Division of Academics Visual and Performing Arts, Office of Academics and Transformation,
Miami-Dade County Public Schools presents

Exploring the Environment & Art: STEAM Workshop

with

Xavier Cortada,
Artist-in-Residence, Florida International University,
School of Environment, Arts and Society, College of Arts & Sciences/
College of Architecture + The Arts

Location and Sponsor: Frost Art Museum , FIU, 10975 SW 17^th Street, Miami, Fl. 33199
Parking: metered parking across the museum, Blue Garage ($8.00 flat fee)

Contact: Miriam Machado, Curator of Education, mmachado@fiu.edu
305.348.1808

SESSION FULL
(No more attendees, please)

AGENDA

8:30 am – 9:15 am       Sign in/Registration/Introductions/Light breakfast

9:15 am – 10:15 am     Xavier Cortada- An Art-Science Practice

10:30 am – 11:30 am   STEAM Panel Discussion| FIU Arts and Science Faculty
Steam Panel Discussion/ FIU Arts and Science Faculty (moderated by Xavier Cortada)

• David Rifkind, FIU School of Architecture & Associate Dean of College of Arch + The Arts
• Tiffany Troxler, Ph.D., FIU Department of Biology & Director, Sea Level Solutions Center
• Kalai Mathee, M.D. , FIU Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine
• Pete Markowitz, Ph.D., FIU Department of Physics

Special Message from Nicholas J. Oehm, Jr., Education and Outreach Coordinator, Florida Coastal Everglades LTER.

11:30 am – 12:30 pm     Lunch (lunch is on your own)

12:30 pm – 3:30 pm Native Flags: Make a flag, make a statement, make a difference (co-led by Kim Yantis-Strycharski who will explain the Native Flags curriculum/program at Deering Estate. (Documented by FIU Library’s Miguel Asencio). See www.nativeflags.org

REFERENCES

www.cortada.com

Art in the Anthropocene, by Alan C. Braddock and Renée Ater. Source: American Art, Vol. 28, No. 3 (Fall 2014), p. cover2. Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Native Flags/Deering Curriculum

FIU SEAS/ Coastal Everglades/ FIU CARTA

Division of Academics Visual and Performing Arts, Office of Academics and Transformation, Miami-Dade County Public Schools

Miami-Dade County Public Schools-STEAM- Office of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics

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