Organizer Information
The Green Family Foundation Caribbean Cultural Institute (CCI) is an elite curatorial and research platform anchored within the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM). In deliberate institutional collaboration with the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center at Florida International University (FIU-LACC), Green Space Miami, and the Bakehouse Art Complex, the institute champions art scholarship and material production across fluid linguistic borders. By offering targeted access to foundational archives, permanent museum holdings, and academic infrastructure, the CCI works to challenge traditional definitions of Caribbean art and elevate diasporic contemporary discourse.
Title & Description
The 2026 CCI Fellowship Program.
Positioned at the intersection of critical scholarship, studio research, and institutional cross-pollination, this annual initiative invites creators to apply across three distinct, self-directed program strands. Running concurrently from September through December 2026, the fellowships are engineered to empower independent cultural practitioners whose practices demand deep territorial research, archival examination, or scale-focused asset production. The individual tracks are organized as follows:
1. 2026 CCI Artist Fellowship
Tailored specifically to develop fine art practices via concentrated studio labor, localized critical mentoring, and public engagement.
- Residency Mapping: The selected fellow is hosted physically in Miami for up to two months, benefiting from a dedicated, professional studio workspace hosted in partnership with the Bakehouse Art Complex.
- Financial Package: A comprehensive living stipend, fully covered round-trip travel expenses, private local accommodations, and a customized project production budget of up to $4,000 USD mapped to the proposal's technical complexity.
2. 2026 CCI Research Fellowship
A four-month hybrid framework targeting researchers whose historical or theoretical inquiries advance contemporary art historical scholarship in the region.
- Residency Mapping: Includes a mandatory two-week physical residency block in Miami to execute immersive archival research at FIU-LACC repositories and view PAMM's collection vault.
- Financial Package: Fully covered return travel and Miami housing, an unrestricted research stipend, and covered research-related expenses of up to $1,000 USD. Laureates are required to produce a scholarly essay for digital publication on the CCI site and FIU platforms.
3. 2026 CCI + Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA) Fellowship
A multi-institutional hybrid tract open to lens-based and image-collecting practitioners, running dynamically from September through November.
- Residency Mapping: Features a concentrated one-month physical residency at El Espacio 23 in Miami during September, backed by extensive remote mentoring blocks.
- Financial Package: Complete round-trip airfare, a structured living stipend, and a material production budget of up to $4,000 USD to expand or finalize an ongoing photographic series.
Categories
- Visual Arts, Photography (Including image-making with or without cameras, automated, computational, or augmented processes, and media archiving/circulation),
- Art History / Research,
- Curatorial Practice
Eligibility
- Geographic Baseline: Open to artists, cultural workers, scholars, and curators from the Caribbean region or its global diaspora contexts.
- Career Milestones: The Research track targets both established and highly promising scholars. The Artist and WOPHA tracts target emerging to mid-career creators.
- Visa Mandate: PAMM cannot provide or sponsor international visas. Non-U.S. applicants must independently secure necessary travel validation or visas prior to the fellowship start date.
Fees
- Application Fee: None (Free to submit across all portals).
Application Requirements
Dossiers should preferably be composed in English. All required items must be compiled into one consolidated PDF document and uploaded directly via SlideRoom.
- Dossier Assets for Artist & WOPHA Tracks:
- Cover Letter: Detailing your interest and outlining exactly why PAMM's curatorial resources match your objectives (Maximum 500 words).
- Curriculum Vitae (CV): Summarizing training and exhibitions, including current contact references for two professional look-backs (Maximum 5 pages).
- Artist Statement: Defining your conceptual framework and material methods (Maximum 500 words).
- Project Proposal: An itemized narrative breaking down your conceptual goals, along with a provisional budget and execution timeline (Maximum 1,000 words).
- Portfolio Dossier: Supporting visual sheets or up to 3 high-quality digital media files.
- Dossier Assets for the Research Track: Requires a specialized Cover Letter (500 words max), professional CV (5 pages max), Project Proposal with a budget and collection integration timeline (1,000 words max), and two recent academic writing samples.
How to Apply?
Authenticate your credentials on PAMM’s official SlideRoom module, fill out the basic questionnaire fields, and upload your single consolidated PDF dossier to the correct track tab.
Key Dates
- Application Deadline: Monday, June 1, 2026, at 11:59 PM EDT (Eastern Daylight Time).
- Fellowship Term Window: Individualized blocks executing between September and December 2026.
Location
United States, Miami, FL (Pérez Art Museum Miami base, 1103 Biscayne Blvd).
Additional Details
For specialized queries regarding the cataloging of Caribbean works currently held in the museum collection archives to build out your proposal, contact the curatorial office directly at cci@pamm.org.