Pérez Family Foundation Awards WOPHA the 2025 Pérez CreARTE Grant to Support Residency and Fellowship Programs

WOPHA / 11.26.2025

The Jorge M. Pérez Family Foundation, in partnership with The Miami Foundation, announced the recipients of its 2025 Pérez CreARTE Grants, recognizing outstanding contributors to South Florida’s arts and cultural community. WOPHA is excited to share that it has been selected as one of this year’s grantees.

This honor was announced at the Pérez Family Foundation’s inaugural Grantee Summit on October 14, 2025, at the Pérez Art Museum Miami, which also celebrated the Foundation’s 10th anniversary and a decade of supporting South Florida’s arts and cultural community. This new cycle of CreARTE grants will distribute over $5 million across 43 innovative projects over the next two years, advancing visual and performing arts, experimental programming, and educational initiatives throughout Miami-Dade County.

Through the CreARTE program, WOPHA will receive $100,000 over two years to support our 2026–2027 Research Fellowship and Artists-in-Residence programs, further positioning Miami as a meeting place for the international photography community.

“We are incredibly proud to be a second-time CreARTE awardee. Thanks to CreARTE’s transformational support, we have sustained and expanded our capacity to foster innovative scholarship and uplift underrepresented artists,” says Aldeide Delgado, WOPHA Founder & Director. “This cycle, we are especially excited to grow our residency program to support two South Florida–based lens-based artists in undertaking a culturally immersive residency abroad, connecting them with new networks at major international photography events during a pivotal stage in their careers.”

The Pérez Family Foundation’s Grantee Partners Summit was an encouraging day, bringing together fellow artists, nonprofit stakeholders, and even civic leaders such as Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava to celebrate the power of art in our community. Highlights included discussions on the role of private philanthropy in supporting the arts; a fireside chat moderated by Anna Kaiser of Bloomberg, featuring Jorge M. Pérez, Kristina Newman-Scott (Knight Foundation) and Dianne Bailey (Bank of America); and a cocktail reception with live music by Young Musicians Unite.

For more information about the CreARTE program and the Jorge M. Pérez Family Foundation, visit jmperezfamilyfoundation.org/grant-opportunities.

About The Jorge M. Pérez Family Foundation

Founded in 2015, The Jorge M. Pérez Family Foundation at The Miami Foundation (the Pérez Family Foundation) fulfills the philanthropic vision of Jorge M. Pérez, Founding Executive Chairman of The Related Group, and his family to develop South Florida as an exemplary world-class urban center. Now more than a decade into its work, the Pérez Family Foundation promotes sustainable, inclusive and just communities by supporting programs and organizations focused on arts and culture, education, health and well-being, environment, and economic development — with a particular preference for initiatives that can serve as models for other urban centers. In total, the Pérez family has committed over $100 million in support of over 160 non-profit organizations, both personally and through the Pérez Family Foundation. For more information, please visit www.jmperezfamilyfoundation.org. 

About The Miami Foundation 

The Miami Foundation is building a Greater Miami where everyone can thrive. Since 1967, The Foundation has invested over $772M to strengthen our community in partnership with more than 1,000 fundholders and 50,000 donors. By accelerating leadership, generosity, and a sense of belonging across Miami, we inspire people to become changemakers, and we create ways for donors, nonprofits, leaders, and locals to work together on solutions for our community. At The Miami Foundation, everyone has a role they can play in creating a thriving Greater Miami.