This season, MOCA Makers welcomes participants to delve into how memory, material, and meaning endure through artistic expression. Archives as Practice reimagines MOCA’s well-loved monthly workshops as a focused series exploring archival methods.

Food as Archive, led by Nadege Green, community historian and founder of Black Miami-Dade, examines how Bahamian migrants carried knowledge, labor, and foodways that helped form Miami’s early foundations and continue to shape the city’s living archive. As part of the MOCA Makers series, the workshop invites participants to layer conch salad recipes with archival photographs, historical texts, and visual materials documenting Bahamian life in early Miami from the late 1800s through the 1940s. Through collage-based artmaking, participants explore food as both an artistic medium and a historical record, considering how everyday practices preserve cultural memory.

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