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News & Events Save the Date: Smash and Grab 2010 Fall Fundraiser Event Saturday, November 6, 2010 Locust Projects will host the Eighth Annual “Smash and Grab” Fall Fundraiser Event Check back here for more information and details. Locust Projects Brings Art Out of the Box – and Into Miami-Dade’s Streets with New Billboard Project Funded by Knight Foundation A new Locust Projects initiative will increase exposure to contemporary art by commissioning works to be exhibited on billboards throughout Miami-Dade County, thanks to the support of The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. more » News: LP partners with art collectors Dan & Kathryn Mikesell to create a new residency program, The Fountainhead Residency. Click here to learn more. Past Events Thursday, March 11, 6:30pm Conversation and Preview: Los Angeles-based artist Drew Heitzler Saturday, March 20, 12:30pm Art Tour and Lunch: Enjoy a private tour of the de la Cruz Collection and lunch in Miami’s Design District. We will meet at Locust Projects. (member free / $25) Visit the de la Cruz Collection Website » Saturday, April 17, 6:30pm Locust Projects Annual Spring Fundraiser Gala at the Sagamore, South Beach ($110 member / $125) Thursday, March 11, 6:30pm Conversation and Preview: Brooklyn-based independent arts writer and editor, Michael Wilson Saturday, May 15, 7:30pm Special Members Event: Enjoy fine art, fine food and fine wine at Dawn Fine's Italian villa in Coral Gables. Inaugural event: Thursday, February 18th, 7-9pm LOCUST OUT LOUD Locust Projects is please to announce a new membership initiative for young professionals ages 21-35 years old. Art-Music-Cocktails-After Party $10 cover or become a member of Locust Projects Young Patrons for $75 and enjoy exclusive privileges Click to view evite » View Photos from this event » Thursday, February 11, 2010, 6:30pm Conversation: Artist Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova Click for evite » Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 6:30pm Conversation and Tasting: What's in Season with James Beard Award-nominated Chef Michael Schwartz ($15 member / $30) Click for evite » View photos from this event » Saturday, January 16, 2010, 7-10pm Opening reception: Miami-based artist Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova presents An Uneven Floor Thursday, January 21, 2010, 6:30pm Special Event: Marni shopping event for the new 2010 Spring-Summer collection. A portion of the event's proceeds will be donated to Locust Projects as part of the Marni for Miami initiative, which was created to celebrate the local arts community. Thursday, November 12, 6:30pm Conversation: Francesca DiMattio exhibition preview and artist talk * Saturday, November 14, 7pm Exhibition: New York-based artist Francesca DiMattio Wednesday, November 18, 6:30pm Conversation: Stefanie Block Reed, VIP Relations for Art Basel and Art Basel Miami Beach and Alexandra Cunningham, Exhibitor and Special Projects Manager for Design Miami (members free / $15) Tuesday, December 1, 6-10pm The Miami Poetry Collective Locust Projects Courtyard The Miami Poetry Collective (“MPC”) will open the Poem Depot-a pop-up store that sells original poems written on manual typewriters-in the Locust Projects' courtyard. MPC was founded by Campbell McGrath at a plastic table in front of Zeke’s Roadhouse Bar in November 2008. The group’s twenty-some members range from national prize winners to emerging poets who have never been published, to fiction writers and visual artists with a passion for language. One of the group’s principal ventures is the Poem Depot, a pop-up store that sells poems written on manual typewriters. Poem Depot has become a regular feature of Wynwood’s Second Saturday Art Walk and has also appeared in conjunction with the Miami Art Museum’s JAM@MAM, Miami-Dade Public Library, Books & Books, Tigertail Productions, the Miami Book Fair, and the Margulies Collection. The MPC also publishes and distributes The Cent Journal Series: A Modern Anthology of Miami Poets, a regularly-appearing, closed-submission journal printed and assembled in one night, and an on-going, multi-voiced poem on Twitter (@mpc140). The group’s activities are produced in collaboration with the University of Wynwood (universityofwynwood.org), an arts-advocacy organization made possible by John and James L. Knight Foundation. For more information, visit miamipoetrycollective.com. December 3-6, 2009 Extended gallery hours during Art Basel Miami Beach Locust Projects @ Pulse Art Fair: Adler Guerrier Booth P-07 Miami based artist Adler Guerrier will present an installation of new works concerned with the structure of narrative in relation notions of place and the everyday. The works will include drawings, photography and sculpture – all working in concert to reflect the complexities and poetics in drifting and exploring a place. Guerrier’s restrained interplay between form, color and design in anchored by fearless site-specific subversions of place and time in regards to conceptions of race, class, history and culture. Often calling upon the districts of Miami, Guerrier examines the contemporary flaneur in an impending post demographic age. Adler Guerrier was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Subsequent to studies at the New World School of the Arts in Miami, Florida, Guerrier has exhibited at the Miami Art Museum, and in The Whitney Biennial 2008. His works can be found in public collections such as the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, and the Studio Museum in Harlem, NY. Locust Projects will also present special edition artworks