Visual Arts
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.
read morePeter Vanderwarker: Architectural Photographer
PETER VANDERWARKER received Institute Honors from the American Institute of Architects in 1991. His photographs are in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Addison Gallery of American Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
read moreThe Goldman Touch
JANET GOLDMAN is the Founder and Chairwoman Emeritus of Goldman Properties. She is also an artist, teacher, and the founder of Janet Golman Designs, which morphed into FRAGMENTS.
JESSICA GOLDMAN SREBNICK is the co-chair of Goldman Properties, the creative real estate firm with a storied history in developing thriving global destinations across the United States such as SoHo in New York City, Center City Philadelphia, Miami Beach, and Wynwood.
Jay Critchley: Performance Artist, Activist
JAY CRITCHLEY’s visual, conceptual and performance work and environmental activism have traversed the globe, showing and/or performing in Argentina, Japan, England, Holland, Germany, Columbia and the United States. He was featured in the LOGO channel’s “Ptown Diaries”, and interviewed by BBC/UK. His solo exhibition at Freight + Volume Gallery in Chelsea, New York City received exciting reviews from the New York Times, The New Yorker and the Village Voice.
read moreJel Martinez: Taking Street Art to the Next Level
JEL MARTINEZ (b.1976) is a Cuban American artist, born and raised in Miami, Florida. Martinez’s practice began with making graffiti art in the late 1980s as an original member of the Ink Heads Crew. Observing the paradox wherein metropolitan cleanup crews remove one form of art graffiti only to give rise to another, his current artistic vision is deeply rooted in the process of vandalism removal.
read moreBibi Andrade & Myroslava Koliadenko Make a Superhero Comic Book About Ukraine
In this ArtSpeak video conversation we address Brigitte “Bibi” Andrade’s desire to do something positive for the children of war-ravaged Ukraine. To that purpose, Andrade worked with 18 year-old Ukrainian refugee Myroslava Koliadenko to create “T-Superheroes,” a comic book about the invasion of Ukraine.
read moreJoel Meyerowitz: Making Photographs That Matter
JOEL MEYEROWITZ (b.1938) is an award-winning photographer whose work has appeared in over 350 exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world. He has published 55 books of photographs, including “Cape Light” (1978) and “Aftermath” (2011).
read moreGrace Hopkins: Making Abstract Photographs
GRACE HOPKINS is an artist who uses photography to create square abstract images.
read morePhotographer Femke Tewari: “Miami Women”
FEMKE TEWARI is a Miami-based photographer, videographer, and creative director. In 2022, Tewari published “Miami Women,” a book of photographs and interviews with 40 inspiring women born in 17 different countries. Tewari’s photographs of Miami women is also a major exhibition throughout the campus of the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County.
read moreBrandon Clarke: Architect + Artist
BRANDON CLARKE is an architect / designer + artist based in the Miami area. His most recent exhibition at Green Space Miami utilizes living moss and other plants and mixed-media on the backs of stretched canvases to express concern with the lack of shade in impoverished communities.
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