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“Florida is… Wildflowers” at Miami Children’s Museum
December 3, 2016 @ 11:00 am - 3:00 pm

“Wildflowers, with help of their pollinators, help make Earth verdant: Plant life sustains all animals (including humans) and balance atmospheric gases (that accelerate global climate change). Wildflowers would naturally continue to blanket our planet were it not for the displacement caused by the concrete we’ve poured ‐‐ and the parcels we’ve platted ‐‐ to build our homes and grow our society. Help reverse the trend: Show us your wild side. Plant wildflowers in your yard.”
— Xavier Cortada
About the Artist:
Xavier Cortada serves as Artist-in-Residence at FIU School of Environment, Arts and Society | College of Arts, Science & Education and the College of Communication, Architecture + The Arts.
Cortada often engages scientists in his art-making: At CERN, Cortada and a particle physicist created a permanent digital-art piece to celebrate the Higgs boson discovery. He has collaborated with a population geneticist to explore our ancestral journeys out of Africa 60,000-years ago, with a molecular biologist to synthesize a DNA strand from a sequence 400 museum visitors randomly generated, and with botanists to develop multi-year participatory eco-art efforts to reforest mangroves, native trees and wildflowers across Florida.
The Miami artist has created environmental installations (North Pole and South Pole) and eco-art (Taiwan, Hawaii and Holland) projects, and painted community murals addressing peace (Cyprus and Northern Ireland), child welfare (Bolivia and Panama), AIDS (Switzerland and South Africa) and juvenile justice (Miami and Philadelphia) concerns.
Fore more info visit https://cortada.com
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Details
- Date:
- December 3, 2016
- Time:
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11:00 am - 3:00 pm
- Event Categories:
- 2017, Events
- Event Tags:
- 2016, 2016 events, art, Art Basel, bees, butterflies, children, climate, Community, eco-art, ecology, environment, flor500, flowers, gardens, kids, miami children's museum, participatory, pollinators, wildflowers, xavier cortada, xcortada
- Website:
- https://cortada.com/archives/xaviercortada/index.html%3Fpage=FlOR500_Videos
Organizer
- bobst@miamichildrensmuseum.org
- Phone
- 305-373-5037
- bobst@miamichildrensmuseum.org
- View Organizer Website
Venue
- Miami Children’s Museum
-
980 MacArthur Causeway
Miami, FL 33132 United States + Google Map - Phone
- (305) 373-5437
- View Venue Website