Miami Performance International Festival

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Miami Performance International Festival 2019 JUNE 21- 22, 2019

The first Miami Performance International Festival will be a Two-day series of events taking place in EDGE ZONES ART GALLERY – 3317 NW 7th Ave. Circle, Miami, FL 33127 (Allapattah) | LUMMUS PARK MIAMI BEACH – Ocean and 3rd. The event is organized by Edge Zones Projects and curated by Curators: Charo Oquet , Eddie & Gregorio Alvarez.

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EDGE ZONES ART GALLERY – 3317 NW 7th Ave. Circle, Miami, FL 33127 (Allapattah) | LUMMUS PARK MIAMI BEACH – Ocean and 3rd.

Sites:, EDGE ZONES ART GALLERY, LUMMUS PARK – OCEAN DRIVE – MIAMI BEACH

The 8th Edition of “Miami Performance Festival International ’19” (M/P ’19) will take place from June 21-22, 2019. M/P ’19 will be staged at Edge Zones space in Allapattah Miami and at Lummus Park, South Beach with different countries represented and a host of local talent . The festival will show a variety of works and will encourage viewers to investigate performance art, spoken word poetry and Noise artistic influence and contributions to our visual and sound culture and will provide the viewer with a unique performance and sound experience beyond the realm of traditional art. A 2-days long interdisciplinary complex multileveled platform which will include videos of performances, live performances, noise, experimental sound art audience participation, publications, artist talks and visual art exhibitions, demonstrates the commitment by Edge Zones to the professional development of South Florida artists in national and international forum.

M/P ’19 is a stage for both young and emerging artists, curators, critics, and scholars to present their latest work. This world-class performing arts festival will provide the opportunity for our live audience of approximately 2,000 to engage deeply with the ideas emerging from these provocative works.

Miami Performance International Festival (M/P’19) seeks to continue to expand and provide a platform for South Florida-based performance and sound artists to create new work in Miami. This “challenge”, also bringing professionals together for the sake of a common goal: pushing the boundaries of their practice and making that same work accessible to a wider audience.

About Edge Zones

Edge Zones has a 22-year history of supporting artistic practices in the public domain. EZ produces events located specifically and contextually in Miami and the Caribbean region through participatory processes. With Miami Performance International Festival, EZ will seek to establish a new network of public engagement in Miami and Miami Beach.

EZ is a platform for cultural production, artists and volunteer-run contemporary arts non-profit dedicated to the research, conceptualization and execution of events that strengthen the contemporary art environment in Miami. EZ seeks to make contemporary art accessible, to engage audiences and to create a focal point for international research and awareness.

Support by:

The principal sponsors for the Miami Performance International Festival ‘19are: Edge Zones Project, Florida, USA, Miami Dade County-Cultural Affairs Council, Florida State Cultural Affairs Council and Peroni Beer.

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ELISA TURNER MIAMI ART WRITER

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ELISA TURNER MIAMI ART WRITER

Elisa Turner is a member of the International Association of Art Critics, U.S. Section, and ArtTable, a national organization for women in visual arts professions. Her writing has appeared in ARTnews, Art+Auction, Art Circuits, Arte Al Dia, Biscayne Times, Delicious Line, Hamptons Art Hub, Inspicio, Miami Herald, Miami Rail and other publications. She has guest-lectured at the University of Miami and New World School of the Arts and for ten years taught writing at Miami Dade College. Drawing on her experience and research in Miami Herald archives, she wrote the foreword tracing the history of the Miami art scene from early 1980s to 2006 for the book Miami Contemporary Artists by Julie Davidow and Paul Clemence. Her career at The Miami Herald spanned 21 years. From 1995 to 2007, she was primary art critic for The Miami Herald, with international assignments to Havana Biennial, Haiti, Venice Biennial and Art Basel in Basel, Switzerland. As Miami correspondent for ARTnews magazine, she has written extensively about Miami’s art community. As co-founder of ART Tuesdays/MIAMI, an all volunteer community-based arts forum, she helped facilitate close to 60 panel discussions on timely and provocative topics. The Florida Chapter of ArtTable awarded her its 2019 Leadership Award. Other honors include President’s Volunteer Service Award from Miami Dade College and Society of Professional Journalists Sunshine State Award.

