The Sketchy Pink Party at The Betsy-South Beach 10/23/11

Sketchy Pink Party
Sunday, Oct. 23, 5 p.m. – 8 p.m.
The Betsy-South Beach
1440 Ocean Drive
South Beach, FL
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@sketchymiami
@beachedmiami

In the evening of Sunday, Oct. 23, Beached Miami will be hosting the Sketchy Pink Party atop the roof deck of The Betsy-South Beach to raise money for breast cancer research. There will be live art, drinks, and hors d’oeuvres catered by BLT Steak, the Betsy’s stellar in-house eatery. Raffa & Rainer will also be on hand, marrying melody and harmony to make a lovely thing called music.

Have a lot of fun. Do a lot of good. Admission is $20 at the door and $15 in advance. All proceeds will benefit breast cancer research at University of Miami’s Braman Family Breast Cancer Institute at Sylvester. To learn more and to RSVP, visit the Facebook event page.

Perks: All proceeds benefit breast cancer research; all guests get a free glass of Grolsch; catering by BLT Steak; live art by local artists; live music by Raffa & Rainer
By the way, you don’t have to wear pink, but you’ll look better if you do. See you there.

Photographs by Anthony Jordon of Breast Cancer Awareness Body Painting Project at Red Bar Gallery on 10/12/11

Photographs taken by Anthony Jordon of Breast Cancer Awareness Body Painting Project at Red Bar Gallery on Wednesday, October 12, 2011.

Photographs taken by Anthony Jordon to see more of his work go to his flickr page or his facebook page.

Dance With Me Photography Exhibit by Nicole Kent 11/5/11

Dance With Me Photography Exhibit by Nicole Kent
November 5, 2011, 7-10pm
1310 Gallery
1310 SW 2nd CT (Middle St)
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33312
www.nicolekent.com

If your knowledge of dance is reduced to fist pumping and shaking your money maker, fine art photographer, Nicole Kent will broaden your repertoire when her first solo exhibit, Dance With Me, debuts at 1310 Gallery on November 5, 2011. Dance With Me is an in-depth exploration of Nicole’s fascination with dance and motion as a vehicle for conveying human emotion. Her images capture the beauty of dancers as they glide across the stage, defy gravity with acrobatic stunts, or pop and lock. To reinforce the concept of movement in her work, Nicole has chosen to showcase lenticular prints, a unique printing process that gives the viewer the illusion of motion as they walk across the room. The opening and closing receptions will feature live performances by dancers from Impact Dance Company, My Bollywood Studio, and Body & Soul Dance Theatre, many of whom are featured in her work. After being inspired by three floors of new moves, Nicole invites you to join her at The Green Room for the exhibit’s after party.

Downtown Hollywood ArtWalk 10/15/11

Downtown Hollywood ArtWalk
October 15th, 7-10pm

Comfort Zone Studio & Spa
2028 Harrison Street #101 • 954-923-2030 • www.ComfortZoneSpa.com
Specializing in romantic couples treatments & spa parties. Customized facials, LED facial rejuvenation, a variety of massages, European waxing, natural nail services, & more!

The Shade Post
2028 Harrison Street #102 • 954-920-0029 • www.ArtOfShade.com
A fashion lab and showroom for the Art of Shade, a recycled, redesigned one-of-a-kind label by designer Kayce Armstrong. Fashions from bikinis to couture gowns!

Niki’s Cafe
2028 Harrison Street #103 • 954-923-2030
A fusion of European & Caribbean flavors (“Eurobbean”) where you can enjoy the highest quality in imported cheeses and wines or a delicious plate of Latin food and ice cold beer.

ANSU Gallery
2028 Harrison Street #104 • 954-454-5632 • www.ANSUGallery.com
Local artists show and sell their fine art. One-of-a-kind handpainted porcelain collectibles and papier mâché sculptures. Handpainted murals on tiles, magnets & more.

Cafe Volare
2033 Harrison Street • 954-655-5432
Gourmet International food, fresh baked items, home-made pastas and desserts. everything fresh and made on premises.

Armando Perez Creations
2029 Harrison Street #5 • 954-241-0081 • ArmandoPerezCreations.com
Armando Perez, Artist and Jewelry Designer will be presenting several shark paintings and fantasy art. Stop by for great specials, music and wine.

Goddess Store & Studio
2017 Harrison Street • 954-929-2369 • www.GoddessStore.com
Experience a variety of dance forms and yoga at our unique studio. An easy and fun way to maintain and improve your health & wellness. FREE Monthly Dance, Poetry & Art Events.

Cuenca’s Montecristo Lounge of Hollywood
1928A Harrison Street • 954-364-7660 • facebook.com/Montecristo.Lounge
The Montecristo Lounge is a classic, relaxing and cozy members only cigar club that hosts a public “Art and Cigars” exhibition each month that attracts cigar aficionados and art lovers alike.

Alexandria Mediterranean Restaurant
2050 Hollywood Blvd • 954-925-4521 • www.Alexandria-Restaurant.com
Offering our guests a full liquor bar, a hookah lounge, the best belly dance show every night, special VIP events and much more, all while enjoying the best Mediterranean seafood in town.

Paul Miller Hair Studio
2019 Hollywood Blvd • 954-922-9710 • www.PaulMillerHair.com
Paul Miller Hair Studio features an upbeat and trendy atmosphere influenced by some of the most talented and professional hair stylists in Florida. Local and regional artists’ work on display during ArtWalk. (November & December only)

Megabite Chillout Lounge
1910B Hollywood Blvd • 954-237-2888 • www.MegabiteCyberCafe.com
Chic internet lounge with live music, fanciful & exquisite food. We serve beer at 23° and 20 flavors of bubble tea.

ArtsPark Visual Arts Pavilion Gallery
One Young Circle • 954-921-3500 • www.HollywoodFL.org/artspark
In the Visual Arts Pavilion, visitors can enjoy demonstrations of glass blowing, jewelry making & sculpting, view rotating exhibitions and purchase original artwork.

Click here to download ArtWalk Participant map PDF.

Up All Night The Catalina Hotel + Beach Club Charges Up for Sleepless Night Miami Beach 11/5/11

Exclusive hotel sponsor of Sleepless Night Miami Beach, The Catalina Hotel + Beach Club, has announced its eclectic line-up of installations taking place throughout the 13-hour event on November 5-6, 2011. On this special night, the three-building property will be decked out with daring art displays paired with funky foreign beats, the moves of Miami’s Shameless Burlesque Troupe and much more. The hotel will also serve as the main information booth for the event and is centrally located to many performance venues, making it an ideal spot to start or end the night.

Throughout the event, those looking to rest their tired tootsies and get a little people watching in can kick back in the Sleepless Night lounge located in front of the hotel on Miami’s main stretch – Collins Avenue. In the lounge guests can order a round of caffeinated cocktails, refuel with a few light bites or sample one of 12 flavors at the oxygen bar. When ready to depart, “sleep walkers” can hop aboard the complimentary Sleepless Night shuttle, with stops occurring at the lounge all evening long.

“We are extremely excited to be the official Sleepless Night Miami Beach host hotel for the second year,” said owner of The Catalina Hotel & Beach Club, Alan Lieberman. “We truly believe that this year’s all-night event will be bigger and better than ever, demonstrating that The City of Miami Beach as a whole has truly arrived as the next great destination for the performing arts.”
Co-owner Nathan Lieberman adds, “For the hotel specifically, it is a great opportunity to express our personal enthusiasm and passion for the arts. By offering a celebration throughout The Catalina’s three buildings, we are proud to give local South Florida artists a platform to perform as well as attracting locals and visitors to the city. Sleepless Night Miami Beach in many ways confirms why Miami Beach is one of the hottest destinations in the world.”

The complete lineup of Sleepless Night Miami Beach events at The Catalina Hotel + Beach Club follows below:

Red Bar Lounge
Official Sleepless Night Miami Beach Ribbon Cutting Ceremony (5:30 p.m.)
City of Miami Beach Mayor Matti Herrera Bower joins The Catalina Hotel + Beach Club’s owners Alan and Nathan Liberman as they kick off the night’s festivities.

Meet the Artists (6:00-8:00 p.m.)
Marlene Lopez, Frayackus, Jennifer Garcia, Carielen Haas, Lucinda Linderman, Sri Prabha and Burne Richardson will be present to discuss their pieces on exhibit.

Arthur Brown Jazz Fusion Performance (7:00-10:00 p.m.)
Award-winning jazz musician Arthur Brown presents his repertoire of hip mainstream jazz, blues and Latin jazz along with special guests.

DJ 1MX SET (10 p.m.- 4 a.m.)
Miami favorite DJ 1MX on the decks for a six-hour set of the best hip-hop, house and jazz.

Catalina Unplugged at Maxine’s Bistro & Bar
On the Front Terrace:
La Vida (5:00-7:00 p.m.)
Dueling acoustic guitars play an elegant blend of jazz, world and contemporary music.

Cleveland Jones (7:00-9:00 p.m.)
The cool rhythms of the Caribbean blended with Latin guitar and classic vocals.

ArtOfficial (9:00-11:00 p.m.)
Playing sounds from hip hop’s “golden era,” replacing sampled beats with jazz musicians and injecting a good dose of future funk into the whole equation.

Jay Blues Band (11:00 p.m.-1:00 a.m.)
Performing a high-engery fusion of funk, rock, blues and R&B.

Rose Max and Ramatis (1:00 a.m.-3:00 a.m.)
Straight from Rio de Janeiro, this group brings the beats of bossa nova, Brazilian jazz and samba.

Zach Larmer and Sam Hall of Mineur de Jazz (3:00 a.m.-5:00 a.m.)
Mineur de Jazz mixes Bluegrass, Gypsy Swing, and Bebop to create an interesting and stimulating blend of musical flavors.

In the Lounge:
DJ Halo (6:00 p.m.-11:00 p.m.)
Blend of old school hip hop, ‘80s and jazz.

On the Bamboo Pool Deck:
305coLAB open-air video installation
Projection screen suspended over the bamboo pool with works from Sri Prabha, Burne Richardson, Marlene Lopez, Lucinda Linderman, Jennifer Garcia Matthews and Carla Fache.

Up All Night With Y-100 Live Radio Broadcast at Kung Fu Kitchen & Sushi
On the Front Terrace:
Live Painting by Santiago Betancur (10:00 p.m.-midnight)
Betancur will rally through the night painting two signature self-portraits with acrylics on canvas.

In the Lounge:
Meet the Artists (6:00-8:00 p.m.)
Santiago Betancur, Cristina Botero, Breceda, Luis Jimenez, Orkomo, Prieto, Romgo, Jonathan Suarez and Vasquez will be on hand to discuss their works on display throughout the lounge.

DJ 1MX Set (6:00-10:00 p.m.)
The local turntablist starts his marathon night with the best hip hop, house and jazz before heading to the Red Bar Lounge.

Y-100 Live Radio Broadcast (10:00 p.m.-midnight)
Acclaimed radio personality DJ Chris Cruz goes live on Miami’s hit music station.

Shameless Burlesque Troupe performance (10:00 p.m.-3:00 a.m.)
Inspired by icons such as Mae West and Lili St. Cyr, Shameless Burlesque will bring their sultry moves to The Catalina for a five-hour performance.

“Circuitry” Audio Visual Performance (midnight-5:00 a.m.)
The #1 Billboard artist DJ Maximus 3000 pairs his beats with “Live Stream,” a simulcast performance exploring the inner works of Sleepless Night Miami Beach, with streaming video from each zone streaming on screens and through social media applications. App users can log on to the simulcast and comment on their experiences. Directed by Emmy-award winning director, Andrew Richardson.

Exclusive hotel packages are available at The Catalina Hotel + Beach Club during the event.
The Sleepless Night Package includes:
· Overnight accommodations
· Energy drink welcome cocktails and nightly cocktail hour
· Caffeinated gift basket amenity
· Access to VIP Oxygen Bar Lounge during the Sleepless Night Miami Beach event
· Two complimentary Hungry Man’s Breakfast Platters served at the 24-hour Maxine’s Bistro
· Two complimentary Signature Sushi Samplers served at Kung Fu Sushi
· Round trip airport shuttle from Miami International Airport; two beach chairs per day per room; complimentary use of Catalina cruiser bicycles and VIP club passes

www.catalinasouthbeach.com
www.sleeplessnight.org

Moksha Roots Live 10/2111

Moksha Roots Live
Friday October 21st, 2011, 7pm-5am
7th Crcuit Studios
228 ne 59th street
Miami, Fl 33137
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Moksha Family Arts Collective and Artist for Community Evolution present Moksha Roots Live, the official after party for The Rhythm Foundation’s Big Nights in Little Haiti. In this event we explore the roots of our cultures in the Mia.

Featured Bands this month…~Wraps N’ Kush~
A Roots Reggae Rock band with a unique soul penetrating sound, the band is the main source of live instrumentation for the artists on the JahGydeYah Records roster. The band comprises of Grammy nominated producer Steven “Purpose” Chung on bass, Vincent “Vinnie” Hamilton on keyboards, and Stephen Murphy on drums.

And…. ~Suav Mizik~
Suav play a plethora of styles, primarily kompa, a little bit of reggae and some R&B. Look for the release of their second album “Katon Rouj”.

Every month…
~Moksha Roots Collective~
The Moksha Roots Collective Band is a constant rotation of Miami’s finest roots and world music musicians with international guests. You never know who may join the jam.

This All Star Group includes… Bagga Trax, Harry Lacounte, Ryan Baker, Rene Bailey

Joining Moksha Roots Collective… ~Kirby Maurier~
Kirby Maurier was the co-author and featured vocalist behind “This Is The Life” by Valholla label mate Ramzez. “This Is The Life” quickly gained momentum with DJ’s throughout Miami, spinning the single in the hottest clubs, and being featured on South Florida radio stations such as 99Jamz, Power96, and internationally recognized.

~Swelele~

~Celia Evans~

Painting live.. ~Ricardo Triana~

Performance Art.. ~Tribe Of The Red Moon ~
Lucky Bruno, Tribe of the Red Moon, has been part of the Moksha Family Arts Collective for the past 8 years. His performances aim to create a sense of global circus hysteria, with the extreme hope of touching and captivating his audiences with joy and inspiration.

Visuals.. ~ VJ Care ~
Environmental light queen aka CARE is an international video artist originally from Seattle, Wa. Her vision is to create multi-sensory experiences that connect, inspire & engage.

18+Over /$10
!! Free Admission Before 10pm !!
Come early and have a drink at the Pleidian Lounge ,explore the Moksha Art Gallery & The Moksha Boutique. open 6pm – 10pm FREE

For more information: www.mokshafamily.org / 305.757.7277

Multifaceted The Multiversal Pre-Party and Mixer 11/3/11

Multifaceted – The Multiversal Pre-Party/Mixer
Thursday, November 3, 8:00pm – 3:00am
Cafeina Wynwood Lounge
297 NW 23 Street
Miami, FL
Please RSVP on Facebook.

Multiversal 2011, More than Art Group and Life is Art invite you to our last fundraiser and Multiversal Preshow & Party at Cafeina Wynwood Lounge.

A night of Music, Art, Fashion and Special Art performances from Fire Dancers to Acrobats! Join us as we pre-celebrate our Multiversal 2011 show during Art Basel

Entrance $5 without a drink $10 with a complimentary drink
Includes special shows and Fashion show

Happy Hour from 8pm – 9pm

Artists
BMD art
Cristina Isabel Rivera
Customz
Tatiana Enriquez
Gus Colors
Sean Glenn
Jennifer Maria Cordoba
Peter Fasi
Diana Contreras
Celia Reigle
Chris Riggs
Teepop
James Brutus
Ralph Ventura

Music by
BOXWOOD
{in-boxes}
TAMBOKA

Fashion Shows with
Fox House
Trash Fashions by Aidana Baldassarre
41 Vintage Row by Nori Lance
CherryRootz by AnaMaria Fals
Ai Mei by Amy Rubi

DJ George the Infinite
Special Fire Dancing Performance by The Cleric

get your Feather Extensions onsite by Control Salon

For more information info@multiversalmiami.com

ARTISTS: If you want to showcase you art please email: artists@multiversalmiami.com

Tigertail’s Florida Flash Book Launch and Reading 10/17/11

Tigertail’s Florida Flash Book Launch & Reading
Monday, October 17, 2011, 8:00 pm
Books & Books
265 Aragon Avenue
Coral Gables
free admission

The ninth edition of Tigertail’s annual poetry publication, edited by Lynne Barrett moves into prose to explore the edges and overlaps between lyrical and narrative approaches. Fifty-four authors with connections to Florida contribute prose poetry, flash fiction, and flash nonfiction. For each piece, editor Lynne Barrett set a maximum word count of 305—a number representing the original South Florida area code as well as the limits of a single page—and the result is an exuberant collection that captures both scintillant moments and the faceted turnings of memory.

New World School of the Arts Alumni Art Auction at the Sagamore Hotel 11/8/11

The NWSA Alumni Art Auction at the Sagamore Hotel
Tuesday, November 8, 6:30 pm – 10:00 pm.
The Sagamore Hotel
1671 Collins Avenue
Miami Beach, Florida

RSVP at rsvp.nwsa@gmail.com

The Sagamore Hotel in Miami Beach will host 80” of Art, an alumni art auction in celebration of NWSA’s’ 25th year anniversary. 100% of the proceeds will be donated to the visual arts division.

Cricket Taplin, co-owner of the Sagamore, the acclaimed boutique hotel in Miami Beach, has announced that she and her husband Martin Taplin will be hosting 80” of Art, a New World School of the Arts (NWSA) alumni art auction in celebration of the school’s 25 year anniversary. Mr. and Mrs. Taplin will donate 100% of the proceeds of the auction to NWSA’s visual arts department. With at least seventy-five participating artists, among which are Hernan Bas, Bert Rodriguez, and Mike Vasquez, the one-day exclusive exhibition is representative of the diverse and distinct artistic styles that define NWSA. Sponsored by the Cricket Taplin Collection, the Sagamore Hotel and Bacardi, admittance to the show is by RSVP invitation only. The starting bid for each work of art will be equal to 50% of the value of the piece.

At New World School of the Arts, visual arts students are able to explore and develop their personal artistic and aesthetic vision while being guided by a dynamic and distinguished faculty who are all practicing artists. Through disciplined training in traditional and new media, students also develop new skills and refine others while gaining invaluable understanding of the roles of art and design in society. Areas of concentration in visual arts include Drawing, Electronic Media, Graphic Design, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, and Sculpture.

Celebrating its 25th Anniversary this year, New World School of the Arts was created by the Florida Legislature as a center of excellence in the performing and visual arts, is an educational partnership of Miami Dade County Public Schools, Miami Dade College and the University of Florida.

Celebrating the Hispanic Heritage Month the Museum of the Americas 10/14/11

Friday, October 14, 2011 from 6:30 PM to 10:00 PM
Museum Of The Americas
2500 NW 79 AVE #108
Doral, FL 33122
www.museumamericas.org

Celebrating the Hispanic Heritage Month the Museum of the Americas cordially invites you and your guests to the opening of the following exhibitions with free admission to the cocktail-party and free parking at the building.

“7 Artists from 7 Countries”
(Exhibition #4/2011)
featuring
Ana Cabrera Grohs (Argentina)
Lara Campiglia (Uruguay)
Grace Nehmad (Mexico)
José Angel Palao (Spain)
María Angélica Peñaranda (Chile)
Tadeo Lázaro (Puerto Rico)
Javier Villamizar Pinto (Colombia)

Exhibition at Room #108
The show ends on October 31, 2011
Museum hours: Tuesday-Friday, 11-5
Saturdays 11-4 by appointment only

Free admission – Free parking

In room #104, visitors will have the opportunity to admire a spectacular portrait of José Martí, the great Cuban politician and writer, its author being Juan Manuel Freire, a Miami artist. It is important to emphasize that it is not an ordinary portrait: On a canvas measuring 56 x 66 inches (1.42 x 1.68 mts) the artist has pasted more than 650 photos of the most important buildings and monuments that existed in Cuba during the 1920’s in its six provinces. On the frame, those six provinces are represented by their emblems, territories and photos of their outgoing political forces at the time. In short, it is an artwork which comprises several steps: beginning with the idea itself, the research for photographs, the design of the portrait itself by using each one of the photos which had to be shaped up to conform the features, expression and shape of Jose Marti’s face. In almost all the photos monuments, buildings and residences are easily identified (under the right eye visitors will immediately realize the photo is that of the Havana Terminal Railway Station and under the left eye the photo shown is that of the Hotel Continental Colón , Province of Matanzas, etc.) This artwork will be exhibited at Room #104 together with paintings from the Museum Collection

Aleloop Street Art Mobile Installation Art Basel 2011 12/1-4/11

Aleloop Street Art Mobile Installation Art Basel 2011
December 1 – 4, 2011
Aleloop Mobile Art Installation – “Did You See Those MINIs?”
A Multisensory Flash Mob During Art Basel Miami Beach
artbasel.aleloop.com

During Art Basel 2011, pop surrealist artist Aleloop will present a one-of-a-kind interactive Mobile Art Installation that will have people asking “Did You See Those MINIs?” From December 1st – 4th, a caravan of 10 MINI Coopers wrapped with Aleloop’s hip, happy & playful art will be travelling through Miami & Miami Beach in the heart of the Art Basel action, making scheduled stops at the most popular art fairs, parties, galleries and restaurants.

At each stop, 40 energetic performers will pop out of the colorful cars creating a multisensory Flash Mob around the Aleloop MINIs. Performers dressed in Aleloop designed tees will engage Art Basel enthusiasts with a multitude of mediums – music, juggling, singing, magic, hooping, dancing, live art and of course fun take-aways for the audience. The carnival-like atmosphere at each installation will engage all five senses, creating one of the most memorable and talked about Art Basel experiences of 2011. A film crew will be documenting the entire Aleloop experience for “The Making of a Spectacle, a Documentary,” a movie that will chronicle this non-traditional traveling installation.

The 10 MINI Coopers will feature thematically designed artwork with whimsical characters created by Aleloop with their own personalities and stories. Featured themes include: Fine Arts, Grunge, Video Game, DJ, MINI ME, Free Hand, Comics, Pattern, Driver and Nature.

Aleloop is also giving one lucky fan the opportunity to win their own MINI Cooper wrapped with the Aleloop artwork of their choice for a year. To enter the pre-contest, visit http://ArtBasel.Aleloop.com and follow them on Facebook for real time updates. A full schedule of destinations for the Aleloop MINI Cooper caravan will be available soon.

About Aleloop: Between 2002-2009 Aleloop (a.k.a. Alejandra Leibovich) served as Senior Art Director of Creative Services for three of Viacom’s most popular brands in Latin America: VH1, Nickelodeon and Logo TV. Aleloop has also designed for Cartoon Network, Nicktoons Network, 7UP, Dr. Pepper, XBOX, iTunes, Ironman, X-MEN, TNT, The Academy Awards and Playstation in addition to several consumer product clients and music video producers. Her specialty for television, commercials and music videos is blending animated characters and animated “worlds” together with live action actors and elements. Her work garnered widespread industry recognition including more than 20 “Promax” awards, which is the television motion graphics industry’s highest honor. In 2009 Viacom decided to move its operation from Miami to Argentina, and Aleloop decided to take this opportunity to remain in Miami and enter the world of fine arts.

Now, less than two years later, collectors across the U.S. and internationally, have snapped-up more than 11 of her original pieces. Aleloop’s originals and her giclee-originals have appeared at Comic Con San Diego, Optic Nerve at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami, G40 Art Summit, Art Whino, Art Link International, Pop Santa Fe, Lunar Boy Gallery, Multiversal and many many more. Demand for Aleloop’s original artwork has steadily climbed and “entry level” collectors now support a growing market for giclee-prints and giclee-originals, in addition to the limited but growing number of her original pieces. Aleloop lives and works in Coconut Grove, Florida and drives one of the most unique Mini Cooper S automobiles on the road anywhere in the world today.

Aleloop’s Art Basel Sponsors Include: Metro Wrapz, Art Whino and The Cheese Steak Gourmet

University Of Miami Wynwood Project Space Presents The 4th Annual Cane Fair 12/3/11

University Of Miami Wynwood Project Space Presents The 4th Annual Cane Fair Opening Receptions
Saturday, December 3, 6pm to 10pm
December 10, 2pm to 9pm
Wynwood Project Space
2200-A NW 2nd Avenue.

In honor of Art Basel Miami Beach, the College of Arts and Sciences Art and Art History Department presents the 4th Cane Fair featuring artwork of UM students earning their Masters in Fine Arts. Works on display include photography, sculpture, prints, installation, ceramics, painting and more. This exhibition will run from November 29, 2011 to January 27, 2012.

Artists featured in this exhibition include Jacqueline Gopie (Painting), Sean Black (Photography), Abraham Camayd (Printmaking), Michelle Roy (Graphic Design), Cynthia Fleischmann (photography), Leah Brown (Sculpture) and many, many more.

The MFA program is a 60 credit, three-year program resulting in a terminal degree that both prepares students to enter the professional, studio art world and qualifies them for college teaching. Entrance in to the program is highly competitive with applicants coming from across the country and internationally as well.

The Cane Fair will be held at the Wynwood Project Space in conjunction with Art Basel Miami Beach 2011.

Attached image tagline: Sean Black Charna, 2011 Photo

Four Species Exhibition Opening 10/18/11

“Four Species” Exhibition Opening
October 18, 2011, 7 pm – 9 pm
Maor Gallery
3030 NE 2nd Ave.
Miami, FL 33137
www.maormiami.org

‘Four Species’ is a contemporary group show curated by Jon Feinstein (co-founder and Curatorial Director of the Humble Arts Foundation, NY) and Shana Beth Mason (Miami-based art consultant and critic) that will incorporate new works from four emerging artists in reference to Sukkot. Free and open to the public. The exhibition will feature two sculptural works, a live performance and a wall of the sukkah creatively re-imagined.

Beverages and free onsite parking available to attendees!

More about the exhibition: Four Species refers to the four varieties of fauna synonymous with the human spine (the palm branch ‘Lulav’), eye (myrtle, ‘Hadass’), mouth (willow, ‘Aravah’) and heart (citron fruit ‘Etrog’), held together to symbolize the unity of body, spirit, scripture and memory. The continuous cycles of life and death, the nature of impermanence and migration, and how the practice of making art as an intellectual and contemplative pursuit which may somehow stall or pause the inevitable movement of organic decay are all traced through seamless dialogue between the artists’ works.

Loriel Beltran, Catalina Jaramillo, Joe Segal and Shelter Serra’s work manifest the essence of the religious celebration towards a broader audience: a unique consideration within the Sukkah, itself and moving indoors to the gallery space. A repurposed wooden wall acts as part of the Sukkah’s physical structure, a resin cast of the actual Four Species, two highly finished aluminum-implanted wooden beams hung side by side, and a meditative performance will act as visual suggestions.

This Art is So Gay an LGBT Artist Exhibition 11/5/11 – 12/5/11

This Art is So Gay an LGBT Artist Exhibition
Opening Reception – November 5th, 6 p.m. – 10 p.m. (during Sleepless Night)
Closing Reception – December 4th, 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. (during Art Basel Miami Beach)
LGBT Visitor Center
1130 Washington Avenue
First Floor
Miami Beach, FL
(Washington between 11th and 12th Streets)

South Florida LGBT Visual Artists
Exhibition Hours – Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Saturday, November 5 to Monday, December 5, 2011

All events and the exhibition are FREE and open to the public

Parking: 12th Street Municipal Garage & Metered Street Parking

Eleven local artists have been selected to participate in “This Art is So Gay,” a visual art exhibition at the Miami Beach LGBT Visitor Center, sponsored by MetLife. The exhibition will kick off with an artists’ reception during Sleepless Night, November 5, from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., with the artists in attendance and all art will be offered for sale with proceeds benefitting the not-for-profit MDGLCC Foundation for its LGBT scholarship program. The reception and exhibit are free and open to the public with the exhibition running through December 5 during Art Basel. The LGBT Visitor Center is located at 1130 Washington Avenue, First Floor, Miami Beach.

In addition to the visual art exhibition, the Sleepless Night kick-off reception will feature interactive “flash-mob” hurricane parties in celebration of “Captiva,” a new comedy that will be making its world premiere at the Adrienne Arsht Center’s Carnival Studio Theater. “Captiva,” from 2011 Carbonell Award recipient Christopher Demos-Brown, explores what happens when a family is stranded together on that western Florida island during a hurricane and they are forced to face each other with honesty and bottles of wine.

“We encourage the community to come out and support our local LGBT artists at this amazing exhibition’s unveiling reception,” said Steve Adkins, chairman of the board of the MDGLCC Foundation, Inc. “There won’t be a better way for people to kick off their Sleepless Night art experience.”

Exhibiting artists selected by the panel of judges are:
Lewis Aqui, photography
Carla Fache, abstract painting
Raul Frontal, photography
Pete Halpern, landscape paintings
Marcelo Holzinger, contemporary paintings
Ali Miranda, photography
Alfredo Perez, etched oil on canvas
Dale Stein, photography
Tolibia, mixed media
Evelyn Valdirio, painting
Alex Vera, painting

“The response to the call-for-entries from the LGBT artistic community was overwhelming,” said Cindy Brown, executive director of the LGBT Visitor Center. “There will definitely be more art exhibitions at the Center in the future.”

The MDGLCC opened the country’s first-ever Chamber-sponsored LGBT Visitor Center last November. The Center is open to the public five days a week and has been the venue for special events for the MDGLCC, MetLife, Florida Grand Opera, Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival and Miami Beach Gay Pride, just to name a few. The LGBT Visitor Center, sponsored by MetLife, is located in Miami Beach’s Old City Hall at 1130 Washington Avenue, First Floor North, Miami Beach, in the heart of South Beach.

Cibo Preview and Celebration 10/13/11

Cibo Preview and Celebration
Thursday, October 13, 7-10PM
Cibo Wine Bar
45 Miracle Mile
Coral Gables, FL
www.cibowinebar.com

In celebration of our 60th Anniversary and your continued support, the Lowe Art Museum cordially invites you to a private preview of Cibo Wine Bar on Miracle Mile in Coral Gables.

Enjoy a complimentary hors d’oeuvres tasting, beer, and wine.

$20 Admission; Free for Lowe Members.
Space is limited! RSVP at: 305.284.5587 or lowersvp@as.miami.edu

Parking available at the Galiano Street Garage

Art Nouveau Gallery White Surfaces 10/15/11

Art Nouveau Gallery invites you to White Surfaces
Saturday October 15, 5 – 9 pm
Wynwood Arts District
348 NW 29th St.
Miami, FL 33127
305 573 4661
artnouveaugallery@yahoo.com

Georgina Chumaceiro and Elizabeth Hazim Directors of Art Nouveau Gallery cordially invite you to the Opening Reception of White Surfaces By Carlos Medina

Image: Caros Medina, Superficie Blanca XLII, 2011, Rotulado, PVC, MDF, Acrovinílica Blanca, 30 x 30,6 x 7,4 cm.

Kick Off Stone Crab Season with HistoryMiami 10/20/11

Kick Off Stone Crab Season with HistoryMiami 10/20/11
Thursday, October 20 · 6:30pm – 9:30pm
Joe’s Stone Crab
11 Washington Avenue
Miami Beach

Kick off stone crab season with the Flagler Street Society! Enjoy stone crabs, hors d’oeuvres and wine as you network with young professionals! To join the Flagler Street Society or for reservations, call 305-375-5356, or email: RSVP@historymiami.org.

Flagler Street Society members: Free; HistoryMiami members: $25; Non-members: $40

Oxenberg Fine Art Opening Reception 10/13/11

Oxenberg Fine Art Opening Reception
Thursday, October 13, 7-10pm
155 NE 38th Street, Suite 100
Miami Design District
Miami, FL 33137

Oxenberg Fine Art cordially invites you to a group exhibition presenting the recent works of Laura DiNello, Roberto Edwards, Rainer Lagemann, Volker Kühn, Carolina Rojas, Fernando Vignoli, Marcelo Wong.

Exhibit continues through November 12, 2011 Open Daily 12-5pm

Valet Parking
Light Fare & Wine Bar

Please RSVP by Oct 11 305 854 7104 or gallery@oxenbergart.com

BOCF Silent auction and fundraiser 10/21/11

BOCF Silent auction and fundraiser
Friday, October 21 · 7:00pm – 10:00pm
BluMoon Studio of Art
Florentine Plaza, 3444 Main Hwy., Top Floor – Level 2
Coconut Grove, Florida

The Badges of Courage Foundation and BluMoon Studio invite you to a Silent Auction of new Badges of Courage created by the DASH Senior Fashion Design Class to benefit low-income women with breast cancer.

Cooking Demo by Ingrid Hoffmann 10/12/11

Wednesday, October 12th, Doors Open at 8pm
The Rubell Family Collection
95 NW 29th Street
Miami FL 33127

RSVP Required to Attend
Complimentary Cocktails & Valet with RSVP
RSVP@yourvitaminc.com

Vitamin C presents Sabor De Lujo a food + art event

Enjoy Food Demonstrations by Celebrity Chef Ingrid Hoffmann & Private Tours of Art Instillations in the Rubell Family Collection Gallery

Music By DJ Africa
Hosted by Radio & TV Personality Ileana Garcia

Zadok Gallery Marshall Arisman Opening 10/24/11

Zadok Gallery / Marshall Arisman opening
Friday, October 28th 6-9pm
Zadok Gallery
2534 North Miami Avenue
Miami FL 33127

You are invited to attend an opening for Marshall Arisman at the Zadok Gallery on October 28th, 2011 from 6pm until 9pm at the Zadok Gallery. Please save the date and join us for the official grand opening of his show entitled “The Ayahuasca Series”.

This is a group of paintings and large format drawings. Ayahuasca (ayawaska pronounced [aja’waska] in the Quechua language) is any of various psychoactive infusions or decoctions prepared from the Banisteriopsis spp. vine, usually mixed with the leaves of dimethyltryptamine-containing species of shrubs from the Psychotria genus. The brew, first described academically in the early 1950s by Harvard ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes, who found it employed for divinatory and healing purposes by the native peoples of the Amazonian Colombia, is known by a number of different names. A notable property of ayahuasca is that neither of the ingredients cause any significant psychedelic effects when imbibed alone; they must be consumed together in order to have the desired effect. How indigenous peoples discovered the psychedelic properties of the ayahuasca remains unknown.

Marshall Arisman is an internationally known painter, illustrator, teacher, and story-teller. Arisman’s work has strong emotional themes which often explore the connections between humankind and violence and the resulting spiritual impact, and may be seen in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, at the National Museum of American Art and the Smithsonian Institution, as well as in many private and corporate collections. Marshall Arisman work has been part of the larger cultural language for the past several decades, appearing in places such as the covers of Time magazine, book covers and feature films. Mr. Arisman was the first American invited to exhibit his artwork in mainland China. His series, “Sacred Monkeys,” appeared at the Guang Dong Museum of Art in April 1999. He is the subject of a full-length documentary film directed by Tony Silver titled “Facing the Audience: The Arts of Marshall Arisman.”

Collections include: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, New-York Historical Society, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Telfair Museum of Art, Guang Dong Museum of Art; Guangzhou, China.

Author Jen Karetnick shares Foodie Haikus at Cultural Hub 10/22/11

Next@19th Presents New Season Of Poetry With Rooftop Chaiku – Kick Off With Miami Sweetheart Jen Karetnick
Saturday, October 22 at 9:00 pm
Next@19th, rooftop (entrance to Temple Israel)
137 NE 19th Street
Miami, FL 33132
305.542.7732
www.nextat19th.org

ADMISSION: Free and open to the public, donations welcome

Next@19th launches the second season of its spirited haiku night under a new alias, “Rooftop CHAIku.” As the new moniker suggests, this monthly literary forum will also take on a new location – the square, moonlit rooftop of the downtown cultural center.

Renowned local journalist and poet Jen Karetnick hosts the kick-off event, sharing a selection of culinary-themed poetry from her Necessary Salt (Pudding House Publications, 2007) and upcoming book Landscaping for Wildlife (Big Wonderful Press). Karetnick is well-known for her roles as dining critic for MIAMI Magazine and columnist for Biscayne Times. Also a member of the Academy of American Poets and the Association of Writers and Writing Programs, Karetnick has released three books and is currently working on a cookbook, Romancing the Mango: Recipes for the Obsessed, slated for release in Fall 2013.

Rooftop CHAIku invites writers, poets, creative minds to take out their soapbox and share with audiences. Engaging writers and enthusiasts to create haikus rooted in their Jewish identity, culture, practice, heritage or community, select dates will be produced in collaboration with the University of Wynwood poetry collective to access the broadest pool of talents and spoken word..

MDPL Reads Book Signing, Discussion and Celebration 10/12/11

MDPL Reads – Book Signing, Discussion, & Celebration!
October 12, 7pm – 9pm
Art Deco Welcome Center
1001 Ocean Drive,
R.S.V.P. to info@mdpl.org

Please join MDPL for the launch of MDPL Reads, a new community reading program spotlighting great books about the history, culture, excitement and people of Miami Beach.

The October 12th event will feature South Beach, Stories of a Renaissance by Charles Kropke and Eleanor Goldstein. Join the authors for a book signing, discussion, catered celebration, and fun cocktail party. Meet people featured in the book as the authors, mingle guests. There is always something new to learn about South Beach!

Musing With Myra Kick Off Event 10/19/11

Musing With Myra Kick Off Event
Wednesday . October 19th . 6-9PM
Wynwood Kitchen & Bar
2550 NW 2nd Avenue.
Wynwood, Miami, FL
RSVP Required.
and receive a yo MoMMA sticker

Musing With Myra Monthly Arts Networking Event Kicks Off
Small Bites Provided
Happy Hour Specials

Featured Guest 7-8PM
Jane Hart, Curator of Exhibitions, The Art and Cultural Center of Hollywood

Increase your visability in the ART’s Community and participate in the Dialogue.
yo MoMMA B in the House
Introducing yo MoMMA’s Friend Her Gemini Twin
You don’t want to miss this, Peeps!
Show the Love.
Be There or Be Square.

About Jane Hart: Curator of Exhibitions, The Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, FL (ACCH)
Oversee the presentation of exhibitions and special programming in the contemporary fine arts at ACCH. The Art and Culture Center is one of South Florida’s most distinguished non-profit arts institutions. ACCH is a venue for dynamic programming in the contemporary visual and performing arts, augmented by a fully fledged educational program. Works with colleagues at ACCH in these various areas of activity, towards presenting the most innovative and high caliber visual arts exhibits possible. Areas of responsibility include, curation of all contemporary art programming – (approximately 15 exhibitions per year), grant applications, fundraising, corporate sponsorship and special project development, artist outreach and studio visits, guest lectures, coordinate and approve design/publication of collateral materials, contemporary art programming area of organization’s website, and public relations strategies, interface with education department to develop and engage student participation in Center’s art’s programming.

Supernatural America 10/31/11

Supernatural America
October 31, 2011 (Halloween), 8:00pm
Books & Books, Coral Gables
265 Aragon Avenue
Coral Gables 33134
booksandbooks.com

Looking for a sane alternative to the madness on Lincoln Road? Come to Books & Books in Coral Gables to hear Lawrence Samuel discuss his new book “Supernatural America: A Cultural History” (Praeger). “Supernatural America” is the first book to examine the cultural history of the supernatural in the United States, documenting how the expansion of science and technology coincided with a rise in supernatural/paranormal beliefs. From the flourishing of “spiritism” in the 1920s to the early 21st century, when the paranormal is bigger than ever, this entertaining and educational book explains the irresistible allure of the supernatural in America. This book is much more than an authoritative and compelling look at the cultural history of the supernatural over the last century in America—it also explains why we want to believe.

Wirtz Gallery Kicks-off the Season with New Works by MANO 10/14/11

Wirtz Gallery Kicks-off the Season with New Works by MANO
Friday, October 14, 2011, 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
The Wirtz Gallery
First National Bank of South Miami
5750 Sunset Drive
South Miami, FL
www.manofineart.com

South Miami’s Wirtz Gallery kicks off the season with New Works by popular Miami-based artist MANO.

The exhibition, an enticingly vibrant showing of the artists’ newest work possesses immediate universal appeal, even for the casual observer and will also serve as the kick-off for the 2012 South Miami Hospital Mercury Ball, presented by First National Bank of South Miami.

The Opening Reception will benefit the Kidz Medical 2012 South Miami Hospital Mercury Ball presented by First National Bank of Miami.

Space is limited. Kindly RSVP by October 12 to 786.467.5405 or yvdiaz@baptisthealth.net

The event is sponsored by: Kidz Medical Services, The Wirtz Gallery, First National Bank of South Miami, South Miami Hospital Foundation, Print Farm, Catering the Event by Susan Bleemer and Premier Parking, Inc.

MANO’s exhibition runs through October 30, 2011.
For more information about MANO please call 305.467.6819 or visit www.manofineart.com

3rd Annual Shoot Miami Photography Exhibit 10/27/11

3rd Annual Shoot Miami Photography Exhibit
October 27th, 2011, 7:00pm
Palmetto Bay Village Center
18001 Old Cutler Road
Palmetto Bay, Florida 33157
www.shootmiami.net

the 3rd Annual Shoot Miami Exhibit.
Over 50 photographs will be on display and for sale by Shoot Miami members.
The exhibit will take place at the beautiful Palmetto Bay Village Center!
Congratulations to all the winners!

A special thanks to our sponsors:
* Idigital Photolab *Frames and Framing * Palmetto Bay Village

Come and support all of our photographers!
For more information please visit: www.shootmiami.net or call 786-344-7055
Shoot Miami, The BEST photography group in South Florida!

Photography Exhibit by ZiZi Zabaneh 11/18/11

Photography Exhibit by ZiZi Zabaneh
November 18th, 2011, 7:00pm – 10:00pm
Artists at the Falls
12974 SW 89th AVE
Miami, Fl. 33176
www.zizizabaneh.com

Artists at the Falls proudly presents
A photography exhibit by professional Dancer & Dance Photographer ZiZi Zabaneh. Along with special performances by Fusion Gitana.

The event will take place during the Falls Art District Night Walk on
November 18th, 2011 from 7:00pm-10:00pm.

Artists by the Falls Studio
12974 SW 89th AVE
Miami, Fl. 33176

For more information call (305) 278-2690

About the artist:
ZiZi Zabaneh is of Lebanese decent, born in Bogota, Colombia. A performer, instructor, choreographer and Dance Photographer. She has been dancing since her early teens. Trained in Flamenco, Latin and Middle Eastern dance.

As a professional dancer, she decided to combine dance and photography, her two biggest passions. Her photographs have appeared in numerous publications throughout the globe. ZiZi has earned recognition and respect in the photography field, her first photography exhibit “Capturing Movement Forever” was in April of 2006. Since then she has become one of the most sought after dance photographers. She is the organizer of Shoot Miami, a photography group with over 1,600 members. The group provides networking opportunities for professional photographers, semi-professional and enthusiasts in Miami, Florida. As a professional dancer with over 17 years of experience, she knows how to captures the beauty of movement that comes from each and every dancer.

Mona…Mona…Mona…An Ode to Mona Lisa 10/15/11

Mona…Mona…Mona…An Ode to Mona Lisa
Saturday, October 15, 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
MANO Fine Art Project Space
4225 SW 75 Avenue
in the Bird Road Art District
Miami, FL 33155
www.manofineart.com

Celebrating the Bird Road Art Walk’s First Anniversary!

Join us on Saturday, October 15, for
Mona…Mona…Mona an Ode to Mona Lisa.

The Mona Lisa continues to inspire reproduction, parody and more. Andy Warhol, Marcel Duchamp, Salvador Dali and Vik Muniz are among the many famous artists who have paid homage to La Giaconda and now a distinguished group of contemporary artists inspired by da Vinci’s iconic painting will pay tribute to what many believe to be the most famous painting in the world.

The exhibition showcases a wide range of interpretations of the Mona Lisa by featured artists: Nestor Arenas, Jorge Ballara, Toa Castellanos, Vincente Dopico, Patrica Franco, Daniel Garcia, Chenco Gomez, Marcy Grosso, Mila Hajjar, Monique Lassooij, MANO, Tony Mendoza, Antonio Nunez, Valentina Ramos, George Rodez, Sandra Suarez, Fer Sucre and Derek Wilson.

These modern day masterpieces will all be available for purchase.

MANO Fine Art participates in the Bird Road Art Walk, on the third Saturday of each month.

For more information contact 305.467.6819 or visit http://www.manofineart.com/ or follow us on Twitter: @MANOFineArt

MANO Fine Art Project Space particpates in the monthly Bird Road Art Walk, held from 7:00-10:00pm the third Saturday of every month. The Bird Road Art Walk was recently voted Miami’s Best Art Walk 2011 by Miami New Times.

For more information about the Bird Road Art Walk visit:

Facebook: Bird Road Art District
Twitter: @BirdRoadArts
Web: www.thebirdroadartdistrict.com

Bird Road Art Walk-First Year Anniversary to Benefit Susan G. Komen 10/15/11

Bird Road Art Walk-First Year Anniversary to Benefit Susan G. Komen
Saturday, October 15, 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Bird Road Art District
The Bird Road Art District is conveniently located just off of the Palmetto Expressway (SR 826) and Bird Road (SW 40th Street), BRAD extends south to SW 48th Street and between SW 75 Ave to SW 72 Ave.
www.thebirdroadartdistrict.com

Join us for our Frist Anniversary Celebration to Benefit the Susan G. Komen Race For the Cure

In October, the monthly Bird Road Art Walk will mark its first anniversary. To celebrate the occasion artists have teamed up with Shooger.com to create a memorable and dare we say delicious event to benefit the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure.

Miami’s premier cake designers, confectionaries and patisseries have been paired with top artists to create a very artsy Cake Walk within the ever popular Art Walk. These delicious creations will be sliced and served up for patrons to sample and enjoy for a modest contribution of $2.00 per slice Yummmmmmmmmmm. All proceeds from this artsy “Cake Walk” will benefit the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure.

The Bird Road Art Walk was started by a small group of artists and art enthusiast and officially debuted in October 2010. The Art Walk has doubled in size in less than one year and continues to grow. Recently voted Miami’s Best Art Walk 2011, by New Times Best of Miami, the monthly Art Walk takes place from 7:00 – 10:00 pm on the third Saturday of each month. The October 15 event will feature more than twenty-five art studios, galleries and art venues featuring new exhibits and shows, many of the artists will be donating a percentage of sales proceeds to the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure.

A free shuttle bus is provided for patrons of the Bird Road Art Walk courtesy of Norle Properties & Green Zone Body Shop, Inc. The shuttle bus loops throughout the Bird Road Art District stopping at all the art venues several times throughout the evening.

A map of the Bird Road Art Walk will be distributed by participating art venues as well as on the shuttle bus, or if using a smart phone, maps can be accessed by scanning the Art Walks new QR code displayed throughout the event.

For more information info:
Call:305.467.6819
web: http://www.thebirdroadartwalk.com/
facebook: Bird Road Art District
twitter: @BirdRoadArts

Check our website for map & listing of highlights for October 15 Art Walk
www.thebirdroadartdistrcit.com
The Bird Road Art Walk is a rain or shine event.

Image:”Help Yourself” by Roberto Dominguez, oil on canvas 48″ x 36″

Luisa Mesa Artspace First Opening Celebration 10/15/11

Luisa Mesa Artspace – First Opening Celebration
Saturday, October 15, 2011, 7:00-10:00 PM
Luisa Mesa Artspace
4432 SW 74 Ave
in the Bird Road Art District
Miami, FL 33155
www.luisamesa.com

Preview Luisa Mesa’s thought-provoking new installation from her “Meditations Series.” The installation features individual works that consist of repetitive drawing and layering on wood panels that Mesa is known for.

The individual free-form organic shapes have a vibrant palette ranging from shades in turquoise and magenta, to chartreuse, with dimensions from 36 to 3 inches in diameter.

An earlier version of Mesa’s “Meditations Installation” is in the permanent collection of RCL’s “Oasis of the Seas.”

For more information contact: 305.773.8907 or visit www.luisamesa.com

About Luisa Mesa:
Luisa Mesa was born in Havana, Cuba, and earned her BFA at FIU, in Miami, where she lives and works. Mesa is an alumna of Art Center South Florida, and currently has a studio in the Bird Road Art District.
Mesa has exhibited her work in numerous venues and is included in several important collections, and institutions throughout the United States.

About the Bird Road Art Walk:
Luisa Mesa Artspace opens this exhibit in conjunction with the Bird Road Art Walk. Named Miami’s “Best Art Walk” 2011 by Miami New Times, experience the Bird Road Art District every 3rd Sat. when artists open their doors to host the monthly Bird Road Art Walk, 7-10 pm. For more info contact 305.467.6819/ or visit www.thebirdroadartdistrict.com

The incomparable Elisabetta Fantone Artist’s Rendering exhibit 10/11/11

Elisabetta Fantone’s Artist’s Rendering
The incomparable: Elisabetta Fantone Artist’s Rendering exhibit
October 11, 2011, 7 pm – 11 pm
Myra Galleries
Myra Galleries
177 NW 23RD Street, Wynwood
Miami, FL 33127

The incomparable: Elisabetta Fantone Artist’s Rendering exhibit

V.I.P and Press Reception – Exclusive Preview
Tuesday, October 11th from 7pm – 10pm
Complimentary Cocktails

Meet & Tweet with Elisabetta: @ElisabettaTweet

RSVP to ArtEvents@brprgroup.com for guaranteed entry.

Words and Wine 10/12/11

Words & Wine
10/12/11, 9p-3a
The Electric Pickle
2826 North Miami Ave
Facebook Evite.

Ladies, Gentlemen, honey badgers and the like:
Words & Wine is back and being hosted at The Electric Pickle

3$ Beers 5$Wine & 5$ Shots

If you have not had the pleasure of witnessing it for yourself, this is a lovely venue that offers local and international talent. It is very cozy, well lit atmosphere where everyone can be themselves.

Very exciting stuff happening! We just celebrated our one year anniversary and let me tell you we could have not been given a better birthday gift then the Award for Best Open Mic in 2011 published by the Miami New Times!

This is just the very beginning, join us for our Open Mic EVERY WEDNESDAY! Let’s get together and continue to share good vibes and creativity. Miami is redefining it’s Art scene and our movement has created a pavement for poets, musicians, dancers, thinkers, lovers, and people who just need to get away and express themselves freely.

Let’s once again get together, drink some wine, share some thoughts and be happy.

The Electric Pickle will be opening up the back patio for us under two conditions. 1) No Jamming Outside, the neighbors have been complaining. We will have intermissions between acts for the jammers to play on stage throughout the night. Take it all out of your system on stage! 2) No Smuggling Of Drinks Please! If anyone is seen with a drink purchased outside of the pickle, you will be asked to leave and not return. Please respect this event and the establishment. Thanks guys! See you Tomorrow

18+ for girls
5$ For anyone under 21 and free for those over 21
Great Drink Specials Full Bar

Please help to continue this event at this venue. Please do not bring your own drinks, they have a full bar inside. Let’s Have a great time responsibly and keep this venue clean and beautiful.
If any questions please call

Nikki Rodriguez at 786|728|4748 or
Lou Roman 305|298|8759.

www.electricpicklemiami.com

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Photographs of Diamonds N The Ruff Wynwood Artwalk Afterparty at Villa 221 on 10/8/11

Diamonds -N- The Ruff – Wynwood Artwalk Afterparty at Villa 221 on Saturday, October 8, 2011.  A collection of beyond stellar talent in a bad-ass hidden gem location. This was a fundraiser for the “Multiversal” Group Art Show being held in December 2011 during Art Basel Miami Beach.  Diamonds N The Ruff was brought to you by Multiversal, More Than Art Group, Life is Art, A Girl’s Best Friend and WeMerge Magazine.
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Boo! Sketchy Halloween Party 10/29/11

Live art. Live music. Booze. Food. Blood. All shall be in gruesome abundance at the Sketchy Halloween Party
Saturday, October 29, 10:00pm – 3:00am
The Awarehouse
550 NW 29th Street
Miami, FL
Facebook Evite.

This party will differ from our last two in several ways. First of all, blood. Second, candy. Third, music: Arboles Libres, The State Of, organicArma, and more spookygood local bands are on the bill. Fourth, food trucks: GastroPod and Ms. Cheezious, two of Miami’s best, will be serving up the goodness. Finally, costumes! Wear one or get an evil look at the door. (In truth, you’re going to get that either way.)

As for booze, Grolsch will be serving up two free drinks with the door cover and have a special going all night.

Our featured artists this time around include Olivier Casse, Jason Snyder, Jeiddy Lopez, Daniel Ortiz, and Brian Butler, the monstrous mind behind the Sketchy Halloween Party flyer. They will be spread around the Awarehouse grounds to sketch you at your most horrifying. To give you a sense of what you’re in for, we’ve asked the artists to do scary Sketchys throughout October. The first one, by Jeiddy Lopez, is already up and it rules. Check it out at www.sketchymiami.com/boo.

To RSVP for the party, head over to the Facebook event page. And make sure to stay tuned to Beached Miami and Sketchy Miami this month for updates. We will be adding a few more featured artists to the roster, and we’ve definitely got a few tricks and treats up our capacious sleeves.

See you there! Or else.

Thank you to Pearl for providing the art supplies at all Sketchy Miami events.

Audrey Love Gallery Me Too All the Same 10/14/11

Audrey Love Gallery: ME TOO: All the same
October 14th, 7-10pm
Bakehouse Art Complex
561 NW 32nd Street
Miami, FL 33127

Produced by St. Thomas University Graduate Students
The artists will be creating self-portraits that reveal a side of themselves that they seldom show to society. The concept behind this self-portrait is that in our day to day lives, as we interact with the rest of society, there is a side of ourselves that we suppress because we have been conditioned to think that this side of ourselves is somehow unacceptable or not mainstream. As humans, we have more in common than not, and this exhibition will help guests explore the connection of their hidden selves with the artist’s through these revealing self-portraits.

Exhibiting Artists: Jaime Angula, Olivier Casse, Silvana D’Mikos, Marcelo Daldoce, Irena Gapkovska , Juan Griego, Tracey Hagen, Colleen Kelley, Deborah Mitchell, Nicholas Nehaniv, Gustavo Oviedo, Hugo Patao, Russ Ronat, Carrie Sieh, Donna Lee Steffens & William Vallenilla

Live Performance by Viking Funeral at Fredric Snitzer Gallery 10/8/11

Live Performance by Viking Funeral
Saturday 8:30pm
Fredric Snitzer Gallery
2247 NW 1st Place
Miami, FL 33127

Dark Age Ahead is an exhibition based loosely on Jane Jacobs’ 2004 book “Dark Age Ahead”. In this book, the author characterizes a dark age as a “mass amnesia where even the memory of what was lost is lost.”
Taking Jacobs’ text as a starting point, sculptures and works on paper have been fabricated to further explore the themes of decay and abandonment in contemporary media and culture.

Viking Funeral engages with social conventions and meets pop culture with a counter gesture, when rejection and refusal merge with forms of chaos and defacement. Their media and products evolve from pop societies and their determining social systems of order. These social systems do not only serve as conceptual starting points, but also as artistic tools. Materials and objects from the everyday cultural production like newspapers, magazines, TV, video, Internet, spray paint, tape and markers play a central role in their language.

Curator’s Voice Art Project invites you to Hotel St Michel by Lamia Khorshid Contemporary Photography 10/8/11

Curator’s Voice Art Project invites you to Hotel St Michel by Lamia Khorshid Contemporary Photography
Saturday October 8, 7:00 PM
Curator’s Voice Art Projects
2509 NW 2nd Ave.
Miami, FL 33127

Lamia Khorshid’s series Hotel St Michel expresses a sense of place and territory. A firm and enigmatic woman is the iconic matriarch in possession of her power and her land. She proves herself with an undeniable life stanza. Staring at us with a defiant gaze, she demands deference and compliance. No capitulation is possible on the grounds she stands for, demanding observance for herself and her environment. Long halls and intimate rooms detailed with furniture and architectural components house this lady of intricate charm and magnetic allure. The photographs propose a paradigm of a woman’s power and rule through a feminist angle.

Skilled to Kill Art Exhibit 10/8/11

Christina Lihan – Leo Dcroix – Bryan Carson
Opening reception: Saturday October 8th, 2011 from 6:00 PM to 9 PM
The ArtLilnk Art Space
130 NW 36 ST
Miami Fl 33127

Look close to the creative expression of 3 skilled artists that use elaborated techniques to make outstanding art. More than the desire for intricacy, their skills flow naturally to delight the viewer’s senses.
The pieces are just dreamy!

October 10th to October 22th from 11am to 6pm by Appointment

www.theartlink.org
Musical entertainment and refreshments will be served
Admission free to the public

Wolfsonian–FIU Opening Of Modern Meals Remaking American Foods From Farm To Kitchen 10/12/11

Wolfsonian–FIU Opening Of Modern Meals Remaking American Foods From Farm To Kitchen
Exhibition Opening Wednesday, October 12, 6-9pm
The Frost Art Museum
10975 SW 17 Street

Modern Meals: Remaking American Foods From Farm To Kitchen—

Join us for the exhibition opening of Modern Meals: Remaking American Foods from Farm to Kitchen. Drawing on The Wolfsonian’s collection, and presented in The Wolfsonian Teaching Gallery at the Frost Art Museum, the exhibition explores how technology and design remade the places where food was produced, sold, cooked and eaten from the turn of the century into the post-1945 period in the United States. Modern Meals is the fourth exhibition presented by The Wolfsonian with The Frost Art Museum’s collaboration and is supported with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The opening will take place during The Frost Art Museum’s Target Wednesday After Hours celebration. Free. For more information: 305.348.2890 or artinfo@fiu.edu.

Poster, From Workers to Farmers… Thanks!, 1944
Designed by Ben Shahn (American, b. Lithuania, 1898–1969)
Published by the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), Political Action Committee
New York
Commercial color lithograph
The Wolfsonian– Florida International University, Miami Beach, Florida, The Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. Collection
XX1990.2891

Dorsch Gallery presents Amanda Burnham / Richard Haden / John Sanchez 10/7-8/11

Dorsch Gallery presents Amanda Burnham / Richard Haden / John Sanchez
Friday, October 7, 6-9pm
Dorsch Gallery
151 NW 24 St
Miami, FL 33127

Please join us for the opening reception celebrating the solo exhibitions by Amanda Burnham, Richard Haden, and John Sanchez.
The exhibitions will run from October 7, 2011 – November 12, 2011.

The gallery will also be open noon-9pm on Saturday, October 8, for the Wynwood Second Saturday Art-Walk.

Amanda Burnham: Terminus
Returning to works on paper, Amanda Burnham’s Terminus explores city zones,
scavenging for poetics within the urban ecology and presents ad-hoc frames that
have been swept back together into carefully wrought ink and watercolor vignettes.

Richard Haden: (RAD) Running à Dérive
With his trompe l’oiel wooden sculptures of pieces of urban detritus,
Richard Haden has been mapping the impact of modern existence since the 1980s.
He juxtaposes these pieces with new video and photographs that reflect on
he physical and emotional limits of our city.

John Sanchez: As They Are
John Sanchez uses light to re-align peripheral details as the focus of his vision. If there is observation of American infrastructure, that which we so take for granted, Sanchez’s paintings can also offer a chance to linger in a moment of respite. Light and shadow, painted in just the right way, can give us that.

Miguel Paredes Fine Art Gallery 2nd Saturday Art Walk 10/8/11

Miguel Paredes Fine Art Gallery 2nd Saturdays’ Art Walk
Saturday, October 8 · 5:00pm – 10:00pm
Miguel Paredes Fine Art Gallery / Wynwood Arts District
173 NW 23rd Street
Miami, FL

RSVP now: rsvp@miguelparedes.com

We invite you to join us for the Art Walk at our 5,500 sq. ft. gallery!

Complimentary drinks provided by:
Heineken Light
Bombay Sapphire
Societe Perrier
Rex Goliath Wines

Bites by Mac’ n Food Truck
Beats by DJ Ari X
Sponsored by PKGraphics.com

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Latin American Masters of Today and Tomorrow 10/7/11

Latin American Masters of Today and Tomorrow
Friday, October 7tt from 6 to 10 pm
ArtSpace/Virginia Miller Galleries
169 Madeira Avenue,
Coral Gables (Miami)
Florida, 33134, USA

October is the last month to see our Latin American show! For those who missed our recent review by Janet Batet that appeared in El Nuevo Herald on September 4th including four large color photographs, it will soon be on our web site. Titled Nuevas Figuras en el Arte Latinoamericano de Ayer u Hoy, it highlights the paintings of Antonio Amaral, Jose Benito, Mateo Arguello Pitt and Jose Angel Vincench. Vincench will be featured in our November – January 2012 exhibition with paintings, sculpture and an installation.

Our brokering business continues to thrive with many recent arrivals from private collections, including bronze sculptures by Zuniga (Mexico) and Francisco Navaez (Venezuela). Come join us at our reception this Friday, October 7th to see these sculptures and the works by the fifteen wonderful artists in this show.

Featured Artists
Antonio Amaral
Jose Bedia
Jose Benito
Roberto Fabelo
Sergio Garval
Roberto Matta
Manuel Mendive
Amelia Pelaez
Mateo Arguello Pitt
Elmar Rojas
Melquiades Rosario Sastre
Gustavo Schmidt
Marco Tulio
Jose Angel Vincench
Francisco Zuniga

Art Center/ South Florida’s Juried Artists Exhibition 10/7/11

Art Center/ South Florida’s Juried Artists Exhibition
Friday, October 7, 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m
Art Center/ South Florida
800 Lincoln Road
Miami Beach, FL 33139
T: 305.674.8278 / www.artcentersf.org

Art Center/ South Florida opens their Newly Juried Artists exhibition at the Richard Shack Gallery, featuring work by artists who are completing the first year of their residency program. A reception for the artists, which is free and open to the public, will be held that same evening. The exhibition will run through Sunday, November 13 at 10:00 p.m.

Featured artists include: Tony Chimento (painting), Pablo Constrisciani (painting), Tom Cocotos (mixed media collage), Katerina Friderici (mixed media), Rosa Naday Garmendia (sculpture), Peter Hammar (mixed media), Lissette Schaeffler (photography) and Antonia Wright (video). Tom Cocotos will create a mixed media collage portrait throughout the show and will begin the piece at the opening on October 7.

Gallery hours are Tuesday-Thursday and Sunday from noon – 10pm; Friday-Saturday noon -11pm. Admission is free to all.

Into the Void Gallery Opening 10/7/11

Into the Void – Gallery Opening
10.7.11, 8pm
Cafeina Wynwood Lounge
297 NW 23rd Street
Miami
www.cafeinamiami.com

This Friday night join us at Cafeina for the Opening Reception the collaborative group exhibition – Into the Void.

The exhibition explores the relationship between our human subconscious and the occult and features artwork by Skinner | Julina Duron | Rocky Grimes | Chris Dyer | Jose Mertz | Michael C. Hsiung | Gina Marie Sandlin | Morgan Blair | Plinio Pinto | Scott Donald | Leslie Martinez & 131.

Drink specials include $5 Tequila Shots & Jose Cuervo Bottles for $275.

Video Installation by Brinson Renda & Rocky Grimes. DJ Sets by Keen-One and Pirate Stereo.

