Visual Arts
Grace 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.
read moreJoy Glidden: From DUMBO to CPAL
JOY GLIDDEN is best known as the co-founder of the Dumbo Art Under the Bridge Festival (1997) and the founder of the DUMBO Arts Center (1998). She was the director of New Orleans-based nonprofit Louisiana ArtWorks (2007–2010), founding director of PBS Art Index TV (2010–present),and senior advisor to the Northern New England Museum of Contemporary Art (NNE MoCA) as well as the Northern New England Artist Legacy Project (NNE ALP) (2017–2020). Glidden is the founder of the Center for the Preservation of Artists’ Legacies (CPAL) (2020–present)
read moreIn Memoriam: Dr. Enid Curtis Pinkney
DR. ENID CURTIS PINKNEY (1931-2024) passed away on July 18, 2024 at the age of 92. She will be most remembered for saving the Hampton House in Brownsville from the Miami wrecking ball, and raising the funds to restore it to National Historic Registry standards. She was the founder of the Historic Hampton House Museum.
read moreCartoonist Bill Griffith: Creator of Zippy the Pinhead
Cartoonist BILL GRIFFITH is best known for his surreal daily comic strip ZIPPY THE PINHEAD. The catchphrase “Are we having fun yet?” is credited to Griffith.
read moreMulti-Talented Artist Carlos Betancourt
CARLOS BETANCOURT (born in San Juan, Puerto Rico 1966) is a multi-disciplinary artist. His artwork is part of public collections such as the Smithsonian’ National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.; the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale; San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas; New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana; Palm Springs Art Museum, California; Bass Museum of Art, Florida; Perez Art Museum Miami, Florida; and Museo de Arte Ponde, Puerto Rico.
read moreIn Memoriam: Frank Stella — 5/12/1936 to 5/4/2024
FRANK STELLA, one of the greatest and most eclectic artists of all time, passed away on 5/4/2024, at the age of 87.
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 moreMary 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.
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