Motion: Archive and Performance as Preservation

During Miami Art Week, Legion Park becomes a site of artistic and athletic exchange. In conversation with Najja Moon’s Project Backboard mural, The program includes a shooting contest based on the mural’s geometry, free limited-edition prints, and a pop-up exhibition by the Black Women’s Basketball Museum and VIS World. Together, they center Black women’s contributions to basketball, archiving, celebrating, and educating through storytelling that reshapes the game’s legacy. This rounds out an afternoon celebrating how play preserves culture.

Presented with support from Project Backboard

Project Backboard is a 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to renovate public basketball courts and install large scale works of site-specific art on the surface in order to strengthen communities, improve park safety, encourage multi-generational play, and inspire people to think more critically and creatively about their environment.

The show features works from:

Ashley Teamer

Charlyn Griffith Oro

Jeannine Kayembe Oro

Najja Moon

Naima Green

Whether you’re a basketball fan, art enthusiast, Miami local, or Art Week visitor, Motion: Archive and Performance as Preservation invites you to witness basketball’s blended beauty of movement, memory, and meaning.

Info: Taking place on the basketball courts at Legion Park, attendee's can participate in a shooting contest based on the geometry of Najja Moon's Project Backboard mural, Uncommon Routes. The first 100 participants will be gifted a limited edition print by Najja Moon.

Info: The Black Women's Basketball Museum and VIS World are co-producing a pop-up exhibition featuring a selection pieces from the museums collection along side works by contemporary artist.

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