Awards, Fellowships from Several Organizations Go to Miami-Dade County based recipients

Bo Ty and Liz Ferrer, known as LIZN’BOW received the Knight Foundations Knight Arts + Tech Awards, which awards $50,000. (Photo courtesy of the artists)

Miami-Dade County is well represented in the recent announcement of awards and fellowships from several organizations.

The Women Photographers Artist International (WOPHA) selected Miami-based writer and researcher Lauren Baccus as one of its 2026 Research Fellows.

Baccus writes about arts education, contemporary art, and Caribbean visual culture with a focus on identity, memory and belonging in the Caribbean and its diasporas.

The Women Photographers Artist International (WOPHA) selected Miami-based writer and researcher Lauren Baccus as one of its 2026 Research Fellows. (Photo by Anya Tatum)

Her proposal “Intimate Archives and Black Feminist Memory” examines how Caribbean women photographers use images of family and everyday life to preserve personal histories often erased by official history.

WOPHA’s fellowship supports two writers researching women and nonbinary voices in photography. Fellows receive funding to produce a scholarly essay, along with mentorship and publication opportunities.

The South Florida Cultural Consortium (SFCC) awarded grants to 14 individual artists, including 10 based in Miami-Dade County.

The consortium is made up of the arts councils of Broward County, Martin County, Miami-Dade County, Monroe County and Palm Beach County.

The Miami-based winners include:

Mark Delmont is a multidisciplinary artist whose work incorporates wood, metal, steel, denim and leather elements. (Photo courtesy of SFCC)

Mark Delmont, a multidisciplinary artist whose work incorporates wood, metal, steel, denim and leather elements.

Diana Larrea, a Peruvian documentary filmmaker, photographer and visual artist.

Amanda Linares, a Cuban-born multidisciplinary artist based at the Bakehouse Art Complex whose work is rooted in materials and responds to specific sites.

Amanda Lineras is a Cuban-born multidisciplinary artist based at the Bakehouse Art Complex. (Photo courtesy of SFCC)

Rachelle Salnave, a Haitian American filmmaker and producer whose work focuses on the global Black experience.

Onajide Shabaka, an interdisciplinary artist, writer and curator focusing on geographic historical and historical themes of the African diaspora and Native American cultures.

Rachelle Salnave is a Haitian American filmmaker and producer whose work focuses on the global Black experience. (Photo courtesy of SFCC)

Lauren Shapiro, a ceramic sculptor and installation artist whose studio is at the Bakehouse Art Complex and who creates site-specific artworks inspired by marine and botanical systems.

Nina Surel, a multidisciplinary artist whose ceramic pieces are inspired by rites of passage and themes of fertility. She is based at The 62 Collective in Liberty City.

Miami-born photographers Elliot and Erick Jiménez first solo museum exhibition, “El Monte” in August at PAMM. (Photo courtesy of the artists)

Lisu Vega, a Venezuelan American fiber artist whose multidisciplinary work incorporates engraving, photography, sculpture, installation and fashion art.

Elliot and Erick Jiménez, Cuban American twin brothers and Miami natives whose photographs blur the line between photography and painting. The duo’s exhibition “Elliot and Erick Jiménez: El Monte” was recently shown at the Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM).

All the artists’ works are exhibited in a special exhibition at the Works by the grant recipients are on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami through Oct. 4, 2026.

The Knight Foundation Knight Arts + Tech Awards granted $50,000 to five artists. The grant supports artists working at the intersection of art and technology.

Among the recipients were Miami-based LIZN’BOW (Liz Ferrer and Bow Ty), a collaborative duo whose practice spans performance, video, music, immersive installation and new media using pop culture and social commentary.

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