Time Lines Reinier Gamboa solo exhibition at Flagler Art Space 10/29/11

Time Lines: Reinier Gamboa’s first and last solo exhibition at FAS
10/29/2011, 6pm-11pm
Flagler Arts Space
172 W. Flagler St.
Miami, FL 33130
flaglerartsspace.com

Cuban-born, Miami-based artist Reinier Gamboa’s first drawing was of an ambulance and a Sun at the age of two. In 2011, Drawing upon the immediacy of an ambulance on fire, Time Lines showcases a rare view at previously un-exhibited work focusing on the artist’s passion for drawing.

Reinier Gamboa graduated from New World School of the Arts in 2002 and won a full scholarship to attend Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. In 2008 he began exhibiting in Miami and has remained an active member of the local South Florida art scene.

This exhibition will be held at Flagler Arts Space, an artist-run gallery in downtown Miami which will close at the end of October.

Capt. John Jacobsen at Book & Books Signing and Reception 10/12/11

Miami’s own Capt. John Jacobsen Book Signing & Reception
Wednesday, October 12, 2011, 6:30 p.m.
Books & Books
265 Aragon Ave.
Coral Gables, FL 33134

Captain John Jacobsen, a Coconut Grove resident, is a graduate of the United States Merchant Marine Academy, who spent 15 years plying the world’s oceans as a ship’s officer on cargo and passenger vessels. Today, Jacobsen is a harbor pilot at the Port of Miami and the Chairman of the Biscayne Bay Pilots Association. His notes and diaries over the years inform his writing.

Captain John Jacobsen debuts as an author with the release of a witty book entitled, A Commodore of Errors, the first-ever novel written about the United States Merchant Marine Academy, with an enjoyable comic effect. Jacobsen has chosen Miami as the first stop for his book signing tour, where a special reception and reading will be held.

Commodore Robert S. Dickey is the outrageously supercilious title character. Watching him strut, plot, flaunt, and flout his way through the story is in itself enough to evoke mirth. Give him so memorable a foil as the indomitable Mrs. Tannenbaume, a “woman of unfortunate stature” to his critical eyes, who consistently manages to one-up him, thanks to an annoying ability quite beyond his ken, and the book explodes with moments sure to cause readers to empathize even if they’ve never set foot on a seagoing vessel. Including a supporting cast suitable to the outwardly starchy, secretly licentious environs of merchant mariners, the novel rollicks along with well-paced speed and plot turns. Drawing on his experience as a U.S. Merchant Marine Academy graduate and career as ship’s officer and harbor pilot, Jacobsen infuses his writing with old-fashioned, very sly hilarity based in the unintended vagaries of love, ambition, greed, meddling, and their various combinations.

Photographs of Wine Down Wednesday at HistoryMiami on 10/5/11

Wine Down Wednesdays at HistoryMiami on Wednesday, October 5, 2011.  I love  HistoryMiami, always has the best exhibits and Wine Down Wednesday is the best time to go and see the museum.  Remember it is the first Wednesday of every month.  See you next month!!

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MDC Art Gallery System presents Evoking Frida Kahlo 10/6/11

Opening Reception:
October 6 at 11:30 a.m.
InterAmerican Art Gallery
InterAmerican Campus
Room 3113, 627 S.W. 27th Ave.
Miami, FL 33135

Live performance and refreshments

October 6 – October 26, 2011
Gallery Hours: Monday, Tuesday and Thursday 5 – 7 p.m.
For more information, please call the Art Gallery System at 305-237-7700

As the blood that runs when you kill a deer
by Mariana Altamirano, 2011

Attila Lakatoush Villains and Vixens Exhibit 10/8/11

Attila Lakatoush’s Villains & Vixens Exhibit
Miami 2nd Saturday Art Walk
Saturday October 8th 2011
Midtown 4
3301 NE 1ST Ave M-312
Miami Fl 33137

Calling All Villains & Vixens
To all my Villains & Vixens….
Please join me Saturday October 8th 2011 from 5pm til 10pm
For a private showing of my Black & White Fetish Delights.
Looking forward to enjoying you there……
Attila Lakatoush
RSVP: CafeSocietyGroupMia@Gmail.com

Mykel Stevens and business associate Kwame Bissie has joined forces with Artist Attila Lakatoush to open a fully functional Art, Fashion, & Design Studio. Located in a 2 story 2,000 sq/ft Loft in the heart of Midtown Miami. Stevens Bissie Management, Café Society Group & Attila Lakatoush Art & Design Studio opened its doors showcasing all of Attila’s painting from New York and Los Angeles.

Upcoming projects: Attila Lakatoush Clothing & Accessory Line, Monthly Art & Fashion Shows, Gun Girl Events, Art Basel & shows in Los Angeles and New York City. We welcome you to stop by at your convenience to see or purchase Attila’s latest work.

King Bee at Wynwood Art Walk 10/8/11

King Bee at Wynwood Art Walk
10.8.11, 9pm
Cafeina Wynwood Lounge
297 NW 23rd Street
Miami
www.cafeinamiami.com

Rock out to the sounds of King Bee at Wynwood’s Second Saturday Art Walk!

Neon Forest presents an Into the Void – an Art Exhibit – with Video Installation by Brinson Renda & Rocky Grimes.

Music by VJ Tom LaRoc and Troy Kurtz with $5 Tequila shots all night long!

About King Bee:
In Miami, King Bee is a band lavishing in an uncool world.
The dives are too small, and the velvet rope just doesn’t get it.
In response, they’ve created a traveling anti-venue, where all you need to be a member is a love for live music and a good time. Whether in an art gallery, under the laser light of a planetarium or in a warehouse with a couple of kegs, King Bee resonates to a capacity crowd.
Like scuffing a fresh pair of Chucks, little did we know, we just linked Miami to the rest of America.

Humoratorium:The Art of Whimsy Exhibition Closing + Art Fallout 10/15/11

Humoratorium:The Art of Whimsy Exhibition Closing + Art Fallout
October 15, 5pm – 10pm
1310 Gallery
1310 SW 2nd Ct. (Middle St)
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33312
More Info.

Last Chance to see this amazing exhibition on 3 floors that will make you smile and prove to be one of the Best of the season!
Humoratorium is a spectacle of the best and most innovative contemporary art that incorporates wit, humor, irony, or playfulness in process, materials, or subject matter. Featuring the amusing creations of 34 artists, from inflatable Installation art to painting and animation, this exhibition will be a visual treat!

These artists embrace creation through playful materials or processes and use humor to enlighten cultural discussion.

Featured artists include Ben Morey, Andrew Nigon, Tawnie Silva, John Pack, Carmen Tiffany, Randy Burman, and Judy Polstra.

At the closing, we will announce prizes and shave pecial performance by Misael Soto, Nicole Martinez and Rodrigo Arcaya. Nicole and Rodrigo will perform with hacked children’s toys, modified by Nicole to behave as musical instruments. Rodrigo Arcaya will create visual accompaniment using live cameras and computer programming.

Edible art by Wendy Doscher-Smith and free beverages by Magners Original Irish Cider, Bronco Wine Company, and Bawls Energy drink. The exhibition is supported in part by a grant from The Broward Cultural Division and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Humoratorium is part of Art Fallout, a collaboration between Girls Club Art Collection, 1310 Gallery, 18 Rabbit Gallery, The Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale and other local venues. There will be a shuttle bus rotating between each of these locations. Multiple venues will host their own new art exhibitions and events on the same night. To make the evening all the more entertaining, there will be a scavenger hunt, with items to locate at each venue.

Through My Eyes 11/5/11

Through My Eyes
Saturday November 5th, 2011, 7pm-10pm
Artistic Impressions Salon
7228 Taft Street
Hollywood- FL 33024
teresaslomkogallery.com

Please join Teresa as she exhibits her Art Photography, ” Through My Eyes” on Saturday, November 5th, 2011, from 7pm-10pm. Music provided by Joel “Prime” Nunez & cakes and sweets by Lyly from “LYLY’S SWEET LIFE”. See you all on this amazing night!

Atomic Picnic 10/7/11

Atomic Picnic
10/7/11, 9pm
Villa 221
221 ne 17th street, miami, fl 33132

Artkitextural Foundation in association with Buck House and Villa 221 proudly present “Atomic Picnic” … featuring works by Nathan “Dee” Delinois and Cassie “Kazilla” Williams.

(during the Buckhouse’ top rated weekly party event)

2 for 1 drinks when you mention the artists’ name at the bar before midnight. No cover as always!

Fine art, drinks, music, and partying…

(Be sure to also come to the Villa the following night for the Wynwood Art Walk after-party as well as the Diamonds -N- The Ruff exhibition upstairs)

World Erotic Art Museum Anniversary and Investiture 10/16/11

Anniversary and Investiture
Sunday, October 16, 4:00pm
World Erotic Art Museum
1205 Washington Avenue
Miami Beach, FL 33139

RSVP: rsvp@weam.com

World Erotic Art Museum upon its 6th Anniversary in cooperation with The Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality Invites you to the formal investiture of Naomi Wilzig With the degree of Honoris Causa Doctor of Arts in Erotolgy and Sexuality. Conferred upon her in recognitions of her many meritorious achievements in the field of Erotology and Sexology

Naomi Fisher exhibition opening at Vizcaya Museum and Gardens 10/6/11

Naomi Fisher exhibition opening
Thursday October 6th, 2011 6-9pm
Vizcaya Museum & Gardens
3251 South Miami Avenue
Miami, Florida 33129
www.vizcayamuseum.org
305-250-9133

Vizcaya Museum and Gardens cordially invites you and a guest to an
Opening Reception for Naomi Fisher’s Jungle Sweat, Roseate
Thursday October 6th, 2011 6-9pm at Vizcaya Museum & Garden

South Florida native Naomi Fisher weaves her lifelong memories of Vizcaya within a fictional narrative to create Jungle Sweat, Roseate, a video piece and installation on view throughout the Main House. Fisher’s ongoing exploration of nature and our desire to tame it comes into focus at Vizcaya, where the imposition of formal architecture on a native landscape presents striking contrasts. In Jungle Sweat, Roseate, a female character stumbles upon Vizcaya from the depths of the mangroves, covered in the residue of nature. Fisher tells the fantastical story of the woman’s experiences in this new environment and her struggles to dethrone the “civilized” lady of the house.

Please RSVP for the reception to susan.caraballo@vizcayamuseum.org or 305-860-8423

beats after sunset at the bass museum of art 10/7/11

beats after sunset
october 7
bass museum of art
2100 collins avenue
miami beach, florida 33139

guest dj oly
exhibitions on view

join us for beats after sunset, the bass museum of art’s first friday happy hour event!
exhibitions on view – vanishing points: paint and paintings from the debra and dennis scholl collection | curated by gean moreno | sandra gamarra: at the same time (al mismo tiempo)

* free to members!
* cost of museum admission for non-members $8
* complimentary cocktails by featured mixologist (21+)
* beats by tbd

for more info 305.673.7530 x1001

sponsored by: rex-goliath, brown-forman, perrier & the sagamore hotel

Mystery Dates 2011 Kick-Off Event 10/6/11

Join Us For The Mystery Dates Kick-Off Event!
Thursday, October 6, 7-10 Pm
The Well Lounge
444 41st Street
Miami Beach

Free
RSVP Here
Cocktails courtesy of Grey Goose

Dinner Hosts:
Jason Atkins, Tania and Robert Bassan, Robert Blumenthal, Sam Burstyn, Eric Charest-Weinberg, Felipe Grimberg and Eduardo Ojeda, Olympia de Castro and Gustavo Hernandez, Gloria and Sergio Leyva, Kathryn and Dan Mikesell, Dale and Richard Newberg, Hal Philipps, Dr. Leigh Silverton, Adriana and Michael Stein, and Billy Weisman among others.

Mystery Dates 2011 Fundraiser Ticket Prices
$125 for MOCA Shaker and above members
$175 for non-members
$1,250 for 10 packs (Limited Availability)

Mystery Dates Chairs:
Zubin Nagpal, Erin Newberg, Ivonne Ronderos, Carolyn Travis and Joshua Dunkelman

Mystery Dates Committee:
Carol Adrianza, Marcia Anderson, Meredith Becker, Lana Bernstein, Suzy Buckley, Alexander Cohen, Nick D’Annunzio, Craig Dell, Maura Dominguez, Karen Gilinski, Bill Kearney, Edison Lozada, Bernardo Ortiz, Tiffany Rosen, Tara Solomon, James Wark, Lexing Zhang.

Proceeds from this innovative fundraiser benefit MOCA exhibitions of emerging and experimental artists.

For more information, about the MOCA Shakers and Mystery Dates contact MOCA at 305 893 6211 or visit www.mocanomi.org.

Fabulous Free First Friday at Miami Science Museum 10/7/11

Fabulous Free First Friday at Miami Science Museum
Friday, October 7, 7:30pm-1am
Miami Science Museum
3280 South Miami Avenue
Miami, FL 33129

7:30 p.m. – Free Planetarium Show
8 p.m. – “Pop” Laser Show (Family)
8:30-10 p.m. – Free Rooftop Observatory Viewing (Weather permitting)
9 p.m. – The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Laser Show
10 p.m. – Best of the Doors Laser Show
11 p.m. – Pink Floyd: Best of the Wall Laser Show
Midnight – Radiohead Laser Show

Laser Show admission is $4 per child, and $8 per adult. For more information about the Laser Shows, visit: http://www.miamisci.org/www/planetarium_laser_shows.php.

During October’s First Friday, the Activity Room for children ages three and older will feature supervised activities and demonstrations, starting just before 8 p.m. Also, the Ms. Cheezious food truck will be on site, and donate 10 percent of all sales to Miami Science Museum’s Upward Bound program. One of the U.S. Department of Education’s TRIO programs, Upward Bound helps low income, first-generation college bound students to be prepared for postsecondary study, and to graduate college with a bachelor’s degree in science, math, and technology related fields.

Current exhibitions at the Museum, viewable daily from 10 a.m.-6 p.m., include Earth From Space: The Magic Planet, Energy Tracker, Heart Smart, The Sea Lab, and Wildlife Center. Exhibitions are included in the Museum admission price.

Miamiartzine Literary Event Featuring Book Authors Vincent Meis and James Cubby 10/14/11

Miamiartzine Literary Event Featuring Book Authors Vincent Meis and James Cubby
Friday October 14, 5:30 – 7:30pm
LGBT Visitor Center
1130 Washington Avenue 1st Fl
Miami Beach, Fl 33139
miamiartzine.com

Book Signing & Cocktails

Vincent Meis
Eddie’s Desert Rose
It is the 1980’s and everyone is trying to get ahead. In EDDIE’S DESERT ROSE American brothers, Dave and Eddie Bates, seek their fortune as guest workers in Saudi Arabia. Eddie rebels against the restrictions of life in the Kingdom, and on one of his adventures out into the desert he befriends a man who takes him to meet a Saudi prince. The next day he turns up dead. Details are lacking. Questions go unanswered. Dave will stop at nothing to find out why his brother had to die. Accompanied by his wife, Maura, he begins a search across three continents to find out who is responsible for his brother’s death. The hunt takes them back to Saudi Arabia and eventually into a trap where Dave, like his brother before him, becomes caught in the middle of the struggle between the pre-Al Qaeda fundamentalist Saudis and the more liberal Arabs who lean toward the West. It is a quest that forces him to lose his innocence, and to come to terms with disturbing truths about his country, his brother, and his wife.

James Cubby
South Beach Star
South Beach Star is a modern day Valley of the Dolls set in South Beach. A fictional tale of fame, glamour, drugs & destruction
Life is sweet for Jamie Kidd, a thirty-something writer, till he wakes up one morning to discover that his lover has left town after cleaning out the bank account and leaving Jamie heartbroken, penniless, and somewhat suicidal. Jamie makes the entirely sensible, or so he believes, decision to escape to South Beach where he finds success and quasi-celebrity as a nightlife columnist for the SOUTH BEACH STAR, a weekly tabloid that covers the trendy South Beach scene and the celebrities that populate it. South Beach opens its arms to Jamie, who, like an actor taking on a new role, throws himself into his fabulous new lifestyle covering the notorious celebrity-studded party scene where nightly he mingles with beautiful shallow fashionistas, famous models, and wealthy jet-setters. His coveted lifestyle masks an out-of-control roller-coaster ride of late-night parties and photo-ops, fueled by a gradual addiction to crystal meth. Like many before him, Jamie loses control and falls victim to his fast lifestyle.

Viking Funeral Opening at Fredric Snitzer Gallery 10/5/11

Viking Funeral Opening at Fredric Snitzer Gallery
Opening Reception: Wednesday October 5, 2011 6-9 pm
Fredric Snitzer Gallery
2247 NW 1st Place
Miami, FL 33127

PROJECT SPACE
Viking Funeral
DARK AGE AHEAD

October 5 – November 5, 2011

About Dark Age Ahead:
Dark Age Ahead is an exhibition based loosely on Jane Jacobs’ 2004 book “Dark Age Ahead”. In this book, the author characterizes a dark age as a “mass amnesia where even the memory of what was lost is lost.”
Taking Jacobs’ text as a starting point, sculptures and works on paper have been fabricated to further explore the themes of decay and abandonment in contemporary media and culture.

About Viking Funeral:
Viking Funeral engages with social conventions and meets pop culture with a counter gesture, when rejection and refusal merge with forms of chaos and defacement. Their media and products evolve from pop societies and their determining social systems of order. These social systems do not only serve as conceptual starting points, but also as artistic tools. Materials and objects from the everyday cultural production like newspapers, magazines, TV, video, Internet, spray paint, tape and markers play a central role in their language.

David Castillo Gallery presents Fabian Peña’s Subliminal Reception 10/6/11

David Castillo Gallery presents Fabian Peña’s Subliminal, Reception
Thursday, October 6, 6-10 pm
David Castillo Gallery
2234 NW 2nd Avenue
Miami, Florida 33127
www.davidcastillogallery.com

October 6 – November 5, 2011

David Castillo Gallery is proud to present Subliminal, Fabian Peña’s first solo show with the gallery. Centered in his locus of collage, sculpture and painting, and navigating his rhetorical milieu of organic and found materials, Peña argues for an entomology that is also anthropology; a mysticism that is also realism; a microcosm that is also infinity.

On observing nature, Hegel writes: “But the boundary line of what, like elephant, oak, gold, is markedly distinctive, the line of demarcation of what is genus and species, passes through many stages into the endless particularization of the chaos of plants and animals, kinds of rocks, or of metals, forms of earth, etc. etc., that only force and craft can bring to light.” (1)

Add to this exulted litany Peña’s splintered eggshells, fragments of cockroach wings, and crushed houseflies shattered like glass. Manipulate them with the force and craft of an artist who is also a trained observer. Combine the meticulousness of scientific classification and the raw impact of materiality. This aptly describes Peña’s four large-scale paintings in Subliminal. Peña’s paintings are consumptive in their visual effect and their ontology in sources the artist personally ingests, including newspapers, fashion magazines and pornography. Like the wings of a moth, Peña’s painterly pastiche yields cumulative subjects, such as a track-and-field athlete in the climax of a high jump. The trajectory of the jump will differ relative to the spacetime of the viewer and their association with Peña’s referential materials.

Peña meets the viewer in mid-air, where one is vulnerable to transience and desire. In mid-air, it is possible, like Schrödinger’s cat, to be both dead and alive. It is possible, like Turing’s infamous test, to be both human and machine. Peña’s work is premised on grasping binary dualism. This struggle is evident in Peña’s series of light boxes. It is also clear in Modern Society, a sculpture that borrows the interface of a compact disc so that, peering through the CD’s circular center through hundreds of pages of historical texts, the viewer encounters a video of ants devouring a scarab beetle alive.

Peña’s materials and process give form to a fecundity of all that is, seen and unseen. Peña displays awe that is a fascination with nature itself, regardless whether the genesis lies in mythology, scientific inquiry or the Freudian notion of the artist as godhead. When Peña micro-mosaics a human skull with cockroach fragments, he references mysticism and natural order. By synthesizing seemingly divergent materials, Peña transforms, for example, the American Dollar and the Chinese Yuan into symbols of immeasurable value.

Peña’s artistic practice is layered with cockroach wings and egg membrane, paint and shreds of celebrity rags. Peña’s depiction of flesh becomes an intermediary between human and animal, natural and manufactured, self and other, the artist’s material and the material world. Subliminal is the quiet disrobing of the viewer, an emperor in new clothes, a sovereign of all that is, seen and unseen.

Fabian Peña was born in Havana, Cuba and lives and works in Miami, Florida. He studied at Superior Institute of Arts in Havana. Peña’s work has been shown extensively throughout the US, Europe and Latin America. His work has been featured in notable publications, including The New York Times, and The Miami Herald. Recent exhibitions include Dead or Alive at the Museum of Art and Design in New York and New Work Miami at Miami Art Museum.

(1) Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, “The Phenomenology of the Mind,” 2nd ed. Trans. J.B. Baillie. Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, 2001, page 141.

It Takes All This to be Me A solo exhibit by Kenton Parker Opening Reception 10/8/11

It Takes All This to be Me A solo exhibit by Kenton Parker Opening Reception
Saturday, October 8 from 7:00 to 11:00 p.m.
Primary Projects
4141 NE 2nd Avenue, Suite 104
Miami Design District

Saturday, October 8 – Sunday, November 6, 2011

Primary Projects is pleased to present It Takes All This to be Me by Los Angeles-based artist Kenton Parker in his first solo project since 2007. Borrowing and re-appropriating mainstream cultural imagery, then barraging that aesthetic with subtly aggressive visual and textual commentary, Parker subverts and subsequently defies the authority of the surfaces and personalities he encounters. Parker’s own studio reflects this trajectory in the form of crudely documented musings on sexual deviation, amusement, critical texts and instinctive responses over thousands of sheets of paper.

The opening reception for It Takes All This to be Me is free and open to the public, with complimentary beverages courtesy of 42Below Vodka and Perrier. Curated by BooksIIII Bischof, Typoe and Chris Oh, this exhibit will be on view until November 6, 2011. For more information, please visit www.primaryprojectspace.com.

In the context of the exhibits title, Parker inhabits multiple roles as the vagrant, the journalist, the graphic designer and the taco vendor, all filtered through film, sculpture, installation and traditional wall-based art. ‘My First Ralf’ is one such example; a nine-minute short film shows Parker playing ‘Frank’, a vandal for which a public service announcement is made to viewers not through the transmission of practical information, but rather through his own culture-bending acid trip.

Loosely bound to the heels of an iconic Richard Prince collage, Parker deploys his dated, 50’s-style bulletin threaded through his own YouTube videos and original photography. A miniature replica of his fully-functioning ‘Taco Shop’ will inhabit the gallery space, dressed in tiny ceramic tiles, stainless steel finishes, and Retro neon signage.

It Takes All This To Be Me will feature a selection of works created over the past four years, with a significant majority of the corpus inspired by the last ten months of the artist’s life and activities. Parker’s practice is deeply rooted in the cultural incubator that is Los Angeles.

Powered by artistic collective Primary Flight, Primary Projects is a multidisciplinary space, positioned at the heart of Miami’s Design District, which aims to explore and promote multiple forms of aesthetic expression from established and emerging artists. Utilizing extensive, and wholly specific, experience in producing street-level curatorial endeavors in Miami, the creative forces behind Primary Projects unites the commercial and critical efforts of artists, critics, curators, professionals and patrons; the result is the vital presence of an intelligent, alternative arts environment with a bold, urban sensibility delivered through a diverse range of media.

Primary Flight is a collaborative curatorial organization dedicated to the production of site-specific, street level and indoor, murals and installations. Since its inception in 2007, Primary Flight has brought together more than 150 of the world’s most influential artists to install their bodies of work live in the streets of Wynwood, the Design District and greater Miami-Dade. Launching Primary Projects at 4141 NE Second Avenue, Suite 104 in December 2010, Primary Flight uses its 4,000-square-foot space as an art lab, giving professional, established and emerging artists the opportunity to redefine the context in which their work is experienced. Primary Projects’ focus is mainly on the attitude and intellect commonly associated with defiance. Gallery Hours are Monday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturday from Noon to 5p.m. For more information please visit www.primaryflight.com and www.primaryprojectspace.com.

“Chanel, 4141 NE 2nd Ave, Suite 104B”
Mixed Media
2010

“Taco Truck”
Custom Designed Taco Truck
2009

Zack Balber Exhibition Opening at Fredric Snitzer Gallery 10/5/11

Zack Balber Exhibition Opening at Fredric Snitzer Gallery
Wednesday October 5, 2011 6-9 pm
Fredric Snitzer Gallery
2247 NW 1st Place
Miami, FL 33127

October 5 – November 5, 2011

The Hebrew word Tamim translates as “pure”, “unblemished”, and “complete”. Photographer Zack Balber offers his unique, incongruous twist on Tamim’s denotation in his first solo exhibition at the Fredric Snitzer Gallery. Using portrait photography as his vehicle, Balber intimately uncovers the camouflaged identity of some of Judaism’s most unfamiliar Jews.

Born and raised in gritty inner-city neighborhoods throughout the country, both the photographer and many of his subjects were void of Jewish role models. Instead of praising their ancestry, they concealed their culture behind tattoos and vanity in a pursuit to assimilate. These men portray themselves as Bear Jews, the fighters, and the Sunday-School delinquents: they are the truly unconventional Jews.

Relocated to the close-knit Jewish community in Miami, Balber began to reconnect with his roots. During his cultural rediscovery, he encountered men who were similarly unorthodox yet retained that indefinable Jewish spark. Interestingly, when approached with the opportunity to be photographed as Jews, these ordinarily recalcitrant men let go of their powerful exteriors and embraced the vulnerability of portrait photography. When the participants donned the yarmulke that Zack Balber wore for his Bar Mitzvah, each of them expressed a spiritual reconnection to their culture, captured within these photographs.

Balber’s portraits of men who are ostensibly Tamim–proud, unashamed, and whole—exquisitely reveal their insecurity, vulnerability, and fear of exposure. Although their appearances may initially distract us from their inner reality, the tattoos and bling cannot obscure their heritage of Hebrew day school, spiritual mentors, or even the Holocaust. Through the courage and trust of both Zack Balber and his sitters, the photographer developed a rapport that catalyzed his sense of community and brotherhood. In an introspective discussion on his body of work, Balber noted, “that religion is far more than skin deep and that a connection with G-d can always be reignited.” Despite his initial rejection of Judaism, Balber’s portraits led him to rediscover the culture that is now his lifeline.

Click below to read an interview with Zack Balber on his upcoming exhibtiion Tamim:
http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/cultist/2011/09/final_how_zack_balbers_portrai_1.php

Image: Zack Balber, Pimpy Pat (Color), 2011, Lambda Print, 46 x 66 in.

Sophi Bromenshenkel and Dr. Guy Harvey painting at the premiere of This is Your Ocean Sharks 10/13/11

Sophi Bromenshenkel and Dr. Guy Harvey painting at the premiere of This is Your Ocean: Sharks
Thurs., Oct. 13, 5:30 p.m.
Bill Cosford Cinema,
1111 Memorial Drive
Coral Gables, FL

Tickets for the screening are $20 for general admission and student tickets are $10. A $2,000 donation can be made to purchase a shark satellite tag, as well as attend a VIP dinner following the screening. Reservations are encouraged due to the limited seating. Kindly RSVP to Carla Lovinsky at 305-421-4061 or clovinsky@rsmas.miami.edu.

8-year-old shark conservationist Sophi Bromenshenkel and Dr. Guy Harvey painting together before the premiere of “This is Your Ocean: Sharks”. The screening benefits the RJ Dunlap Marine Conservation Program, advancing ocean conservation and scientific literacy by combining cutting edge research and outreach activities. To draw attention to one of the most threatened groups of marine animals on the planet – sharks.

Selling lemonade, hot chocolate, shark-shaped cookies and wristbands has helped 8-year-old Sophi Bromenshenkel become a global phenomenon. Through her efforts she has raised thousands for shark conservation and been recognized as Oceana’s 2011 Junior Ocean Hero. This month she graces the cover of the latest issue of Oceana Magazine.

“Oh my gosh, that is a big picture of me! I’m really proud of my award and my shark work,” says Sophi. Dubbed the “shark girl” at her school in Minnesota, she has educated several community groups on the threats facing sharks and how they can contribute to shark conservation. Sophi has even convinced her church to host “shark month,” where parishioners donated to her cause. Her contributions go directly towards purchasing satellite tags, which are used by University of Miami (UM) scientists to track a single shark’s movement. The data can be used to determine mating and feeding areas and help to create ‘shark sanctuaries’ that are protected from fishing.

The pint-sized member of UM’s R.J. Dunlap Marine Conservation Program (RJD) team will be in Miami on Thursday, October 13 at 5:30 p.m. for the South Florida premiere of “This is Your Ocean: Sharks” at the Bill Cosford Cinema. She will join world-renowned wildlife artist Dr. Guy Harvey, who appears in the movie, in painting a collaborative piece. The artwork will be auctioned at the end of the evening, and all proceeds from the event will benefit the RJD program.

“I feel really excited on the inside about painting with Guy Harvey,” says Sophi. “I have 3 of his shirts and a magazine about him. I think we will be great friends because we both know so much about the ocean and art!”

About the University of Miami and the RJ Dunlap Marine Conservation Program
The University of Miami is the largest private research institution in the southeastern United States. The University’s mission is to provide quality education, attract and retain outstanding students, support the faculty and their research, and build an endowment for University initiatives. Founded in 2009, the R.J. Dunlap Marine Conservation Program is a joint program of the Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science and the Leonard and Jayne Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy at the University of Miami. The Rosenstiel School offers one of largest, most comprehensive marine and atmospheric programs in the nation. The Abess Center encourages innovative interdisciplinary initiatives that bridge the gap between hard science and environmental policy. For more information or to get involved, please visit www.rjd.miami.edu.

Photographs by Anthony Jordon of Pink Ribbon Project at Gab Studio on 10/1/11

Photographs taken by Anthony Jordon of the Pink Ribbon Project with Miami’s Most Influential Women at Gab Studio on Saturday, October 1, 2011.   Miami’s Most-Influential Socialites Participate in Photo Campaign to Benefit Susan G. Komen for the Cure Miami/Ft. Lauderdale Affiliate.

The 10 women participating in the Pink Ribbon Project:
Cristy Rice – Reality star and housewife on Real Housewives of Miami
Anne Owen – Publisher of Miami Magazine
Kelly Saks – Miss Earth Florida 2010, Miss Cuba 2011
Christina Bulnes – Co-host on Telemundo
Annie Vazquez – Fashion columnist and style expert for Miami.com and fashion reporter for Miami Herald
Lisa Petrillo – Entertainment reporter for CBS Miami
Tiffany Perez – Campaign manager for Miami Herald and founder of Tiffany on Air
Priscilla Jade – Founder of Pricilla Jade Lingerie
Stacey Glassman – Founder of Friends of New World Symphony
Jeannine Bergmann – Owner of Pilates One

Photographs taken by Anthony Jordon to see more of his work go to his flickr page or his facebook page.

America like it or not at The Lunch Box Gallery 10/8/11

America, like it or not with Kirk Crippens, José Joaquín Figueroa and Rodolfo Vanmarcke
October 8th, 7:00pm
The Lunch Box Gallery
310 NW. 24th St.
Miami, FL 33127.

October 8, 2011 – November 26, 2011
The Lunch Box Gallery is pleased to announce its new show America, like it or not by acclaimed photographers Kirk Crippens, José J. Figueroa and Rodolfo Vanmarcke.

America, like it or not aims to gather three different visions of America today, from the transgression of the American culture into other societies to the visual consequences of the Great Depression. Kirk Crippens is a highly renowned artist currently based in San Francisco, California, attending the distinguished Stanford Continuing Studies concentration in Art and who has had an outstanding career within the artistic photography realm. Awarded as the Top 50 Photographer in Photolucida’s Critical Mass, and nominated for the 2011-2013 Eureka Fellowship Program (a project of the Fleishhacker Foundation), Crippens has a strong background in photojournalism and has developed fascinating observational series which has been exhibited in prestigious galleries and art magazines; among them, his widely reviewed “Foreclosure, USA” series, from which 6 photographs are being exhibited at The Lunch Box Gallery.

