Events: Visual Arts
“What I really want to tell you...”
Presented by The55Project and Curated by Jennifer Inacio with Flávia Macuco Pecego this exhibition explores the cultural, social and political histories of Brazil. The participating artists question these issues and externalize their examinations through art that impact, inspire and engage, becoming their own manifestos of exploration, interrogation, and change. While responding to our contemporary moment, the exhibition highlights ways in which art stimulates and inform new ideas in times of divergent realities.
The exhibition features 14 Brazilian artists: Almandrade, Jonathas de Andrade, Liene Bosquê, Paulo Bruscky, Anna Bella Geiger, Rubens Gerchman, Ivan Grilo, Randolpho Lamonier, Vanderlei Lopes, Gabriela Mutti, Paulo Nazareth, Regina Parra, Rosana Paulino and Mano Penalva.
- Hosted by Fundación Pablo Atchugarry
- Produced by The55Project
- Sponsored by FedEx and Consulate of Brazil in Miami
Location
Fundación Pablo Atchugarry
5520 Northeast 4th Avenue,
Miami,
FL
33137
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A Passion for Art: The Golden Rainbow Art Class
The talented students of Miami Beach Adult and Community Education Center present "A Passion for Art". The exhibition consists mostly of pencil on paper drawings done from observation. Miami Dade County Public Schools provides older adults art classes to enhance their lives and enable them share knowledge and wisdom. The program responds to the need to maintain the highest possible level of cognitive ability, to halt intellectual decline, and enhance the student creative abilities. The Arts and Crafts Class was provided tools and funding to purchase more materials needed to produce marvelous art pieces and showcase them.
Location
Miami Beach Botanical Gardens
2000 Convention Center Dr.,
Miami Beach,
FL
33139
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Beatriz González: A Retrospective
Beatriz Gonzalez: A Retrospective will be the first large-scale U.S. retrospective of the work of Bogota-based artist Beatriz Gonzalez (b. 1938, Bucaramanga, Colombia). At 81, Gonzalez is not only an internationally celebrated Colombian artist but also one of the few extant representatives of the so-called "radical women" generation from Latin America. Despite the fact that it spans over six decades of intensive research, her groundbreaking production is, for the most part, unfamiliar to audiences in the United States. One of the most comprehensive displays of the artist's work to date, this retrospective seeks to remedy this lag by presenting approximately 150 works, with examples from the early 1960s through the present, all of which embody the full scope of Gonzalez's oeuvre.
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The purpose of Beatriz Gonzalez: A Retrospective is thus to display the full breadth, range and sophistication of the artist's practice while seeking to dispel misconceptions about its position in the larger context of both Colombian and international Postwar art. Achieving this goal, however, entails rejecting upfront the generalized view of her work as a regional manifestation of international Pop Art in favor of a more nuanced interpretation of her practice vis-a-vis the cultural context from which it emerged. Working in Bogota, and thus impervious to the emergence of a Pop Art movement, Gonzalez's aim was not to celebrate postwar consumer culture but rather to investigate Colombian middle-class taste as well as the popular desire for and consumption of well-known European artworks. Declaring herself "a provincial painter," she called into question the subordinate relationship between marginal localities such as Colombia and the hegemonic centers of artistic and cultural production represented by Europe and the United States. Her work thus embodies both a reaction to this uneven relationship as well as a fresh starting point. From this point of view, Gonzalez's objective does not end with the predictable (and rather exhausted) critique of representation implicit in any form of appropriation; her project, instead, is grounded in a broader assessment of the state of culture in her homeland and its relationship to the persistent legacy of colonialism.
Beatriz Gonzalez: A Retrospective will offer an expansive look at the artist's unique and influential practice. Organized in a loose chronological order, the exhibition will include the artist's most iconic works, many of which have rarely been seen outside of Colombia. In this way it will trace the different stages in Gonzalez's creative and intellectual explorations of mass-media images as vehicles for her extremely personal approach to representing key facets of Colombian society and its relationship to Europe and the United States. These range from two-dimensional oil on canvas paintings, drawings, silkscreen prints, and curtains, to three-dimensional recycled furniture (beds, tables, night tables, cribs, armoires), and everyday objects (trays, TVs, cigar boxes). The works will be culled from the artists' personal collection as well as from public and private collections in Colombia, the United States and Europe.
