The 'Everyday People' exhibition, part of Miami's Soul Basel celebration, has opened in Overtown across three venues: the City of Miami Black Police Precinct Courthouse and Museum, the Overtown Performing Arts Center, and The OVRTWN Corner. Featuring over 80 artworks by Black artists from around the world, the exhibit is curated by Terrance Cribbs-Lorrant, executive director of the Black Police Precinct Museum, and Elijah Rashaed, a curator from the Dayton, Ohio NAACP. The show includes historic works from the Miami Black Art Workshop, a pioneering 1970s collective that helped ignite South Florida's Black visual arts movement, and will run through March 2026.
The exhibition originated at the Carr Center in Detroit earlier in 2025, where it debuted in two parts curated by Rashaed and Dalia Reyes. Cribbs-Lorrant visited the Detroit show and felt compelled to bring it to Overtown, a historic Black neighborhood in Miami. The exhibition matters because it not only celebrates contemporary Black artistry but also honors Miami's own artistic lineage, weaving together community history, sensory experiences, and cultural pride. By situating the show in venues that were once a church and a corner store, the organizers emphasize the everyday roots of Black life and art, making the exhibition deeply resonant for local audiences and a model for community-centered curation.