First Annual Justin Macdonnell Award

With another year in the books, Miami Film Festival is thrilled to announce the full list of award winners from our 39th edition! Making its US premiere, the Haiti-set Freda directed by Géssica Généus, earned the Festival’s top jury prize, the $25,000 Knight MARIMBAS Award, supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, an international competition for new narrative feature … +

The Pérez Art Museum Miami in Florida has given its 2022 Pérez Prize to Los Angeles–based artist Rafa Esparza. The award, which honors artistic achievement, comes with a $50,000 unrestricted cash grant and was presented to the artist over the weekend at the museum’s annual Art of the Party gala. Esparza is among the most closely watched artists working in the U.S. … +

Oct 15th, 2010. 6:00 p.m. Tarell Alvin McCraney, award-winning international playwright will be offering a special gift to New World School of the Arts to celebrate his 30th birthday to launch NWSA’s 2010-2011 theater season.

Fall 2011. After 20 successful seasons, Miami Dade College’s (MDC) premier performing arts series, Cultura del Lobo, has changed its name to MDC Live! Performing Arts Series. When the series was inaugurated in 1991, it was limited to the Wolfson Campus (hence the name – a Spanish twist on Wolfson – “Lobo”) and served as a platform for progressive, mostly Latin American … +

July 2012. This summer, Arts for Learning (A4L) launched its newest initiative “ArtWorks” made possible through a recent $75,000.00 grant awarded by UBS, the global financial services firm. ArtWorks is a paid internship program in the arts for high school students who live in the surrounding neighborhoods of Miami’s Wynwood Arts District, namely, Overtown, Wynwood, Little Haiti, and Liberty City.

December 2009. This new space will house the personal collection of Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz and will serve as an extension of their home, which has been available for public viewing for the past fifteen years. The collection focuses on international contemporary art.