We have hit the peak cultural season in South Florida. There is so much going on, most people will only be able to catch a fraction, from theater, dance, music and visual arts. Another round of Second Saturdays art openings is around the corner, as is the inaugural Art Wynwood, taking place at the Art [...]
Dream big South Florida – it’s almost time to send in your best ideas for the South Florida arts! On Tuesday, Feb 21. the application period for the next round of the Knight Arts Challenge Miami will officially open. The challenge, now in its fifth year, is a community-wide contest to find the best ideas for [...]
Sometimes a painting is just beautiful. It can have deeper meaning or a complex make up, but some works just hang there and say, look at me, I am so good-looking. That’s the case with the nature-inspired pieces of Greg Lindquist in the group show of New York artists, “you are here forever….” curated by [...]
Miami City Ballet (a Knight Arts grantee) had a banner year. After yet another remarkable and well-received season, MCB, as it is known, traveled for the first time ever to Paris and made an outstanding foreign debut. Then, it made its premiere appearance under a national spotlight when it were featured in PBS’s “Great [...]
Last week in Miami, 31 ideas were announced as winners of the 2011 Knight Arts Challenge. Above, Nicholas Goldsborough describes how the Miami City Ballet, a challenge winner, will broaden its programming and support the future of ballet by establishing a fund for the creation of new works. The project aims to excite audiences and infuse dance [...]
Cross posted from KnightFoundation.org From using coral as a living art form, to providing mentorships for playwrights and launching a new dance troupe, 31 ideas for the South Florida arts received $2.9 million in funding Monday night as winners of the Knight Arts Challenge. Here’s a group shot of all the 2011 Knights Arts Challenge Winners! [...]
Mentorship program for African-American playwrights, coral as a living art form, new dance company among the winners of Knight Foundation’s Knight Arts Challenge MIAMI, Nov. 28, 2011— Thirty-one ideas – many of them from small cultural groups helping to weave the arts into South Florida’s DNA – have been selected as 2011 winners of the [...]
Earlier this year, we asked the community, “What’s your big idea for the arts in South Florida?” The response was overwhelming – 1,299 applications poured in for the Knight Arts Challenge. Our reviewers whittled the list down to a few dozen winners. And tonight at 6:30 p.m., we’ll post their projects at KnightArts.org. Check back here, [...]
Throughout the course of 12 hours, from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m., culture will swamp Miami Beach on Saturday. But even when broken down into categories, the upcoming 2011 ‘Sleepless Night’ (a Knight Arts grantee) has so many events, it’s hard to even put together any comprehensive list of must-sees. So, in a nod to [...]
There are several one-off art events every year that are must checks on the calendar for collectors, artists and art lovers. One such happening has become the time-honored fundraiser for the non-for-profit Locust Projects (a Knight Arts grantee), one of Miami’s most important venues for original, non-commercial, cutting-edge artwork. Non-commercial is the key word here, [...]
