socially engaged art

Cortada’s practice mobilizes communities around critical environmental and social issues

The Underwater
Sparking climate action by making sea level rise impossible to ignore
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Plan(T)
Creating eco-art installations as vertical nurseries for mangrove reforestation
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Flower Force
Inspiring individuals to plant wildflowers and protect local pollinators
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PUBLIC ART

Venues include museums, city halls, universities, seaports, botanical gardens, housing sites and turnpike plazas

Diatom Fountain
Smathers Plaza, 2017
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Native Flora
Liberty Square Apartments, 2021
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Sunburst Woodstorks
Stirrup Plaza, 2016
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Flight of the Ibis
University of Miami, 2013
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IN THE NEWS

POLAR ART
Xavier Cortada is the only artist to have created artwork at both of the Earth's poles
South Pole
Cortada's Antarctic art demonstrates humanity's interconnectedness and fragility
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North Pole
Site-specific installations address environmental concerns facing the world below
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