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April 2021
UM Earth Day 2021 Letters to the Future
To reflect on Earth Day 2021, University of Miami Professor of Practice Xavier Cortada invites you to write an open letter to a student in the University of Miami’s Class of 2121. Although these letters are written for people not yet born, our true audience is those breathing in the present and, based on their actions, capable of delivering a better future. Follow the instructions below to share your letter for others to read, contemplate, and act on. To learn…
Find out more »Mayor Levine Cava Unveils the “How We Thrive” collaborative message mural
On April 19th, 2021, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava unveiled the official Thrive305 collaborative message mural, "How We Thrive." “This community mural symbolizes all of the incredible work that we’ve done together as part of this effort. The hundreds of volunteers, the hundreds of organizations that have supported the work, and the thousands of you who have shared your hopes, dreams, and concerns. This is what we’re going to do moving forward, and it’s symbolized by this incredible…
Find out more »Dedication of “Octopus Project” Socially Engaged Art Project at SEED School of Miami
On April 19th at 4:30 pm, Cortada will be dedicating his “Octopus Project” socially engaged art project at the SEED School of Miami. As part of Cortada’s ART 315 Socially Engaged Art course, Cortada’s University of Miami students worked with staff and students from the SEED School of Miami to develop the main Octopus Project 2021 school-wide socially engaged art project to find and address an issue the group finds to be important to the broader school community. A select group of SEED School students,…
Find out more »Roundtable on Immigration Policy for a New Era
University of Miami's Presidential Initiative on Immigration and Social Change presents Immigration Policy for a New Era, hosted by UM's Institute for the Advanced Studies of the Americas. Established in 2015, the University of Miami Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas brings together relevant scholarship, furthers policy dialogue, and builds strategic knowledge partnerships to address challenges faced by the Americas in the 21st century. Building on the foundational work, trajectory, and interests of the Center for Hemispheric Policy and the Center for…
Find out more »Native Flags at the Community Resilience Pod at Zoo Miami for Earth Day
Native Flags visits the "Community Resilience Pod" at Zoo Miami on Earth Day. On April 22nd, our team will provide programming in the 40-foot shipping container turned into a mobile space for Miami-Dade residents to explore solutions to local threats like extreme heat, sea-level rise, and pandemics. The program is presented by the Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center in collaboration with Miami-Dade County's Office of Parks, Recreation and Open Spaces and Office of Resilience. Click here to learn more about Native Flags. ABOUT THE COMMUNITY RESILIENCE POD Transformed…
Find out more »Stronger Together: Interprofessional & Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration
Main | About | Statement | Events | Media On April 23, FIU physicist Pete Markowitz and Cortada will discuss their collaboration in creating the five banners that marked the discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN in 2013. Back then, Cortada served as artist in residence at the FIU College of Architecture and the Arts, and Dr. Markowitz represented the University in the CERN collaboration. This talk will discuss interprofessional and cross-disciplinary collaborations. Art@CMS (2013) About Xavier Cortada and Pete Markowitz were…
Find out more »Plan(T) at RETHINK MB
The City of Miami Beach has created a community event series in Lummus Park called RETHINK MB. RETHINK MB (January 2021 through June 2021). Featuring engaging and refreshing activities to open the mind and invigorate the body, these free, family-friendly programs involves the curation of five events are driven by community leaders and trailblazers. RETHINK MB provides a platform, and a voice to authentically (re)think the way we live, play, create and experience life (resolution, discovery, reflection, movement, and transcendence). April…
Find out more »CIES Mural Unveiling
CIES Artist-in-Residence | Main | Antarctic Ice Paintings | Keynote Plenary | vCIES Letters to the Future Mural | Longitudinal Installation | Miami Corona Project Videos As the vCIES 2020 Artist-in-Residence, Xavier Cortada delivered a keynote plenary speech to conference attendees, engaging them online in a ritualistic performance addressing climate change, and asked them to participate in creating his “Letters to the Future” mural. The final mural will be displayed on the project page as soon as it is finished and will be unveiled during the…
Find out more »Painting Constitutional Law – An Author Discussion with the Association of American Law Schools
Date: Tuesday, April 27, 2021 2:00 – 3:00 PM ET Webinar Description: This panel will discuss the recent book “Painting Constitutional Law”, a collection of ten essays and accompanying paintings illustrating important Supreme Court Constitutional cases that concerned the State of Florida. Artist Xavier Cortada will discuss his motivation and inspiration for each of the paintings illustrating these cases, and leading Constitutional scholars will comment on the cases and their significance. Learning Objectives: Explore the connection between visual…
Find out more »Launch of Octopus Project at Universidad Austral
After weeks of virtually attending the ART 315 Socially Engaged Art course “The Octopus Project” lectures, a multidisciplinary team of professionals and practitioners from Universidad Austral, Buenos Aires presented today their social engagement participatory project to be implemented in Posta Sanitaria Las Lilas, a social project that provides health and wellness support services (education, finance, sports, and spiritual formation) to a marginalized community in the periphery of Buenos Aires. “Proyecto Flor Posta Sanitaria” aims to involve the community as main actors of…
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