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Francess Archer Dunbar is a writer, poet, and amateur fortune teller from North Miami, Florida. Her work is place-based, and often draws on her hometown’s strange history, as well as collective anxieties about microplastics, algorithms, rising tides, and other forces of everyday invasion. She teaches and archives student poetry with O, Miami’s Sunroom program in public schools, and previously worked with the Miami Book Fair and served on the screening committee for the 41st Miami Film Festival. Her work has also benefitted from continued mentorship and community with IS Projects/the Miami Paper and Printing Museum.
As an O, Miami Greenhouse Fellow in the summer of 2023, Francess undertook a four-month project where she wrote a poem each day where the number of words and form of each line was based on the tide levels predicted by the NOAA at the Miami Harbor entrance. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in antiphony journal, Adult Groceres, HAD (Hobart After Dark), voicemail poems, and more. She is a 2025 AICA-USA (Association Internationale des Critiques d’Art) Art Criticism Fellow, and her nonfiction essays about local artists and architecture have appeared in Burnaway Magazine, Hyperallergic, the Art Newspaper, the Oxford American, the Miami New Times, Too Much Love Zine, and more.
Currently, she is working on a long-form fiction project about a flooded art fair based loosely off Don Quixote, and a poetry chapbook which studies the doubling between her mind and her phone. When she’s not on campus whispering to the manatees at Deering Estate, you can find her popping up around town with pay-what-you-can tarot readings at different events.
She grew up in a family-owned surf-and-skate shop in Coconut Grove that was started by her grandfather, received her BA from Grinnell College in Iowa in 2020, and walked the Camino de Santiago solo in 2022. She has a cat with many names. She’s grateful to be a part of this community. You can find her on Instagram at @saintfrancess and on Substack as @miamireviewofartandarchitecture.
The Deering Estate Artist-in-Residence Program (AIR) supports artists who work in various disciplines and media.
The AIR Program offers professional visual, literary, performing, and cross-disciplinary artists the opportunity to pursue innovative projects and studio work, connect with other artists, and engage the public while interacting with the historical, architectural, intellectual, archeological, and natural elements of the Estate’s inspiring environment. Since 2006, we have welcomed over 90 shared and collaborative residencies representing a broad scope of contemporary and traditional artistic practices. For more information on the Artist in Residence Program at the Deering Estate, please visit the website.
By: Francess Archer Dunbar
Edited by Ileana Lopez
About the Deering Estate
Deering Estate, located at 16701 SW 72 Ave. in Miami, is a 21st Century house museum, cultural and ecological field station, and a national landmark listed on the National Register of Historic Places, owned by the State of Florida and managed by Miami-Dade County Parks, Recreation and Open Spaces Department. Deering Estate is designated as one of seven Miami-Dade County “Heritage Parks” which have a vital role in our community’s history, environment and in providing recreational and cultural experiences. Cultural Arts Programming at the Deering Estate is made possible with the support of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners, and The Deering Estate Foundation, Inc.
About the Deering Estate Foundation
For those who treasure the Deering Estate, who advocate for its preservation and wish to invest in its future, The Deering Estate Foundation provides opportunities for individuals and corporations alike to partake in membership, signature events, and one-of-a-kind experiences, all in service of providing vital funding and support to the Deering Estate. Through these efforts, the foundation fulfills its mission to uphold the legacy of Charles Deering’s cherished 1920s-era property, to provide funding for the cultural, educational and recreational experiences it offers, as well as its significant scientific and archaeological endeavors to conserve its diverse flora, fauna and the eight native ecosystems that thrive on its 450 acres, and to ensure its longevity as a prized American heritage site. Established in 1989, The Deering Estate Foundation, Inc. is a community-based charitable 501(c) 3 Florida Corporation and the philanthropic partner of the Deering Estate.
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