Visual Arts
NY Times Celebrates Al Jaffee Centennial
The New York Times Celebrates MAD Magazine Cartoonist Al Jaffee’s 100th Birthday with an AL JAFFEE-Themed Crossword Puzzle
read moreJuana Valdes: Multi-Disciplined Artist
JUANA VALDES uses printmaking, photography, sculpture, ceramics, and site-specific installations, to explore issues of race, transnationalism, gender, labor, and class. Functioning as an archive, Valdes’s work analyzes and decodes experiences of migration as a person of Afro Caribbean heritage.
read moreArtivist Leonor Anthony
LEONOR ANTHONY is a multi-disciplinary artist and activist based in Miami. Born in Havana, Cuba, she immigrated to the United States with her family as a young child. She is an accredited scholar, artist, photographer and published author. Leonor is well-known for her courageous use of materials and by creating works that invoke controversial issues. Anthony co-authored “Sounds of Freedom” with photographer Roberto Polillo.
read moreNecee Regis: Artist, Writer
NECEE REGIS has always explored creative realms, starting with the visual arts before segueing into journalism and literature. As an artist with an MFA from Mass College of Art, Regis has actively exhibited her sculptural wall pieces and works on paper in museums and galleries in Boston, Provincetown, Miami, New York City and beyond, as well as teaching classes and workshops at art centers and colleges.
read moreArtists Jean Blackwell Font + Iggy Font
IGNACIO FONT and JEAN BLACKWELL FONT are an artist couple operating Warehouse 4726, a studio space in Miami, Florida. Together as Font Squared, these community-minded, practicing artists bring a lifetime of combined experiences as creators, curators, arts administrators, marketers, and educators.
read moreRosie Gordon-Wallace: Founder, Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator (DVCAI)
ROSIE GORDON-WALLACE is a recognized curator, arts advocate, community leader and pioneer in advancing contemporary diaspora art. She founded the Diaspora Vibe Culture Arts Incubator (DVCAI) to serve as a local and global laboratory dedicated to promoting, nurturing, and cultivating the vision and diverse talents of emerging artists from the Caribbean Diaspora, artists of color, and immigrant artists.
read moreVictor Deupi: Architect, Historian, Educator
VICTOR DEUPI (b,1961) is a Cuban-American teacher of architectural history and theory, design, and representation at the University of Miami School of Architecture in Coral Gables. He received a Bachelor of Science in architecture from the University of Virginia, a Master of Architecture from Yale University, and a Ph.D. in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania.
read moreCartoon Great Mischa Richter
MISCHA RICHTER delighted readers of “The New Yorker” for a half century. His magazine art — his preferred term, rather than cartoon — appeared in other magazines over the years as well, but he was best known as one of “The New Yorker’s” most prolific contributors. Starting in January 1942, the magazine published more than 1,500 of his creations. Their common traits were wit, craftsmanship and intellectual curiosity.
read morePhillip K. Smith III: Artist, Architect
After growing up in Southern California’s Coachella Valley, PHILLIP K. SMITH III received his Bachelor of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design. From his Palm Desert, CA studio, he creates light-based work that draws upon ideas of space, form, color, light + shadow, environment, and change.
read moreRobert Runcie: Superintendent, Broward County Public Schools (BCPS)
As superintendent of the nation’s sixth largest school district — with over 270,000 students in 337 schools and approximately 30,000 employees –- Broward County Public Schools Superintendent ROBERT W. RUNCIE is committed to “Educating Today’s Students to Succeed in Tomorrow’s World.”
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