
Xavier Cortada launches HELLO project at PortMiami alongside Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava during the press conference announcing her Climate Action Strategy before the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference (COP26).
Engaged Projects
- “The Octopus Project” – Collaborating to identify and address an issue important to the broader school community and implement 8 participatory art projects (in collaboration with SEED School students, faculty and University of Miami students, Miami, FL).
- “Office of the Citizen of the United States” – Encouraging citizens to assume the mantle of citizen leadership and animate their democracy through the use of social media (virtual performance).
- “I Rebuke You” – Calling on senators and members of Congress to apologize to the American people for weakening our democracy (virtual performance).
- “Flower Force” – Mobilizing individuals to return space to nature by planting native wildflowers in their yard to create islands of natural habitats for local fauna while beautifying their homes and neighborhoods.
- “HELLO” – Inviting locals to participate in the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) by sharing their hopes, fears, purpose, futures as it relates to climate change, as well as their elevations with decision-makers and conference attendees.
Public Art Commissions
- “Flower Force,” Palmetto Bay Art in Public Places, Village of Palmetto Bay, FL
- Deerfield Beach Community Redevelopment Agency (Main Beach), Deerfield Beach, FL
- “Mangroves,” Liberty Square, Miami Dade Art in Public Places, Miami, FL
- “Wildflowers,” Liberty Square, Miami Dade Art in Public Places, Miami, FL
- “Native Trees,” Liberty Square, Miami Dade Art in Public Places, Miami, FL
Residencies
2017-2022 Pinecrest Gardens Artist-in-Residence (Artist’s Studio), Pinecrest, FL
Funded Research
- Co-Principal Investigator (along with UM Law Professor Jessica Owley, RSMAS Associate Professor Katharine Mach, Economics Assistant Professor Ian Wright, and Law Librarian Nicholas Mignanelli), “On the Move: Climate Migration and Retreat in South Florida, the Caribbean, and Beyond,” University of Miami U-LINK Phase 1 Grant
Publications
Painting Constitutional Law: Xavier Cortada’s Images of Constitutional Rights, Keiden, The Netherlands: Brill | Nijhoff, 2021.
Editors: M.C. Mirow and Howard M. Wasserman
Contributors are: Renée Ater, Mary Sue Backus, Kathleen A. Brady, Jenny E. Carroll, Erwin Chemerinsky, Xavier Cortada, Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, Leslie Kendrick, Corinna Barrett Lain, Paul Marcus, Linda C. McClain, M.C. Mirow, James E. Pfander, Laura S. Underkuffler, and Howard M. Wasserman.
Awards
- 2020-2021 Engaged Faculty Fellow, University of Miami Office of Civic and Community Engagement
- 2021 University of Miami Excellence in Civic Engagement Faculty Award
- 2021 Environmental Law Institute National Wetlands Award
Newsletters
- January – New Book! “Painting Constitutional Law”
- February – Florida is… Commemorating 200 years as part of the U.S. today!
- March – Reclaim your yard for nature this Earth Day!
