Third Annual Reception for the PAMM Fund for African American Art

Photography by on February 18th, 2016 in Culture

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Miami Beach, FL – February 16, 2016 – Over 800 guests attended the Pérez Art Museum Miami’s Third Annual Reception for the PAMM Fund for African American Art, which marked as its most successful year to date. The annual event, sponsored for the third consecutive year by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, was the first for PAMM Director Franklin Sirmans, who took the helm at PAMM this past October. Sirmans announced the Fund’s newest acquisitions, three major new works by artists Nari Ward, Romare Bearden and Lorraine O’Grady, to an overflowing auditorium. The lively event featured performances by PAMM exhibition artist Nari Ward, Ground (In Progress) with local dancers, Girl Power’s Girls’ Choir of Miami, and “downtown soul” collective Ketchy Shuby.

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Franklin & Jessica Sirmans, & Jorge M. Pérez

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Jessica Sirmans, Patricia Papper, & Dede Moss

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Aurelia Crews & Philip Levine

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Keon Hardemon & Philip Levine

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Keon Hardemon, Philip Levine, Jessica Sirmans, & Jeff Krinsky

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Alberto Ibarguen

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Diedra Harris-Kelley

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Marilyn Holifield

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Barron Channer

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Franklin Sirmans

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Barron Channer, Alberto Ibargüen, Keon Hardemon, Daniella Levine Cava, Audrey Edmonson, Carlos Gimenez, Oliver Gilbert, Philip Levine, & Franklin Sirmans

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Daniella Levine Cava, Audrey Edmonson, Carlos Gimenez. Keon Hardemon, Philip Levine, & Oliver Gilbert

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Chef Irie, Julie Mansfield, Willowstine Lawson, & Alfonso Brooks

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Barron Channer, Eric Knowles, Keon Hardemon, & Andy Ingraham

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Kiara Garland, Barron Channer, & Rosenny Augustine

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Marlon Hill, Christia Alou, Dee Dunham, Carla Hill, Allison Cammack, Oliver Gilbert, & Ashlee Thomas

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William Cordova & Franklin Sirmans

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Larry Ossei-Mensah & Kennedy Yanko

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Marilyn Holifield & Roslyn Clark Artis

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Loretta Mcneir & Donna Ginn

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Nancy Ancrum, Robbie Bell, Harold Logan, & Etienne Logan

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Alfonso Brooks, Bridget Edwards, & Julie Mansfield

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Tomas Esson & Edouard Duval Carrie

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Erica Knowles, Fabiola Fleuranvil, & Olisa Adger

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Jessica Sirmans & Deena Daughtry

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Heather Maloney, Deborah Mellen, & Rachel Lehmann

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Pieter Bockweg, Steven Gombinski, Jeff Krinsky, & Yvette Costas

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Tanya Desdunes, Maya Amina Harrison, T Robertson Carter, & Tommy Ralph Pace

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Alejandro De Onis, Michael Bolden, & Victoria Rogers

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Steven Gombinski, Yvette Costas, & Jeff Krinsky