Rocking Chair Sessions

Born and raised in Queens, New York, I have been sewing and creating quilt pieces for over 20 years. I’ve exhibited work in various venues in South Florida, including The Boca Art Museum, The Coral Gables Museum, 6th Street Container, Hollywood Art & Culture Center, Girls Club of Fort Lauderdale, and Turn-Based Press. I've had the opportunity to do various residencies at The Deering Estate, the Artist in Residence in the Everglades (AIRIE), ArtCenter/South Florida, and The Studios of Key West.

http://www.reginajestrow.com/

Yuneikys Villalonga graduated from Art History at the University of Havana, Cuba (2000) and went to serve as Curator at the Ludwig Foundation of Cuba, for the next four years. During this time, she was also teaching Contemporary Caribbean Art at the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in Havana. In 2004, she won the National Curatorship Award from the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) with the exhibition, Së Bashku-Juntos-Tillsammans presented at the 2nd Tirana Biennial of Contemporary Art (Tirana, Albania, 2003) and at the Uppsala Museum (Uppsala, Sweden, 2004.)

Rook's multi-disciplinary practice investigates various artistic mediums to uncover cultural threads, so to speak- the 'fabric' of reality. He believes that culture can be seen as a textile manuscript. It carries techniques, methodologies, history, and values, intersecting and weaving as threads of meaning and agency, oscillating for primacy in their manifold representations.

Sarah Michelle Rupert is a visual artist and arts professional living and working in South Florida. Working with photography, video, collage, drawing and animation. Revolving around consumer, mass-communication and television culture in contemporary experience. Navigating the complexities inherent in this brave new digital world, with a wanderlust for the sublime, the humor and the beautiful.

http://www.sarahmichellerupert.com/

Lino, who works in a variety of media, describes her two most recent series, Working Hands and Agua/Water, this way: “I experiment with the interdisciplinary fusion of the visual arts and the documentary mode by combining drawing, video, digital media and animation with material that is traditionally considered documentary: interviews, still images, recorded sound and archival and appropriated footage.”

https://www.marialino.com/

Dr. Jill Deupi is the Beaux Arts Director and Chief Curator of the University of Miami’s Lowe Art Museum. Prior to assuming this position in 2014, Dr. Deupi was Director and Chief Curator of University Museums at Fairfield University, where she was also an Assistant Professor of Art History.

Kiki Valdes, born in 1981, is a Cuban American artist based in Miami, FL. He studied painting, drawing, and poetry at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. He spent many months painting from the masters at the Walters Museum of Art during his training at school. Currently, he is best known for combining nostalgic cartoon imagery with a historical art context.

http://www.kikivaldes.com/

All Things Creative.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kerrymclaney/

http://www.305creativegroup.com

These sculptures take this dynamic as both the essential human drama, and as our essential refuge from it. In the same way that a work of architecture shelters and becomes alive with the activity that fills it, these sculptures are perceptual environments that hold a continuous transformation of light and space. Reflections in mirrors create a world that extends into the immaterial. Subtler reflections in glass create infinities within infinities. To point at the endless, the works use abrupt truncation.

http://brookhartjonquil.com/

Ana Mendez is a professional dancer, performance artist and Bodytalk practitioner from Miami. She has been commissioned by the Adrienne Arsht Center through Miami Light Projects’ Here and Now Festival, the de la Cruz Collection, Miami Art Museum, ArtCenter/South Florida, the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami and Bas Fisher Invitational. She is an artist fellow for the Artist in Residence in the Everglades program.

http://www.anamendez.info/