Xavier Cortada is proud to be showing his Underwater HOA participatory art project at “A Festival of Climate Action: It's Time.” To learn more about the Underwater HOA, click here. In the first week of November, the British government was supposed to host COP26, the United Nations’ climate change conference, in Glasgow, Scotland. […]
Xavier Cortada Pandemic | Miami Corona Project The University of Miami Department of Art and Art History presents Pandemic | Miami Corona Project, a virtual exhibit by artist Xavier Cortada. Though the Wynwood Gallery remains closed to the general public due to the global health emergency, you can still enjoy our exhibitions virtually. Xavier Cortada’s “Pandemic | Miami […]
On December 2nd, Xavier Cortada will deliver a 20-minute presentation, "Socially Engaged Art: Using Slow Activism to Tackle a Climate Emergency" to attendees of SciVizNYC 2020. Talk Summary: Understanding that Miami’s climate emergency is a race against the clock, in my practice, I double down on slow activism. For instance, in my “Underwater […]
UHOA Home | About | Meetings | Participate | Elevation Drive | Markers | Press | Organize an Underwater HOA | Resources | Archive https://youtu.be/eJAzRHLT7ss On Wednesday, December 2nd, join the Underwater HOA for our final virtual monthly meeting of 2020 with featured speaker Alberto Cairo, Ph.D., Author, Lecturer, and Professor at the […]
Reimagining Creativity: Inspiring Behavior Change Moderator: Marda Kern, EcoArts Connections Panelists: Xavier Cortada, Artist and Professor of Practice at the University of Miami, and Eve Mosher, Artist Images, storytelling and experiential activities are increasingly used to improve climate change communication. Allieship with artists increases the suite of tools and creative capacity in addition to "inviting people in" to inspire attitude […]
Using art’s elasticity to work across disciplines, Cortada creates processes that engage community in problem-solving. Focusing on the pandemic and our climate emergency, Cortada takes us on a journey through his science art and socially engaged art practice. This year we invite you to participate in a very special gathering. We will witness the unpredictable […]
https://youtu.be/c0JcC5i0W4g Today I launch the Office of the Citizen of the United States in order for 328 million of my fellow citizens to inhabit it. To reset our democracy. To set it on the right course. This participatory art project invites us to utilize our social media spaces to intensify our sense of public purpose, […]
https://youtu.be/5jNUT87kNCY Senators and Members of Congress, As Citizen of the United States of America, I Rebuke You for objecting to the results of Electoral College without cause whatsoever. Our fellow Citizens overwhelmingly elected Joe Biden president. Please apologize to the American people for breaking your Oath, defiling the Constitution and weakening our Democracy. -- Click […]
On December 15th, Cortada's studio manager Adam Roberti gave a virtual presentation to the 5th graders of Pinecrest Elementary School. At the end of the presentation, Roberti facilitated the "Letters to the Future" participatory art project with the students. Several of the 5th grade classes then created an installation out of the letters that each […]
Painting Constitutional Law Xavier Cortada’s Images of Constitutional Rights In May It Please the Court, artist Xavier Cortada portrays ten significant decisions by the Supreme Court of the United States that originated from people, places, and events in Florida. These cases cover the rights of criminal defendants, the rights of free speech and free exercise […]