Hampton Art Lovers (HAL) will introduce its second installment of its Miami Art Week/Art Basel/Soul Basel art fair and show in 2021, during Art Basel and Miami Art Week. Point Comfort Art Fair + Show is held at the Historic Ward Rooming House Gallery, in Historic Overtown, Miami. The art show is held inside the gallery and the art fair behind the gallery in a fully enclosed, controlled tent.

The name “Point Comfort” is derived from the place in colonial Virginia where the first captives from the West African Kingdom of Ndongo (Angola) arrived in late August of 1619.

History teaches us that although the people of Ndongo and other African tribes lost their native tongues, many of their traditions continue in the song, dance, arts, rituals and cuisine of today's African American community. "Point Comfort Art Fair + Show" celebrates these remnants, we are thankful for what has survived and we showcase the African-American contributions to American fine art it has produced.

One of our key contributions to Miami Art Week is to showcase historical collections from Black institutions, 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.

Hampton Art Lovers

Hampton Art Lovers (HAL) was created to curate the works of legacy and emerging African- American fine artists for people, artists and brands. We create a narrative around the African- American story told through the eyes of the artists that lived it.

POINT COMFORT Art Fair & Show

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 thorough art. POINT COMFORT will feature ten speakers, book signings and the works of more than 10 artists from around the world spanning more than 100 years of creation. POINT COMFORT is a teachable moment, designed to pique curiosity, share legacies and facilitate the purchase of Black artwork. POINT COMFORT hosts artist talks, collector classes and other panels and discussions throughout Miami Art Week, including a discussion with Bisa Butler. Point Comfort's space include a bar and lounge/conversation area to host our Indaba conversations about art, collecting, art activism and more. Not only do we have our traditional two story space, we also build for Point Comfort an 80x40 feet tent with walls and a/c.

Point Comfort's 2021 Cultural Ambassador: Artist Bisa Butler. Bisa's cultural impact may exceed her art someday soon. In her work she is telling the story— The African American side— of this American life. Her use of vintage photos to bring light to untold stories through the medium of quilting is not just art. Butler’s works build on a long tradition, African-American women were needed for spinning, weaving, sewing and quilting on plantations and in other wealthy households in the antebellum south. As a historical textile art form, quilting is indelibly linked to the past. Black quiltmakers were obliged to encrypt messages in their quilts. They communicated with one another using signs and symbols both ordinary and supernatural. Bisa Butler's work today is beyond art,and we're honored to have her join Point Comfort as our cultural ambassador.

POINT COMFORT Art Fair “ARTISTS”

Rodney ‘BUCK!’ Herring

Dennis Manuel

Phillip Shung

Benford D. Stellmacher, Jr.

Gene Tinnie

Basil Watson

Purvis Young

POINT COMFORT ART FAIR + SHOW 2021

GENERAL SCHEDULE

Wed | Dec 01 | 04:00PM – 7:00PM

Thurs | Dec 02 | 11:00AM – 7:00PM

Fri | Dec 03 | 11:00AM – 7:00PM

Sat | Dec 04 | 11:00AM – 7:00PM

Sun | Dec 05 | 11:00AM – 7:00PM

SPECIAL EVENTS SCHEDULE
Wed | Dec 01 | 4:00PM – 8:00PM

VIP | Vernissage (Invite Only) Press Preview

Thu | Dec 2 | 7:00pm – 10:00pm

VIP | Opening Reception for Point Comfort Art Fair & Show

| Hosted by Bill Diggs, Clark Atlanta University Alumni &

Pi Delta Omega (PDO) Chapter Of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.

| Sponsored by City of Miami SE Overtown Park West CRA, Duke & Dame Whiskey and REEF Tech

Fri | Dec 3 | 5:00pm – 7:00pm

Indaba Art Conversations “Libraries as Arts and Culture Incubators for Underrepresented Artists” with Makiba Foster (Manager of the African-American Research Library and Research Center) & Tammi Lawson (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture) and Anthony “Mojo” Reed (Artist) Hosted by Former State Senator Dwight Bullard and Florida Rising

Sat | Dec 4 | 3:00pm – 5:00pm

Indaba Art Conversations | Writing on the Walls: Arts & Letters for Criminal Justice Reform

Featuring artist Hank Willis Thomas and Dr. Baz Dreisinger Moderated by Christopher Norwood, Hampton Art Lovers and Editorial Board of International Review of African American Art

Hosted by Exchange for Change

Rebecca VanDiver, assistant professor of history of art (John Russell/Vanderbilt University)

Sat | Dec 4 | 6:00pm – 8:00pm

Indaba Art Conversations | “The Women & Art Legacy of Howard University:

Alma Thomas, Lois Mailou Jones, Mildred Thompson to Bisa Butler with Love!”

| with Bisa Butler (Artist) and Dr. Rebecca Vandiver (Vanderbilt University), moderated by Dr. Rebecca Friedman (FIU - Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab)

Hosted by Howard University Alumni & FIU–Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab)

Sat | Dec 4 | 9:00pm

Indaba After Party (Rare Grooves)

Hosted By Artist Bisa Butler (Point Comfort's Official Cultural Ambassador)

Sun | Dec 5 | 7:00pm

The Gathering : Dinner Conversation on the State of Black Art

Presented by Hampton Art Lovers and Pigment Magazine “The Importance of Public Art” featuring Sculptors Basil Watson and Gerald Griffin | moderated by Christopher Norwood, Editorial Board– International Review of African-American Art

point comfort art fair + show 2021