Visual Arts
Lauren Fisher: Emmy Award-Winning Animator + Creative Director
LAUREN FISHER is a designer, animator and director with over 15 years of experience in the entertainment and sports industry. She specializes in creating visually arresting content that experiments with animation, live-action and emerging technologies to tell compelling stories and delight audiences. In 2018 she developed a pilot for a short-form docuseries called Greatness Code with Religion Of Sports, which was picked up by Apple TV and won an Emmy for animation.
read morePhotographer Gary Monroe: A Lifetime in Black & White
GARY MONROE is a photographer born in Miami Beach. Starting in the 1970s, he photographed the old-world Jewish community that characterized South Beach. Since 1984 he has photographed throughout Haiti, and “wandered aimlessly” to photograph in other countries like Brazil, Israel, Cuba, India, Trinidad, Poland, and Egypt.
read moreKenzie Leon Perry: Artist + Interior Architect
KENZIE LEON PERRY is an interior architect and the creative Director of Ze Haus Design Studio. He is also a visual artist and product designer, creating wallpaper and fabric collections for his brand.
read moreGermane Barnes at Nina Johnson Gallery
Germane Barnes is an Assistant Professor and the Director of The Community Housing & Identity Lab (CHIL) at the University of Miami School of Architecture. Barnes’ work has been exhibited at and written about in, The Museum of Modern Art, The New York Times, Architect Magazine, DesignMIAMI/ Art Basel, and The National Museum of African American History. Barnes received the 2021 Rome Prize for Architecture.
read moreDr. Jose L. Dotres: Superintendent of Miami-Dade County Public Schools
DR. JOSE L. DOTRES is the Superintendent of Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS), the fourth-largest school district in the nation with over 40,000 employees and 330,000 students.
read moreCelebrating Hispanic Heritage Month
In celebration of HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH, 2022, we have curated a group of video interviews from the ArtSpeak archives with impactful Hispanics in the arts, who are connected to the Miami and South Florida areas.
read moreDavid Schaecter: Spearheading the Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach & the March of the Living
DAVID SCHAECTER is one of the founders of the Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach and of The March of the Living.
“I was born in Czechoslovakia in 1929 in a very small hamlet, In 1940, my father was taken to Auschwitz. A year later, they came for the rest of us.”
Leticia Bajuyo: Interdisciplinary Artist, Educator
Through her large-scale works, LETICIA BAJUYO engages audiences and connects with communities through her site-specific installations that involve community collections of media and memories. Bajuyo’s drawings, sculptures, and installations highlight the impact of cultural capital, assimilation, and desire. Her interest in unpacking value perceptions began with her autobiography growing up bi-racial on the border of Illinois and Kentucky
read moreArtist Sheila Elias
SHEILA ELIAS: My work is about the layers of life and art history, seeking in it a connection between art aesthetics and social consciousness. American sensibilities have influenced my life, the hues of my country found in the colors of my art.
read moreMaryan at MOCA
After a two-year pandemic pause, Miami’s City Theatre is finally celebrating its 25th anniversary in the best way possible, presenting a Summer Shorts festival that amply demonstrates the engaging allure of short-form comedies, plays and musicals.
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