Continuing the New World School of the Arts Make Art Work (MAW) series, Russell Thomas, distinguished tenor and NWSA 1998 music alumnus, will present An Evening with an Opera Tenor, working with singers from the New World School of the Arts Music division in a special Masterclass to focus on voice technique and performance. The MAW Q & A session following the ... +

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ICA  Internship  Descriptions The  Institute  of  Contemporary  Art,  Miami  (ICA  Miami)  is  dedicated  to  promoting  continuous experimentation  in  contemporary  art,  and  to  the  exchange  of  art  and  ideas  throughout  the  Miami region  and  internationally.  Launched  in  2014, The ICA  Miami  opened  its  new  permanent  home  in  Miami’s  Design  District  in  2017. The  ICA’s  internship  program  is  awarded  on  a  bi-annual  basis  and  ... +

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The 11th Annual All Kids Included Family Arts Festival provides a full day of activities and cultural experiences for children with and without disabilities. This event will include: productions by Magic Morgan and Miami Childrens Theater’s Beauty and the Beast; music and performers inside and outside ASL storytelling; face painting, rock wall and food; free surprises and book giveaway of Misty Copeland’s ... +

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The 7th year of LAB (Locust Arts Builders) features 23 South Florida high school students selected to create at Locust Projects under the direction of Miami-based artists Monica Lopez de Victoria (TM Sisters) and Francesco Lo Castro. This initiative allows young artists to learn the practical aspects of creating a public exhibition. The LAB program extends Locust Projects’ commitment to innovate in ... +

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This special summertime themed show will take you on a trip across the Tropics and beyond with our fabulous cast! Step into a world of exotic jungles and sparkling oceans as the spectacular dancers make the temperatures rise for a truly entertaining Burlesque Revue, Cabaret, and Variety show! This 90 minute production will feature both classic and neo burlesque, along with showgirls, ... +

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The Hollywood CRA in collaboration with Artspace Projects, Inc. will conduct a major online survey of artists, arts organizations, and creative businesses in South Florida to determine the size and nature of the market for an Artspace affordable live/work/create project planned for Downtown Hollywood. The eight-week survey period runs through March 28, 2016. Artists, musicians and other creative individuals are encouraged to ... +

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Put on your dancing shoes! Miami Dade College will present its fourth annual Artistry in Rhythm: Engaging the Community (AIR Dance Conference) in an effort to create an innovative training program for dance artists and a laboratory for choreographers. The scholarly dance conference will explore the significance of community engagement through the vernacular of dance, encourage community growth and development, and enhance ... +

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The Bakehouse Art Complex opened in 1987 in the former Art Deco American Bakeries Company building in today’s Wynwood Arts District, by a group of artists relocating from Coconut Grove. These artists founded the nonprofit Bakehouse Art Complex and repurposed the industrial building into working studios and galleries, ensuring a permanent venue for local artists to explore their creativity. This exhibition celebrates ... +

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Kids have the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to learn about jazz from prominent, internationally recognized jazz composers hailing from countries as diverse as West Africa, Israel, Cuba, Puerto Rico, India and the United States. The program also features fun, short video interludes that offer background on each of the project’s composers, and commentary on the various ways that both the American jazz tradition and ... +

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South Florida continues to mature as an area brimming with the fine arts. At any time, locals and visitors alike have a rich menu of choices available to them, reflecting the unique mix of different backgrounds and talents that calls this area home. The Miami International Film Festival, Miami Book Fair International and Art Basel Miami Beach are renowned and anticipated on ... +

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The Bal Harbour and Coral Gables Neiman Marcus locations invite you to shop the Last Call sale to benefit New World Symphony and the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts. Purchase a $25 ticket which allows you early entrance to either store and receive an extra 10% off on up to three sale items. 100% of ticket sales from the Bal ... +

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This year, 26 South Florida high school students selected from an open call, will have the opportunity to create a collaborative exhibition at Locust Projects’ gallery in Miami’s Design District. Under the direction of contemporary visual artists Monica Lopez de Victoria from the TM Sisters and Loriel Beltran, students are given the opportunity to create a collaborative exhibition managing all aspects of ... +

