Francess Archer Dunbar is a writer and poet based in North Miami, Florida. She is a 2025 AICA-USA Art Criticism Fellow and Deering Estate Literary Artist-in-Residence, as well as a teaching artist with O, Miami’s poetry program in public schools.
More information about creative projects can be found here.
(picture courtesy of Catherine Camargo/Queue Gallery)
email me: francessdunbar@gmail.com
Essays / Art Writing / Articles
Lines on Concrete: Najja Moon at Tunnel Projects (2025)
New Florida Statute Requires Anti-BDS Language in Artists’ Contracts (2024)
Come One, Come All: Museum of Sex Opens in Miami (2024)
On the Trail Skate Park, a collaboration between Miami artists and the Miccosukee tribe (2025)
Review of Diego Alejandro Waisman’s Sunset Colonies at FIU Frost Museum (2025)
Signs of the Times (on the work of Serge Toussaint, 2025)
Two Cities Abridged (on the work of misael soto, 2024)
In Miami, Oranges Grow on Prime Real Estate (on the work of Atomik, 2023)
Review of Jen Clay’s Eyes of the Skin (2023)
Andrea Chung’s Afrofuturism of Cyanoytpes and Sugar (2025)
Miami Beach Cinema Targeted by Mayor Speaks Out: “We Don’t Want to Leave” (2025)
Activists Hold “No to Genocide” Protest Outside Art Basel Miami Beach (2024)
Signs of the Times (on the work of Serge Toussaint, 2025)
Reviewing Kathryn Nuernberger’s Rue (2022)
On digitizing Tropic Magazine, which launched the career of humorist Dave Barry and created the greatest scavenger hunt in Miami history (2024)
Third Horizon Film Festival Spotlights Legacies of Caribbean Resistance (2025)
Review of Aesthetic Dialogues with Lynne Golob Gelfman (2024)
Review of Rosemarie Chiarlone and Barron Sherer at Bridge Red Studios (2024)
Review of Rachel Feinstein’s “The Miami Years” (2024)
Exploring the largest collection of 16mm film south of Baltimore (2024)
Poetry / Fiction
antiphony press: “On Driving Home at 5am On North Miami Avenue”
Queue Magazine Issue II STRIPPERS & FISHING: “live bait” & “live girls” ***Order Print Issue***
HAD (Hobart After Dark): “On My Phone”
Rose Books Hotline: “On Augury”
Adult Groceries: “On Sex” & “On Molasses Books in Brooklyn”
Moral Crema: Thank You for Coming In Today (Fiction)
Undrbelly Magazine: “On Art Basel” ***Order Print Issue***
voicemail poems: “rabbit rabbit”
Experimental Films :)
Events
7.17.25 - Screening of short film at MOMA (NYC) as a part of MONO NO AWARE’s community screening series
6.1.25 - Greenhouse Fellowship Alumni Panel - Locust Projects, Miami
5.2.25 - Queue Magazine STRIPPERS & FISHING Release Party Reading at LLL LLC Gallery, Miami
4.8.25 - antiphony press issue six zoom reading
1.27.25 - Tarot & poetry readings at House Show South Florida (North Miami)
5.27.24 - Tarot & poetry readings at the Perez Art Museum Miami
4.26.24 - Meet-a-Poet Micro-Residency at Books & Books Coral Gables
4.18.24 - Featured Reader at O, Miami Poetry Festival with Angel Nafis, Raymond Antrobus, and Jubi Arriola-Headley
4.5.24 - Featured Reader at the Miami-Dade Public Library’s Jazz & Poetry Series with Caroline Cabrera
8.31.23, 10.1.23, 11.26.23 - Miami Banned Book Club at Paradis Books & Bread (RIP)
10.23.23 - Tarot & poetry readings at Dale Zine for Miss Happy Zine
9.9.23 - Tarot & poetry readings at Jolt Radio with Buen Provecho Collective
7.22.23 - Collage Workshop with Recreate Miami
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