Event Details
DVCAI Presents Back-Chat: What’s in Your Container?
Virtual Artist Talk | Thursday, February 12, 2026 | 7–8 PM ET
Miami’s Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator (DVCAI) invites the public to attend Back-Chat: What’s in Your Container?, a free virtual conversation spotlighting diasporic artists and scholars whose work has been supported by DVCAI since 1996. Back-Chat is a quarterly online series exploring socially relevant themes through art, culture, and lived experience.
The Zoom session takes place Thursday, February 12, 2026, from 7:00–8:00 PM (ET) and is led by DVCAI Founding Curator Rosie Gordon-Wallace in conversation with visual artists Shayla Marshall, Natou Fall, and curator-scholar Dr. Cristin McKnight Sethi.
Drawing on DVCAI’s current exhibition and curatorial initiative, The Container Project, on view at Barry University’s Monsignor William Barry Library, the discussion explores artistic practice, responsive artmaking, and the activation of the gallery space as a site of memory, healing, and resilience.
“Natou Fall’s work speaks to transition, movement, and creation, while Shayla Marshall’s installations are cinematic, layered, and deeply rooted in history,” said Gordon-Wallace. “Together, their practices evoke African and Caribbean traditions, creating works that function as protectors and expressions of identity, ancestral wisdom, and renewal.”
The program is open to all audiences and includes automatic captioning. Participants may submit questions via the Zoom chat, subject to event guidelines. Requests for accessible materials should be made at least five days in advance by contacting Rosie Gordon-Wallace at rosie@dvcai.org or (305) 542-4277.
About The Container Project
On view November 20, 2025–April 17, 2026, The Container Project is a six-month exhibition and activation series curated by Rosie Gordon-Wallace and Breeana Thorne. Centered on the shipping container as a symbol of migration, memory, and care, the project asks: What’s in your container? How do we hold our histories, and how can creative practice transform grief into preservation and community?
About DVCAI
Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator (DVCAI) is a nonprofit arts organization dedicated to nurturing emerging artists from the Caribbean and Latin American Diaspora through exhibitions, residencies, international exchanges, awards, and dialogue in contemporary art. Founded in Miami, DVCAI is recognized globally as a leading platform for diasporic cultural production.
For more information, visit diasporavibe.org and follow @dvcai on social media.