by Isabella Marie Garcia, BURNAWAY.
Isabella Marie Garcia interviews Miami-based artist and poet Arsimmer McCoy about turning her home into the Carol City Museum, along with the importance of preserving the histories of her family and neighborhood.
“I also want people to come in here and just see the work. Maybe they don’t know the artist, but they’re like, man that looks like me, that feels like me, and I’m also in a safe space that feels like home, where I can experience this work in comfort, right? And safety, you know, without the white walls and the queues. I want that for other people, where they can stand there for hours and just try to communicate what they’re feeling between themselves and the work.” -Arsimmer McCoy