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July 2021
Summer Legal Academy: Lawyers as Change Agents
Summer Legal Academy: Lawyers as Change Agents | University of Miami School of Law Through exposure to various aspects of law school, the Online High School Summer Legal Academy provides the opportunity to broaden your understanding of what you learn in three years in law school and also to get exposure to what it is like to have a career in law. Xavier Cortada's 90-minute presentation introduced 40 local, national, and international high school students interested in studying law to…
Find out more »Migratory Birds of Hubbard Brook
On July 8, Xavier Cortada joined other artists in presenting at the first-ever Art and Science session at the Hubbard Brook Annual Meetings. Cortada, Hubbart Brooks Experimental Forest's first artist in residence (since 2012) and member of their Committee of Scientists, discussed his latest Hubbard Brook project: Migratory birds of Hubbard Brook: Black-throated blue warbler.
Find out more »August 2021
UNDERWATER HOA MONTHLY MEETING – August 4th
Main | About | Meetings | Elevation Drive | Markers | Press | Organize an Underwater HOA | Resources | Underwater Vote | Participate | Catalog On Wednesday, August 4th, join the Underwater HOA for "How We Can Stabilize Sea Level Rise" with featured speaker Dr. John C Van Leer, Professor, Physical Oceonography, University of Miami. Dr. Van Leer will present on the Energy Innovation & Carbon Dividend Act, and how Carbon taxing could be the answer to sea level rise. The presentation will be followed by a…
Find out more »Environment for the Americas Career and Leadership Workshop
Xavier Cortada, “Wind Words,” ritualistic installation/performance at the Graham Outlook along the Kancamagus Highway in the White Mountain National Forest, New Hampshire, 2012. Environment for the Americas, a conservation non-profit in Boulder, Colorado, hosts internship programs for diverse young scientists at National Parks across the United States. This year, their post-internship Career and Leadership Workshop will be a virtual, engaging session on how science can inform art. In a one-hour session, Xavier Cortada spoke about how science can influence art…
Find out more »Global Executive MBA Welcome Reception 2021
For a third year, Cortada provided an official welcome to the University of Miami family to incoming Global Executive MBA students at his alma mater, the University of Miami, and presented his signed artwork depicting "The U" to all incoming and current students. Pictured above: Xavier Cortada, "Welcoming U to the Miami Business School: Your first step in a life-long journey," 5" x 7", archival ink on metal, 2018. --- You are formally invited to attend our Global Executive…
Find out more »Earthly Observatory at SAIC Galleries
Earthly Observatory explores how we sense, portray, and engage our deep planetary entanglements. Through crafted visions, close listening, and histories of conquest and protest, the exhibition examines the contested relations of ecology to economy, aesthetics to ethics that dominate our experience at one moment, and evades awareness in the next. Drawn from diverse practices across art, design, and the natural sciences, the works invite us to question the ways that we - as one among many earthlings - create our understanding…
Find out more »September 2021
Flower Force: Planting wildflowers at public art site
The Village of Palmetto Bay commissioned Xavier Cortada to create a sculpture of a sphere clad in ceramic flowers for the traffic circle on 168th Street and SW 82nd Avenue. On September 9, 2021, Cortada, Village staff, and members planted 100 coreopsis wildflower plants at the site of the public art commission. The dedication of the art piece and launch of the larger Flower Force project will take place on October 10, 2021.
Find out more »Cortada Collaborates with UM Law in Celebration of Constitution Day
https://youtu.be/5iMWF5_htSs Main | Peace | Justice | Democracy | Constitution Art | About | Event Xavier Cortada, Professor of Practice and Artist in Residence, will undertake a weeklong collaboration with the Miami Law community in celebration of Constitution Day. Taking prior works where the artist conjugates nouns like Peace, Justice, Democracy as if they were action verbs on blackboard as a point of departure, Cortada created “Constitution (is an action verb)” to encourage participants to animate democracy by protecting and defending their constitution. I Constitution…
Find out more »Miami Mangrove Forest Exhibition at Hibiscus Gallery
JOIN US FOR Miami Mangrove Forest also featuring Native Flags and 80.15W on exhibition from September 13, 2021 through June 12, 2022 at Hibiscus Gallery at Pinecrest Gardens By appointment only. Please contact info@hibiscusgallery.com for details. Learn more about Miami Mangrove Forest here. View the exhibit catalog Due to COVID-19, the listing above has been modified. Please visit hibiscusgallery.com/current-exhibitions for updated calendar.
Find out more »Code Red Global Day of Climate Action
Artist Xavier Cortada and Director Adam Roberti will be joining CLEO in the Global Day for Climate Action in Miami. Join them at Miami City Hall on Friday, Sept. 24, 2021 for their speeches at 2:00 p.m. and 2:45 p.m. See below for details. LET'S SUPPORT OUR YOUTH This Friday, join us, partner organizations, and youth from around the world to celebrate the Global Day for Climate Action! Our elected officials need to do more to protect humanity, our biodiversity,…
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