by: New York-based artist Kate Gilmore and Miami-based collaborative, the TM Sisters. Conversation and Tasting with Chef Jeff McInnis “Cheftestant” from Bravo’s Top Chef Season 5 and Chef de Cuisine of The DiLido Beach Club at the Ritz-Carlton South Beach October 22, 2009 @ 6:30pm $15 Locust Projects members / $30 non-members Click to view evite » Thursday, October 29, 6:30pm Smash and Grab Fall Fundraiser Preview Event Preview the work of over 100 artists featured in this years’ exciting Fundraiser Event * Conversation: An Evening of KREL-2-GO Quickie Couture Thursday, October 1, 2009 @ 6:30pm Conversation and demonstration by Miami-based fashion designer/textile designer/performance artist Karelle Levy of Krelwear. Please RSVP locustprojects@yahoo.com or 305.576.8570. Event: Miami-based artists, the TM Sisters collaborate with designer/textile designer/performance artist Karelle Levy of Krelwear Friday, October 2, 2009 @ 1pm Please RSVP locustprojects@yahoo.com or 305.576.8570. A Conversation with the TM Sisters Wednesday, September 23rd at 6:30 PM Click to view evite » The artists discuss their exhibition and performance of "Whirl Crash Go." A Conversation on Curatorial Practice Thrusday,September 10, 2009 @ 6:30 PMpm Click to view evite » Curator of Ceontemporary At at Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Trevor Schoonmaker speaks with Miami-based collector Dennis Scholl. Q&A with NYFA Friday, July 10, 2009 @ 3pm Click to view evite » Members of the NYFA staff will provide a 90-minute seminar, with a 30-minute Q&A afterward. Each of New York Foundation for the Arts’ programs and services will be covered with an emphasis on NYFA Source, Fiscal Sponsorship, and the Immigrant Artists Project. NYFA Source NYFA Source is the most extensive national online directory of awards, services, and programs for artists. Fiscal Sponsorship Fiscal Sponsorship is a critical way for individual artists, artists' collaborative projects, and emerging arts organizations in all disciplines to apply for funding usually available only to organizations with 501(c)(3) nonprofit status. The right fiscal sponsor will not only allow you to manage your project efficiently, but can actually help artists to raise more money and realize their artistic visions more fully. Immigrant Artists Project Through the Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program, the bi-monthly IAP Newsletter, and other programming, the Immigrant Artist Project seeks to expand the constituency it serves by nurturing and fostering a community of empowered artists with diverse educational, cultural, and creative backgrounds. RSVP: Please e-mail NYFA’s Elena Dubas at edubas@nyfa.org Join us for a conversation with Loriel Beltran and Christy Gast led by Fredric Snitzer Thursday, January 15, 2009 @ 7pm. Click here to view evite. Locust Projects and WHITEHOT Magazine Party December 6, 2008 7-11PM With guest DJs the Remote Controllers (DJ Heater and Chris Video) Click here for evite. "Stars and Stripes" fly for Fall Fundraiser! Smash & Grab, Lp's annual Fall RAFFLE Fundrasier is set for Saturday, November 1, 2008. Click here for more information and to download a ticket order form -- or buy your ticket online now! Friends with Benefits Special Event: Launch Party on October 24! Click here for more information and to become a friend today. SeminArt The Business of Art with Guest Speaker Stewart A. Merkin, Esq. Saturday, July 19th, 2008 4-6pm Click here for evite SeminArt Artist Survival Skills with Guest Speaker Stuart Horodner, Curator of the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center Saturday, June 14th, 2008 Conversations with Miami 4 Panelists Terry Riley, Margi Northard, Felice Grodin and Lawrence Blough Moderated by Dennis Scholl Thursday, April 10, 2008 at 7pm Click here to view evite LP @ Pulse Fair George Sanchez-Calderon and Kerry Phillips exhibited at Locust Project's booth at the Pulse Fair. Click here for more information, press release, and evite. Taigaa! performed at LP on December 8 Taigaa!, a New York-based experimental band, will perform at LP's opening reception on December 8. Performance will begin at 9pm. Click here for more information. Clifton Childree, Winner of 2007 Hilger Artist Project Award Announced @ Brunch Locust Projects hosted a brunch, inviting Pulse Fair VIP's to brunch with special guest Ernst Hilger on December 6, 2007, 9am-12pm Click here to download PDF of press release announcing winner. Click here to view evite. Gen Art and Johnnie Walker present a Collector's Circle Private Tour & Reception at Locust Projects Wednesday, November 7 @ 7pm-9pm Click here for evite and more information. Click here to view photos from this event. Locust Projects' Annual Fall Raffle Fundraiser was held on November 2, 2007 Click here for more information and to view works from donating artists. Click here for Pictures from this event. TAIGAA @ Locust Projects on Saturday, October 13! Live performance by this New York-based band. 7-11 PM Click here for e-flyer and more information. A Conversation with Matthew Higgs (Director of White Columns) and Jeremy Deller Wednesday, October 3, 2007 @ 7PM Limited Seating - R.S.V.P. Required! Click here for e-flyer and more information. Unlocking the Exhibition Code: Unlocking the Mystery Behind Exhibition Selections Thursday, October 11, 2007 @ 6:30 PM at Miami Art Museum Click here for e-flyer and more information. Conversations with Miami An ongoing lecture series presented by Locust Projects Click here for more on the May 9, 2007 event. Click here for more on the February 1, 2007 event. Locust Projects at the first annual Milwaukee Art Fair Click here for pictures.