Lizzie Suarez is an arts and cultural worker from Miami using the practice of illustration to paint and meditate on liberation, kinship, and the dignity inherent in all people. Since 2019, Lizzie has used art as a tool for community organizing and popular education. As a member of queer artist collective Fempower, she created illustrations and design for a digital fundraising campaign which raised thousands for Black Mamas Day Bail Out and led workshops on the relationship between art and liberation.

In 2021, she collaborated with abolitionist organizer and educator Mariame Kaba for the release of 16 Axioms of Abolitionist Organizing, a zine based on Kaba’s NYT best-seller “We Do This Til We Free Us”.

Since 2022, Lizzie has collaborated with Food Culture Collective on creative material to support their storytelling work on food sovereignty, and Union of Southern Service Workers to create posters that illustrate the mission and demands for justice and dignity on the job.

Lizzie is currently the Communications Manager at the Miami Workers Center, working to amplify the stories of working-class women of color who are organizing for power as tenants, workers, mothers, and immigrants.

IG: @lizziesuarez

Artist Statement:

Caribe Pouvwa (CP) is a local grassroots organization and political heart for creatives in Miami building Caribbean solidarity. CP uses popular education and cultural production (screen printing, art builds, altars, etc) to disrupt dominant narratives about the Caribbean and Global South, and engage Miami community members in a dialogue about U.S. imperialism and its impact globally and locally.

In response to escalated aggression against the countries of Cuba, Venezuela, and Haiti, CP has produced a zine, hosted a fundraiser to bring solar panels to Cuba, and a teach-in to make sense with people of the Latin-American and Caribbean diaspora about what is going on and why. This illustration makes visible dissent against the US embargo by members of Cuban diaspora here in Miami.