By Stephanie Portalatin, Miami Dade College Hialeah Campus Photo by: Luis Delgado On November 18, 2014, Emilio Cueto, Cuban attorney, author, and actor, delivered a lecture and visual presentation to approximately one hundred Hialeah community members including Miami Dade College- Hialeah Campus students, faculty and staff on his latest book La virgen de la Caridad […]
Article · December 17, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad
By Laura Bruney, Arts & Business Council of Miami The 2014 edition of Art Basel week in Miami featured the perfect marriage of arts and business. The city was alive with high-end private parties; pop up exhibitions and roving ads on cars, scooters and even people. Millions of dollars in art sales, restaurant meals, hotel rooms, […]
Article · December 17, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad
By Quentin Talley, OnQ Productions Recently, OnQ wrapped up its first production of the season, For The Love of Harlem, to rave reviews from audiences and critics alike. This original musical, written by Jermaine Nakia Lee with musical direction by Tyrone Jefferson & A Sign of The Times of the Carolinas, looked at the lives […]
Article · December 16, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad
By Aileen Alon, OLCDC Members of Americans for the Arts, the leading organization for advancing the arts and arts education in America, have elected Aileen Alon as a member of their national advisory council for the Emerging Leaders Council (ELC). Alon will advise Americans for the Arts’ staff on developing programs and services that will […]
Article · December 16, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad
By Nicole Rupersburg, Springboard Exchange Like so many other artists, Charles Ladson had an interest in art and painting at an early age but didn’t think it was something he could pursue as a career. Ladson’s granddad and mom were both interested in the arts: he was a hobby painter, and she was an art […]
Article · December 11, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad
By Fernando González, Miami-based arts and culture writer Underscoring the vitality and diversity of the independent filmmaking community in South Florida, three made-in-Miami films have been accepted to the prestigious 2015 Sundance Film Festival. They include: “The Strongest Man,” a feature by writer-director Kenny Riches; “El Sol Como un Gran Animal Oscuro,” (“The Sun as […]
Article · December 10, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad
By Regina Jestrow, AIRIE fellow Houston Cypress shows vintage textile to Regina Jestrow Walking the trails of the Everglades National Park with a bolt of fabric, pins and colored pencils, I wrapped tree trunks along the trails in muslin and rubbed until an impression appeared. Few people pause to look, and even fewer ask me […]
Article · December 10, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad
By Nicole Rupersburg, Springboard Exchange To read the abundance of news coverage coming out of Detroit over the last few years heralding the downtrodden city as a hotbed of creativity and innovation, attracting young creatives and start-up entrepreneurs from all over the country – the Detroit-is-what-you-make-of-it, “blank slate” narrative – one might be tempted to […]
Article · December 9, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad
By Ardia Greenhauff, Miami City Ballet 20 first & second grade students from Fienberg-Fisher Elementary School in Miami Beach are learning to dance through Miami City Ballet’s Explore Dance Program. This educational outreach program is designed to promote the arts to our community’s youth through weekly classes held at MCB Studios. Led by esteemed MCB School […]
Article · December 8, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad
By Stephanie Fritz, Macon Arts Alliance Amplify, a professional development program of Macon Arts Alliance, a Knight Arts grantee, held its first workshop at the Terminal Station on Tuesday, November 11. The mission of Amplify is to build and support a community of creative entrepreneurs in central Georgia with resources, experience, skills, collaboration, and connections. […]
Article · December 8, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad
By Laura Bruney, Arts & Business Council of Miami ABC: What role do see the arts playing in Miami’s growth as a global community? The arts are the core of what started the growth of Miami as we know it today. When I first moved here in the late 80s I came to such an […]
Article · December 3, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad