Jazz is BACK for another season on the Coral Gables Museum Plaza. Join us for the kick-off event featuring the Brian Lynch Artist Ensemble. Break up the work week with lunchtime concerts on the Plaza every Wednesday through March 30, 2016 at 12:15 PM. Lunch for sale. Catering by Lovables. The music is free! Sponsored in part by the City of Coral Gables, Miami Jazz Cooperative and Coral Gables Hospital. For more information about featured artists, visit jazzinthegables.org.
Free.
INSIDE THE CORAL GABLES MUSEUM:⠀
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Geandy Pavón. DAY #24; “Ofelia”. From the Series: “Quarantine: 40 Days and 40 Nights”, 2020. Courtesy of the artist⠀
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“The only possible revenge against the pandemic is in the hands of science, in the form of a vaccine, and in art, in the form of catharsis. The need from which I started this series is common to every artist, that vital impulse that leads us to further complicate reality, because art does not explain, but rather complicates reality even more. Making art in seclusion is a challenge: on the one hand, you have all the time to perfect an idea, and on the other hand, all the material limitations to execute it. I have tried to do my best with that ingredient which is time to think, and the few things within my reach to create these images. The great explosion of the pandemic seized me in the city of Buffalo, in the state of NY, about 6 hours from my neighborhood in northern NJ, on the banks of the Hudson River off the island of Manhattan. Being the area where I live the epicenter of the pandemic in the USA, I decided to stay with my partner Imara López at her residence on Fargo Street in Buffalo. I just brought a camera and an off-camera flash with me. Seeking to take advantage of our time in seclusion, we began working on a series of daily photographs. The Ideas began to flow and in proportion the problems, obstacles, and lack of the right equipment to make them come true. 398 miles away from my studio in NJ and with only two stores open: Dollar Tree and Target, the only solution was to create the instruments to be able to work.” ¬– Geandy Pavón ⠀
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From the exhibition "Quarantine: 40 Days and 40 Nights; A Photographic Series by Geandy Pavón” December 1st, 2020 – February 4th, 2021| Community Meeting Room, Coral Gables Museum.⠀
*This exhibition is made possible through the generous support of Laura Blanco, Robert Shainheit, and the In Art We Trust Foundation.⠀
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Learn more about the show by visiting the link in our bio!⠀
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Art at the Park Classes: Valentine's Day Promotion still stands!
From now until February 14th, sign up for lessons with your significant other for a special BOGO offer.
All classes purchased within these dates will be validated for TWO sessions- so you can share in the joy and benefits of outdoor art with your friend or loved one, or transfer the BOGO offer to enjoy 2 separate lessons for yourself!
Visit our website for available class listing, dates, and times.
After registration, we will contact you to confirm promotion details.
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We are pleased to announce our collaboration with Full Moon Glow-Up!
This Full Moon “Glow-Up” event on January 28th, will be hosted by Diario Las Americas Journalist Grethel Delgado, and it will feature a beauty and retail market hour from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. with special pop-ups by Purple Lotus Spiritual Healing, and Candles by Janet.
During the event, guests will enjoy beats by DJ Mahtayo while sipping complimentary cocktails and cold-pressed juices by Lo Bueno Juices. For an extra touch of glam, Kairos Hair Salon will activate a special hair braid station and Henna Artist Seema will be applying henna designs for $10- $15. The event also features a live painting of “The Moon Shadow Series” by local Miami based artist Adriana Jay. Starting at 8:00 p.m., guests will be able to relax, meditate, stretch and unwind during a one-hour yoga class led Yoga Instructor Christine Gagen.
Tickets are $25 per person ($15 for Museum members) and a portion of the proceeds will benefit the Museum's exhibitions and programs. Visit the link in our bio to purchase yours now!
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Initially published in 2018, this new, updated, and expanded edition of "Sculptress Forgotten" includes many pieces of the enigma that was Joan Keller.
"Sculptress Forgotten: Art, The Great Depression, and the Tumultuous Life of Joan Keller"
One of many iconic images of Coral Gables, America's 'City Beautiful', are the oversized heads of the two firefighters sculpted in keystone above the former city police and fire station. It was known that the busts were carved by a young sculptress named Joan Keller, but who she was and what happened to her had always remained a mystery. When the old fire-station was eventually converted into the Coral Gables Museum, the Museum Director, John Allen and Orestes Gonzalez became determined to solve the mystery of this elusive young artist. This book chronicles their discovery of the sad but fascinating life of this beautiful, forgotten sculptress – who was briefly “The Cinderella Girl of the Florida Art World,” while putting into context the compelling story of America's progress through the mid-twentieth century.
