The art of Raquel Lázaro often includes depictions of underwater vessels. Trained in Havana, Cuba, Lázaro was one of thousands of Cuban exiles who found a home in Miami after the Cuban Revolution of 1959. She enrolled in the art department of Biscayne College, now known as St. Thomas University, and participated in several group shows throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
Lázaro’s visual style is distinguishable, with line work that evokes the work of modern artists such as Marc Chagall and Paul Klee.
This drawing exemplifies Lázaro’s affinity for dainty contours and feathery watercolor backgrounds. Although not entirely abstract, this imaginary vessel is dreamlike and weightless, not fully situated in our plane of existence.
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Moad Art Contest For MDC Students!
Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration, MDC’s Padrón Campus, October 3, 2024. Image courtesy of World Red Eye.
MOAD is thrilled to host an art contest, focused on the theme of “Home”. Open to all Miami Dade College students over the age of 18, this contest is an opportunity to explore the diverse and profound meanings connected to the word “Home”. Is it a place, a feeling, or a person? Is it more impactful to depict it abstractly, or to make a naturalistic representation? Is home represented by a collage or a photograph? Creative interpretations are welcome.
As MOAD celebrates the 100th birthday of the historic Freedom Tower, we encourage our community to think about place and identity. What informs our ideas of home? Can a building mark the identity of a city, of a person?
These are all possible prompts to consider while working on contest submissions. Each entry should answer the prompt: What is home to you?
Submissions will be collected January 13 through February 18, 2025. The winner will be announced on March 3, 2025, and will receive a $200 gift certificate courtesy of Blick Art Materials, and will be featured on MOAD’s Instagram page (@moadmdc) and The Freedom Tower’s Instagram page (@miamifreedomtower). Up to three submissions are allowed per person.
Please email your entries to Jennifer Weinberg at [email protected].
MOAD’s programs are made possible with the support of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor, and the Board of County Commissioners. They are sponsored in part by the State of Florida through the Department of State, Division of Arts and Culture and the National Endowment for the Arts, and with generous support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The Miami Herald is a media sponsor of MOAD’s programming.
Miami Dade College is an equal access/ equal opportunity institution that does not discriminate based on sex, race, color, marital status, age, religion, national origin, disability, veteran’s status, ethnicity, pregnancy, sexual orientation, or genetic information. To obtain additional information about the College’s equal access and equal opportunity policies, procedures, and practices, please contact the College’s Equity Officer: Cindy Lau Evans, Director, Office of Equal Opportunity Programs and ADA Coordinator at [email protected]
Moad Talks Time And Place: Multitudes Of Black Experience In Miami
Time and Place: Multitudes of Black Experience in Miami is a panel discussion related to MOAD’s exhibition Kabuya Pamela Bowens-Saffo: From the Heights. Bowens-Saffo engaged with multiple Miami neighborhoods including Coconut Grove and Richmond Heights.
Panelists Dr. Valerie Patterson, Dr. Donette Francis, and Dr. Simeon Richardson share their scholarship on aspects of History, Black Studies, and Miami Studies that relate to art by Kabuya Pamela Bowens-Saffo. How does the artist’s work reflect the time, place, and Black culture in Miami? Why is this archive relevant to documenting the Miami Black experience?
