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Rocking Chair Sessions
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Rocking Chair Sessions was created by Elysa D. Batista and Maria Theresa Barbist as a hybrid between an artist talk and a therapy session. South Florida based artists and creatives are invited to share their lives and artistic process while sitting in a rocking chair.
Episodes
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RCS vol. 150 | Amanda Sanfilippo Long
Amanda Sanfilippo Long would like to acknowledge the following correction: towards the end, she mentions the “High Line” as an exciting upcoming project coming up for Miami-Dade County, she meant to refer to the project as Miami’s “Underline”, which is a similar project to New York’s High Line,...
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RCS vol. 149 | Jose Luis Garcia
Jose Luis Garcia is a Photo-Based Artist, who lives and works in Miami, FL. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Art from New World School of the Arts/University of Florida and his Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art from Florida International University. He has exhibited locally in…
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RCS vol. 148 | Natalya Kochak
Natalya Kochak was born in New York and has since spent time in many different places, from Alabama to Chicago, Berlin to Beijing. She graduated with her BFA and MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and now resides in Miami. Natalya is currently a professor at Miami International...
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RCS vol. 147 | Franky Cruz
Franky Cruz (b. 1984, Dominican Republic) received his BFA from the New World School of the Arts, Miami, in 2011. He has participated in residencies at HomeBase Project, Berlin, and the Airie Residency at the Everglades National Park, FL, where he explores conservation issues as part of his...
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RCS vol. 146 | Yanira Collado
Yanira Collado lives/works in Miami FL. Education, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Collado was awarded first place in the 2013 South Florida Biennial at the Art and Cultural Center/Hollywood, Hollywood, FL and was a recipient of The Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, 2018....
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RCS vol. 145 | Oscar Rieveling
Oscar Rieveling is a conceptual artist based in Miami, Florida. His works address questions drawing upon his Mexican heritage and investigation of ritual, folk tradition, and colonial legacy. In parallel with his artistic practice, he serves as Education Manager for The Wolfsonian-FIU. He…
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RCS vol. 144 | Mateo Serna Zapata
Colombian-born, Miami-raised, Mateo is a photo-based artist. Growing up amongst a predominantly Latin culture, observing the striking humanistic similarities within the city serve as a muse to create work that emphasizes the beauty found within life. Being drawn to the peculiar exploration of the...
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RCS vol. 143 | Rhea Leonard
Rhea Leonard (b. 1991) born and raised in South Florida, is an African American artist that utilizes drawing, printmaking and sculpture within her art practice. She explores topics highlighting the Black body and how society affects Black psychology through her detailed, and poignant figurative...
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RCS vol. 142 | Evelyn Politzer
My passion for Fiber Art started at a very young age. Creating with wool was only natural in my native country of Uruguay, where the number of sheep far exceeds the number of inhabitants. My beginnings were in tapestry and knitting. Quilting, free style embroidery, yarn bombing and fiber...
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RCS vol. 141 | Nicole Maynard-Sahar
Nicole Maynard-Sahar is an artist-in-residence at the Bakehouse Art Complex in the Wynwood Arts District of Miami. She most recently participated in the official studio tour of Art Basel Miami, Smash and Grab at Locust Projects, La Pinta Art Fair, Between the Legible and the Opaque: Approaches to...
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RCS vol. 140 | Christopher R. Barake
With decades of experience as an arts administrator, curator, and educator Christopher Barake is the Deputy Director for the Doral Contemporary Art Museum - DORCAM. He is co-founder of Art Industry Movement and was curator at KER Art + Design Gallery and ConcreteSpace. Barake is also an academic...
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RCS vol. 139 | Clara Varas
I use household items and industrial materials to explore identity, gender, displacement and the concept of home. My work is of an intuitive nature, rooted in the painterly and the language of abstraction- though it often defies a singular categorization. These hybrid works are based on the idea…
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RCS vol. 138 | Lucia del Sanchez
Lucia Del Sanchez is an artist and designer from Miami, FL. Through sculpture and painting Sanchez seeks to build a new relationship with her hometown. In collaboration with her father, Oliver Sanchez, she has produced art shows and programming at Swampspace Gallery since 2008. This independent…
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RCS vol. 137 | Kim Yantis
Kim Yantis is a visual artist whose work is fueled by collaboration, sewing, and design. Her current project with Lucinda Linderman, "Suiting-up for the Future,” is a wry runway show and workshop series of sustainable workwear and utilitarian accessories that act as “Wearable Tools for the 21st...
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RCS vol. 136 | Karelle Levy
Paris-born Karelle Levy was raised in Miami by a Swedish mother and Tunisian father. She spent her childhood surrounded by arts and crafts, music, dance and fashion, which all play a role in her designs. Levy studied textile design at Rhode Island School of Design, where she knitted and wove...
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RCS vol. 135 | Aaron Glickman
Aaron Glickman is a writer, actor and filmmaker. Through his contributions to SocialMiami, he has had opportunities to document many fascinating people and organizations in the fields of philanthropy, the arts, fashion, design and real estate including Carolina Herrera, James Rosenquist, Baroness...