Available January 2021 on Amazon and at the Coral Gables Museum!
Donation Drive!
Our TMP Club is hosting a baby wipe and soft book drive for donation to the Linda Ray Children's Center.
The Linda Ray Children's Center, based in Miami, Florida, has been dedicated to helping infants in need since 2012.
A donation box has been placed in our Withers Family Lobby for anyone to drop off items.
For high-school students in need of community hours, visit the link in our bio for more information on how you can help!
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A great lady, a historian without peer, a valued mentor, and a cherished friend.
Arva Moore Park's legacy lives on in the Coral Gables Museum, as the permanent curator of "Creating the Dream", in which her name will forever be stamped.
Happy MLK Day from the staff at Coral Gables Museum!
INSIDE THE CORAL GABLES MUSEUM:⠀
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Telfar Clemens. “Large Orange Shopping Bag”, 2014.⠀
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Telfar Clemens is a fashion designer and founder of the brand TELFAR. He was born in Queens, New York, to Liberian parents. At the age of five, he went to live in Liberia with his mother and four siblings and came back to the US after the outbreak of the second Liberian civil war (1999-2003). In 2002, he moved to New York to pursue a career in modeling, and the following year he started a collection of deconstructed and reconstructed vintage clothes which he sold in boutiques on the Lower East Side and in Soho. ⠀
His Shopping Bag, that comes in three sizes, became the label’s best-selling item and has humorously been referred to as “the Bushwick Birkin”, except it is much more affordable. “The Telfar brand is built on Clemens’ consistency in honoring the concept of community with a democratic approach to clothing. Telfar provides for the truly fashionable post-identity generation of the moment, rallying the label’s fanbase with a bold collectivist maxim: ‘It’s not for you—it’s for everyone.’ ” ¬says Office Magazine.⠀
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From the exhibition "PURSEonality; A Stylish Handbag History” September 15, 2020 – March 7, 2021 Abraham R. Family Gallery & Gallery 109⠀
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Click the link in our bio to learn more about the show!⠀
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Jaime Ávila ⠀
Sastrería Americana - Capitolio de día, 2020 ⠀
American Tailoring - Capitol at Daytime, 2020 ⠀
textile collage, 53 x 61 x 2.75 inches ⠀
Courtesy of Jorge M. Pérez Collection ⠀
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Jaime Ávila ⠀
Sastrería Americana - Capitolio de noche, 2020 ⠀
American Tailoring - Capitol at Nighttime, 2020 ⠀
textile collage, 53 x 61 x 2.75 inches ⠀
Courtesy of Jorge M. Pérez Collection ⠀
Photos: Geandy Pavon⠀
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Status is culturally communicated in many forms, from the architecture of buildings to the fashion choices people make. Jaime Ávila (Boyacá, Colombia, 1968 - 2020) merged these two seemingly disparate languages to create a vocabulary that allowed him to comment on the power dynamics between the State and the individual. White shirt fabric with fine stripes, or what he would call “fabric from the suit of a young lawyer”, are among the materials he employed in his textile collages. ⠀
In American Tailoring, the U.S. Capitol building is represented under daylight and nightlight. The carefully-matched stripes of the fabric remind us of the lined paper of legal pads and establish a relationship between the elite running these government institutions and the institutions themselves. The predellas of faceless “men in the grey flannel suits” could be taken as a proposed typology of materials and their meaning for Ávila. In his pencil annotations, the different patterns and makes are matched with occupations and rooms inside this symbolic building.⠀
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From the exhibition "Alien Nations 2020" Carol A. Fewell Gallery December 1st, 2020– March 14th, 2021⠀
Curated by Bartholomew Bland and Yuni Villalonga⠀
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Learn more about the show at the link in our bio! ⠀
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Due to the wonderful response to "Quarantine: 40 Days and 40 Nights", both from the public and the press, we are pleased to announce that the exhibition will be extended until February 4th, 2021. You can still visit the Museum to enjoy this insightful photographic essay on life during a pandemic, by artist Geandy Pavón. The works are accompanied by a master interpretation of Cuban musician Jose White’s song La Bella Cubana, by Paquito D’Rivera.
#coralgablesmuseum #40daysand40nights #geandypavon #grandypavonphotographer #inartwetrustfoundation
Art at the Park Classes: Valentine's Day Promotion
From now until February 14th, sign up for lessons with your significant other for a special BOGO offer!
