Artist Talk with Pangea Kali Virga – To Be Dwellers With This Land

Join us at the Deering Estate Visitor Center Theater for an engaging Artist Talk with Pangea Kali Virga, as part of her solo exhibition To Be Dwellers With This Land, on view through July 20th.

Pangea will share insights into her creative process, the layered techniques behind her hand-embroidered textile works, and the ways her practice explores care and our relationships with land and ecology.

About the Exhibition:

The Deering Estate ‘Contemporary Currents’ series is an annual program that integrates contemporary art with collections and historic houses. Artists are selected from the roster of past and current Artists-in-Residence at the Deering Estate to display their work on the second floor of the Richmond Cottage for a three to six-month period.

For the upcoming exhibition, the Deering Estate will feature new work by Pangea Kali Virga (Deering Estate Artist-in-Residence, 2023- 2024). The exhibition consists of printed silk embroidered images displayed in The Garden Room - a charming wooden alcove inside the Richmond Cottage at Deering Estate.

To Be Dwellers With This Land will be on view from May 1st – July 20th, 2025 in the Garden Room of the Richmond Cottage at Deering Estate.

At the Richmond Cottage, visitors are invited to participate in ongoing interactive elements of the exhibition, including:
– The Poetry Post Office with rotating writing prompts
– A Scavenger Hunt Map to find locations featured in the artwork
– A Botanical Study Station for sketching and note-taking

About the Artist:
Pangea Kali Virga crafts experiential, dreamy, and fantastical worlds using fiber and community as her medium. Patchworked, embroidered, distressed, and woven, her work recontextualizes waste and beauty, inspiring play, curiosity, and action. Ornate and resilient, each stitch holds intention, every fiber meticulously collaged. Layered and maximalist, her textures beckon touch and closer examination in a rainbow of colors. Her work ranges from wall hangings, installations, sweeping 30ft gowns, and delicate palm-sized fiber collages—all created from upcycled materials. Rooted in nature, literature, and equity, her zero-waste practice challenges consumerist systems through workshops, lectures, and large-scale public art, fostering transparency and collective engagement.

About the Deering Estate Foundation: For those who treasure the Deering Estate, who advocate for its preservation and wish to invest in its future, The Deering Estate Foundation provides opportunities for individuals and corporations alike to partake in membership, signature events, and one-of-a-kind experiences, all in service of providing vital funding and support to the Deering Estate. Through these efforts, the foundation fulfills its mission to uphold the legacy of Charles Deering's cherished 1920s-era property, to provide funding for the cultural, educational and recreational experiences it offers, as well as its significant scientific and archaeological endeavors to conserve its diverse flora, fauna and the eight native ecosystems that thrive on its 450 acres, and to ensure its longevity as a prized American heritage site. Established in 1989, The Deering Estate Foundation, Inc. is a community-based charitable 501(c) 3 Florida Corporation and the philanthropic partner of the Deering Estate.

About the Deering Estate: Deering Estate, located at 16701 SW 72 Ave. in Miami, is a 21st Century house museum, cultural and ecological field station, and a national landmark listed on the National Register of Historic Places, owned by the State of Florida and managed by Miami-Dade County Parks, Recreation and Open Spaces Department. Deering Estate is designated as one of seven Miami Dade County “Heritage Parks” which have a vital role in our community’s history, environment and in providing recreational and cultural experiences.

Cultural Arts Programming at the Deering Estate is made possible with the support of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners, and The Deering Estate Foundation, Inc. Programming in the Deering Estate theater is also possible thanks to The Jorge M. Perez Family Foundation at The Miami Foundation.

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