By Teatro del Pueblo Teatro del Pueblo and Pangea World Theater are proud to have been chosen to receive the prestigious 2012 Joyce award to commission artists of color to create new works that reflect the intersections between the Latino and Asian communities. The Joyce award comes with a $50,000 grant to commission three playwrights. […]
Article · February 28, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad
Last November, Miami City Ballet received a Knight Arts Challenge grant to support the ballet’s new works fund. Knight recently interviewed Pamela Gardiner, Executive Vice President, Artistic Affairs, at the Miami City Ballet to learn more about why it’s important to commission new works and how they’re approaching their efforts to match Knight’s grant. Knight Foundation: […]
Article · February 28, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad
By Julie Sand, TU Dance In August 2011, and with significant support from Knight Foundation, TU Dance launched its educational programming with its first-ever Summer Intensive at the new TU Dance Center in Saint Paul. Artistic Directors Toni Pierce-Sands and Uri Sands welcomed over 40 students, almost one-fourth of them on full or partial scholarships. It was […]
Article · February 27, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad
By Sebastian Spreng, Visual Artist and Classical Music Writer Dawn Upshaw defies all definitions, particularly that of “lyric soprano” simply because her voice is many voices. She was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and in 2007 she won the MacArthur Fellowship, the first classical vocal artist to be awarded the five-year […]
Article · February 27, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad
By Melissa Harris, Aperture Foundation James Klosty traveled with and photographed the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (MCDC) from 1967 to 1972. As the partner of dancer Carolyn Brown, he had unprecedented access to Cunningham, John Cage, and the Company as a whole, and his stunning photographs—first published in his 1975 book, Merce Cunningham—provide a unique, riveting, […]
Article · February 27, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad
By Dana Bassett, Roofless Records 11 “So Roofless” moments from 2011… Recipient of the Miami New Times 2011 Mastermind Award in the SOUND Category Experience Sobriety CD + Book Release (3-05-11). The President releases his definitive statement, Packaged with original cover art by Brian Butler, a massive 30+ page insert complete with illustrated lyrics and supplemental literature, as well as The […]
Article · February 27, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad
By Emma Gibson, Tiny Dynamite Productions 2011 Knight Arts Challenge winner Tiny Dynamite Productions is getting ready for the second season of ‘a Play, a Pie and a Pint,’ which will begin on March 6th 2012 at The Red Room of The Society Hill Playhouse. The season will run for four weeks on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings […]
Article · February 27, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad
By the Adrienne Arsht Center staff The Random Acts of Culture™ team is used to surprising the public with performances by Miami-based professional artists, but this month it ran into its own random surprise when actor John Lithgow appeared in the crowd of spectators at Miami International Airport. Lithgow, known for his roles in 3rd Rock […]
Article · February 24, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad
By Kristin Korolowicz, Bass Museum of Art This past December marked the first edition of the Bass Museum’s public art program initiative Temporary Contemporary. Organized in collaboration with Art Basel Miami Beach and curator Christine Y. Kim, the outdoor exhibition featured a diverse range of practices from internationally renowned and emerging artists. Our selections included not […]
Article · February 24, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad
By Ellen Gray, Young Arts Miami On Sunday, February 26, YoungArts winners from the South Florida region will perform at the New World Center in YoungArts Miami. This interdisciplinary performance and awards ceremony features the 2012 YoungArts winners from the New World School of the Arts, Design and Architecture Senior High, John A. Ferguson Senior […]
Article · February 23, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad
Today, Knight Foundation welcomes two new art leaders from Miami and San Jose to its national arts advisory committee. Silvia Karman Cubiña, executive director and chief curator of the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach, and Anjee Helstrup-Alvarez, executive director of MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana, in San Jose join the committee, […]
Article · February 23, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad