February 4, 2012
3pm

Guided Tour of Offerings by
Maria Thereza Negreiros
This event will be held in spanish and is organized by Letra Urbana.

February 8, 2012
6pm

Crossing the Boundaries: Art & Music with Orlando Garcia
Join us for a lecture and performance by
Orlando Garcia
Art and Music: New York/Miami Feldman/Garcia

Composer Morton Feldman spent parts of his life interacting with visual artists in New York, the results of which often greatly impacted his ideas on music. Feldman's intention was to create in music the sonorous equivalent of the "flat surface" present in the work of contemporary American painters whom he admired and knew so well; in particular, Mark Rothko and Philip Guston.

Tonight, we learn that Orlando Garcia, Professor of Music and director of the School of Music at Florida International University was fortunate enough to have had Feldman as a mentor. The lecture and performance will include a brief overview of Feldman's interaction with visual artists followed by a presentation on the impact that South Florida's visual artists have had on Garcia's work.

February 18, 2012
1pm-6pm

A Symposium: COLOR ON COLOR:
Artists, collectors, and connoisseurs will come together for the second symposium of the year, focusing on color on color. The symposium will be a further opportunity to exchange ideas on the meaning of the exhibit, the impact of color theory and the language of geometric abstraction today. The symposium is presented by The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University (FIU) in conjunction with MACBA, Museum of Contemporary Art Buenos Aires, on February 18, 2012. To RSVP please contact Jessica Lettsome at 305.348.2890. $10 general admission, $5 for students

February 22, 2012
6pm-9pm

Target Wednesday After Hours - ARTWORKS!
The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami-Dade County Public Schools Clinical Art Therapy Department and the New Life Family Center have united to present cultural support of art as a healing process through a collaboration entitled ARTWORKS! Be a part of the fourth annual student art therapy exhibit at The Frost Art Museum by attending the exhibit from February 22 through March 4, 2012. M-DCPS Clinical Art Therapy Department's exhibition theme, The Art of Relationship Building, challenges students to create a visual narrative on paper panels which are hung together to create a quilt. By retelling their story the students discover how their relationships have affected them while exploring and reconciling emotional conflicts.

In conjunction with the exhibition opening, on Wednesday, February 22, 2012 7pm-9pm, art therapists will conduct a free workshop, Art Heals: Exploring Relationships through Art, allowing for participants to experience the benefits of art therapy. Master Plan Points are available to M-DCPS personnel.
Contact M-DCPS Clinical Art Therapy Department for more info: http://arttherapy.dadeschools.net/

March 7, 2012
5pm

Green Critics' Lecture Series with
Juan Manuel Echavarria
THE WAR WE HAVE NOT SEEN, A HISTORICAL MEMORY PROJECT
Fee: Free

The 24 paintings included in this exhibition were created by men and women who participated in Colombia's war. All 35 participants were rank and file soldiers demobilized either under the Ley de Justicia y Paz (Justice and Peace Law), or because they deserted or were wounded in combat. They spent two years painting their personal experiences, illustrating the rural tragedy; witnessing the involvement of drug traffickers, capturing the painful repertoire of violence in Colombia, which for years has played out alongside daily life, blending in with normality. Curator: Ana Tiscornia

March 24, 2012 10am-4pm

How to Look at Art!
An educational workshop with Arthur Blumenthal
"How to Look at Art!" is a full-participation course, with guided exercises throughout the day. It doesn't teach art history, art theories, or art techniques, and it is not a lecture course. Participants are taught, in front of the museum's exhibits, ways to gain confidence in their own visual powers and experience. It offers a method to approach an individual work of art, to give profound aesthetic experiences. This one-day course lasts from 10 am to 4 pm. Dr. Arthur Blumenthal has taught to more than a thousand students since 1989. The workshop uses art history, but it is not strictly a lecture course. Instead, it is a fully participatory course utilizing works of art in The Frost Art Museum's galleries. Blumenthal, director emeritus of the Cornell Fine Arts Museum, teaches students a method of how to approach an individual work of art using their own visual powers and experience.

Fee: $50 Frost Art Museum members / $60 non-members, / $10 for FIU students and faculty. Limited spaces available. By RSVP only

March 28, 2012
6pm-9pm

Target Wednesday After Hours
Join us in the opening reception of The War We Have Not Seen by Juan Manuel Echavarria, Aesthetics & Values 2012 and the Masters of Fine Art students of FIU. This evening will include guided museum tours and light refreshments.

