Noche de Arte: Full Circle 11/3/25
Noche de Arte: Full Circle
Monday, 11/03/2025-11/24/2025, 06:00 pm-08:00 pm
Gallery 100 at InterContinental Miami Hotel
100 Chopin Plaza,
Miami, Florida, 33131
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Cost: Free
This November, Noche de Arte returns to where it all began—with the artists who started it all. Co-founders Jean Blackwell Font and Ignacio “Iggy” Font bring their creative partnership full circle in an intimate exhibition that reveals the origin story of collaboARTive through their individual works.
Full Circle celebrates the journey from two artists sharing a vision to a thriving community of 400 artists and a movement that has touched thousands. Through Jean’s exploration of inherited memory and Iggy’s meditation on transformation and renewal, the exhibition explores the themes that sparked collaboARTive in 2017: connection, accessibility, and the transformative power of creating.
For Jean and Iggy, what they do and say through collaboARTive is integral to the work they make. The organization embodies the same philosophy that drives their art: everyone has value, everyone has meaning.
The Work
Jean Blackwell Font: 15 Generations
Since 2010, Jean has developed her 15 Generations project to connect people of all historical backgrounds to each other and to their origins. Through personal interviews, oral history, photography, collagraphy, collage, and assemblage, this ongoing body of work stretches across oceans to Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
For this exhibition, Jean focuses on epigenetic trauma—the complex emotions and stories embedded within human DNA and passed through generations. Using assemblage, mixed media, printmaking, and collage, she creates an immersive visual experience that is both universal and deeply personal. Her work strengthens the understanding that we are a universal family, connected by bloodlines, language, shared traditions, and dedication to family—traits that bind every living being together.
Ignacio Font: Structures Series
Iggy’s Structures Series offers an accessible entry point into paintings born from human experience—the transformation of trauma into something beautiful that can hang in someone’s living room. Rather than focusing on the emotional weight, the series invites viewers to explore structure: the words that manifest each piece, the imperfect geometric lines that build the foundation, and the materials that carry the work’s deepest meaning.
Manifestations Structure emerged from the romantic notion of manifesting larger space for collaboARTive—space that belongs to the artists, where they can take care of each other and thrive.
Broken Structure gives new life to damaged canvases—sliced, torn, neglected, even partially eaten by rats. Old canvases abandoned by other artists, stiff canvas unused for years, gauze mesh forgotten in storage—materials that have outlived their original purpose become perfect for something new. The work is stopped at the point where it’s ready to be worked on—not complete, but good enough. The broken parts give us our strength and uniqueness.
The Structures Series embodies the same principle that built collaboARTive: making art from things that have been overlooked or neglected, giving value to what others discard, and recognizing that what’s been broken might be exactly what someone needs to thrive. Everyone has value. Everyone has meaning.
The Origin Story
In 2017, Jean and Iggy recognized a critical gap in Miami’s arts ecosystem: emerging and mid-career artists were being priced out of studio spaces and creative opportunities. They envisioned something different—a place where artists could work affordably, connect authentically, and build sustainable creative practices together.
This exhibition brings their journey full circle, celebrating not just where collaboARTive has been, but where it’s going— building Miami’s most welcoming creative community. What they do and say through collaboARTive is integral to the work they make: everyone has value, everyone has meaning.
Visit the Exhibition
When: Every Monday in November, 6–8 PM
Where: Gallery 100, InterContinental Miami, 100 Chopin Plaza, Miami FL 33131
Admission: Free and open to all
Join us for light bites from InterContinental Miami, complimentary postcard collage activities, and the chance to meet Jean and Iggy as they share the story behind the story—the moments, struggles, and triumphs that built collaboARTive into what it is today.
Dave & Buster's Miami
InterContinental Miami
InterContinental Miami
InterContinental Miami
Juan Pablo Duarte Park
The Christmas Palace
Taste Buds Kitchen
Taste Buds Kitchen Miami West
Taste Buds Kitchen Miami West
Jungle Island
Brickell City Centre
Faena Baazar
collaboARTive studios
Sandrell Rivers Theatre
Jungle Island
Tantra Studios
Baker–Hall
Tropical Park Stadium
Chimba
Tropical Park Stadium
InterContinental Miami
Wynwood
Taste Buds Kitchen Miami West
Taste Buds Kitchen Miami West
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Taste Buds Kitchen Miami West
Taste Buds Kitchen Miami West
Taste Buds Kitchen Miami West
Taste Buds Kitchen Miami West
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Sandrell Rivers Theater
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Sandrell Rivers Theater
InterContinental Miami
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Florida International University, Graham Center
Taste Buds Kitchen Miami West
Miami Dade College
Manuel Artime Theater
Candela Bar Brickell
PURRR Adoption + Sanctuary
The Falls Mall, Center Courtyard in front of Lululemon
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Gold Rush Miami
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Mids Market
Tantra Studios
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Westchester Library Health and Wellness Information Center
InterContinental Miami
Capelle Miami
Magic 13
The Elser Hotel
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Dadeland Mall
Bayfront Park
Bodega Taqueria y Tequila
Tantra Studios
2417 N Miami Ave
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InterContinental Miami
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Hotel AKA Brickell
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Uchi Miami
Temple Israel of Greater Miami
R House Wynwood
Kaseya Center
Westchester Health & Wellness Center
The Tides Building
Museum of Sex
DICK’s House of Sport Miami in Dadeland
Thank You Miami Cocina

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Venetian Marina & Yacht Club
Greenberg Traurig, P.A.
Quest Workspaces
South Dade YMCA
collaboARTive Studios
Walrus Rodeo
InterContinental Miami
Bodega Taqueria y Tequila
InterContinental Miami
InterContinental Miami
The Hangar at Regatta Harbour
Fort Lauderdale/ Miami
Museum of Sex
Wynwood Marketplace
Museum of Sex
DETA Pickleball Club
The Underline (By Brickell Station)
InterContinental Miami
Thank You Miami Cocina
Tantra Studios
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral
Miami Children's Museum
Red Rooster Overtown
Bay Front Park
Thank You Miami Cocina
River House Wine and Bar
RedBar Brickell
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TuCandela Bar
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loanDepot park – West Plaza
Candela Bar Brickell
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Rosario Miami
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Rosario Miami
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Rosario Miami
Perez Art Museum Miami
Village of Allapattah YMCA Family Center
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Rosario Miami
The Elser Hotel
LoanDepot Park
Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts
InterContinental Miami
Toro Toro
Perez Art Museum Miami
Tipsy Flamingo Cocktail Bar
Tipsy Flamingo Cocktail Bar
Rosario Miami
TuCandela Bar
InterContinental Miami
Ostrow Brasserie
Arlo Wynwood