Beatriz Chachamovits: Environmental Artist
BEATRIZ CHACHAMOVITS is an environmental artist and educator from São Paulo, Brazil, living and working in Miami, Florida. Her work renders tangible the decline of the coral reef ecosystems, and the role played by humans in it. Her intention is to share the majestic beauty of at-risk marine ecologies as well as the appalling rate of their destruction.
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Richard LeBlond: “Homesick for Nowhere”
RICHARD LEBLOND is a retired field biologist. His essays and photographs have appeared in many U.S. and international journals, including Montreal Review, Weber – The Contemporary West, Lowestoft Chronicle, Still Point Arts Quarterly, Concis, and Trampset. His work has been nominated for “Best American Travel Writing” and “Best of the Net.” His first book, “Homesick for Nowhere,” was published in 2023.
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Heidi Paster Harf + Ezra Axelrod Make “Torah Tropical”
HEIDI PASTER HARF is a photographer from Eastern Long Island, who spent the last 15 years photographing daily life in Cali, Colombia, where she lived for two decades. EZRA AXELROD is creative director of ThisTopia, producing Colombian film projects focused on countercultures, regenerative psychoactive plant economies, and social and environmental justice.. Together they made the film “Torah Tropical.”
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Allen Klein & Bliss Hebert: A Lifetime of Making Opera
ALLEN CHARLES KLEIN (1938-2023) is the only American designer to have focused his career exclusively to the production of design for the opera stage, and together with BLISS HEBERT as director, has created more than seventy new productions. BLISS HEBERT (b.1930) has staged over three hundred productions of one hundred operas with forty-one different opera companies.
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Earth Day 2023
In recognition of EARTH DAY, 2022, we have curated a group of video interviews and stories from the ArtSpeak archives from prominent people in the arts, who help raise awareness and offer solutions for CLIMATE CHANGE and SEA LEVEL RISE, which are particularly threatening to Miami and South Florida.
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