IN PHOTOS Tunnel Projects: A new type of workspace for artists

Looking unsure and a bit lost, VIPs from the Institute of Contemporary Art in Miami straggle into the dim underground garage of a nondescript Little Havana strip mall on a recent Saturday morning. They’re here for a tour, but can this be the right place?

It is.

This is the home of Tunnel Projects, Miami’s newest, most unlikely — and perhaps buzziest — center for art-making and exhibition. Rarely before has a name so perfectly captured the look and feel of an endeavor that has, almost surreptitiously, dug its way into a space where it’s not supposed to be.

“It’s underground, literally and figuratively,” said Sterling Rook, a Miami multimedia artist whose show of silkscreened images, “Shupingagua,” his Peruvian mother’s Indigenous family name, is on display through April 25 in the Tunnel’s compact parking-garage gallery. “It’s kind of the allure. It feels like you’re on the ground floor of a new thing.”

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