In addition to her pioneering work with images recycled upon furniture and other supports, the exhibition also brings to light Gonzalez's political production of the last three decades when she systematically chronicled the violence perpetuated by "la violencia, her country's" decades long civil war, with an increased focus on indigenous, rural and displaced communities. While continuing to draw primarily from newspaper images and art historical sources, her recent paintings have become more complex in terms of composition as well as the use of collage to paint-in images taken from diverse media narratives and sources. While always innovative and unpredictable in terms of subject matter and artistic strategies, the depth and intensity of Gonzalez's sui generis approach to individual and collective grief is unparalleled in contemporary art.
Location
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)
1103 Biscayne Blvd,
Miami,
FL
33132
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Crispy Tickles
A Group Student Exhibition Curated by Bfa And Mbus Leads Students Sonya Royal and Arina Polyanskaya.
Group exhibition including: Natalia Chavarria, Emilia Morrow, Javier Pozo, Arina Polyanskaya, Sonia Royal, Carlos Americano, Michelle Bardino, Isabella Rodriguez and Rafael Lucas.
- Free and open to the public.
Location
Miami Beach Urban Studios
420 Lincoln Rd. Suite 440,
Miami Beach,
FL
33139
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Featured Local Artist Program
Miami Design Preservation League has started a new program “Featured Local Artist”. This forms part of MDPL's mission to preserve, protect and promote by showcasing local and enthusiastic artists inspired by the architecture and beauty of Miami Beach and the surrounding areas. "Lights" by SCARFIG is currently exhibiting at the Art Deco Museum until July 24th. Lights is described by the artist as "a series that enhances visual effects between sets of lights, dimensions and neon colours allowing individuals to experience Miami through an artistic vision".
Location
Art Deco Museum
1001 Ocean Drive,
Miami Beach,
FL
33139
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Felice Grodin: Invasive Species
Felice Grodin: Invasive Species is a virtually interactive, digital exhibition of commissioned works by Miami-based artist Felice Grodin. The series employs the technology of augmented reality, and is accessible to visitors using iOS devices in PAMM's outdoor areas and in the Padma and Raj Vattikuti Learning Theater on the museum's first floor.
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By drawing on her training as an architect, Grodin analyzes the relationship between physical and mental territories. She explores the mutable within landscape, architecture, and our urban surroundings. Featuring four site-specific digital works, Invasive Species virtually interacts with PAMM's architecture and transforms the museum's environment as a response to Miami's ecological reality. For example, in Terrafish (2017–18), Grodin overlaps PAMM's hanging gardens on the waterfront terrace with the translucent body of the digital species she created a work suggestive of nonnative jellyfish found in South Florida waters. In Field Report [2518] (2017–18), cryptic signs run over the entrance grounds of the museum carrying a subliminal message from the future. By drawing on the destructive impact of invasive species and creating new digital environments, Grodin highlights the transformative and unstable state of our ecosystem, speculating about a not-so-distant future affected by climate change and overtaken by uncanny creatures.
Location
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)
1103 Biscayne Blvd,
Miami,
FL
33132
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Kids Create!
Jump into summer with Kids Create! Each day offers a new adventure with museum-themed projects. Program designed for children ages 5 and older.
Location
Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum
10975 SW 17th Street,
Miami,
FL
33199
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Liliana Porter: El hombre con el hacha y otras situaciones breves
In its scale and complexity, El hombre con el hacha y otras situaciones breves – Venecia 2017 is one of Liliana Porter's most ambitious projects to date. The piece serves as a form of retrospective, as it contains many of the characters, groupings, or situations that have appeared repeatedly in Porter's works over the last three decades. The installation takes its name from the tiny figure of a man with an axe, shown hacking away at an elongated pile of fragmented objects. The viewer's eye follows this array of broken pieces as they shift dramatically in scale, from dust-size particles, to chips of broken china, to damaged figurines, to larger objects that include plates and chairs, and finally to a full-size broken piano.
