Friday, February 17: Fair Day I

12 - 6pm | Fair hours

Saturday, February 18: Fair Day II

10am - 7pm | Fair hours

Sunday, February 19: Fair Day III

10am - 4pm | Fair hours

Fair tickets are free and open to the public, and must be reserved through Eventbrite..

The closest airport is Miami International Airport (MIA) which is about 15 minutes drive to Tropic Bound. THe next closest airport is Fort Lauderdale / Hollywood International Airport (FLL) which is about 45 minutes from the fair.

Tropic Bound takes place in the Miami Design District, accessible by highways I-95 and 195.

Valet parking is available by the entrance to Paradise Plaza. Garage parking is available with pricing starting at $3 for 4 hours at the Paradise Plaza Garage, entrance on NE 41 Street, and includes EV charging stations. The Palm Court Garage offers the same pricing and amenities with an entrance on 38th street which is a just few short blocks of walking through the heart of the design district to the venue. Limited metered street parking is available.

Miami Weather
Miami’s weather in February is generally, amazing. It can vary from the brisk sweater weather, to a balmy beach day. No matter the weather, the sun here is powerful year round. We strongly recommend wearing sun protection in the form of SPF and/or a hat and sunglasses when outside. Winter is our dry season, rainstorms are not expected, and there will be no hurricanes - promise.

Tropic Bound and Miami Design District organizers take health and safety concerns seriously and will follow local regulations. We encourage all exhibitors to be up to date on their COVID and Flu shots and boosters, but will not be enforcing a mask mandate. Face masks will be offered to exhibitors and visitors free of charge. Sanitation stations will be available throughout the fair.

There is a huge variety of lodging options in Miami including luxury hotels, quirky boutique hotels, historic motels, corporate hotels and AirBnb-style options. Below is a list of accommodations we recommend:

Midtown Area - an urban area of shops and restaurants within walking distance to the Tropic Bound venue

Hyde Midtown, 101 NE 34th St, Miami

AC Hotel by Marriot Miami Wynwood, 3400 Biscayne Blvd, Miami

Hampton Inn and Suites, 3450 Biscayne Blvd, Miami

Mimo Area - an historic strip filled with iconic mid-century hotels, unique restaurants and cafes

Vagabond Hotel in Mimo District, 7301 Biscayne Blvd, Miami

Selina Gold Dust in Mimo District, 7700 Biscayne Blvd, Miami,

The New Yorker, 6500 Biscayne Blvd, Miami

Description text How can dealers, collectors, and librarians work together to embrace growth, change, and risk in the acquisition of rare and distinctive materials? "Canonical books" are those which are generally considered to be sacred or sanctioned by the governing power structure of a discipline. Does the world of artists' books have its own canons? If so, what norms of power do they reinforce?

Beyond a simple plea for de-centering old canons or establishing new ones, this talk examines how a radically exploratory and collaborative approach to collections development might effectively counteract hierarchical systems of appraisal that remain embedded with legacies of bookselling, collecting, and librarianship.

Arthur Fournier (Arthur Fournier fine & rare) is an independent dealer of rare books, serials, manuscripts, and archives in all fields and genres, specializing in primary source materials related to the transformative cultural movements of the late 20th century, modern conflicts, disruptive technologies, music, performance, and the visual arts. He is a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America and focuses his practice in the trade on serving the needs of libraries and research institutions.goes here

Colette Fu has been engineering complex three-dimensional compositions with her own photographs for almost two decades. Turn the pages of Fu’s stories and inspirations as she presents We Are Tiger Dragon People, her ongoing series of photo-based pop-up books about the ethnic minority groups of China.

Philadelphia-based artist Colette Fu received her MFA in Fine Art Photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2003 and soon after began devising complex compositions that incorporate photography and pop-up paper engineering. Her pop-up books are included in the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Getty Research Institute, Library of Congress, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and many private and rare archive collections, including special collections at the University of Miami. Fu's numerous awards include a 2020 Joan Mitchell Artist and Sculptor's Grant, a Meggendorfer Prize for best paper-engineered artist book, and a Fulbright Research Fellowship to China. In 2017, Fu created the world's largest pop-up book utilizing her own photographs – “Tao Hua Yuan Ji, Source of the Peach Blossoms”, a 21x14 feet pop-up book that people could enter, at the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center. She teaches pop-up courses and community workshops internationally.

Born and raised in Miami Beach, artist and author Michele Oka Doner absorbed and delighted in the natural beauty and magic of her surroundings. This fueled her lifelong study and appreciation of the natural world from which she derives her artistic vocabulary. Both Intuitive Alphabet and A Seed Takes Root are results of her intimate relationship with this tropical paradise, now shared in print with these two exquisitely designed books by Miami’s own Tra.

Michele Oka Doner is an internationally renowned artist whose production encompasses sculpture, prints, drawings, furniture, jewelry, public art, functional objects, video, costume and set design, and artist’s books. She is well known for such permanent art installations as Flight at Reagan International Airport and A Walk on the Beach at Miami International Airport. Oka Doner’s work is found in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, and the Victoria & Albert Museum.

