We all know the cycle by now: Artists carve out a little space for themselves in a low-cost neighborhood. Through their efforts, things start improving and the area gets more attention. Then, victims of their own success, developers swoop in and rents increase past the point of sustainability. Eventually, the artists move on, and the process begins again in the next soon-to-be-hot neighborhood.
Miami artist Daniel Fila, better known as Krave, has seen that cycle play out firsthand more than once.
On this episode of “Midweek Cafecito,” sponsored by Orchestra Miami, the veteran muralist and graffiti artist talks to New Times culture editor Celia Almeida and music editor Flor Franceschetti about how he’s navigated Miami’s waves of displacement from neighborhood to neighborhood for more than three decades. His El Fresco gallery has called Little Havana home since 2012, and although he just moved it into a new a historic space, he knows the next wave is crashing soon…