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    • JMOF-FIU Jews of Africa and Asia 4-4

    • The Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU offered the first class ever on Jews of Africa and Asia. Two of the world’s leading authorities on Eastern Jewish communities explored the Jewish experience in Asia and Africa in a new course offered at JMOF-FIU. “The Jews of Asia and Africa” was taught by FIU research professors Nathan Katz and Tudor Parfitt.

    • JMOF-FIU Jews of Africa and Asia 3-4

    • The Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU offered the first class ever on Jews of Africa and Asia. Two of the world’s leading authorities on Eastern Jewish communities explored the Jewish experience in Asia and Africa in a new course offered at JMOF-FIU. “The Jews of Asia and Africa” was taught by FIU research professors Nathan Katz and Tudor Parfitt.

    • JMOF-FIU Jews of Africa and Asia 1-4

    • The Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU offered the first class ever on Jews of Africa and Asia. Two of the world’s leading authorities on Eastern Jewish communities explored the Jewish experience in Asia and Africa in a new course offered at JMOF-FIU. “The Jews of Asia and Africa” was taught by FIU research professors Nathan Katz and Tudor Parfitt.

    • Interview with Edward Crowell II: Visual Artist/Painter

    • Art Live: Ruben Millares

    • GableStage: Ruined

    • Ruined   by Lynn NottageSeptember 8 - October 7, 2012Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Lucille Lortel and Obie Awards. This probing work about the resilience of the human spirit during times of war is a searing variation on Brecht's Mother Courage, translated to a brothel in the conflict-torn Congo. By the author of Intimate Apparel, a GableStage hit in 2006."Strong and absorbing! A clear-eyed celebration of endurance! Raw and genuine! An impact that lingers!"- New York Times  

    • This is How You Lose Her: Junot Diaz

    • Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for 2008, Junot Diaz returns with his follow up, "This is How You Lose Her" a collection of short stories about love and family.  Diaz will return to Miami for the 2012 Miami Book Fair International, but we caught up with him this week while in town to discuss his work arranged by Books and Books

    • Trading Places II - Antonia Wright

    • Antonia Wright’s project will reflect her background in performance art within the mediums of video, photography and installation to explore the environment of MOCA.  A poet and photographer, Wright introduces social critique into a broad conceptual framework with imagination and conviction. She received an M.F.A. in poetry from the New School University in New York and studied at the International Center of Photography.  Wright was one of the finalists in MOCA’s Optic Nerve XIII film festival in 2011.  In this second installment of MOCA’s experimental program, Trading Places, South Florida artists will swap their studios for studio spaces in MOCA’s galleries. The program provides the artists with materials, technical assistants and opportunities to interact, respond to and investigate each others’ practices and engage in discussions with the public. Each of the selected artists has reached a critical moment in their career when they can benefit most from the opportunity to work with MOCA’s curatorial and technical staff. Trading Places II is on view through November 11, 2012. Trading Places II is made possible by MOCA’s Knight Exhibition Endowment.

    • Trading Places II - Onajide Shabaka

    • Onajide Shabaka’s work makes references to the anthropological, geological and biological through a visual aesthetic that is challenging and visceral, with a grounding in African Atlantic culture.  Since 1997, his work has largely moved into the Florida wetlands, upper Minnesota and Oregon woodlands. He will use Trading Places to bring his art practice back into the formal gallery through photography, drawing and sculpture of natural and industrial materials.   Bonnie Clearwater first worked with Shabaka when she selected him for the exhibition New Art: South Florida at the Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale in 1993, and notes that his recent body of work based on botanical studies conducted in South Florida marks a new path for him to develop.  “With his extensive experience teaching at the college and university level, Shabaka will play an important mentoring role for the teen and young adult students in MOCA’s afterschool programs,” she said.  In this second installment of MOCA’s experimental program, Trading Places, South Florida artists will swap their studios for studio spaces in MOCA’s galleries. The program provides the artists with materials, technical assistants and opportunities to interact, respond to and investigate each others’ practices and engage in discussions with the public. Each of the selected artists has reached a critical moment in their career when they can benefit most from the opportunity to work with MOCA’s curatorial and technical staff. Trading Places II is on view through November 11, 2012. Trading Places II is made possible by MOCA’s Knight Exhibition Endowment.

