What Takes Root
Nov 14, 2026
weekly on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday - Through Apr 11, 2027
From: 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM
New acquisitions and works collected over nearly three decades offer a view of South Florida’s artistic community and its connections to the Frost Art Museum. On view Saturday, November 14, 2026 through Sunday, April 11, 2027 at the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU, What Takes Root introduces the Green Family Collection, an initiative supporting and collecting work by artists connected to the region.
The exhibition builds on acquisitions funded by the Dorothea and Steven Green Endowment, beginning in 1997 with Rubén Torres-Llorca’s Evasion Plan. Earlier purchases, including works by José Bedia, Adler Guerrier and Yanira Collado, appear alongside the new collection’s inaugural acquisitions.
These additions feature works by Nereida Garcia Ferráz, Loni Johnson, Silvia Lizama, Shayla Marshall, Reginald O’Neal, Chire (VantaBlack) Regans and Roscoè B. Thické III. The broader exhibition includes contributions by artists and writers such as Edwidge Danticat, Jess T. Dugan, Abelardo Morell, Onajide Shabaka and Tom Virgin.
Admission is free. The museum is open Tuesday through Sunday and closed Mondays and most legal and university holidays.
Image: Onajide Shabaka, Toward the sea a river flows (sun), 2017. Mixed media and collage on paper, 14 ½ x 17 ½ inches. Collection of the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum. Museum Purchase with the Dorothea Green Emerging Artist Fund. FIU 2022.17.1