Xavier Cortada: A Socially Engaged Artist in 2025
Miami’s pioneer eco-artist, XAVIER CORTADA, has created more than 150 public artworks, installations, and collaborative murals across six continents. The Florida Artists Hall of Fame inductee is the only artist to create work at both of the Earth’s poles.
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Maya Wiley: Activist, Author, Academic
MAYA WILEY is the author of “Remember You Are A Wiley.” She is a nationally known civil rights attorney and activist who has dedicated her life to the fights for justice, equality, and fairness.
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Michelle Cann: Music In Her Blood
Recognized as a leading interpreter of the piano music of Florence Price, MICHELLE CANN performed the New York City premiere of Price’s Piano Concerto in One Movement with The Dream Unfinished Orchestra in July 2016 and the Philadelphia premiere with The Philadelphia Orchestra and Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin in February 2021.
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Orlando Jacinto Garcia Creates “prohibido”
On Sunday, January 26, 2025 (2 pm) at the New World Center in Miami Beach, the Fellows of the New World Symphony will perform the world premiere of Cuban-American composer Orlando Jacinto García’s “prohibido” for string orchestra, conducted by Aram Demirjian, choreographed by Ariel Rose, with dancers Lucy Nevin and Alexander Kedan.
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Broadcast Journalist Jan Fox: From Shelbyville to D.C.
JAN FOX is a 4-Time TV Emmy Award Winner and holds the prestigious National Consumer Affairs Reporter Award for her work on life-saving Protective Child Car Seat Checks. That long term series of reports also netted her the Annual Total Station Community Service Award for the Washington, D.C. CBS affiliate, WUSA -TV 9.
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