Crippens’ work “Foreclosure, USA” is inspired by the Dust Bowl photographs of the Great Depression. According to him, “in recent years, the financial distress induced by widespread foreclosures in the United States has become an urgent national concern. There is still much public discourse on how to solve the problem that has decimated communities, threatens the country’s entire financial system, and seems to discredit the American Dream. Lots of foreclosures, yet not much closure”.

His project focuses on the foreclosure crisis in Stockton, California. Only a few years ago, Stockton seemed to manifest the vision of America in its unreserved sense of possibility and its openness to business. Sadly, it is now better known as one of the epicenters of the foreclosure crisis. In the first quarter of 2009, one in every 27 housing units in the region received a foreclosure notice, against a national rate of about one in 159. According to Crippens, this series promotes dialogue about sustainable economic growth in local communities everywhere and educates about the real cost of the unquestioned American Dream.

The second artist who shapes America, like it or not is José Joaquín Figueroa. Currently living in New York City, he attends the The Cooper Union School of Art after being granted with a full-tuition scholarship and has exhibited worldwide, including in the prestigious FIA XX Iberoamerican Art Fair. Figueroa is showing two series, one work composed of 9 images that belong to the series “El pitiyanki: American Quilt”, and 6 polaroids of his series “Martyrs”. According to the artist, “advertising, consumer goods, television, colonization, mass media, globalization… American culture plays a fundamental role in both my Venezuelan society and my generation. In Venezuela, I struggled between what aspects of American culture belonged to me or did not; as the line

between national/American and colonizer/colonized is blurry most of the time”.

With this thought, his work arises from the necessity of ingesting and trying to digest some of the possibilities that the American consumer landscape continuously places into our daily lives while dealing with the complexity of gender stereotypes and race in Latin America. As the artist, he uses his body and others’ as entities that experience, in a repetitive form, the massive consumption of elements that represent massive consumption. His fascination for popular American elements like logo identities and celebrity influence relies on their high level of transgression towards outside identity and cultures.

Figueroa uses humor and irony as vehicles to announce and denounce, to praise and criticize this reality of manufactured consumption and identity. It represents immediacy, desire and success, all of which, after ingested, often result in dissatisfaction and guilt. Like a martyr, he puts the performer in repeated situations of discomfort hoping that he or she might find transcendence. These gestures start merging into a more complex understanding of diverse and untamable possibilities of how to recognize and utilize American culture – not just digest it.

Venezuelan photographer Rodolfo Vanmarcke is also participating in America, like it or not. Vanmarcke has widely exhibited profound photograph series that fully grasp the attention of viewers, not only in meaning and style, but in his inquisitive technique. Among others, he has participated in the XIV Shanghai Art Fair, in the project “One Hour Photo” at the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, in “The Deceptive Eye 2010” at Curator’s Voice Art Project curated by Professor Milagros Bello (Ph.D) and won the title “Best in Show” in the 12th exhibition of Latin-American and Caribbean Art.

Always with an acute critical approach to reality, his vision of current America for this show is based on what he likes to call the “New Normals”. Vanmarcke’s series is a visual practice that intends to represent some of the new and problematic scenarios of the contemporary world, which without realizing it, have become part of our everyday life. The portrayed situations reference a variety of the “accidents” that are caused by the humans or the same society that embrace them. Vanmarcke is showing two pieces: one based on the BP oil spill, and the other one related to the abuse of analgesics and the excessive prescription of drugs in America.

Vanmarcke’s series is built upon the closer look, which is at the same time terrifying, and that denounces what has become a habit; habit that is reached through a complex process of recognition, saturation and almost total slovenliness towards the existent conflict. As a result, indifference, apathy, abandonment and oblivion prevail, and thus a “new normal” is born.

Photographs of Pink Ribbon Project at Gab Studio on 10/1/11

Pink Ribbon Project with Miami’s Most Influential Women at Gab Studio on Saturday, October 1, 2011.   Miami’s Most-Influential Socialites Participate in Photo Campaign to Benefit Susan G. Komen for the Cure Miami/Ft. Lauderdale Affiliate.

The 10 women participating in the Pink Ribbon Project:
Cristy Rice – Reality star and housewife on Real Housewives of Miami
Anne Owen – Publisher of Miami Magazine
Kelly Saks – Miss Earth Florida 2010, Miss Cuba 2011
Christina Bulnes – Co-host on Telemundo
Annie Vazquez – Fashion columnist and style expert for Miami.com and fashion reporter for Miami Herald
Lisa Petrillo – Entertainment reporter for CBS Miami
Tiffany Perez – Campaign manager for Miami Herald and founder of Tiffany on Air
Priscilla Jade – Founder of Pricilla Jade Lingerie
Stacey Glassman – Founder of Friends of New World Symphony
Jeannine Bergmann – Owner of Pilates One

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The Funk an event benefiting Haiti 10/29/11

The Funk-an event benefiting Haiti
Saturday October 29,2011
Mainstreet Miami Lakes
6709 Main Street
Miami Lakes, FL,33014

The Funk will be hosting an amazing evening that will support Haiti and local and international artists featuring BlacInc, JaFleu, Daniel Fortune, NinaGreekinian, JC studio and more,

Models will strut in the artsy,funky, fantasy -like designs by Christian Segui, Anastasia Sagalovich, Anchowear by Joanne, and YeraBrand

For your entertainment, expect a variety of live performances,by Fader Lima, Oh Ginelle, Dance Culture Divas, Live Love Dance Performing Arts Company,League of Extraordinary Steppers,Party Room Squad and more.And don’t forget! Leave some tummy room before coming to THE FUNK, to indulge in our complementary sweet and savoury hors d’oeuvres bar, featuring My Cupcake Love.

THE FUNK truly offers something for everyone. Shop amongst a wide variety of unique vendors such as soy candles, handmade jewelery,beauty products, feather extensions, children’s items,homemade cookies, sandals, reaggae wear and accessories and more

Guests who come dressed up in a costume get a chance to win a bag full of items from our vendors and cash prizes.

This event runs between 7pm ad 11pm, and admission is $10. Children 8 and under pay no admission fee.Parts of the proceeds go to Word and Acion- www.wordandaction.org a non-profit organization focused on sexually abused children in Haiti. Their goal is to create the House of Hearts, to shelter and care for these children and their mothers.

Tickets are on sale at www.thefunk2910.eventbrite.com

For vendor and sponsorship inquiries please contact: thefunkmiami@gmail.com or visit www.thefunk29.eventbrite.com for the vendor application

Locust Projects Ninth Annual Smash And Grab Fundraiser 10/29/11

Locust Projects Ninth Annual Smash And Grab Fundraiser
Saturday, October 29, 6:30-9:30pm
Locust Projects, Inc
155 NE 38th Street, Suite 100
Miami, Fl 33137

The event revolves around a raffle, for which over one hundred local, national, and international artists have donated artwork (enough so that each raffle ticket is guaranteed to win an artwork). Tickets are drawn at random during the party, with the winner getting their choice of artwork (i.e. first called gets first pick, and so on).

Smash and Grab preview exhibition October 21-28th. Online catalog available soon!

Artwork Raffle Ticket (admits 2 people):
$425 Locust Projects member
$450 non member

General Admission: $50 per person

Yamel Molerio-Paintings 10/8/11

Yamel Molerio-Paintings
October 8th, 2011, 6:00 pm
Buena Vista Building
180 NE 39th Street
Miami, Florida, 33137
Suite 216
Design District

Join us Saturday, October 8th, 2011 for the opening reception of artist Yamel Molerio’s solo show titled “Paintings”. This is in coordination with Second Saturday Art Walk-Art and Design Night in the Design District. All of the paintings in the show have been created this year(2011). Molerio is the founder-president of the artist group GUILD.

Words and Wine at The Electric Pickle 10/5/11

Words & Wine at The Electric Pickle
10/5/11, 9p-3a
The Electric Pickle
2826 North Miami Ave
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Ladies, Gentlemen, honey badgers and the like:
Words & Wine is back and being hosted at The Electric Pickle

3$ Beers 5$Wine & 5$ Shots

If you have not had the pleasure of witnessing it for yourself, this is a lovely venue that offers local and international talent. It is very cozy, well lit atmosphere where everyone can be themselves.

Very exciting stuff happening this Summer. We just celebrated our one year anniversary and let me tell you we could have not been given a better birthday gift then the Award for Best Open Mic in 2011 published by the Miami New Times!

This is just the very beginning, join us for our Open Mic Every Wednesday! Let’s get together and continue to share good vibes and creativity. Miami is redefining it’s Art scene and our movement has created a pavement for poets, musicians, dancers, thinkers, lovers, and people who just need to get away and express themselves freely.

Let’s once again get together, drink some wine, share some thoughts and be happy.

The Electric Pickle will be opening up the back patio for us under two conditions. 1) No Jamming Outside, the neighbors have been complaining. We will have intermissions between acts for the jammers to play on stage throughout the night. Take it all out of your system on stage! 2) No Smuggling Of Drinks Please! If anyone is seen with a drink purchased outside of the pickle, you will be asked to leave and not return. Please respect this event and the establishment. Thanks guys! See you Tomorrow

18+ for girls
5$ For anyone under 21 and free for those over 21
Great Drink Specials Full Bar

Please help to continue this event at this venue. Please do not bring your own drinks, they have a full bar inside. Let’s Have a great time responsibly and keep this venue clean and beautiful.
If any questions please call

Nikki Rodriguez at 786|728|4748 or
Lou Roman 305|298|8759.

www.electricpicklemiami.com

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Locust Projects presents a Conversation and Tasting with Chef Dena Marino 10/5/11

Conversation and Tasting with Chef Dena Marino
Wednesday, October 5, 6:30pm
Locust Projects, Inc
155 NE 38th Street Suite 100
Miami, Fl 33137

Welcoming “Iron Chef” competitor Chef Dena Marino to Miami. She is celebrated for her work at Aspen’s D19 and Ajax Tavern. Look for Chef Marino’s new project coming soon in Miami!

On the menu: Home made Ricotta Cheese and Oven Roasted Butternut Squash Bruschetta with a drizzle of Saba

$5 member / $15 non member / Artists free

RSVP locustprojects@yahoo.com or 305.576.8570

2011 Fall Fine Art Exhibit Just North Of The South Pole Opening 10/19/11

2011 Fall Fine Art Exhibit Just North Of The South Pole
Exhibit Opening: Wednesday, October 19, 7 pm – 9 pm
Deering Estate at Cutler
16701 SW 72 Avenue
Miami, FL 33157
www.deeringestate.org

The exhibit opening is free and open to the public.

Featuring Mixed Media by Andean Artists: Daniel Bottero, Isabel Brinck, Ana Candioti, Alberto Carbi, Andres Dominguez, Carla Fache, Jaime Ferrer, Josepo, and Rosana Tossi.

The Fall Fine Art Exhibit will be on display at the Deering Estate at Cutler through
November 19, 2011. Open daily, 10 am to 4 pm;
Exhibit is free with Estate admission.

For artist bios and exhibit information, please visit the online exhibit catalog.

The Deering Estate at Cutler has emerged as a thriving cultural art center, fulfilling an enduring dream of the late industrialist Charles W. Deering, who as an avid art collector, philanthropist, and amateur artist, sought to support artists and create a cultural haven.

Charles Deering’s tradition and innovative spirit continues on the Estate today through the “Artist Village” – a place where South Florida’s natural & historic treasures are interpreted through the creative talents of visual, literary, and performing artists.

Image: Andres Dominguez, Desagravio, Oil on Canvas

Photographs of MaiArt Series The Art of Loving at MaiTardi on 9/28/11

MaiArt Series featuring The Art of Loving at MaiTardi on Wednesday, September 28, 2011.  This month MaiArt showcased Miryam Laporte and her  art is incredible.    Always a great time and the food at MaiTardi is awesome, we had the spicy sausauge pizza and it was AWESOME!!!!

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Lynne Barrett’s Magpies book launch 10/1/11

Please join Tigertail for Lynne Barrett’s launch reading for MAGPIES
7 p.m, Saturday, Oct. 1
Books & Books
264 Aragon Ave.
Coral Gables, FL

Carnegie Mellon University Press
Sept. 2011
ISBN 978-0-88748-543-5

Advance Praise for Magpies:
“Lynne Barrett belongs in the top tier of short-story writers in America today. Her unforgettable characters, poker-face wit, and sly plots make for an intensely enjoyable experience.”
–Kelly Cherry, author of The Woman Who

“It is entirely impossible to predict what you’re going to get when you start a Lynne Barrett story: a taut tale of adultery and murder, a wry evocation of romance among the dot com bubble, a gossip columnist who spits toads. What you do know is that you’ll keep reading-for the vibrant prose, the keen insights, and the remarkable depth of feeling. Magpies is a stone cold triumph.”
–Steve Almond, author of Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life
For more info on Magpies, please go to http://www.LynneBarrett.com
ON FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/LynneBarrettauthor
BOOK ORDERS: Cornell University Press Services 1-800-666-2211 or via your favorite bookseller

Lynne Barrett is the editor of Tigertail, A South Florida Annual: Florida Flash
Come to the Tigertail book launch event Monday, October 17, at Books & Books

Hidalgo’s Closing Exhibition Event With Special Guest Michael Capponi 9/29/11

Hidalgo’s Closing Exhibition Event With Special Guest Michael Capponi
Thursday, September 29 · 7:30pm – 10:00pm
Cafeina Whywood Exhibition Center
297 Nw 23 Street
Miami, FL

You Are Cordially Invited To Attend The Closing Party For Leonardo Hidalgo’s Exhibition
Which Opened On September 9, 2011 With The Special Attendance Of Michael Capponi.

Hidalgo Will Showcase A Special Portrait Of Michael Capponi Which Will Be Unveiled That Night In Honor For His Work And Dedication To Haiti.

Complementary Drinks Courtesy Of Cafeina From
7:30pm-8:30pm

Please Rsvp: rsvpmiamiart@gmail.com & 786-217-0130
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Target Wednesday After Hours 10/12/11

Target Wednesday After Hours
October 12, 2011 from 6pm to 9pm
The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum
10975 SW 17th St.
Miami FL 33199

The Florida Artist Series: Humberto Calzada: The Fire Next Time
October 12, 2011 – January 8, 2012
Cuban-American artist Humberto Calzada, one of the most renowned artists of his generation, will present an exhibition of recent works on the idea of Fire. In The Fire Next Time, Calzada launches into a new artistic and formal language deviating from his hard -edge approach to a more unpredictable painting style. Calzada seemingly poses an open question between the personal and historical past and promise of its future.

GroveHouse Artists and Coconut Grove Gallery Project Art Walk 10/1/11

Saturday October 1st
GroveHouse Artists and the

Coconut Grove Gallery Project invites you to the
1st Saturday Art Walk in Coconut Grove
from 7 pm to 10 pm

The GroveHouse Gallery will be presenting
General Membership Exhibit

Juried Grid Exhibit: Small Wonders – featuring works of art no larger than 144 square inches in size

Featured Artist of the Month: Terry Arroyo Mulrooney

The Coconut Grove Gallery Walk 10/1/11

The Coconut Grove Gallery Walk
Saturday, October 1, 2011. From 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.
In Coconut Grove on Mary Street, Grand Avenue and Commodore Plaza
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Visit Miami’s ORIGINAL Art District: On the first Saturday of every month

“Small Wonders” at GroveHouse Artists Gallery
“Miami Watercolor Society Award Winners and Signature Members Exhibition” at the Hunter Gallery
“Colours of Greene” at the Coconut Grove Arts Festival Gallery
“Raices: THE ROOT OF ALL THINGS” at RODEZ Art Gallery
“This Is Colombia” at Cristina Chacon Gallery
Russell Young at AC Fine Art at AC Fine Art
Opening Night Fundraiser at FrameWorks Gallery
Large Orginals at Max in the Grove

ADDITIONAL ART GALLERY OPENINGS
ArtWay 66
Blu Moon Studio of Art
Boswell Mourot Fine Art
Dharma Studio

CHEERS TO ART
Lulu’s in the Grove will be offering a free glass of champagne to all Grove Gallery Walkers.
Pineda Covalin will celebrate creativity with a complimentary glass of red or white wine.
GreenStreet Cafe will also be offering a free glass of champagne to all Grove Gallery Walkers.
Cheers!

DINING IN THE GROVE
Akashi Japanese Restaurant – Al Fresco Restaurant – Aladdin’s Grill – Atchana’s East/West Kitchen – Backlot Wine Bar & Lounge – Barracuda Raw Bar & Grill – Bice Bistro – Bizcaya at The Ritz-Carlton Coconut Grove – Bombay Darbar Indian Restaurant – Calamari – The Cheesecake Factory – Chili’s – CocoWok – Confucio Express – El Aqui O Mexican Food – El Sitio – Focaccia Bistro and Wine Shoppe – George’s in the Grove – GreenStreet Cafe – The Grove Spot – Hooter’s – International Quesadilla Company (IQ) – Jaguar Ceviche Spoon Bar – Johnny Rockets – The Last Carrot – Le Bouchon du Grove – Ludo’s Italian Restaurant – Lulu – Mr. Moe’s – New York Roma Pizza – Oasis Internet Cafe – Panorama Restaurant & Lounge – Peacock Garden Cafe – Sandbar & Grill – Siam Oishi Restaurant & Bar – Smoothie King – Spartico – Starbucks Coffee – Subway

SOMETHING SWEET
Coco Gelato – Dolce Vita Gelato Cafe – Red Kiwi – Romeo and Juliet Italian Gelato – Yogurbella
www.CoconutGrove.com

Diamonds -N- The Ruff Wynwood Artwalk Afterparty 10/8/11

Diamonds -N- The Ruff – Wynwood Artwalk Afterparty

Saturday, October 8 at 9:00pm –  3:00am
Villa 221
221 NE 17th Street
Miami, FL
FREE Event
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Multiversal Website.
Brought to you by Multiversal * More Than Art Group * Life is Art * A Girl’s Best Friend * WeMerge Magazine
A collection of beyond stellar talent in a bad-ass hidden gem location. This is a fundraiser for the “Multiversal” Group Art Show being held in December 2011 during Art Basel.

Live art & Graffiti
Body Painting
Drink Specials

Gallery and Street Art installations:
Kazilla
Trek6
Dekal
Aleloop
Junk Roxxx
Tubs
Fifty Three
Ink
Nate Dee
Marc Paper Scissor
Luzalma Gonzales
Maciel Vargas
Rei Ramirez
Many Many more TBA

Hip Hop And Dubstep:
DJane
Name Brand
Haviken Hayes
Somejerk
Gooddroid
on the mic: Sopheye

In the A Girl’s Best Friend Boudoir:
Art & Photography:
Maytee Bringas
Janette Valentine
Denise Diaz
Daniella Mia
Earthgirlz Productions
+ More TBA

Fashion:
Fox House (Pop-Up Shop)
ReVamp ReLove

Beauty:
Control Salon
Kabuki Kosmetics

Sweets: Delicocity

BBOY exhibition: Lu Diamondz + more TBA

CALL FOR ARTISTS
If you would like to be a part of this show, please contact below.
Artist Contact: Vaughn Reynolds artists@multiversalmiami.com
Artist Signup Page.
$5 per piece hanging fee.

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Viernes Culturales / Cultural Fridays Arts and Culture Festival 9/30/11

Viernes Culturales / Cultural Fridays Arts & Culture Festival
09/30/2011, 7:00pm-11:00pm
Little Havana
Southwest 8th Street between 14 & 17 Ave.
Miami, FL 33135
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COME CELEBRATE
CULTURAL FRIDAYS / VIERNES CULTURALES
September 30, 2011 – 7 to 11 PM
Where: Domino Stage at Domino Plaza, at SW 15th Ave & 8th St.
When: 7:00 pm – Dr. Paul George – Walking tour of Little Havana

7:00 – 7:30 pm – Florida Grand Opera – Zarzuela
7:30 – 8:15 pm – Learn to Dance
8:15 – 9:30 pm – Modernity Jazz Band
9:30 – 11:00 pm – Lanzallamas Monofonica
Cost: FREE

7:00-7:30p
Florida Grand Opera
Singers from the Florida Grand Opera Young Artist program will perform selections from the popular Zarzuela Luisa Fernanda and other popular selections from FGO’s current and upcoming seasons.

7:30 – 8:15 pm
Learn to Dance
Learn the latest tropical steps and moves while enjoying an hour of fun on the dance floor with all-star Latin dancers Denisse and JC. They will teach merengue, danzón, salsa, sones, and many more steps to get you moving.

8:15 – 9:30 pm
Modernity
Conceptually, visually, and musically, Modernity is all about expressing the ideas of this day and age. With a musical outlook that pushes the boundaries of soul music, Modernity pours heart-felt saxophone solos blended with an intense rhythm section into every record and performance. Modernity is jazz meets rock, meets Latin, meets soul.

9:30 – 11:00 pm
Lanzallamas Monofonica
Charged with melodic fire and global rhythmic chemistry. They truly encompass the diversity that defines a quintessential world music band. LM tastefully blends elements of music and world culture, ranging from; Afro Caribbean, South American folklore, Rhythm and blues, jazz, funk and a twist of Eastern melodic grooves.Their sound is fresh, exciting, and geared towards the future. Lanzallamas evokes joy and an uplifting spirited dancing urge in the audience; always receiving a standing ovation! LM is on a mission to heal the world through music!

Don’t forget….
Walking Tour of Little Havana
Legendary local historian Dr. Paul George leads a walking tour of Little Havana each month. Learn the fascinating details about Little Havana’s history, people and places.
Viernes Culturales is pleased to announce “Romp Through Little Havana.” This tour of Little Havana will focus on the historic Conch Hill Neighborhood, Peter & Paul Parish and The Roads neighborhood.
Where: Meet in front of the Tower Theater (1508 SW 8th St.)
When: 7 pm
Cost: FREE

Children’s Art Clinic
Viernes Culturales is pleased to present a brand new series of arts workshops for kids, the Children’s Arts Clinic! As September is National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month, this month’s event will feature a Zumba class, led by some of the most up-beat Zumba instructors in Miami. All children, ages 4-16 are welcome. Stay tuned to find out the exciting plans for next month’s clinic!
Where: SW 8th Street & SW 15th Avenue (North Side)
When: 8 to 9:30 pm
Cost: FREE

Daniella Viotti
The Living Statue Performer, has been mesmerizing crowds at Viernes Culturales for many years. Daniela is a statue and award winning sculptor. She loves performing as a Living Statue at Viernes Culturales and giving so much positive energy to all that stop and pose with her!

Viernes Culturales Art Gallery Presents
Yovani Bauta & Students of Miami-Dade College

Friday, September 30, 2011
Opening Reception
Yovani Bauta is a Cuban painter who shares his talent with his community as a professor at Miami-Dade College. This exhibition will feature works by Bauta’s students with a focus on the female anatomy.
Exhibitions runs through October 21, 2011
Where: 742 SW 16th Ave, Miami FL 33135
When: Friday, September 30, 2011: 7 – 10 pm
Weekdays: Mon, Wed, Fri – 12 to 6 pm

Film at the Tower Theater
To all cinema lovers: We would like to invite you to discover one of Miami’s best-kept secrets, the historic Tower Theater. Enjoy top-quality foreign or independent films, film premiers, and even an art exhibition. To top it off, screenings have English (or Spanish) subtitles and prices are just $6 for general public and $5 for students and seniors!

Can it get any better than this?

Bhakti Baxter Rompelotas Opening Reception 10/7/11

Bhakti Baxter: Rompelotas Opening Reception
October 7th, 7-9pm
Gallery Diet
174 NW 23rd Street
Miami, Florida 33127
www.gallerydiet.com

October 7th – November 12th, 2011
ROMPELOTAS is the first Miami solo exhibition in four years for locally based artist Bhakti Baxter. The exhibition will include sculpture, painting, collage, and installation based work.

ROMPELOTAS is a collection of work assembled through a careful balance between play and placement. Found objects such as soccer balls and office desk drawers collide with concrete and enamel to behave like irrational models of natural phenomena. Though various layers of media stack up against each other unsettlingly throughout the gallery, the work consists of very basic organic and geometric patterns such as branching, spherical implosion, vertical and panoramic support structures, both rendered and actual. Viewed as a whole, the parts function as components of an expanded portrait, with sculptures and drawings embracing the micro and macro at every junction. Working closely with the laws of gravity, density, and the malleability of mass, Baxter transforms quotidian objects into forms imbued with metaphysical propositions, further defined by the self-made aesthetic of these forces.

The word ROMPELOTAS is a play on the term rompe pelotas, which means ball breaker in Spanish.

Bhakti Baxter has exhibited at Federica Schiavo Gallery in Rome, Emmanuel Perrotin Gallery in Paris, Bravin Lee Programs, and Guild and Greyskhul in New York. He has also exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, where he is in the permanent collection, The Bass Museum of Art Miami Beach, The Museum of Contemporary Art Washington DC, and The Ft. Lauderdale Museum of Art. His work is also included in the permanent collection of the NOMAS Foundation in Rome. This will be Baxter’s first solo exhibition at Gallery Diet.

The exhibition is being accompanied by a 120-page hard cover retrospective publication including texts by Geir Haraldseth, Gean Moreno, and Hugh Stockton.

For additional information, interviews or images please contact Jon Handel at jon@sparkplug-pr.com or 347-742-4380.

Special thanks to Palm Breweries.

Opening Reception for Fusion VIII Synesthesia 10/8/11

Fusion VIII – Synesthesia
Saturday October 8th, 7-11 pm
Art Fusion Galleries
1 NE 40th Street, Suites 3, 6, 7
Miami, FL 33137

Art Fusion Galleries is proud to present our 9th Year Anniversary & Art Basel exhibition of the year 2011

“Fusion VIII – Synesthesia”

The “Fusion VIII – Synesthesia” exhibition features 40 emerging to mid-career contemporary international artists – be sure to highlight the evening of October
8th 2011 on your calendar for our Opening Reception.

Our 9th Anniversary exhibition celebrates and honors those artists who define exceptionalism and individuality. Art Fusion Galleries is proud to mark our 9th Anniversary with a select group of artisans featuring original paintings, photography and mixed media sculptures. Our 2011 year-end exhibition “Fusion VIII – Synesthesia” will also celebrate our participation and exhibition in the Red Dot Miami Art Fair from Wednesday November 30th to Sunday December 4th. This spectacular art exhibition runs concurrent with Art Basel Miami Beach.

Chaz Mena at Hialeah High 10/1-2/11

Saturday, October 1st @ 2pm and 8pm
& Sunday, October 2nd @ 2pm
Hialeah High School Auditorium
251 East 47 Street
Hialeah, FL 33013
FREE Performances!

GableStage presents Yo Solo… A Visit with Bernardo de Gálvez written and performed by Chaz Mena

Don Bernado de Gálvez’s role in claiming Pensacola in 1781 is considered by many historians to be one of the turning points in the American Revolution; he is revered as a national hero in Spain-but we Americans know very little about him…

Renowned actor and author Chaz Mena, recently seen in GableStage’s productions of Superior Donuts and The Quarrel, brings this overlooked historical figure to vibrant life in this unique one-man play, followed by a question and answer period with Chaz in character as Gálvez.

GableStage is presenting three very special, FREE performances of Yo Solo at the Hialeah High School Auditorium on October 1st at 2pm and 8pm, and October 2nd at 2pm. Don’t miss this extraordinary opportunity to meet a legend from Florida’s past, brought brilliantly to life by one of South Florida’s best actors!

Art and Culture Center of Hollywood Creative Connection Open House 10/6/11

Creative Connection Open House
Thursday, October 6, 6 pm
Art and Culture Center of Hollywood
1650 Harrison St.
Hollywood, FL 33020
FREE

Learn more about Creative Connection and share your ideas at this free informational event and social mixer.

Activities include:
• Special appearance by Arthur S. Berger of the “Beautiful Minds� campaign, which celebrates individuals who are doing amazing things without letting age be a barrier
• Music and visual arts presentations
• Free food and drinks
• Raffle prizes, including Center memberships
• View the South Florida Cultural Consortium Exhibition 2011 and receive a free exhibition catalogue

RSVPs encouraged: To RSVP, or for more information about the Creative Connection Open House, call 954. 921. 3274 or fill out a survey at ArtandCultureCenter.org/creative. You may also RSVP on Facebook.

If you’re unable to attend, you can still be a part of Creative Connection! Reply to this email or call 954. 921. 3274 and let us know.

Creative Connection invites retired and soon-to-retire Baby Boomers to be part of arts activities and projects that have a positive impact on health and wellness, youth education, and personal enrichment.

Photographs with an Audience 10/2-3/11

Photographs with an Audience is finally here!
Sunday, October 2nd 4 PM
Monday, October 3rd 7 PM
174 NW 23 Street
Miami, Florida 33127

Gallery Diet is pleased to present the fourth incarnation of Photographs with An Audience, a performance by artist Clifford Owens. By eliminating the boundaries between artist and viewer and engaging the audience as participants, Owens will confront viewers in a new form of performance experience. Audience members are invited into the process of creating photographs, to produce compositions that reflect the experiences – past and present-of the group. The resulting photographs, which will be featured in an upcoming solo exhibition of the artist’s work opening Gallery Diet beginning on November 17, will be presented as static objects that challenge our notion of performance documentation and the creation of photographic artwork born out of action.

Photographs with an Audience is Clifford Owens’ debut performance and exhibition in Miami. The performance has been previously shown at The University of North Carolina, The Houston Museum of Contemporary Art and On Stellar Rays in New York City.

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:
October 2nd 4 PM
October 3rd 7 PM
Please arrive early as space is limited

Owens brings a new perspective to the history of performance art through the act of repeating canonical works within the very different context of current era, through the incorporation of the camera, his own body, and new audiences. He also restages historical live art works by other artists, creating open-ended situations that challenge the convention of art-making. He is currently working in a studio at MOMA/PS1 on Anthology a project which encompasses the work of over 20 inter-generational African American artists. The exhibition will be on view at the Museum in Fall 2011, a catalog will be published in 2012 with a text written by the exhibition curator, Christopher Lew.

Clifford Owens holds a BFA (1998) from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and an MFA (2000) from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. He has participated in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the Studio Museum Residency in Harlem, and is a recipient of the Louis Tiffany Comfort Award and the Lambent Fellowship for the Arts. Owens has exhibited at P.S.1/MoMa as part of Greater New York, the Queens Museum of Art, NY, List Visual Art Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, and Para-Site Art Space, Hong Kong. Publications which have included his works are Performa: New Visual Art Performance, and The Greater New York Book. His projects and exhibitions have been written about in Art in America, Art+Auction, Newsweek, New York Times, Village Voice and other publications. Clifford is represented by On Stellar Rays and will be exhibiting with Gallery Diet on November 17.

Special thanks to the de la Cruz collection where Owens will be in residence beginning in October 2011. Work created in this residency will be part of TKTK.

Some thoughts on the work from the Fall Issue of BOMB magazine…
Nick Stillman in conversation with Clifford Owens in BOMB Magazine about the Houston Contemporary Museum’s incarnation of Photographs with an Audience
Owens: … The project is about the construction of a photograph with myself and/or the audience through simple gestures…
Stillman:… I found it to be one of the most unforgettable experiences of my life. Everyone in that room was going to walk away thinking about it for a while.
Owens: … we are all responsible for each other, because we have more in common than we think… trust was established in that small room, among strangers.

Mix mingle and unwind at Wine Down Wednesday 10/5/11

October 05, 6:00pm – 8:00pm
HistoryMiami
101C West Flagler Street
Miami, FL 33130

Free General Admission and parking provided at the Miami-Dade County Cultural Plaza Garage, 50 NW 2 Avenue.

