narrator: and visual artist michelle lisa polissaint is one of those local artists supported by the museumda, but i started traveling back and forth to haiti with my parents, and slowly i started to kind of realize how different i was from my family in haiti. this work particularly is just me kind of reimagining certain instances that i remember from being young. how would you say miami has influenced or shaped your art? michelle lisa polissaint: i think the cultures that exist here. you have a lot of caribbean, indigenous, and diaspora communities that are in the city, so the only way our communities can survive is if we communicate with each other and we engage with others. narrator: and another form of communication and art is dance. sandra portal-andreu: my father's cuban, my mother's colombian. growing up in miami and just kind of bringing all that together and saying, ok, this is what i wanna express. in miami i really had an amazing opportunity to explore site specificity for different spaces, whether it be the hialeah racetrack or the main library in downtown miami. sort of taking