Elisa Turner is an award-winning art critic and journalist. In 2021 and 2020 she was awarded First Place for her Arts Commentary & Criticism and in 2021 Second Place for her Arts Beat reporting from Florida’s Sunshine State Society of Professional Journalists. In 2020 she was one of nine visual art journalists nationwide to receive the annual $50,000 Rabkin Prize. In 2019 she received the Leadership Award of the Florida Chapter of ArtTable. Other awards include President’s Volunteer Service Award from Miami Dade College in 2012. Her background reflects wide-ranging experience in teaching, editing, writing, and public speaking. Having written about visual arts for the Knight Ridder-owned Miami Herald for 21 years, she takes great pride in her tenure as the newspaper’s primary art critic from 1995 to 2007, when she received international assignments to cover artists in Cuba and Haiti, as well as to cover the Venice Biennial and Art Basel in Switzerland. From 2009 to 2019 she taught writing and remedial grammar at Miami Dade College, Kendall Campus. Her professional and volunteer work for Miami’s art community is an ongoing, intellectually lively passion. Since the 1980s through 2020 she was Miami correspondent for New York-based, award-winning magazine ARTnews. From June 2019 to October 2020 she wrote a monthly column on the visual arts for Biscayne Times. Her writing appears in various publications, including Artburstmiami, Burnaway, Delicious Line, Hamptons Art Hub, Inspicio and Hyperallergic.

Curatorial Advisory Board Member Curatorial Advisory Board Member Miami Dade College Museum of Art + Design

Founding Program Planning Committee Member Founding Program Planning Committee Member ART tuesdays/MIAMI

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Constructivist Showcase

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Constructivist Showcase

Max Bill and Zurich Concrete Art

Beim Stadthaus

«concrete art is when taken to its logical conclusion the pure expression of harmonious measure and rule. It orders systems and with artistic means breathes life into these orders.» The standard that Max Bill (1908 – 1994) set out in his Manifesto for Concrete Art in 1949 is clearly absolute: Harmony and order become the guidelines for an artistic stance preempted decades earlier by pioneers such as Theo van Doesberg and Piet Mondrian. Max Bill raised them to the status of a programmatic agenda. Painting (and sculpture, too) was not supposed to arise for its own sake, but was to be produced in the service of a modern utopia, whereby following in the footsteps of Bauhaus the arts were meant to combine with architecture and the applied arts to form a modern gesamtkunstwerk. In line with this ideal, Max Bill took the stage not only in the field of fine art, but likewise as an architect, designer and university lecturer.

Born in 1908 in Winterthur, Bill first completed an apprenticeship as a silversmith and then studied at the Bauhaus from 1927-8 before returning to Switzerland in 1929, where he initially worked as an architect, and then later as a sculptor, graphic artist and painter. From the 1930s onwards this native of Winterthur emerged as one of the main champions and representatives of Zurich Concrete Art. As the founding director of the Ulm College of Design, he successfully ensured the renaissance of Bauhaus ideas in post-War Germany.

Kunst Museum Winterthur owns a major group of Max Bill works, and they are ideally complemented by paintings and drawings by his contemporaries Camille Graeser, Verena Loewensberg and Richard Paul Lohse. They show that Concrete Art is far more than a set of rules and order, forever breaking its own dogmas asunder with surprising images and colors that strongly appeal to the senses. The exhibition is rounded out with pieces by artists who in subsequent generations took up the traditions of Constructivist Art and reflected on it.

