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  Artist Morel Doucet Uses Fantastical Ceramic Creations to Explore the Black Diasporic Experience

  August 21 at 8:30 a.m.

  Haitian born artist Morel Doucet, was first introduced to ceramics at Miami's Lake View Elementary School. His teacher, Ms. Goldman, gave the class an assignment: Create an animal that resonates with you and represents your characteristics. Doucet chose a snail. "As a child, I had an innate curiosity with snails. I would place...

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  Sculpture Trail Adds Art and Color to Your Next Drive to the Keys

  August 14 at 8:13 a.m.

  Driving to the Florida Keys has always been beautiful. Now it's a lot artsier. In late July, the 81-mile Florida Keys Sculpture Trail made its debut. It comprises nine massive sculptures along Overseas Highway between Islamorada and Key West.

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  "Rebuilding With Love" Brings the Voices of Puerto Rico to Wynwood

  August 8 at 9 a.m.

  Almost a year has passed since Hurricane Maria razed much of Puerto Rico with rivers of floods last September, but the storm’s implications remain vague. There is no definitive death census, for instance—estimates range between 1,100 and 4,600 victims—which raises profound questions of identity, belonging, and citizenship. The associates at...

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  "Wit as Weapon," at the Wolfsonian, Examines Historical Propaganda

  August 2 at 9 a.m.

  A particularly pointed political cartoon made the rounds on Twitter and Facebook after Donald Trump took office. In it, his face, puckered in his signature duck lips, is tilted up toward a globe precariously sitting on an American flag atop a table. Trump's baby body greedily grasps at the flag with poop-covered fingers, allegedly smeared from his seeping diaper.

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  Local Photographer Peggy Nolan: "It Took Me Many Years to Call Myself an Artist"

  July 26 at 8 a.m.

  Peggy Nolan devoted the majority of her life to raising seven kids, all the while dreaming about making art. When she wasn't cooking and cleaning at home, she studied photography books and honed her skills behind the lens with shoplifted film. As her kids grew up and moved out, a marriage came and went...

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  BFI's "Percolate Anything You Want to Call It" at Mango's Tropical Cafe

  July 23 at 9:33 a.m.

  BFI presented "Percolate Anything You Want to Call It," a one-day multimedia pop-up exhibition at Mango's Tropical Cafe on Sunday, July 22. Miami-native artists Natalia Arias, Audrey Gair, and Marines Montalvo curated a small collection of paintings, sculpture, costume design, and film and sound within two floors of the tropical club that sits in the heart of South Beach. The artists' work details Miami's complicated history and creates a commentary addressing stereotypes and misconceptions often associated with the Magic City. Photography by Karli Evans.