past events

Paper My Silhouette is inspired by Victorian era cut paper silhouettes and Contemporary style portraits. Children and parents will have fun together creating unique portraits of each other. To prepare for this special activity, we will look at examples of both Victorian silhouettes and Contemporary portraits, learning the art literacy concepts of contour and representation. The child and their companion will enjoy quality time exploring their relationship through artistic expression! Click Here to Purchase Tickets

New World School of the Arts presents 2010: A group visual arts exhibition by 22 BFA graduating students 2010: A group visual arts exhibition by 22 BFA graduating students

The Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO) is proud to collaborate once again with New World School of the Arts [NWSA].   For the second year in a row, CIFO sponsors New World School of the Arts annual Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition.  2010 is a group exhibition by the twenty-two 2010 Bachelor of Fine Arts candidates.

The opening reception of 2010, free and open to the public, is to be held on Saturday, April 10, 2010, from 7-10 pm .  

Inspired by the video artists featured in Being in the World: Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, children will showcase their creativity by transforming ordinary shoeboxes into mixed media, 3-D dioramas of their own imagined set and story, Being in My World. Serving as both the director and set-designer, they will plan a scene for their video, and will learn the art literacy concepts of environment and narrative. Plenty of assorted materials will be on hand to fuel their vision!

LegalArt presents SeminArt: Basic Bookkeeping and Year-end Tax Concerns for Artists and Arts Organizations

Mark Colatrella is an accountant with more than 25 years of experience providing consulting and bookkeeping services to artists, creative individuals, and nonprofits.

The presentation will center on the establishment and ongoing maintenance of a basic bookkeeping and accounting system to appropriately measure financial results that will enable efficient and effective preparation of the annual tax return and financial statements for artists, creative individuals, small businesses and arts organizations. Discussion will also include internal controls, cash versus accrual basis and information regarding entity types and structuring considerations (such as corporations, partnerships, LLCs, etc.).

Mark will be available for specific questions at the end of the program. Stick around to meet other artists and community leaders-LegalArt SeminArts are great networking opportunities!

Register now: provide the names of those attending to legalartprograms@gmail.com

Being in the World: Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection 

Exhibition Featuring 7 large-scale media-based installations by: Chantal Akerman, Rafael  Lozano-Hemmer, Muntean/Rosenblum, Shirin Neshat, Robin Rhode, Bill Viola and Francesca Woodman.

Special Hours during ArtBasel Miami Beach for Being in the World: Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection
9am - 4pm

COME TO CIFO AND CREATE A FATHER'S DAY GIFT LIKE NO OTHER!

We want to say thanks to the wonderful dads in our lives by dedicating our upcoming Family Cultura Spot @ CIFO to these wonderful men. Parents and children will build a three dimensional structure out of recycled objects and use painting and collage techniques to complete the piece.

Come to cifo and create a Mother's Day gift like no other!

In honor of all mothers, our upcoming Family Cultural Spot @ CIFO program will be dedicated to these special women in our lives.  Mothers and children will trace life size images of eachothter and use collage techniques to layer this one of a kind memento.

A FAMILY CULTURAL SPOT @ CIFO

Bring your kids to explore identity and creativity through a project on self-portraiture taught by Veronica Pesantes-Benzel, art historian and former educator for the Soloman R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, and Liz Atlan, an art educator working with South Pointe Elementary in Miami Beach.  After a guided tour through the New World School of the Arts BFA '09 Exhibition, the kids will complete a hands-on project that involves photography, costumes, watercolors and more!

A PUNO Y LETRA: CANTANDO Y CONTANDO HISTORIAS

Come and enjoy and intimate concert by Fernando and Eduardo Osorio and The Chirino Sisters

Cutting The Edge Multi-media Exhibition

March 8-14, 2009
New World School of the Arts ArtSeen Gallery
2210 NW 1st Court, Miami, FL 33127
Wynwood Art District
OPENING NIGHT: Wednesday, March 11, 10pm-1am
CLOSING NIGHT: Saturday, March 14, 7pm - midnight

Set in Hong Kong, 1962, Chow Mo-Wan is a newspaper editor who moves into a new building with his wife. At approximately the same time, Su Li-zhen, a beautiful secretary and her executive husband also move in to the crowded building. With their spouses often away, Chow and Li-zhen spend most of their time together as friends. Soon, they are shocked to discover that their spouses are having affair.

In 1966 Chow returns to Hong Kong after having spent several years in Singapore, where he went to escape the memory of his affair with Su Li Zhen (Maggie Cheung). No longer the melancholic newspaperman, spurned husband and thwarted would-be lover, he has transformed into a slick man-about-town who writes seedy erotic stories and engages in throwaway affairs with courtesans and nightclub performers.

Taught by Veronica Pesantes-Benzel, former educator for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, and Liz Atlan, art historian and educator working with South Pointe Elementary School in Miami Beach, this program promises to expose your children to contemporary art through a hands-on project related to the The Prisoner’s Dilemma: Selections from the Ella Fontanals Cisneros Collection.