- April – County Mayor Levine Cava unveils Cortada’s digital mural
- May – Cortada wins National Wetlands Award, celebrates 15 years of Reclamation Project
- June – Eco-art Colonnade inspires action at Pinecrest Gardens
- July – Celebrating Miami’s 125th Birthday
- August – Museum acquires socially engaged art
- September – Revisiting “No Tengan Miedo” after historic Cuban protests
- October – Artist to elevate Miami voices at 2021 UN Climate Change Conference
- November – HELLO to Greet Art Miami, Support Eco-Art on Giving Tuesday
- December – Holiday Greetings ✨
Events, Lectures, Installations and Presentations
- Inauguration of the Office of the Citizen of the United States
January 6 - Launch of “I Rebuke You”
January 6 - Underwater HOA Monthly Meeting: Transformative Advances in Environmental and Ocean Sciences
January 6 @ 7:00 pm - “Letters to the Future” Installation at Pinecrest Elementary School
January 7 – February 12 - Publication of “Painting Constitutional Law: Xavier Cortada’s Images of Constitutional Rights”
January 14 - “Art & Research: Alternative Methods in Knowledge Dissemination” Seminar for Queen’s University
January 25 @ 2:30 pm - “Youth In Action: Environmental Activism Through Engaged Art” Livestream with Earth Echo & UF SEFS
February 2 @ 1:00 pm - Underwater HOA Monthly Meeting: Adapting to Sea Level Rise in Miami-Dade County
February 3 @ 7:00 pm - Underwater HOA Monthly Meeting: Coastal Resiliency Innovations & Community Engagement
March 3 @ 7:00 pm - U-LINK @ Miami Law: Faculty Projects Addressing Race, Diversity, and Equity
March 9 @ 12:15 pm - Global Week: Fabric of Humanity
March 17 @ 12:00 pm - Global Week: The Longitudinal Installation Reflecting on Empathy through Socially Engaged Art
March 18 @ 10:00 am - Audrey R. Finkelstein UM Experience: Class is Back in Session
March 30 @ 10:30 am - “The Art of Diatoms” Presentation at the Diatom Web Academy 2021
March 30 @ 12:00 pm - International AIDS Conference Mural “Bridging the Gap” on exhibit at the Coral Gables Museum
April 2 – July 18 - April 7 @ 11:00 am – 12:40 pm
- April 7 @ 7:00 pm
- April 7 10 – April 17
- University of Miami 2021 Excellence in Civic Engagement Faculty Award
April 13 - Mayor Levine Cava unveils the “How We Thrive” collaborative message mural
April 19 @ 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm - Dedication of “Octopus Project” socially engaged art project at SEED School of Miami
April 19 @ 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm - April 19 – April 24
- April 20
- April 22 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
- April 23 @ 11:00 am – 1:30 pm
- April 24 & April 25 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
- April 25 – May 2
- April 27 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
- Launch of Octopus Project at Universidad Austral
April 28 @ 3 :00 pm – 4:00 pm - Cortada collaborates with Arsht-Rockefeller at Community Resilience Pod
May 1 @ 11:00 am – 3:00 pm - May 5 @ 7:00 pm
- “The Reclamation Project: Engaging Community for 15 Years Through Participatory Eco-Art” solo exhibit at UM Wynwood Gallery
May 8 – May 28 - Community Engagement for the Protection of the Wetlands
May 19 @ 2:00 pm - June 2 @ 7:00 pm
- June 8 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
- July 7 @ 7:00 pm
- Migratory Birds of Hubbard Brook
June 8 @ 3:00 pm - At What Point Managed Retreat?
June 22 @ 1:00 pm - MAMP Reimagine 2021 | Change Maker Chats
June 29 @ 9:45 am - Communicating the Resilience Message
July 1 @ 10:00 am - Earthly Observatories at SAIC Galleries
August 30 – December 3 - Environment for the Americas Career and Leadership Workshop
August 5 @ 10:00 am - Global Executive MBA Welcome Reception 2021
August 26 @ 6:00 pm - Flower Force: Planting wildflowers at public art site
September 9 @ 9:30 am - Cortada Collaborates with UM Law in Celebration of Constitution Day
September 13 – September 17 - Miami Mangrove Forest Exhibition at Hibiscus Gallery
September 13 – January 7, 2022 - Code Red Global Day of Climate Action
September 24 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm - Cortada Collaborates with UM Law in Celebration of Constitution Day