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The viewer will notice several old clocks of varying sizes. These symbols of linear time are shown completely broken apart, their white faces, circular metal casings, and interiors spilling outward in disarray. Central to Porter's practice is an investigation of time. She is specifically interested in how, as time passes, the line between reality and imagination becomes increasingly tenuous, as the current moment mixes with memories from the past that are often exaggerated in scale, fragmented, or broken. Porter is interested in how time becomes recorded not only in memories, but also in objects, images, and literature.
Historical figures and symbols appear throughout the installation. A plastic toy replica of the car in which President John F. Kennedy was assassinated is exhibited. Nearby an old hammer is placed casually on a sickle, tools and symbols of the industrial worker and the peasant farmer used in international Communism and on the flag of the Soviet Union. Elsewhere appears a broken porcelain head of the Chinese Communist leader Mao. These and other representations of the past emerge haphazardly, their ideologies and historical positions coexisting in the same space.
A tiny figure carrying a suitcase appears alone, isolated in one section. He stands between two lines that twist behind him, forming a path he has apparently been following. This is "the traveler," another important player who has appeared consistently in many of Porter's prints, paintings, photographs, films, and installations since the 1980s. A classic trope for the beginning of a story, the traveler is also often an immigrant, a refugee, someone displaced. In a world where we are increasingly from one place and living in another, and in a city like Miami that is populated with many immigrants and travelers, Porter's philosophical reflections resonate strongly, while they simultaneously and persistently confound.
Location
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)
1103 Biscayne Blvd,
Miami,
FL
33132
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Memoryloss
New work by Inaugural CARTA - Bauhaus International Exchange Artist, Markus Hoffmann.
- Free and open to the public.
Location
Miami Beach Urban Studios
420 Lincoln Rd. Suite 440,
Miami Beach,
FL
33139
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Out of Context Exhibition by Chris Friday
Explore the playfully challenging and enormously successful installation of black and white drawings and sculptures created by current FIU MFA student Chris Friday.
Location
Miami Beach Urban Studios
420 Lincoln Rd. Suite 440,
Miami Beach,
FL
33139
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Pedro Neves Marques: A Mordida
Pedro Neves Marques (b. 1984, Lisbon; lives in New York) examines clashes among competing anthropologies, politics of nature, technology, and gender. He employs science fiction and speculative storytelling as key tools to produce works that range from fictional dramas to theoretical films and writings.
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A Mordida (The Bite) Neves Marques's first solo museum presentation in the United States encompasses an audio-visual installation featuring a set of new films commissioned by PAMM, digital animations, and an ambient sound piece produced by London-based musician Fraencis. Based on research done at a laboratory for genetically modified mosquitos in São Paulo, Neves Marques creates fictional and abstract narratives that question the role of gender in the history of science. The installation evokes an eerie feeling of collapse between biological epidemics and political crisis, specifically seeking to reflect the current alarming spread of intolerant conservative politics in Brazil.
The control and militarization of gender portrayed in the mosquito laboratory is paralleled through the films' three main characters a man, a woman, and a transgender woman as they navigate an intimate relationship. Veering between the sterile environment of the lab and scenes that depict nature and contact between bodies, Neves Marques poetically suggests intimacy, affection, and acceptance as sensitivities to be preserved in times of hostility.
