2008 KAC winner Gold Coast Jazz Society recently hit the big time as one of their regular First Friday Jazz Jams performers, Dillard High School student Partrick Bartley, took the stage at the 2010 Grammy Awards afterparty. Board member and freelance journalist Buzz Lamb reports on the event… Coral Springs resident Patrick Bartley, 17, started […]

We love a good swap meet (who doesn’t?), particularly when it involves the arts. Head to artseen (2215 NW 2 Ae) from noon-5pm this Saturday & Sunday (May 15-16), invest $1 and buy, sell, barter & trade to your heart’s content. While on-site, enjoy live music, BBQ, contests, clowns & more. Proceeds benefit the New […]

Attention all high school students (and people who love them) – 2009 KAC Winner (and 2010 finalist), Locust Projects has just announced an open call for a chance to participate in the organization’s first collaborative high school exhibit.  The LAB (Locust Arts Builders) project is an artistic bonanza – collaborate & mingle with nine artistic […]

Break out your dancing shoes – Saturday, May 8 marks the kick off of Dancin’ in the District – a “cultural medley” of dances representing South Florida communities with world renowned Haitian dancer Alexandra Prophete. Venture to the Haitian Heritage Museum at 8pm and dance the night away. The fun continues every 2nd Saturday in the […]

Enjoy art, conversation and mingling Friday, May 7 from 6-9pm as the University of Wynwood and Gallery Diet present a poetry reading by Zachary Schomburg and the opening of The Sunday Painter, a solo exhibition by NY artist JJ Peet. Schomburg, author of  The Man Suit and Scary, No Scary, is the last visiting poet […]

Local arts supporter Made in Miami Music recently won tickets to the Florida Grand Opera’s performance of Carmen at the Ziff Opera House via a contest facilitated by a Knight Foundation grant. Read about all the fun here… My Experience at the Florida Grand Opera Monday evening, I  the opera, “Carmen” at the Ziff Opera […]

The Miami Music Project hits the web this Friday (April 23) as its brass quintet performs at Miami Springs and Arvida Middle Schools. Created to bring live performance and “potent music education” to under-served populations, the project is reaching an estimated 2,300 Miami-Dade students at 10 different schools in only five days. The 2008 KAC […]

As part of her ongoing series “Naomi Fisher: Performance Works,” 2008 KAC Winner Naomi Fisher has created a blog to document the process of her performance project. A new blog documenting her current “MYAKKA” project is now live – and being updated regularly from the forests of Myakka River State Park. The entire project is […]