STERLING ROOK

• The Bass Museum presents: Bass Famous Tabernacle

In Bass Famous Tabernacle, Rook traded in the fiber-based mediums and instead opted to conflate notions of text and textile in order to create a mural that weaves together words unique to place and peoples. Part urban homage, part found poem, Bass Famous Tabernacle depicts words selected from the hand-painted signage of local businesses throughout Miami. Each word conveys a sentiment, a need or place that can be read from different orientations with different interpretations. The top line, also the work’s title, “Bass Famous Tabernacle,” references Miami as the holy city of 90’s bass music but also acknowledges to the nearby museum. The hand-painted mural takes inspiration from similarly crafted signage on businesses and places of worship in urban areas visited by the artist.

Does the city have memory? Does it remember itself? Does it persist as it changes?

• The City Of Miami Beach presents: No Vacancy juried art exhibition

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/01/arts/miami-beach-outdoor-art.html

Artists were drawn from a call for submissions issued by the city in February 2020 and selected by representatives from the City of Miami Beach Art in Public Places Committee (AiPP), Cultural Arts Council and MBVCA.

“Miami Beach is known internationally as a destination to experience contemporary public art. No Vacancy pushes the boundaries of traditional gallery spaces and invites our residents and visitors to encounter art in our unique hotel properties in a safe setting. As the city revives, this is an opportune moment to celebrate that Miami Beach’s creative community extends to our hospitality community,” said City of Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber.

For the inaugural edition of No Vacancy, $25,000 in prizes will be awarded, divided between a $5,000 prize by the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau (GMCVB) determined by public vote and a $20,000 prize awarded by a jury of art experts. The 2020 jury includes Silvia Karman Cubiña, Director and Chief Curator of The Bass Museum of Art; Dennis Scholl, Executive Director of Oolite Arts and Maria Elena Ortiz, Associate Curator at the Perez Art Museum Miami.

Each selected artist received a stipend of $10,000 to realize their project. The winner of the Juried Prize will be announced on December 4, 2020, and the winner of the Public Prize will be announced on December 12, 2020.

• The Deering Estate presents: Spring Contemporary- Homemaking

The Deering Estate presents Deering Spring Contemporary Projects: Homemaking – an exhibition exploring the notions of home, identity, site and community. The exhibition explores these concepts as a precursor to the centennial celebration of the Stone House. Homemaking brings together a group of works that take a variety of approaches in considering what makes a house a home. The exhibition includes paintings, sculpture, photography, performance and sound installations that each considers the site as a domestic space, filled with memories, identities, and histories.

• Wild Beast Collective presents: Be-longing: Sensorial Movement Post-Coronavirus

Wild Beast Collective launched a new collaborative artist residency in 2017 named Fågelbo (The Nest) Residency. The residency aims to elevate as well as educate the performance art field of south Florida. It seeks to establish a much needed program platform for an underserved art field through an original residency opportunity. Collaborating artist teams will consist of a visual/interdisciplinary artist and a performing artist, applying together with a project proposal.

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic this Fågelbo collaboration will be done remotely by each participating artist. Visual artist Sterling Rook will be in Miami hosted by the Deering Estate* where he has an ongoing residency, and dance artist Stine Marcinkowski Pettersson will be at Wu Art Space, Falkenberg during their 2.5 weeks residency (16th of July to 2nd of August 2020).

• Coral Gables Museum presents Caribee Club: Outside Entwined and

  Potfolio Review Series Online

The name Caribbee Club derives from Coral Gables’ founder, George Merrick’s fishing resort called the Caribbee Colony, in Matecumbe Key – the business venture he launched after he was forced out of his beloved city in the late 1920s. This project aims at supporting the artistic vision of our local creatives who keep alive important cultural elements of the city and its surroundings; one of the Museum’s main priorities. Local artists working with local themes are usually on display at the Frank Lynn Gallery for two months.

Portfolio Review Series Online

The Portfolio Review Series is a platform for interactions between local artists and the Coral Gables Museum’s public. In the past, we have invited different communities of artists to showcase their work in the Museum. We hosted small groups of approximately ten artists in our Community Meeting Room for one night. Instead of works on the wall, artists displayed their portfolios, sketches, catalogs, small, unframed pieces, and other materials, for an evening of great conversation.