Pedro Neves Marques received an MA in art and politics from Goldsmiths, University of London, and a BA in fine arts from University of Lisbon. He has had solo presentations of his work at Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon; e-flux, New York (with Mariana Silva); and EDP Foundation, Lisbon (with Andre Romão). His work has been included in group presentations including the 2018 Triennial: Songs for Sabotage, New Museum, New York, and at SculptureCenter, New York; Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York; Anthology Film Archives, New York; Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris; Kadist Art Foundation, Paris; Tate Modern, London; V-A-C Foundation, Venice; Parco Arte Vivente, Turin; Casa do Povo, São Paulo; Sursock Museum, Beirut; Times Museum, Guangzhou; Fundacion Botin, Santander, Spain; and Serralves Museum, Porto; and Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT), Lisbon. Neves Marques is the editor of The Forest and the School: Where to Sit at the Dinner Table? (2014), an anthology on Brazilian Antropofagia from an anthropological perspective, and author of two short story collections, most recently Morrer na America (2017). He is cofounder of inhabitants-tv.org, an online channel for exploratory video and documentary reporting. He lives and works in New York.
Fraencis is a music producer, sound researcher and former psychiatrist working across the fields of experimental electronic music, affect and embodied music cognition. He is currently undertaking a MA in music at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Location
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)
1103 Biscayne Blvd,
Miami,
FL
33132
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Reconstructing Identity
Miami MoCAAD is pleased to announce its summer celebration of African Diaspora Heritage with its exhibition, Reconstructing Identity: An Exploration of Identity and Diaspora Through Artistic Practice.” The exhibit brings together painting, photography, sculpture, and drawings by contemporary artists of American, Haitian, Cuban, Dominican and Jamaican descent exploring issues around identity and sense of place.
The opening night reception will be held on June 6, 2019, from 6pm-9pm.
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Miami MoCAAD’s series of pop up exhibitions and events with a vibrant showing of artists of the African diaspora 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.
“Reconstructing Identity: An Exploration of Identity and Diaspora Through Artistic Practice” encompasses the work of artists connected by a shared interest in the interrogation of identity when the sense of place is ever changing.
Utilizing varying materials and techniques, the work tells multiple stories. Some may observe cultural differences in the experiences of those within the black & brown diasporas. Others may explore aesthetic, social, cultural, and political subjects that examine where identity and sense of place., thus allowing for a better understanding of the communities we inhabit.
The featured local artists include Christopher Carter, Kandy Lopez-Moreno, Duwane Coates, Sharon Norwood, Onajide Shabaka, Rhea Leonard, Adler Guerrier, Asser Saint Val, Morel Doucet, Franciso Maso, and T.Elliot Mansa.
As part of the growing conversation around art from artists of Africa and its diaspora, Reconstructing Identity examines different cultural identities, significant similarities, and important differences that make up varying definitions of blackness. Influenced heavily by environment, community, and history, identity is explored, deconstructed, and reconstructed.
The Miami Museum of Contemporary Art of the African Diaspora (Miami MoCAAD.
A preeminent contemporary fine art museum in planning for Greater Miami dedicated to the art and artists of the Global African Diaspora. The Miami Museum of Contemporary Art of the African Diaspora (Miami MoCAAD) will discover, commission, collect and preserve the work of the most advanced contemporary artists of the Global African Diaspora and exhibit this art at the highest level both at home and abroad.
Additional sponsors include Hampton Art Lovers, Southeast Overtown Parkwest Community Redevelopment Agency, and Sugarcane Magazine.
Location
Historic Ward Rooming House
249 Northwest 9th Street,
Miami,
FL
33136
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Summer Art Camps
Summer Art Camps at The Bass Creative Creatures ABOUT Ages 4-6 From sea life to the forest, discover creatures in habitats from all over the world to create a series of wildlife creatures in all media.
Location
Bass Museum of Art
2100 Collins Avenue,
Miami Beach,
FL
33139
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The Burden of the Incommunicable. Works by Sybren Renema
Join us for the opening of photographs by Dutch-born, Glasgow-based artist, writer and musician Sybrn Renma.
Exhibition Opening Reception: The Burden of the Incommunicable. Works by Sybren Renema. Tuesday, 6/18/19, 6:00PM.
- Free and open to the public.
Location
Miami Beach Urban Studios
420 Lincoln Rd. Suite 440,
Miami Beach,
FL
33139
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Whitney Humphreys
Locust Projects presents The Command Center by Whitney Humphreys, a current dual MFA degree-seeking student at San Francisco Art Institute. She is the sixth student featured in our summer LAB MFA open call since 2013.
