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ArticleMAM is out to dispel the myth that culture goes on hiatus during the summer in Miami. Tonight the museum will showcase experimental sound and movement with "Walking Spell" from Psychic Youth Inc. (a collaboration between dancer/choreographer Ana Mendez and sound sculptor Federico Nessi). Meanwhile dancer/choreographer Carlota Pradera will be...
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ArticleLast year the Knight Foundation made a $1,000,000 grant to United States Artists, an organization that celebrates and supports the individual artist in America. Each Knight award comes with an additional $5,000 grant for the artist to create a community engagement event. Our first United States Artist Knight fellow, Ceramicist...
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ArticleLast year the Knight Foundation made a $1,000,000 grant to United States Artists, an organization that celebrates and supports the individual artist in America. Each year it selects 50 artists from eight disciplines and awards each of them a $50,000 no-strings-attached fellowship. The Knight grant will provide funding for 18...
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ArticleBy Susan Patterson, Charlotte Program Director Strolling through a farmers market at lunchtime in Charlotte is always a treat. Sniffing the just-picked peaches, choosing a perfect ruby red tomato - those are usually the highlights. My visit to Atherton Market was made even better Tuesday when opera filled the air....
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ArticleBack in the days before you could hear any orchestral piece you wanted at any time, the piano was the central instrument in home music-making. That’s the way you’d learn a Beethoven symphony, for instance – play it in a four-hand arrangement at home. In addition to two people sitting...
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ArticleIt was a humid and sultry night on Saturday. Very few galleries were open, as many owners have decided to head to the highlands for August, or at least give the business of art a break. And yet, here were people wondering Wynwood, and not necessarily the average art crowd....
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ArticleLast week I was lamenting that we need to do a better job of documenting and archiving the performing arts in South Florida. As though in answer to my prayers, I met with Dr. Lilian Manzor, associate professor of foreign languages and literature at the University of Miami and --...
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ArticleArtCenter/South Florida is reaching out to artists in the community who are interested and committed to the development of a creative environment. Through the Juried Artist Program, ArtCenter is offering subsidized studio space for emerging artists. Candidates for the program are being selected based on conceptual innovation and technical proficiency...
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ArticleThere's a refreshingly different group show up at ArtCenter/South Florida, one filled with art made by people "behind the gallery walls" at the Miami Art Museum. In other words, these are paintings, sculpture, photography from the staff of the museum -- from one of the curators to a director of...
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