Heat & humidity are at peak levels, but fall is just around the corner & the arts are in the air. Knight Foundation is getting in the spirit by helping to sustain the Masterworks series at the Arsht Center though 2013, with a $600,000 grant. The Arsht Center launched the series last year to preserve the Concert Association of Florida’s 2009 […]
Article · July 28, 2010 by Valerie Nahmad
Knight Arts Challenge Winner Miami Lighthouse for the Blind has hit the international stage & needs your help. One of its students, Natalia Sulca, is competing on Minuto de Fama, a Spanish equivalent of American Idol and needs your votes. Natalia, a Hialeah native and recent graduate of Krop High School, is an accomplished singer and […]
Article · July 26, 2010 by Valerie Nahmad
By Janet Batet, Arts JournalistThe Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, at the FIU (Florida International University) offers to us a must see: Volf Roitman: From MADI to the LUDIC revolution. Conceived as retrospective, the show has become tribute due to the sudden death of the artist less than a month before to the opening of […]
Article · July 20, 2010 by Valerie Nahmad
Welcome to the new KnightArts.org. In celebration of our one year anniversary and the national rollout of Knight Arts grants, we’ve redesigned our site to better serve the local & national arts communities. At KnightArts.org you’ll now find information about artistic endeavors in your city and in your fellow Knight Foundation resident communities. Click the […]
Article · July 19, 2010 by Valerie Nahmad
Welcome to the new KnightArts.org. In celebration of our one year anniversary and the national rollout of Knight Arts grants, we’ve redesigned our site to better serve the local & national arts communities. At KnightArts.org you’ll now find information about artistic endeavors in your city and in your fellow Knight Foundation resident communities. Click the […]
Article · July 19, 2010 by Valerie Nahmad
As we mentioned earlier, the Knight Foundation has gone national with its arts grants. As part of this initiative Dennis Scholl, Knight Foundation’s vice president of the arts and Miami program director, took a recent trip to Detroit to check out the city’s cultural community. His thoughts ran as an op-ed piece in the Detroit […]
Article · July 19, 2010 by Valerie Nahmad
We’re proud to welcome Macon to the Knight Arts grants family this year. Today Macon program director Beverly Blake reports from the field with news on a recent event… “One of the great things about College Hill is our Second Sunday events. In the summer, it’s moved to evening “Second Sunday at Sunset” because it’s […]
Article · July 19, 2010 by Valerie Nahmad
We talk a lot about community engagement and the arts, but how does a museum truly engage a viewer beyond just hanging the art up on the wall and opening the door and saying “come in.” I recently had a visual art experience that went well beyond the tradition model of museum – viewer interaction. […]
Article · July 18, 2010 by Valerie Nahmad
A very happy anniversary to Miami’s acclaimed International Hispanic Theater Festival, which is celebrating its 25th year this summer. Presented by KAC winners Teatro Avante and the Arsht Center in partnership with American Airlines, the festival is taking place from July 7-August 1 with performances Wednesdays-Sundays at venues throughout Miami, Miami Beach and Key Biscayne. […]
Article · July 13, 2010 by Valerie Nahmad
The Knight Foundation is rethinking cultural classics this season as it kicks of its new initiative, Random Acts of Culture™. We’re bringing short, spontaneous bursts of classical music, theater, dance and opera to the streets in our eight operating communities. Think Mozart at the mall and La Traviata in the market. We’re planning to do […]
Article · July 8, 2010 by Valerie Nahmad
In 2009, ArtBurst, then known as Performance Journalism, was awarded $24,000 to help boost the quality and quantity of dance coverage in local media. One year later, the project is the proud award winner. Project Manager Adriana Perez reports on the recent success… ArtBurst (formerly Performance Journalism), an arts journalism initiative created in partnership among […]
Article · July 7, 2010 by Valerie Nahmad