    • Trading Places II - Magnus Sigurdarson

    • Magnus Sigurdarson was born in Reykjavik, Iceland in 1966.  He will further explore the concept of identity and his search for “Miami Melancholy,” which has been ongoing since his move to Miami in 2004.   “As a true blood Northerner with deep roots in Melancholy and the poetic enclose or angst as an artistic motivator, I have been searching for the ‘Tropical Melancholy’ and the ‘Subliminal in the flatness of Florida.’  This has of course opened my heart to all the other emotions,” Sigurdarson notes.  In Iceland, Sigurdarson mentored many younger artists, including Ragnar Kjartansson who had a recent exhibition at MOCA.   Clearwater notes, “One of the essential aspects of any art community is the interaction between its artists. Trading Places helps to forge a stronger relationship between multi-generational artists and the students they mentor and to engage the public in the creative process.”   In this second installment of MOCA’s experimental program, Trading Places, South Florida artists will swap their studios for studio spaces in MOCA’s galleries. The program provides the artists with materials, technical assistants and opportunities to interact, respond to and investigate each others’ practices and engage in discussions with the public. Each of the selected artists has reached a critical moment in their career when they can benefit most from the opportunity to work with MOCA’s curatorial and technical staff. Trading Places II is on view through November 11, 2012. Trading Places II is made possible by MOCA’s Knight Exhibition Endowment.

    • Trading Places II - Rick Ulysse

    •  Rick Ulysse, was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 1983 and grew up in Philadelphia where he attended Tyler School of Art.  Newly relocated to Miami, he is especially interested in continuing his research for his latest series of drawings based on Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution.  Imagination, cartoon realism, ethnography and historical fiction all combine in a non-linear fashion and avoids direct story telling in the traditional sense.  Ulysse notes that he uses “an open form to negotiate/infuse the everyday and current events into a broad conversation about history. Using this process allows me to garner a variety of sources from Japanese anime and Walt Disney, to Christian iconography and African symbolism.” One of the aims of his work is “to communicate to my younger cousins about Haitian history and identity. Theirs is a generation that views cartoons as reality.” He will have the opportunity to work directly with the teens and young adults in MOCA education programs, approximately 70 percent of whom are Haitian, and he will have access to South Florida’s centers for Haitian historical research, including the Haitian Historical Museum and Archives in North Miami. In this second installment of MOCA’s experimental program, Trading Places, South Florida artists will swap their studios for studio spaces in MOCA’s galleries. The program provides the artists with materials, technical assistants and opportunities to interact, respond to and investigate each others’ practices and engage in discussions with the public. Each of the selected artists has reached a critical moment in their career when they can benefit most from the opportunity to work with MOCA’s curatorial and technical staff. Trading Places II is on view through November 11, 2012. Trading Places II is made possible by MOCA’s Knight Exhibition Endowment.

    • Trading Places II - Dona Altemus

    • Dona Altemus, the youngest artist in Trading Places 2, is a 2012 graduate of New World School of the Arts, where she earned her BFA with a concentration in painting.  For Trading Places 2, Altemus will investigate installation as a tool and explore spatial relationships that are activated when separate works interact.  Altemus first came to Clearwater’s attention when she presented her work at MOCA’s unique Artist Critique program held twice a year, in which approximately 15 students from South Florida art schools present their work to MOCA’s curators for critique at each session. Clearwater notes, “I was impressed by the initial presentation and the maturity of Altemus’s vision. Trading Places will provide her with the opportunity to determine her post-graduate path.”  In this second installment of MOCA’s experimental program, Trading Places, South Florida artists will swap their studios for studio spaces in MOCA’s galleries. The program provides the artists with materials, technical assistants and opportunities to interact, respond to and investigate each others’ practices and engage in discussions with the public. Each of the selected artists has reached a critical moment in their career when they can benefit most from the opportunity to work with MOCA’s curatorial and technical staff. Trading Places II is on view through November 11, 2012. Trading Places II is made possible by MOCA’s Knight Exhibition Endowment.

