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    75 finalists in Knight Arts Challenge South Florida

    Published May 6, 2014 by

    Above: Poets from the Omari Hardwick Blueapple Poetry Networks, a program of the Jason Taylor Foundation. Photo credit: O, Miami/Gesi Schilling. I’m excited to share the list of 75 finalists in this year’s Knight Arts Challenge in South Florida. This year, we received more than 1,100 ideas from artists, thinkers and South Florida’s creative community. Each was thoughtfully considered by a panel of local readers and Knight Staff. The group below represents a mix of projects from individual artists, small collectives and nonprofit organizations. Undoubtedly, South Florida is a different place now than when we began the arts challenge seven years ago. Our city’s evolution reminds me of a passage by Joseph Roach, who in his book Cities of the Dead refers to “culture” as “a process of remembering and forgetting.” “To perform in this sense means to bring forth, to make manifest, and to transmit,” Roach explains. “To perform also means, though often more secretly, to reinvent.” Our community must perform together to honor our history and reinvent our future. And the arts will play an integral role.
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    760 Selby Avenue: Construction 60% complete

    Published May 6, 2014 by

    By Peter Leggett, Walker West Music Academy Walker West's new home at 760 Selby is 60% complete. Welsh Construction began the build-out of the Academy's new 5,938 square foot facility in March and Walker West's entire operation will be at the new site by June 2014. Check out the photo...
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    Reading Queer launches the RQ Writing Academy

    Published May 5, 2014 by

    My organization, Reading Queer (a Knight Arts grantee), launches the Reading Queer Writing Academy this weekend with "In Defense of Forgetting," a two-day, two-hour intensive workshop open to anyone inquisitive about creative writing. The workshop will incorporate color photography taken by participants who will then use those prints as a...
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    Spanish-language workshop at the Queens Museum

    Published May 4, 2014 by

    By Maura Guyote, Creative Capital Foundation Guest leaders Gonzalo Casals and Chemi Rosado-Seijo (who is also a Creative Capital Awardee!) lead a session at the Queens Museum In February, the Queens Museum partnered with us to host a Spanish-language workshop underwritten by Tequila Herradura. The workshop...
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    The action at the ArtCenter’s Project space

    Published May 2, 2014 by

    Alba Triana curated "Concrete to Abstract." The art action in South Beach on Wednesday night moved to the second floor of the ArtCenter/South Florida’s project space at 924 Lincoln Road, one block west of its main space. It’s a building that has come into active use...
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    Deerhoof, AWKWAFINA and Celestial Shore rock the MOCAD

    Published May 2, 2014 by

    There is unquestionable hipster cache in early-stage fandom, scene-topping achieved through claims on a band before they were huge. While there may be some satisfaction to be had in the mode of early adopter, there is something amazing about seeing a band that has come into its own, and been...
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    Studio Party 14 at the McColl Center

    Published May 1, 2014 by

    Aurora Robson "Hesperus" 2011, part of "Stayin' Alive" at the McColl Center. Get ready to “party like its 1999” at the McColl Center for Visual Art this Saturday, May 3rd from 7-10 p.m. as the McColl Center throws its annual Studio Party. The McColl Center’s gala...
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    “The Nevin Family: Three Generations of Art”

    Published May 1, 2014 by

    It’s all in the family, at least for the grandfather, father and son exhibit of art mounted by the Akron Society of Artists on the third floor of Summit Artspace, a Knight Arts grantee. “The Nevin Family: Three Generations of Art” reveals the tradition of visual art by Karl Nevin...
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    Music @ the Market

    Published May 1, 2014 by

    By Reading Terminal Market Six horn players walk through the crowded aisles of the Reading Terminal Market, making music. Two drummers await them in the Market’s Center Court. Led by one of Philadelphia’s icons of jazz, music director/tenor saxophonist Sam Reed, they play a tight, intense version of Sonny Rollins’...