[Tyler] We have a great deal of worldclass contemporary art collections and also worldclass contemporary art museums.

So it makes a lot of sense that the galleries would be attracted and want to come here.

We are a worldclass art scene, and I know it and we know it.

That's why we do Progressive Art Brunch.

Progressive Art Brunch is a gathering of 15 galleries that are open on various Sundays throughout the year, from 11 to 4.

We serve light refreshments, and we showcase the best in contemporary art in South Florida.

This is a day to celebrate the arts.

People get out on a Sunday and do some gallery hopping.

We established Progressive Art Brunch in 2017.

The inspiration was how, you know, people would go out for brunch all day and just kind of hang out and socialize.

And I thought, why not try and bring that energy to the art experience?

I'm Tyler EmersonDorsch.

I'm a partner at the gallery.

I started working with my husband, Brook Dorsch, in the 2000s.

He started the gallery in 1991, and it's become, I think, a fixture in the Miami art scene.

As the gallery scene grew, my husband was one of the first galleries in Wynwood and started a gallery walk there.

And so, when Mindy and I, Mindy Solomon and I were doing our walks, we would walk early in the morning before the heat of the day set in, we would often brainstorm about ways to create excitement around the art scene here in Miami.

And one of the ways is just, it's very simple, we coordinate a schedule so that people can gather and navigate between the different galleries.

The model works, and everyone is really busy within their own establishments, but we're able to function as a community of gallerists and support one another through shared social media and marketing.

And you know, it's sustaining.

Most of us are contemporary.

Some of the galleries have a high concentration of Miamibased artists.

Others like myself have a broader, more diasporic program.

We try to look for the best examples in the city that we can that represent a multiplicity of perspectives.

So we feel like we're giving the best examples of what's out there and a good reflection of our city.

And choosing Sundays was important because they have a lot of ground to cover.

Part of the pleasure of being able to go between the different neighborhoods is that you can feel a fabric of the city at the same time as you see the strength of the cultural scene that we have here.

When we decide to open a space in Miami, it was like easy because we visited Progressive Brunch last year, this year, and we like the community.

We like how people, they're really involved, they were interested in what happens in the galleries.

It's very inspiring for us, and we decide to be part of this.

We want to have dialogue between Eastern European artists and Latin American and American, and it's not very common in this part of the world.

I think we are first Eastern European gallery who open a branch in Miami.

For Miami, it's something unique and we decide to support, like, to bring something new to the city, to the community.

I am Andres Cordoba, and I'm the director of the La Cometa Gallery venue in Miami.

We are a very down to earth gallery, very beautiful.

Our projects are gonna be risky, outside of the box.

We've been around for 35 years.

The gallery was originally founded in Bogota in Colombia, and five years ago, we've started an expansion project in which we opened a new venue emerging in Colombia, in Madrid, in Spain, and now our fourth venue in Miami.

We wanted to open with three Colombian artists as we are a Colombian gallery, and we have mainly a mid and long trajectory artists.

Here where we are is the long trajectory one, Miguel Angel Rojas, an amazing artist, more than 50 years of career, so it's very exciting for us and for him and for all the Latin American artists.

The gallery opened 20 years ago in Wynwood, and then we moved to Little River.

There is something that, which is very nice of Miami, that everybody have something to add.

We have more people that are moving to Miami and consuming art and understand that life with art is better.

We are a part of Progressive Brunch from the beginning.

Today, for example, here at the gallery, we are showing two artists from Cuba, but they live in Berlin.

They are part of the scene that we need to educate and to enjoy.

Miami has a very strong and viable gallery scene that really is predicated on the stories that are told in Miami.

The diaspora narrative, the, you know, the cultural infusion of Latin America, the Caribbean, and Eastern Europe, and all of the various flavors that are settling down here.

The galleries are getting to know each other better and so it's making us a little tighter and just knowing to, like, network, 'cause Miami's really about sharing in the arts.

It's much more fun when we all get together and do something.

We are small business and we need to stay together.

We want to add to the conversation.

You cannot do anything in arts if you don't collaborate with each other.

So the Progressive Art Brunch is a great project to collaborate, to work together as gallerists and show the audience of Miami what we have to say because artists are always at the forefront of the contemporary thought.