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    Two of Rhythm Foundation’s long-running signature events came together for one very special night last weekend.  The monthly Big Night in Little Haiti coincided with our annual celebration of Fete de la Musique, held every June 21 to welcome summer!  Fete de la Musique took place within Big Night at the Little Haiti Cultural Center, […]

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    By Terrie Temkin, Ph.D., Arts & Business Council of Miami I’m an arts buff. I love the theater, live music, dance, and the visual arts. You will often find me attending two or three plays in a weekend, or going to a museum and then on to a performance of jazz or modern dance. The […]

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    By Katrina Vander Kooi, VocalEssence After a global search through which we received more than 60 applications, VocalEssence is proud to announce that we have hired our first-ever Assistant Artistic Director, Mr. Tesfa Wondemagegnehu (one-dim-AWG-knee-you). Tesfa joins VocalEssence from Orlando, Florida, where he was director of choral activities at Freedom High School. He will serve […]

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    By Gina M. Russo, Locust Projects The 2013 Locust Arts Builders will develop their collaborative exhibition in Locust Projects’ main gallery over the course of three weeks, under the instruction of Monica Lopez de Victoria of the TM Sisters and Loriel Beltran, a Miami-based artist. The program expanded to 25 students this year, thanks to […]

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    By Christy Gast, Artists in Residence in Everglades For more than ten years, the Artists in Residence in Everglades has given creatives the time and space to contemplate and make new work deep within the River of Grass. The residency hosts artists, writers, choreographers and composers for a month at a time, every month of […]

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    By Maris M. Bish, The Wolfsonian-FIU When Knight Foundation gave a $5 million grant to The Wolfsonian–FIU in December, one of the goals of the grant was to provide support to enable greater public access to the museum’s unparalleled collection.  With a new gift from Wolfsonian founder Mitchell Wolfson Jr., this will begin to become […]

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    By Sebastian Spreng, Visual Artist and Classical Music Writer By chance or coincidence, this CD came out on Egon Schiele’s birthday. I have instinctively and often associated Schiele’s landscapes, marked by turbulence and lyricism, with the Emerson Quartet’s style and execution. Those two traits appear to intensify in this album, an absolute capolavoro in its class. It […]

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    The excitement about the Macon Arts Alliance‘s grant from the National Endowment for the Arts continues. Macon Arts Alliance received an NEA Art Works grant to support Art Matters’ Engaging the Community through Embedded Arts Journalists. This month’s Macon Magazine covers the award and the program, read the complete transcript of the article here.

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    By Sharon Gillberg, Downtown Akron Partnership Saturday, June 1 was a great night in Downtown-filled with energy, fresh faces and fun. Through the support of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Downtown Akron Partnership kicked off the first in a series of Downtown Live & Local events with Film and Fashion. The collaboration […]

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    By  Lori-Anne Williams, The Ordway For Ordway’s Summer Dance series on June 20, Salsa was the name of the game – and we had a huge hit again this year.  Salsa fans had tables reserved in Rice Park before 5:00 p.m. Then at 6, a large crowd gathered for lessons by Manuel and Carmen Rubio. […]

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    By Melissa Macker, The 567 Center for Renewal The 567 Center for Renewal (a Knight grantee) regularly hosts a Coffee Talk with the Artists for the current month’s exhibit. The Coffee Talk gives art lovers a chance to get to know the artists, learn more about them and their approach to art, and how and […]

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