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    An AIRIE experience by Dana Levy

    Published April 27, 2014 by

    By Dana Levy, AIRIE Every morning of the first week of my residency in the Everglades National park, I got into my rental car and drove to a different part of the park: the 1st day I rode a bike around shark valley, the 2nd day I kayaked at Flamingo,...
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    Mainly Mozart and much more arrives in Miami

    Published April 25, 2014 by

    By Sebastian Spreng, Visual Artist and Classical Music Writer Here’s a riddle. What’s new but came of age a long time ago, bears the name of a composer but includes the work of others, is always held on Sunday but sometimes on Saturday, marks the end of the classical music...
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    Cross into PAMM’s Caribbean

    Published April 25, 2014 by

    Installation shot of Shades of History. Like the Caribbean region itself, PAMM’s latest exhibit, “Caribbean: Crossroads of the World,” is diverse and densely populated, with artworks spanning hundreds of years and multiple styles. There is 19th-century painting, and 21st-century video; representational canvases and more abstract sculpture....
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    From prisoner to poet: Jimmy Santiago Baca appears at O, Miami

    Published April 25, 2014 by

    “I am Offering This Poem” via YouTube Those who argue for the transformative power of the written word will be hard pressed to find a more potent, or moving, argument than the life of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca. RELATED LINK "De prisionero a poeta: Jimmy Santiago Baca lee en O, Miami" by Fernando González on KnightBlog.org His childhood story suggests a Dickensian tale set in the American Southwest. Baca was born in rural New Mexico of parents of Apache and Mexican descent. The family—his mother, father, brother and a sister—all lived in a two-room shack. When he was 2 years old, he was abandoned and ended up living with one of his grandmothers. But she was unable to care for him, and the authorities eventually placed him in an orphanage. He ran away when he was 11 years old, and for the next few years, he lived by the rules of the street.   In an interview in Las Americas Journal he recalled that “by the time I was sixteen I had been in the county jail maybe about twenty times for assault and battery with the police.” By 18, he was in prison serving five to 10 years in a maximum-security prison in Arizona for drug possession with the intent to distribute. He ended up serving six and a half years in prison, three of them in isolation, the institutional response to his having expressed a desire to learn to read and write and get his GED. But Baca, 62, who will be reading at Books & Books April 27 as part of the O, Miami poetry festival, was now focused on walking away from what seemed a prearranged path.
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    AIGA Space and a proxy exhibit of QR codes and GIFs

    Published April 24, 2014 by

    The AIGA Space in Old City seems strangely devoid of art this month, but that is not due to a lack of content. April serves as AIGA’s month to step outside of the cube of white walls and explore a slightly different method: an almost entirely digital, web-based show entitled...
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    Dancing Mill Culture in the Southern Piedmont

    Published April 24, 2014 by

    By Eric Mullis, Triptych Collective Since the Triptych Collective’s artistic home is in a former mill village in Charlotte N.C., last summer I started doing extensive research into southern textile mill culture. I wanted to know who worked in those factories and lived in the small mill houses, what their...
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    Meet the LandLab resident artists

    Published April 23, 2014 by

    By Christina Catanese, The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education We are thrilled to announce the four resident artist projects for our new LandLab residency program. Launching this spring, LandLab projects will create innovative, art-based installations that prevent or remediate environmental damage while raising public awareness about our local ecology. LandLab...