Rosie Gordon Wallace
Vice-Chair, Rosie Gordon Wallace is a recognized curator, arts advocate, community leader, and pioneer in advancing contemporary diasporic art. She founded the Diaspora Vibe Culture Arts Incubator (DVCAI) in 1996 to serve as a local and global laboratory dedicated to promoting, nurturing, and cultivating the vision and diverse talents of emerging artists from the Caribbean Diaspora, artists of color, and immigrant artists. Twenty-six years later, DVCAI is recognized as a global resource and one of the region's leading platforms dedicated to providing diaspora artists a venue to explore and experience new forms and themes that challenge traditional definitions of Caribbean and Latin American art. DVCAI artists have traveled and conversed with artists in France, Barbados, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Antigua, Suriname, Guadeloupe, and Belize. In addition to her service on several prominent boards, she is an active member of the PAMM fund for African American Art, the Knight Foundation Cultural Award, The African Heritage Cultural Arts Center, the Third Annual Calabash Amodlazi Visual Arts Award, International Businesswomen of the Year, One of South Florida's 50 Most Powerful Black Professionals to name a few. One of her most recent curatorial projects is Inter \ Sectionality Diaspora Art from the Creole City, which opened at the Corcoran Art Museum, the Harvey B Gantt Center for African American Art + Culture, and the Miami Design District Artspace.