ART + EXHIBITS
We welcome a diverse array of artists across various stages of their careers, with a particular emphasis on showcasing emerging to mid-level talents. Our commitment lies in curating engaging exhibitions that span different mediums and techniques, featuring artists from both local and international backgrounds. Exhibitions are refreshed approximately every eight weeks, ensuring a dynamic experience for visitors of all ages, without any admission fees.
There are numerous avenues for artists, creators, and supporters to engage with our museum and gain recognition. Opportunities include showcasing and selling artwork in our gallery, participating in workshops, responding to calls for artists, attending art sales and events, and joining the Coral Springs Artist Guild as an active member. However you choose to get involved, we’re thrilled to welcome you and sincerely appreciate your support!
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Barrio Alto, Sementerxs, Dialogues Across Paths | MAIN GALLERY
Edison Peñafiel, Mitzi Falcón & Amanda Linares
AUGUST 1 – OCT 5 2024
Barrio Alto delves into the intricate web binding real estate, construction, and socio-economic dynamics. This photographic series presents a narrative through meticulously crafted dioramas, assembled from the medium of cardboard. Each diorama unveils a unique scene, portraying disparities in the construction and cost of housing. The title, Barrio Alto, plays with ambiguity, signifying both an affluent neighborhood and a poverty-stricken favela. Rooted in this duality, the series prompts us to challenge preconceived notions about social and economic status, coaxing our contemplation of the ramifications of urban development and gentrification. Within Barrio Alto, the lens captures the disparities in housing construction costs across different locales. It seeks to elucidate the role played by materials in sculpting these differences. The series’ approach employs cardboard as its primary medium, amplifying the fragility and impermanence of the structures portrayed. This choice underscores the influence of materials in crafting the final product of human habitation.
Edison Peñafiel, originally from Ecuador, migrated to the United States in 2002. Since graduating from the Florida International University’s Fine Arts program in 2016, he concentrated his practice on numerous large scale projects, site-specific, and immersive installations projects presented at The Bass Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, the Orlando Museum of Art, the Elsewhere Museum, the Contemporary Art Center New Orleans, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the USF Contemporary Art Museum, the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, Atchugarry Art Center, among others. Notable awards include: the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Florida Prize in Contemporary Art, the South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship, the Green Family Foundation, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.
His work has recently been exhibited at the Consulate of the United Mexican States in Miami, Corridor Project – Oslow Norway and the Untitled Art Fair in Miami and is part of several private collections.
Sementerxs centers the LGBTQ+ community through a portrait series of construction workers who have left their tropical hometown of San Andres Tuxtla, Veracruz to work among steel frame and drying concrete of Mexico City construction zones. Amidst the gray concrete and intense physical labor, they celebrate their femininity. They challenge societal paradigms and proclaim their strength, internal and external. Sementerxs is an homage to resilience. It is a loudspeaker for those who fight for their dreams daily, and those who will not be held back from accepting and loving themselves with pride.
Mitzi Falcón trained as a designer and visual communicologist at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and as a self-taught artist. Mitzi’s visual proposal fuses her experiences with various contemporary issues such as neurodivergences, migration, gender inequalities and social inequalities; Falcón not only seeks to convey an opinion or judgment on these issues, but through the inclusion of objects with high symbolic content and the recreation of scenic fictions, she seeks reflection, resonance and critical analysis of the viewer. She works with photography and scenography.
Amanda Linares is a Cuban-born visual artist who currently lives and works in Miami. Her work expands like branches using an immense variety of media from design and drawing to installation and photography. Influenced by literature and spatial awareness, Amanda’s work contains poetic language while exploring narration and/or space through the use of reflection, transparency, revelation, found objects, and typographical solutions. Although in constant change, her work intimately dances between many universal issues, such as identity, displacement, absence, and reconnection. Her eagerness for learning new ways to express herself led her to study graphic design at New World School of the Arts. She is currently a resident artist at the Bakehouse Art Complex.
BEFORE I FORGET | EAST GALLERY
Kristin Beck
AUGUST 1 – OCT 5 2024
Before I Forget is a series about dementia, memory, and identity. The body of work, created in response to helping my father who has dementia, visually represents the impaired and declining cognitive functions and memory lapses with portraits, 3D objects, and interactive elements. Some themes include repetition, reminders, response delays, reduced capacities, and realizations of losing a sense of self. In concert with these depictions are audience participation stations and a community building project.
“As a multidisciplinary artist my studio practice is fueled by the color and rhythm of the subtropics combined with the love of making functional pieces, like handmade books or quilts. I am fascinated by how things are made, and the storytelling derived from learning a process, particularly ones that are passed down through generations. I create pieces using multiple mediums to broaden the visual texture of a body of work.” – Kristin Beck
Kristin Beck is a writer, artist, and native Floridian, which provides colorful characters along with the intense humidity. Influenced by the area’s vibrant culture, her work relies on crustacean-hued memories and is imbued with the sound of wild parrots set free by Hurricane Andrew. Beck has exhibited in nearly 50 exhibitions, including Best in Show at Girls’ Club, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., and Gritty in Pink at Bailey Contemporary Arts, Pompano Beach, Fla., Last Blast at Frenchy Gallery, New Orleans, La., and Curators as Artists at Warehouse Gallery, Orlando, Fla. In 2024, she received an Artist Support grant from the Broward Cultural Division.
TOURS + OUTREACH
Museum tours are designed to give visitors an exciting visual arts experience of our exhibition(s) for all ages. Led by our volunteer docents or museum educators, guided tours of the museum bring to life our special exhibitions both indoors and out. For more information and/or to request a tour CLICK the Tour Request button below.
MUSEUM STORE
The MUSEUM STORE is our curated gallery shop filled with one of a kind arts and wares. We offer opportunities for Makers and Artists to display and sell their original creations throughout the year. We market, sell and present your goods during both private and public events. We present your sold goods to customers and collectors in a beautiful package ready to be given as a gift or gifted to yourself.
CALL FOR ENTRIES
We offer call for entries from time to time. Please keep your eyes peeled for a future call. In the meantime, check out our upcoming events through our profile on artscalendar.com, courtesy of the Broward County Cultural Division.