The installation in Locust Projects Project Room allows visitors to enter an alternate plane of reality, where a distant and mysterious machine known as the Rocket with Hoopskirt is in a perpetual state of pre-departure, monitored from across the country. The work extends and recontextualizes her ongoing MFA thesis focus, centrally figuring this skirt-clad model of rocketry pioneer, Robert H. Goddard’s so-named, formative rocket engine test. Built from found and recycled materials, the station reimagines systems of control by inviting engagement yet denying manipulation. Jumbled streams of imagery and noise emissions engulf the space in obscure, but familiar messages.
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The artist’s site-specific construction addresses the role that Florida itself has played in the history of rocketry and the impact the project of space travel has made on the state’s cultural, political, economic, and physical landscape. It offers a portal into narratives that embody intersections between and across gendered associations that are culturally attributed to the mechanical. And, engaging directly with both personal and collective histories, this project examines the complex web of influences that have shaped both real and imagined relationships between human and non-human beings and objects.
About the Artist
Whitney Humphreys is a San Francisco Bay Area artist and teacher currently pursuing a double Masters in San Fransisco Art Institute’s Dual Degree program, where she has held the position of 2018 Co-Director for the Legion of Graduate Students. Upon completion, she will earn an MFA in studio practice, with a focus in printmaking and sculptural installation, as well as an MA in the History and Theory of Contemporary Art with her thesis titled Gendered Machines.
Opening Reception: Jul 13, 2019, 6 PM
Location
Miami Art Guide
P.O. Box 250864,
New York,
NY
10025
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Frank Contemporaries
Thursday, Jun 27, 2019 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM - English
Frank Contemporaries is a free monthly pop-up exhibition and meet-up for emerging creative and visual arts professionals to network and foster connections. The June Frank Cotemporaries will feature surrealist painter Alim Smith, visual artist Najja Moon, sculptor Ariel Ortega and street artist Sinclair the Vandal. This event will include a presentation on the upcoming events and offerings of both the Miami-based creative community collective 'The BLCK Family' and queer women's membership club 'This Girls Lunchbox,' by co-founder Najja Moon. This event is free to the public. Complimentary refreshments and hors d'oeuvres will be served.
Location
The Frank Art Gallery
601 City Center Way,
Pembroke Pines, FL,
FL
33025
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Curator's Tour
Tuesday, Jul 9, 2019 at 1:00 PM - English
Join Chief Curator, Amy Galpin on a special tour of exhibition Spheres of Meaning: An Exhibition of Artists' Books.
Location
Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum
10975 SW 17th Street,
Miami,
FL
33199
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Real Utopias: Paths Through Utopias (2011)
Thursday, Jul 11, 2019 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM - English
Blurring the fluid boundaries between present and future, documentary and fiction, Paths Through Utopias is a feature-length utopian road movie exploring a post-capitalist Europe. Shot during a seven-month journey in 2008, visiting ten utopian experiments-from the direct-action Climate Camp set up illegally beside Heathrow airport to a hamlet squatted by French art punks, from occupied self-managed Serbian factories to a free-love commune in an ex Stasi base-this magic-realist travelogue transports us to a parallel universe where money is worthless and private property has been abolished.
Location
Bill Cosford Cinema, University of Miami
5030 Brunson Drive, Memorial Building 227,
Coral Gables,
FL
33124
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MarkerSPACE Workshop with Loriel Beltran
Saturday, Jul 13, 2019 from 10:30 AM to 2:00 PM - English
In this workshop, participants will meet artist, Loriel Beltran and explore his work in the exhibition Cut: Abstraction in the United States from the 1970s to the Present.
Location
Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum
10975 SW 17th Street,
Miami,
FL
33199
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Artist Talk: Lisa Haque
Thursday, Jul 18, 2019 at 8:00 PM - English
Have you ever wondered how paper can be made into art? Join Miami-based artist Lisa Haque at Books & Books Coral Gables, for an intimate conversation about her work and papermaking process.
