By Annie Hollingsworth Artlurker.com, Miami’s notorious art and culture blog, is now three years old. In that short time, other local blogs have come and gone, but Artlurker’s founder and editor Tom Hollingworth has kept the website running strong, even though he just left town on a vegetable oil powered bus converted into a makeshift […]
Article · May 5, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad
Susan Schaffhausen, Penumbra Theatre Company Penumbra’s new Knight-funded play development program, called OKRA, is a unique opportunity to develop the artistic voice of the African American community and create a system to get new plays produced. OKRA means ‘spark of life’ to the Akan people of Ghana. The program nurtures the voice of emerging playwrights while […]
Article · May 5, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad
By Arsht Center Staff Armando Santana, a 16-year-old sophomore at New World School of the Arts high school, has been named the top reviewer of the inaugural installment of the Adrienne Arsht Center Student Reviewer Program, a new education initiative in partnership with The Miami Herald that offers Miami-Dade students a unique, career-building experience that […]
Article · May 5, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad
By Laura Zabel, Executive Director Springboard for the Arts After a very long winter, things are finally feeling like Spring here in St. Paul. And a lot of the planning and work we did over the winter at Springboard for the Arts is also blooming. Last week all of those efforts came together and what resulted was […]
Article · May 4, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad
By Lucas Leyva, Minister of the Interior, Borscht Film Festival This is exactly what running Borscht feels like: In the last six weeks, we rallied almost the entire independent film community in South Florida to come together for the first time, poached veteran crew members to work on small passion projects during the height of […]
Article · May 3, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad
Congratulations to Knight Arts grantee P. Scott Cunningham. The founder of the University of Wynwood and O, Miami, Miami’s first month-long poetry festival, was recently named one of 51 “bold and brilliant urbanites” by Fast Company in its United States of Innovation article. Named as the Florida innovator, Cunningham is cited for his work in […]
Article · May 2, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad
By Margot Helm, Opera San Jose On Saturday, May 7th, over one thousand Bay Area residents will get their first taste of opera by attending a special performance of “the greatest love story ever sung”: Puccini’s beloved classic, La bohème. With support from the Knight Foundation, Opera San José is excited to share the magic […]
Article · April 30, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad
2010 Knight Arts Challenge winner the South Florida Composers Alliance was awarded $75,000 to create a publicly accessible exhibition space at ArtCenter South Florida on Lincoln Rd to “foster the appreciation and understanding of sound art” in South Florida. The resulting Listening Room, a 24-channel installation, pipes sound art outside the ArtCenter and hosts curated exhibits […]
Article · April 28, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad
National Poetry Month is here and the crew at How Pedestrian, a video blog that seeks to make poetry more accessible to the general public, is in town to help the organizers behind O, Miami bring a poem to every person in Miami-Dade county before the end of the month. Knight Foundation president and CEO Alberto Ibargüen added […]
Article · April 28, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad
It’s moving day for Carolina Actors Studio Theatre (CAST). The troupe is debuting its new home in the NoDa building on June 16. Funded in part by Knight Foundation, the move is allowing the troupe to say goodbye to the leaky roof, limited parking and limited signage at its former space on Clement Ave. The […]
Article · April 28, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad
There are three days left of O, Miami, Miami’s first monthlong poetry festival – have you experienced a poem yet? Thousands of people watched poetry fly from the sky Saturday, April 16 as artists Jonathan Lizcano and Ximena Izquierdo dropped poems printed on biologically friendly materials over Sweatstock 2011. Were you there? Comment below & […]
Article · April 27, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad