and cryptozoological representations as a way of navigating the multiple crises of the Anthropocene. Each digital series focuses on something highly foreign juxtaposed with something completely native, highly artificial with something organic, and/or something jarring with something comforting. Coming from the temperate rainforest in the southern Appalachians, my works are inevitably imbued with the inter-tangled rootedness found in this region. Roots and vegetal matter become ape-like and figural. The resultant imagery simultaneously camouflages and reveals. The work often nods toward the failures of our planetary experiment, most prominently through climate change. Obsolescence, anachronism, and abandonment are the ever-present signatures of those failures. As they become more common, the accompanying extinctions, emissions, and climate migrations will come to define the “Anthropo-scenic”. That landscape futurist lens perpetually reframes and colors my vision of emergent conditions on the planet.

Connect with Casey on Instagram at @case_xx_.


Dustin Yellin The Ministry for Water

Location: I-195 & NE 1st Ave, Miami

Dustin Yellin tells stories that weave together the idea of how both the human world, and the other worlds of critters, plants, and rocks have always already been a collection of enmeshed networks - even if many are hidden. His multidisciplinary approach tunnels across traditionally siloed fields so as to capture and crystalize the diverse forces of nature and machine. Through a body of work, which includes object making, animation, pedagogy, and the forming of institutions, Yellin draws attention to the paradox of how everyone and everything is interconnected, and yet alienated at the same time. As a bridge toward a more holistic world, the artist balances descriptive poetry with a prescriptive social practice so as to span new ways of seeing and being.

Dustin Yellin (B. 1975, California) lives in Brooklyn, New York, and is the founder and director of Pioneer Works. His artwork has been exhibited at Amorepacific Museum, Brooklyn Museum, City Museum, Colección Solo, Corning Museum of Glass, The Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Museo Del Palacio de Bellas Artes, SCAD Museum of Art, Tacoma Museum, and with Creative Time, amongst many others. Yellin is often featured in diverse media ranging from the New York Times, to Artforum, Vanity Fair, and TED. He holds an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the Savannah College of Art and Design.

Connect with Dustin on Instagram at @dustinyellin.


Farhad Nikfam Work #3 (Flying Carpet series)

Location: MacArthur Causeway & Fountain St, Miami

Farhad Nikfam is an iranian-azeri painter born in 1987. Raised at the crossroads of post-soviet, south caucasian and persian cultures yet influenced by a romanticized image of western world of the 90's and 2000’s, the artist discovers and explores new worlds, where all of these coexist.

Firstly discovered by New American Paintings Magazine at the start of pandemic in 2020, Farhad Nikfam’s paintings depict the space where the artist managed to unite the objective reality and his fantasies - whether it be his own design of a beer bottle he would prefer to drink from or of an armchair he would like to sit on, or fanciful scenarios where only portal for a mermaid to escape an apartment building could be a toilet bowl.

Numerous plots embedded in each of the recent paintings are united by a common form - a shelf in a mobile phone store, or a common facade of a building, or a bouquet, but are autonomous per se.

Inspired by the freedom of primitivism in works of Henri Rousseau, as well as by industrial design (his first field of studies), Farhad creates new forms of daily life - angular and naive at the same time.

The eye-catching sharpness and directness of lines are combined with the straightforward childlike perception, love for bright colors and non-ergonomic technology objects from the 90s. In his own words, the artist should live life to the fullest to tell his own story.

Connect with Farhad on Instagram at @ffnikfam.


Hermes Berrío Tomorrowland

Location: W Flagler St & NW 6th Ave, Miami

Hermes Berrío, transitioned to a global environment from early on, living between Bogota, Florence and New York, enabling him to expand his boundaries while exposing him to new opportunities. Ever since moving to Miami, he has grown his artistic career, finding inspiration through the city’s rich landscape and cultural diversity.

His practice captures the significance of everyday life, relating the grand scope that emphasizes both the mundane and the extraordinary. His urban style embedded within mixed media utilizes materials ranging from oil and aerosol, to textiles and gold leaf. In addition to carrying out a physical examination, Berrio conducts a conceptual survey, with reality as the foundation of his practice, creating a vibrant narrative and a personal reflection on the world. He continues to find inspiration in these unusual and yet commonplace experiences, by exploring the complexity of such simple moments and rendering them on a monumental scale.

Berrio’s paintings are at once deeply personal snapshots of his people and his city, and a sublimely laid out perspective that feels universal and unpretentious, his pieces are documentary-like in nature, derived from the artist’s photographs. Reaching beyond the simplicity of such fundamental daily happenings, Berrio’s paintings present a monumental vision of urban life. He has re-imagined, re-arranged, and metamorphosed visions of a cultural and personal landscape, seeking new ways to interpret one’s truth visually.

Connect with Hermes on Instagram at @hermesberrio.


