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Posted by | March 25, 2019
EMPOWERING CAPABLE CLIMATE COMMUNICATORS SYMPOSIUM

  EMPOWERING CAPABLE CLIMATE COMMUNICATORS SYMPOSIUM    

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Posted by | September 21, 2018
LTER All Scientists’ Meeting | Next Generation Synthesis: Successes and Strategies

LTER All Scientists' Meeting | Next Generation Synthesis: Successes and Strategies Workshop: Integration of the Environmental Sciences, Arts, and Humanities Across the LTER Network   Xavier Cortada, Diatom, archival ink...

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Posted by | March 23, 2018
Native Flags: 9th Annual Earth Day Celebration in every Miami-Dade County public school

On April 7th, 2010, students from Filer Middle School in Hialeah planted a sea grape (Coccoloba uvifera) and Native Flag on campus and adopted their own buttonwood and firebush trees/flags...

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Posted by | January 21, 2018
Film Screening: Battleground Everglades | Dangerous Seas

    Please join us for the special screening of “Dangerous Seas” on Wednesday, January 24th at 7PM at the Deering Estate in Miami.  The episode of DANGEROUS SEAS showcases...

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Posted by | August 17, 2017
The Art of Diatoms

  The Art of Diatoms by Xavier Cortada, Artist-in-Residence FIU School of Environment, Arts and Society   Fig. 1. Cortada’s one-hundred diatom works on tile (each 6″ x 6″), 2017....

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Posted by | April 21, 2017
Seahorse Society at Sweetwater Elementary School

  Sweetwater Elementary students to join the Seahorse Society  Xavier Cortada, “Hippocampus,” 48″ x 24″, acrylic on canvas, 2014   Project Seahorse is partnering with Miami-based eco-artist Xavier Cortada to present...

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Posted by | April 7, 2017
Sweetwater Elementary to grow FLOR500 wildflowers in every student’s home

  FLOR500 | Sweetwater Miami artist Xavier Cortada will lead Sweetwater Elementary School students in creating a participatory eco-art project in support of the pollinators.  Inspired by his FLOR500 project...

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Posted by | March 19, 2017
Leaf Summit: Native Flags Call to Action

Growing Our Tree Canopy Through Research Driven Solutions The premier exchange on trees in Miami-Dade County featuring best practices from green cities, highlights from the Miami-Dade Urban Tree Canopy Assessment,...

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Posted by | March 8, 2017
DEERING SPRING CONTEMPORARY “PLATFORM 450” exhibit

  FIU SEAS and CARTA artist-in-residence Xavier Cortada will be exhibiting his Native Flags project (www.nativeflags.org) and his 2015 work, 5 Actions to Stop Rising Seas. at DEERING SPRING CONTEMPORARY...

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Posted by | February 6, 2017
ArtTuesdays talk: Sea Level Rise

ARTtuesday/Miami Networking & Lecture ARTISTS RESPOND TO GROWING SEA LEVEL RISE CRISIS   The crisis of Global Warming and its rapidly threatening effects on Sea Level Rise is a reality...

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