next editionPoint Comfort '26
Art Fair + Show
December 2 - December 6, 2026
Point Comfort Art Fair + Show 2025 will be an immersive experience that features art, discussions, and community engagement.
Point Comfort Art Fair & Show returns to Miami's Historic Overtown during Miami Art Week 2026 with The Black Atlantic, an exploration of the artistic, intellectual, and cultural connections that unite Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and the Americas.
Through exhibitions, artist conversations, institutional dialogues, photography, literature, and music, Point Comfort examines how people of African descent have transformed the Atlantic from a geography of displacement into a space of cultural exchange, resistance, creativity, and collective identity.
The 2026 edition features Loïs Mailou Jones: Across the Black Atlantic, presenting 20 works and ephemera documenting the extraordinary artistic journey of one of the twentieth century's most important African American artists. A complementary installation, Safe Harbors: Mapping Freedom Across the Black Atlantic, features works by contemporary artist Brandon Clarke examining the histories and geographies of Black refuge, mobility, and self-determination.
Together, these exhibitions establish a framework for conversations about the artists, institutions, and cultural traditions that connect communities throughout the African diaspora.
Set in Historic Overtown, one of Miami's most significant centers of Black commerce, hospitality, music, and cultural life, Point Comfort celebrates the enduring power of Africana artistic expression while creating opportunities for cultural exchange and collaboration.
If the Atlantic was the space that separated African peoples, art became the language that reunited them. The Black Atlantic speaks many languages, but art is its most enduring voice.”
— Christopher M. Norwood, Co-Founder, Hampton Art Lovers
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Point Comfort’s Indaba Lounge Series brings people together ART, CONVERSATIONS, and VIBES. The word “Indaba” is Swahili for “come together” or “meeting of great minds”. Our Indaba Lounge Series includes our Opening Reception, Art Talks, musical vibes curated by musicologists.
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Hampton Art Lovers presents the Point Comfort Art Fair + Show in Historic Overtown at the Historic Ward Rooming House during Miami Art Week/Art Basel/Soul Basel 2024. Point Comfort comprises an art exhibition and the Indaba Lounge Series at the Historic Ward Rooming House and Gardens. They are sponsored by the City of Miami Southeast Overtown/Park West Community Revitalization Agency & Art of Black (Greater Miami Convention & Tourism Bureau), 100 Black Men of Florida, Miami-Dade Economic & Advocacy Trust, FIU-Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab, E11even Vodka and Duke + Dame Whiskey.
The name “Point Comfort” derives from colonial Virginia where the first captives from the West African Kingdom of Ndongo (Angola) arrived in 1619. The people of Ndongo and other African tribes lost their native tongues and many of their traditions here in America. Through tremendous adversity, remnants of these lost traditions continue to express themselves in today's African-American community's song, dance, art, and crafts. "Point Comfort Art Fair + Show" celebrates those remnants. “We're not just selling art” – The show is a curated, multi-dimensional experience designed to tell the powerful narrative of the African-American experience through art and conversation. POINT COMFORT is a teachable moment, designed to pique curiosity, share legacies and facilitate the purchase of Black artwork. Point Comfort provides a platform for African-American masters of American fine art at the largest art exposition in North America (Miami Art Week). Providing invaluable exposure to an international audience of art professionals, collectors, lovers, and patrons of the arts.
Point Comfort '26 Schedule
general scheduleFriday, Dec 04
12:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Saturday, Dec 05
12:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Sunday, Dec 06
12:00 PM – 6:00 PM
special eventsPhoto Gallery
Past Editions
Point Comfort 2024
Art Fair + Show
Dec 5 - Dec 8 2024
Our mantra for this year is “Ubuntu : I Am Because We Are”.
The African Bantu word “ubuntu” means “humanity” but can also be translated as “I am because we are”. In the immortal words of John Lewis, “We are one people, one family, the human family, and what affects one of us affects us all”.
Point Comfort 2023
Art Fair + Show
Dec 7 - Dec 10, 2023
Our mantra for this year is Be For the Culture/Before the Culture: Celebrating Hip Hop's Golden Jubilee.
It is a celebration of the 50th anniversary of hip hop. We curated our fair with works based on the inspiration of this transformative cultural institution with an enduring legacy that continues to alter America and the planet.
Point Comfort 2022
Art Fair + Show
Dec 1 - Dec 4, 2022
A multi-dimensional experience designed to tell the powerful narrative of the African-American experience through art and conversation.
Point Comfort provides a platform for African American masters of American fine art at the largest art exposition in North America (Miami Art Week). Providing inestimable exposure to an international audience of art professionals, collectors, lovers and patrons of the arts.
Point Comfort 2021
Art Fair + Show
Dec 2 - Dec 5, 2021
This year we feature "One Way Ticket: Movement, Migration and Liberty” featuring Langston Hughes, Jacob Lawrence, Charles White, Henry Tanner, Lois Mailou Jones and Elizabeth Catlett" from The Norwood Collection.
African-Americans have always attempted to find freedom in foreign lands, whether from the South to the North during the Great Migration, or to Mexico where Elizabeth Catlett fled to in te 1940s to escape the American government. Henry Tanner left Philadelphia in the 1890s to Paris to become the first internationally recognized African-American Artist or Louis Mailou Jones who found a home in France and Haiti and became the first Black female artist to attain international fame. These artists are worthy to be honored as pioneers. Some took a "One Way Ticket" to never return to their birthplaces, we celebrate their boldness to dream and aspire for respect outside of the confines of America.