Curators: Konrad Bitterli and David Schmidhauser

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Visual artists

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Marina Adams
Donald Baechler
Lee Bontecou
Joe Bradley
Cecily Brown
Mary Callery
Enrique Chagoya
Chuck Close
Sarah Crowner
Amy Cutler
N. Dash
Jim Dine
Carroll Dunham
Marisol
Mark Fox
Sam Francis
Helen Frankenthaler
R. Buckminster Fuller
Ellen Gallagher
Orly Genger
Fritz Glarner
Robert Goodnough
Maurice Grosman
Jane Hammond
Grace Hartigan
Carmen Herrera
Charline von Heyl
Jim Isermann
Bill Jensen
Jasper Johns
Jennie C. Jones
Wyatt Kahn
Joey Kotting
Julian Lethbridge
Alexander Liberman
Jacques Lipchitz
Rosa Loy
Eddie Martinez
Suzanne McClelland
Jason Middlebrook
Robert Motherwell
Sam Moyer
Elizabeth Murray
Barnett Newman
Amy O’Neill
Ryan and Trevor Oakes
Claes Oldenburg
Nathlie Provosty
Martin Puryear
Robert Rauschenberg
Larry Rivers
Julia Rommel
James Rosenquist
Susan Rothenberg
Ed Ruscha
Edwin Schlossberg
Joel Shapiro
James Siena
Kiki Smith
Saul Steinberg
Sarah Sze
Martha Tuttle
Richard Tuttle
Cy Twombly
Tam Van Tran
Andrei Voznesensky
Kelley Walker
Max Weber
Michael Williams
Terry Winters
Zachary Wollard
Christopher Wool
Lisa Yuskavage

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AMERICA WEAVES

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June 7th, 7:00-10pm: Aluna Art Foundation cordially invites you to the opening reception of AMERICA WEAVES, an exhibition curated by Adriana Herrera, PhD, at the Coral Gables Museum (285 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables, FL 33134). With invited artists (in alphabetic order): Miguel Aguirre, Luis Arroyo, Andrés Bedoya, Stella Bernal de Parra, Tatiana Blass, Liene Bosque, Pip Brant, Chiachio & Giannone, Ana Isabel Diez, Jorge Eduardo Eielson, Sonia Falcone, Gego, Alvaro Gómez Campuzano, Guerra de la Paz, Basil Kincaid, Magali Lara, Marcela Marcuzzi, María Angélica Medina, Aurora Molina, Juan José Olavarría, Raquel Schwartz, Carrie Sieh, Diana de Solares, Alex Trimino, Frances Trombly, and Guido Yianitto.

AMERICA WEAVES
One hundred years after the founding of the Bauhaus, which considered the artist “an exalted artisan” and called for erasing the boundaries between art and crafts, America Weaves gathers a group of artists that expand the borders and possibilities of the action of weaving, embroidery, and interlacing throughout the entire Americas, from Argentina to the United States. Some works are formal inquiries into the possibilities of the medium; others merge different epochs, resorting to the technique of palimpsest; yet others pose critical and conceptual appropriations of different sorts. Making art with textile materials is, ultimately, a possibility that is as playful as it is culturally vital.
Curated by Adriana Herrera, America Weaves shows how, since the times of prehispanic art, our continent has woven times, history, visions, and worlds.

THE CORAL GABLES MUSEUM (Fewell Gallery)
America Weaves
June 7th – Nov. 10th, 2019
285 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables, FL 33134
(305) 603-8067
Hours of Operation
Museum Hours:
Tuesday-Thursday 12:00 – 6:00
Friday 12:00 – 6:00 (Later on Gallery Nights)
Saturday 11:00 – 5:00
Sunday 12:00 – 5:00
Monday closed
Business Hours:
Monday-Friday 9:00 – 5:00

Aluna Art Foundation

Aluna Art Foundation is a non-profit organization created to promote a wide range of dialogues among artistic practices.

Aluna Art Foundation is a non-profit organization created to promote a wide range of dialogues among artistic practices through a continuous and open invitation for artists to engage in its projects. As an alternative space, Aluna Art Foundation offers Miami’s artists the possibility of participating, together with those from other regions or countries, in curatorial projects whose aim is the production of creative visions of the context we live in.

