Visual Arts
Frida Baranek: Personification of Art
Miami-based sculptor Frida Baranek was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1961. In 2013, she was a recipient of a mid-career survey “Confrontos” at the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro. Her work has been included at Bienal de São Paulo (1989), Bienalle di Venezia – Aperto (1990), MOMA in New York (1993), Maison d’Amerique Latine (1995), Ludwig Museum in Koblenz (2005), The Frost Art Museum (2018), in addition to many others.
read moreMichael Spring: Director of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs
MICHAEL SPRING serves as director of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, where he is responsible for the supervision of a public arts agency with an annual budget of more than $53 million and a staff of 100.
read moreFranklin Sirmans: Director, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)
Director FRANKLIN SIRMANS came to the Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) from Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), where he served as department head and curator of contemporary art.
read moreDan Gelber: The Fine Art of Being Mayor of Miami Beach
Born in Miami Beach, DAN GELBER was raised to believe in public service and the importance of community.
read moreLudlow Bailey: Cultural Curator
LUDLOW E. BAILEY is a curator of “culture as art.” As an art broker, writer, and art advisor, he is extremely passionate about contemporary global African Diaspora art and culture.
read moreChana Budgazad Sheldon: Executive Director of Miami’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)
CHANA BUDGAZAD SHELDON became the executive director of the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami (“MOCA”) in January, 2018.
read moreMicky Wolfson: Preservationist
Collector, preservationist, educator and museum founder, MITCHELL “MICKY” WOLFSON, JR. is dedicated to the research, preservation and education of the material culture of the period 1850–1950 through The Wolfsonian–FIU in Miami Beach and the Wolfsoniana in Genoa, Italy.
read moreAbdiel Acosta: Invasion of Habitat
ABDIEL ACOSTA was born in Colon, Matanzas, Cuba in 1974. He was raised in Miami, Florida where he attended the New World School of the Arts. He received a BFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art, in Baltimore, Maryland.
read moreZachary Balber: Photographer
ZACHARY BALBER was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and moved to Miami at the age of thirteen, where he received his first camera. Later, while attending New World School of the Arts, he was hired to assist the fashion photographer Bruce Webber in his campaigns for Abercrombie & Fitch, Vera Wang, and Vanity Fair magazine.
read moreSusan Gladstone and the Jewish Museum of Florida — FIU
SUSAN GLADSTONE is the Executive Director of the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU. Gladstone has served in several prominent leadership positions in the U.S. and abroad, most recently as director of development for the museum and for all of FIU’s Jewish Strategic Initiatives – including the university’s Global Jewish Studies Program, Holocaust Studies and Hillel FIU.
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