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Designer BARBARA HULANICKI invented Biba in London during the swinging 1960s. Biba’s fans included The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Elton John, and Brigitte Bardot. In Miami Beach in the 1980s, Hulanicki reimagined several Art Deco hotels and “Woody’s” for the Stone’s Ronnie Woods.
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JOHANN ZIETSMAN assumed the role of President and CEO of the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County in 2018.
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JENNIFER PRINTZ uses both photography and drawing as mediums to observe her world. Printz is also an educator who has honed her skills in a variety of classroom situations from museums to large public research universities since 2002. She has taught a wide range of two-dimensional media at the undergraduate and graduate level, as well as, public art and professional practices.
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GARY MONROE is a photographer born in Miami Beach. Starting in the 1970s, he photographed the old-world Jewish community that characterized South Beach. Since 1984 he has photographed throughout Haiti, and “wandered aimlessly” to photograph in other countries like Brazil, Israel, Cuba, India, Trinidad, Poland, and Egypt.
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JANE LEAVY is the award-winning author of the New York Times bestsellers The Big Fella, Babe Ruth and the World He Created; The Last Boy, Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood; Sandy Koufax, A Lefty’s Legacy; and the comic novel Squeeze Play, which Entertainment Weekly called “the best novel ever written about baseball.” She was a staff writer at The Washington Post from 1979 to1988, first in the sports section, then writing for the style section.
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