NSU Art Museum: Art Talk with Ximena Caminos, founder, REEFLINE, and Katherine Fleming

 

IMAGINE: ART IN THE ENVIRONMENT

Sunday, December 14, 2025 2:30 - 3:30 pm Included with museum admission Can you imagine surrounding eleven islands with pink fabric in Biscayne Bay, or submerging a monumental art installation that doubles as a hybrid reef off of Miami Beach? Join us for two astonishing presentations by guest speakers Katherine Fleming and Ximena Caminos to illuminate the new frontier of public art. Presented in association with the inaugural exhibition, Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Surrounded Islands, currently on view. RSVP NOW

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Katherine Fleming Katherine Fleming is the founder and director of Bridge Initiative, a nonprofit that unites art and science to create public art for environmental advocacy. Established in 2015 following Fleming’s transformative explorations in Antarctica—where she witnessed the stark impacts of climate change firsthand—Bridge Initiative operates at the intersection of creativity and conservation to inspire public engagement and action. Under Fleming’s leadership, Bridge has collaborated with artists, scientists, and change makers to develop immersive educational campaigns addressing environmental issues both locally and globally. Her current work includes supporting the establishment of the Biscayne Bay National Heritage Area, advancing cultural and ecological preservation in South Florida.  Fleming serves on the Board of Directors for the Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation and as an advisor for The ReefLine, an underwater public art park and artificial reef. Her advocacy has fostered partnerships with leading artists and organizations including Michele Oka Doner, Carlos Betancourt, Coral Morphologic, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the University of Miami, Mission Blue, the Alaska Whale Foundation, Path of the Panther, and The Cultural Landscape Foundation, among others.

Ximena Caminos Ximena Caminos is a biocultural placemaker and systems artist who pioneers cultural–ecological models where art, science, and climate innovation meet. Her practice spans governance, collaboration, scientific alliances, ecological performance, community engagement, storytelling, and urban–ocean coexistence. She is the creator of REEFLINE, a new typology where art becomes habitat and cities learn to coexist with their oceans. Aside from being Founder and Artistic Director of REEFLINE, she is also President of BlueLab Preservation Society, and Chief Creative Officer of HoneyLab Creative, advancing culture as civic infrastructure. For two decades, Caminos has chaired major arts and design cultural masterplans across the Americas. She was Artistic Visionary Planner for The Underline, founder and Chair of Faena Art (Buenos Aires and Miami), Global Executive Creative Director and partner of the Faena Group, Chief Curator of the Faena Arts Center, and Founder of the Faena Prize for the Arts. She has served on the New Museum Leadership Council, is a founding member of the Guggenheim’s Latin American Circle, Advisor to Art Basel Cities, and is an XPrize Ambassador, recipient of the Knight Foundation Arts Challenge Award and the Arts Champion Award.

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