Programs & Funding

What we produce, and how it's paid for.

Moksha Arts Collective is a 501(c)(3) public charity. Since 2004 we have produced public arts and education programming in Miami — supported by grants, earned revenue, and community giving.

We are an artist-run organization. The work is produced by the collective itself — artists, musicians, curators, and technicians who build, install, staff, and perform the programs described below.

Core programs

The Moksha Lecture Series

Public education

A multidisciplinary public lecture program presenting scholars, researchers, and community leaders on art, history, public health, and the environment. Presenters have included ethnopharmacologist Dr. Dennis McKenna, physician Dr. Joe Tafur, MD, registered nurse and maternal-health educator Barbara Harper, RN, author John Zerzan, Sub Pop Records co-founder Bruce Pavitt, and Miccosukee environmental advocate Rev. Houston Cypress.

Community outcomeFree and low-cost educational programming for Miami residents.

The Moksha Art Fair

Annual exhibition

An annual multi-day exhibition held during Art Basel Miami Beach week, presenting local, national, and international visual artists alongside panel discussions, live painting, and performance. Editions have included Return to the Dreamtime, Cybermystics, Eagle Meets Condor, and Entheosis.

Community outcomeExhibition access and sales opportunities for emerging and established artists.

Afro Roots World Music Festival

Community festival

A long-running annual world-music festival presented in partnership with Community Arts & Culture, bringing Caribbean, African, and Latin American musical traditions to Miami audiences across more than two decades of consecutive editions.

Community outcomeMulticultural programming for Little Haiti and greater Miami.

Everglades Awareness Benefit Concert

Environmental outreach

An annual benefit concert and awareness campaign supporting Everglades conservation, produced in collaboration with the Love The Everglades Movement and regional environmental advocates.

Community outcomeDirect fundraising and public awareness for Everglades protection.

Moksha Roots Live

Performance series & earned revenue

A recurring live-music series presenting Miami and touring artists across reggae, roots, jazz, funk, and electronic traditions. Ticketed admission from this series is earned revenue that pays performing artists, sound and lighting technicians, and gallery staff — and subsidizes the organization's free educational and exhibition programming.

Community outcomePaid work for local musicians and technicians; operating support for free programs.

Festival & community outreach

Partnerships

Curated Moksha galleries, artist villages, and workshop spaces presented at regional festivals including the Virginia Key GrassRoots Festival, the Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival, and the 9 Mile Music Festival — extending arts access beyond the gallery walls.

Community outcomeArts programming for audiences outside traditional venues.

MokshaVR

Digital access

A free, publicly accessible virtual gallery built in VRChat, allowing anyone with a computer or headset to experience Moksha exhibitions remotely — developed during the 2020 closure of physical venues and maintained since.

Community outcomeNo-cost, geography-independent access to exhibitions.

Accessibility & accommodation

Access

Moksha Arts Collective complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act and provides accessible-format materials, sign language interpretation, and other accommodations on request for all public programming.

Community outcomeEquitable participation in every program we produce.

How we are funded

A mixed-revenue model, typical of a small arts charity.

Moksha Arts Collective is funded through public arts grants, earned revenue from ticketed programming, individual donations, event sponsorships, and sales of artist merchandise and editions. Grant awards have historically required the organization to maintain active, documented public programming and a physical venue — obligations our performance calendar directly served.

Ticketed music and performance events are an earned-revenue program, not a separate commercial venture. Admission from those events pays performing artists, production crew, and gallery staff, covers rent and insurance on the exhibition space, and underwrites the lecture series, art fair, and outreach programming that are offered free or at low cost. For twelve years this model kept a working gallery and studio open in Miami's Little Haiti and Little River neighborhoods.

  • Public arts grants
  • Earned revenue from ticketed programming
  • Individual donations and memberships
  • Merchandise and artist editions
  • Event sponsorships

Fiscal transparency. Moksha Arts Collective, Inc is a federally recognized 501(c)(3) public charity. Our IRS determination and annual Form 990 filings are available through the IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search, and we will provide copies on request — contact info@mokshafamily.org.

The venue

7th Circuit Studios — how a small charity held a large space.

For twelve years Moksha Arts Collective was housed at 7th Circuit Studios in Miami's Little Haiti and Little River neighborhoods. The building operated as a shared facility: 7th Circuit Productions, a full-service production and rehearsal company, occupied and serviced the space, while the Collective used it as gallery, studio, lecture hall, and performance venue.

The arrangement was reciprocal rather than purely cash. 7th Circuit contributed rent and, more often, offset it in kind — supplying stage, sound, lighting, and video production for Moksha programming, along with equipment storage and venue access. That in-kind production support is why a charity operating on well under $60,000 a year could mount an Art Basel-week art fair, a recurring lecture series, and a monthly performance calendar. Volunteer labor from the collective's own artists and technicians did the rest.

The production company's client roster over that period included the Miami-Dade Department of Cultural Affairs, the Mayor and Board of County Commissioners, the University of Miami, the Wolfsonian, MOCA and MAM, the Miami Museum of Science & Planetarium, the Miami Light Project Foundation, the Haitian Cultural Center, and the Rhythm Foundation — the same institutional ecosystem the Collective's programming sat inside.

For clarity: 7th Circuit Productions is a separate entity from Moksha Arts Collective, Inc. Artists and clients booked by the production company are not presented here as Collective programming. The names on our honor roll are drawn only from events the Collective itself produced or co-presented.

Grantmakers, sponsors, and partners — we're glad to share programming history, audience numbers, and financials.

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