Opening Ceremony Friday June 13, 2025, on the ARC
OneUnited Financial institution, is proud to have fun internationally acclaimed muralist Addonis Parker, the financial institution’s artist-in-residence, whose work will likely be featured in Nonetheless We Rise: The Artwork of Addonis Parker, a strong testomony to the resilience, creativity, and enduring spirit of an artist whose work has formed and redefined Miami’s cultural panorama. Nonetheless We Rise will likely be featured in Ten North Group’s up to date assortment. The general public is invited to the Opening Ceremony on Friday June thirteenth, 2025, 6pm-9pm at The ARC at 675 Ali Baba Avenue, Opa-locka, FL 33054. RSVP right here on Eventbrite.
Addonis Parker speaks his fact, “God created me to by no means match right into a socially accepted field made without spending a dime consumption for false narratives. I transfer by religion and stroll in prophecies earlier than I rise. My group is fed earlier than my canvas eats whereas fatherhood transcends compassion for my atmosphere. I’m a soul. I’m a father. I’m a son. I’m a Black man in America with imaginative and prescient and a coronary heart.”
Nonetheless We Rise Exhibition
On view at The ARC from June 13 by means of August 30, 2025
Nonetheless We Rise invitations viewers to discover the wealthy tapestry of Addonis’ work which confronts social injustice and celebrates Black tradition. His artwork encompasses a various vary of mediums, kinds, and themes whereas reminding us that artwork shouldn’t be solely a type of expression but additionally a software for change, a way of preserving reminiscence, and a supply of hope.
“Within the spirit of Maya Angelou’s unyielding verse, Addonis Parker’s work reminds us that even within the face of adversity, magnificence, tradition, and group rise. At Ten North Group, we’re proud to face alongside visionaries like Addonis whose creativity helps remodel neighborhoods into narratives of hope and energy.” commented Dr. Willie Logan, President & CEO, Ten North Group.
OneUnited Financial institution Artist-in-Residence
For the previous ten years Addonis Parker has served as OneUnited Financial institution’s “artist in residence” with a studio on the Financial institution’s Miami department. Parker’s artwork has been featured on ten (10) OneUnited Financial institution Visa Debit Playing cards, showcasing highly effective artwork portraying themes from Black tradition. Every card embodies tales of resilience and unity, marking a step ahead in our journey in the direction of inclusivity and monetary equality.
“As America’s largest Black owned financial institution and an award-winning Neighborhood Growth Monetary Establishment (CDFI), we admire the significance of supporting artists from Purvis Younger to Addonis Parker, who inform tales of resilience nationwide from Overtown and Liberty Metropolis in Miami to South Central Los Angeles and Roxbury in Boston,” states Teri Williams, OneUnited Financial institution President & COO. “And nonetheless, we rise!”
For extra details about Nonetheless We Rise: The Artwork of Addonis Parker go to www.tennorthgroup.com
For extra details about the OneUnited Financial institution Visa Debit Playing cards by Addonis Parker go to www.oneunited.com/playing cards
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About OneUnited Financial institution:
OneUnited Financial institution, America’s main Neighborhood Growth Monetary Establishment, the nation’s largest Black-owned financial institution, eleven-time recipient of the US Division of Treasury’s Financial institution Enterprise Award for group improvement and named Inc. Journal’s Greatest in Monetary Companies 2024. For more information, please go to www.oneunited.com
About Addonis Parker
Addonis Parker is an internationally acclaimed, Miami Primarily based artist and muralist. His work is robust and actual, capturing the power of character, deep emotional expressions and struggles of Black life in a way that only some have dared to color. Parker has accomplished notable giant scale artwork restorations initiatives, utilizing his creative expertise to assist clear, refurbish and revitalize historic and up to date artwork installations. Extra info at www.addonisparker.com