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Haque was a professional papermaker at Dieu Donné, a renowned studio in Manhattan where she collaborated with dozens of artists to create new works in handmade paper. Prior to that, she was a papermaker, bookbinder and faculty member at the Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions at Rutgers University. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Book and Paper Arts from Columbia College Chicago. She taught in Cortona, Italy through the University of Georgia Study Abroad Program, and at many institutions throughout the U.S. She has shown her artwork nationally and in Tokyo, Japan and Fabriano, Italy.
Haque’s works are currently on view in Spheres of Meaning: An Exhibition of Artists’ Books. Come by the museum today to view these works and join us for her free talk at Books & Books Coral Gables.
Location
Books & Books
265 Aragon Ave,
Coral Gables,
FL
33134
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Open Studio Night
Warehouse 4726 opens its doors every third Saturday, in support of the monthly Bird Road Arts District Gallery Walk.
As an artist-run space with five artist studios, we offer a unique insider's view and invite you into the private world of the working artist. See where the magic happens and talk with Miami-based artists about their work and their process.
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Warehouse 4726 Artists in Residence:
- Jean Blackwell Font
- Ignacio Font
- Alejandra Linares
- Wayne Dawkins
As part of The 4700 at Bird Road Arts District, enjoy visits to our neighboring studios and galleries including:
- Dopico Lerner - Morales Art Studio
- Maria Patino Art Studio
- Nestor Arenas Art Studio
- Stained Glass of Miami
Location
Warehouse 4726
4726 SW 75 Avenue,
Miami,
FL
33155
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Website Workshop 101
Saturday, Jul 20, 2019 from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM - English
Every Artist Needs a Great Website. This workshop is designed for visual artists and creatives in Miami who are in need of a website that is affordable, easy to manage, and professional.
Build a Squarespace website with this workshop designed for visual artists and creatives in Miami in need of a website that is affordable, easy to manage, and professional.
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Warehouse 4726 co-founder Jean Blackwell Font introduces the features and benefits of a Squarespace website and walks you through setting up a free trial - and you save 20% on your first year of service with Squarespace with her special code! Through this workshop, you can have a beautiful, customized website in a matter of hours.
Just $150 - Register today!You'll leave with:
- A basic website with a few pages built - About, Contact, Portfolio, etc.
- A newsletter / email capture feature to build your mailing list.
- A basic understanding of the key features of a Squarespace website, including basic and premium features like newsletter sign up forms, email marketing, and photo galleries to showcase your artwork or photography.
- The knowledge and confidence to build or update your website's content.
- A discount on your first year of a Squarespace subscription. Plans start at $96/annually before discount.
- A take-home guide to ease you into managing your new website.Access to future workshops and an online newsletter, to continue growing your knowledge and skills for website upkeep.
*Note: This is not an official Squarespace event.
Location
Warehouse 4726
4726 SW 75 Avenue,
Miami,
FL
33155
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Hew Locke: For Those in Peril on the Sea
Jul 21, 2019 to Sep 1, 2019 - various times - English
This exhibition presents the second iteration of For Those in Peril on the Sea (2011), an installation by Hew Locke (b. 1959, Edinburgh; lives in London) first shown in 2013 during PAMM's inaugural programming. Consisting of dozens of scaled-down replicas of ships suspended from the ceiling, the installation creates the impression of a massive exodus taking place throughout the architectural space above the viewer. It features a broad range of vessel types, from cigarette boats, catamarans, and cruise liners to ragged fishing skiffs and timeworn cargo ships. In light of Miami's history as the site for numerous waves of immigration particularly from the Caribbean, and specifically by sea For Those in Peril on the Sea will have a particular resonance for the Museum's audiences. With its significant links to the South Florida community, this installation, part of Pérez Art Museum Miami's permanent collection, promises a powerful experience for visitors.