Considering that Miami is an epicenter of Latin American art in the world, Aluna Art Foundation strengthens our understanding of the past and the present of this art through formative and sensitizing strategies of knowledge and participation. Forming institutional and organizational alliances serves as a platform for artists that are not represented, promotes exchanges between established and emerging artists, and offers a space for those projects that can’t find a place within the mainstream.

Aluna Art Foundation’s vision is to provide the community of Miami with curatorial projects that involve a dialogue between the local and international art scene, conducting its mostly collective inquiries around the connection between art and society. The foundation will continue to serve as an ever-expanding platform for the introduction of Miami artists in galleries, organizations, and institutions in a changing and mobile context.

Our vision includes the possibility of crossing the abysm that has been separating the general public from contemporary art. Through our curatorial practice, and our diverse strategies of interaction, we will construct awareness of contemporary art in general, and of Latin American art in particular. These efforts will not only strengthen our vision of art history, but our outlook on the present. The processes of dialogues will allow the people to experience the artworks, and to participate in their practices in a transformative way, living an experience capable of mobilizing ideas and social imagination.

Aluna was founded in April 18th, 2011 under the laws of the State of Florida (501-C-3 application in process).

1393 SW 1st. Street, Miami Fl 33135, is an alternative and provisional art space.

Aluna Curatorial Collective (Adriana Herrera and Willy Castellanos) is the curatorial instance of Aluna Art Foundation.

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The Power of Print

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"The Power of Print: Iconic Images of the American Landscape"

First Saturday Reception

Hosted by LnS GALLERY

2610 SW 28th Lane, Miami, Florida 33133

Saturday at 6 PM – 9 PM

Join us on June 1st for a First Saturday Reception and view: “The Power of Print: Iconic Images of the American Landscape” by Jennifer Basile and “Ongoing Highlights,” featuring works by Carlos Alfonzo, Anish Kapoor, John Bailly, T. Elliot Mansa, Mario Bencomo, Tim Buwalda, Copper Inch, Jessie Laino, Gabriela Noelle, César Trasobares, Reynier Ferrer, Dayron Gonzalez, Jake Fernández, Arturo Rodríguez, Trek6, Sinuhe Vega Negrin, William Osorio, Natalia García Lee, Yomarie Silva-O’Neal, Tony Vázquez-Figueroa, and more.

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La geometría sagrada de Rafael Montilla

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Un trabajo que tomó más de seis años de estudio, hasta que el artista, Rafael Montilla, pudo sentir que finalmente había logrado llenar sus expectativas sobre cierta figura geométrica

A propósito de la exposición “Kubes in Action – Personalidad”

Por Juan Antonio González.

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En un tiempo –el actual– donde todo parece vaciarse de contenido, donde la inmediatez de las redes sociales deja a un lado el reconocimiento de la interioridad propia y ajena, donde la mentira y el encubrimiento obscurecen cualquier camino hacia la verdad, conforta toparse con la obra de Rafael Montilla, fotógrafo y artista visual caraqueño que comenzó su andadura creativa a mediados de los años setenta y que, desde la tradición de la abstracción geométrica, ha concebido obras con una poderosa carga de espiritualidad.

Una espiritualidad que Montilla ha expresado desde que era un niño de siete años, cuando en las portadas de sus libros escolares dibujaba y pintaba el símbolo de la “cruz swastika”, no la que utilizaron como emblema los nazis, sino la que la proviene de las imprecisas tinieblas de la prehistoria, la que en la cultura hinduista se asocia al dios Ganesha, la que para el Budismo simboliza la eternidad…

Rafael Montilla en la exposición The Big Bang

Kubes in action – Personalidad

Para Montilla aquella cruz con sus brazos doblados en ángulo recto era un mandala cuadrado. Esa fue la dimensión que el artista le aportó luego de vivir algunos años en la India. Una dimensión filosófica y religiosa que se sumó al estudio que el artista hizo de El Árbol de la Vida y del metatrón, cuerpo geométrico compuesto por trece círculos directamente obtenido de la Fruta de la Vida. Hablamos, entonces, de una geometría sagrada.

