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Please join ARTSail, Blue Scholars, and Faena Art on Saturday, June 12th in Miami Beach, for a fun-filled community ocean celebration in honor of our ONE World Ocean. Planned activities along the shore of the Atlantic Ocean include beach cleanup, dune restoration, open water swim challenge, paddle-out ceremony, water quality testing demonstration, and much more. Art Installation by AMLgMATD.
Stay tuned for more information and link to register!
We are thrilled to share that The Coral Sonata, the outcome of our 2019 residency with artist Caecilia Tripp and sound architect Kerwin Rolland, was spotlighted in the April UN Ocean Action Newsletter! It is a great honor to be featured in such a prominent document. Click HERE to read the newsletter and find The Coral Sonata on page 12 along with a group of exciting hand-picked projects from the Voluntary Commitments to SDG14.
You can listen to The Sonata HERE and download The Coral Sonata ringtone HERE.
In the En-ROADS Climate Workshop participants propose climate solutions such as energy efficiency, carbon pricing, fossil fuel taxes, reducing deforestation, and carbon dioxide removal. The facilitator then tests these approaches separately or as a package in the En-ROADS Climate Solutions Simulator, so that participants can see the impact on global temperature and other factors.
This workshop helps build support for strategies to address climate change via interactive testing of the cutting-edge simulation model En-ROADS. The resulting experience is hopeful, scientifically-grounded, action-oriented, and eye-opening.
Bring your notebook and water bottle!
Suggested donation $15, Students $5, all proceeds to benefit climate awareness programs. The workshop will be held outdoors however masks are mandatory.
We are grateful to Ft. Lauderdale-based ArtServe for hosting this event. The virtual panel discussion is a continuation of the engaging conversations initiated during ARTSail’s first Lake Okeechobee expedition with our artist-in-residence Christina Pettersson in early February 2021, with Dr. Paul Gray and Belle Glade community organizer Robert Mitchell.
It will explore the complexities of the Lake O. region, addressing some of the social and ecological issues the local communities and natural ecosystem are impacted by today.
Taking a short break during the silent Lake Okeechobee Prayer Walk. Photo by Alex Markow
We ended our first Lake Okeechobee adventure with Christina Pettersson with the profound and unforgettable experience of joining Betty Osceola in her 6-day Prayer Walk around Lake O. Betty Osceola is a Native American grandmother, Everglades conservationist, anti-fracking and clean water advocate. She is a member of the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida of the Panther Clan. We are grateful for her tireless advocacy and for letting us join forces with her.
Speaking to Muck City Black Lives Matter founder, and #StopTheBurn campaign organizer, Robert Mitchell. Photo by Alex Markow
A huge thank you to Patrick Ferguson of Sierra Club Florida, for introducing us to one of the community leaders who are spearheading the #StopTheBurn campaign in Belle Glade. We discussed the damaging health effects of the pre-harvesting sugar cane burning practice and the complexities connected to the sugar industry and its strong hold on many of the communities, and their political representatives, who live around Lake Okeechobee.
At Gray Ranch with Dr. Paul Gray, Audubon Florida Director of Science. Photo by Alex Markow
WHERE RANCH LAND MEETS WET LAND. We were thrilled to kick-off Christina’s residency with Dr. Paul Gray, discussing the importance of ranch land in the context of Central Florida ecosystem, birdwatching and learning more about Lake Okeechobee water management system and the harmful algal bloom caused by excessive nutrients in its waters. Grateful to Dr. Gray, Deborah Mitchell for the introduction, Audubon FL and to our partners, Friends of the Everglades.
We are thrilled to be featured in a conversation between SHOWFIELDS Head Curator, Tam Gryn, and ARTSail Executive Director, Ombretta Agro’, discussing Art & Sustainability and how it manifests in SHOWFIEDLS Miami Beach location. CLICK ON THE IMAGE ABOVE TO OPEN THE PDF FILE.