Ibraheem Leone Chain of Narration

Location: NW 2nd Ave & NW 41st St, Miami

Ibraheem Leone is a multi-disciplinary artist who uses visual/martial arts, poetry, documentary, and blockchain technology as mediums to tell and preserve essential stories.

His parents immigrated from Sierra Leone, West Africa, to Alberta, Canada, shortly before his birth in 1993.

His early childhood was spent in the Bay Area, California, but as a multi-local, he had formative experiences in countries around the world, like, Egypt, Yemen, and Saudi Arabia.

His favorite medium fluctuates, but he is most known for telling his stories with a camera.

His experiences as a Black and Muslim immigrant traveling the world and organizing around social change have helped shape the lens he views and shares with the world today.

He is currently working on The Tapestry, a collection of poetry and song from Sierra Leone, West Africa, documented in short video format.

The Tapestry emphasizes tribal diversity, old songs, and storytelling traditions that need documentation.

The name is centered around the idea that the beautiful tapestry of culture and history are woven together with threads of poetry and song.

This collection will be released in 2022 and will explore the utility of Blockchain technology, decentralized file storage, and metadata as tools for cultural preservation.

Connect with Ibraheem on Instagram at @Ibraheemleone.


Ivan Sawyer Garcia Ancient Future

Location: NW 7th Ave & NW 34th St, Miami

Tireless traveller, media producer, environmental activist and educator. Ivan is producer of the online series Voices of Amerikua, featuring indigenous voices from across the continent. Ivan has been participating in the development of different cultural exchange and indigenous knowledge preservation initiatives in different parts of North and South America for almost a decade. 

This picture depict a child from Aldea Novo Futuro of the Huni Kuin tribe in Acre, Brazil. Donations from the art piece will be donated to the community.

This series is a prayer for the Amazon and its people. These portraits belong to the Huni Kuin and Yawanawa people of the Amazon of Brazil. These communities are working very hard to preserve their culture and territories and these pictures seek to share the pride and joy of these people in preserving and protecting their culture and territories. They are the fruit of my ongoing exploration of the state of Acre in Brazil and my search for ways to support and celebrate the beauty of these unique cultures.

Connect with Ivan on Instagram at @ivankuxansum.


Litana Somoano Listening to the Wisdom of Nature

Location: Brickell Ave & SE 8 St, Miami

Litana Somoano is a self taught intuitive visual artist. She creates in different mediums such as oils, acrylics, digital art, photography, writing, film. She continues to strive to move beyond the ordinary realms of creating art and bring awareness of the beauty in art with different mediums and to different audiences.

Connect with Litana on Instagram at @litanavisionary.


Nissan Leviathan Fever Pitch

Location: Biscayne Blvd & NE 54 St, Miami

Born in Tel-Aviv, Israel, Nissan Leviathan, an avid Francophile, spent many of his adult years in France. During these years he got acquainted with many artists with whom he not only socialized, but from whom he also absorbed a great deal of artistic influence. Among these are Erró, Robert Combas, César, Jacques Monory and Peter Klasen to mention only a few. In addition, many others inspired him considerably: Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Tamara de Lempicka, and Niki de Saint Phalle. These were the first triggering seeds for the artist’s passion for contemporary art in general and pop art in particular, on top of his joy of life as well as his fascination with colors, light and reflections. The latter has led him to join a Parisian glass blowing studio as a trainee, and then to spend time with Dale Chihuly in Seattle in order to improve his mastery of this ancient art.

As of 1998, when Nissan Leviathan returned to Israel he completely devoted himself to creating art. For about fifteen years, he was engaged in sculpting monumental outdoor self-glowing sculptures, made of neon, glass and colored plexiglass. In recent years, probably thanks to his background with computers, the artist specialized in a selection of graphics software programs, notably 3D, and evolved into being a productive digital artist.

Nissan Leviathan works in front of his computers’ screens, employing a variety of graphics programs as his brushes, his palettes as well as his cameras, with which he creates his colorful artworks. These are usually about fantastic realities, as if to follow Valerio Adami’s assertion “Before a painting one must see something other than what one knows already. Associations and significances mingle together beyond the palette.” The artist’s inconceivable, yet fantastic realities that are depicted in his artworks, cannot exist in our real world but only within the artist’s mind and computers, where they are established, designed, fashioned, textured, painted and finally photographed.

Just recently, along with the explosion of AI text-to-image and image-to-image software programs, the artist chose to vigorously enter this revolutionary artistic realm and has installed a number of such platforms on his computers. He was one of the first to install his own Stable Diffusion machine, which turned out to be his preferred platform. This may prove as a remarkable milestone in his artistic evolution, since his artworks are for the first time, the product of a reciprocal interaction between himself and the machine.

 Connect with Nissan on Instagram at @nissanleviathan.


