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• Looking back at HistoryMiami South Florida Folklife Center’s Heritage Spotlight series

  By Robert Harkins, HistoryMiami

  The first year of the HistoryMiami South Florida Folklife Center’s Heritage Spotlight series was a resounding success! We hosted three artists-in-residence: Ezequiel Torres, an Afro-Cuban batá drummer and drum maker; James Kelly, an Irish fiddler; and Mieko Kubota, a practitioner of ikebana, the Japanese [...]

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• Tony Lewis’ exhibition leaves its mark at the Bindery Projects

  Installation view of “Tony Lewis: 48 Keep a tight rein on your temper”. Photo by the author

  As I walked into the Bindery Projects last Saturday night, I nearly stumbled over a woman hunched at the door, putting blue booties over her shoes. It was the opening of “48: [...]

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• Queen Sheba to perform at Groove Speak

  In August 2012, The B.L.A.C.K. Poets began a monthly event called Groove Speak at The 567 Center for Renewal, a Knight Arts grantee. “B.L.A.C.K.” is an acronym for “Believing Love and Cherishing Knowledge.” The group is comprised of artists who live throughout Georgia who have come together to “use [...]

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• Recent abstract art focus of Summit Artspace exhibition

  The current exhibit at Summit Artspace, a Knight arts grantee, might seem a little confusing from the handout enumerating and describing the installation. It reads as though the whole show featuring abstract painters/mixed media artists Michael Gable and Natalie Petrosky is called “More Songs about Buildings and Land.” [...]

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• WEIRD MIAMI presents: Tyson Reeder – Beach Painting Club

  By Naomi Fisher, Bas Fisher Invitational

  Living in Miami, the idea of painting at the beach perhaps is corrupted by legions of Sunday painters whose work populate doctor’s offices and cruise ships with crude representations of a tourist’s dream.  Contemporary Art in Miami often comments on the perpetually-under-construction shifts of [...]

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• The Project [theatre]: January 2013 update

  By Jackie Rivera, Project [theatre]
  

  The last six months have been a whirlwind for The Project [theatre], we know with only two months out from the announcement of our incredible and challenging gift from Knight Foundation the four months prior should be moot. However, it is important for us [...]

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