Rosa Naday Garmendia

Rosa Naday Garmendia is a contemporary visual activist, educator and cultural producer. She was born in La Habana, Cuba and immigrated to the United States with her parents at the age of eight. Rosa produces work at the nexus of contemporary art and social action. She is committed to creativity, activism, and social change. Hers is a kind of social practice; her aim is to use art as a vehicle to affect social change by raising awareness, building solidarity and working with individuals, communities, and institutions in the process. Rosa Naday speaks English, Spanish and Haitian Kreyol. Since 2008, she balances her studio practice with her position as a museum educator and thought leader at the Perez Art Museum Miami. Through the discourse of artistic practice, she continues to reaffirm her place in a larger community that transcends socially imposed geographical and ethnic borders envisioning alternative futures for humanity.