Visual Arts
Mary Benton: Art + Environmental Activism
MARY BENTON is a portrait painter, sculptor, and jewelry designer who put down roots in Miami Shores after 30 years of living all over the world. She founded Bound by Beauty with a group of friends as a means of creating paradigm shifts in people by opening their eyes to the beauty and importance of nature through butterflies and the magical process of metamorphosis.
read moreLaurence Gartel: Digital Art Pioneer
LAURENCE GARTEL is a very innovative and eclectic artist, who is a pioneer of digital art. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, Joan Whitney Payson Museum, Long Beach Museum of Art, Princeton Art Museum, PS 1, Norton Museum, Palm Beach Photographic Center and in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of American History.
read moreThe Creative Adventures of Brigitte “Bibi” Andrade
BRIGITTE “BIBI” ANDRADE a multi-talented artist, Fashion Institute of Technology graduate, and former model, is a 33 year veteran of the Beauty Industry, and the creator of a unique series of comic books.
read moreCelebrating Women’s History Month 2024
In celebration of WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH, 2023, we have curated a group of video interviews from the ArtSpeak archives with prominent women in the arts, who are connected to the Miami and South Florida areas.
read morePhotographer Claire Holt
CLAIRE HOLT is a portrait photographer and photojournalist whose work has been featured in many publications, including The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, New York Newsday as well as the Associated Press.
read moreCelebrating Black History Month
In celebration of BLACK HISTORY MONTH, 2024, we have curated a group of video interviews from the ArtSpeak archives with prominent people in the arts, who are connected to the Miami and South Florida areas.
read moreNeil Leach: Adding AI to Architecture
NEIL LEACH is an architect, curator, educator, and writer, who has written two books about the impact of Artificial Intelligence on architecture.
read moreThe Unique Art of Roz Chast
ROZ CHAST’s work has appeared in numerous magazines through the years, including the Village Voice, National Lampoon, Scientific American, Harvard Business Review, Redbook and Mother Jones, but she is most closely associated with THE NEW YORKER.
read moreArtivist Leonor Anthony: Arctic Queen
LEONOR ANTHONY is a multi-disciplinary, Cuban-American artist and activist based in Miami. She is an accredited scholar, artist, photographer and published author. Leonor is well-known for her courageous use of materials and by creating works that invoke controversial issues. Anthony co-authored “Sounds of Freedom” with photographer Roberto Polillo. In October 2022, Anthony was awarded The Arctic Circle Fellowship and sailed the waters around the North Pole with 27 Artists and scientists in an unequaled and exclusive ecological Artist Residency.
read moreLise Motherwell: Lessons Learned from Robert and Helen
LISE MOTHERWELL, PhD, PsyD is a retired licensed psychologist and President of the Board of Trustees the Provincetown Art Association & Museum (the original PAAM). Prior to becoming a clinician, she earned a PhD in Learning and Epistemology from MIT’s Media Lab where she studied learning styles and gender differences in how children interact with computers.
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