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.
Read MoreGroup Two: What’s Your Favorite Movie?
THANDOLWETHU MAMBA 1:50 min. THANDOLWETHU MAMBA, raised in eSwatini (nee Swaziland), is an upcoming baritone who continues to...
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INTRODUCTION: What’s Your Favorite Movie?
In 2019, we asked composer Orlando Garcia to name his favorite movie. We said to Orlando, “Obviously, it’s impossible to name one favorite movie, but if you are channel-surfing and you see a listing for a film that you have seen many times before, which film would you dive into no matter which part of the movie, because you know most of the dialogue and remember all of the plot. Or to put it another way, if you were on a desert island and could only watch one movie for the rest of your life, which movie would it be?”
We have continued to ask this “favorite movie” question during our video conversations ever since, because the answers are always interesting. Click on “Read More” to see the movies that our ArtSpeak interviewees selected.
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Author Joel F. Johnson: Tales of the South
JOEL F. JOHNSON is the author of the novel “Never” (Arbitrary Press, 2023), a coming-of-age story in the segregated South, and “Where Inches Seem Miles,” a collection of poetry.
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