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June 17, 2009 Issue # 88

Bathing Beauties
Wolfsonian celebrates America with swimsuit retrospective

By Jan Engoren

Detail of a postcard featuring bathing beauties cavorting on a Florida beach in Janzten swimsuits, part of the new exhibition at the Wolfsonian
Detail of a postcard featuring bathing beauties cavorting on a Florida beach in Janzten swimsuits, part of the new exhibition at the Wolfsonian

Just in time for summer and the annual horror of swimsuit shopping, comes a new exhibit at FIU’s Wolfsonian Museum in Miami Beach

The exhibition is “Beauty on the Beach: A Centennial Celebration of Swimwear,” is part of the Celebrating America series and takes a look at the history of women’s swimwear in this country over the past 100 years. This retrospective of swimwear reveals as much about our own times as it does about the era in which it was made.


Eclectic Arts at St. Johns
Talent Quest Miami! next big project

By Dale Penn

 

Carol Hoffman, founder of Arts at St. Johns with Laura Jamieson executive director of the Miami Beach Botanical Garden, and 9-12 by artist Thomas Banks at the Divine Trash exhibition. Photo: Anthony Jordon
Carol Hoffman, founder of Arts at St. Johns with Laura Jamieson executive director of the Miami Beach Botanical Garden, and 9-12 by artist Thomas Banks at the Divine Trash exhibition. Photo: Anthony Jordon

Recently, on an attendance-killing stormy evening in Miami Beach, at pristine Miami Beach Botanical Gardens, Divine Debris and Glorious Trash, an exhibition of artwork in various media created by 15 local artists, from recycled and found objects, drew more than 250 umbrella-toting guests for its June 9 opening reception. The exhibit was a collaboration, co-curated by Dr. Carol Hoffman-Guzman, founding director of Arts at St. Johns (ASJ) and Paula Turk, artist and founding director of ArtShare LLC.

“An ideal partnership," is how Turk described working with ASJ's Hoffman, who she sees as “a very hard working and talented lady” and someone she definitely wants to work with again. No slacker throughout her life, Hoffman has a Ph.D in anthropology from Columbia, a Ph.D in sociology from FIU and is an ordained Methodist minister.

 

 


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July 15, 2009

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