Sunday Painter

Sunday Painter began in 2016 as a platform to shine a light on local talent and peer into their sacred creative process. Weekly interviews have granted access to inspiring creatives working across multiple mediums. This podcast is a collage of sound that mirrors their current motivations, ongoing projects and upcoming shows; allowing artists to story-tell through various selected tracks. Artists are encouraged to invite a guest to collaborate with them on a show, forging new connections in the creative community.

Group exhibitions at the end of each season of recording promote awareness of the program and encourage local engagement in the community. Listeners are invited to a physical manifestation of the project. Seeing these works in relation to these episodes allow the viewer a unique insight into the intention and craftsmanship of the artwork. Site specific performances, panel programming and live broadcasting from local businesses encourage interaction during the run of the program.

We Got the Beat: Art Talk Radio Inspires Miami's Creative Community

Fresh Art International’s weekly talk show on Jolt Radio has the beat of Miami’s art scene. Live streaming with host Cathy Byrd, our conversations with culture makers—artists, curators, architects, writers and filmmakers—inform and inspire creative communities in our region and introduce South Florida to the world. 

We’re in this for the long haul! Launched in 2011 from a park bench in Brooklyn, Fresh Art International is now a Miami based, globally engaged, live streaming talk radio show, podcast and free online audio archive. In 2017, we received a Knight Arts Challenge Grant to support the growth and outreach of the inventive audio program that transports 20,000 monthly listeners to sites of creativity at the center and fringe of art scenes in Florida and across six continents. Infusing art talk radio about today’s art, design and film with unique sonic experiences and incisive conversations, our mission is to make contemporary art and culture relevant, fresh, inspiring and educational for the cognoscenti and the curious. We aim to stimulate listeners for decades to come! Learn more

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Public Hives

Public Hives promotes community pollinators by placing beehives in neighborhoods and parks in Miami. By creating greater access to educational opportunities, and presenting with the arts in mind , Public Hives inspires community members to learn alongside one another while observing and learning from other communities: bees! 

Programming encourages discourse about pollinators from an arts & culture standpoint, with a specific focus on visual arts, poetry, and sound installations. Funding will support artistic workshops and commissions.

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The Flagler Ecobarge

The Flagler Ecobarge will serve as a mobile decentralized food source and education center for the homeless living along the Flagler Canal system from NW 57th ave to NW 72nd ave. The barge functions as a floating garden made from trash collected from the canals with plants bearing fruits and vegetables along with an aquaponics/ irrigation system using water directly from the lake. Free workshops revolving around DIY agriculture will be held directly on the site. The goal of this work is to lay the foundation for these individuals living under the canal bridges to engage in sustainable practices with minimal resources to be fed organically and, ultimately, survive.

Levels and Bosses

Funds are requested for the development of Levels and Bosses: a digital game deconstructing the binaries and hierarchies that pervade not only video games, but also the mythologies and social structures of our globalized world. Subverting the boundaries between antagonist and protagonist, environment and individual, abstraction and representation, fine art and video game design, Levels and Bosses challenges understandings of sequential order, progression, and time that govern our late-capitalist imaginations.

White Noise: When Raindrop Whispers and Moonlight Screams in Silence

The body of work developed at the African Heritage Cultural Center residency program in Miami, FL would be an extension of an ongoing series titled "White Noise." White Noise examines the relationship between the living and malleable in coral reef bleaching, nostalgia as a reconstituted memory, and the socio-environmental experience of the African diaspora, particularly Afro-Caribbean’s, through ecological metaphors of black fragility, skin bleaching, and colorism. My goal for this solo exhibition is to develop a holistic body of work where communities of color are the keystone in conversations about seawater rise, climate change, and emergency preparedness.

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