Join us at downtown Miami’s cultural hotspot! Don’t sit in rush hour traffic when you can be mingling with other professionals and enjoying a glass of wine! Enjoy free access to our exhibition galleries, relax with live local music, and experience cultural performances and monthly lectures! To RSVP call 305-375-1614 or email: RSVP@historymiami.org.

Many Hollywood films have depicted aspects of Miami’s aviation industry. Join us for film screenings, followed by a short discussion. The Aviation Film Series is presented in conjunction with Wine Down Wednesday. All movies start at 6:00 PM and are free to the public.

Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight is a 1994 biopic about Amelia Earhart and her ill-fated attempt to fly around the world. Diane Keaton plays the title role in a performance that earned her a nomination for both a Primetime Emmy and a Golden Globe. Also stars Rutger Hauer and Bruce Dern. 95 minutes.

Free to HistoryMiami Members; Free for Non-Members with General Admission ($8) to the Museum.

Ori Z. Soltes Talk and Book Signing 10/1/11

The Wolfsonian–FIU invites you to join Ori Z. Soltes for a book talk and signing.
Saturday, October 1, 5pm
1001 Washington Avenue
Miami Beach, FL

Untangling The Middle East Web

It’s another smart night at The Wolfsonian–FIU as Ori Soltes discusses Untangling the Web: A Thinking Person’s Guide to Why the Middle East is a Mess and Always Has Been. Soltes, Ph.D, a theology, philosophy and art history professor at Georgetown University and expert on the Middle East, will discuss the history and complexity of this region and why simple solutions are so difficult to come by. Book signing follows

Free. For more information: 305.535.2680 or paola@thewolf.fiu.edu.

This Is Colombia 2011 10/1/11

This Is Colombia 2011
Saturday, October 1st, 7-10 PM
Cristina Chacon Gallery
3162 Commodore Plaza. Suite 1F2
Coconut Grove, Florida 33133
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Featuring Colombian Artists:
Edgar Negret,Fernando Davila, Cogollo, Rosario Heins,David Manzur, Mduffo, Hernando Alzate,Juan Cabas, Claudia Calle, Araujo Santoyo, Tessarolo, Armando Villegas, Liana Garcia, Walbert Perez, Rafael Espitia

Photographs by Anthony Jordon of the Vitamin Water Uncapped LIVE at The Stage on 9/23/11

Photographs taken by Anthony Jordon of the Vitamin Water Uncapped LIVE at The Stage on Friday, September 23, 2011.

Photographs taken by Anthony Jordon to see more of his work go to hisflickr page or his facebook page.

Photographs by Anthony Jordon of Meet The Artist at The Claridge Hotel on 9/22/11

Photographs taken by Anthony Jordon of the Meet the Artist at The Claridge Hotel on Thursday, September 22, 2011.  This months art exhibit was by one of Miami’s own – Edilberto “Pay” Aponte.

Photographs taken by Anthony Jordon to see more of his work go to his flickr page or his facebook page.

The Last Au Pair Book Night Out 10/6/11

The Last Au Pair Book Night Out
October 6, 2011, 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Books and Books
927 Lincoln Road
Miami, Florida
www.mikesincere.com

Book Night Out
Get ready for a unique book event with author Mike Sincere and guests: international fashion model Maytee Martinez and friends, artist Julia Veli, cover model Kira Alvarado, au pairs, nannies, and live band Travalonia playing 80s and 90s instrumentals.

Experience scenes from the book and mingle with characters from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. while watching a fashion demonstration. Complimentary coconut juice will be served throughout the event.

Mike Sincere, a featured Marketwatch columnist and McGraw-Hill author, will sign his latest novel at this event. Free T-shirts will be given with each book purchase.

This book event will be held behind Cafe Books and Books in front of Books and Books.

Photographs by Anthony Jordon of Campus Collective on 9/21/11

Photographs taken by Anthony Jordon of the Campus Collective on Wednesday, September 21, 2011.   Over 50 showrooms and studios anything  from textile, furniture, architecture, art, hospitality and design industries.  Such an awesome place, if you did not make it this month make sure to put in our your calendar for next month.

Photographs taken by Anthony Jordon to see more of his work go to hisflickr page or his facebook page.

Words and Wine 9/28/11

Words & Wine
9/28/11, 9p-3a
The Electric Pickle
2826 North Miami Ave
Miami FL
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Ladies, Gentlemen, honey badgers and the like:
Words & Wine is back and being hosted at THE ELECTRIC PICKLE

3$ BEERS 5$ WINE & 5$ SHOTS

If you have not had the pleasure of witnessing it for yourself, this is a lovely venue that offers local and international talent. It is very cozy, well lit atmosphere where everyone can be themselves.

Very exciting stuff happening this Summer. We just celebrated our one year anniversary and let me tell you we could have not been given a better birthday gift then the Award for Best Open Mic in 2011 published by the Miami New Times!

This is just the very beginning, join us for our Open Mic EVERY WEDNESDAY! Let’s get together and continue to share good vibes and creativity. Miami is redefining it’s Art scene and our movement has created a pavement for poets, musicians, dancers, thinkers, lovers, and people who just need to get away and express themselves freely.

Let’s once again get together, drink some wine, share some thoughts and be happy.

The Electric Pickle will be opening up the back patio for us under two conditions. 1) NO JAMMING OUTSIDE, the neighbors have been complaining. We will have intermissions between acts for the jammers to play on stage throughout the night. Take it all out of your system on stage! 2) NO SMUGGLING OF DRINKS PLEASE! If anyone is seen with a drink purchased outside of the pickle, you will be asked to leave and not return. Please respect this event and the establishment. Thanks guys! See you Tomorrow

18+ for girls
5$ For anyone under 21 and free for those over 21
Great Drink Specials Full Bar

Please help to continue this event at this venue. Please do not bring your own drinks, they have a full bar inside. Let’s Have a great time responsibly and keep this venue clean and beautiful.

www.electricpicklemiami.com

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Photographs of The Women of Wynwood Community Fundraiser at Lester’s on 9/22/11

The Women of Wynwood Community Fundraiser at Lester’son Thursday, September 22, 2011. The Women of Wynwood generously donate their money, time adn efforts to create an employment program for the women of The Lotus House Shelter.

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Photographs of Campus Collective on 9/21/11

Campus Collective on Wednesday, September 21, 2011.   Over 50 showrooms and studios anything  from textile, furniture, architecture, art, hospitality and design industries.  Such an awesome place, if you did not make it this month make sure to put in our your calendar for next month.

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Avant Gallery Miami Beach Pop-Up Opening 9/27/11

Tuesday, September 27th, 7-10pm
309 23rd Street
Miami Beach, FL 33139
Please RSVP to rsvp@avantgallery.com

Avant Gallery is pleased to invite you to celebrate our Miami Beach Pop-Up Opening.
Join us as we kick open the doors of our new space that will host exciting events & exhibitions leading up to Art Basel 2011.

This event will benefit: Artstudiomiami: Empowering Young Minds
15% of purchases and 100% of cash donations at the door will support this wonderful cause.

Enjoy cocktails courtesy of: 42 Below Vodka, Bacardi, Martini & Rossi, Corzo, Dewar’s, and Heineken.
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Follow us to the after-party at Delano Tuesdays.

Miami Watercolor Society Signature Members and Award Winners Exhibition 10/1/11

Miami Watercolor Society – Signature Members & Award Winners Exhibition
October 1, 2011, 7 – 10 pm
Hunter Gallery at the Mayfair
Mayfair Complex
3390 Mary Street – Suite 128
Coconut Grove, Florida
www.miamiwatercolor.org

Wonderful exhibit of water media paintings by the Miami Watercolor Society Signature Members and Award winners.

Pink Ribbon Project with Miami’s Most Influential Women 10/1/11

Saturday, October 1, 6:00pm – 9:00pm
Gab Studio
105 NW 23 Street
Miami, Florida

Photographer Justin Price Kicks off National Breast Cancer Awareness Month With
the Unveiling of Pink Ribbon Project

Miami’s Most-Influential Socialites Participate in Photo Campaign to
Benefit Susan G. Komen for the Cure Miami/Ft. Lauderdale Affiliate

On Saturday, October 1, photographer Justin Price, along with Miami’s most influential socialites, will be kicking off National Breast Cancer Awareness Month with a flash. The celebrity photographer initiated the photo campaign Pink Ribbon Project, to benefit Susan G. Komen for the Cure Miami/Ft. Lauderdale Affiliate.

A joint effort between Justin Price, GAB Studio and Miami’s notable VIPs, the high-profile evening will unite artists and philanthropists alike. The pink affair will celebrate the photos of 10 professional women who have donated their time to join the fight against breast cancer. The photos unveiled will showcase each woman proudly wrapped in simply – a pink ribbon.

“My grandmother was a breast cancer survivor, which is why I initiated the campaign,” said Justin Price. “This is an important cause that hits home for many of us. I strongly support the need for research and developments so more people can beat this form of cancer in years to come.”

The 10 women participating in the Pink Ribbon Project:
Cristy Rice – Reality star and housewife on Real Housewives of Miami
Anne Owen – Publisher of Miami Magazine
Kelly Saks – Miss Earth Florida 2010, Miss Cuba 2011
Christina Bulnes – Co-host on Telemundo
Annie Vazquez – Fashion columnist and style expert for Miami.com and fashion reporter for Miami Herald
Lisa Petrillo – Entertainment reporter for CBS Miami
Tiffany Perez – Campaign manager for Miami Herald and founder of Tiffany on Air
Priscilla Jade – Founder of Pricilla Jade Lingerie
Stacey Glassman – Founder of Friends of New World Symphony
Jeannine Bergmann – Owner of Pilates One

Astronomy Evening at Miami Science Museum 10/1/11

Saturday, Oct. 1, 5-10 p.m.
Miami Science Museum
3280 South Miami Avenue
Miami, FL 33129
$5 per person

Evening to Include Live Astronomy Music Concert, Sneak Peek at New PBS Show Star Gazers with Special Appearance by Host Marlene Hidalgo, Storytelling with the Miami-Dade Public Library System, Raffle for a Free Telescope, and More

Miami Science Museum will take its guests on a cosmic journey on Oct. 1, during its Astronomy Evening 2011. Attendees will not only enjoy a special “Astronomy Music: Live Celestial Concert” by astronomer Dr. James Webb of Florida International University, but also a preview of the new PBS program Star Gazers, and a special appearance by Star Gazers Co-Host Marlene Hidalgo. In addition, the evening will include a “Tales Under the Stars” program presented by the Miami-Dade Public Library System, guest speakers, a raffle for a free Celestron FirstScope Telescope, and more.

During Dr. Webb’s hour-long concert, guests will enjoy “galactic” songs such as “Cosmos Theme,” “Across the Universe,” and “The Grand Scheme of Things” on classical guitar, while astronomic images and/or song lyrics are projected onto the Planetarium’s dome. Dr. Webb is director of the SARA North Observatory located at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona, and a professor of physics at Florida International University. He is also a member of the Science Songwriters Association.

WPBT2-PBS’s new astronomy series that builds on the legacy of Jack Horkheimer’s award-winning series, Star Gazers, will debut on television Oct. 4. Astronomy Evening attendees will enjoy a sneak peek at the show, which explores what’s happening in the night sky and encourages viewers to “keep looking up!” Miami Science Museum, the Kika Silva Pla Planetarium at Santa Fe College, and the Cincinnati Observatory are partnering with WPBT2-PBS to produce the program. The show’s female co-host, Marlene Hidalgo, a Miami-area seasoned science teacher, will also make an appearance at Astronomy Evening.

For even more interplanetary fun, guests can partake in “Tales Under the Stars” with the Miami-Dade Public Library System, which will include interactive and fun storytelling, music and creative dramatics.

Special guest speakers will present out-of-this-world information as part of the inaugural Jack Horkheimer Lecture Series, dedicated to space and naked eye astronomy. Also, guests can enter a raffle to win a free Celestron FirstScope Telescope. Plus, there are many more surprises in store for all attending the evening.

Admission to the event is $5 per person. Tickets are available only at the Miami Science Museum Box Office.

Sponsorship and partnership opportunities are available. Current Astronomy Evening 2011 sponsors and partners include Celestron Telescopes; Department of Physics, Florida International University; Miami-Dade Public Library System, and Southern Cross Astronomical Society.

For more information, contact the Miami Science Museum Box Office at 305.646.4234 or boxoffice@miamisci.org.

Irina Elén When Dreams Come True at Cernuda Arte Opening 10/7/11

Irina Elén: When Dreams Come True Opening Reception
Friday, October 7, from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m.
Cernuda Arte
3155 Ponce de Leon Blvd.
Coral Gables.

October 7- November 14

Cernuda Arte is honored to be hosting a one-person exhibition of paintings by Irina Elén, one of the most notable contemporary Cuban artists in today’s scene. The show entitled, When Dreams Come True, includes 22 paintings on canvas, depicted in oil and acrylic. It will be the first time the artist exhibits her work in the Unites States.

The artist will travel from Pinar del Río, Cuba to Miami to be present during this event.
The show will be open to the public until November 14.

The works featured in, When Dreams Come True, have as central focus the convergences of dreams and realities, this best understood as the connecting thread weaved by the artist to unfurl the images of her mythical universe.

In the land of Irina Elén – in her personal magical world – the woman figure is the main protagonist who moves throughout diverse ethereal sceneries recreated by the artist. Committed with great passion to the realization of her splendid works, elegantly finished –of precise execution and richness– the artist succeeds at imbuing them with grace, freshness and metaphor.

Symbols of beauty, joy, youth, providence and paradise abound, together with certain constants that appear and reappear in her compositions, such as– the feminine imagery, the intimate-surreal setting, the sheer pleasure of fantasy, and the marvelous sense of craft.

Irina Elén’s paintings reveal a sumptuous chromatic scheme and an impressive craft. Her meticulous and lyrical renditions are a feast to the eyes and evocative. Her body of work reflects, in essence, the bold talent of a young and promising plastic interpreter.

The exhibition is accompanied by a full-color catalogue, available to visitors.

Irina Elén González (Pinar del Río, Cuba 1978 – ) is a graduate of the Carlos Hidalgo Professional School of Visual Arts of Pinar del Río.

The artist has presented one person exhibitions in Havana at the Casa Osvaldo Guayasamín, in 2005, and in Pinar del Río, at the Provincial Center of Visual Arts, in 2001.

Irina Elén has participated in ten international art fairs, and has been included in over twenty-five group exhibitions throughout her career. Her work has illustrated several children’s books and has appeared in various magazines. The artist has garnered multiple awards and honorable mentions in juried art competitions.

The artist resides and works in Pinar del Río, Cuba.
Since 2006, Cernuda Arte represents the artist’s work worldwide.

*ATTACHED IMAGE: When Dreams Depart, (Cuando los Sueños Se Van), 2011, acrylic on canvas, 63 x 47 1/4 inches

The Frost Art Museum Presents Three Transformative Exhibitions Opening on Target Wednesday After Hours 10/13/11

The Frost Art Museum Presents Three Transformative Exhibitions Opening on
Target Wednesday After Hours
October 12, 2011 from 6pm-9pm.
The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum
10975 SW 17th Street
Miami, FL 33199

This opening reception is sponsored by Bacardi and is free and open to the public. Attendees will also have the opportunity to meet artists Magdalena Fernandez and Humberto Calzada as well as enjoy a celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month with performances by jazz band, the Oscar Fuentes Combo.

The power to transform lies within each one of us. The act, process or instance of transforming leaves behind the old and brings us a new, vibrant state: be it through nature, self-discovery, or moving from old to new. These exhibitions demonstrate how malleable the spirit of transformation can be. The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at FIU presents the opening reception of three new exhibitions during Target Wednesday After Hours on October 12, 2011 from 6pm-9pm.
2iPM009, a video installation by Venezuelan-born artist Magdalena Fernández transforms rain into an unnatural simulation.

In this exhibition she brings Geometric Abstraction to a new level of expression. Magdalena Fernández’s recent work is the experimental and inventive field of a clear “naturalization” of abstraction. During the past decade, Fernández has developed a body of kinetic sculptures and videos; the latter incorporates sound and movement of lines and colors. In 2iPM009, Fernández incorporates very sophisticated sound compositions to simulate rain and thunder. It begins with barely audible sounds of light rain and the appearance of barely visible tiny dots. In perfectly measured timing, the dots begin to appear in greater quantity and with greater frequency. The “sound” of rain is created by the Perpetuum Jazzile choir and plays in harmony with the video installation, completing the rain simulation.

The Fire Next Time: New Works by Humerto Calzada focuses on the idea of Fire with its metaphorical properties that are both destructive and regenerative. Calzada is one of most renowned Cuban-American artists of his generation. In his new exhibit, Calzada launches into a new artistic and formal language deviating from his hard -edge approach to a more unpredictable painting style. Caldaza’s latest work features the element of fire, burning away the longing for Cuba’s pre-revolutionary past evident in his earlier work.

Modern Meals: Remaking American Foods from Farm to Kitchen is an exhibition that explores how technology and design remade and transformed the places where food was produced, sold, cooked and eaten from the turn of the century into the post-1945 period. There will be more than three dozen items on display including posters, prints, and advertisements, all of which invite visitors to consider how commercialization has shaped modern American foodways. Images and artifacts from the Wolfsonian collection illustrate the movement of food from the field, to the factory, supermarket, and kitchen table, in order to explore how modern technology, design, and business practices created new meanings for food and eating in this era.

Big Bad Brass Weekend at The Stage 9/29/11 – 10/1/11

Thursday, September 29th through Saturday, October 1st
The Stage Miami
170 NE 38th St (Design District)
Miami, FL 33137
www.thestagemiami.com
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The Stage Presents The Hot 8 Brass Band (NOLA), Suénalo (Miami Best Latin Band 2011), Locos Por Juana (Grammy-Nominated) In A Weekend-Long Big Bad Brass Party Celebrating New Orleans And Miami’s Unique Musical Culture

The Big Bad Brass Weekend will feature Miami’s Best ‘Po Boys, Live Painting and
Crowd-Stomping Music

Voted by the Miami New Times as Miami’s Best Live Music Venue, The Stage, announces a weekend-long party celebrating New Orleans and Miami’s unique musical flavorings with NOLA’s The Hot 8 Brass Band, Suénalo (Miami Best Latin Band 2011) and Grammy-Nominated Locos Por Juana. Big Bad Brass Party Weekend at The Stage is sure to delight the senses with musical performances, live painting, drink specials and delicious Cajun culinary delights from The Rum Cake Factory serving up Miami’s Best ‘Po Boys and more.

The Hot 8 Brass Band, a NOLA favorite, is most notably known for their contagious brass infused hip-hop, funk, and jazz and have toured internationally bringing their music and message to the masses. The Hot 8 Brass Band, like all of New Orleans, has had its share of tragedy in the aftermath of Katrina. Hot 8’s work with the Finding Our Folk Tour has brought music to evacuee shelters, temporary trailer parks, and to communities throughout the US that have provided a temporary home to displaced New Orleans’ families. Their efforts were featured on CNN, Nightline, New York Times, HBO and Spike Lee’s Katrina documentary “When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts.” In addition to displacement caused by the storm and subsequent violence and uncertainty contained therein, drummer Dinerral Shavers was shot and killed in late 2006 while driving with his wife and child in New Orleans. In addition, two other members of the band have lost their lives due to violence on the city streets. In response to these tragic setbacks, The Hot 8 Brass Band uses their passion for music and social outreach led to an integral role contributing to the success of the Finding Our Folk Tour.

Joining NOLA’s The Hot 8 Brass Band are two of Miami’s homegrown favorites with Suénalo (Friday) and Locos Por Juana (Saturday) for a Big Bad Brass collision of Miami and New Orleans best big band sounds.

Big Bad Brass Party Weekend!

Thursday, September 29
Miami New Times’ Crossfade Presents The Hot 8 Brass Band | 21+
Free Appleton Drinks 9PM – 11PM
“Schooled in Louisiana” Alumni Meetup

Friday, September 30
Big Bad Brass Party with Suénalo
Doors Open at 9:30PM – $10 after 10PM / Heineken Specials
Live Painting By Trek Six and Kazilla
Food: See The Rum Cake Factory Bad Brass Party menu below.

Saturday, October 1
Big Bad Brass Party with The Hot 8 Brass Band and Locos Por Juana
Doors Open at 9:30PM – $10 after 10PM / Moonchine Specials
Live Painting by Oscar Saavedra! and Kazilla
Food: See The Rum Cake Factory Bad Brass Party menu below.

Featured Musical Acts:
The Hot 8 Brass Band | www.hot8brassband.com
Suénalo | www.suenalo.com
Locos Por Juana |www.locosporjuana.com

Live Painting By:
Trek Six |www.treksix.com
Kazilla | www.kazilla.biz
Oscar Saavedra! | www.oscarsaavedra.com

All That Dancing Might Make You Hungry:
The Stage is proud to partner with The Rum Cake Factory, voted Miami New Times’ Best ‘Po Boy!
The Rum Cake Factory’s Big Bad Brass Party Menu / Friday and Saturday Only
Miami’s Best ‘Po Boys
Fried Catfish, Shrimp or Chicken in French Bread, Lettuce Tomatoes and Rémoulade
Smoked Chicken Wings
“Mildy smoked, spot-on tasty!”
Rum Cake
Baked Golden Brown and Basted with a Warm Wonderfully Rich Buttered Rum and Walnut Glaze. (Sorry, we already tried to get the recipe by all means. It’s a family secret!)

Don’t let the name fool you; The Rum Cake Factory creates some of the best Cajun food in town. Husband-wife owners and dynamic-duo Larry and Elena Robinson began catering in 2002 with Larry cooking the food he grew up with in Louisiana. The rum cake, his mother’s recipe, took on a life of its own and remains the signature item at the couple’s cozy little North Miami Beach shop. But we’re putting the dessert in front of the fine Cajun/soul-food specialties. Like fried shrimp or catfish in baskets or the same cleanly fried items in po’boys made on soft French bread shipped in from New Orleans. Fried turkey and pulled pork get stuffed into po’boys with their delicious rémoulade sauce, and don’t miss the smoked chicken wings — crisp, mildly smoked, and juicy. Jambalaya and delectable barbecue ribs make it as blackboard specials during the week, and if you’re lucky, you’ll catch the peerless gumbo. More information at www.therumcakefactory.com. The Rum Cake Factory is located at 2075 NE 163rd St. in North Miami Beach.

Photographs by Anthony Jordon of River Of Art Launch Party Celebrating Life Is Art and Discounts for a Cause at Bar 721 on 9/18/11

Photographs taken by Anthony Jordon of the River Of Art Launch Party Celebrating Life is Art  and Discounts for a Cause at  Bar 721 on Sunday, September 18, 2011. We showcased 6 awesome South Florida artist: Robert Kerhone, Anne Marie Brown, Jennifer Maria, Mitchell Owen Shulman (MIOWSHU) and Paul A. Vitello, B.F.A.

Thanks for everyone that came out!!!

Photographs taken by Anthony Jordon to see more of his work go to his flickr page or his facebook page.

Art Nouveau Gallery invites you to the Sideral Spheres 9/22/11

Thursday September 22, 6 – 9
Art Nouveau Gallery
348 NW 29th St.
Miami, FL 33127
Wynwood Arts District
www.artnouveaugallery.net

Georgina Chumaceiro and Elizabeth Hazim Directors of Art Nouveau Gallery, cordially invite you to the Opening Reception of Sideral Spheres by Héctor Ramírez

Kinetic art in Venezuela leaves more than an imprint on our memories. It remains because it is a way of understanding art as a continuous innovation, since the artist explores the infinite possibilities that can be reached with the most pure and expressive elements: line, form, color, movement, and transformation. That is why the artist, who adopts this course of action, always researches because he finds in the work of art the materialization of an unexpected, changing and surprising event for him and for the spectator.

For over 20 years, Art Nouveau has captured the hearts of collectors who appreciate and enjoy art. Since its creation, this gallery has undertaken de challenge of showcasing the most interesting proposals in the international scene, and has done so with sensitivity and courage. It has become a reference for experts in Latin American art.

Frances Trombly Book Launch 9/22/11

Frances Trombly: Book Launch, Girls’ Club Collection
Thursday, September 22, 6-9pm
Girls’ Club
117 NE 2nd Street
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301

Girls’ Club Collection will be hosting the closing of Paintings. Come out and flip through my first monograph book designed by the amazing Fulano. You will have the opportunity to see both the limited and original edition designs. The limited edition of the book is uniquely bound using handwoven canvas, making each one a unique piece.

The book features essays by Bonnie Clearwater, Chief Curator of the MOCA in North Miami, critic and art historian Jenni Sorkin, artist Elaine Reichek, and Girls’ Club Writer-in-Residence Denise Delgado along with a foreword by Girls’ Club Creative Director and artist Michelle Weinberg. I would like to thank Francie Bishop Good, David Horvitz and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation for making the exhibition and book possible.

You can pre-order the limited edition by contacting Sarah Rupert at admin@girlsclubcollection.org or call +1 954 828 9151. For purchasing the regular edition please visit the Girls’ Club Online Shop.

Photographs of River Of Art Launch Party Celebrating Life Is Art and Discounts for a Cause at Bar 721 on 9/18/11

River Of Art Launch Party Celebrating Life is Art  and Discounts for a Cause at  Bar 721 on Sunday, September 18, 2011. We showcased 6 awesome South Florida artist: Robert Kerhone, Anne Marie Brown, Jennifer Maria, Mitchell Owen Shulman (MIOWSHU) and Paul A. Vitello, B.F.A.

Thanks for everyone that came out!!!

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Life Is Art Lounge at DocMiami benefiting Brick by Brick for Tanzania 9/24-25/11

Life Is Art Lounge at DocMiami benefiting Brick by Brick for Tanzania
Saturday, September 24, 8:30pm – 11:30pm
Sunday , September 25, 5:25pm – 8:25pm
Doral Golf Resort & Spa
4400 NW 87th Avenue
Doral, FL 33178

DocMiami Donating Artists:
Nora Meyer
Yasmin Khalaf
Madeline Johnson
Diana Pantoja
Barbara M de Varona

DocMiami International Film Festival has partnered with two stellar non-profit organizations, Life is Art and PARK Project, to bring an Art Lounge to the exciting series of events taking place September 24th and September 25th at Doral Golf Resort & Spa. All money raised goes directly to for Brick by Brick for Tanzania, Inc.

Life is Art’s mission is to promote and support the arts and the community in south Florida through events and education.

PARK Project’s mission is Perform Acts of Random Kindness for grassroots and charitable causes that embrace and help spread its mission.

These two organizations have asked local South Florida artists to donate their works of art to support DocMiami International Film Festival and help fundraise to further a very special and worthy cause. This Art Exhibit/Sale will raise funds for Brick by Brick for Tanzania, Inc., a non-profit organization who assists school children in Tanzania whom are combating not only poverty but also a drought, hunger and the AIDS crisis. DocMiami International Film Festival seeks to raise a minimum of $6,000 for Brick by Brick for Tanzania to help build a school and empower children and the community through education.

DocMiami 2011
September 23-25, 2011

DocMiami International Film Festival dedicated to promoting the best that documentary film making has to offer worldwide. We seek to provide film makers a forum which promotes their unique contributions to the evolution of the cultural arts within South Florida and within the entertainment industry as a whole.

ALL FILMS ARE FREE

Exciting International Documentary Films, Music Concerts & Awards Gala hosted by Tito Puente, Jr. and Gloria Ordaz.
Official Website
Facebook Evite
Tickets available online.
Schedule.
DocMiami Film Fest Channel.
Concert Info.
DocMiami Concert Channel.
Venues.

Photographs of Fashion for Charity at The Moore Building on 9/17/11

Fashion for Charity at The Moore Building on Saturday, September 17, 2011.  Fashion for Charity produced their third annual fashion fundraiser featuring runway shows from leading designers and a cocktail reception and silent auction benefiting two non-profit organizations fighting against human trafficking.

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Photographs of Physique of Art Body & Live Art show at Bar 721 on 9/17/11

Physique of Art – Body & Live Art show at Bar 721 on Saturday, September 17, 2011.  This event was presented by More than Art Group and Multiversal 2011!  Featured Body Painting Installation By: Compressed Art Folders and body art by Way Wicked Art and Stacey Love.  Live art by the following artist: TEEPOP, Rei Ramirez, KELO!, Alexander Perez,. Art on display  by the following artist:  Tarski Merceda, Adela Sutton, Cristina Isabel Rivera, Ricardo Thompson and BMD.  DJ Frank Orellama.

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Grand Opening of South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center 10/1-2/11

Saturday, October 1
6:45-8pm, Ribbon Cutting Ceremony and FREE events
8pm, Main Stage Show $50, $35, $20

Sunday, October 2 (Family Day)
2-3pm, FREE events
3pm, Main Stage Show $40, $25, $10 ($5 tickets CultureShockmiami.com)
Kids (ages 6-12) 50% off any ticket level
Seniors $5 off any ticket level
www.smdcac.org

The Grand Opening Celebration will include a main stage multidisciplinary ticketed show featuring international artists, as well as some of Miami’s highest caliber performers. On both days, the Center will offer FREE pre-show activities that will take place throughout the cultural campus, for all to enjoy. The program will span genres and cultures and will include jazz, classical, Latin, Caribbean and gospel music and dance, as well as, theater and multimedia presentations. The Grand Opening Celebration is a community event that will represent both the artistic and demographic diversity found in Miami-Dade and is designed to present outstanding cultural offerings to people from all backgrounds.

An official Ribbon Cutting Ceremony will take place on Saturday evening, bringing together residents, community leaders, and government officials to commemorate the opening of the facility. Sunday’s activities will feature family-friendly events and a children and seniors price for the main stage show.

The artistic team producing the show includes: Director Heidi Marshall; Teo Castellanos, Dramaturge; Rosie Herrera, Choreographer; Jordy Gomez, Musical Director; Elizabeth Sobel, Manager of Musical Director; Andrew Yeomanson, DJ Designs; Edouard Duval Carrié, Set Concept Designer; Ken Kurtz, Set Planner; Xavier Pierce, Lighting Designer; Benton Bainbridge, Projection/Video Designer; Mark Moormann, Documentary Filmaker; Carrie Cabrera, Wardrobe Supervisor and Ronald K. Brown, Choreographer (pre-show activities).

The show includes performances by members of: Jean P.Jam, Lanzallamas Monofónica, The Lee Boys, Rosie Herrera Dance Theatre, Spam Allstars, Tiempo Libre, as well as other artists.

9th Anniversary Exhibition Fusion VIII Synesthesia Opening Reception 10/8/11

9th Anniversary Exhibition “Fusion VIII – Synesthesia” Opening Reception
Saturday, October 8th, 7-11 pm
Art Fusion Galleries
1 NE 40th Street
Suites 3, 6, 7
Miami, FL 33137
More Info.

Art Fusion Galleries is proud to present our 9th Year Anniversary & Art Basel exhibition of the year 2011
“Fusion VIII – Synesthesia”

The “Fusion VIII – Synesthesia” exhibition features 40 emerging to mid-career contemporary international artists – be sure to highlight the evening of October 8th 2011 on your calendar for our Opening Reception. Our 9th Anniversary exhibition celebrates and honors those artists who define exceptionalism and individuality.
Art Fusion Galleries is proud to mark our 9th Anniversary with a select group of artisans featuring original paintings, photography and sculptured works. Our 2011 year-end exhibition “Fusion VIII – Synesthesia” will also celebrate our participation and exhibition in the Red Dot Miami Art Fair from Wednesday November 30th to Sunday December 4th. This spectacular art exhibition runs concurrent with Art Basel Miami Beach.

