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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

This panel brings together contemporary artists whose artwork contributes to a broader public understanding of the consequences of climate change for human and non-human existence, and the urgent need for action and mitigation. The seemingly overwhelming scale of the climate crisis is a recognized barrier to public participation in tackling it. Art can overcome this […]