Marcell Haywood, founder and CEO of Encompass Onsite. Photos courtesy of Encompass Onsite. Think on-site maintenance of facilities ranging from colleges to hospitals is a boring business? Think again. Okay, so Encompass Onsite is not a shiny new tech start-up, but its amazing growth and green emphasis makes it an impressive, even sexy, venture. Founded […]
Article · November 10, 2015 by Anne Tschida
Photo: Florida Day of the Dead celebrates those who are no longer with us. All photos courtesy of Florida Day of the Dead. Most people likely have forgotten–or never knew–the origins of Halloween, the second most profitable holiday in the United States. Today, it’s about trick-or-treating, pumpkins, haunted houses, costuming, and tons of parades and […]
Article · October 28, 2015 by Anne Tschida
Photo credit: Sweat Records If you haven’t stopped by Sweat Records lately, you’ll be in for a nice surprise. The funky indie vinyl outlet and music venue in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood has some sweet new additions, thanks to a Knight Arts Challenge grant for Live@Sweat, a project that aims to increase the frequency and […]
Article · October 19, 2015 by Anne Tschida
Photo: The Miami Center for Architecture and Design. Photo by Francisco Javier Moraga Escalona. Walking up to the magnificent historic edifice that houses the Miami Center for Architecture and Design, you can hear a voice describing a notable building in downtown Miami. The steps of this former U.S. post office, which was constructed in 1912, […]
Article · October 14, 2015 by Anne Tschida
Photo: An artist talk with William Cordova and Luis Gispert at the MDC Museum of Art + Design. There is a wonderful synergy to the small works that are hanging in Miami’s Freedom Tower, on an introductory wall to the galleries of the Museum of Art + Design at Miami Dade College. First off, […]
Article · October 5, 2015 by Anne Tschida
Serge Toussaint painting during DWNTWN Art Days. Photo courtesy of Bas Fisher Invitational. Bas Fisher Invitational winds down its time in Miami’s Downtown Art House, on a block soon to face the wrecking crews for new development, with an exhibit worthy of a standing ovation. “Rip Current” is a great fit for the current location […]
Article · September 25, 2015 by Anne Tschida
Photo: Moderator Victoria Rogers. Photo by Ryan/World Red Eye, courtesy of the Adrienne Arsht Center. It was a muggy Saturday morning in Miami, but the large and lively arts crowd that turned out for ArtsLaunch2015 at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts was not going to be stifled. And it turned out to […]
Article · September 16, 2015 by Anne Tschida
Photo: Andrew Cuthbert, Hipolito Arriaga, Allen Minor and Anthony Torres. Photo by TeeJay Smith. “All we knew was kill, we’re ready for the thrill, at least until we got back home and didn’t know how to feel,” raps Iraq war veteran Andrew Cuthbert in the spoken-word performance “Conscience Under Fire.” “I am not your guinea […]
Article · September 9, 2015 by Anne Tschida
Photo: The Miami Center for Architecture and Design’s historic building downtown, home to many of the DWNTWN Art Days events. Photo by Steven Brooke. This post has been updated to reflect that “Ishmael and the Well of Ancient Mysteries” will not screen at Miami Dade College during Art Days. DWNTWN Art Days–a jam-packed, three-day event in […]
Article · September 4, 2015 by Anne Tschida
Photo: Getting ready for a FEAST Miami dinner at Locust Projects. Photo by Harold D. Ruiz. Due to a technical problem, an earlier version of this post misquoted Rebecca Wakefield. Almost everything about FEAST Miami is a community-building process. FEAST, which won a 2013 Knight Arts Challenge grant, revolves around home-cooked vegan food and dinner […]
Article · August 26, 2015 by Anne Tschida
Photo: Gallery Ehva in Provincetown, Mass., where “There Was Always A Place To Crash” was unveiled in July and some of Al Kaplan’s photographs were exhibited over the summer. As far as cultural art centers go, Miami is a relatively new participant in this circle. But that doesn’t mean Miami has lacked artistic talent throughout […]
Article · August 17, 2015 by Anne Tschida