    • Art Live Fair 2012 Announcement

    • Art Live Fair, benefitting the Lotus House Women Shelter, officially kicks off the art season in Miami.   “Lotus House Women Shelter has been a blessing for the City of Miami”   Miami, September 12, 2012. – With these words the Mayor of the City of Miami Tomas Regalado together with Constance Collins, President of the Lotus House Women Shelter, officially announced this year’s Art Live Fair benefiting the Lotus House. The second annual Art Live Fair (formerly known as Wynwood Art Fair) will be held at the Coconut Grove Convention Center from October 26 to 28. More information about the fair is at www.artlivefair.org.   Mayor Tomas Regalado thanked the Lotus House for providing shelter for women and children in need. “The world is a better place because we have the Lotus House Women’s Shelter. If there is still anybody who doesn’t know about the Lotus House, they should. The City of Miami is very proud to be part of the hosting committee of this fair, which will change more lives in the future.”   Like the Wynwood Art Fair launched on the streets last year, the Art Live Fair will be an art happening, where the artists and audience work together to create works of art live and spontaneously. The Fair will be part spectacle, part experiment, and include every form of artistic medium working both indoors and outdoors of the new venue at the Coconut Grove Convention Center. The fair will showcase Miami artists this year as well as artists from all over the country.   Constance Collins explained their goal to launch Miami’s fall 2012 art scene officially with the Art Fair Live. “So often we are asked about Miami’s art scene outside the context of the big commercial art fairs in December. With the Art Live Fair, we want to showcase Miami artists and the community coming together, launching the season with art that is both fun and thought-provoking, raising awareness for those who are served at the shelter at the same time we make art. The theme of the fair this year is ~ “we are all one” and the artists will work closely with the audience to explore our shared humanity and generate more resources that provide creative solutions to homelessness.”   Constance Collins extended thanks and gratitude to Martin Margulies and the Margulies Collection at the Warehouse for being the grand sponsor of the fair as well as to the lead sponsors: City of Miami, Event Star, Sotheby’s, Bank of America, Eulen America, WPBT Channel 2, Miami.com and the Miami Herald, Utrecht, Home Depot, Miami Dade College and Miami Magazine. Making the extraordinary artistic event possible.   The illustrious list of participants in the Fair include the Miami Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art/North Miami, Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Bass Museum, and Wolfsonian Museum, along with the art departments of Florida International University, University of Miami and Miami Dade College. They are joined by the blockbuster private collection of Martin Z. Margulies, along with Miami artist residencies represented with exhibitions of Legal Arts and Art Center South Florida.   New to the fair are both Centro Cultural Espanol and the German Consulate General representing their cultures’ artists stationed in Miami.   The fair’s guest curators include Antonia Wright performance curator, Giselle Devera photography curator, P. Scott Cunningham literary curator, Primary Flight street art curator, Robert Chambers sculpture curator, along with video curator Grela Orihuela.   Ms. Wright explains the collaborative curatorial effort: “Our goal is to dissolve the boundaries between art and life - to open our hearts, learn, love and play with art. We wanted to give Miami’s contemporary art community a venue to reach out to the community, to engage the fair-goers with an art experience like no other. We like to say, “don’t just see art - be it at the Art Live Fair"   

    • Our Miami Basic Services

    • Basic ServicesThe quality of community infrastructure, including highways, housing and healthcare ABOUT Our Miami Project:Our Miami is a project of The Miami Foundation developed in association with an important three-year study called Soul of the Community. Funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Soul of the Community surveyed residents of metropolitan Miami (and 25 other cities nationwide) to explore and understand what residents like most about where they live and which factors play the biggest roles in connecting people to their place.To evaluate these qualities in greater depth, The Miami Foundation partnered with the Metropolitan Center at Florida International University. FIU gathered data in each category to better understand the degree of alignment and/or variance between Miamians perceptions and reality.The Miami Foundation asked, “What can we do to make our place, our city more attractive to an increasingly mobile and global society?”Armed with powerful new data, The Miami Foundation and its partners will use Our Miami to explore how Miamians can make improvements that will nurture a stronger sense of community and advance the quality of life for all area residents.Our Miami coupled with the Beacon Council’s One Community | One Goal report augment years of national research that clearly shows attracting young, talented and creative people to your place will grow the economy faster than other more traditional measures of economic development and at the same time it fosters a deeper sense of community.

    • Our Miami Social Capital

    • Social CapitalThe strength of connections that citizens have to each other and to Miami, including membership in formal and informal groups and organizations ABOUT Our Miami Project:Our Miami is a project of The Miami Foundation developed in association with an important three-year study called Soul of the Community. Funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Soul of the Community surveyed residents of metropolitan Miami (and 25 other cities nationwide) to explore and understand what residents like most about where they live and which factors play the biggest roles in connecting people to their place.To evaluate these qualities in greater depth, The Miami Foundation partnered with the Metropolitan Center at Florida International University. FIU gathered data in each category to better understand the degree of alignment and/or variance between Miamians perceptions and reality.The Miami Foundation asked, “What can we do to make our place, our city more attractive to an increasingly mobile and global society?”Armed with powerful new data, The Miami Foundation and its partners will use Our Miami to explore how Miamians can make improvements that will nurture a stronger sense of community and advance the quality of life for all area residents.Our Miami coupled with the Beacon Council’s One Community | One Goal report augment years of national research that clearly shows attracting young, talented and creative people to your place will grow the economy faster than other more traditional measures of economic development and at the same time it fosters a deeper sense of community.

