With La Vaughn Belle, Danny Báez, Christopher Cozier, and Daniela Fifi, moderated by Tiana Webb‑Evans‍

Artists and cultural leaders across the Caribbean are building platforms that foster risk, experimentation, and mutual support for emerging generations. Grounded in shared cultural histories and local networks, this panel explores how community-led initiatives create space for new voices, material practices, and forms of artistic freedom.

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Bios

Danny Báez hails from Kiskeya and is a former co-founder of the MECA International Art Fair in the Greater Antilles and helped establish ARTNOIR, where he's now a co-founder and board member. He also founded REGULARNORMAL and co-created the DAIRA Agency. Danny serves on the boards of NADA and ISCP and actively promotes transparency in the art market.

Christopher Cozier ( b.1959, Port of Spain ) is an artist, living and working in Trinidad and a co-director of Alice Yard, which participated in documenta 15. He was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2004), is a Prince Claus Award laureate (2013), a Pérez Prize recipient from the Pérez Art Museum Miami (2023) and the Roy Lichtenstein Award (2026).

Through his notebook drawings to installations derived from recorded staged actions, Cozier investigates how Caribbean historical and current experiences can inform understandings of the wider contemporary world.

Exhibitions include the 5th & 7th Havana Biennials, Infinite Island, The Brooklyn Museum (2007), Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic, TATE Liverpool (2010), Entanglements, The Broad Museum, Michigan (2015), Relational Undercurrents, MOLAA, L.A. (2017) and The Sea is History, Historiskmuseum, Oslo (2019).

Cozier participated in the public program of 10th Berlin Biennial (2018), exhibited in the 14th Sharjah Biennial (2019), the 11th Liverpool Biennial in (2021), Experiences of Oil, the Stavanger Museum, Más Allá, el Mar Canta, The Times Art Centre, Berlin (2021), Forecast Forms at the MCA, Chicago (2022) and Unraveling The ( under - ) Development Complex, Savvy, Berlin (2023), Prospect 6 (2024), Project Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica at the Art Institute of Chicago (2024) and the 36th Bienal de Sao Paulo (2025).  In 2026, works are in Dancing the Revolution, from Dancehall to Reggaeton at MCA Chicago. His works were recently acquired for the collections of the MCA in Chicago and MoMA, NY.

Daniela Fifi, Ed.D., has worked in the museum field for over a decade, dedicating her career to advancing museums' inclusivity and using education as a viable tool to bridge communities. She has won competitive awards such as the Samuel H Kress Fellowship at the Miriam D Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University, the Whitney Museum of American Art Museum Education Fellowship, and the New York State Assembly Caribbean Life Impact Award, to name a few.

La Vaughn Belle makes visible the unremembered. Through exploring the material culture of coloniality Belle creates narratives from fragments and silences. Working in a variety of disciplines her practice includes: painting, installation, photography, writing, video and public interventions. Her work with colonial era pottery led to a commission with the renowned brand of porcelain products, the Royal Copenhagen. She has exhibited her work in the Caribbean, the USA and Europe in institutions such as the Museo del Barrio (NY), Casa de las Americas (Cuba), the Museum of the African Diaspora (CA) and Kunsthal Charlottenborg (DK) with large solo exhibitions at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art (SC) and the National Nordic Museum (WA). Her art is in the collections of the National Photography Museum and the Vestsjælland Museum in Denmark and the National Gallery of Art and the Virgina Fine Art Museum in the U.S. She is the co-creator of I Am Queen Mary, the artist-led groundbreaking monument that confronted the Danish colonial amnesia while commemorating the legacies of resistance of the African people who were brought to the former Danish West Indies. The project was featured in over 100 media outlets around the world including the NY Times, Politiken, VICE, the BBC and Le Monde. Her work has also been written about in Hyperallergic, Artforum, Small Axe and numerous journals and books. Belle holds an MFA from the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana, Cuba and an MA and BA from Columbia University in NY.

Tiana Webb‑Evans is a writer, cultural producer, and strategist working across global contexts at the intersection of art, design, architecture, and hospitality. She is the founder of ESP Group, Yard Concept, and the Jamaica Art Society, and producer of The Rhythm of Jamaican Art.

Webb‑Evans serves on the Board of the National Gallery of Jamaica, where she leads the Exhibition Committee. She also serves on the boards of Project for Empty Space, the Female Design Council, and is on the advisory committee for Art at a Time Like This.