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Mad Cat is pleased to now call Miami Theater Center (MTC) home! Up next will be the world premiere “Blow Me” by Jessica Farr and directed by Paul Tei which will open August 16, 2013 for a three-week run in MTC’s 50-seat SandBox space, located in Miami Shores. After a successful 13 years with The Miami Light Project, Mad Cat Theatre Company ... +

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Developed by Miami Palmetto Senior High School student, Andres Flores, Project Initiative offers South Florida middle and high school students, and their parents, invaluable advice about the arduous college application process, through an easy to follow five-part video series. With the slogan “it all starts with you” Flores attempts to capture the attention of the 350,000 students enrolled in Miami-Dade County’s 37 ... +

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December 2012. The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has announced $23 million in new funding for the arts in South Florida. The support brings Knight Foundation’s total investment in South Florida’s diverse and dynamic cultural community to $86 million in six years. Knight’s initiative supports both established institutions and grassroots organizations as a way to engage South Floridians and weave ... +

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Looks, as always, are deceiving. A relatively simple warehouse space littered with Pulp Fiction film posters and postmodern street-level photographs acts as the hub for Lombardi Properties, the signature source of real estate in Wynwood. Amidst the countless family photos, community accolades and appreciation plaques, founder David Lombardi runs a sophisticated, high-volume business. Still, multi-million dollar deals and a formidable degree of ... +

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August, 2012. The Miami-Dade County Public Schools has appointed Evonne S. Alvarez to lead the high school program of New World School of the Arts. A seasoned academic administrator and educator, Alvarez will be responsible for planning, organizing, administering and directing academic and operational activities at the high school level, which are essential to the operation of NWSA. “As the new Principal ... +

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June 2012. Amazon just announced their list of the most well read cities in America. Miami is number six. And for those with a need to know, Alexandria, VA is number one. Amazon determined the rankings, based on per capita of cities with more than 100,000 residents, after compiling sales data of all book, magazine and newspaper sales in print and via ... +

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Collector’s can’t buy it, it is all for the public. The gigantic, eye-catching maze of artwork throughout Wynwood keeps expanding – on view are more than two dozen of works by graffiti artists from all over the world, big murals painted directly onto the warehouse buildings. The largest show of such pieces mounted in one location, the Walls add a sense of ... +

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  The most pedestrian friendly conglomeration of fairs were located at the stalled Midtown Miami development where, the Bridge, Red Dot, Art Miami, Photo Miami, Scope, Art Asia and the Green art fairs all pitched tents. There was plenty of parking nearby and unusually thin traffic compared to recent years. During the buildup to last December’s Art Basel Miami Beach, many local ... +

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Mitchell Kaplan took a look around in the early 1980s, disheartened by what looked back. His community was on the ropes. “If you remember Miami back then,” he said a while ago, “it was a pretty bleak time back in 1982. The Mariel boatlift had just happened a couple of years before. Even TIME magazine had a cover story entitled Miami: Paradise ... +

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The Wynwood Art District is no stranger to new tenants. There is an almost alarming regularity to the opening of new businesses – galleries, restaurants, cafes – that one might wonder whether or not the warehouse-laden landscape can sustain them all. And yet, it thrives. Not only that, it continues to evolve into a neighborhood that pushes the boundaries of art in ... +

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You walk along Aragon Avenue in the Gables, just west of Ponce de Leon. Duck into a nondescript space to find four walls surrounding, well, nothing. It’s an impressive space though: a two-story situation in a storefront. Nice part of town. Easy access from the street. No floors, but that can be fixed. Maybe it could be used for parking, it’s certainly big ... +

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It had been home since 1988 and had served them well enough, but in January 2011, the New World Symphony moved out of the Lincoln Theater and relocated to a new facility that boasts state-of-the-art luxuries and futuristic capabilities. The New World Center, as this multi-building venue is called, is located at 500 17th Street on Miami Beach, adjacent to Lincoln Road and the Lincoln Theater. As ... +

