
Contemporary Arts Foundation
Founded in 1994, the Contemporary Arts Foundation (CAF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit foundation located in the
Wynwood Art District, near downtown Miami, Florida. CAF has been a public-access facility since 1996, and the
locus for housing, preserving, archiving and presenting works from the collection of the Rubell family, one of the
world’s leading collections of contemporary art. In addition, the CAF presides over an in-house research library
containing over 40,000 volumes, including many rare texts and periodicals. The library is open to the public.
CAF believes that great works of art are an intrinsically transcendent, elevating, liberating and empowering force,
and that the artifacts of our time are the legacy of society as a whole. Based on this premise, the Foundation
seeks to prompt social intercourse and debate, an essential freedom of a democratic society, by sharing with the
world the physical, sensual and intellectual properties of cutting-edge art.
CAF advances public interaction at the Rubell Family Collection (RFC) by presenting works from the collection
of the Rubell family in rotating, curated exhibitions with accompanying documentation, throughout its 27 galleries,
new media room and Sculpture Garden, as well as through a variety of educational and community outreach
programs. CAF commissions new works of art and produces traveling exhibitions, which are presented throughout
the world. In addition, CAF operates as a lending resource for curators and museums.