Recognizing Dudley Alexis - Catalyst Award Winner 2026

Dudley Alexis, Catalyst Award Winner 2026 About the artist Dudley Alexis, an independent filmmaker and visual artist. Dudley Alexis is both a cultural anthropologist and historian who sees his world through unique multicultural eyes. His mission as a Creative is to mine the wealth of hidden details that provide meaning to the lives of those often written off by the mainstream, finding in their stories, real treasure. His gift is in gaining the trust of others who then poignantly share their personal stories, often filled with tragedy and triumph. Alexis vividly portrays their drive to thrive and to live with dignity and equality in a world that would too often attempt to keep them marginalized. About DVCAI Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator, Inc. is a virtual artist space dedicated to promoting, nurturing, and cultivating the vision and diverse creativity of emerging artists from the Caribbean and Latin American Diaspora through experimentation, exhibitions, artists-in-residence programs, international cultural exchanges, and dialogue in contemporary art. www.dvcai.org. DVCAI partners with organizations to enhance residency experiences in the Caribbean region, nationally, and internationally. For more information, please visit www.dvcai.org and follow our activities at https://www.instagram.com/dvcai

Experience the 2026 Boynton Beach Night Market July 24 & 25 from 5-11pm

 

The Boynton Beach Community Redevelopment Agency (BBCRA) invites residents and visitors to experience one of the City’s largest and most anticipated events of the year, the Boynton Beach Night Market, returning Friday, July 24, and Saturday, July 25, 2026, from 5:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. each evening at Centennial Park & Amphitheater, 120 E. Ocean Avenue in Downtown Boynton Beach.

This year’s Night Market will transport guests back to the vibrant decade of neon colors, big hair, and iconic music with an exciting 80s-themed celebration featuring live entertainment, nearly 100 exhibiting vendors, delicious food, interactive activities, and fun for all ages.

The Boynton Beach Night Market has become a signature summer tradition that transforms Downtown Boynton Beach into a lively outdoor marketplace celebrating the community and the local businesses that make Boynton Beach unique. The Night Market is all about showcasing and supporting local businesses located throughout the Boynton Beach CRA District and the City of Boynton Beach. Created by the BBCRA, the business promotional event provides local businesses, entrepreneurs, artisans, and makers with an opportunity to connect directly with thousands of residents and visitors while introducing attendees to the diverse shopping, dining, and entertainment experiences available throughout the community. Follow @BoyntonBeachCRA on Facebook and Instagram.

This year’s Night Market will feature:
More than 90 local businesses
Live entertainment throughout both evenings
An exciting 80s-themed atmosphere
Delicious food and drinks
Interactive activities and family-friendly entertainment

FREE Admission & Free event parking will be available throughout Downtown Boynton Beach.

Walkable Parking Locations
• Boynton Beach City Hall Parking Lots – SE Corner of Boynton Beach Boulevard & Seacrest Blvd.
• First Baptist Church of Boynton Beach – 301 N. Seacrest Boulevard
• First Church of Boynton Beach – 101 N. Seacrest Boulevard
• Parking lots located on the SW corner of Boynton Beach Blvd. and Federal Highway.
• Limited on-street parking along East Ocean Avenue

Park & Ride Locations
• Hester Center – 1901 N. Seacrest Boulevard
• Boynton Beach Senior Center – 1021 S. Federal Highway

2026 Call to Artists - The Riverwalk Connection

2026 Call to Artists

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The Riverwalk Connection

Submission dates: Monday, August 2 through Friday, October 2, 2026

Riverwalk Fort Lauderdale invites local artists to submit their original artwork depicting Fort Lauderdale’s Riverwalk and/or downtown and how the Riverwalk serves as a central connector in our community, geographically, socially, culturally or economically. Potential points of view include:

• “Riverwalk in Motion” (boats, people, festivals, wildlife)
• “Moments on the Riverwalk” (human experiences—events, quiet scenes, movement)
• “Riverwalk: Then, Now & Next” (past / present / future interpretations)

Artists are invited to submit two and three-dimensional original artwork of all mediums, including but not limited to watercolor, oil, sculpture, photography, charcoal, mixed media, drawing and gouache.

Following the submission deadline, artwork will be judged by a local juried panel, with the winning piece being featured on the cover of a future issue of Go Riverwalk Magazine.  Artists must be available to be photographed and interviewed for the story. 

Submission must include: Name, Address, Phone, Email, Title of piece and Description. Click here to download the submission form. For questions and to submit items email joyel@GoRiverwalk.com or call 954-468-1541 x 200. 

2025 Call To Artists information is available here.

Open Call: Apply for the Teen Art Council | NSU Art Museum today! Now through August 29, 2026

 

Apply to the Teen Art Council (TAC) at NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale!

New applications are now open for consideration to all rising Freshman through Junior grade level students entering the 2026 – 2027 school year. If you are interested in community engagement and supporting the arts, we encourage you to apply. Previous applicants are encouraged to reapply!

The Teen Art Council (TAC) at NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale embraces teens and empowers peers within the museum space by providing programming and support that enhance leadership skills, critical thinking, and developmental milestones for an emerging professional. By fostering a designated, incubated safe space for teens’ perspectives to convene, NSU Art Museum initiates lifelong relationships with the teen demographic.

This program allows teens to have the opportunity to collaborate with peers to plan events, investigate exhibitions, and discover the inner workings of the museum. Our mission is to create spaces and programs for teen representation and bridge the gap between teenagers and NSU Art Museum.

 

Marco Caridad & Daniel Djuro-Goiricelaya

The Shape They Gave Us

Curated by Amalia Caputo

Experience the opening reception of The Shape They Gave Us, a collaborative exhibition that reinterprets the Major Arcana of the tarot as a system of archetypes and inherited social roles.