The magazine can be purchased on Amazon HERE
Photo by Eli Peck
We are excited to announce that Christina Pettersson will be our next artist-in-residence. Over her year-long residency, we will explore the complexities of the Upper Evreglades and Lake Okeechobee regions with the assistance of our partners Bullsugar and Friends of the Everglades. Christina will collaborate with ARTSail 2017 alumna, curator and writer Blanca de la Torre, by creating the visual compendium for WATER ECOLOGIES FOR OUR SHARED FUTURE, a bilingual publication highlighting essential terms for understanding climate change and its impact in Central and South Florida,
A PANEL DISCUSSION AT SHOWFIELD MIAMI ON DEC 5 AT 4PM
In these unsettling and yet hopeful times, ARTSail Residency and Research Initiative, SHOWFIELDS and #ARTiculatingClimate have partnered up to discuss with a handful of Miami-based artists/activists how the concept of ‘political-timing-specific’ applies to their practice in the specific context of the climate emergency.
In the form of a dynamic and interactive conversation, this panel explores how cultural producers can make their own practices more sustainable and help communities do the same, while holding businesses and public servants accountable when they don’t. How can artists leverage their voices to shape policies that can have a real and lasting impact on our environment and our communities? Are there best practices we should be looking at and learn from?
From coral bleaching to the Everglades conservation efforts, through to the monumental issue of plastic pollution that is overwhelming our oceans and the preservation of indigenous culture, these four talented creators will share enlightening insights into their artmaking processes and how they are making a difference through their art and activism.
Thrilled to share the episode we recorded with a wonderful podcast, SDG Talks, which highlights Change Makers and their work around the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The founders’ passion is to highlight people and organizations that work towards the 17 goals that will transform the world into a more equitable place for everyone.
Click HERE to listen to the episode. Click HERE to listen to more episodes or subscribe to the podcast.
Art has become an indispensable method for increasing knowledge, raising appreciation, and inspiring action within the environmental movement.
ARTSail is teaming up with the advocacy group Bullsugar.org to present an engaging conversation exploring the power of art to build and establish an environmentally sensitive populace and the applications of that collective consciousness to elections that impact the future of Florida’s water.
Join us TOMORROW, Oct 21 at 1PM EST on Bullsugar.org Facebook Live feed here and on YouTube here
About the Speakers:
Artist and curator Deborah Mitchell lives and works in Miami Beach, Florida. Mitchell is self taught, but enhances her understanding of ecology with University of Florida Master Naturalist Program courses. Combining scientific research with artistic interpretation, Mitchell’s work maps changes in American wildlife corridors. The resulting photo-based collages and paintings draw largely on biological data about our changing environment and demonstrate the connections between living things and why they matter.
Blair Wickstrom is leading the efforts of a group of experienced water quality advocates and volunteer “county captains” who are responsible for the creation of VoteWater.org, a Bullsugar.org campaign that aims to help Florida voters identify clean-water candidates on the 2020 ballot. Blair is also the publisher of Florida’s largest fishing magazine, Florida Sportsman, and serves on the board of directors for Bullsugar.org.
Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava is a VoteWater.org-endorsed candidate for Miami-Dade County Mayor. She currently serves as a Miami-Dade county commissioner and is recognized as a longstanding champion in support of Everglades restoration. She is also known as the "water warrior".
The conversation will be moderated by Ombretta Agro' Andruff, ARTSail Executive Director
While the annual IKT Congress had to be postponed due to the pandemic, IKT resolved to organize a virtual gathering to connect with its members and the public at large during these challenging times. Over a period of 3 hours each day, 218 cultural producers from all over the world tuned in to hear from a diverse group of IKT members who shared their stories, experiences and best practices developed over the past few months; as well as from key note speakers and panelists exploring sustainable practices in our collective curatorial endeavors.
Journalist Till Briegleb, author of the insightful essay Consequence Paralysis delivered the key-note addressr on day 1; director of the Berliner Festspiele, Tomas Oberender, and curator of the ‘unplugged exhibition’ Down to Earth hosted by the Martin Gropius Bau in Summer 2020; Farid Rakun from the Indonesian collective ruangrupa, curator of the fifteenth edition of Documenta, and Lucia Pietroisuti, Curator of General Ecology at the Serpentine Galleries, were the featured speakers of the round table discussion I moderated on day 2.