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RCS vol. 134 | Barron Sherer
Barron Sherer is a time-based media artist with a background in moving image archival practice and research. He currently works in Miami with a focus on altering and repurposing archived films. In the early 2000s, he was curator at Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives where he...
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RCS vol. 133 | Ade Omotosho
Ade J. Omotosho is a writer living in Miami and the Miami editor-at-large for Burnaway. He has held curatorial positions at Pérez Art Museum Miami and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. For Burnaway, he has written on subjects including the photographic history of the Black male nude and the work…
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RCS vol. 132 | Dimitra Pantoulia
Dímitra Pantoulia is a Conservator of Antiquities and Works of Art, trained in Athens, Greece. After she finished her studies in 2009, she worked for the Library of the Hellenic Parliament and then for the Byzantine Museum in Athens. In the US, she started working for the Caryatid Conservation...
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RCS vol. 131 | Tonya Vegas
Toña Vegas, (Caracas, Venezuela) is a multidisciplinary artist working with mixed media, printmaking, digital processes and site-specific three- dimensional works. Her work reflects on the visibility of an energetic underlying matrix present in every apparently distinct element of nature us…
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RCS vol. 130 | Felecia Chizuko Carlisle
Felecia Chizuko Carlisle, a native Floridian, has lived and worked in Miami, FL since 2009. She is an artist, educator and community organizer. She works across performance, installation, sound, sculpture, photography, and video within a wide variety of contexts including nightclubs, gardens,...
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RCS vol. 129 | Milly Cardoso
Milly Cardoso was born and raised in Miami, Florida and is the Director and Curator for the University of Miami Gallery in the Wynwood Art District. Prior to joining University of Miami, she worked for the Miami Art Museum (Pérez Art Museum, Miami) and the Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. Private Collection.
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RCS vol. 128 | Sammi McLean
Sammi McLean seeks out a particular sense of longing that seems impossible to satiate, bringing that which feels absent to the surface through the act of creating. In some ways, her work functions as the only physical tie that she has to significant people, places, or things that have gone. While...
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RCS vol. 127 | Gabriela Gamboa
Gabriela Gamboa is a visual artist working with a broad range of media, including photography, video and performance, sound and printmaking. Though she was born in Pittsburgh she has spent the better part of her life in Venezuela. Her work draws strongly on current affairs and the effect of...
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RCS vol. 126 | Charo Oquet
I was born in the center of the Caribbean, where, according to the writer Junot Diaz, the fukú originated, Santo Domingo, where waves and palm trees were always saying something to me with their particular rhythm. Then, looking for new lights, I settled in the city of Miami, where the coast still...
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RCS vol. 125 | Elisa Turner
Elisa Turner has been called “Miami’s art critic.” Probably a lot of other things too, but we won’t go there. She was an art critic for The Miami Herald when it was still owned by Knight Ridder, which no longer exists. Now that her Herald byline no longer exists either, this award-winning...
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RCS vol. 124 | Atomik
Atomik is a 100 percent Miami artist. Atomik, trained in graphic design, is a big name in the Miami art scene. The graffiti legend, part of the infamous MSG crew, a group of local graffiti heroes, has been painting the city for quite some time. While growing up in the emerging Miami graffiti…
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RCS vol. 123 | Monica Lopez de Victoria
After graduating from Florida International University with a bachelors in photography, Monica began collaborating with her sister on videos, large-scale installations, performance art, clothing, VJ sets, and fanzines. A video piece at Bas Fischer International that featured 35 local artists...
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RCS vol. 122 | Thomas Bils
Thomas Bils’s paintings are a result of his interests over epistemology of memory and the ontology of its subjects, using his adolescence in central Florida as the base position of introspection. Working in photorealistic oil painting he references the mnemonic properties of the photograph and...
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RCS vol. 121 | Evan Robarts
Evan Robarts (b. 1982) lives and works in New York and Miami. He graduated from Pratt with a BFA in sculpture in 2008. He has previously held solo exhibitions at Berthold Pott, Cologne (2017); Galerie Jeanroach Dard, Brussels (2016); and The Hole, New York (2015). Recent group exhibitions include...
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RCS vol. 120 | Giannina Dwin
Giannina Coppiano Dwin lives and works in South Florida. She has been the recipient of grants and awards such as the prestigious South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for Visual and Media Artists funded in part by the National Endowment for the Art, the Women in the Visual Arts Award; as...
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RCS vol. 119 | Sara Stites
My work has always had an organic, visceral aspect which I consider to be part of my concern with life issues, like vulnerability, passion, and the uncanny. Drawing in notebooks is my lifeline to my work. I keep one handy at all times and my hand goes where it wants in these visual journals.…
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RCS vol. 118 | Rafael Rangel
Rafael Rangel was born in New York in 1978. Lives and works in Miami, Florida. He graduates with honors in Visual Arts at Pratt Institute in 2001. That same year, he works as an assistant for Matthew Barney and starts his exhibiting career. From then, has participated in group shows in Germany,...
