Frost Art Museum FIU

Artful Playdates support learning through experience for young children. Families explore multiple hands-on ways to create art that enhances language skills, creativity, collaboration and communication. For this Artful Playdate, we will be celebrating Hispanic Heritage month. This event is free and open to the public. These sessions are intended for pre-K children. Artful Artful Playdates support learning through experience for young children. … +

Through five thematic sections, Connectivity: Selections from the Frost Art Museum Collection examines how art objects, created across cultures and during different time periods, relate to one another and to myriad publics.  Abstract Languages comprises the first section and offers an opportunity to analyze works that implement color, line, and form in dynamic ways. Whether it is a longing for home or the memory of a … +

Deconstruction: A reordering of life, politics, and art presents the work of twelve Miami-based artists who interrogate varying notions of deconstruction in their work. By taking apart ideas and processes, they create mechanisms through which life, politics, and art can be re-examined. While some of the artists in the exhibition deconstruct current events, personal memory or cultural archetypes, others dismantle norms to suggest alternative … +

A collaborative installation, The Writing on the Wall: Hank Willis Thomas and Dr. Baz Dreisinger  presents essays, poems, letters, stories, diagrams, and notes written by individuals in prison around the world, from the United States and Australia to Brazil, Norway and Uganda. During her years teaching in US and international prisons, Professor Dreisinger actively collected the hand-written and typed pieces. The Writing on the Wall calls attention to the … +

Seminar by Lyle Rexer, reknown historian of outsider art. Panelist: Sohrab Sam Mosaddad, MD & Nikita Boudoukhin FREE and open to the public. Frost Art Museum Florida International University FIU 10975 SW 17th Street, Miami, FL 33199 954.922.8692 www.naemi.org

Outsider artists, or artists who work apart from mainstream art communities and academic culture, are self-taught. Certain outsider artists suffer from some form of mental illness that contributes to the creation of unconventional and elaborate works of art. A documented history exists of mental health professionals who, since the 19th century, have identified and helped bring recognition to patients whose skilled artistic … +

The Old and New Testaments are replete with female characters-good and bad wives, courageous heroines, and deceptive femme fatales. While some women saved their people, were paragons of wifely virtue, or repented their sins to pursue lives of virtue, others were purveyors of sin, harlots or hussies, or deadly temptresses and seductresses. Even if it was through their misbehavior, all of these women … +

LASER Friday will rock with a retro throwback to the classic laser light spectacles everyone loves and knows. From Pink Floyd to Daft Punk, a fusion of music from some of the greatest artists of our time with old-school laser light visuals—all under the Planetarium’s 67-foot dome at Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science. Laser show admission includes laser glasses Tickets … +

“Make” Outsider Art Documentary introduces us to the art, lives and mental illness of artists Judith Scott, Ike Morgan, & Royal Robertson. Screening will be followed by a discussion facilitated by Eugenio Rothe, MD with panelists Silvia Quintana, LMHC, Elizabeth Hoy, MD & Maite Castillo. Friday – April 13, 2018, 6:30pm. Free and open to the public. Upcoming Events The Value and … +

In 1955, Manuel Carrillo (1906-1989) began photographing and documenting indigenous Mexico. His street photography of campesinos, indios, mestizo men, women and children chronicled Mexico’s essential character and recorded everyday life. Carrillo embraced the ideas of Mexicanidad, a cultural movement that emerged in the 1920s after Mexico’s Revolution, which comprised influential writers, photographers, and artists. Its overriding ambition was to substantiate a national … +

The Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science opened its doors to the public on Monday, May 8, 2017 at its new home in Downtown Miami’s Museum Park. Designed by Grimshaw Architects, the 250,000 square foot facility combines a planetarium, aquarium and science museum on one campus, furthering Miami-Dade County’s vision of Miami as a major cultural hub with one of the … +