Developed between Pennsylvania and Vieques, the works combine automatist painting, textile intervention, stitching, layering, and assemblage to question how identity is shaped, assigned, and embodied.

Opening Reception
July 9, 2026, 6:00 PM
Outer Space
2925 Salzedo St, Coral Gables, FL

Presented as part of Fiber Miami Triennial 2026 programming.

(MOAD) Museum of Art and Design at MDC presents Abstraction as Legacy as part of the AMERICA 250 Celebrations

 

Museums throughout the U.S. are honoring America250 with exhibitions and programming that examine the past, present, and future of the United States of America. (MOAD) Museum of Art and Design at MDC makes its own contribution to America250 celebrations with an exhibition titled Abstraction as Legacy. 

This project brings together a group of paintings to reflect on the myriad ways in which American artists have contributed to the field of abstraction. Works by Willem de Kooning and Joan Mitchell speak to abstract expressionism while works by Lloyd Kiva New and George Morrison reinforce ways in which indigenous artists contributed to the history of painterly abstraction in the U.S. 

This show demonstrates that there is no one way to be an American artist just as there is no way be an American. Some artists in the exhibition lived abroad while others were born abroad. Some chose hard edges informed by architecture while others used abstraction to contemplate the natural environment. 

This exhibition includes paintings by Carmen Herrera, Willem de Kooning, Sam Gilliam, Virginia Jaramillo, Joan Mitchell, Young-Il An, George Morrison, Lloyd Kiva New, Vaughn Spann, Zilia Sánchez, Hans Hofmann and Noemí Ruiz.as well as a salon style wall of works on paper from the collection by Karen Rifas, Sol LeWitt, Robert Thiele, Raymond Saunders, Robert Huff, Louise Nevelson, Lynne Golob Gelfman, and Robert Mangold. 

Photo Credit: Photos by Oriol Tarridas

The CAMP Gallery: “Swathed In Color, Line, and Stitches” a group exhibition featuring Brittany Clifford, Evelyn Politzer, Gabrielle Torres and Eden Quispe

Swathed in Color, Line and Stitches is The CAMP Gallery’s summer exhibition bringing together artists: Brittany Clifford, Evelyn Politzer, Gabrielle Torres and Eden Quispe. Looking more at what brings us together each artist tells stories, weaves connections through their varied mediums. Sharing their individual cares these artists offer respite from chaos and invite the viewer into the tranquility of their individual practices brought on through palette and line, all held together by the artist’s wish. 

Line work is often attributed to the work of abstract artists, working on canvas and with paint - which is clearly seen in the works of local artist: Brittany Clifford. Interestingly though, Clifford softens her line, adds a curve to it - suggesting a different path than that which is the standard - beginning, end. Clifford’s lines allow for distraction, imagination and mirrors the ‘ups and downs’ of a day. Her colors also become unified symphonies of joy, mixing and melding, combining and connecting hues and tones heralding one to enter the mix. The physicality of her work also suggests the need to resolve unidentified conflicts - for example, the initial conflict is the canvas itself - standing resolute in its blank state. Clifford approaches this barricade with confidence and a notion of rebellion in that she conquers the canvas, breaks some rules along the way, and ends up with her voice, her vision standing where once their was emptiness. The next, and maybe the most confounding conflict an artist faces is their voice - and how can it be heard by someone else. Clifford overcomes this obstacle by keeping meaning, externally fluid, while intimately personal - showing the connections of human experience. We do not need to experience exactly what the artist paints to be affected by the work. 

Evelyn Politzer

Evelyn Politzer in her series focused on the sea, takes fiber and creates lines that ripple through the work. Her work stimulates one back to shorelines, absorbing the rush of the surf, while imagining the underneath, while just being. Politzer stitches together individual threads into a swath of imagination, heralding and opening the doors to “be-ingness.” In the series, the idea of becoming whole by approaching the work, overshadows the moment by encouraging the viewer to step outside of the the lines. The lines in the work both stand alone, but also are highly reliant on the other - creating an amphibious nuance of interdependency. Politzer, stands comfortably in the unconscious, while simultaneously rooted in higher consciousness - embracing this duality is key to the method behind interpretation. 

Stitching lines and weaving resolutions Gabrielle Torres creates living, breathing swathes of color, texture, line, and of course, stitches. Taking deep colors, symbolic and rich, Torres brings together not only her lines, but the lines of the environment around her, as well as the rhythm of life. Her works speaks to a universal reliance on co-existence and memory. The Wilton Street Rhythm  Series, speaks and begins from a marriage of memory and music to where it expands beyond the artist’s original intent. Fusing the creation of the work with blues, Torres interprets the music, and her reaction thus creating almost a web of feeling bound through thread and jazz. 

Using fabric, stitches and color, Eden Quispe tells stories not unique to her alone. Creating pages of life Quispe flips through the stages: from childhood to adulthood, to caring and protecting childhood, and her life and family in stories. Taking on the role of a chronicler Quispe shares to stimulate memory both lived and hoped for into glimpses of moments. Naturally these moments are defined and described by the artist, but the universality of her topic welcomes the viewer to step towards this same universality. Key to Quispe’s execution is that of memory and protection - preserving both motherhood and childhood in today’s contemporary world, she aims to explore and expose both chaos and peace, ultimately finding balance in her artistic expression. 

As a whole, when brought together, the artists and their works in this exhibition, explore, from different plaines the connection we all share, the dependence not only of self, but on each other. Reaching from the internal, the daily, and the environment - the art presents an unification of difference, that when all is said and done, is that which makes society. The exhibition asks us all to come together and relish the components that will leave us with the expectation of welcoming each other, recognizing the universal of being human; being besieged by conflict, embraced by lived experience, and united by both.