Ilan Chester y Frank Quintero
Bajo el cielo y las estrellas en el MAC Building
Saturday February 14, 2009 8 pm

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Tickets
$50 general admission
$35 for CIFO members (please contact us for more info)

PRE-SALE IS NOW CLOSED. TICKETS MAY BE PURCHASED THE DAY OF THE EVENT. THE BOX OFFICE WILL OPEN AT 5PM. SEATING IS NOW LIMITED.

Location
MAC Building
5960 SW 57th Avenue
Miami, FL, 33143
305.455.3333

CIFO Acoustic Sounds @ MAC Building
Leopoldo Betancourt on the Piano

CIFO Acoustic Sounds @ MAC Building
Saavedtra Acoustic Concert

The Shape of Things to Come - Artists as Public Intellectuals
A panel discussion moderated by curator, Leanne Mella and including artists Paolo Canevari, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Carlos Motta and others.

Gallery tour of The Prisoner's Dilemma with exhibition curator, Leanne Mella

Movement as Meditations on Modernity
CIFO presents an exhibition by four artists, Magdalena Fernandez, Alexander Apostol, Amilcar Packer and Icaro Zorbar, who offer different approaches to 'movement' as an inherent aspect of technology and as a meditation on modernity and modern art and its many traditions.

CIFO presents an exhibition of artists from Latin America in SCOPE Miami's Museum Presents.

Miami Symphony Orchestra: Some Art, Jazz and Basil

Return to 1967 Halloween Party @ CIFO !!
Toast to the Avant Garde, Free Love, and Mystery Candy

Brought to you by Supermarket Creative, The Gorillas, Gen Art, and Miami Magazine and Presented by CIFO in association with Metro1, Front Management, Marimekko, Ajax and Legal Art.

This is the Halloween Party where you dress hippie, mod, beat, or just cool man. Oh yes the times they were a changin' so channel your inner flower power child and show up dressed for your 15 min of fame.

Enjoy signature 10 Cane cocktails throughout the evening.

That soup can is so new again.

$20 in advance by clicking here and $25 at the door

must be 21-- no exceptions! (since there will be open bar)

Wynwood Second Saturday
CIFO CONCERT SERIES

A Zeitgeist: Perspectives in Contemporary Art from Latin America
A panel discussion exploring the directions of today's art production in the region featuring contemporary art curators: Cecilia Brunson (Chile), Elvis Fuentes (Cuba), Maria Iovino (Colombia), Guillermo Santamarina (Mexico) and moderated by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, Chief Curator, CIFO.

Wynwood Second Saturday
CIFO CONCERT SERIES
CIFO and Fabrikalink.com present Camilo Espita, Minimal, and DJ Pauer

Opening Night Party Featuring DJ Pauer

Film Screening: Festival in the Desert
A remarkable concert experience captured on film. Five hours outside Timbuktu, in the Sahara Desert, Director Lionel Brouet recorded performances and interviews by Robert Plant, Ali Farka Toure, Tinariwen, Oumou Sangara, LoJo and others. Toureg tribesman, Malian blues, North African rhythms all come together in the most exotic and unlikely event.

Jorge Villamizar Concert
After twelve years as lead singer for Bacilos, Jorge Villamizar is releasing his long solo album, produced by the English DJ/Engineer Richard Blair, aka Sidestepper. This new work by Villamizar is the perfect mix of electronic music, Jorge's famous voice and style and Latin beats.
Presented with the Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (LARAS). Event open to Rhythm Foundation members and CIFO guests.

Pink Martini After Show Party
Pink Martini, inaugurating the Concert Association of Florida's newly created Miami Pops Orchestra, is a 12 piece ensemble known for shaking it up and pouring it with a twist.
After party open to ticket holders and featuring a performance by LIfe Project.

Film Screening: Moro No Brasil
A musical road trip by Finnish Director Mika Kaurismaki, journeying deep into the heart of Brazil. Stopovers in Pernambuco, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, take the film into the roots and then far beyond samba and bossa nova. Footage includes carnival and capoeira as well as performances by Seu Jorge, Margareth Menezes, Ivo Meirelles, and many more.

Fluxus Concert: Descarga with Robert Chambers and Gustavo Matamoros

Opening Brunch for Fortunate Objects and Book Launch: CIFO and Charta release the new exhibition catalogue, Fortunate Objects: Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection and the second edition of The Sites of Latin American Abstraction

Guided tour of Sites of Latin American Abstraction and discussion with artist Julio LeParc led by curator, Juan Ledezma

Guided tour of Forms of Classification with curator, Cecilia Fajardo-Hill and a panel discussion with artists: Susan Hiller, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Nedko Solakov and Mathilde Ter Hiejne

Conversation with the artists from 10 Defining Experiments

- Mariana Castillo-Deball
- Ruben Gutierrez
- Carlos Motta