April 4, 2012
6pm

Meet & Mingle
Guido Montanari, Architect and PhD,
"History of Architecture and Urbanism" discussion in relation to exhibition Metropole/Colony: Africa and Italy
Fee: free

Guido Montanari is associate professor at the Faculty of Architecture 1 of the Polytechnic of Turin where he teaches History of contemporary architecture and History of the urban and territorial transformations. He is member of the scientific committee of the PhD "Cultural Heritage" and also member of the Board of Directors of the Polytechnic of Turin, Vice Dean deputy for logistics of the Faculty of Architecture 1. Recently appointed President of the Local Committee for the Landscape of the City of Turin, he has been a member of various committees of architectural competitions. He has conducted researches in the fields of modern and contemporary architecture and city planning in Italy and Europe and the results of his studies have formed the object of publications, speeches and reports at national and international conferences. His last work (with Andrea Bruno, Rome 2009) Architecture and city in Twentieth's Century is based on the belief that the history of contemporary architecture continues to be exceedingly centered on the great protagonists of the Modern Movement and their works and fails to look closely enough into the really significant elements that have shaped the structure of the land and the city.

April 6, 2012
3pm-5pm

Aesthetics & Values 2012 Panel Discussion

April 18, 2012
3pm

Women in Art – The Museum Exhibits Feature Women
Director's Lecture with Dr. Carol Damian, Director & Chief Curator of The Frost Art Museum
Fee: Free for MDCPS Teachers

Dr. Carol Damian is Professor of Art History in the School of Art and Art History and Director and Chief Curator of the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University. She is a graduate of Wheaton College in Norton, Mass., and received her MA in Pre-Columbian Art and her Ph.D. in Latin American History from the University of Miami. A specialist in Latin American and Caribbean Art, she teaches classes in Pre-Columbian, Colonial, Spanish and Contemporary Latin American Art, Modern Art surveys and Women in Art. Her most recent work has been with Latin American Women and the Cuban exile artists, for whom she has written numerous catalogs and articles. She is the author of The Virgin of the Andes: Art and Ritual in Colonial Cuzco (Grassfield Press, 1995) and is the Miami correspondent for Art Nexus and Arte al Dia.

April 18, 2012 6pm

Meet & Mingle with Artist in Resident, Michael Genovese
Fee: Free

The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University presents its first Artist-in-Residency/Open Studio program featuring Michael Genovese with P.S. USA (Public Scribing, 2008-2012). The lecture will address the process of art making in today¹s information filled landscape, emphasizing on cognitive human experience and its merge with industry and technology. Other topics will include the artist's role in contemporary society, its post-war history and future. P.S. USA, a process-focused project, that has taken place in Florida, Texas, California and Illinois, collects the spirit and attitude of Americans. Frost Artist in Residence, Michael Genovese, available to visit your high school classrooms for hands-on activity and lecture. The overview of the project will include plates, quotes, and documentation from previous locations. It will pose questions about contemporary American issues that are rooted in art, history, and the social sciences. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Genovese_(artist)

April 21, 2012
4pm

Green Critics' Lecture Series with
Ursula von Rydingsvard
Renowned for creating large-scale, often monumental sculpture from cedar beams which she painstakingly cuts, assembles, glues, clamps, and laminates, finally rubbing powered graphite into the work's textured, faced surfaces. Her signature shapes are abstract, with references to things from the real world. Drawing on a range of sources, from the humble to the majestic, von Rydingsvard's work is recognized for its great psychological force and powerful physical presence.

This lecture will be followed by the opening reception of Ursula von Rydingsvard: Sculpture

April 25, 2012
6pm-9pm

Target Wednesday After Hours

April 28, 2012
9am-4pm

Teacher Workshop
Xavier Cortada, Artist, Endangered World: Life Wall
Fee: Free Artist

Xavier Cortada will lead K-12 visual art teachers in a participatory, hands-on eco-art workshop that incorporates art (visual/performative), science (climate/environmental), and introduces his exhibition at the Frost Art Museum Endangered World: Life Wall. Xavier Cortada's Endangered World has addressed global biodiversity loss through art installations at the South Pole (2007), North Pole (2008), Holland (2009) and Florida's Biscayne National Park (2010), as well as through online participatory art projects -- see "Life Wall" at www.endangeredworld.org. SPONSORED BY THE DIVISION OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND LIFE SKILLS-ART EDUCATION AND THE FROST ART MUSEUM, MPPS: 7

May 2, 2012
6pm

Crossing the Boundaries: Art & Music with a special Polish program

June 27, 2012
6pm

Meet & Mingle with artist Lynn Gelfman
In this new body of work, Miami artist Lynne Gelfman continues experimenting with non-traditional materials and techniques. She intricately constructs the multiple layers of her paintings. Her work is often about illusion. From a distance, the surfaces appear to show thick paint, but up close, they are sanded fine and smooth.