The Miami Museum of Contemporary Art of the African Diaspora (Miami MoCAAD), a new museum project, seeks to create a premier art space in Miami. Building on the region’s location as the southern gateway to the Caribbean and the wider African Diaspora, Miami MoCAAD will explore literal and figurative connections between artists and the arts of the global black Diaspora. At this conversation-style plenary, members of the Miami MoCAAD Working Group will discuss: • the rationale and goals of Miami MoCAAD, including the potential for global collaborations • its campaign to bring national and international exposure to the creative influence of artists of the African Diaspora. Miami MoCAAD’s mission is to discover, commission, collect and preserve the work of the most advanced contemporary artists of the Global African Diaspora and exhibit this art at the highest level at home and abroad. Central to Miami MoCAAD’s work will be creating an artist-in-residence program and innovative engagement and technological experiences reflecting Caribbean, African, African American and Afro-Latin influences.