September 13 – September 17 - “No Tengan Miedo” works at UM Faculty Exhibition
October 6 – November 5 - Global Politics and Sustainable Development at Tecnológico de Monterrey
October 7 @ 8:30 am - Flower Force Dedication
October 10 @ 2:00 pm - Plan(T) at AIA Miami
October 22 - Breakfast at The Peace Studio with Thomas West
October 23 @ 10:00 am - Launch of HELLO at Mayor Daniella Levine Cava’s Climate Action Strategy Press Conference
October 27 @ 10:00 am - Global Week: Reflecting on Empathy Through Socially Engaged Art
October 28 @ 9:00 am - HELLO at Ft. Lauderdale Boat Show
October 29 @ 6:00 pm - Cortada at COP26
November 1 – November 12 - Flower Force Exhibition at Hibiscus Gallery
November 1 – January 7, 2022 - We Are Climate Action: Public Art and Climate Change Panel with Baruch College
November 18 @ 4:00 pm - Xavier Cortada Award at the State of the Village Address
November 18 @ 7:00 pm - Guest Artist at Miami New Media Festival
November 27 - HELLO at Art Miami
November 29 – December 5 - Dedication of Eco-art Colonnade
December 5 @ 1:00 pm
Press
- Announcement: Painting Constitutional Law
PrawfsBlawg
1/20/2021 - Newly Published: Painting Constitutional Law: Xavier Cortada’s Images of Constitutional Rights
Law & Humanities Blog
1/22/20221 - Just Published: Painting Constitutional Law
The Faculty Lounge
1/26/21 - “Painting Constitutional Law”: Cortada’s Depictions of Supreme Court Cases from Florida, With Legal Commentary
Legal History Blog
1/27/21 - The contemporary artist Xavier Cortada takes us on a visual journey inside the intricate relation between Individual and Law
SGEM World Science Austria
2/1/21 - BOOK: Howard M. WASSERMAN & Matthew C. MIROW, Painting Constitutional Law. Xavier Cortada’s Images of Constitutional Rights
European Society for Comparative Legal History
2/8/21 - New Scholarship: M.C. Mirow & Howard Wasserman
I-CONnect
2/8/21 - Florida is… Nature: An art project by Xavier Cortada
SGM World Austria
2/24/2021 - Art against climate change
Mint Lounge
2/27/2021 - Miami is not a place. It is a Process. Driven by Water.
Biscayne Times
3/3/2021 - A worldwide epidemic decades before the pandemic: 40 years of AIDS artifacts and stories aim to teach recent history and honor millions lost
FIU Magazine
4/8/2021 - Thrive305 Engagement Guiding Mayor’s Action Plan
The Miami Times
4/13/2021 - News Briefs Along Biscayne Corridor
Biscayne Times
6/2021 - The wealthy are hoarding livable homes as climate change makes land uninhabitable
Massive Science
6/23/2021 - A 20-Foot Sea Wall is Not the Answer
Biscayne Times
7/2021 - Xavier Cortada… Visionary, Artist-in-Residence at The Gardens
Pinecrest Tribune
7/19/2021 - Final 2021 MAMP Lab Changemaker Chat Collective Share Myriad Ideas
Artburst Miami
7/21/2021 - Frost Art Museum to Feature Socially Engaged Pieces
Lifestyle
9/2/2021 - The art of justice: Re-examining landmark Supreme Court cases through expressionist paintings
SCOTUSblog
9/14/2021 - Village of Palmetto Bay Launches Flower Force Residents Invited to Bring Public Art to Their Front Yards
Miami’s Community Newspapers
9/16/2021 - ecoartspace Member Spotlight | Xavier Cortada
ecoartspace newsletter
10/4/2021 - ‘Flower Force’ sculpture is art on a mission
Miami’s Community Newspapers
10/5/2021 - Palmetto Bay: Flower Force
Nuevo Onda Cuba
10/12/2021 - Miami-Dade County Mayor announces new Climate Action Strategy ahead of World Conference
CBSMiami
10/27/2021 - Artist set to share Miami voices at U.N. Climate Summit
News@TheU
10/28/2021 - Un artista plástico de Miami quiere despertar conciencias en la cumbre del clima
EFE
10/30/2021 - Artista plástico de Miami despierta conciencias en la cumbre del clima
Telemundo 51
10/30/2021 - Xavier Cortada: Art as a Statement to Save the Planet
Rule Creations
11/3/2021 - University professor leaves a mark on COP26
News@TheU
11/9/2021 - COP-26: A Kyrgyz Journalist’s Perspective
Columbia Climate School State of the Planet
11/11/2021 - University community reacts to ‘last best hope’ to save planet
News@TheU
11/12/2021 - Cuba cracks down on dissent, protest music still thrives, and a talk with a tree at COP26
WLRN South Florida
11/16/2021