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ART SPOTLIGHTS RISING SEAS

Hoffman Boardroom, Pérez Art Museum Miami, 1103 Biscayne Blvd | Transportation Options

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Bringing unique communication skills infused with activism, the creative minds of artists, writers, poets, performers and others contribute to public awareness of rising seas and the consequences, sparking ideas for green solutions. Art must join with science to advocate for change. This panel focuses on Miami and its Caribbean neighbors, ground zero for the threat of sea rise and other disasters accompanying climate change.

Elisa Turneris an award-winning art critic and journalist. She was the Miami Herald’s primary art critic for over a decade (1995-2007), with assignments to cover biennials in Havana, Cuba and Venice, Italy. Since the 1980s, she’s functioned as the Miami correspondent for the magazine ARTnews. She currently teaches at Miami Dade College, Kendall campus, while continuing to write and speak professionally. Moreover, she’s an active volunteer in Miami’s art and civic community.
 
Raymond Elman is an artist who made abstract art for the first half of his career and turned to large-scale portraits three decades ago. He previously lived in the Provincetown art colony, where he Co-founder Provincetown Arts magazine in 1985, and served on museum and theater boards. In Miami he has continued to make portraits of people in the arts communities, and he is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Inspicio arts publication platform.
 
Tina Spiro began her artistic career at Skidmore while still an undergraduate as the protégé of sculptor David Smith. She began teaching at Hunter College and was part of the NYC art scene until she moved to Jamaica in 1969, teaching there at the Edna Manley College and UWI. She became one of the foremost artists in the Caribbean, bringing her knowledge and interests back to the US when she moved to Miami for a decade and taught at the FIU. She is founder and director of the Miart Foundation since 2003, an art forum to promote Miami as an art destination, support Caribbean Art and promote environmental and humanitarian awareness through art. She has additionally served as the Director on the Board of Management of the National Gallery of Jamaica since 2012.
 
Dr. Carol Damian is the former Director and Chief Curator of the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum and retired Professor of Art History in the School of Art and Art History at Florida International University. A specialist in Latin American and Caribbean Art, her most recent work has been with Latin American Women and the Cuban exile artists, for whom she has written many catalogs and articles. She is the author of The Virgin of the Andes: Art and Ritual in Colonial Cuzco (Grassfield Press, 1995) and is the Miami correspondent for Art Nexus and Arte al Dia.