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RCS vol. 117 | Alex Hodge
I grew up on a small blueberry farm in the middle of nowhere Georgia. I got immense satisfaction roaming the woods, gathering materials for little sculptures, and creating stories for myself, but the desire to connect with people, to explore, to learn was pervasive. After graduating at the top of...
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RCS vol. 116 | Manny Hernandez
Photographer Manny Hernandez has captured Miami's flash and moments of pizzazz in decades worth of candid images. His photographs chronicle the Magic City's celebrity-driven tipping point of the late 1980s and 1990s. https://www.wynwoodbooks.com/
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RCS vol. 115 | Agustina Woodgate
Agustina Woodgate creates art across multiple disciplines, her primary focus being the interplay between human beings and their surroundings. Born in Buenos Aires, Woodgate moved to Miami in 2004, where she gained recognition for covertly stitching labels inscribed with poems into thrift-store...
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RCS vol. 114 | Tim Rodgers
Timothy R. Rodgers, PhD, is the Sybil Harrington Director and CEO of Phoenix Art Museum. Rodgers, who joined the Museum in July 2020, has nearly 20 years of museum-leadership experience, including 11 years as a museum director. Prior to joining the Museum, he served as director of The...
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RCS vol. 113 | Tina La Porta
Born in 1967 in Chicago, while still an undergraduate, Tina La Porta developed a body of work photographing the Pro-Choice movement in Chicago, Milwakee, Waashington D.C. and New York City. In 1992 Ms. La Porta moved to New York's East Village to persue her Masters of Fine Arts Degree at The…
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RCS vol. 112 | Freddy Jouwayed
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RCS vol. 111 | Derek Hunter
Derek Hunter b. 1988 | New York, NY is an entirely self-taught painter, sculptor and muralist. His work explores the language of architecture and crystallography as a means to challenge expectations around site-specificity and urban construction, questioning how architectural spaces interacting...
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RCS vol. 110 | Rudi Repenning
After studying woodwork and design in Sweden he escaped the dark winters for the sunny tropical world of Florida where he currently lives and works. In his studio, he focuses on designing and the fabrication of unique modern furniture. He combines the clean, simple lines of Scandinavian…
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RCS vol. 109 | Cesar Santos
Santos art education is worldly, and his work has been seen around the globe, from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sicily, Italy and the Beijing museum in China to Chelsea, New York. Santos studied at Miami Dade College, where he earned his Associate in Arts degree in 2003. He then attended the...
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RCS vol. 108 | Karen Rifas
For more than thirty years, Miami-based artist Karen Rifas has amassed a body of work that endeavors to understand and re-imagine space. Well known for her minimal cord and leaf installations, and precise, methodical line drawings, in 2016, Rifas began a focused exploration into the constructive...
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RCS vol. 107 | Monique Lassooij
Monique Lassooij was born and raised in The Netherlands and moved several years ago to Miami, Florida. In The Netherlands the artist started out as an abstract painter but over the years she developed a passion for figurative painting. She attended the Royal Academy for Fine Arts in The Hague and...
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RCS vol. 106 | Gianna DiBartolomeo
Gianna DiBartolomeo was born and raised in Miami, Florida. She currently exhibits her work throughout the United States. Gianna studied Fine Arts at Florida International University in Miami, Florida where she obtained her Bachelors of Fine Arts. She had the privilege of studying under Professor...
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RCS vol. 105 | Nina Surel
Nina Surel is a multidisciplinary artist whose work is best described as an ongoing exploration of the deepest recesses of our collective unconscious, from a decidedly feminist standpoint. http://ninasurel.com/
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RCS vol. 104 | Rafael Vargas Bernard
Rafael Vargas Bernard utilizes performance, sound, programming, sculpture, video, painting, humor, and drawing in his creative practice. He employs readily accessible materials and technologies, found objects, and a utilitarian esthetic. https://montane.bandcamp.com/track/j-bazzo-jar
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RCS vol. 103 | Pamela Palma
Miami Beach artist Pamela Palma has been working with textiles since she was four years old. By 13 she was designing, sewing and knitting her own personal wardrobe as well as creating functional and decorative accessories. Weaving came later and accidentally – as a requirement for her degree in...
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RCS vol. 102 | Danilo de la Torre
Since 1991 and the dazzling days of an emerging South Beach, Adora has graced Miami’s performance landscape. The alter ego of Danilo De La Torre, this famous drag queen combines camp with glam and humor. (current.miami) https://www.instagram.com/adoradrag/
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RCS vol. 100 | Jordana Pomeroy
Director of the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, Dr. Jordana Pomeroy served for more than 15 years at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, rising to Chief Curator after being the museum’s Curator of Painting and Sculpture Before 1900. Prior to…
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Rocking Chair Sessions was created by Elysa D. Batista and Maria Theresa Barbist as a hybrid between an artist talk and a therapy session. South Florida based artists and creatives are invited to share their lives and artistic process while sitting in a rocking chair.
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