All classes purchased within these dates will be validated for TWO sessions- so you can share in the joy and benefits of outdoor art with your friend or loved one, or transfer the BOGO offer to enjoy 2 separate lessons for yourself!
Visit our link in bio for available class listing, dates, and times.
After registration, we will contact you to confirm promotion details.
#art #park #artatthepark #ingrahampark #coralgables #painting #photography #drawing #artclasses #artlessons
For anyone who was unable to attend our artist panel this past Saturday, the recorded session is now available online! See link in bio!
Special thanks to the participating artists Eddie Arroyo, Thomas Bils, Camille Eskell, and Kandy G. López, and co-host Lehman College Art Gallery.
To celebrate Valentine’s Day, the Museum is offering a one-hour Valentine’s Day Special on Friday evening, February 12 at 6:30 PM.
The presentation, ‘Love and Wine in a Time of Cholera’ will be accompanied by two wines while Patrick Alexander, the Museum’s resident oenophile, examines, some of the greatest and most passionate Love Pairings in history, from Anthony & Cleopatra, and Pyramus & Thisbe, to Tristan & Isolde and Heloise & Abelard.
To reserve your place in the class, sign up and pay at the link in our bio or call the Museum at 305-603-8067. The cost is $30 per household and will occur at 6:30 PM on Friday, February 12.
See you tomorrow @ 2 PM via Zoom!
We will be having an interesting conversation with artists Eddie Arroyo, Camille Eskell, Kandy López, and Thomas BIls, and the curators of the show "Alien Nations 2020" Bartholomew F. Bland and Yuneikys Villalonga.
Register before the meeting begins to join in on the talk!
See link in bio to register.
See you tomorrow in our Loggia/Courtyard from 1-5 pm for art, music, and family fun!
Enjoy a live performance by South Florida Chapter Ensemble, and our Arts Market, where local vendors will be showcasing their craft!
Join artists Eddie Arroyo, Camille Eskell, Kandy López, and Thomas Bils, and the curators from the exhibition Alien Nations 2020 for a lively 90-minute discussion of how Artistry intersects with Alienation to spark the creative impulse.
Among the timely questions that will be explored in the session are how does the enforced isolation of a pandemic shape an artist’s practice? How does the embrace of heated social justice issues spur artistic engagement? How have the chaotic events of the past year shifted the discussion of artists engaging with arts institutions? How can alienation lead to depression and a loss of creativity? How can we employ the visual arts as solace that can help heal societal alienation?
See link in bio RSVP
FREE!
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INSIDE THE CORAL GABLES MUSEUM:
From the exhibition PURSEonality: A Stylish Handbag History"
Lady Dior Bag, 1994. The bag was gifted to Diana, Princess of Wales in 1995 by France’s First Lady, Bernadette Chirac. In 1996, it was renamed Lady Dior Bag, as an homage to the princess. Designed by Christian Dior, Paris, France
On view in our Abraham Family Gallery & Gallery 109 until March 7th, 2020.
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Don't forget, this Saturday @ 2 pm!
Join artists Eddie Arroyo, Camille Eskell, Kandy López, and Thomas Bils, and the curators from the exhibition Alien Nations 2020 for a lively 90-minute discussion of how Artistry intersects with Alienation to spark the creative impulse.
Among the timely questions that will be explored in the session are how does the enforced isolation of a pandemic shape an artist’s practice? How does the embrace of heated social justice issues spur artistic engagement? How have the chaotic events of the past year shifted the discussion of artists engaging with arts institutions? How can alienation lead to depression and a loss of creativity? How can we employ the visual arts as solace that can help heal societal alienation?
Click the link in our bio to RSVP for FREE!
#aliennations2020 #aliennations #contemporaryart #yvillalonga #coralgablesmuseum #painting #sculpture #installation #curatorship #artinmiami #miamiart #lcag #bartbland #lehmancollegeartgallery #bartonart
Join us at the Coral Gables Museum this Saturday from 1-5 PM for engaging fun family activities: enjoy a live performance by South Florida Chapter Ensemble in the courtyard, and visit the Art Market in our Loggia, where local artists and vendors will be showcasing their craft to the community.
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Is expressing more of your creativity one of your New Year’s resolutions? Join us at Ingraham park to capture the beauty of nature!
On January 5th our Art at the Park session will be focused on the fundamentals of photography.
Snag a deal and sign up for the 4 sessions, or sign up for individual sessions!
Class package: $80 Members, $120 Non-Members
Single session: $40 Members, $60 Non-Members
Fitness Night 