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When asked to consider the state of cinemas in Miami, the first thought that comes to mind may be a strong visual like the following: a crowded theater of noisy adolescents, feet firmly planted against the rear of your seat, reveling in the ear-shattering, violent explosions of the latest Hollywood blockbuster, probably directed by Michael Bay. Somewhere in the theater, a child ... +

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For the past twenty years, the Center for Visual Communication has been at the forefront of bringing experimental and contemporary visual art to South Florida. The CVC has showcased numerous exhibits that have combined bold and daring concepts – mixing live dance with live painting, for example. It emphasizes visual arts and new media, but remains open to those artists who put ... +

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While out walking a Second Saturday last March on NW 2nd Avenue in the middle of the street, I could see Marilyn Minter’s crazy-beautiful video on the back wall of David Castillo’s gallery. Bright red lips were licking, kissing, and slurping out green, gelatin-like stuff onto a glass behind which the video camera had captured all this lusciously bizarre movement and color. ... +

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Bass Museum of art offers a look at contemporary art Back then, John Bass, a talented musician and artist, born in 1891 in Vienna, wanted to study art but his father sent him to business school. After finishing business school, still not convinced it was money he wanted to make, Bass moved in 1914 to New York, where he spent enough time ... +

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Like many artists who ply their trade in studios, warehouses, and garages around the world, David Zalben says it’s not about the money. It’s about connecting with people. “Every day I’m here is an opportunity to meet somebody new. It’s not just about making a sale.” And if Zalben were a solitary artist, in a lonely studio, in some godforsaken part of ... +

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The three-story, 30,000 square foot structure that houses the Carlos and Rosa De La Cruz collection opened to an impressive turnout of visitors during Art Basel Miami Beach. Now that the crowds have dispersed and the dust has settled a bit on the brand-spankin’ new space, its presence in our local arts landscape is sure to bring more attention to the arts ... +

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Miami, as most of us now know, is home to some of the most prominent and important contemporary art collectors in the world. They in turn have spawned a new generation of local connoisseurs, all of who have transformed South Florida into a true hot-bed for the art of collecting. So MAG decided to ask several of our serious scene makers about ... +

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The showing of contemporary art in Miami is real evidence of this area’s artistic maturation and its need to define itself as more than just a vacation spot. While the Miami Art Museum is one of the youngest such organizations here, its collections have been expanding and show the dedication of both the museum and its patrons to developing visual art in ... +

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Almost the only rich thing about cultural enrichment these days is the struggle these organizations face. If big business, local, state and federal governments are facing a grim economic scene, then cultural non-profits across the country will be destroyed by reduced funding and declining participation in the arts. However, some will survive, only to find even tougher conditions to operate in. And ... +

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Engages with and awards the local arts community. And the winners are… It’s a concern for every neighborhood, but with the current economic meltdown the country is experiencing, it is especially pressing: What action can be taken that will keep the arts scene vital? The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation came up with an answer: the Knight Arts Challenge, which ... +

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In 8 short years, Wynwood went from total obscurity to internationally recognized arts hub – and now, it may be on the verge of a new journey once again. As Art Basel Miami Beach hits the sands for a 7th year, and as the global economic earthquake starts to give even the art world tremors, it seems a good time to take ... +

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Little I really know about the city’s public transportation system, about how it all works, or where it goes, or from where to where. However, Miami has it all: The Metrorail, the Metromover, bus-lines traces. It all make sense, or maybe it doesn’t – thinking on how many people I know that actually make use of public transportation in Miami. Except for ... +

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Art in Public Places is a program of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs dedicated to promoting creative art projects with the purpose of improving the visual quality of Miami-Dade County public spaces. For the last 35 years, the outcomes of the program have succeeded in transforming ordinary civic areas into artistic sites that not only have enriched the artistic dimension ... +

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What really is the place of alternative, non-commercial (which often translates to artist-run) spaces in a cultural community? The community’s history and sophistication play a part in such a determination – but in the end it’s the living, breathing participants themselves that make or break an alt scene. Just like the city itself, the cultural scene in Miami is fairly young, with ... +

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