Presenters featured in the Global Outlook session on day 1:
Juraj Carny (Independent Curator, Bratislava | Slovak Republic)
Biljana Ciric (Independent Curator, Melbourne | Australia)
O'Neil Lawrence (Senior Curator at the National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston | Jamaica)
René Morales (Curator at Pérez Art Museum, Miami | USA)
Rahraw Omarzad (Prof Faculty of Fine Arts Kabul University, Founder of the Center for Contemporary Arts Afghanistan CCAA & Founder of Women Art Center Kabul | Afghanistan)
Julien Robson (Independent Curator & Director of Great Meadows Foundation, Louisville, Kentucky | USA)
Paula Toppila (Executive Director and Curator of Pro Arte Foundation and IHME Contemporary Art Festival, Helsinki | Finland)
Eugenio Viola (Chief Curator of MAMBO Modern Art Museum of Bogota | Columbia)
Video presentations by
Nahela Hechavarría Pouymiró (Curator and Visual Art Specialist of Casa de las Américas, Havana | Cuba)
Marina Reyes Franco (Curator at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico (MAC), San Juan | Puerto Rico)Maayan Sheleff (Independent curator and artistic advisor of the Art Cube Artists’ Studios Jerusalem, Tel Aviv | Israel)
CLICK ON THE IMAGE ABOVE TO SEE THE SELECTION OF ARTWORKS CURATED AND TO WATCH THE VIDEO.
Join us for an online curatorial talk and art sale in collaboration with SHOWFIEDLS, the first platform where art and retail meet both in the physical and digital worlds.
I have selected 9 Miami-based artists whose practice explores environmental and ecological topics, spanning from the plight of corals and coral reefs die offs, to how man-made pollution is impacting the waterways surrounding Miami, and the climate crisis in general. While the issues addressed in their work are somber and dark in nature, these artists are able to create visually engaging and aesthetically captivating works that do not push the public away, on the contrary, can be used as entry points to better understand the complexity of the issues addressed.
Thrilled to share our second ARTSail conversation with World Champion Free Diver and Ocean Warrior AI FUTAKI. CLICK HERE to listen to our conversation!
Double Freediving Guinness World Record holder Ai Futaki (@aifutaki) is one of the very few people in the world who conveys the splendors of the sea to us in various ways including as an underwater video photographer, presenter and freediving instructor.
In 2011, she set two Guinness World records for the longest distance in a cave with fins in one breath and the other, without fins. By representing the aquatic realm in a way that the world has never seen, Ai highlights the meaning and expression of the human-water connection. Her films are featured on television programs, commercials, exhibitions and her image regularly graces the pages of magazines and books, including a recent collaboration with Issey Miyake.
So excited to start our series of ARTSail Conversations with Estonian swimming champion and mermaid ocean activist Merle Liivand. Tune in HERE to discover how Merle has been using her athletic talent and her passion and concern for the ocean to spread awareness about the issues that are afflicting our Blue Planet.
I was thrilled to participate in this webinar with a stellar group of ocean warriors sharing inspiring stories and efforts to preserve our Blue Planet.
Watch the unedited version of the video HERE.
See the recording of the interview Phil Rosenberg conducted with ARTSail Executive Director.
We are excited to share the recording from our webinar, we had over 100 people attending and a lively and engaging Q&A. Huge thank you to our amazing panelists and all of the attendees who celebrated World Oceans Day!
Public Discussion: “Hybris” led by Blanca de la Torre
June 28, 2017 | 7:30 pm
ArtCenter/Downtown | 1035 N. Miami Ave #300, Miami
As part of her ARTSail research residency, Blanca de la Torre will lead a discussion on Hybris, a group exhibition she curated at Contemporary Art Museum of Castilla y León (MUSAC), which sought to rethink the potential of art as a tool for action in relation to today’s environmental concerns.
This lecture is free and open to the public. It is part of the three day workshop ECOAESTHETICS. Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics organized by de la Torre for ArtCenter/South Florida.
Open to the public.