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Hello Fellow: Girls’ Club welcomes Paola Torras
Summer/Fall 2023 Fellowship Girls’ Club reignites its fellowship program, welcoming Paola Torras to the Girls’ Club team. Bridging the gap between art school and the professional workplace, the fellowship program works hands-on with young artists and professionals, combining education and practical experience to create a unique environment for professional growth. The Fellowship Program at Girls’…
Read MoreDog Days of Summer 2023
Dog Days of Summer at Girls’ Club by the River, 330 SW 2 Street, Fort Lauderdale Girls’ Club presents an informal summer series offering professional development support, discussion and resources for artists and arts professionals. Each session is held on Fridays, Noon-2pm and will revolve around different topics that affect artists and their practice. Sessions…
Read More(In) Visibility Code-Switching
On View July 1 – July 29, 2022 Girls’ Club Warehouse presents (In) Visibility Code Switching, a solo guest exhibit by Kandy G. Lopez. This exhibition features fiber art portraits that explore the many facets of code switching that people of color experience in America. Artist Statement As an Afro-Caribbean visual artist, Lopez is eager…
Read MoreDestroy to Build. Passage.
On View April 8 – May 27, 2022 Girls’ Club Warehouse presents the guest exhibit Destroy to Build. Passage., by Khaulah Naima Nuruddin that draws upon the familiar, yet unique experience of purging and clearing objects, clutter, and possessions to cleanse and renew one’s personal space. The conceptual approach of Destroy to Build. Passage. speaks…
Read MoreOn Loan: Photographing the Fantastic at NSU Art Museum
On View: November 21, 2021 – Spring 2022 Photographing the Fantastic at NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdalei Photographing the Fantastic explores photographs of magical moments, the uncanny, and the wondrous, drawn from NSU Art Museum’s extensive photography collection. The exhibition features works by: Berenice Abbott, Alexandre Arrechea, Wynn Bullock, Edward Burtynsky, Magdalena Campos-Pons, Gregory Crewdson,…
Read MoreOn Loan: Alice Neel at Guggenheim Bilbao
On View: September 17, 2021 – February 6, 2022 Alice Neel: People Come First at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao; Bilbao, Spain “I have tried to assert the dignity and eternal importance of the human being” Alice Neel: Mike Gold, Daily Worker, 1950 Alice Neel (b. 1900; d. 1984) is one of the most radical artists of…
Read MoreOn Loan: Lineages at NSU Art Museum
On View: May 15, 2021 through September 19, 2021 Lineages: Works from the Collection at NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdalei PhotoLineages brings together works from NSU Art Museum’s permanent collection, which have been selected to act in conversation with the current exhibition, Eric N. Mack: Lemme walk across the room. Mack collaborated with Museum curators…
Read MoreDrawing Closer: Collecting at a Distance
Girls’ Club introduces a new initiative to sustain creative lives and introduce works by local artists to the public. While the spread of Coronavirus COVID-19 has shuttered museums, arts organizations, galleries and derailed artists’ income opportunities around the globe, like many, Girls’ Club has decided to take action. Artists create. We collect. We are reaching…
Read MoreArtist Resources during Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreak
As we experience these uncertain and difficult times, we hope you are enduring as healthy and safely as possible. Our social, professional and occupational lifelines have changed course dramatically over the past few weeks due to the threat and spread of Coronavirus COVID-19. For many in the arts, that means a drastic interruption of work,…
Read MoreFrost Museum: The Summer of Women
Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum Florida International University May 11th, 2016 via Newsletter Upcoming Summer Season Exhibitions The Summer of Women begins on Saturday, May 14 and includes three original exhibitions featuring women artists. First-off is a fresh look at the artwork of rebel-nun and Pop art pioneer Corita Kent. In the Beginning was the…
Read MoreArtists in Self Proliferation on Art21
Extending opportunities for education and research on contemporary female artists, fellows Mariela Acuna and Brooke Frank have put together a video listing of artists in the current exhibition, Self Proliferation, who have been featured on ART21. ART21 videos are short documentaries that explore different aspects of artists’ work. Through direct interviews these videos make accessible…
Read MoreGirls’ Club mural features artist Vickie Pierre
Girls’ Club has commissioned South Florida artist Vickie Pierre to create a site-specific mural for the Girls’ Club exterior. Taking over 46 feet of wall space, Pierre extends her practice into the public realm with her first large scale, public art project. The Elements Conspire to Find Me, 2015 Site specific wall mural, acrylic, metallic…
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