Live Music by “Amereida”

Hors d’oeuvres by Pasha’s
Complimentary Wine & Refreshments

Valet Parking Available by South Florida Parking

The Best of Our World Season Launch 9/30/11

Rhythm Foundation Season Launch: The Best of our World
Friday September 30th, 7PM
Little Haiti Cultural Center
212 NE 59 Terrace
Miami 33137
More Info

The Silent Auction is packed with special items, and is online now – take a peek!
Unique and wonderful items – restaurants, vacation getaways near and far, art, unique experiences, exquisit gifts and housewares, one of a kind autographed items by RF artists. The auction concludes at the party.

7PM: Cocktails and DJ (Champion Sound), Live Silent Auction Open
8PM: Exclusive Florida concert: Malian kora virtuoso Ballake Sissoko and French trip-hop cellist Vincent Segal
9PM: Food, drinks, DJ
Your Ticket includes annual Rhythm Foundation membership full of benefits.

Modify, as needed Opening Reception 9/22/11

Opening reception: Thursday, September 22, 7-9 pm
Free for MOCA members, North Miami residents and
City of North Miami employees; $10 non-members
MOCA North Miami
770 NE 125 Street
North Miami Florida 33161
RSVP Here.

Artists: Kathryn Andrews, Darren Bader, Nina Beier, Karl Holmqvist, Adriana Lara, Natalia Ibáñez Lario, Jose Carlos Martinat, Amilcar Packer, Nicolas Paris, Nick Relph, Anders Smebye

The international artists in this exhibition playfully explore conventions within the fields of art, film, media, fashion, architecture and other realms, forming subtle and nuanced interventions that examine the multitude of possibilities in our experience of culture.

Organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami and curated by MOCA Associate Curator Ruba Katrib.

Exhibition on view: September 23 – November 13, 2011
Image caption: Nina Beier, Detail from The Demonstrators, 2011
Courtesy of the artist and STANDARD, Oslo

Rough Draft 10/6/11

Rough Draft
10.6.11, 7pm
Tempo Lounge
2029 Harrison Street -Bay 6
Hollywood, Fl 33020
roughdraftinc.com

Freestyle.
Live Art.
Live Audience.
In its purest form..
The Rough Draft.

You write, sing, dance, paint, sketch, rap, speak…whatever YOU consider ART, Rough Draft invites you to come share it with us.

For more information on Rough Draft or if you are interested in creating, contact info@roughdraftinc.com or (305) 600 – 3097.

Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011
7pm-Midnight
FREE before 9pm-$5 After
Tempo Lounge!
2029 Harrison Street- Bay 6
Hollywood, Fl 33020
*Cash ONLY Bar

Feeling creative? Contact info@roughdraftinc.com if you are interested in performing with us.
http://roughdraftinc.com or http://t.co/h8pmadf (while on the go)
Like us http://facebook.com/RoughDraftInc
Follow us http://twitter.com/ROUGHDRAFTINC

12 Nights of Electronic Music and Art Miami 9/24/11

September 24, 2011 at 8PM
GAB Studio
105 Northwest 23rd Street
Miami, FL 33127
info@12nights.org
More Info

Three of a Perfect Pair program will feature music by composer husband and wife team Charles Norman Mason and Dorothy Hindman and the experimental cellist Craig Hultgren of Birmingham, Alabama. Works include pure electronic music, video collaborations with artists Sheri Wills (video), Sally Wood Johnson (visual arts), and Carrie Mae Weems (photography, video), and works for cello and electronics.

12 Nights of Electronic Music and Art IV: Three of a Perfect Pair
Featuring Charles Norman Mason, Dorothy Hindman and Craig Hultgren

Tigertail Season Kickoff Party 10/4/11

Tigertail Season Kickoff Party
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Behind Joey’s restaurant at Wynwood Walls
2506 NW 2nd Avenue
Miami
TICKETS: Free
www.tigertail.org or call 305-324-4337

Expected\Unexpected
Tigertail’s Season 2011 – 2012 Kickoff Party
Join Tigertail for another lively Season Kickoff Party. The event is free and open to the public. The 2011-2012 season’s slogan is Expected\Unexpected, and the party will live up to this motto.

Attendees will enjoy the outrageous New York City performance artist Pat Oleszko and her inflatable art, surrounded by the beautiful street-art murals of Wynwood Walls. There will be special appearances by guest artists and the Tigertail WordSpeak team hot from Brave New Voices in San Francisco. Season tickets and other prizes will be offered, and partiers will be invited to create their own murals.

Pat Oleszko makes a spectacle of herself – and doesn’t mind if you laugh. The New Yorker says “She’s a rhyming, punning, vogueing, shrieking performer – a social critic, a comic, and a vamp.” Utilizing elaborate costumes and props, she has created lithe performances, films, installations that address trees, knees, breasts, butts, elephants and fingers. She has worked from the popular art forms of the street, party, parade and burlesque house, to the Museum of Modern Art, from Sesame Street Magazine to Ms, Playboy, and Artforum. A much decorated artist, literally and figuratively, she has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, the Jim Hensen Foundation and many others. She has exhibited and performed at many venues and museums, including a memorable show at the Bass Museum in 1993, about which the Sun Sentinel wrote, “Simply, Oleszko is the grande dame of performance art.”

The Wynwood Walls were produced by Deitch Projects and Goldman Properties to coincide with the 2009 Art Basel Miami. These street art murals were created by artists from Asia, Europe, Latin America and the U.S., including Brazilian twins Os Gêmeos and Americans Shepard Fairey and Ryan McGinnis.

Party attendees can enjoy dinner at Joey’s or Wynwood Kitchen & Bar afterwards at a 15% discount.

Blending Cultures presents Cabarlesque 10/14/11

Blending Cultures presents: Cabarlesque
Because the best things in life should be a little naughty!
October 14, 2011 – 8 PM
Little Haiti Cultural Center
212 NE 59th Terrace
Miami, FL

www.facebook.com/blendingcultures
www.JoyTaylorStudios.com

Tickets: $15 Presale at TicketWeb.com – 1-866-468-7630, $20 at the Door

Cabarlesque is a fusion of cabaret and burlesque dancing. A mix of sexy, sultry dance and a captivating story; Carbarlesque is a scintillating experience. The show tells a story of about a place of self-expression and a judgement free world. The dancers click their heels and tighten their corsets for an evening of lust, sensational moves, and just a little bit of naughty fun.

Starring: Amy Alvarado and Nelson Polanco

Blending Cultures is a non-profit organization that produces live performances which promote diversity in the community.

Words and Wine 9/21/11

Words & Wine
9/21/11, 9p-3a
The Electric Pickle
2826 North Miami Ave
Miami, Florida
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Ladies, Gentlemen, honey badgers and the like:
Words & Wine is back and being hosted at THE ELECTRIC PICKLE
3$ BEERS and 5$ SHOTS

If you have not had the pleasure of witnessing it for yourself, this is a lovely venue that offers local and international talent. It is very cozy, well lit atmosphere where everyone can be themselves.

Very exciting stuff happening this Summer. We just celebrated our one year anniversary and let me tell you we could have not been given a better birthday gift then the Award for Best Open Mic in 2011 published by the Miami New Times!

This is just the very beginning, join us for our Open Mic EVERY WEDNESDAY! Let’s get together and continue to share good vibes and creativity. Miami is redefining it’s Art scene and our movement has created a pavement for poets, musicians, dancers, thinkers, lovers, and people who just need to get away and express themselves freely.

Let’s once again get together, drink some wine, share some thoughts and be happy.
18+ for girls
5$ For anyone under 21 and free for those over 21
Great Drink Specials Full Bar

Please help to continue this event at this venue. Please do not bring your own drinks, they have a full bar inside. Let’s Have a great time responsibly and keep this venue clean and beautiful.
If any questions please call

Nikki Rodriguez at 786|728|4748 or
Lou Roman 305|298|8759.

Block Party on the Ave 9/23/11

Block Party on the Ave
Sept 23, 2011, 6 PM to 9 PM
Antique & Merchant Mall
Antique & Merchant Mall
504 East Atlantic Avenue
Delray Beach, FL 33483
www.justaskpriscilla.com

Inside the Antique & Merchant Mall on Atlantic Avenue! A fun event open to the public. FREE TO ATTEND – Munch, Browse, Mingle, Network. Shops and Restaurants from 5th to 6th Ave are pairing with mall vendors to bring you a fun event with Food tastings, Raffle prizes, Goody bags, Wine samples and Music! Indoors, rain or shine – invite a friend!

Rodez Art Gallery Presents Raíces The Root Of All Things 10/1/11

Rodez Art Gallery Presents Raíces The Root Of All Things
The exhibition opens to the public on Saturday, October 1 during Coconut Grove Gallery Walk
CocoWalk
3015 Grand Ave., Suite 237
Coconut Grove, FL 33133
Tel: 786.467-7111
www.RodezArtGallery.com

October 1 – 29, 2011
In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month Rodez Art Gallery proudly invites you to the collective exhibition that pays tribute to Contemporary Hispanic Visual Artists of South Florida & beyond. We celebrate the culture and traditions of artists who trace their roots to Spain, Mexico, Central and South America, and the Spanish speaking countries of the Caribbean.

Art being the universal language touches the heart of all people; it is an immortal legacy that will prevail in the history and heritage of each nation today and for future generations to come.

We welcome you to meet the artists of our time who have embarked on a mission to preserve their culture through the unspoken language of color, composition, expressions and imagery, as did the masters that have come before them, such as Pablo Picasso, El Greco, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Remedios Varo, Wifredo Lam, Francisco de Goya, Joan Miro, and Obregon, just to name a few.

Participating Hispanic Heritage Artists Include: David Acevedo, Orestes Bouzon, Xavier Brignoni, Maru Carreras, Roberto Catasus, Jose Chiu, Ruben Cukier, Vicente Dopico-Lerner, Lidia Godoi, Israel Guevara, Mila Hajjar, Pablo Hernandez, Marcelo Holzinger, Salomon Khammi, Santos Mendez, Tony Mendoza, Ric Moreira, Antonio Nuñez, Rafael Ponce, Jacqueline Roch, George Rodez, Felix Gonzalez Sanchez, Mari Sanchez, Cesar Santalo, Ana Maria Sarlat, Anica Shpilberg, And Dania Sierra.

Physique of Art Body and Live Art show 9/17/11

Physique of Art – Body & Live Art show!
Bar 721
721 lincoln road
miami beach fl 33139

$5 to enter without a complimentary drink $10 to enter with a complimentary drink (limited to the first 50 people)

This event is presented by More than Art Group and Multiversal 2011!
This event is 21 and up only!
Get ready to get a costumized live art piece at the event from our artists for only $30

Featured Body Painting Installation By: Compressed Art Folders

Body Art by: Way Wicked Art, Stacey Love

Live Art by:
TEEPOP
Rei Ramirez
KELO!
Alexander Perez

Art by :
Tarski Merceda
Adela Sutton
Cristina Isabel Rivera
Ricardo Thompson
BMD

DJ : Frank Orellama

Big Ticket Sale at the Adrienne Arsht Center with Food Trucks 9/18/11

Sunday, September 18 · 12:00pm – 6:00pm
Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts
1300 Biscayne Blvd.
Miami, FL

Join us on Sunday, September 18 from 12pm to 6pm to get first access to more than 20 performances going on sale to the public for the first time. Get special gifts with purchase, cool giveaways and enjoy Miami’s favorite food trucks like Burger Beast, Latin Burger, The Rolling Stove and more!

Shows On Sale:
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Captiva by Christopher Demos-Brown – World Premiere!
Come Fly Away
Death and Harry Houdini
Garrick Ohlsson and the Wroclaw Symphony Orchestra
Idina Menzel in Concert
Jazz Roots: A Night in Rio starring Sergio Mendes with special guest Eliane Elias
Jazz Roots: Blues and Soul with Robert Cray and Shemekia Copeland
Jazz Roots: Down in New Orleans with Irvin Mayfield and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, Marcia Ball, Kermit Ruffins, Big Chief Monk Bourdreax and the Golden Eagles Mardi Gras Indians and more!
Jazz Roots: Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
Jazz Roots: Jazz Meets Gershwin starring Michael Feinstein, Dave Grusin, Denyce Graves, Mark O’Connor, Terence Blanchard, Shelly Berg, The Mancini Institute Orchestra and more!
Jazz Roots: Larry Harlow’s La Raza Latina: A Salsa Suite with Adonis Puentes, Alfredo De La Fe and Federico Brito, Armando Peraza, Candido Camero, Bobby Sanabria, Mario Ortiz All Star Band and more!
Jean-Yves Thibaudet with Tschaikowski St. Petersburg State Orchestra
Lang Lang in Recital
Miami Symphony Orchestra
Midori and the Minnesota Orchestra
Million Dollar Quartet
Moscow by Michael McKeever – World Premiere!
NE 2nd Avenue by Teo Castellanos
Pilobolus Dance Theatre
Raul Esparza in Concert
Salute to Vienna
Shrek the Musical
The Santaland Diaries by David Sedaris

Downtown Hollywood ArtWalk 9/17/11

Third Saturday of Every Month, 7pm-10pm

ArtWalk Participants
Download your map here.

Comfort Zone Studio & Spa
2028 Harrison St, #101 • 954-923-2030 • www.ComfortZoneSpa.com
Specializing in romantic couples treatments & spa parties. Customized facials, LED facial rejuvenation, a variety of massages, European waxing, natural nail services, & more!

The Shade Post
2028 Harrison St, #102 • 954-920-0029 • www.ArtOfShade.com
A fashion lab and showroom for the Art of Shade, a recycled, redesigned one-of-a-kind label by designer Kayce Armstrong. Fashions from bikinis to couture gowns!

ANSU Gallery Fine Arts | Collectibles | Gifts
2028 Harrison St, #104 • 954-454-5632 • www.AnsuGallery.com
Local artists show and sell their fine art. One-of-a-kind handpainted porcelain collectibles and papier mâché sculptures. Handpainted murals on tiles, magnets & more.

Art Project Gallery Framing & Decor
2000 Harrison St, #4 • 954-455-5594
Providing you the best services in custom picture framing, art restoration, decor, original fine paintings & the best prices in town!

Armando Perez Creations
2029 Harrison St, #5 • 954-241-0081
Original oil paintings and jewelry designs by artist Armando Perez. Custom made jewelry and commissioned artwork.

Goddess Store & Studio
2017 Harrison St • 954-929-2369 • www.GoddessStore.com
Experience a variety of dance forms and yoga at our unique studio. An easy and fun way to maintain and improve your health & wellness. FREE Monthly Dance, Poetry & Art Events.

Sale House Boutique
1940 Harrison St, #100 • 954-920-8333
Sale house boutique is a trendy women’s clothing boutique. We sell jewelry, perfume, bags and other accessories. Our clients shop here because we have great stuff at everyday low prices.

Truu Aveda Salon
1930C Harrison St • 954-639-7798 • www.TruuSalon.com
Our Mission at Truu Salon is to Embrace, Enhance, and Empower the Tru Beauty in U. Our entire team has trained and graduated from Aveda Institutes. We specialize in Aveda’s signature haircuts, hair color and conditioning treatments.

Cuenca’s Montecristo Lounge of Hollywood
1928A Harrison St • 954-364-7660 • www. facebook.com/Montecristo.Lounge
The Montecristo Lounge is a classic, relaxing and cozy members only cigar club that hosts a public “Art and Cigars” exhibition each month that attracts cigar afi cionados and art lovers alike.

I Am An Artist
2008 Hollywood Blvd • 954-367-6378 • www. IAmAnArtistInDowntown.com
Paint your own pottery, ceramics classes, hand made ceramics.

Toby’s Billiards
2004 Hollywood Blvd • 954-608-0928
Nine pool tables, one ping pong table. Free pool from 2pm-6pm with purchase of a beverage.

Megabite Chillout Lounge
1910B Hollywood Blvd • 954-237-2888 • www.MegabiteCyberCafe.com
Chic internet lounge with live music, fanciful & exquisite food. We serve beer at 23° and 20 flavors of bubble tea.

ArtsPark Visual Arts Pavilion Gallery
One Young Circle • 954-921-3500 • www.HollywoodFL.org/artspark
In the Visual Arts Pavilion, visitors can enjoy demonstrations of glass blowing, jewelry making & sculpting, view rotating exhibitions and purchase original artwork.

Big Night in Little Haiti Shleu Shleu Miami All Stars and Carnival launch 9/16/11

Big Night in Little Haiti – FREE
Friday, September 16th, 6PM – 10PM
Little Haiti Cultural Center
212 NE 59th Terrace
Miami 33137
(305) 960-2969
BigNightLittleHaiti.com

Classic konpa dance band SHLEU SHLEU MIAMI ALL STARS in the plaza
A launch event for Miami Carnival in the Gardens, featuring TiChapo Haitian masquerade band, and Ascension mas costume show.

The Shleu Shleu Miami All Stars are the main branch of the legendary Shleu Shleu, which formed in 1965 in Port au Prince – the longest running act in the history of konpa. Co-founder and drummer Smith Jean Baptiste created a signature sound for upscale dance parties in Haiti and the Caribbean, where the band contributed massive hit singles and Carnival anthems.

We are helping launch Miami Carnival in the Gardens with some fantastic costumed masquerade bands: TiChapo and Ascension, to get ready for the massive event that attracts more than 100,000 revelers to SunLife Stadium on October 9th. Along with a weekend of parties and special events, Miami Carnival in the Gardens features a parade and stages with the top Caribbean bands today. If you love Caribbean music, and a great party, put Carnival in the Gardens in your calendar. MiamiBrowardCarnival.com
We will have some ticket giveaways including some VIP passes at Big Night in Little Haiti!

Also at the Center:
Music between sets by Mizikpam.com, your online Haitian radio station and DJ Mack
Hands-on art activities for children including a costume workshop by Ascension
Mural project by MLK Community artists
Arts and crafts vendors
In the Gallery: “IPC Photography Lab”, curated with photographer Carl Juste.
In the Studio: “Art from the Heart of Little Haiti” by Center for Folk and Community Art
Haitian Food vended by Suze & Drinks from Spuntino
Free Secured parking

Haitian Cultural Arts Alliance (225 NE 59 Street) will be open (FREE), and features metal work of Serge Jolimeau and found object sculpture of Lionel St Eloi

The Art of 2033 9/15/11

The Art of 2033
9.15.11, 7pm
Cafeina Wynwood Lounge
297 NW 23rd Street
Miami
www.cafeinamiami.com

Welcome to The Art of 2033 – a Monthly Art Party!

Join us as we honor this month’s featured artist in the Svedka “Cocktailing in 2033” call for artists – Leonardo Hidalgo.

Hidalgo is widely known for his use of “vibrant” color mixed with a bit of “glitz & glamor” to visualize pop culture. You can see his work in a mélange of media publications including 944 Magazine, Art Now!, Art Miami TV, The Miami Herald, E! Universo, Haute Living Magazine, Ocean Drive and more!

We kick off this month’s feature, Hosted by DJ Robbie Riviera, with the Wynwood Exhibition Center gallery opening from 7:30-9:33 featuring complimentary cocktails inspired by Cocktailing in 2033.

Friends of NWS Season Opener 9/24/11

Saturday, September 24 at 7:30pm
New World Center

Symphony After Hours – at the Fontainebleau Hotel’s Glimmer Ballroom at 9 p.m

The official opening of the Friends of the New World Symphony’s 2011-12 season will take place at the New World Center on Saturday, September 24 at 7:30pm. The evening will begin with an incredible concert, “Tchaikovsky’s Fifth,” followed by a lush post-performance bash – Symphony After Hours – at the Fontainebleau Hotel’s Glimmer Ballroom at 9 p.m. Symphony After Hours will feature a special appearance by DJ Walshy Fire, and an incredible live performance by Jorge Mejia and The Green Room. In addition to amazing grooves, guests will enjoy complimentary GREY GOOSE Vodka cocktails, wine and light bites.

With the concert at the New World Center nearly sold out, the only way to get tickets is to be a VIP member. Annual fees start at $400 (can be paid in increments), and come with 8 concerts and 8 parties, plus other privileges, throughout the year (which works out to $25 per event). Any level Friends member gets access to Symphony After Hours, which starts at $200 for the year, with six After Hours parties (works out to about $33 per event). To purchase membership for the season, or explore any remaining After Hours tickets for Sept. 24 at $40 each, contact Stacey Glassman Mizener at 305-428-6732 or via e-mail at Stacey.Glassman@nws.edu.

Friends of NWS is a program that promotes classical music to a younger generation while broadening their philanthropic opportunities through support of the New World Symphony. The New World Symphony, America’s only full-time orchestral academy, prepares gifted graduates of prestigious music programs for successful careers in orchestras and ensembles. NWS has launched the careers of more than 700 young musicians now making a difference in the profession worldwide. They also have an impactful community engagement program that brings music into the lives of students across Miami-Dade country.

Bloomie’s Aventura LEBO Live Denim Art Performance 9/17/11

Check It Out: Lebo’s Live Denim Art Performance With Hudson Jeans
Saturday, September 17, 6-9pm
Bloomingdale’s Aventura
www.LeboStudios.com

Bloomingdale’s Aventura is excited to host this unique performance coupling fashion and art with Miami-bred artist LEBO.

In collaboration with Hudson Jeans, internationally recognized artist LEBO brings his vibrantly infused palette to Bloomingdale’s for a unique experience entitled, “Red Hot Soul and Deep, Deep Blues.” This journey into light, sound and color will combine LEBO’s trademark performance painting with state-of-the-art dynamic light projection.

Receive a HUDSON tote bag personally customized by LEBO with your Hudson Men’s purchase. (*One per customer, while supplies last.)
The Men’s Store, Level 1

Miami City Ballet Upper Room Season Kick-Off Party 9/23/11

Miami City Ballet’s Young Professionals Group
Friday, September 23, beginning at 8:30pm.
Performing Arts Exchange
337 S.W. 8th Street
www.miamicityballet.org
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Spam All Stars to Perform.

Miami City Ballet’s Upper Room – a dedicated group of art & culture lovers in their 20s and 30s – will kick off MCB’s 2011-12 season with a party.

An exciting night of mixing and mingling with MCB dancers and other young professionals awaits: indulging on scrumptious cocktails and decadent light bites and dancing to the sounds of Spam All Stars and their unique blend of improvisational electronic elements and turntables with Latin, funk, hip hop and dub to create what they call an “electronic descarga.”

The party is free for current MCB’s Upper Room members and $15 for non-members. Non-members who purchase a membership before or at the party will be waived the $15 cover. RSVP by calling (305) 929-7000, ext. 1446 or email upperroom@miamicityballet.org.

MCB’s Upper Room serves to cultivate interest in dance among South Florida’s young professionals. The group’s host committee is Jordan Dresnick, Melissa Fernandez, Valeria Gadala Maria, Megan Harmon, Evaggelia Hatzimanolis, Annie Hernandez, Kai Jacobs, Liza Lesser, Judy Lara, Michelle McClaskey, Sean McCormick, Lee Metz, Jane Muir, Bette Ann Schlossberg, Jessica Schults, Paree Taslimi, Brenda Vargas and Amy Wiborg.

Annual membership is $200 which includes a ticket to three opening night performances at the Adrienne Arsht Center, exclusive parties throughout the season and discount offers on select MCB performances and events. Add a second membership for only $25 more and get two memberships for $225.

The season runs October 21st through April 1st at the Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami. Program I opens the season (October 21-23) with the Upper Room’s namesake work, In The Upper Room, by Tony® Award winning choreographer Twyla Tharp. Season highlights include a World Premiere ballet by 25 year old Liam Scarlett, Britain’s hottest, young choreographer from London’s Royal Ballet, the return of the full-length productions of Giselle and Coppélia and the holiday favorite George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker™. The Opus One Orchestra performs live for all repertory programs. Subscribe now and save at www.miamicityballet.org or call (305) 929-7010 or toll-free (877) 929-7010. Check out MCB and learn more about the dancers at miamicityballet.org/blog.

Opening Reception for Enrique Martínez Celaya Schneebett 10/13/11

Opening Reception for Enrique Martínez Celaya: Schneebett
Featuring Miami Symphony Orchestra
Thursday, October 13, 6-8pm
Miami Art Museum
101 West Flagler Street
Miami, FL 33130
MAM members free / non-members $10
RSVP@miamiartmuseum.org or 305.375.1704
Parking at 50 NW 2nd Ave. – $5 with Museum validation

Miami Art Museum presents the U.S. debut of Schneebett, a major installation inspired by Ludwig van Beethoven’s convalescence and death in Vienna, Austria in 1827. The reception will feature a performance of Beethoven’s late quartets by members of the Miami Symphony Orchestra. Schneebett, originally created for the Berliner Philharmonie in 2004, will be on view in the Museum’s permanent collection installation from October 14, 2011 through January 1, 2012.

Miami Art Museum will present the United States debut of Enrique Martínez Celaya’s Schneebett, a major installation inspired by Ludwig van Beethoven’s convalescence and death in Vienna, Austria in 1827, originally created for the Berliner Philharmonie. Enrique Martínez Celaya: Schneebett will be on view from October 14, 2011 through January 1, 2012 in the Museum’s Anchor Gallery, a space dedicated to large-scale works from the permanent collection. The exhibition opening will take place October 13, 2011 from 6 to 8pm and feature a performance by members of the Miami Symphony Orchestra.

Schneebett, which reflects on and transports the viewer into the final hours of Ludwig van Beethoven’s life, was the first work of art commissioned for and exhibited at the Berliner Philharmonie since its founding in 1882. It was presented in 2004, and was shown in juxtaposition to the music of the Berliner Philharmoniker with special programming at the American Academy in Berlin. Schneebett was presented again in 2006 at the Museum der bildenden Künste in Leipzig where it offered a counterpoint to Max Klinger’s statue of the heroic Beethoven as the creative genius. The title, Schneebett (“Snow-bed”), is from a poem by Holocaust survivor Paul Celan, a meditation on death. To re-animate the spirit of those celebrated exhibitions, Martínez Celaya created a new version of the installation for Miami Art Museum, which opens with a performance of Beethoven’s late quartets by the Miami Symphony Orchestra. A video of the performance will be on view for the duration of the exhibition.

The three-part installation conveys Beethoven’s final moments in Vienna, far away from his native Bonn. In one room is a bronze bed, its surface covered in a thick layer of frost created by an elaborate compressor system. Behind it is a large tar-and-feather painting of a dense, snow-covered forest. The entry to the room is blocked by a pile of sticks and branches. On the other side of the blocked doorway is an “ante-chamber” with a solitary chair from which a viewer can peer into the inaccessible “bedroom,” and experience the environment as a memory of what was, or what might have been. The Leipziger Volkszeitung remarked that Beethoven’s presence “literally hovers in the air as sound.”

“Schneebett is a major work by an internationally-renowned artist,” said MAM Senior Curator Peter Boswell. “It will have a special resonance here in Miami since Martínez Celaya, who was born in Cuba, was inspired in part by the thought of Beethoven’s passing away far from Bonn, the city of his birth, which he left at age 21 never to return.”

Schneebett is a promised gift to the museum from German collectors Dieter and Si Rosenkranz.

Born in Habana in 1964, Enrique Martínez Celaya worked primarily as a scientist until 1992, when he decided to be an artist, an endeavor he had been pursuing since an early apprenticeship during his teenage years. Marie Louise Knott, editor of Le Monde Diplomatique, which dedicated an entire issue to the artist, stated, “Martínez Celaya’s work reinvents the original magic of art.”

Martínez Celaya studied applied physics at Cornell University and, supported by a fellowship from the Brookhaven National Laboratory, pursued a Ph.D. in Quantum Electronics at the University of California, Berkeley. As a scientist he worked on superconductivity, lasers and laser delivery systems, research for which he was issued an often-cited patent. He attended the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in Maine and received a Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His work is represented in such public collections as the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. He has been the recipient of numerous distinguished awards, including most recently, the honor of being the second Visiting Presidential Professor in the history of the University of Nebraska, and the prestigious Anderson Ranch National Artist Award. Recently, the University of Nebraska Press released Enrique Martínez Celaya: Collected Writings & Interviews, 1990-2010, which traces the development of the artist’s thought throughout his twenty-year career as an artist, writer, and lecturer.

For a comprehensive archive that documents the making and reception of the work, please see www.schneebett.com.

Aida Tejada Solo Exhibition Opening reception 9/16/11

Aida Tejada Solo Exhibition Opening reception.
Friday, September 16th at 7:00pm
Gallerie Carre Rouge at Alliance Française of Miami
618 SW 8th St.
Miami, Fl 33130
(305) 859-8760

Free and open to the public. Refreshments will be provided.

Please join us for an opening reception of South Florida photographer, Aida Tejada’s Solo Show Inner Reflections featuring several series of recent work. Photographer and artist Aida Tejada works exclusively with themes that touch her soul. She grants a great deal of importance to daily life inside the city in her artwork.

On view from September 16 to October 8
“Sometimes your everyday life is aesthetically transformed…when common objects are presented in a new perspective, they awake feelings ranging from euphoria to depression and from serenity to restlessness. The images in this project are everyday objects that cross my gaze at home and elsewhere. Objects that are often abandoned, ignored, or taken for granted. The city images are common buildings in ordinary streets. To achieve the desired effect I create textures and artful compositions with daylight, my camera’s movements, and different reflecting surfaces. How you interpret reality depends on the viewpoint you choose…”

Claridge Hotel Miami Beach Meet the Artist 9/22/11

“Meet the Artist”
Thursday, September 22, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Claridge Hotel
3500 Collins Ave
Miami Beach FL 33140
(Complimentary Public Parking across the Street after 6pm)

The Claridge Hotel is bringing you an Art Exhibit by one of Miami’s own – Edilberto “Pay” Aponte.
Come meet the artist and enjoy learning what has inspired this local talent.
Enjoy art, inspiration, music, cocktails and bites.
RSVP by September 18th at 786-342-7105.

(Happy Hour Priced-Cash Bar and Complimentary Hors d’oeuvres)

Words and Wine 9/14/11

Words & Wine
9/14/11, 9p-3a
The Electric Pickle
2826 NORTH MIAMI AVE
Miami, FL
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Nikki is back and so is Words & Wine! Let’s PARTY!!!
Ladies, Gentlemen, honey badgers and the like:
Words & Wine is back and being hosted at THE ELECTRIC PICKLE
3$ BEERS and 5$ SHOTS

If you have not had the pleasure of witnessing it for yourself, this is a lovely venue that offers local and international talent. It is very cozy, well lit atmosphere where everyone can be themselves.

Very exciting stuff happening this Summer. We just celebrated our one year anniversary and let me tell you we could have not been given a better birthday gift then the Award for Best Open Mic in 2011 published by the Miami New Times!

This is just the very beginning, join us for our Open Mic EVERY WEDNESDAY! Let’s get together and continue to share good vibes and creativity. Miami is redefining it’s Art scene and our movement has created a pavement for poets, musicians, dancers, thinkers, lovers, and people who just need to get away and express themselves freely.

Let’s once again get together, drink some wine, share some thoughts and be happy.

18+ for girls
5$ For anyone under 21 and free for those over 21
Great Drink Specials Full Bar

Please help to continue this event at this venue. Please do not bring your own drinks, they have a full bar inside. Let’s Have a great time responsibly and keep this venue clean and beautiful.
If any questions please call

Nikki Rodriguez at 786|728|4748 or Lou Roman 305|298|8759.

