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Miami art project puts spotlight on threat of rising sea levels, by Jeffrey Brown, PBS NewsHour, September 16, 2024
In the galleries: Floating through art focused on climate change, by Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, August 23, 2024
These yard signs offer an inconvenient truth about sea level rise, by Nicolás Rivero, Washington Post, December 13, 2023.
T Agitprop: 12 Artists on Climate Change, by Zoë Lascaze, New York Times, T Magazine, August 22, 2018.
Tackling climate change is art, not just science, by Stephanie Hanes and Pavithra Rajesh, The Christian Science Monitor, January 13, 2022
Xavier Cortada’s Art: Inspired by Science, and Uniquely Miami, by Erin Marcus. Published in the HUFFPOST Arts & Culture, November 26, 2014.
Featured Local Print
Miami artist aims to open eyes about sea rise risks with Art Week installations, by Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, December 7, 2023.
Renowned Miami Artist Unveils Decorative Cooling Towels to Help People Beat the Heat, by Nicolás Rivero, Miami Herald, June 5, 2023.
‘Infiltrate through art.’ Miami-Dade’s first artist-in-residence wants you to get creative, by Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, August 17, 2022.
Climate change is more than Miami Beach as eco-artist puts focus on western suburbs, by Sofia Andrade, Miami Herald, June 30, 2022.
New ‘Pelican Path’ artwork installed at Port Everglades, by Arlene Satchell, Sun Sentinel, June 16, 2015.
Miami Herald Opinion page: Hey, Art Basel — we owe you one, by Herald Editorial Board, December 1, 2014.
Absence of Place – The landscape changes, but memories persist: An artist invites the public to collaborate on a work to remember a vanished past, by Ana Mendez, Miami Herald, January 15, 2006.
No longer in photos, still in the heart, by Ana Mendez, Miami Herald, December 7, 2005.
Artist Expresses Plight of Boys in a Man’s Jail: He Speaks Out Against the Law that allows Juvenile Offenders to be Charged as Adults, by Maya Bell, Orlando Sentinel, February 2, 2002.
Cuban visit changes artist’s soul, work, by Fabiola Santiago, Miami Herald, January 13, 2001.
FEATURED VIDEO
2020 – “The Road to Change: America’s Climate Crisis” (Underwater HOA), CNN
2012 – “Art creates a splash at Miami Gardens Rec Complex” (Splash), CBS4
2019 – “Homeowners group promotes climate change action” (Underwater HOA), Associated Press
2015 – “Cortada launches CLIMA exhibit during the Paris Climate Talks” (CLIMA), WSVN
2013 – “500 Flowers for Florida” (FLOR500), WPBT
2008 – NBC News segment for Coconut Grove Arts Festival Poster Artist, Xavier Cortada (Reclamation Project), NBC6
Featured Journals
Interactive Art About Climate Change in a City Where It Will Wreak Havoc, by Monica Uszerowicz, Hyperallergic, December 10, 2015.
Global Warnings, by Suzaan Boettger, Art in America, Issue No. 6, pp. 154-161, 206-207, June/July 2008.
Painting the Genome for the Public, By Xavier Cortada. Published in Science, Volume 331, Page 548, February 4, 2011.
Art in the Anthropocene, by Alan C. Braddock and Renée Ater. Source: American Art, Vol. 28, No. 3 (Fall 2014), p. cover2. Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Xavier Cortada: Climate Science Art, Arte Al Dia, September 1, 2024
When Science Meets Art, by the Editorial Staff at COSMOS Magazine. Published in COSMOS 77 — Summer 2018, April 25, 2018.
These extreme artworks embody the climate crisis, by Amy Funderburk, Art & Object, September 6, 2022.
Environmental Art. By Sam Bower. Published in Animating Democracy, 2012.
Arte al Dia: Art in Antarctica, Kunsthaus, Review by Milagros Bello, edition 119, page 119, July 2007.
Green Museum, by Allison Compton, Public Art Review, Issue 40, pp 52-55, Spring/Summer 2009.
Public Art Review, Volumes 7-9 – Page 135. Published by Forecast, 1995.
FEATURED RADIO
Sep 7, 2023 — WLRN: From Immigration to AIDS and Sea Level Rise, Xavier Cortada’s Art is a Witness To South Florida
Sep 19, 2019 — NPR | The Takeaway: The Art of Tackling Climate Change
Nov 12, 2018 — NPR | Here and Now: Miami Artist Repurposes Campaign Signs To Spark Conversation About Sea Level Rise
Nov 9 , 2018 — WLRN: What To Do With Those Political Yard Signs? This Artist Has An Idea, Linked To The Rising Sea
Oct 19, 2018 — BBC | Cultural Front Line: Art Against Climate Change
Oct 2, 2018 — WLRN: Pinecrest Is Getting An “Underwater Homeowners Association”