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Posted by Beverly Muzii on Apr 20, 2025
Anita Castiglione + Paul Posnak: A Lifetime Making Music
PAUL POSNAK’S international career as a concert pianist, recording artist, transcriber and sought-after teacher began as a child prodigy with a full scholarship to the Juilliard Preparatory School of Music at the age of eight. He performs frequently as duo-pianist with his wife, ANITA CASTIGLIONE whose career as a soloist, collaborative pianist, choral accompanist, and music educator began with piano studies in Massachusetts at the age of six. She has performed extensively as a soloist and collaborative pianist throughout the United States.
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Posted by Elman + Skye on Apr 17, 2025
Waltzing with Billy Zane
BILLY ZANE is an actor, filmmaker, and visual artist. His breakthrough role was in the Australian film “Dead Calm” (1989). He has since appeared in numerous films and television series and starred as the main antagonist Caledon Hockley in the epic film “Titanic” (1997), the Phantom in “The Phantom,” (1996) and Marlon Brando in “Waltzing with Brando” (2024).
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Posted by Michelle F. Solomon on Apr 16, 2025
Miami New Drama’s “Birthright” Is Full of Character Amid Plenty Of Complexity
Miami New Drama’s “Birthright” is like “Friends” but with a deeper meaning and Jewish identity at its core. The play tackles plenty of issues from the perspective of six friends who form alliances during a rite-of-passage trip to Israel.
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Posted by Elman + Skye on Apr 12, 2025
The Kaimiloa Project
CESAR A. BECERRA is a South Florida historian who’s taken part in chronicling and sharing the stories of the region for two decades. He is now engaged in writing the epic tale of the 230-foot SS Kaimiloa that plied the South Seas one hundred years ago. BEATRICE A. BRICKELL is engaged with tales of Miami and old Florida learned from her Kellum and Brickell family
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Posted by Raymond Elman on Apr 6, 2025
Artist Frank Hyder: Still Magic After All These Years
FRANK HYDER (b.1951) has participated in more than 200 group shows and over 100 solo exhibitions throughout the Americas, Asia, and Europe, including 10 individual exhibitions in New York City.
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Posted by Elman + Skye on Mar 30, 2025
Patrick Kennedy + Stephen Fried: Profiles in Mental Health Courage
PATRICK JOSEPH KENNEDY II (b.1967) is a retired politician and mental health advocate. STEPHEN FRIED is an investigative journalist, non-fiction author, and lecturer who teaches at Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania.
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Posted by Elman + Skye on Mar 23, 2025
Richard Ross — Art with a Purpose
RICHARD ROSS is an artist/activist/photographer and distinguished research professor of art based in Santa Barbara, California. As the creator of “Juvenile-in-Justice,” his work turns a lens on the placement and treatment of American juveniles housed by law in facilities that treat, confine, punish, assist and, occasionally, harm them.
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Posted by Elman + Skye on Mar 15, 2025
Juliet Romeo: Filmmaker, Journalist, Activist
JULIET ROMEO is an award-winning writer and director known for her dedication to bold, authentic storytelling. A Brooklyn-born Trinidadian filmmaker based in South Florida, she brings her lived experiences as a disabled Caribbean woman into her work, creating narratives that explore identity, resilience, and social justice.
Mission
The ArtSpeak publishing platform provides an intellectually sophisticated showcase for impactful creative talent, and serves as a bridge between arts journalism and academia by blending experienced writers, designers, photographers, and digital technologists with FIU students, faculty, and professional staff.
e-Magazine
TWENTY complimentary editions of the ArtSpeak e-Magazine are ready for installation and download to your Apple iPad (preferably) and iPhone from the Apple App Store. The first ArtSpeak branded e-Magazine (Volume 9, Number 2) was published in December, 2023.
TO INSTALL THE APP
From your iPad desktop or iPhone desktop, tap on the App Store icon. Search for “artspeak miami” in the App Store and follow instructions.
Digital Commons Archive
Nineteen of the ArtSpeak (nee:Inspicio) e-Magazines have been tagged and archived by the FIU Library System in Digital Commons, see: https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/inspicio/ Digital Commons is a hosted open access institutional repository and publishing archive, combining traditional institutional repository functionality with tools for journal publishing, conference management, and multimedia. Content published to Digital Commons institutional repositories is optimized for indexing by Google, Google Scholar, and other major search engines.