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SUMMER ART PROGRAM AND EXHIBITIONS AT MIAMI-DADE PUBLIC LIBRARIES MIAMI, JUNE 19, 2008- This summer, the Miami-Dade Public Library System is joining forces with the Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archive, for a series of exhibitions that examine two very different Miami artists, both intent on using art as a means to an end. One is Conni Gordon, a campy Miami Beach icon who melds art, personal development, and entrepreneurship. The other is the late Albert Robinson (1915-1996), an obscure visionary obsessed with making sculpture as a form of science. Both shows culminate in the Wolfson Archives' Rewind/Fast Forward Festival August 21-24. Exhibitions: Highly Variable-See Movie: Albert Robinson - from the archives of the Vasari Project and the Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archive Main Library, Auditorium The late artist Albert L. Robinson (1915-1996) posited “a theory that aesthetics can be reduced to the forces of gravity,” and that there could be “an extra-gravity aesthetics.” During the 1960s and 70s, Robinson worked in his South Miami backyard and garage, creating a body of sculpture and film work as a way to experiment with half-artistic, half-scientific theories about aesthetics, gravity, color, light, and time. Through a seminal collaboration between the Miami-Dade Public Library System’s Vasari Project and Lynn and Louis Wolfson II, Florida Moving Image Archive, the exhibition space itself will become a forum to experiment with the presentation of Robinson’s restored, small-gauge amateur films (regular and super 8mm), photographs, records, and obsessive scientific notes and observations. Think- it, Ink-it, Link-it, Sync- it: The Conni Gordon School The self-defined Miami Beach icon and entrepreneur Conni Gordon earned the title of “most prolific art teacher” in the Guinness Book of World Records by teaching millions of students (including crowds of Marines, IBM executives, and children) how to paint and draw in minutes. Through television programs, paint-along parties, art kits, and publications, Gordon invites people who don’t think of themselves as artists to “Think-it, Ink-it, Link-it, and then Sync-it.” This, she claims, will change their lives by teaching them to think, live, and act creatively. For this exhibition, we invited Gordon’s former students to submit their landscapes, seascapes, flowers, and faces for exhibition and asked: Did learning this process change them or the way they think? What are their stories? What is the result of a standardized and uniform way of teaching art? Art on Film and Video The Wolfson Archive's Invasion of the Historians film festival edition is a multimedia, multi-decade extravaganza. Legendary local art historian and critic Helen Kohen will guide you through more than 50 years of art on film and video. Kohen has culled moving image clips of art and artists in local television coverage, amateur films, video art and documentaries from the Library System's Vasari Project and the Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archive. Other Exhibition: Stories from the Florida Vault The Florida Collection has a story to tell. Vintage tourism and hotel brochures, steamship schedules (from when Miami was marketed as a package destination with Havana and Nassau), sheet music, posters, and photographs put the Sunshine State in the context of its time and reflect the evolution of public taste. This selection of Floridiana follows the history of our interesting state through artifacts of its tourism, commerce, culture, and everyday life. Check out an online selection of Florida links, gathered by library staff: Special Program and Film Screening: Gathering at the Crossroads of Arts and Activism with Alternate ROOTS Enjoy a day of networking, planning, and playing at the intersection of arts, activism, and community. Alternate ROOTS will talk (and listen) about arts and social change happening throughout the Southeast. Call 305.375.5048 for more information. Everything’s Cool – Film screening and discussion Watch Everything’s Cool, a feature documentary and ‘toxic comedy’ about global warming, and stay for a lively discussion about how climate change is affecting our own community. Check out www.everythingscool.org. About the Miami-Dade Public Library Art Services The Library also maintains a special collection of over 2,200 works of art. The collection includes works on paper, photographs, artists’ books, and small sculptures, with a focus on African American, Latino, and Miami artists. Additionally, the Vasari Project is an archive that documents the development of the visual arts in Miami-Dade County since 1945. It contains correspondence, press clippings, photographs, oral histories and other materials. The public may access both of these collections for research and reference. For more information, contact Art Services at 305-375-5048 or art@mdpls.org and contact the Vasari Project at 305-375-1550 or vasari@mdpls.org Victoria Galan, Public Affairs Officer Vinora Hamilton, Public Information Officer |
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