In-Depth Coverage By Miami's Top Arts Journalists
Diana Dunbar was a voracious reader from a very young age and while all the kids in her neighborhood were outside playing, she was content to be inside with her nose in a book. She also became a dancer and found a way to join those two passions when she was given one of her favorite books To Dance, To
Think how many times you’ve sat in your car and watched the N.E. Second Avenue’s drawbridge at the Miami River open and close.
Wanting to provide a cultural outlet to travelers passing through Miami International Airport, Yolanda Sanchez, director of Airport Fine Arts & Cultural Affairs, was inspired to create a rotating exhibition program
Design and Architecture High School graduate and 2008 YoungArts winner in Visual Arts James Allister Sprang served as moderator for the YoungArts Salon Discussion with legendary hip-hop pioneer, visual artist, and filmmaker Fab 5 Freddy (Fred Braithwaite). In a capacity-filled
“Miami Music Project uses music as an instrument for social transformation, empowering children to acquire values and achieve their full potential, positively affecting their society through the study and performance of music.” That is the powerful and encouraging mission statement of this organization, established in 2008 by James Judd, former director of the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra with additional support from a Knight Arts Challenge Grant, various government grants, foundation donations, corporate contributions, and in-kind services. Modeled as a tuition-free, intensive after-school program, Miami Music Project provides the students at their four Miami-Dade Public School sites with a fully integrated music curriculum. Those sites are John I. Smith K-8 in Doral, Citrus Grove Middle School in Little Havana, Charles Drew K-8 in Liberty City, and Toussaint Louverture Elementary in Little Haiti. Across all of the sites, Miami Music Project has been welcomed by the schools, as an additional opportunity to engage
In a small intimate space along North Miami’s West Dixie Highway, the Performing Arts Network (PAN) and its founder Ilisa Rosal of Ballet Flamenco La Rosa, presented a mixed bag of dance groups during the Choreographer’s Showcase. On the bill were Tango Axis, pantomime performer Nina Martin, Atma Dance, and Rosal’s own Ballet Flamenco La Rosa, the resident groups at PAN. Aside from them, the diverse program also included one of Miami’s longest-running dance troupes Momentum Dance Company, whose Founder
Timing their Breakfast With the Arts & Technology Industry with the opening day of the MIA/Animation conference at Miami-Dade College Wolfson’s new Miami Animation & Gaming International Complex (MAGIC) was ingenious by the Arts & Business Council of Miami. The morning kicked off with an Expo Area that was buzzing with a variety of tech companies and arts organizations side by side. Several of Miami’s co-working spaces were represented as was the Miami Book Fair
Attracting millennials to attend arts performances in Miami-Dade County is no easy feat, but one that Culture Shock Miami has been promoting for the last 10 years with unbeatable deals for young adults in high school and college. Modeled after the successful High Five program in New York, the Knight Foundation approached the Miami-Dade Department
The InterContinental Miami hotel’s digital wall is set to become a vertical canvas during the week of Nov. 9 thanks to the Newt Miami Project, one of the Miami Foundation’s Public Space Challenge winners. It’s thanks to the creative minds of Dejha Carrington of YoungArts and composer Kelly Nunes, who collaborated to formulate the event