Noemi Manser Awakening

Location: 5th St & Lenox Ave, Miami Beach

Swiss born (and Mexico City based) painter, Noëmi Manser, is a conceptual artist and muralist, her work characterized by symbolic androgynous faces (connecting-brains), painted using both of her hands simultaneously - a technique claimed to have also been used by Renaissance genius, Leonardo Da Vinci.

Noemi turned to painting as a means of taking control of the ‘possessions’ and intensity of the auras she encountered. She credits painting as a tool that gives her access to a new dimension and a place to support her own healing. One of her works “Awakening” (recently exhibited at GR gallery in New York) exquisitely captures the symbol of an ‘eye’. Blinking eyes and blinding sensations are common symptoms of the epileptic condition, or as she sums up in the statement, “a feeling your eye is trapped in your face.” Eyes and other body parts often feature in her work.

Ancient alchemists believed that lead could be perfected into gold and essential elements transformed into superior forms. The end goal for this transformation was to offer a state of purification, completion and harmony. Noemi Manser follows a similar principle through her creative process. Transforming the canvas into forms such as objects, symbols and figures, (often manifestations of herself), she believes this process supports her own psychological transformation and spiritual development. Creatively reconstructing a blank canvas into forms such as objects, symbols and figures, often perceived as manifestations of herself, gives Manser an opportunity to create her own world. She credits discovering art as a means of supporting her own transformation and spiritual development.

"My process begins with stream-of-conscious drawing. Although I don’t preconceive a final image, I can later recognize how my intuition guides me towards symbols and figurative gestures that are ripe with potential meaning.

The subjects of my compositions are often avatars for myself. I construct my figures with a type of stylized shorthand similar to the portraits in my series of paintings called “connecting-brains.” However, these new surrealist compositions contain a sense of idealism informed by my recent experience living and working amongst Renaissance paintings in Florence. Around these points of self reflection, I use various forms of visual energy, like atmosphere, movement, and color to convey to the viewer an array of physical and mental states. I also frequently use symbols such as stripes, roses, and goldfish. The stripes relate to the energy one experiences while shifting into a liminal state — the strobing effect reminiscent of the seizures that I experienced in my younger years. The goldfish appeared as a symbol in my reflections of the separation and forced introspection that I experienced at the onset of the pandemic.

Through my practice, I strive to cultivate moments where my normal limits of self consciousness become relaxed. As I become more engaged physically, emotionally, and metaphorically in these dream states, I find that this vista of novel experiences reveals my own preferences, desires, and the root of my character."

Connect with Noemi on Instagram at @noemimanser.


Pangea Kali Virga I Watch The Illusion With Unbearable Compassion

Location: 41st St & Prairie Ave, Miami Beach

Pangea Kali Virga is a fiber artist, arts educator, designer, curator, and producer with high standards and a conceptual spirit. Her aim is to build collaborative networks and moving experiences through all of her projects. Social responsibility is pivotal to her art, as she attempts to communicate urgent, difficult messages in beautiful and fun ways through fine art, events, workshops, performances, and other collaborative projects. Pangea has dedicated herself to helping transform the fashion industry to be a more sustainable and equitable one, creating art and wearables out of upcycled materials using zero waste practices, supporting her belief in the power of clothing and fiber as storyteller, cultural marker, and political catalyst. She has found great comfort and liberation through fashion and fiber, and the work she creates is made in hopes of extending those experiences to the viewer and wearer. You can find Pangea in Miami teaching sustainable practices, making art, and throwing collaborative art events.

Connect with Pangea on Instagram at @pangeakalivirga.


Rob Woodcox Tree of Life

Location: 5th St & Meridian Ave, Miami Beach

Rob Woodcox is a fine art and fashion photographer and film director currently living between Mexico and the US. As he creates each artwork, Rob strives to capture fragments of a vivid life sewn by the threads of reality, memory and dream.  Each concept is a declaration of his experience and seeks to tell a meaningful story to each individual that views it.

Rob's passion for photography has developed into a dedication to advocacy; he has produced projects raising consciousness and conversation around the US foster system and adoption, queer identity, body neutrality, racial equality and environmental justice.  Having been adopted as a child and interacting often with the foster care system, Rob creates from a unique perspective, finding hope in human connection and the will to overcome negative constructs within our complex societies. 

In 2013 Rob went through his own "coming out" experience, a societal passage only necessary from the lack of education and acceptance within the greater population. Though a challenging and demanding experience, Rob used this energy to pursue his photographic goals full time and began touring the world teaching workshops and creating sponsored content. Rob has taught thousands of students in 6 continents, 15 countries and 34 cities worldwide. He has been featured in various major publications, exhibitions and has produced commercial work for clients like Apple, Universal Pictures, and Capitol Records. In 2020 Rob released his first photographic art book “Bodies Of Light”.

