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October 2021
“No Tengan Miedo” works at UM Faculty Exhibition
Xavier Cortada, “Fearscape, Artículo XIII, and Alumbron” assemblages, 2001 (in the permanent collection of the Museum of Art and Design, Miami, FL). In 2001, Xavier Cortada exhibited "No Tengan Miedo," a solo show exploring the impact of Pope John Paul II's historic visit to Cuba and Cortada's own accounts of what he saw while there. "No Tengan Miedo" was originally exhibited at the Latin American Art Museum in Miami, but now its title piece (a painting of the pontiff), twenty-two assemblages,…
Find out more »Global Politics and Sustainable Development at Tecnológico de Monterrey
Xavier Cortada will join Diana Correa Corrales in an informal conversation on global politics with high school students hosted by Tecnológico de Monterrey. During this semester, the students are exploring different approaches to sustainable development. After the conversation, students will participate in Cortada's Longitudinal Installation, discussing the role of art in social change, and then as part of their end-of-semester reflection, Letters to the Future.
Find out more »Flower Force Dedication
At 2 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 10, the day before Indigenous Peoples’ Day, the Village of Palmetto Bay will dedicate Xavier Cortada’s “Flower Force” sculpture at the traffic circle on 168th St. and SW 82nd Ave., officially launching an innovative public art initiative that will engage 200 Palmetto Bay households in an ecological restoration effort. Using the Flower Force public art piece as the heart of the effort, Cortada is engaging his Palmetto Bay neighbors in a participatory eco-art project. The artist…
Find out more »Plan(T) at AIA
Plan(T) aims to engage Miami-Dade County through mangrove propagule installations and presentations on the issues of global climate change and sea-level rise and become active participants in growing Miami's future salt-tolerant tree canopy. Learn more about Plan(T) here The American Institute of Architects was created in 1857 by a group of architects in New York City. The goal of the first members was to have a place where members could meet for lectures, conventions and meetings. The original 13 have…
Find out more »Breakfast at the Peace Studio with Thomas West
A select group of individuals, including artist Xavier Cortada, creating positive change in South Florida were invited to meet Thomas West, Executive Director of the national non-profit The Peace Studio on Saturday, October 23. The Peace Studio was co-founded by President Obama's sister, the peace scholar, Maya Soetoro, along with literary agents Todd Shuster and Jennifer Gates. The Peace Studio engages journalists and artists to adcance a more peaceful and just culture through arts and journalism by telling the difficult…
Find out more »Launch of HELLO at Mayor Levine Cava’s Climate Action Strategy Press Conference
Artist Xavier Cortada launches his newest socially engaged art project, “HELLO,” ahead of the 26th Annual United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) on Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021. Thousands of name tags to be distributed during the conference ask participants to define themselves not by their first names, but by their fears, hopes, purposes, futures, and elevations above sea level to spark conversations about the climate crisis’ impact on vulnerable communities around the world. Despite the over four thousand mile distance between…
Find out more »Global Week: Reflecting on Empathy Through Socially Engaged Art
This workshop led by University of Miami professor and artist Xavier Cortada, creator of the Longitudinal Installation, will allow students to have a first-hand multicultural experience of the power of socially engaged art to create empathy on global issues such as climate change. Prof. Xavier Cortada has partnered with Tecnológico de Monterrey's Global Week faculty to develop virtual experiences that allow a cultural exchange. By being exposed to different cultural perspectives and views, students have broadened their understanding of our…
Find out more »HELLO at Ft. Lauderdale Boat Show
Xavier Cortada presented HELLO at the Ft. Lauderdale Boat Show hosted by Her Majesty's British Consul General and Minister Freer. The event served as the artist's send off to COP26 in Glasgow Scotland.
Find out more »November 2021
Flower Force exhibition at Hibiscus Gallery
JOIN US FOR Flower Force on exhibition from November 1 through March 30 at Hibiscus Gallery at Pinecrest Gardens By appointment only. Please contact info@hibiscusgallery.com for details. Learn more about Flower Force here. Due to COVID-19, the listing above has been modified. Please visit hibiscusgallery.com/current-exhibitions for updated calendar. MORE INFORMATION Download catalog More about the project Media Alert
Find out more »Cortada at COP26
Xavier Cortada implemented the HELLO participatory art project with attendees of COP26 from November 1st – Nov 12th. This gallery showcases the project through images and videos, connecting those on-site with the global community online. Thousands of people from across the world who attended COP26 wore HELLO stickers in a collective effort to catalyze conversations around climate action, urge world leaders to meaningfully address the climate crisis, and ultimately turn it around. LAUNCH – OCTOBER 27, 2021 Cortada launches “HELLO” with Miami-Dade County…
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