Silvia Dorfsman Exhibition Opening Life’s Soldiers and Muses 9/16/11

Silvia Dorfsman cordially invites you to the exhibition Life’s Soldiers and Muses
Friday, September 16, 2011. 7:00 – 11:00 p.m.
Blue Door Fine arts
2330 SW 62nd Court
Miami, FL 33155
www.bluedoorfinearts.com

Works by Ernersto Capdevila and Carlos Eloy Perera Cosme

For more information about local openings and events, please visit www.miamiartguide.com

Liberty, Equality, And Fraternity Exhibition Reception at The Wolfsonian-FIU 12/2/11

Liberty, Equality, And Fraternity
Reception on Friday, December 2, 2011
During Art Basel Miami Beach
The Wolfsonian
1001 Washington Avenue
Miami Beach, Florida 33139

Exhibition Organized by The Wolfsonian–FIU
From the Collection of the Centre national des art plastiques
On View November 25, 2011-March 26, 2012

The Wolfsonian–Florida International University presents Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity, an exhibition exploring French cultural identity through design produced from the mid-twentieth century to the present. The exhibition will be on view from November 25, 2011 through March 26, 2012 and is organized by The Wolfsonian from the collection of the Centre national des arts plastiques, France (National Center for Visual Arts or CNAP). The opening of the exhibition will coincide with the celebration of Art Basel Miami Beach/Design Miami 2011.

“The French motto—liberté, egalité, fraternité—serves as the conceptual framework for this intriguing exhibition,” notes Marianne Lamonaca, The Wolfsonian’s associate director for curatorial affairs and education. “For Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity, we took an entirely new approach to our curatorial practice by engaging in a dynamic dialogue with the French designers and design historian who collaborated with us on this project: matali crasset, Michael Amzalag and Mathias Augustyniak of M/M (Paris), and Alexandra Midal. Together we have shaped a unique presentation of French design objects from the collection of the Centre national des arts plastiques in Paris, France that express ideas about French national identity.”

Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity examines the changing political, economic, and cultural contexts in which French design is created and disseminated. It also takes into account the concrete and symbolic impact that design has in shaping perceptions and aspirations. Approximately one hundred and fifty objects will be exhibited, including furniture, industrial design, and craft, created by some of the most celebrated French designers of the past and present, including Pierre Paulin, Roger Tallon, Philippe Starck, and the Bouroullec Brothers, as well as others lesser known in the United States.

“The collaboration is a perfect fit for The Wolfsonian and its mission to foster the understanding and appreciation of design as an active agent in human affairs. In tracing an alternative genealogy of French design history from the late 1940s to the present, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity will identify areas of design practice that engage with social, political, technological, and economic forces and their changing contexts over time,” notes Cathy Leff, director of The Wolfsonian. “The objects on display—from prototypes to industrial design products—have as their underlying premise the belief that design is politically and culturally relevant.”

A note about the display: Presented in nine narrative clusters, the exhibition is displayed within a network of related, yet unique, settings, and joined by viewing rooms for related films. The nine sections focus attention on individual designers, such as Roger Tallon and Philippe Starck; on important episodes in French industrial design history, for example, the seminal work of the research and development division of Thomson electronics in the 1990s; and on the influence of les villes nouvelles (new towns) built during the 1960s and 1970s. They each carry evocative titles that inform the interpretation and the display, such as the frame (French design digest), the barricade (design after the 1968 uprisings), and the star (Philippe Starck).

The installation design, conceived as a collaboration among matali crasset, M/M Paris, and Alexandra Midal, will be staged on wood units that can be assembled to serve as stools, plinths, pedestals, or other display elements; all units will be painted blue, white or red in reference to the French flag. The units are based on the Modulor, the celebrated measuring system that Le Corbusier created in 1943. Modular is a measuring tool based on the human body and on mathematics. A man-with arm-upraised provides, at the determining points of his occupation of space—foot, solar plexus, head, tips of fingers of the upraised arm—three intervals which give rise to a series of golden sections. It was the organizing measure for Le Corbusier’s designs, from chairs and tables to la Cité Radieuse.

Photographs by Anthony Jordon of Miguel Paredes at Nordstrom Village Of Merrick Park for Fashion’s Night Out on 9/8/11

Photographs taken by Anthony Jordon of Miguel Paredes at Norstrom Village Of Merrick Park for Fashion’s Night Out on Thursday, September 8, 2011.

Photographs taken by Anthony Jordon to see more of his work go to his flickr page or his facebook page.

Miami Science Museum Big Bang 2/11/12

Big Bang
Feb. 11, 9 p.m.
Miami Science Museum
3280 South Miami Avenue
Miami, FL 33129

Tickets for the Big Bang young professionals party will be on pre-sale soon for $50 per person, and will be $75 at the door.
To purchase tickets for the Big Bang party, visit www.miamisci.org/atmiasci.

Coinciding with the Galaxy Gala is the Museum’s Big Bang event, hosted by the MiaSci Young Patrons. Targeted at young professionals ages 21-40, the Big Bang party will take place at the Miami Science Museum, where attendees will enjoy an “intergalactic” evening featuring special lighting, energetic music, performance artists, open bars, a gourmet dessert bar and more. The dress code is cocktail attire or Miami nightlife chic.

All proceeds from both events directly benefit the Miami Science Museum and its programs.

Always open at www.MiamiSci.org.

Photographs of Leonardo Hidalgo Remembering Heroes Of America Opening at Cafeina on 9/9/11

Leonardo Hidalgo presents Remembering Heroes Of America The Art Exhibition For A National Cause Opening at Cafeina on Friday, September 9, 2011.

This exhibition is designed to give Miami residents and art enthusiasts a place to go and experience the visual feast artist Hidalgo has created consisting of 18 pieces of large scale paintings exploring the meaning of good and evil, heroes, freedom, liberty, and the force of divine justice while honoring the memory of those lost in the attacks of 9/11 in New York, the firefighters, police rescue units and the soldiers who have sacrificed their lives to defend our liberty.

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Grand Opening of The Light Box at Goldman Warehouse 10/6/11

The Light Box at Goldman Warehouse Grand Opening
Thursday, October 06 at 7:00PM
Light Box at Goldman Warehouse
404 NW 26 Street
Miami, FL 33127
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featuring Symphony for the Dance Floor

Join us for the GRAND Opening of The Light Box at Goldman Warehouse
Event Hosts: Nancy Gelles, Roberto Saco and Steve Weinger

6:30 Celebratory Cocktails and Delicious Food
8:30 Symphony for the dance floor
Music By Daniel Bernard Roumain (DRB)
Featuring Lord Jamar
Choreography By Millicent Johnnie
Directed by DJ Mendel
9:30 Dancing and Dessert

$1000 Event Host
(Includes 2 tickets, acknowledgment at event and in materials + invitation to private parties)
$150 per Tickets

For more info visit www.miamilightproject.com

David Trueba Recent Works Pre-Opening Celebration 9/15/11

David Trueba Recent Works Pre-Opening Celebration Presented by Nat Chediak
Tuesday, September 15 at 7:00 pm
Centro Cultural Español
1490 Biscayne Boulevard
Miami, FL 33132

Meet award-winning writer, director, screenwriter and columnist David Trueba, who will be presented by film and music expert Nat Chediak. CCEMiami is celebrating the beginning of this series with the pre-inauguration of its new downtown headquarters. Wine by Lizarran restaurant will be served. Free admission.
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Film Screenings
Starting Wednesday, September 16 Coral Gables Art Cinema will showcase three films directed by David Trueba:
Welcome Home (Bienvenido a casa)
Soldiers of Salamina (Soldados de Salamina)
What Ever Happened to Jorge Sanz? (¿Que fue de Jorge Sanz?)
Showtimes

Book Signing
The conversation continues at Books & Book Coral Gables with Nat Chediak highlighting the literary work of David Trueba – one of Spain’s most celebrated contemporary writers – as he discusses his first novel, Learning to Lose, to be translated into English.
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Photographs of the Bakehouse Art Complex Season Opener on 9/9/11

Bakehouse Art Complex Season Opener on Friday, September 9, 2011.  Bakehouse monthly opening reception is always fun and full of amazing art.  Two new exhibitions this month, the American Dream exhibit is so cool you have to go by and see it.

Structured: Art Inspired by Architecture: Exploring architecture’s impact on art, this exhibition focuses on BAC’s resident and associate artists’ portrayal of the relationships between art, architecture, place, space and site. Participating artists: Alain Castoriano Amanda Serrano Andres Martinez Anica Shpilberg Bianca Pratorius Betty Fleisher Cesar Barroso Deborah Mitchell Gerry Stecca Ileana Tolbia Irena Gapkovska Janet Mueller Javier D’Ambrosio Jose Pacheco-Silva Judy King Marcia Ramos-Perello Natahsa Nessic Patricia Gutierrez & Tracey Hagen

American Dream: Jeff and Sabrina Williams
For the past two years, Jeff and Sabrina Williams have been working on a series of photographs titled “American Dream.” In this ongoing body of work they create highly detailed sculptures made from mostly recycled and found materials inspired by an “on the road” documentation of American culture. A series of high-resolution photographs of their original sculptures will be presented in this exhibition.

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St. John’s Church Ten Years Healing and Remembrance 9/11/11

We Remember
Sunday, September 11, 2011
St. John’s on the Lake First United Methodist Church
4760 Pine Tree Drive
Miami Beach, FL 33140
www.stjohnsumcmiamibeach.com

Please join us this Sunday, September 11, 2011 at 11:00 a.m. at St. Johns on the Lake United Methodist Church as we gather as a community to remember… to share stories . . . to continue the healing journey . . . in the presence of God’s grace. All are welcome.

Brunch in the Fellowship Hall immediately following, catered by Chef Tawanna-Patrice of A Taste Experience. Free Jazz Concert in the Sanctuary at 3:00, presented by Arts at St. Johns.

For more info, please call 305-531-6163 or e-mail: info@stjohnsumcmiamibeach.com

St. John’s on the Lake First UMC, Miami Beach, Florida: Celebrating 13 years as a Reconciling Faith Community. All are welcome here.

Dreamy Nomads Baby Lisa Slominski at DV 9/10/11

Dreamy Nomads, Baby- Lisa Slominski
Dimensions Variable
171 NE 38th Street
Design District
Miami, Florida 33137
September 10 – October 22, 2011

Reception September 10, 2011, 7 – 10 Pm

Dimensions Variable is pleased to present Dreamy Nomads, Baby—a project by London-based artist Lisa Slominski. The exhibition will run from September 10 through October 22, 2011. Dimensions Variable is located at 171 NE 38th Street in the Miami Design District.

‘Dreamy Nomads, Baby’ investigates the malleability of memory against subjectivity. Slominski focuses upon benchmarks within a collective backdrop that hold consistent in varying memories, thereby emphasizing, via comparison, our memory distortions upon the past experience. Slominski is intrigued by our inability to accurately share a memory. She draws upon this singular navigation through the past via an exchange of text messages. This call and response, while endearing and familiar, falls out of sync with one another. The lack of comprehension opens a space of dislocation and longing.

The installation for Dimensions Variable incorporates light boxes, sculpture, and a wall installation of flocked screen-prints on paper. By examining the elements of our everyday landscape, Slominski aims to create an environment which is simultaneously familiar and unfamiliar.

Intrigued by pop culture and patterns found in design, Slominski’s multi-media practice is playful but also also rhythmic through it use of repetition. Her motivations are suggestive of interior design techniques for domestic, commercial and religious spaces: she evokes recognition of the viewer’s experiences, her mitigations then disrupt the presumption.

Lisa Slominski (b. 1981) is an American artist currently living and working London. She received her BA in Visual and Critical Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her MFA in Art Practice from Goldsmiths, University of London. Slominski has shown extensively in London, and internationally including Scotland, the United States and South Africa. Curatorial projects include ‘What’s Yours Is Mine’ with Roisin Byrne and Duncan Wooldridge, as well as, ‘The Bottom Line’ including work by Richard Ansett and Patrick Coyle. In 2011, she had a solo-show in London at Tenderpixel Gallery, and was recently featured in Issue 5 of Måg Magazine.

This exhibition is made possible with support from the Fountainhead Residency, Miami

Artistic Ambassadors Join Cecilia Moreno-Yaghoubi for a Discussion of Latin American Art 9/15/11

Thursday, September 15, 2011 at 6:30 p.m.
Buena Vista Building
180 NE 39th Street,
Suite 120 (Across from Jonathan Adler showroom)
Miami Design District
Florida 33137
www.ceciliamyart.com

Panel discussion is from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Exhibit on view September 10 through October 8, 2011
Gallery Hours: Wednesday through Friday from 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Cecilia Moreno-Yaghoubi’s How I Lost My Accent: The Black and White Series project, presents a dynamic panel discussion curated and moderated by Vanessa Garcia (Krane, Inc., The Miami Herald’s “20 Under 40”) featuring several of Miami’s top art ambassadors. Crafting Art on Both Sides of the Hyphen panelists will include: Carol Damian (Frost Art Museum), Irina Levya-Perez (PanAmerican ArtProjects) and Luisa Lignarolo (Cernuda Arte) and artist Gustavo Oviedo.

Coinciding with Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 – October 15), the collaborative will come together to discuss the relationship between Latin American and Latin-American art. With an open-forum format, the panel will explore an in-depth comparison of artwork produced by Latin Americans living in the United States and those living in the Southern Hemisphere.

How I Lost My Accent: The Black and White Series is a pop-up exhibition highlighting Moreno-Yaghoubi’s repressed and unearthed memories. In addition to presenting new oil and mixed media paintings, a series of clotheslines mounted with worn dresses, pinned with weathered black and white photos and antique dolls will transform the Buena Vista Building the DACRA-sponsored space into a virtual maze of the unconscious mind. Reconstructing and romanticizing the past with found objects and two-dimensional works, Moreno-Yaghoubi creates a tangible reflection of her memory for viewers.

Eleazar Delgado Studio during Wynwood Art Walk 9/10/11

Miami Circle by Eleazar Delgado
Join us during Wynwood Art Walk
Eleazar Delgado Studio!
2703 NW 2nd Avenue
Miami, FL 33127
www.EleazarDelgado.com

Unearthed in 1998, this archaeological site is regarded as being of local, regional, and statewide significance and perhaps even of national significance, as it is believed to be the only cut-in-rock prehistoric structural footprint ever found in eastern North America.

Hundreds of holes were exposed in a layer of Oolitic limestone bedrock, twenty-four of the largest holes comprised a perfect circle, 38 feet (12m) in diameter, and excavation found a variety of artifacts ranging from human teeth to ancient tools.

It is believed that the Tequesta Indians, a local tribe whose known tools matched some of the shark tooth-related artifacts found during excavation, inhabited this site. Theorists have suggested that the holes were structural postholes or part of the foundation for a building.

Some believe the building was used for ceremonial purposes, as animal bones and unused tools appear to be offerings.

Eleazar Delgado’s Behind the Lights: Miami collection is wholly inspired by Miami’s origins and gives a vibrant and colorful perspective on the visionaries that built our city, like Henry Flagler and Julia Tuttle, while also memorializing historical events, such as Billie Holiday’s performance at The Lyric in Overtown. His artwork’s historical and social slant have been featured on PlumTV’s Plum Daily, on CNN Español’s NotiMujer, The Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald, Diarios Las Américas, Social Miami, Miami Magazine, Ocean Drive and 944 among others.

Curator’s Voice Art Projects All About Me by Rosario Bond 9/10/11

Curator’s Voice Art Projects All About Me by Rosario Bond
Saturday September 10, 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Curator’s Voice Art Projects
2509 NW 2nd Ave
Miami, FL 33127

In her new work, Rosario Bond reveals a fresh, creative chapter of imaginary narratives devoted to the pleasurable world of delirious, feminine paraphernalia. This world depicts glamour, trends, and what is in vogue in the female universe. In Bond’s works, Twiggy, Barbie, Charlie’s Angels, Madonna, and Lady Gaga all act as axes for feminine stereotypes. They are utopian references to feminine beauty and perfection in a society of luscious bodies and pageantry. Provocative images of dripped, painted figures mingle with imperfect textures, paint, resin and plastic, and a profuse intricacy of feminine simulacra. Images of fashion models cut out from magazines, high-end costume jewelry, luxurious fabrics, fashionable robes, designer shoes, perfumes, and cosmetics conform to the tumultuous arrangement of articles in which the feminine myth materializes. It is “beauty and perfection” as the ultimate goal; or the beauty queen as the ‘feminine mystique’, present in the illusionistic theater of our contemporary values. Using irony, parody, and political stanza, Bond’s paintings, installations, and sculptures reflect on these crucial female predicaments and the insatiable quest for beauty and physical perfection.

Join Miguel Paredes For Wynwood’s 2nd Saturday Art Walk 9/10/11

Saturday, September 10 · 5:00pm – 10:00pm
Miguel Paredes Fine Art Gallery / Wynwood Arts District
173 NW 23rd Street
Miami, FL

Rsvp Now: rsvp@miguelparedes.com

Miguel Paredes Fine Art Gallery During Wynwood’s 2nd Saturdays’ Art Walk

We invite you to join us for the Art Walk at our 5,500 sq. ft. gallery!
Complimentary drinks provided by:
Heineken Light
Bombay Sapphire
Societe Perrier
Rex Goliath Wines
Hors’ du oeuvres from 5-8pm by
The River Seafood & Oyster Bar

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Photographs of the Fashion’s Night Out Extravaganza at Bal Harbour Shops on 9/8/11

Fashion’s Night Out Extravaganza at Bal Harbour Shops on Thursday, September 8, 2011.  What a great event!!!!  Great shopping, great complimentary food, great complimentary drinks and awesome people!

About Fashion’s Night Out: Fashion’s Night Out (FNO) is an unprecedented global initiative originally created in 2009 to celebrate fashion, restore consumer confidence, and boost the industry’s economy during the recession. On September 8, 2011, in response to overwhelming demand, Fashion’s Night Out will return to New York City and over 250 cities nationwide to highlight fashion and support retail with exciting events that include designer appearances, celebrity guests, fashion shows and musical performances. In the United States, the program is a collaboration between American Vogue, the Council of Fashion Designers of America, NYC & Company, and the City of New York.

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Humoratorium The Art of Whimsy Exhibition 10/1/11

Humoratorium: The Art of Whimsy Exhibition–Curated by Lisa Rockford at 1310 Gallery
October 1, 2011, 7-10 pm
1310 Gallery, Sailboat Bend Artist Lofts
1310 SW 2nd Ct. (Middle St.),
Ft. Lauderdale, 33312
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Admission: Free & Open to the Public

This group exhibition on 3 floors will make you smile and prove to be one of the Best of the season! Humoratorium is a spectacle of the best and most innovative contemporary art that incorporates wit, humor, irony, or playfulness in process, materials, or subject matter. Featuring the amusing creations of 34 artists, from inflatable Installation art to painting and animation, this exhibition will be a visual treat!
These artists embrace creation through playful materials or processes and use humor to enlighten cultural discussion. on view for only two weeks.

Artists were selected through a part juried, part invitational process, by curator Lisa Rockford. Several artists will receive cash prizes, selected by prominent art professionals.
Featured artists include Benjamin Morey, Andrew Nigon, Tawnie Silva, John Pack, Carmen Tiffany, Randy Burman, and Judy Polstra.

The opening features edible art by Wendy Doscher-Smith and free beverages by Magners Original Irish Cider, Bronco Wine Company, and Bawls Energy drink. The exhibition is supported in part by a grant from The Broward Cultural Division.
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 1, 2011, 7-10 pm

Come back for the closing reception on October 15, 5-9 pm, part of the Art Fallout downtown Ft Lauderdale art tour, where we will announce prizes and special performance by Nicole Martinez and Rodrigo Arcaya. They will perform with hacked children’s toys, modified by Nicole to behave as musical instruments. Rodrigo Arcaya will create visual accompaniment using live cameras and computer programming.

Art Fallout is a collaboration between Girls Club Art Collection, 1310 Gallery, 18 Rabbit Gallery, The Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale and other local venues. There will be a shuttle bus rotating between each of these locations. Multiple venues will host their own new art exhibitions and events on the same night. To make the evening all the more entertaining, there will be a scavenger hunt, with items to locate at each venue.

1310 Gallery is located at 1310 SW 2nd Ct. (Middle St.), Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33312 and offers over 3000 square feet of exhibition space split into 3 levels, and housed within ArtSpace’s Sailboat Bend Artist Lofts, in downtown Ft Lauderdale. 1310 Gallery is an artist run collective that rotates art exhibitions monthly. The gallery is open by appointment in addition to the Opening & Closing receptions.

Artwalk Remembering Heroes of America 9/10/11

Artwalk – Remembering Heroes of America
9.10.11, 7pm
Cafeina Wynwood Lounge
297 NW 23rd St
Miami
www.cafeinamiami.com

This month celebrate a very special Art Walk with the opening of Remembering the Heroes, The Art Exhibition for a National Cause.

Enjoy selections from artist Leonardo Hidalgo in the Gallery while you sip on specialty cocktails like our famous Cafe con Leche & Cutecumber, $6 Margaritas all night or reserve a table now for 1 bottle of Stoli & 1 bottle of Jose Cuervo for $250! The kitchen is open until 1am and full of delicious Tapas.

Photographs of The Black Key Group and Open Media Miami Present Unplugged Sessions at Le Cafe on 9/7/11

Photographs of The Black Key Group and Open Media Miami Present Unplugged Sessions at Le Cafe on Wednesday, September 7, 2011.  We got to hear some awesome local singers such as:  Jesse Jackson, Jill Hartmann, Vic Kingsley, Sarah Packiam, and Vincent Raffard.

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Opening SoFla Cultural Consortium Exhibition 2011 9/9/11

South Florida Cultural Consortium Exhibition 2011
Opening Reception: Fri., Sept. 9, 6 – 9 pm
Art and Culture Center of Hollywood
1650 Harrison St.
Hollywood, FL 33020
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Free admission for Opening Reception

Opening reception accompanied musically by DJ Le Spam

Sept. 10 – Oct. 16, 2011
The Art and Culture of Hollywood is honored to present for the first time in its 30+ year history, the exhibition of winners of the 23rd Annual South Florida Cultural Consortium Visual and Media Arts Fellowship Awards.

The recipients were selected during a two-tier panel process which included the participation of regional and national arts experts. Selection by the regional panel was anonymous and based solely on the quality of the artists’ work as evidenced by digital images, slides, or video/films submitted. The regional panel included: Francie Bishop Good, Visual Artist, 2010 SFCC Recipient, Broward; Wendy Blazier, Senior Curator, Boca Museum of Art, Palm Beach; Denise Delgado, Miami-Dade Public Library System, Miami-Dade; Irvin Lippman, Executive Director, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Broward; Rene Morales, Associate Curator, Miami Art Museum, Miami-Dade; and Glexis Novoa, Visual Artist, 2010 SFCC Recipient, Miami-Dade. The regional panel forwarded their recommendations to the national panel, which included: Dina Deitsch, Associate Curator, DeCordava Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; and Cheryl Hartup, Chief Curator, Museo de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico.

Gallery admission includes a catalog.
Artists
Miami-Dade County
Tony Chirinos
Aymee Cruzalegui
Cristina Lei Rodriguez
Martin Oppel
Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova
Asser Saint-Val
Broward County
Madeline Denaro
Victoria Gitman
Jillian Mayer
Christina Pettersson
Palm Beach County
Walter Hnatysh
Monroe County
Deborah Goldman

El Gato Gomez and Michelle Bickford Opening Night 9/10/11

El Gato Gomez & Michelle Bickford
Opening Night: September 10th, 2pm-11pm
Harold Golen Gallery
2294 North West 2nd Ave
Miami ,Florida 33127
Wynwood Art District
305-989-3359

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Show runs: September 10th – October 1st

I am very excited and proud to present two amazing emerging artists, MICHELLE BICKFORD and EL GATO GOMEZ ! The two just happen to be good friends who both work in a “Mid-Century” style but each having their own distinctive artistic voice.

The Art of Brew 9/30/11

The Art of Brew
September 30th, 7pm- 11pm
Projects Space in FAT Village Arts District
519 NW 1st Ave, Ft Lauderdale, Florida 33301
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Located in Ft. Lauderdale’s emerging art district FAT Village, The Art of Brew, to be held Sept. 30, 2011, will combine the culinary arts, music, visual arts and the art of brew in one of a kind evening experience that celebrates creativity in South Florida. B.R.E.W. F.I.U. an organization created and managed by a collective group of students enrolled in Florida International University’s Hospitality Management Program will co-sponsor the event. The Brewery, located at the F.I.U. Biscayne Bay Campus will present offerings of six different beers brewed specifically for this event. The brewing process and historical perspective of each beer will be presented and paired with culinary creations and an interactive art-based activity. Art experiences include: Silk Screen T-Shirt Printing, Music, Photography, Walk Through Installations, Live Painting, Photobooth and Sculpture. Proceeds will benefit Young at Art Children’s Museum in Davie.

Event Itinerary:
7pm – Art Exhibition Opens (hors d’oeuvres & cocktails)
8pm – Tasting Begins plus opening remarks and live music
9pm – Silent Art Auction & raffle fundraiser
10pm – Dessert Tasting

Music throughout presented by Mike Sipe Entertainment and DJ Andre Xavier performing with a percussionist.

Miguel Paredes at Nordstrom Village Of Merrick Park’ Celebration Of Fashion’s Night Out 9/8/11

Miami Artist Miguel Paredes To Participate In Nordstrom Village Of Merrick Park’ Celebration Of Fashion’s Night Out
Thursday, September 8, 6:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Nordstrom Village of Merrick Park
4310 Ponce de Leon Boulevard
Coral Gables, FL 33146

In celebration of Fashion’s Night Out (FNO), guests are invited to join Nordstrom for an evening of live entertainment, exclusive merchandise, prizes, and meet & greet with acclaimed South Florida artist Miguel Paredes as models pose with the latest’s fashion trends in front of his work.

– Sip specialty Fashion’s Night Out cocktails at an open mega-bar on level two, designed by Bar Lab.
– Enjoy informal modeling of the latest trends in front of a custom-painted backdrop designed by artist Miguel Paredes.
– Chance to win a shopping spree worth $500* — the first ten customers to enter will automatically win a portrait by Bakehouse Art Complex and Sketchy Miami artist Carrie Sieh, who will sketch customers with her sewing machine.

Miguel Paredes

www.nordstrom.com/fno

Fashion’s Night Out Event Celebrate the Launch of Elements Of Harmony 9/8/11

Fashion’s Night Out Event Celebrate the Launch of Elements Of Harmony 9/8/11
Thursday, September 8th, 7:00- 9:00 pm
SAWA Restaurant & Lounge
360 San Lorenzo Ave, #1500
Coral Gables, FL 33146

“Fashion’s Night Out” Event Village of Merrick Park
You are Cordially Invited To Celebrate the Launch of Elements Of Harmony
Experiencing the Reality of Your Imagination 3D Book Art & Poetry By Chady Elias and Marie Dezelic

Book Signing and 3D Art Exhibition Poetry Reading and Surprise Give-Away

If you are unable to join us this evening And would like your personalized signed copy From the 1st Book Signing Event Please Click here
www.chadyart.com

River Of Art Launch Party Celebrating Life Is Art and Discounts for a Cause 9/18/11

River Of Art Launch Party Celebrating Life Is Art and Discounts for a Cause
September 18, 6:00pm – 10:00pm
Bar 721
721 Lincoln Ln
Miami Beach, FL 33139
NO COVER (Donations Gratefully Accepted)
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Celebrating the Life Is Art and Discounts for a Cause Launch Party!
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River Of Art
Showcase and Networker

Join Life Is Art and many artists and art lovers for a fun evening of networking, art and music. We are featuring several outstanding south Florida artists, so come check out their work. This is a great opportunity to meet and socialize with other artists and art lovers; make new connections, set up potential collaborations; and find new fans.

Robert Kerhonen – Robert will be doing quick sketch portraits at the show!

Anne Marie Brown – Anne Marie will also be our DJ!

Jennifer Maria

Mitchell Owen Shulman (MIOWSHU)

Paul A. Vitello, B.F.A.

“Renda Hitz Hearts” – Carpet Art by Renda Writer and Billy Hitz

Bakehouse Art Complex Season Opener 9/9/11

Friday, September 9th, 7-10pm
Season Opener
Bakehouse Art Complex
561 NW 32nd Street
Miami, FL 33127

Join us for our monthly opening reception
Two new exhibitions, music, refreshments, and the open studios of over 65 local emerging and mid-career artists. Browse the studios and galleries and get a rare glimpse into the artists creative world. Come meet our new resident artists and see your favorite familiar faces!

New BAC Artists:
Marcelo Daldoce Studio 24
Andres Martinez Jr. Studio 25
Silvana DiMikos Studio 33
Ileana Tolibia Studio 10U
Natasha Nessic Studio 10U
Javier Dambrosio Studio 11/12U
Ines Loring Moxo Studio 3U
Felix Estrada Studio 6U
Free Parking and Free Admission

Structured: Art Inspired by Architecture: Exploring architecture’s impact on art, this exhibition focuses on BAC’s resident and associate artists’ portrayal of the relationships between art, architecture, place, space and site.
Participating artists: Alain Castoriano Amanda Serrano Andres Martinez Anica Shpilberg Bianca Pratorius Betty Fleisher Cesar Barroso Deborah Mitchell Gerry Stecca Ileana Tolbia Irena Gapkovska Janet Mueller Javier D’Ambrosio Jose Pacheco-Silva Judy King Marcia Ramos-Perello Natahsa Nessic Patricia Gutierrez & Tracey Hagen

American Dream: Jeff and Sabrina Williams
For the past two years, Jeff and Sabrina Williams have been working on a series of photographs titled “American Dream.” In this ongoing body of work they create highly detailed sculptures made from mostly recycled and found materials inspired by an “on the road” documentation of American culture. A series of high-resolution photographs of their original sculptures will be presented in this exhibition.

Photographs of Life Is Art and MaiArt Present River Of Art Showcase and Happy Hour on 8/31/11

Life Is Art and MaiArt Present River Of Art Showcase and Happy Hour at Miatardi on Wednesday, August 31, 2011.   With art by some very talented artists: Dianne Romero Buitrago, Carlos Scott, Mulet, Kazilla and Live Painting by Kazilla and great music by Soul P.  We had a little bit of rain on and off but had an awesome crowd.

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Photographs of the Ocean Drive and Svedka Shop & Sip Mixology Competition in Design District on 8/30/11

Ocean Drive Magazine and Svedka Vodka presented Shop & Sip Mixology Competition in Design District on Tuesday, August 30, 2011.  One of the following  talented mixologists will be sent to NYC to compete for the national title:  Piotr Wolny of Cafeina, Isaac Grillo of Haven, Alexis Vrba of Kane Steakhouse, Gabriel Orta of Living Room Bar at W South Beach, Angelo Vieira of Sunset Lounge at the Mondrian South Beach and Ashraf Soltan of Villa 221.

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The University Of Miami Wynwood Project Space Presents Works On Paper 9/10/11

The University Of Miami Wynwood Project Space Presents: Works On Paper
University of Miami Wynwood Project Space
2200-A NW 2nd Avenue
Miami

Featuring the artwork of both Faculty and Students

The University of Miami College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) Gallery presents its first Works on Paper exhibition at UM Wynwood Project Space, 2200-A NW 2nd Avenue, Miami. This exhibition will showcase prints and drawings on paper that are not photographic or completely digitally based.

Works on Paper will include following artists: Lise Drost, Brian Curtis, Thomas Engleman, Eddy Lopez, Barbara Scheer, Abraham Camayd, Tom Virgin, Lani Shapton, Kari Snyder and Kyle Trowbridge. This exhibition will run from September 10th –30th. In celebration of the opening there will be a reception on September 10th – 2pm to 9pm.

A full schedule of CAS Gallery exhibitions can be viewed at www.as.miami.edu/art. For information on Works on Paper and UM’s Wynwood Project Space call (305) 284-3161 or email m.cardoso1@miami.edu

Noche de Bomba y Plena at Jimmy’z Kitchen 9/10/11

Noche de Bomba y Plena at Jimmy’z Kitchen
Saturday, September 10, 2011, 7:30 p.m.
Jimmy’z Kitchen Wynwood
2700 N. Miami Avenue
Miami, FL 33127
(305) 573-1505

Jimmy’z Kitchen is hosting a Noche de Bomba y Plena – a free concert of Puerto Rican music – to coincide with the Wynwood Art Walk this Saturday, September 10th starting at 7:30 p.m

If you have not experienced the folkloric sounds of Puerto Rico and the festive atmosphere at Jimmy’z Kitchen – you have been missing an amazing experience! Join us as we welcome the group SON D’ PANDEROS – with their magical music of drums, panderetas, singing and dancing!

