Experience the 71st Annual Beaux Arts Festival of Art

 

The Beaux Arts Festival of Art is back! Come experience Miami’s longest-running juried art festival on January 15-16, 2022 from 10am – 5pm outside of the Watsco Center on the beautiful University of Miami campus. The 71st Annual Festival will feature over 150 fine art exhibitors, a children’s art tent, food and live entertainment. This free outdoor community event is ideal for all art enthusiasts, offering artwork in a variety of media and price ranges. The festival is proudly presented by Mercedes-Benz Ussery Automotive Group. Guests are encouraged to register for the free event by visiting www.beauxartsmiami.org.

Beaux Arts was founded in 1952 by a small group of women and has grown to an organization of over 100 active members and 300 associates with a common purpose, to increase art appreciation in the community and support the Lowe Art Museum. The festival continues to be run entirely by these philanthropic volunteers, and is co-chaired this year by Beaux Arts Vice President Monica Sanchez and Katherine Caskey.


About Beaux Arts
Beaux Arts is a volunteer organization whose purpose is to encourage an understanding and appreciation of the arts in South Florida through outreach programs and support of the Lowe Art Museum. In 2014, the organization donated to the Lowe Art Museum a gift of $1.5 million which enabled the creation of the endowed position of Beaux Arts Director and chief curator of the Lowe Art Museum, now held by Dr. Jill Deupi. Having won the “White Award”, Beaux Arts was recognized as the University of Miami’s most effective donor through its combined contribution of over $7 million in funds to support the Lowe. Beaux Arts has supported over 25,000 children at the Beaux Arts camp and over 5,000 students from the Miami Dade public school system with its annual HandsOn! program.

Illuminate Coral Gables

Experience the unveiling of Illuminate Coral Gables TONIGHT Friday, February 12th from 6 – 10pm. Nine artists illuminate downtown Coral Gables for a 30-day outdoor exhibition of light sculpture and interactive art. Illuminate Coral Gables will bring stunning interactive art, video projections, and light sculptures to the streets of Coral Gables. This free experience will be on view through March 14th from 6 – 10 pm. Select a Date / RSVP Here.


The Illuminate Coral Gables exhibition will turn the streets, historic buildings, and public spaces of Coral Gables into a brilliant outdoor museum. With downtown Coral Gables, FL as a three-dimensional canvas, this first-of-its-kind exhibition will fill our beautiful city with newly commissioned and existing works by world-renowned local, national & international artists and emerging virtuosos.
Curated by Lance Fung, Catherine Cathers, Jennifer Easton and Rosie Gordon Wallace, the exhibition will feature eight projects incorporating video projections, sculpture and art installations by a stellar group of local, national, and international artists including Kiki Smith and Cai Guo-Qiang.

Coral Gables Museum Panel Discussion: The Making of The Art Of Compassion

Experience a Panel Discussion: The Making of The Art Of Compassion, From Conception to Exhibition at the Coral Gables Museum on Thursday, July 25th from 7-9pm. Hear from the participants behind the museum’s current exhibition, “The Art of Compassion.” The curator, photographers and women profiled will discuss how photography empowers social change, how the images were made, and how the participants were touched by the experience.

This event is in partnership with Leica Store Miami and their Women in Focus Festival. You can learn more about the festival here: https://women-in-focus.com/festival

Members free; non-members $5

Coral Gables Museum: Last Wednesday of the Month’s Lecture #6: Women Photographers in the Republic

Enjoy a lecture at the Coral Gables Museum, Women Photographers in the Republic on Wednesday, June 26th from 6:30 – 8:30pm. This lecture offers an unprecedented approach to women’s role as a modernizing force in Cuban society with lecturer Aldeide Delgado. It focuses on the scenario marked by the existence of the Photographic Club of Cuba, between 1935 and 1962. Delgado will make reference to some of her finds while doing research for her project Catalog of Cuban Women Photographers. Conceived in 2013, this initiative aims to document and recognize the work of women photographers in Cuba. It is a platform for the investigation on women who contributed to the development of Cuban photography, the historical conditions of their artistic participation, and the topics in their works beginning in 1853 with the recovery of the first Cuban female photographer to the present.

Delgado is the founder and director of the nonprofit organization Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA) that researches, promotes, supports and educates about the role of women and those identified as women in photography. She is the author of Catalog of Cuban Women Photographers, the online platform www.catalogofotografascubanas.org and the namesake book. Her articles have appeared in publications such as Art OnCuba, Cuban Art News, Arte Al Límite, Artishock, Terremoto, C&America Latina, Arcadia, as well as diverse independent art blogs. She is currently a contributor for Artishock, Terremoto, ArtNexus, and C&America Latina.
To RSVP please send an email to: dayana@coralgablesmuseum.org or call: (305)603-8067. $5 Members / $10 Non-Members. This lecture is presented with the additional support of Arts Connection and Women Photographers International Archive.

Famous Venezuelan Artist & Illustrator 'La Tarula' is Launching her first Children’s Book “We 1, 2, 3” at two South Florida Locations

Marianella Arocha - La Turula Children's Book Signings in August! Enjoy a delightful storytime & book signing with renowned artist and illustrator Marianella Arocha known as La Tarula at Miami Children's Museum on Saturday, August 11th from 2-4pm, and on Sunday, August 12th at Altamira Libros from 11am-1pm.

The famous Venezuelan artist and illustrator Marianella Arocha known as La Tarula is launching her first children’s book “We 1, 2, 3” at two South Florida locations, where families and caregivers will enjoy an exciting book reading of "We 1,2,3" to the children and surprises for them as well, ‘La Tarula’ will be there to sign the book! https://laturula.com/products/we-1-2-3