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Miami-Dade Public Library System’s

Art Services and Exhibitions Division presents

 

The Everglades Invade the City

an installation by Edwin Villasmil and Elba Martínez

September 27, 2006–February 28, 2007

Reception: Thursday, September 28, 6:00 – 8:30pm

West Dade Regional Library, 9445 Coral Way, Miami, Florida – 305-553-1134

 

Villasmil and Martinez are artists, environmental activists and educators. For the past two years, they have researched the Everglades through our library system and documented their findings through art. The result - a fairytale world of line drawings, sculptural installations and graphic-novel style storytelling that parallels Marjorie Stoneman Douglas’ River of Grass and recounts the natural, social, and cultural history of the Everglades. Their goal is to investigate the relationship between art, society and nature, and to create awareness of the need to protect our natural resources

 

Workshops with the artists - Art from Recycled Materials: Saturdays, 1:30 – 3:30pm, October 28, November 18, December 9, January 20

 

Library hours:

Monday-Thursday
9:30 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Friday and Saturday
9:30 a.m.- 6:00 p.m.
Sundays
1:00 -  5:00 p.m.

 

Call 305.375.5048 or email [log in to unmask] for more information.

 

Also happening this fall at the Miami-Dade Public Library System:

 

FALLOUT: Nicaragua and Its Diaspora

by Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga

October 4, 2006- January 13, 2007

West Kendall Regional Library, 10201 Hammocks Boulevard, Miami - 305-385-7135

Artist’s talk and multimedia presentation: Wednesday, October 4, 2006, 12:00 – 1:30pm

 

Nicaraguan-born, New York-based artist Ricardo Miranda Zuniga adapted this ongoing project for Miami, which is a major site of the Nicaraguan diaspora. It is an installation that presents a written and graphical history of the country, including a website that collects personal histories, memories and opinions on Nicaragua from exhibition visitors; and new audio recordings retelling folk tales as well as historically famous recordings.

 

Pregón: Call and Response Series #1

October 12 – December 15, 2006

Main Library, 101 W. Flagler Street, Miami - 305-375-2665

Reception: Thursday, October 12, 2006, 6:00–8:30pm. Includes a special performance of an excerpt from Teo Castellano’s NE 2nd Avenue at 8pm.

 

Pregón is the first in a new occasional exhibitions series called Call and Response. Visual artists Ernesto Burgos, Christian Duran, Vanessa Garcia, Beatriz Monteavaro, Carlos de Villasante, and Angela Valella; and performing artist Teo Castellanos were invited to select objects from the Library’s permanent art collection and respond to them through new or existing works of their own. Like a vocal improvisation dialogues with the structured chorus in a musical pregón, the artists’ own paintings, drawings, photographs, and performance are presented together in dialogue with the permanent collection pieces.

 

 

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