Flower Power: In Living Color Throughout history

Flower Power: In Living Color Throughout history, flowering plants and scented blooms have never failed to captivate the senses of millions of people. In fact, some were so enchanted by the essence of flowers that they devoted a large portion of their lives to capturing their images on canvas. These artists in particular were diligent about their portrayals of nature's most beautiful life forms. Georgia O’Keeffe, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, and Paul Cezanne all managed to successfully interpret the world of flowers around them in capturing the vibrancy in color, shape and composition.


• Open to grades K-12
• 2-Dimensional artwork ONLY, no larger than 18” x 24”
• Artwork should be submitted electronically as a JPEG image (no larger than 3.32 MB) via email to Division of Life Skills Email Portal: arteducation.mdcps@gmail.com.
• All artwork labels must be TYPED.
• All ACCEPTED artwork should be matted (white mats ONLY) and properly labeled upon adjudication.
• All electronic submission guidelines and submission forms for accepted artwork are attached.
• Electronic Entries Due:
Thursday, October 4, 2012
• Accepted Entries Due:
Thursday, October 11, 2012
• All ACCEPTED entries sent to:
9626/Art Education/316/“Flower Power”
• Scheduled Exhibition Dates:
Thursday, October 18, 2012 – Wednesday, February 13, 2013
• Exhibition Location:
mia-Gallery, Concourse E Gallery
• No opening reception or award ceremony will be held for this exhibition.

For additional information, please contact the Division of Life Skills, Art Education Program, at 305-995-1930.

After School Class Kick-off and Summerzine Release Party


Friday, August 31st 7pm-9pm

Join MOCA’s teen art and journalism students for refreshments and entertainment. Photographs from the MOCA Summer Photojournalism Class will be exhibited! Be the first to get a copy of the Summerzine and register for FREE after school classes!



Stay for Jazz at MOCA featuring Jowee Omicil!




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Upcycled Exhibit and Artist Talk

MIA Animation

        http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/miaanimation/mia-animation-conference-and-festival?ref=email

MIA ANIMATION, a conference that focuses on Computer Animation, Gaming, Visual Effects and Motion Graphics, Film, Web Design

Miami Art Museum invites you to the opening celebration for "Rashid Johnson: Message to Our Folks," September 6

Exhibition preview: September 6, 6-9pm


In New York–based artist Rashid Johnson's first major solo museum exhibition, he explores the complexities and contradictions of black identity in a practice that is rooted in his individual experience. Incorporating commonplace objects from his childhood in a process he describes as “hijacking the domestic,” the artist transforms everyday materials such as wood, mirrors, tiles, rugs, CB radios, shea butter and plants into conceptually loaded and visually compelling works.

Opening Celebration
Thursday, September 6, 2012, 6-9PM
Entertaimnet, cocktails
Events@miamiartmuseum.org or 305-375-1704
MAM members free, non members $10
Garage Parking $5 at 50 NE 2nd Avenue














Online Visitors Gallery

Download gallery notes, access exhibition resources, watch videos, and more! Online Visitors Gallery



Image: Rashid Johnson, Triple Consciousness, 2009. Black soap, wax, vinyl in album cover, shea butter, plant, and brass. 48 3/4 x 97 1/2 x 6 ¼ in. Collection of Dr. Daniel S. Berger, Chicago. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago.

Engaging Communities to Commemorate Florida’s Quincentenary

 













FLOR500 is a participatory art, nature, and history project that marks the importance of the moment when the history of Florida changed forever and gives a glimpse of what its landscape was like 500 years ago. Developed by Xavier Cortada, director and artist-in-residence of FIU’s College of Architecture + The Arts’ Office of Engaged Creativity, the project will commemorate Florida’s quincentenary in 2013.


Five hundred Floridians will be invited to depict 500 native wildflowers selected by a team of scientists – the same ones that grew in our state when Juan Ponce de Leon landed in 1513 and named it "La Florida”–from "flor," the Spanish word for flower. The artwork, along with information about each flower, will be posted on www.FLOR500.com.

Students from 500 schools across the state’s 67 counties (in 8 regions) will then plant 500 wildflower gardens dedicated to one of 500 important Floridians selected by a team of historians. These new native habitats will help support Florida’s biodiversity.

For more information, please contact:
Xavier Cortada
Director and Artist-in-Residence
College of Architecture + The Arts
Office of Engaged Creativity
Florida International University
Miami Beach Urban Studios
420 Lincoln Road, Suite 440
Miami Beach, FL 33139

webpage: http://www.carta.fiu.edu/engaged
phone: (305) 535-1462
email: xavier.cortada@fiu.edu

Call for Entries – Nature as Designer: Where Science & Nature Collide, Authentic Assessment District-wide Student Art Exhibition

Nature as Designer: Where Science & Nature Collide, Authentic Assessment Throughout time renowned artists have been recognized for their outstanding work in interpreting science and nature through art. Artists discovered the beauty and richness of nature through their thoughtful palette selections and compositions. The work of Albert Durer, Leonardo Da Vinci, Marianne North and Charles Darwin along with Guiseppe Arcimboldo and Edward Weston have reflected the social, historical and aesthetic context in which science and nature have been interpreted through design, color and expression.

• Open to grades K-12. 2D Artwork ONLY.
• Use the mia-Gallery exhibition label and attach to backside of artwork. Do not adhere any labels to artwork mats. Artwork should be no larger than 18” x 24” matted.
• All artwork labels must be TYPED.
• All artwork should be matted and properly labeled and sent to the Division of Life Skills.
• Entries Due:
Thursday, October 4, 2012
• Exhibition Dates:
Thursday October 11, 2012 - Thursday, November 8, 2012
• Exhibition Opening Reception:
Thursday, October 18, 2012
6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
• Exhibition Location:
Pinecrest Gardens
11000 Red Road
Pinecrest, FL 33156

For additional information, please contact the Division of Life Skills, Art Education Program Office, at 305-995-1930

Diva Arts Inc., Art and Academics Camp and Scholarship Opportunities

The Miami Dade Cultural Affairs Council, Children's Trust, and Diva Arts Inc. announces their Annual Arts and Academics for Excellence Camp and Scholarship opportunities.
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• Each year, in a collaborative effort, Miami Dade Cultural Affairs Council, The Children's Trust, and Diva Arts Inc. host an Arts and Academics for Excellence Afterschool Camp for students ages 3 and up.

• Partial and full scholarships are available on a first come, first serve basis.

• This year’s Camp will be held during the 2012-2013 school year.

• Students will participate in weekly dance and art camps and an end of year performance showcase.

• Registration is open.

• For additional information, please contact the Diva Arts Inc. office at 305-760-2788 or 786-426-0952.

• Visit the company's (Diva Arts) website at www.divaartsdancestudio.com or email at diva_arts50@yahoo.com.

• Please see the attached flyer for camp and scholarship details.