The Green Family Foundation

01/23/2023

Join the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU in celebrating its spring season of exhibitions. Visitors may enjoy refreshments on the terrace, a live performance, and a special tour of the exhibitions on view. Tours will be available throughout the afternoon.

This event is free and open to the public.
Doors open Saturday, February 4th at 3:00 PM.

This spring the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU celebrate the opening of 4 new exhibitions:
An Elegy to Rosewood
Chitra Ganesh: Dreaming in Multiverse
Everything, Earth and Sky: An Exhibition of Haitian Art Together/Apart: Modern and Contemporary Art of the United States

11/19/2022

Green family tours soon-to-be-completed west wing of Green School at FIU

11/14/2022

Tomorrow is opening night!

The history of the Coppertone sign is storied. The artist, Joyce Ballentyne Brand, built her career in a pin-up art field dominated by men. She beat out male artists to design calendars, often using her own image as the model, contributing to her empowerment of self and other women. Yet the billboard also lived on as a reminder of Miami’s racist and xenophobic laws. When it was first erected, the sign stood tall above neighborhoods it did not represent, promoting a beach prohibited to many. Miami has been transformed since then, drastic societal and political change accelerating the city’s growth into the most diverse metro area in the country, enabling more inclusivity and empowering more voices.

With this year’s annual open call, Green Space Miami aspired to raise the voices of local artists, asking them to reimagine and share their personal take on this historic and universally recognized image. Through their work we experience a glimpse of what the Coppertone sign represents to them and their community, in their voice and visual language.

The artists you'll be hearing from are:

Lauren Baccus
Morel Doucet
Diana Eusebio
Lyzbeth Lara and Prem Lorenzen
Coralina Rodriguez Meyer
Nicolle Nyariri, Stefanie Paredes, and Daniella Silvera
Lauren Shapiro
Cornelius Tulloch
Arsimmer McCoy and Passion Ward
Diego Waisman

To register for opening night please click on the following link: https://bit.ly/nov10gsm.

10/23/2022

We are honored to be long standing partners with the Sant La Haitian Neighborhood Center. Together we celebrated the graduation of the 7th Sant La Fellows class. We are in the presence of community leaders, advocates, and forces.

How can we not support individuals who have a deep commitment to enriching the lives of others through a multitude of industries.

Please join us in uplifting the 2022 Sant La Fellows: Helen Boyer
Kerlande Ceant
Fania Desinord
Melissa Eustache
Stine Jean
Nerlande Joseph
Stephanie Lumas
Getro Naissance
Jimmy Pertil
Oliver Telusma
Rebb Valeris

10/23/2022

10/22/2022

The Green Family Foundation Trust team joined the Everglades Foundation, the Liberty CIty Optimist Club of Florida After-school Program, and Urban League of Greater Miami for the launch of the "Power of Water" educational campaign at Hadley Park!

The campaign is designed to educate future generations about the value of water from the Everglades for our health, environment, and our communities.
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Get involved and learn more about where your water comes from!

09/22/2022

Tonight at 6 pm join at the Betsy!

Women Photographers International Archive presents the solo exhibition “Strange Territory” by 2022 WOPHA Artist in Residence, visual artist Nadia Huggins , at . Organized by WOPHA Founder & Director , “Strange Territory” includes a series of old and new works that connects two places, the Caribbean region and its diaspora in Miami, through ideas of ecology, catastrophe, and magic while reframing the representation of Caribbean bodies in natural environments.

Nadia Huggins challenges people’s notion of nostalgia for a place that only exists in our imaginations. Photographs in the exhibition invite us to reimagine an evolving species adapting to the geological and ecological changes happening on the planet. They investigate how the concept of hybridity can move beyond a solely human experience by exploring the potential agency of non-human species and the environment as a whole system shaping our future world.

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“Strange Territory” is made possible thanks to the support from The Betsy Hotel, Green Family Foundation, and the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Arts and Culture, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Media Partner is Sugarcane Magazine.

08/30/2022

What an extraordinary opening for the Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator's Depth of Identity: Art as Memory and Archive exhibition. Green Space Miami truly came alive as the artists shared with us the history, culture, nuance, and overall influence of their work. With 19 artists representing the African, Indo, and Caribbean Diaspora, walking through the space was walking across countries and islands.

If you weren’t able to join us, you still have time! The exhibition will be running through to October 20, 2022, right here at Green Space Miami. Doors are open:

Wednesday-Saturday from 11 am – 6 pm
Sunday’s Thom Wheeler Castillo leads a tour from 2-3 pm.

This exhibition is organized by Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator (DVCAI) and curated by Rosie Gordon-Wallace. Major support for this exhibition is provided by the Green Family Foundation Trust.

08/09/2022

We invite you to the opening reception of the newest DVCAI exhibition, Depth of Identity Art as Memory and Archive, on Thursday, August 11th, from 6 - 9 PM.

Depth of Identity, Art as Memory and Archive, displays the impact and legacy of the African, Indo, and Caribbean Diaspora across US cities and the Caribbean.

The exhibition is organized by Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator (DVCAI) curated by Rosie Gordon-Wallace with major support from the Green Family Foundation Trust.

To register click here: LINKTR.EE/DVCAI

The exhibition Depth of Identity: Art as Memory and Archive juxtaposes works from ten countries, representing first-generation artists across time and geography through paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, photographs, and installations. The works represent artists from Caribbean countries including Jamaica, Barbados, Cuba, Guadeloupe, Suriname, and Haiti. Kenya and Korea are represented by artists Mazola Wa Mwasinghadi and Kim Myung -S*k, both artists with whom the curator has worked with for years.

06/17/2022

An even bigger THANK YOU to the Miami Community Fridge for all that you do to create a collective response to tackle food insecurity and food deserts across Miami-Dade County.

06/08/2022

Impact.Edition and Good Miami Project present “Who Is Miami,” a first-of-its-kind multimedia exhibition framed in bus stop shelters across Miami-Dade neighborhoods. The project is supported by the Green Family Foundation, the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, the Miami Foundation, and the Miami-Dade Public Library Systems.

“We call them ordinary people doing extraordinary things. They are of different ages. They are of different cultures and skin colors. They work in different industries. But their truth, wisdom, power, and beauty are in what they believe, what they tell, and what they do for a better world."

Impact.Edition is an emerging nonprofit media that serves to empower people with best practices and creative solutions for a more just, more sustainable world. Its community journalism merges meaning and emotion to drive positive social change, raise awareness about the most pressing problems and connect on a human level.

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Impact.Edition and Good Miami Project present “Who Is Miami,” a first-of-its-kind multimedia exhibition framed in bus stop shelters across Miami-Dade neighborhoods. Recently almost 200 guests joine…