
General McCaffrey, Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (Drug Czar) shares some thoughts with artist Xavier Cortada after contributing his message to the participant-driven mural. The General was among more than 500 individuals who helped create the mural during the MADD National Youth Summit in Washington, D.C.
Engaged Projects
- “World AIDS Day Mural” – Working with Little Havana youth, family members, Health Department employees, and local non-profit groups to generate awareness about AIDS, to share information about its prevention and to educate those at risk of HIV-infection (sponsored by the Dade County Health Department, Regis House, Vecinos en Acción (VEA), Miami, FL).
- “Centro Campesino Art Shack” – Establishing an “art shack” where at-risk youth and other residents in South Dade’s farmworker community can create and sell their art (in collaboration with Art Center South Florida, Centro Campesino Farmworker Center CDC, LISC – South Dade, the Metro-Dade Cultural Affairs Council and youth from the Centro Campesino Farmworker Center, Miami Beach, FL).
- “New Visions Project” – Supporting a community-based organization for the blind in communicating its role in the neighborhood and in teaching its clients to become self-sufficient in their daily lives (in collaboration with the Miami Lighthouse for the Blind New Visions Project, Miami, FL).
- “Art as Power” – Using art as a coalescing agent and as a reminder for school children about power in teamwork (in collaboration with the University of Miami’s Lowe Art Museum, the Cuban American National Council’s Little Havana Institute, Metropolitan Dade County Cultural Affairs Council Community Grants Program, Miami, FL).
- “Compartiendo con Bolivia” – Addressing issues in drug prevention and treatment with recovering drug addicts and former street children at the United States Embassy (La Paz and Banco Santa Cruz, Bolivia).
- “Community U” – Representing the hopes, thoughts and goals of drug-free youth and safety advocates in Indiana (created at the 1997 Community U conference with DePauw University participants, IN).
- “MADD National Youth Summit” – Raising awareness with Mothers Against Drunk Driving about the nation’s most frequently committed violent crime and the number one highway safety concern among Americans (in collaboration with youth from 435 Congressional Districts, the Honorable Rodney Slater, U.S. Transportation Secretary, General McCaffrey, Drug Czar, and Antonia Novello, former US Surgeon General, created at the Mothers Against Drunk Driving National Youth Summit, Washington, D.C.).
- “Red Ribbon Week” – Working with Delaware County’s seven high schools to design and create a participant-driven drug prevention mural (sponsored by the Delaware County Coordinating Council, Delaware County, IN).
- “MADD National Drunk Driving Victims’ Mural” – Creating a platform for victims of drunk driving from across the nation to document their tragedies, educate others, and memorialize their loved ones (for the MADD National Leadership Conference, Dallas, TX).
- “HBO Faces of Addiction” – Facilitating an understanding of the impact of alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drug use with Atlanta youth and families during Family Dialogue Day (in collaboration with the HBO On-site Mural Project, sponsored in tandem with the airing of Faces of Addiction, Atlanta, GA).
Public Art Commissions
- “Baseball” and “Soccer,” Niketown Miami, South Miami, FL
Group Exhibitions
- The Condition of Pandemics: Towards the Millennium, Longwood Arts Gallery (Bronx Council of the Arts), Bronx, NY
Solo Exhibitions
- Compartiendo con Bolivia, Museo Tambo Quirquincho (La Paz), and Museo Historico Regional (Santa Cruz), Bolivia
- inter/cambios, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cusco, Peru
Awards
- Presented with the “Key to the Miami-Dade Housing Agency” for facilitating the Naranja Public Housing Mural Project, Miami-Dade County, September 8.
Artworks
- 4-C
- Art as Power
- Calor (Warmth)
- Centro Campesino Art Shack
- Community U
- Compartiendo con Bolivia
- Cristo Cusqueño
- HBO’s Faces of Addiction
- Las Malas Influencias (Bad Influences)
- Law
- MADD National Youth Summit Mural
- Naufragos (Shipwrecked)
- New Visions Project
- Peligro (Danger)
- Que Paso Mas Chevere
- Red Ribbon Week
- World AIDS Day Mural
- x -> dx -> tx -> o
Press
- The Healing Powers of Paint
by Antonio Aruquipa
Bolivian Times
October 16, 1997 - Pintor que trabaja con drogadictos en Miami inaugura muestra en La Paz
Contratapa
October 9, 1997 - Painting a Brighter Future
Hispanic Magazine, Austin, Texas (National circulation)
December 1997 - Community Art
The Star Press,Muncie, Indiana
October 22, 1997 - La problematica social en la obra de Xavier Cortada
El Diario, La Paz, Bolivia
October 11, 1997 - Javier Cortada quiere compartir con Bolivia
El Diario, La Paz, Bolivia
October 10, 1997 - Murales de Xavier Cortada
Bolivia
October 10, 1997 - Xavier Cortada comparte su obra
La Razon, La Paz, Bolivia
October 9, 1997 - Sociales
El Deber, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
October 6, 1997 - Terapia por el arte en el Museo de Historia
El Deber, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
October 1997 - Murales Comunitarios
El Mundo, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
October 4, 1997 - El reemplazo del arte por las drogas
El Dia, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
October 4, 1997 - El arte debe ser un martillo para cambiar nuestra sociedad
El Mundo, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
October 4, 1997 - Sera realizado por artista de Estados Unidos en U.A.G.R.M
Area Cultural
October 1, 1997 - International artist exhibits in Miami
Entertainment News & Views
September 19, 1997 - A mural tests the will of at-risk youth and local artist
By Frank Alvaredo
Entertainment News & Views
August 29, 1997 - A Creative Touch (at Miami Lighthouse for the Blind)
by Carl Juste
The Miami Herald, Local Section, Miami, Florida
August 13, 1997 - Hoy conferencias sobre arte social y pedagogico
El Comercio, Cusco, Peru
July 14, 1997 - Pintura de Xavier Cortada un Exito
El Comercio, Cusco, Peru
July 12, 1997 - Farmworker kids’ art has powerful message
By Pascale Etheart
The Miami Herald Neighbors, Miami, Florida
May 11, 1997 - Xavier Cortada: Artist or Lawyer (cover story)
By Karina Pavone
Movement, Miami, Florida
March 1997
PRESS RELEASES
- Miami Artist at Bronx Group Show: Violence is Pandemic
February 6, 1997 - Blind children get help painting fence
August 1997