Inspired by the Coral Springs Museum of Art’s Healing with Art program, the City of Coral Springs, in partnership with the City of Parkland, was awarded support from Bloomberg Philanthropies’ 2018 Public Art Challenge in November 2018.
Join us as we welcome Carl Juste, the final artist featured in “Inspiring Community Healing After Gun Violence: The Power of Art.”
Meet and greet will be on February 4, 2020 at the Coral Springs Museum of Art at 6:30 pm.
RSVP for this Free Event HERE or by calling (954)340-5000.
About the Project:
Based on his ongoing, iterative project, The Big Picture, Carl Juste, along with his collaborators, developed a multi-faceted photo-documentary project for The Power of Art. Carl Juste is a award-winning photojournalist for the Miami Herald and founder of Iris Collective, a coalition of photographers, writers and cultural activists
Juste and his team led a workshop exploring the use of photojournalism as a form of self-expression and exploring ideas around healing, resiliency, bearing witness and capturing history. Participants are creating their own images and are telling their own stories that will become part of a catalog and a public presentation. The workshop took place in 4 sessions during the summer of 2019.
As part of the workshop, Juste and C.W. Griffin, also an award-winning photo-journalist, are capturing images and stories of the community focusing on documenting resiliency and healing through the eyes and stories of specific workshop participants.
About the Artist:
Under the threat of persecution, Haitian-born Carl–Philippe Juste, and his politically active family, were forced to flee their homeland in 1965. Settling in Miami’s Haitian community, Juste flourished academically and attended the University of Miami.
He vigorously pursued photojournalism and, since 1991, has worked as a photojournalist for The Miami Herald. Juste has covered many international and national stories for the Herald, including assignments in Haiti, Cuba, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq.
In addition, he has worked on various documentary projects for the museum, History Miami, including At the Crossroads: Afro-Cuban Orisha Arts in Miami (2001), South American Musical Traditions in Miami (2002), and Haitian Community Arts: Images by Iris Photo Collective (2006-2007), all were funded, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Juste has been a guest lecturer for various national organizations and universities. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, National Headliners, and POYi. His work has been exhibited in various prestigious institutions and galleries in Cuba, Dominican Republic and The United States.
In 2016, he won a prestigious Knight Arts Challenge grant to complete Havana/Haiti: Two Cultures, One Community, a book and exhibit of photographs and essays about Cubans and Haitians, to prove once and for all that Haitians and Cubans have more in common than most people understand.
As part of his ongoing independent work, in 1998, Juste co-founded Iris Photo Collective. Iris’ photographers, writers and culture activists create work that explores and documents the lives of people of color throughout the world with the goal of empowerment for all.
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