2025 Artist Projects

Type:
Webinar

Scheduled:
8/14/2023 9:00:00 AM

Name:
2025 Artist Projects

Fiscal Year:
2025

Staff Member:

Chair:
Teri Abstein

Location:
Go to Meeting

Access:
Comments Closed

Agenda Files

GPSSCPrubric2025.pdf
AgendaArtistProjects.pdf

County: Hillsborough

Bio

Ecuadorian artist making sculpture, 360 degree videos, installations, and performances and hopes to increase the visibility and voices of historically underrepresented artists
Founder and Director, galleria juniin, Guayaquil, Ecuador and Co-Director, Coco Hunday Gallery, Tampa, Florida
Previously, Exhibitions Coordinator, Tempus Projects and Art Instructor, Tampa Museum of Art
Fulbright Creative research Alumni, Ecuador, 2020-21
B.F.A, Studio Art and B.A., Philosophy, University of South Florida; attended Yale Norfolk Undergraduate Residency; Oxbow School of Art; Currents Undergraduate Residency at PAFA; and ACRE

County: MiamiDade

Bio

Founder and Director, Bas Fisher Invitational, Miami, Florida
Advisory Board, Bridge Initiative; Art Basel Miami Beach Jr. Host Committee; Visual Arts National Panel Chair, National Young Arts Foundation
Awards include: 2005 & 2013 South Florida Cultural Consortium Grant; 2010 20 under 40: Celebrating Arts Award; 2008 Knight Arts Challenge Grant; and 2004 Alumni of the Year, New World School of the Arts
B.F.A., Maryland Institute College of Art

County: MiamiDade

Bio

Haitian-American Actor/Writer/Director, Miami, Florida
Debut feature film “Ludi” premiered at SXSW (2021) and is set to release in 2023. He served as a consultant with Issa Rae's “Rap shit” on HBO max. Jean was most recently nominated for a Streamy and Mipcom award for directing all eight (23 minute) episodes of his dramedy, “Grown”, for Complex Networks. He also wrote, directed, and starred in "The Adventures of Edson Jean," which aired on HBO. As an actor, he was most recently seen in A24’s Oscar winning “Moonlight,” Warner Bros. Pictures' “War Dogs,” HBO's "Ballers" and Netflix's "Bloodline."
B.F.A, New Word School for the Arts

County: Orange

Bio

Assistant Professor, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida
Previously, Adjunct Professor teaching Social Impact Documentary at Saybrook University and Emerson College Los Angeles
Emmy-nominated documentary Vision 2030: Future of SoCal premiered on Spectrum News 1. Her documentary East LA Interchange was highlighted on NBC L.A., and has won ten jury and audience awards to date. Roof, Chained!, and Hearts Cracked Open have been honored with multiple awards at festivals around the world. She received a National Endowment for the Humanities/ITVS Humanities Documentary Development Fellowship for her documentary Dreaming in Somali.
M.F.A., Directing, University of Miami and B.A., Women’s Studies, Columbia College at Columbia University

County: Leon

Bio

Visiting Assistant Professor, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
Previously, Adjunct Faculty, Virginia Commonwealth University and George Mason University; and Co-Director, Present Junction Gallery
M.F.A., Maryland Institute College of Art and B.A., Saint Mary’s University