Since 2006, Hanoi Peréz and Steven Daiber have collaborated on multiple projects including creating five book collaborations with Cuban artists and co-curated the first international artist book exhibition in Havana. During the years of 2015- 2019 they got ever so close to creating a legal artist book workshop in Havana.

With the recommendation of a Cuban lawyer, they considered divorcing their wives, swapping to remarry. This common Cuban solution was a possible path towards having the artist book workshop in Havana. Behind the scenes was the Havana Syndrome, then Trump showed up, COVID landed, Ian blew in and Kennedy’s temporary embargo grinds on.

Hanoi Perez y Steven Daiber han colaborado en múltiples proyectos desde el 2006, incluyendo la creación de cinco colaboraciones de libros con artistas cubanos y la curaduría conjunta de la primera exposición internacional de libros de artista en La Habana. Durante los años 2015- 2019 estuvieron muy cerca de crear un taller de libros de artista legal en La Habana. Con la recomendación de una abogada cubana, consideraron divorciarse de sus esposas e “intercambiar pareja” para volver a casarse. Esta solución común cubana era un camino posible para tener un taller de libro de artista en La Habana. Entre bambalinas existía el Síndrome de La Habana, luego apareció Trump, aterrizó COVID, irrumpió Ian y el embargo temporal de Kennedy aún continúa machacando.

Hanoi Pérez Cordero. La Habana, 9 de mayo de 1976, Miembro de la UNEAC (Unión Nacional de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba) y del Taller Experimental de Gráfica de La Habana. Integrante del proyecto colectivo ENEMA 2000-2003. Diplomado en Producción Simbólica, Instituto Superior de Arte, La Habana, Cuba 2010-12. Graduado del Instituto Superior de Arte, Diploma de Oro –especialidad Grabado, La Habana, Cuba 2003. Graduado de la Academia de Artes Plásticas –especialidad Pintura, La Habana, Cuba 1995. Graduado de la Escuela Elemental de Artes Plásticas 20 de Octubre, La Habana, Cuba 1991. Ha presentado diversas exposiciones personales en La Habana, además de Zurich, Suiza (Havana Galerie) 2005 y Basilea, Suiza como resultado de una Beca de Creación (Bartels Foundation) 2018. Ha participado en numerosas muestras colectivas tanto en Cuba como Suiza, EE.UU, Puerto Rico, España, Inglaterra, Italia y Panamá. También ha organizado y curado 5 exposiciones colectivas de Libro Arte en Cuba y Puerto Rico. Sus obras forman parte de colecciones comoLafayette College, Special Collections, Skillman Library, Easton, PA. Olin Library, Special Collections, Wesleyan University, Middletown CT. Stanford University, Green Library-SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, Stanford, CA. Smith College Museum of Art, Smith College, Northampton MA. Library of Congress, Rare Book & Spec Collections, Jefferson Library, Washington, DC. New York Public Library, Special Collections Print Department, New York, NY. Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami, Richter Library, Coral Gables, Florida. University of Southern California, Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, LA, CA

Since 2001 Steven Daiber has had the good fortune to work in printmaking studios in Hanoi, Vietnam and Havana, Cuba. During the academic year of 2003-04 Steven and his family lived in Havana, Cuba for 10 months. In Havana he has had the opportunity to work in eight different print shops with a variety of Cuban artists. As a result, his first-hand knowledge of the United States and Cuba’s intertwined history empowers and contributes to a sense of urgency in Daiber’s work as an artist. His books and the collaborations with Cuban artists, tell stories of Cubans’ lived reality in juxtaposition to Daiber’s acute observations as an outsider contemplating the struggle of the Cuban people caught in the politics between nations. Humor, the arts and ingenuity are essential for their survival.

He has taught printmaking and books arts at San Alejandro Academy of Art and the Institute of Superior Arts (ISA) and at the Taller Experimental de la Gráfica. In 2008 and 2012 he taught book arts workshops in Hanoi at Viet Nam Fine Arts Association and the Fine Arts University.

He has an M.F.A. from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1981 and a B.F.A. from the University of Delaware in 1978. His work is in the collections at MOMA, Cuban Heritage Collection: University of Miami, Stanford, Yale, Harvard, Smith College and the Museo National de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba and others.

Designing New Narratives, Engaging Archives in Creative Research will explore the process of crafting visual narratives inspired by and utilizing primary source materials. We’ll view examples of creative work, touching on the initial concept and discovery process, identifying, and accessing resources online, working with archivists and special collections in person, and the challenges of archival silences.

Meri A. Page is an interdisciplinary designer based in Syracuse, New York, where she is Assistant Professor of Communications Design at Syracuse University. Page’s research expertise and interests include artist books/publication design, experimental typography, letterpress, archives, and design history. Page attended Pratt Institute and has an M.F.A. in Studio Art and a B.A. in Art History from Mills College at Northeastern University. Page has more than twenty years of professional experience working in the design industry creating work for regional, national, and international clients. Page’s creative work was recently exhibited at the Boston Art Book Fair and the Southern Utah Museum of Art. Her work has been exhibited throughout the U.S., Czech Republic, U.K., and South Korea. Publishing artists' books under the imprint Seaweed Press, Page’s projects explore themes in cultural history and the environment.