Next: Music by YoungArts Winner Isabel Vera

Above: 2018 YoungArts Winner in Voice Isabel Vera performing at Miami Theater Center. Photo by Jason Koerner. “The National YoungArts Foundation (YoungArts) was established by Lin and Ted Arison to identify and nurture the most accomplished young artists in the visual, literary, design and performing arts, and to assist them at a critical...

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Eschewing Traditions- A Conversation with James Balo

Above: James Balo, 12 Heads, mixed media and paint 2017. The National YoungArts Foundation (YoungArts) was established by Lin and Ted Arison to identify and nurture the most accomplished young artists in the visual, literary, design and performing arts, and to assist them at a critical juncture in their educational and professional development. YoungArts has...

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Design and Architecture Senior Highschool James Balo YoungArts

Sugarcane Raw: Onajide Shabaka interviews Edouard Duval Carrié about Visionary Aponte: Black Art and Freedom

Above: Jublio de Aponte by José Bedia. Visionary Aponte: Black Art and Freedom opened at the Little Haiti Cultural Center in Miami, from December 8-2017-January 20, 2018, and will travel to New York University and Duke University. The exhibition is co-curated by, Edouard Duval Carrié, Tosha Grantham, Linda Rodriguez, Laurent Dubois, and Marie Vickles. José Antonio...

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Afro Cuban Art Edouard Duval Carrie´ Jose Bedia LHCC

Deployed Utopia, a Solo Exhibition by Adler Guerrier

“To the ordinary man. To a common hero, a ubiquitous character, walking in countless thousands on the streets. In invoking here at the outset of my narratives the absent figure who provides both their beginning and their necessity, I inquire into the desire whose impossible object he represents.” Michel de Ceteau (The Practice of Everyday...

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Adler Guerrier David Castillo Gallery Haiti Miami Miami Art

Afro Pick Dedication in Opa-Locka

Above: Hank Willis Thomas with his installation Afro Pick in Opa-Locka, FL. Photo by Ronel Similien. Opa-Locka’s Town Center Apartments, 420 Aladdin Street, is the site of a new art-in-public places sculpture. The artwork by Hank Willis Thomas is called “All Power to All People” — sculpted like an afro pick hair comb. It is...

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Afro Pick Art Hank Willis Thomas Opa Locka

Residency Visit: Basil Kincaid

Above: The Gods are Within. Photo courtesy of the artist. Artist’s statement: Creating quenches my thirst for life. I make art for fun, for intellectual & spiritual exploration, for discipline & emotional expression. For me, making art is both meditation and prayer that affirms my self-esteem and proves that I exist. I am designed for...

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Miami Arts Miami Black Artists Quilting St. Louis The Fountainhead Residency

James Allister Sprang and Julie Zhu Return to Miami with a Fresh Perspective

Above: In Process: Homecoming with James Allister Sprang (2008 Winner in Visual Arts) and Julie Zhu (2008 Winner in Visual Arts). IN PROCESS, is a new interdisciplinary week-long residency program here on the Miami campus of YoungArts pairing alumni of different disciplines where they create brand new works-in-process. In Process provides a rare glimpse into...

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James Allister Sprang Julie Zhu Miami Arts Miami DASH YounArts

Fela Kuti: Life and Work, Somewhat

Above: Gregory Vorbe “Black President” Mixed Media on Canvas 40 x 40 inches 2017 “Felaspora,” an exhibition celebrating the life and work of Fela Kuti through us, the diaspora who listened, loved the man and now bring forth his legacy. Fela Anikulapo Kuti (15 October 1938 – 2 August 1997), also professionally known as Fela...

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Art Review Black Art Fela Kuti Felaspora Kroma Miami Nigeria

Studio Visit: Nadine Hall

Nadine Natalie Hall is originally from Bull Bay, a small coastal community in East Rural, St. Andrew, Jamaica. She completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degree in Textiles and Fibre Arts at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts. She was a recent resident artist at Fountainhead Residency with a partnership...

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Caribbean artist Fountainhead Miami Jamiaca Miami Nadine Hall