iWitness @ The Betsy – the marriage of The Betsy Hotel South Beach and iWitness: IPC Institute of Visual Journalism at FIU – represents a collaborative commitment to community partnership that brings together creativity in art, hospitality and education to excite crowds about the need to continue to support democracy and justice, wherever they are found.
iWitness @ The Betsy serves as a bridge in a variety of ways, connecting the mainland to the beach, and reminding us how to find the foreign in the familiar and vice versa. iWItness @ The Betsy too creates space for ideas and people to engage about subjects that bring them from their community and their homes to a new home through public activations that inspire dialog and work toward solving our world’s most pressing challenges.
The inaugural exhibition is the work of Maria Daniel Balcazar from her Kilombo series in the café.