In 2021 Rob took on his first directorial film role in “We Are Molecular” in partnership with Dr Barbara Sturm and the Royal Ballet in London. He continued his film debut directing his first music video “Spiral” alongside Ry X in 2022, also developing his first 2 short films. His work was seen in museums and festivals around Europe, Asia and North America. He continues to embark upon new personal and client creative endeavors in both photographic and film direction.

Connect with Rob on Instagram at @robwoodcoxphoto.


STUDIO J/P ROBBINS: PROJECTS ROSALIA LEMUS DE LA ROSA - MARAKAME - WIXARIKA - MEXICO

Location: Alton Rd & 15th St, Miami Beach

“All portraiture is made in collaboration” #thehorizontalperspective — crediting the container in which the portrait is produced - STUDIO J/P ROBBINS: PROJECTS works with established environmental and humanitarian organizations - creating initiatives that support structural (felt) change.

Humanity already has access to the healing modalities and needed technologies for a kinder world. Rosalia has a message with/from/through WATER.

Connect with STUDIO J/P ROBBINS: PROJECTS on Instagram at @studiojprobbins.


Sya Warfield Floating Feathers Model: Shawnrey Notto

Location: N Miami Ave & NE 20th St, Miami

Sya Warfield is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

She makes art that pushes creative boundaries, keeping in mind accessibility and the importance of connection. Finding a sense of peace and calm within the hustle of an urban environment is crucial to her creativity. 

Most recently, she was included along with 140 other artists to exhibit at The Other Art Fair in partnership with Saatchi Art in Spring 2022 in Los Angeles. During Winter 2022 located at the LA Convention Center, she was chosen to paint at the Visa kiosk for the Super Bowl Experience. Her first solo exhibition, Pulp Idols was held during Fall 2021 at Canyon Country Community Center in Santa Clarita, CA. 

She has worked on public art commissions with Del Rey Utility Box Project, Let’s Paint Sherman Oaks, NoHo Utility Box Program and Glendale, Beyond the Box. Other projects include Let’s Paint the Town in DTLA and Studio City; and Colors of Freedom Alley in Inglewood. Indoor public art commissions located in schools at Shonto Preparatory, AZ, Salvation Army, San Francisco, CA and Lynwood Elementary, Los Angeles, CA.

Warfield’s work has been presented as part of Culver City's Art Walk and Roll with Cad Fad Creative, REMIX: The Art of Music 2022 at Gabba Gallery and other selected gallery exhibitions include Black and White, Creative Arts Group, Sierra Madre, 2019. Cross Country Impressions, a collaborative film created with Hatim Belyamani, was shown as part of The Earth Day Film Festival 2015 in San Francisco. 

She has extensive experience in public art projects. She is committed to the positive social impact of art. Understanding artwork as a site to embody and encourage important cultural discussions is crucial to her vision. In 2016, Warfield founded Upward Together, a fiscally sponsored organization teaching youth leadership skills by creating murals.

I am a mixed media visual artist, content creator and photographer based in Los Angeles, California.

My work explores boundless forms of stories from a feminine perspective. Influenced by the Japanese concept of wabi-sabi (侘寂), my personal style centers around impermanence. I aim to upcycle, reconstruct and deconstruct materials to honor a mixed media approach to visual narratives. Evocative juxtapositions result in a fusion of history, art and storytelling.

A playful enchantment with a protagonist approach connects past and present themes in my artistic practice. I create work suspended deep within a surface embodying a painterly and otherworldly esthetic.

Connect with Sya on Instagram at @syawarfield.


Zoe Rose Keeper of the Trees

Location: Alton Rd & 8th St, Miami Beach

Zoe Rose is a self taught, up-and-coming artist currently living in Los Angeles, California. She works within the subject of portraiture and has a variety of artistic styles using different modes of expression, but all in exploration of the human face and its ability to touch the soul. Color is an important factor in her work and has become a way to express light and life.

Connect with Zoe on Instagram at @zoeroseschwartz.


Curator

Angela Del Sol is a climate activist, social entrepreneur, and curator connecting technology with earth restoration projects focused on conservation, restoration, and climate adaptation using NFTs, public art, and storytelling. Angela Del Sol is the lead steward of SISU - an impact agency that makes supporting climate projects easy and accessible while giving indigenous and grassroots projects the spotlight.

Connect with Angela on Instagram at @angeladelsol & @sisu_xyz.

Location: 5th St & Michigan Ct, Miami Beach


Participating Organizations

Founded in 2015, SaveArtSpace is a non-profit organization that works to create an urban gallery experience, launching exhibitions that address intersectional themes and foster a progressive message of social change. By placing culture over commercialism, SaveArtSpace aims to empower artists from all walks of life and inspire a new generation of young creatives and activists.