The ArtLink Wynwood Second Saturday Gallery Walk 9/10/11

Group Art Exhibition featuring: Josepo, Mary Carmen Fernandez and Diego Romero Wynwood Gallery Walk
Opening Reception: Sept 10 from 5pm to 9pm
The Artlink
130 Nw 36th Street Miami, Fl 33127
Wynwood Arts District

Three emerging artists are ready to show their latest works converging three different mediums in a fusion of qualities and perspectives that release the energy of amazing creations.

visit: www.theartlink.org to see more info about the artists or visit us on www.facebook.com/theartlink

*Sept 10 to Sept 24 -2011*
Artists and Collectors Private Reception: Sept 9 from 7pm to 9pm
RVSP 786-547-8681

From Sept 12 to Sept 24 private views by Appointment

Musical entertainment and refreshments will be served
Admission free to the public

Miami’s Artistic Misfit commemorates 9/11 9/10/11

Miami’s Artistic Misfit commemorates 9/11
September 10, 2011, 5pm-1am
EVL WORLD
2345 NW 2 Ave
Miami, FL 33127
www.evlworld.com

Internationally renowned creative misfit and artistic anomaly EVL World’s, Erni Vales has announced that he will be breaking away from his 13 show series “An Unusual Journey” to present a special collection of patriotic paintings and raise funds for charity as a tribute of 9/11 during the Art District/Wynwood Art Walk, on September 10, 2011.

Prior to the 9/11 atrocities, Vales had compiled approximately 10-15 versions of the American Flag. With perceptions of the national symbol changing after the 9/11 events Vales decided to refrain from these paintings promising to revisit the theme when the time was appropriate, 10 years later that time is now.

10 years later, Vales will debut his new American Flag series and give significant amount of the profits sold to “ Stephen Siller: Tunnels to Towers” a non-profit organization dedicated to honoring the legacy and work of New York City Firefighter, Stephen Siller, who passed away during 9/11. The organization has two main programs: In the line of Duty and In the name of love; assisting children through scholarships, supporting Stephen’s House for orphaned, abused and neglected children, building homes for surviving quadriplegics from combat, and finally the memorial Tunnel To Towers Run, which supports the Weill-Cornell Burn Center and Burn Centers across America.

de la Cruz Collection screening MOCA’s Optic Nerve Screening Opening 9/10/11

Second Saturday Gallery Walk
September 10 2011. 7pm – 10pm
de la Cruz Collection

MOCA’s Optic Nerve Screening + Salvador Dali Film + George Sanchez: The Family of Man

This year in recognition of MOCA’s 15th anniversary, the de la Cruz Collection will be screening MOCA’s Optic Nerve finalists. Optic Nerve has been instrumental in helping foster a community of artists that use the moving image as form. This year, for the first time, submissions were accepted from artists around the country, in addition to those from South Florida. The screening will take place in an environment designed by artist/curator Carlos Rigau.

Jurors who selected the Optic Nerve XIII finalists were:
Stephanie Dodes – Curator of BIG SCREEN PLAZA, New York City
Shannon Stratton – Co-Founder and Executive Director, threewalls Artist Residency, Chicago
Ibett Yanez – Director of the de la Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space, Miami
Justin Long – Miami artist and 2010 Optic Nerve winner
Bonnie Clearwater – MOCA Executive Director and Chief Curator
Ruba Katrib – MOCA Associate Curator
Jillian Hernandez – Outreach Coordinator

Been Around The Block Group Exhibition 9/9/11

Been Around The Block | Group Exhibition
Friday, September 9th, 2011, 6:00pm – 10:00pm
Christopher Miro Gallery @ The Bank
The Bank
139 NE 1st Street
Downtown Miami, FL 33132
www.thebankmiami.com
www.christophermirogallery.com

We are proud to announce September marks a one year milestone for the Christopher Miro Gallery. BEEN AROUND THE BLOCK is a group exhibition featuring works by Lorie Setton, Shie Moreno, and Jovan Villalba. Please join us September 9th, for this special occasion in a new location. Featured at The Bank in Downtown Miami, the Christopher Miro Gallery is continuing its’ curatorial travels through diverse exhibition spaces and quality presentations. The Bank is located at 137 NE 1st Street, and the opening reception is Friday September 9th, from 6:00 pm till 10pm.

Words & Wine 9/7/11

Words & Wine
09/07/2011, 9:00 PM
The Electric Pickle
2826 N Miami Ave

Ladies, Gentlemen, honey badgers and the like:
Words & Wine is back and being hosted at The Electric Pickle
3$ BEERS and 5$ SHOTS

If you have not had the pleasure of witnessing it for yourself, this is a lovely venue that offers local and international talent. It is very cozy, well lit atmosphere where everyone can be themselves.

Very exciting stuff happening this Summer. We just celebrated our one year anniversary and let me tell you we could have not been given a better birthday gift then the Award for Best Open Mic in 2011 published by the Miami New Times!

This is just the very beginning, join us for our Open Mic EVERY WEDNESDAY! Let’s get together and continue to share good vibes and creativity. Miami is redefining it’s Art scene and our movement has created a pavement for poets, musicians, dancers, thinkers, lovers, and people who just need to get away and express themselves freely.

Let’s once again get together, drink some wine, share some thoughts and be happy.
18+
5$ For anyone under 21 and free for those over 21
Great Drink Specials Full Bar

Please help to continue this event at this venue. Please do not bring your own drinks, they have a full bar inside. Let’s Have a great time responsibly and keep this venue clean and beautiful.
If any questions please call Lou Roman 305|298|8759.
www.electricpicklemiami.com

Book Launch and Closing Reception 9/22/11

Book Launch + Closing Reception
09/22/11, 6-9pm
Girls’ Club
117 NE 2 Street
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
www.girlsclubcollection.org

In conjunction with the solo exhibition Frances Trombly: Paintings, Girls’ Club is pleased to announce publication of Frances Trombly: Paintings, the exhibition catalog. The public is cordially invited to attend a book launch event and closing reception for the exhibition, which closes permanently September 30, 2011. The artist will be present, and copies of the book will be available to view and to pre-order. Also on view is one of a limited edition book (a total of ten in the edition) bound in Trombly’s hand-woven cloth.

Designed by Miami graphic designers Fulano, Inc., the catalog features full color photos of works in the exhibition and recent and related works of conceptual needlework by Trombly, an artist born and raised in Miami. Catalog texts include essays by MoCA North Miami Director and Chief Curator Bonnie Clearwater, critic and art historian Jenni Sorkin, conceptual fiber artist Elaine Reichek, and a work of fiction by Girls’ Club Writer-in-Residence Denise Delgado. The catalog is 108 pages, cloth bound, $40, and is available on the Girls’ Club web site shop page – www.girlsclubcollection.org/store.

The exhibition Frances Trombly: Paintings was made possible with funds from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and private donors.

marina font imprinted reception for the artist 9/10/11

marina font imprinted
reception for the artist, saturday, 9.10.11, 6pm
Dina Mitrani Gallery
2620 Nw 2nd Avenue
Miami Florida 33127
during wynwood gallery walk

september 10 – october 28, 2011

Dina Mitrani Gallery is proud to present Marina Font’s second solo exhibition in the gallery, Imprinted. In this new photographic series, Marina Font utilizes images and installations illustrating concepts of memory, tradition, and the experience of adopting a new homeland. The objects chosen for her work denote nostalgia and the poetry of conjoining the past and the present. Although the work is inspired by the artist’s personal experiences, the issues of identity and how the human mind stores its memories are universal.

Marina Font was born in Cordoba, Argentina in 1970 and moved to Miami fifteen years ago. She studied visual arts at the Escuela de Artes Visuales Martin Malharro in Argentina and focused on photography at Speos Ecole de la Photographie in Paris. She earned her MFA in photography from Barry University in Miami two years ago and lives in Miami Beach with her husband and three sons.

Dina Mitrani Gallery opened in November 2008 and specializes in international contemporary photography. The gallery represents emerging and mid-career artists, offers artists talks and lectures on photography as well as photo-based books. The gallery is committed to promoting its artists, as well as working with independent curators to produce unique group exhibitions.

For more information, please contact the gallery.
www.dinamitranigallery.com
www.marinafont.com

image above: Untitled, 2011, Archival pigment prints, Edition 5

Gene Hackman 9/10/11

Gene Hackman
Saturday, September 10, 7 – 10 p.m.
Bas Fisher Invitational
180 NE 39th Street, Suite 210 (go upstairs once you’re in the atrium of the building)
Miami, FL 33137

This “Second” Saturday, September 10, join University of Wynwood for the final performance of Gene Hackman, an installation and exhibition at Bas Fisher Invitational. Gene Hackman is a temporary writer’s residency created inside BFI by Timothy Stanley and P. Scott Cunningham. In a dramatization of the writing process, both men will give a public reading of work written that very day, and then critique the other person’s reading with the utmost cruelty. Gene Hackman is made possible through support from The Fountainhead Residency, Bas Fisher Invitational, and Knight Foundation. For a review of the show, GO HERE.

David Castillo Gallery presents Crushed Candy Reception 9/8/11

Crushed Candy Reception
Thursday, September 8, 6-10 pm
David Castillo Gallery
2234 NW 2nd Avenue
Miami, Florida 33127

September 8 – October 1, 2011

David Castillo Gallery is pleased to present Crushed Candy, a sixth anniversary exhibition with works by Jonathan Ehrenberg, Shara Hughes, Meredith James, and the TM Sisters (Tasha & Monica Lopez de Victoria). Anniversaries give pause for remembrance and revelry. Crushed Candy acknowledges the permeability of established aesthetic and art historical foundations and emblazons the significance of saturation, humor, and celebration. The result is an arcade of phenomenological experience where the human body follows an ironic second to architecture and environment. “The medium is the message,” infamously coined by Marshall McLuhan, foregrounds materiality and creates unexpected freedom to maneuver in the space remaining. The works in Crushed Candy test their mettle against the sweet ease of perception. They take as their premise a studio practice as steadfast as iron and finished forms as urgent and fantastical as the future state of candy.

Jonathan Ehrenberg streamlines his four-fold gusto for set design, still life, pantomime, and Noh Theater into videos and works on paper. A contemporary fabulist, Ehrenberg’s primary performers are animal, plant, mineral, and architecture. Human forms are latecomers to Ehrenberg’s party, arriving after the mechanical significance of his dramatic sets, transitional lighting, and raw craft of papier-mâché masks or chiffon cloud-cover. Ehrenberg’s primary occupation is creating texture for the experience of the moving image.

Shara Hughes’ mixed media on canvas works add a visual clause to the Theory of Relativity. Reveling in color, texture, and pattern, Hughes extends the dazzling invitation to believe in personal motion whether or not the source is a train on a parallel track. Viewer association may propel the interior spaces and anthropological evidence that inhabit Hughes’ canvases, or her milieu may propel viewer expectations with a jolt of the uncanny. Hughes’ works offer a visual vocabulary as tight as Etch A Sketch and Keith Haring. All Hughes’ world is an imaginative holodeck, and her subjects and viewers equal players.

Meredith James’ videos are dioramic excursions traversing interior and exterior architectures. Using tropes of cinematic transition, illusion, and simple special effects, James enacts transparent complications and solutions to her space-time relationship with elements both fabricated and real. James’ steady rove through unrelenting stage curtains, dollhouse proportions, nostalgic television sets, and the cues of bourgeois place-settings in Present Time identifies her increasingly less as a chic marauder and more as a pantomime of humorous delight springing from her environment like Chutes and Ladders. Present Time is a digital tourniquet to Truffaut’s infamous film Day for Night, wherein a fictional film’s plot, production, and the personal lives of its actors jostle for narrative dominance like waves crashing against the fourth wall.

The TM Sisters collaborate in video, performance, large-scale installation, and two-dimensional works to break the walls of time, tense, and consciousness. Their brand of exuberant, aquarium dance rites and colorful performance court viewers with the inherent movement of telepathy, hypnosis, light tricks, and the seriousness of play. The TM Sisters use media to probe human behavior as a disco ball entreats even the reluctant to the dance floor. Tasha and Monica Lopez de Victoria hijack technological nostalgia, youth couture, and the spiritual force that dares space and inhabitants both real and imagined, organic and artificial, to celebrate as one. Based in Miami, the TM Sisters channel their aesthetic to close the connotative distance between tropical and topical in all environments and experiences.

Jonathan Ehrenberg received his MFA from Yale and has exhibited widely and received a number of important residencies including the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace (2010-2011). A graduate of Rhode Island School of Design, Shara Hughes’ upcoming exhibitions include “Paint” at the Saatchi Gallery, London. Meredith James received her MFA from Yale University and a recent screening of her work was at the ICA Boston in 2010. Tasha and Monica Lopez de Victoria (TM Sisters) received degrees from New World School of the Arts and Florida International University respectively, and have exhibited widely in museum exhibitions nationally and internationally.

Bass Museum of Art hosts opening reception for Vanishing Points exhibit 9/9/11

Friday, September 9
7 to 8 p.m, Members-only private viewing
8 to 10 p.m., Cocktail reception open to the public
Bass Museum of Art
2100 Collins Ave
Miami Beach, FL 33139

On Friday, September 9, 2011, the Bass Museum of Art, one of Miami Beach’s key cultural landmarks, will host an Opening Reception for its newest exhibition Vanishing Points: Paint and Paintings From The Debra and Dennis Scholl Collection. A members-only private viewing is scheduled from 7 to 8 p.m. A cocktail reception open to the public will take place from 8 to 10 p.m.

While enjoying hors d’oeuvres courtesy of EDEN South Beach, Boru Vodka and Tierras Tequila cocktails, wine by Betts & Scholl and beats by DJ Le Commandant, attendees will explore the institution’s new exhibit, Vanishing Points: Paint and Paintings From The Debra and Dennis Scholl Collection, featuring pieces from the collection of Miami art collectors, Debra and Dennis Scholl. Organized by Miami-based artist and writer Gean Moreno, Vanishing Points presents 43 works by 27 contemporary international artists and explores how they interpret and how we perceive painting today. The exhibition highlights three viewpoints: Sweeping Horizontality and Aerial Views, The Painterly without Paintings and Impossible Task.

VIP guests expected to attend include art collectors Debra and Dennis Scholl; Bass Museum of Art Board Members George Lindemann, Alan Randolph, Sarah Harrelson, Christina Getty-Maercks and Cricket Taplin; and local artists currently exhibiting at the museum such as Adler Guerrier, Hernan Bas, Jose Bedia, Jacin Giordano and Timothy Buwalda.

Admission to the Opening Reception is complimentary for members and Bass Pass holders; $10 for non-members. For more information, please visit www.bassmuseum.org, call 786.800.6302 or visit the museum at 2100 Collins Ave., Miami Beach, FL 33139.

Vanishing Points: Paint and Paintings From The Debra and Dennis Scholl Collection runs in the Gertrude Silverstone Muss Gallery through Sunday, Oct. 16, 2011. Museum hours are Wednesday to Sunday from 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Cost of admission is $8 for adults, $6 for students with identification and free for members and children under six.

Dome Drift Wes Kline and Cristina Molina Opening Reception 9/16/11

Dome Drift
Opening Reception: Friday, September 16, 2011 8pm
6th Street Container
1155 (rear) Southwest 6th St.
Little Havana, FL 33130
www.6thstreetcontainer.com
6thstreetcontainer@gmail.com

Dome Drift: Wes Kline + Cristina Molina
Thru: October, 2011

6th Street Container is pleased to present Dome Drift, a collaborative site-specific work by Wes Kline and Cristina Molina.

Choral speech and shaped bodies materialize in an installation that depicts a group of individuals, including an architect, a dancer, a mathematician, and a singer, engaging in plans for construction of a dome within the 6th Street Container. In conjuring an ephemeral dome in the gallery space, Kline and Molina address architectural and social ideals, suggesting a form that seems to simultaneously collapse and coalesce. Its attachment to the production of community, and Fuller’s ‘Universal Architecture’ makes the dome an ideal container for the exploration for the questions of intimacy, isolation and potentiality.

Molina and Kline work primarily through video and photography installations that use gestural strategies to explore history, landscape, desire, and repetition.

Wes Kline is an artist, writer and assistant professor of photography at University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. He received his MFA from the University of Illinois, Chicago. His photo and video work explores philosophical problems related to idealism and ethics, and he shows his work nationally and internationally. Cristina Molina is an artist who lives and works in Miami, Florida. Molina received a BA in Psychology and a BFA in Digital Media from Florida International University. Her work has been exhibited in both local and international venues.

Florida Fun Facts Live 9/10/11

Florida Fun Facts: Live!
September 10 from noon-5pm
HistoryMiami
101 West Flagler Street
Miami

Think you know everything about Florida? Prove it. Participate in an exciting live game show hosted by special guest Superstar Productions. Later create kitschy souvenir plates about our fun-filled state.

HistoryMiami members: Free Non-members: Free with general admission ($8)

To RSVP call 305-375-1621 or email: citytours@historymiami.org.

Mix, mingle and unwind at Wine Down Wednesday 9/7/11

Wine Down Wednesday
Wednesday, September 7 from 5-8pm
HistoryMiami
101 West Flagler Street
Miami

Mix. Mingle. Sip. Unwind.
Join us at downtown Miami’s cultural hotspot! Don’t sit in rush hour traffic when you can be mingling with other professionals and enjoying a glass of wine! Enjoy free access to our exhibition galleries, relax with live local music, and experience cultural performances and monthly lectures!

Free General Admission and parking provided at the Miami-Dade County Cultural Plaza Garage, 50 NW 2 Avenue.

To RSVP call: 305-375-1614 or email: RSVP@historymiami.org.

The Village At Gulstream Park Wine Walk Wednesdays 9/7/11

The Village At Gulstream Park Hosts Wine Walk Wednesdays
Wednesday, September 7th, 6PM-9PM
The Village at Gulfstream Park
501 S Federal Highway
Hallandale Beach, FL 33009

Drink, Dine & Donate On The First Wednesday Of Each Month
The Village at Gulfstream Park, South Florida’s premier shopping, dining and entertainment destination, invites you to this month’s Wine Walk Wednesday on September 7, 2011 from 6PM-9PM. For just $10, Wine Walkers will receive a commemorative wine glass and the chance to sample five flavorful wines and an assortment of delectable hors d’oeuvres at various shops throughout The Village at Gulfstream Park. The evening also features live entertainment, raffles, exclusive offers and more.

Wine Walk Wednesday occurs on the first Wednesday of each month and helps support different charities throughout the community. September’s Wine Walk will benefit the Police Unity Tour whose mission is to build awareness for law enforcement officers who have died in the line of duty, as well as raise funds for the National Law Enforcement Officer’s Memorial and Museum.

Registration will begin at 6pm at Full Bodied Wine & Spa located directly across from Brio Tuscan Grille at The Village at Gulfstream Park. For more information, please visit www.thevillageatgulfstreampark.com. All participants must be at least 21 years of age and show a valid form of I.D.

About The Village at Gulfstream Park:
Anchored by Florida’s premier thoroughbred racetrack and casino, The Village at Gulfstream Park is South Florida’s ultimate shopping, dining and entertainment destination. Utilizing the outdoor, lifestyle streetscape concept, The Village at Gulfstream Park is home to designer boutiques, specialty stores, restaurants and cafes. For a complete directory of shops and restaurants, visit www.thevillageatgulfstreampark.com.

Summer Photo Show 2011 and One Night Stand Exhibition Series 9/10/11

Summer Photo Show 2011
Saturday, September 10th from 6:00pm
The Lunch Box Gallery
310 NW 24th. St.
Miami, FL 33127
(Wynwood Art District).

The Lunch Box Gallery is pleased to announce its new group exhibition “Summer Photo Show 2011”, featuring the photography work of twelve national artists. The showcased pieces are part of a call for entries oriented to artists working in all styles of photography including any mixed-media art that utilized photography as one of its forms of expression. All photographic methods, formats, types and schools were welcomed.

In this show, The Lunch Box Gallery is exhibiting works of insightful conceptual ideals materialized through exceptional craftsmanship, which are intended to represent fascinating takes and points of view in photography nowadays. The range of photography tendencies to be found in the show is vast: from experimental and documentary photography, to observational, underwater and narrative photography, they all convey on representing an individual concept and a very particular way of externalizing it.

Photographers participating in the show include:
Troy Colby (Kansas), Wes Kline (Florida), Charlotta Hauksdottir (California), Jordan Baumgarten (New Jersey), Bill Miller (New York), Claire Nelson (Florida), Anastasia Samoylova (Illinois), Marc Sirinsky (Virginia), Deb Schwedhelm (Florida), Missy Nuzzo (Pennsylvania), Alex Crowell (California) and Ernesto Barreto (Florida).

Along with the “Summer Photo Show 2011”, the gallery will be having its 3rd “One Night Stand Exhibition Series” project, where every month a promising Florida photography student is selected to exhibit in the gallery during the popular Gallery Walks, every second Saturday of the month. This time, the documentary series entitled “A Single Moment” from the Miami International University of Art and Design student Janel Kilnisan will be featured.

According to Janel, “Everyone has a moment in the day where they want to just get away from the chaos of the world, and escape in their own thoughts. Reflecting on life, figuring out where to go next, or how they ended up here in this moment. This series is a narrative portrait series that explores that of the everyday individual, the people that could be your friend, brother, sister, neighbor, or mother. I chose to photographs my subjects in their own environment, capturing them at the quietest, loneliest, even most personal moments; the moment where they are in there own thoughts.”

Janel chooses to shot this series with her medium format, twin lens camera. Using it allowed her to be at the same level with her subjects, utilizing her camera more as a window and allowing the viewer to become a spectator into her subject’s world.

The Beyond the Lucky Break Celebration 9/16/11

The Beyond the Lucky Break Celebration
Friday, September 16, 2011, 8 PM – 11 PM
Sailboat Bend Artist Lofts/Broward Historical Commission
301 Harmon (S.W. 13th) Ave
Fort Lauderdale, 33312
www.beyondtheluckybreak.org

Sugarcane Magazine Presents: The Beyond The Lucky Break Documentary Celebration and Fundraiser on Friday, September 16, from 8-11 PM at the Broward Historical Commission. Admission is $10, and includes music, poetry, food and film.

The Beyond the Lucky Break Celebration and Fundraiser raises awareness of the film, and it supports the second phase of the film’s production. If you come to the Friday night event, you’ll also get a chance to meet some of the professionals already on film, part of Street’s production team, and get a sneak peak at the great insights to be shared at the conference. The evening’s fundraiser will feature drinks, hors d’oeuvres, and music by DJ One Star, all of which is included in the $10 admission.

In this new era of changing economies and instability, who’s most equipped to be successful? Neri Street thinks that it’s the creative professional. So for a decade, she’s supported people in non-traditional careers, knowing that she was ahead of a coming trend. She’s been a long-time performer and successful arts advocate who uses film to reach a wide audience.

Now, she’s taking her message of creative entrepreneurship to the budding economy in the Caribbean, thanks to an invitation from online blogger, Melissa Hunter. The Edna Manley College of Visual Arts in Kingston, Jamaica is hosting a global arts conference in October. Street will be there, showing an extended trailer from her documentary, Beyond the Lucky Break, and discussing the potential breakthroughs for the artists and other entrepreneurs there.

It’s also a homecoming for Street, because her family emigrated from Jamaica.

RSVP on www.facebook.com/beyondluck

beats after sunset 9/2/11

Friday, September 2, 8:00pm – 10:00pm
Bass Museum of Art
2100 Collins Ave
Miami Beach, FL

The first Friday of every month on the terrace. Enjoy exhibitions on view: Vanishing Points: Paint and Paintings from the Debra and Dennis Scholl Collection, Sandra Gamarra: At the Same Time (al mismo tiempo), Apulian Vessel Gallery & Selections from the permanent collection. Beats by guest Dj Giorgio Ardito and complimentary cocktails (21+)!

Members: free
Non-members: $8 (cost of museum admission)
For more Info: www.bassmuseum.org or call 305.673.7530

Closing Reception for Cabrera Moreno at Cernuda Arte 9/2/11

Closing Reception
Ten Erotic Works By Servando Cabrera Moreno (born 1923 – died 1981)
First Friday, September 2, 2011 7:00 – 10:00 p.m.
Cernuda Arte
3155 Ponce de Leon Blvd.
Coral Gables, FL 33134
www.cernudaarte.com

Left: Servando Cabrera Moreno, Armistice, 1970, oil on canvas, 78 ½ x 47 inches
Right: Servando Cabrera Moreno, The Mirror, 1976, oil on canvas, 44 x 34 ½ inches

Servando Cabrera Moreno (1923-1981 Havana, Cuba) ranks among the most important names of Cuban painting of all times. Ten Erotic Works by Servando Cabrera Moreno is the selected title for this solo exhibition which pays tribute to this excellent artist and attests his painterly bravura. The installation features fine examples of Servando’s seminal oeuvre – his erotic and homoerotic works, rendered with outstanding force and courage during the late 1960s and 1970s. It also provides a stimulating context for exploring the relationship of this subject matter and the difficult realities of the artist’s personal life.

Concurrently, A Group Show Of Works By Modern And Contemporary Artists.
Mario Carreño, Afternoon in the Garden, 1983, oil on canvas, 33 ½ x 47 ½ inches

Featuring works by:
Wifredo Lam, Carreño, Víctor Manuel, Amelia Peláez, Carlos Enríquez, Mariano Rodríguez, Agustín Cárdenas, Claudio Bravo, Gina Pellón, Alfredo Sosabravo, Flora Fong, Tomás Sánchez, Ramón Vázquez, Vicente Hernández, Miguel Florido, Sandro de la Rosa, David Rodríguez, Joel Besmar, Irina Elén González, Dayron González and others.

Special LoweDown Happy Hour Shaken Not Stirred 9/1/11

The Lowe Art Museum kicks off the season with a very special LoweDown Happy Hour!
Shaken! Not Stirred.
Thursday, September 1, 2011, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
1301 Stanford Drive
Coral Gables, FL 33124
www.lowemuseum.org

Dress to impress with your most daring heels and your cutest black dress because it’s a girl’s night out at the first LoweDown of the season! Of course guys are invited too! Featuring: Door Prizes by MIA shoes, Sushi by RA Sushi, Full bar by Bacardi, Wine by Rex-Goliath, Martinis by PAMA, Vitamin Water Zero, and a tour of the current exhibition, Sacred Stories, Timeless Tales, by LAM Associate Director and exhibition curator Denise Gerson. Special thanks to MIA Shoes and RA Sushi.

$10 Admission; Free for Lowe Members

Mythic Traditions in World Art from the Lowe Art Museum
Through October 23, 2011

Sacred Stories, Timeless Tales addresses multi-cultural mythic traditions in art, drawn exclusively from the permanent collection of the University of Miami Lowe Art Museum, which distinguishes itself among South Florida art museums by the depth and breadth of its holdings, which span 5,000 years and represent the art of Europe, the Americas, pan-Asia, and Africa. Concepts of creation, love, morality, mortality, seasonal regeneration, the cosmos, beauty, divinity, heroes, and war are explored in over 100 examples of pottery and ceramics, paintings, works on paper, sculpture, and textiles.

Mythic traditions are rooted in fictitious, symbolic narratives developed by cultures through time, which address the relationship between the inexplicable and the explicable, between the powers and forces that control the world and the human beings who occupy that world. Frequently reflecting regional differences, these sacred stories helped, and in some present-day cultures continue to help elucidate a people’s religion, history, value systems, rituals, and concepts of self. As myths exist apart from, and are not dependent upon, verifiable facts or scientific objectivity for their impact on society, they typically involve deities, heroes, wondrous creatures, and fantastic events. Some renderings faithfully adhere to time-honored visual conventions. Others reflect more personal interpretations of traditional subject matter.

Among the featured objects are a 6th century BCE Greek, black-figure hydria, which describes a myth about the goddess Athena in the presence of Ajax and Achilles; Jacob Jordaen’s The Judgment of Pari, painted around 1620; storyteller figure by Native American artist Mary Trujillo; an African Kuba mask known as Moshambwooy that represents the myth of the ancestral figure Woot; a 19th century Japanese wood-block print that relates a ghost story; Richard Stankiewicz’s scrap metal sculpture, The River Styx, from 1953; St. George by Moises Finale; Theodoros Stamos’ Persephone from 1945; a contemporary metal cutout of a siren by Haitian artist Serge Jolimeau; and a 10th century sandstone sculpture of Ganesha Breaking His Tusk to Throw at the Moon.

Mythological narratives were originally transmitted and preserved orally, during eras when people could neither read nor write, and paper was not available. Written traditions did not develop until a later moment on mankind’s cultural time line, as scribes and poets sought to formally preserve stories in writing, lest they disappear. Artistic expression dramatically bridges both word-based systems, transforming into vivid pictorial or sculptural forms, concepts that spoken and textual forms of communication can only convey through mental images. Regardless of cultural derivation or individual inspiration, all the works on the exhibition represent an artistic urge to visually address those universal questions to which mythologies respond, and which unite humankind through time.

The Lowe Art Museum is located at the University of Miami at 1301 Stanford Drive, Coral Gables. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, 12 to 7 p.m. Thursdays and 12 to 5 p.m. Sundays. Regular Admission (not including special events) is $10; $5 for Seniors and Non-UM Students; Free for Lowe Art Museum Members, University of Miami students, faculty and staff, and children under 12. For more information on membership or the museum, call 305.284.3535 or visit www.lowemuseum.org.

For more information about local openings and events, please visit www.miamiartguide.com

Coral Gables Museum Inaugural Exhibits During Creating the Dream Weekend 10/20-22/11

Coral Gables Museum Inaugural Exhibits During Creating the Dream Weekend

Museum Hosts Weekend-Long Celebration, Oct. 20-22

The Coral Gables Museum will be honoring the City of Coral Gables’ historic relationship with Spain through a series of weekend events that pay tribute to George Merrick’s vision for the City Beautiful, on October 20, 21 and 22.

“The representatives from Spain were so excited to reconnect Spain to Coral Gables, where the best of Spain has been celebrated since George Merrick’s time,” said Arva Moore Parks, Acting Director of the Coral Gables Museum.

The public is invited to a grand dinner featuring the renowned chefs of the Paradores of Spain, which kicks off the festivities at The Biltmore Hotel. There will be no better place to indulge in the culinary experiences that Spain has to offer than the upcoming “Real Castles in Spain” dinner.

On Thursday, October 20th, the Museum will host the rare gastronomical event at Coral Gables’ own Giralda-inspired hotel, featuring the chefs of the Paradores, the one-of-a-kind luxury hotels located in various historic locations, including castles throughout Spain. Tickets to the “Real Castles in Spain” dinner are $250 per person. Table sponsorships are also available for $3000, including table signage and a quarter-page ad in the weekend program.

On Friday, October 21st, the Museum will honor all of the founders and sponsors who have helped bring the dream of the Coral Gables Museum to life with a special invitation-only cocktail reception. Attendees of the event will be treated to a sneak preview of the new exhibits before they open to the public as a show of gratitude for their dedication and support.

The Museum opens to the general public at 1 p.m. on Saturday, October 22.

The Coral Gables Museum celebrates the civic arts of architecture, city planning, landscape architecture, historic and environmental preservation and history—the elements that define Coral Gables. It is a true public/private partnership between the City of Coral Gables and the Coral Gables Museum Corp., a private, not for profit 501.c.3 Corporation. The Museum will open its first major exhibitions in October 2011. For more information on Coral Gables Museum, or for tickets, please visit www.coralgablesmuseum.org/ or call 305-603-8067.