BFI turns 20! Thank you for your support!


As we celebrate BF's 20th anniversary, we are filled with immense gratitude for the incredible support we have received from individuals and organizations like you. Your generosity has been instrumental in shaping BFI into the vibrant cultural hub it is today.

A special thank you to our current funders: John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation, the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners, the City of Miami Beach, Cultural Affairs Program. Thank you to supporters and collaborators through the years including the National Endowment for the Arts, the Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Council of Arts and Culture, the State of Florida, Cultural Arts Council, the Cowles Charitable Trust, Arts For Learning, The Royal Norwegian Consulate, Office of Contemporary Art Norway, The Miami-Dade County Office of Resilience, Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural affairs, Arts Resilient 305 program, A.I.R.I.E, ARTSail, and the Miami Downtown Development Authority.

Your generosity has helped us achieve our mission and reach new heights.

As a Nomadic Presenting organization, BFI has been able to maintain its presence in the community in partnership with venues such as the Deering Estate, Matheson Hammock, NADA Art Fair, Goldman Properties, DACRA, Scott Rakow Youth Center Ice Skating Rink, FontaineBleau, A-Z Toys, The Underline, Miami Beach Botanical Garden, PAMM, InterContinental Miami, Cologne Kunstverein, Moore Building, Billboards in LA & NYC, Colony Theater, FIU Architecture Lab, Mangos Nightclub, Little Haiti Cultural Center. NADA, Collins Park Rotunda, Bass Museum, Oleta State Park, The Standard Hotel, Ballyhoo Video Boat, a billboard off 1-95, Lowe Art Museum, Young Arts Gallery, Miami Beach Convention Center. O Miami. Trail Skate
Park, the Wolfsonian, Goulds Park, and Montgomery Botanical Center, and more.

We would also like to acknowledge the generosity of Craig Robbins and DACRA, who provided BFI with a home in the Design District from 2004 to 2011, as well as space for pop ups and a billboard.

Additionally, we are grateful to our colleagues at Dimensions Variable, TM Sisters, and Turn Based Press, who joined us at the Downtown Art House from 2012 to 2014.

YoungArts provided office space from 2015-17.

MANA Contemporary provided space from 2018-2021.

BF's exhibitions in 2021-22 were in a space generously provided by Miami Beach's Open House program and Goldman Properties for a year.

It truly takes a village to keep an art space thriving!

We would also like to thank key organizational collaborators like Bridge Initiative and Katherine Fleming for our multiyear collaboration dedicated to artists working with environmental issues affecting South Florida in the series "Waterproof Miami," The Rogaland Kunstsenter (Stavanger) and Hordaland Kunstsenter (Bergen) in Norway and the Fountainhead Residency in Miami for partnering on our reciprocal residency program "Heat Exchange: Art & Infrastructure from the Tropics to the Arctic, and the Miami Foundation for being our fiscal sponsor until we became a 501(c)3 in 2015.

Your contributions have played a crucial role in our success and continued growth. We look forward to many more years of collaboration and serving our community together.

Thank you to W.A.G.E. (Working Artists in the Greater Economy) for normalizing artist fees and creating a certification process to highlight organizations who pay artists for their labor.

BFI is pleased to have been the first W.A.G.E. certified organization in Florida, and to have been certified annually since 2014.

Most importantly, thank you to the 150+ artists we have had the privilege of presenting
exhibitions, talks, performances, readings, bus tours, and more.

You are the reason we exist and continue to blaze forward!