The Wolfsonian–Florida International University tells the story of how artists ventured beyond the traditional content and form of landscape art to make sense of a rapidly changing world in The Big World: Alternative Landscapes in the Modern Era. On view beginning September 21, 2023, the exhibition moves from bucolic scenes to an increasingly industrial world, represented not only on canvas, but also on furniture, ceramics, glass, and textiles from The Wolfsonian’s expansive collection. The Big World is co-curated by Wolfsonian…

#CAN1872P is a public project featuring interactive gabion-style benches that contain locally salvaged materials and debris. As a sculptural project, #CAN1872P refers to Robert Smithson’s non-site containers – minimal shaped structures that function as abstract representations of actual physical places via the accumulation of materials (generally rock or sand) sourced from sites other than the place of exhibition. As opposed to a specific geographic or spatial displacement, the materials contained within the #CAN1872P project – chunks of construction-salvaged-Oolite and South…

June 21 – Dec. 17, 2023 This project addresses a speculative space through the environment of the Indian River Lagoon. What did La Florida look like before the colonial era? What did the mangrove estuary mean to my family that moved to Florida in the 1920s?  

Loni Johnson’s work has been centered on dealing with nurturing her inner self, the Little Loni, and using this process to address unsettling trauma that continues to resurface in her life. The word Asake translates from Yoruba to English as “a daughter picked or selected to be pampered and cherished”. This word reflects the inner work being done by the artist to confront and continue to heal from the past.

A number of changes were seen around the world as a result of 2020. Relationships, communities, our understanding of one another were shifted as we were all either separated or forced together. In some cases, bonds were changed beyond recognition, and in others, only for the better. This exhibition is an invitation to recompose, reintroduce, and reimagine a few artworks that took their first breath at such a tumultuous time. With time and reflection, they take their place among the…

A vibrant new photography exhibit is headed to the Art Deco Museum at the Art Deco Welcome Center, as part of its revamped Featured Local Artist program. “Save My Little Havana” by writer and photographer Steve Wright tells the story of his neighborhood’s many historic residential and commercial buildings. An Ohio native who first came to Miami Beach while working on a story on a local cruise ship, Wright says a guided MDPL tour he took in the late 1990s inspired…

Explore artist Xavier Cortada's rotating exhibition, in honor of the remarkable scientific achievements of CERN researchers who utilized five distinct search strategies to discover the Higgs boson, helping to prove the Standard Model of Physics. For more information, please contact the branch at 305-535-4219 or capleyb@mdpls.org. All ages.

The PRINTshop provides a wide variety of printmaking mediums such as; Relief Printing, Silk Screen, Lithograph, Drypoint Etching, Monotype. Artists utilizing our shop will have access to a Charles Brand etching press, brayers, general tools, cleaners, drying rack, silkscreen darkroom with exposure unit, stretched screens, etc. Prior printmaking experience is required. Before using the facility you will need to have attended one of the Printmaking classes offered at the Oolite PRINTshop, or have taken a professional level printmaking course within…