En el video Kubos in Action. Secrete geometry, publicado por el artista en la plataforma de YouTube, se resume de manera precisa y clara el proceso por el cual ese mandala cuadrado se transformó en “kubo”. Una investigación que le tomó más de seis años de estudio y que el artista hizo pública una vez que pudo darle “una perspectiva que movía mi interior. Sentí que finalmente había logrado llenar mis expectativas sobre esta figura geométrica”, confiesa Montilla.

En el video mencionado, el artista aporta una definición de mandala cónsona con sus necesidades expresivas: “Mandalas es donde todas las religiones, filósofos, científicos, sabios, buscadores de sabiduría y buscadores espirituales se encuentran”. El auto reconocimiento y el conocimiento del Otro.

La obra de Rafael Montilla no puede, así, ser cabalmente entendida si se le despoja de su componente introspectivo, existencialista, del alma que él vuelca en ella, más allá de sus características formales. Su obra trasciende de lo que el espectador puede ver físicamente para mostrar lo que hay dentro de él y, por añadidura, dentro de nosotros mismos. “Los mandalas son una llave a nuestro subconsciente, tal como lo dice Carl Gustav Jung: ‘La mente no está en el mundo, el mundo está en la mente’. El ‘kubo’ representa nuestro subconsciente”, asegura el artista.

En su más reciente propuesta expositiva, Kubes in Action – Personalidad, que se presenta en la DATG Concept Gallery, de Miami, Rafael Montilla va más allá en su exploración de los “kubos”, pues integra a su trabajo parte de los postulados teóricos del artista Josef Albers acerca del color o, más bien de la interacción del color, según la cual “un mismo color permite innumerables lecturas”.

La idea del artista es que partiendo de la figura que ha desarrollado en los últimos años, cada color represente una personalidad definida. Así, y como bien lo explica la investigadora y curadora Anny Bello, Montilla “elabora convenciones para catalogar las personalidades, en este caso, basadas en el anaranjado, el rojo, el amarillo, el púrpura, el azul y el verde”. Y agrega el artista: “Todo lo externo fue eliminado”.

Todo lo externo ha sido eliminado. Quiere decir esto que las obras recientes de Rafael Montilla apelan a la introspección, a lo no verificable en el mundo material. Al contenido más que a la forma. A los sentimientos, sin más. Y también exigen de quien las observa, completar esos “kubos” de bordes blancos, invisibles, rodeados de colores que armonizan hasta establecer un perfecto equilibrio entre las caras de esas figuras geométricas en las que su creador vierte su “yo”.

Rafael Montilla

Kubes in action – Personalidad

Un “yo” que insiste en aparecer, en revelarse, en un mundo desprovisto de contenidos significativos, sobresaturado de superficialidad. Cada uno de los “kubos” que se exponen en DATG Concept Gallery muestra la parte interna de su autor y su preocupación por una sociedad en la que toda aspiración se limita a lo externo. “Nos olvidamos de crecer internamente”, dice Rafael Montilla. “Nadie sabe qué hacer con su vida. Jóvenes, adultos y mayores sufren de soledad. Necesitan de algo o de alguien para ser supuestamente felices y buscan un intermediario para llegar a Dios, ignorando que pueden conectare con él directamente”.

En definitiva, Rafael Montilla crea para sí mismo, en el sentido de que su obra es una clara proyección de su espiritualidad, una permanente exploración de sí mismo. “Los ‘kubos’ pueden mostrar que yo soy mi mejor amigo y que el Paraíso está donde yo vivo. Mi paz interna es lo más importante”, concluye el artista.

Juan Antonio González

Editor de Arte y Entretenimiento
Diario El Universal
Caracas – Venezuela
Octubre 2018

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“What I really want to tell you..”

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The55project | Art Exhibition: “What I really want to tell you..”

Public · Hosted by The 55 Project

Friday, May 10, 2019 at 6 PM – 9 PM

Atchugarry Art Center 5520 Northeast 4th Avenue, Miami, Florida 33137

The55project is thrilled to invite you to the exhibition “What I really want to tell you…” presented at Fundación Pablo Atchugarry in Miami.