    • Our Miami Openness

    • OpennessHow welcoming Miami is toward families with young children, minorities and talented college graduates ABOUT Our Miami Project:Our Miami is a project of The Miami Foundation developed in association with an important three-year study called Soul of the Community. Funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Soul of the Community surveyed residents of metropolitan Miami (and 25 other cities nationwide) to explore and understand what residents like most about where they live and which factors play the biggest roles in connecting people to their place.To evaluate these qualities in greater depth, The Miami Foundation partnered with the Metropolitan Center at Florida International University. FIU gathered data in each category to better understand the degree of alignment and/or variance between Miamians perceptions and reality.The Miami Foundation asked, “What can we do to make our place, our city more attractive to an increasingly mobile and global society?”Armed with powerful new data, The Miami Foundation and its partners will use Our Miami to explore how Miamians can make improvements that will nurture a stronger sense of community and advance the quality of life for all area residents.Our Miami coupled with the Beacon Council’s One Community | One Goal report augment years of national research that clearly shows attracting young, talented and creative people to your place will grow the economy faster than other more traditional measures of economic development and at the same time it fosters a deeper sense of community.

    • Our Miami Social Life

    • Social LifeThe availability of and accessibility to performing and visual arts performances and shows, sports teams, and other community events ABOUT Our Miami Project:Our Miami is a project of The Miami Foundation developed in association with an important three-year study called Soul of the Community. Funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Soul of the Community surveyed residents of metropolitan Miami (and 25 other cities nationwide) to explore and understand what residents like most about where they live and which factors play the biggest roles in connecting people to their place.To evaluate these qualities in greater depth, The Miami Foundation partnered with the Metropolitan Center at Florida International University. FIU gathered data in each category to better understand the degree of alignment and/or variance between Miamians perceptions and reality.The Miami Foundation asked, “What can we do to make our place, our city more attractive to an increasingly mobile and global society?”Armed with powerful new data, The Miami Foundation and its partners will use Our Miami to explore how Miamians can make improvements that will nurture a stronger sense of community and advance the quality of life for all area residents.Our Miami coupled with the Beacon Council’s One Community | One Goal report augment years of national research that clearly shows attracting young, talented and creative people to your place will grow the economy faster than other more traditional measures of economic development and at the same time it fosters a deeper sense of community.

    • Our Miami Leadership

    • LeadershipThe ability, effectiveness and trust in leaders to represent and translate community interests into desired policies with public benefitsABOUT Our Miami Project:Our Miami is a project of The Miami Foundation developed in association with an important three-year study called Soul of the Community. Funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Soul of the Community surveyed residents of metropolitan Miami (and 25 other cities nationwide) to explore and understand what residents like most about where they live and which factors play the biggest roles in connecting people to their place.To evaluate these qualities in greater depth, The Miami Foundation partnered with the Metropolitan Center at Florida International University. FIU gathered data in each category to better understand the degree of alignment and/or variance between Miamians perceptions and reality.The Miami Foundation asked, “What can we do to make our place, our city more attractive to an increasingly mobile and global society?”Armed with powerful new data, The Miami Foundation and its partners will use Our Miami to explore how Miamians can make improvements that will nurture a stronger sense of community and advance the quality of life for all area residents.Our Miami coupled with the Beacon Council’s One Community | One Goal report augment years of national research that clearly shows attracting young, talented and creative people to your place will grow the economy faster than other more traditional measures of economic development and at the same time it fosters a deeper sense of community.

    • Our Miami Safety

    • SafetyThe factors that contribute to the safety of our community including community policing, county and municipal police and fire rescues, and neighborhood watch organizations ABOUT Our Miami Project:Our Miami is a project of The Miami Foundation developed in association with an important three-year study called Soul of the Community. Funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Soul of the Community surveyed residents of metropolitan Miami (and 25 other cities nationwide) to explore and understand what residents like most about where they live and which factors play the biggest roles in connecting people to their place.To evaluate these qualities in greater depth, The Miami Foundation partnered with the Metropolitan Center at Florida International University. FIU gathered data in each category to better understand the degree of alignment and/or variance between Miamians perceptions and reality.The Miami Foundation asked, “What can we do to make our place, our city more attractive to an increasingly mobile and global society?”Armed with powerful new data, The Miami Foundation and its partners will use Our Miami to explore how Miamians can make improvements that will nurture a stronger sense of community and advance the quality of life for all area residents.Our Miami coupled with the Beacon Council’s One Community | One Goal report augment years of national research that clearly shows attracting young, talented and creative people to your place will grow the economy faster than other more traditional measures of economic development and at the same time it fosters a deeper sense of community.

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