Location
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)
1103 Biscayne Blvd,
Miami,
FL
33132
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Frank Contemporaries
Thursday, Jul 25, 2019 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM - English
Frank Contemporaries is a free monthly pop-up exhibition and meet-up for emerging creative and visual arts professionals to network and foster connections. The July Frank Contemporaries will feature photographs taken throughout Africa by nature photographer, author and researcher Kirsten Hines. This event will include a presentation on the "Embrace Music Foundation" by co-founder and board chair, musician and educator Willie Stewart, as well as an African dance and drumming performance led by Anita Macbeth, dance teacher at Bethune Elementary School of Visual & Performing Arts and former choreographer for the Bronx Council of the Arts, New York Housing Authority. This event is free to the public. Complimentary refreshments and hors d'oeuvres will be served.
Location
The Frank Art Gallery
601 City Center Way,
Pembroke Pines,
FL
33025
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Let's Talk: Ritual
Warehouse 4726 hosts the 2nd in a series of conversations with the practicing artist in mind. Join us on Tuesday, 4/30 from 7pm to 8:30pm to share in a conversation about the process of becoming an artist, making art and supporting the art making process.
We want to hear from members of our community about the things that they love about being an artist or about making work. We also want to talk about the challenges that come from dedicating time, energy, and resources to making work.
Artists (and the people who love them!) are invited to join us for a conversation around a common theme. The conversations will focus on Origin, Ritual, Passion and Community, in that order. Light refreshments will be provided, thanks to a grant from the Awesome Foundation Miami Chapter.
- Let's Talk: Origin, January 29, 2019
- Let's Talk: Ritual, April 30, 2019
- Let's Talk: Passion, July 30, 2019
- Let's Talk: Community, October 29, 2019
Location
Warehouse 4726
4726 SW 75TH AVE,
MIAMI,
FL
33155-4472
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Real Utopias: Brasília: Life After Design (2017)
Tuesday, Aug 6, 2019 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM - English
Located 2000 kilometers from the Amazon and 18 hours from Rio, the city of Brasilia the capital of Brazil is a mythical place: a concrete utopia born out of the desert. In 1956 at the rebirth of Brazilian democracy, visionary architect Oscar Niemeyer and urbanist Lucio Costa invented an urban plan and structures that would attempt to micromanage the daily activity of human life. The unabashed goal was to create the space that would birth "the new Brazilian citizen." Now the stark beauty of the city acts as a backdrop to isolation, changing values, and the dynamic power and politics of today's Brazil. The haunting ambience of Niemeyer and Costa's dream echoes through the lives of a range of characters, each trying to make their mark in the city of today: Sergio, the stalwart urbanist who defends the city plan but knows it must adapt; Helize, studying to become a federal civil servant the dream of so many Brazilian students and Willians, a street vendor by day, who tries to find meaningful connection in a city built to divide. Brasilia: Life After Design takes us to a city rarely seen by the international viewer: what is it like to live in someone else's idea?
Location
Tower Theater
1508 S.W. 8th Street,
Miami,
FL
33135
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José Carlos Martinat: American Echo Chamber
Dec 4, 2019 to Jan 26, 2020 - various times - English
For PAMM's double-height gallery, Jose Carlos Martinat created American Echo Chamber (2018), an installation that responds to the amplification and reinforcement of ideas in the current social and political landscape. This large-scale work is composed of mechanical light sculptures that collectively generate a dramatic and entertaining space for visual consumption. The sculptures are inspired by symbols of both American and Peruvian cultures ranging from historical images such as the political cartoon "Join, or Die" attributed to founding father Benjamin Franklin to popular internet memes. These symbols are often composed of images related to violence, manipulation, racism, or migration. The artist also includes artisanal pyrotechnic castle fireworks from Lima. By creating a space that amplifies the consumption of these symbols, Martinat compares the contemporary political scene to an echo chamber, emphasizing a dynamic in which people seek information from media outlets that reinforce their beliefs as an unconscious exercise of validation and prejudice.
Location
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)
1103 Biscayne Blvd,
Miami,
FL
33132
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