Save the date: May 10, 6-9pm

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Curated by Jennifer Inacio with Flávia Macuco this exhibition explores the cultural, social and political histories of Brazil. The participating artists question these issues and externalize their examinations through art that impact, inspire and engage, becoming their own manifestos of exploration, interrogation, and change. While responding to our contemporary moment, the exhibition highlights ways in which art stimulates and inform new ideas in times of divergent realities.

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀The exhibition features 14 Brazilian artists:

Almandrade • Jonathas de Andrade • Liene Bosquê • Paulo Bruscky • Anna Bella Geiger • Rubens Gerchman • Ivan Grilo • Randolpho Lamonier • Vanderlei Lopes • Gabriela Mutti • Paulo Nazareth • Regina Parra • Rosana Paulino • Mano Penalva

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Hosted by: Fundación Pablo Atchugarry

Produced by: The55project

FIU Exhibition Opening

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Public · Hosted by The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU

Saturday, June 8, 2019 at 3 PM – 7 PM

The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU (Miami)10975 SW 17th St, Miami, Florida 33199

Art Museum (305) 348-2890

Join us for an Artist Conversation and Exhibition Opening for two new exhibitions, Cut: Abstraction in the United States from the 1970s to the Present and Spheres of Meaning: An Exhibition of Artists’ Books.

Artist Conversation (3-4pm)

Join Chief Curator, Amy Galpin Ph.D., for a conversation with Miami-based artists Loriel Beltran and Carol Todaro. In anticipation of the opening celebrations, Beltran and Todaro sit down with Galpin to discuss their rigorous practices. A new large-scale painting by Beltran will be featured in Cut: Abstraction in the United States from the 1970s to the Present. Todaro completed a new installation for Spheres of Meaning: An Exhibition of Artists’ Books. Beltran and Todaro are long-time Miami residents with distinctly different practices. Both artists contributed critical ideas to the formulation of these exhibitions.

Seating is limited. Please arrive on time to secure your seat.

Exhibition Opening (4-7pm)

The exhibition opening is free and open to the public. Members of the museum gain exclusive access to our Members’ Reception with refreshments and drinks. Not a member? Click here to join today and gain access to this exclusive perk or purchase a $15 reception ticket at the door.

Metered parking is available in the Blue and Gold Garages.

Image Caption: Sam Gilliam, b.1933, Tupelo, Mississippi, Of Yellow and Gingers [detail], 1979, Acrylic on Canvas, 80 x 300 inches, Courtesy of the artist and N’Nmandi Contemporary, Miami, Florida

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The Ellies: Info Session #2

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Public · Hosted by Oolite Arts

Wednesday, May 15, 2019 at 6 PM – 7 PM

Simply Good, 212 Northwest 73rd Street, Miami, FL 33150

Join us to learn more about Miami’s visual arts awards, which will offer up to $500,000 to the city’s visual artists!

This is our second year offering The Ellies, and we’re excited to see what ideas Miami’s artists are ready to create with the proper support

Bring all your questions this evening and our Oolite Art staff will answer them. Lock in your perfect application to submit ahead of the 6 p.m. May 20th deadline for the Creator Award and the Teacher Travel grants.

For more, including a list of FAQ’s, visit TheEllies.org.

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Miami Performance International Festival

Miami Performance International Festival 2019 JUNE 21- 22, 2019

ELISA TURNER MIAMI ART WRITER

ELISA TURNER MIAMI ART WRITER

Constructivist Showcase

Constructivist Showcase

Max Bill and Zurich Concrete Art

Visual artists

AMERICA WEAVES

Aluna Art Foundation

The Power of Print

First Saturday Reception

La geometría sagrada de Rafael Montilla

A propósito de la exposición “Kubes in Action – Personalidad”

Por Juan Antonio González.

Thewynwoodtimes.com

“What I really want to tell you..”

The55project | Art Exhibition: “What I really want to tell you..”

FIU Exhibition Opening

The Ellies: Info Session #2

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