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- Rishona Cann’s painting of LeBron James
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The Heat Index, artist Rishona Cann’s series of portraits of Miami Heat players were recently featured on Channel 10 news. Cann says her “agent,” who is also her father, talked to the manager of Bru’s Room in Coconut Creek about hanging her work for the playoffs. When the manager requested a photo of the paintings, Cann’s father instead returned to Bru’s Room with the actual paintings, including one of Dwyane Wade that the athlete had autographed. “An hour later while at work, Cann says, “I received a text from my dad that said, ‘The chicken is in the pot.’”
Cann’s father and brother then hung The Heat Index at Bru’s room, and a few days later the paintings made their way onto Channel 10 News during a pre-show for the Heat’s second game. “I am not sure how that happened,” Cann says. “But I am very grateful to Bru’s Room for giving an emerging artist this chance.”
Consider the mini-show as a warm-up for “Implosion,” Cann’s first solo exhibition which will open Aug. 1 and run through Sept. 30 at Broward College Library in Coconut Creek. To see more of Cann’s work, visit Rishonasart.com.
In other art news:
● Auteur Explosion, the night of local art, music and film, that was held on and off over the last few years at Cinema Paradiso,will now be held at a new venue and organizer Dawn Dubriel is seeking filmmakers, performers, artists and bands for the first show in August. Those interested in participating should e-mail Dubriel at Orianadawn@yahoo.com with the details.
● 8 Bit Love is the title of a show that will be held July 29 at Propaganda in Lake Worth, and curator Brittany Patterson is seeking art that, as she puts it, “surrounds the beautifully nerdy world of fantastic video games, superheroes and digital nerd love.” The event will feature live music and a video game tournament. Artists who want their works to be considered should e-mail their “name, phone number, jpg of image, title, size, price, and medium” to PelesRevenge@gmail.com before June 20.
● Artists are invited to submit 2D and 3D works for Lucky 7 2011, an open-themed, open-media exhibition judged by Mary Lou Siefker. Fittingly, seven $100 awards will be given at Lucky 7 which will run June 30 through July 27 at Tom Rossetti Fine Art. Fee is $20, and $10 for each additional work. For details on how to submit, visit TomRossetti.com.
● Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami is seeking film/video submissions from South Florida and for the first time, around the country for its 13th Optic Nerve showcase. Films selected by a jury of film and art professionals will be shown on Aug. 27 at MOCA. The museum will purchase one of the films for its permanent collection. Processing fee is $20 for entry, $10 for entries received before June 26 (half-price for MOCA members). Applications can be downloaded at Mocanomi.org.
● Vaughn Reynolds is accepting submission for Where the Stars and the Moons Play, a show that will open July 6 at Stage 84 in Davie. Fee is $10 per two entries. Entry form is at Sintheticdesigns.com.
● Flagler Arts Space has a blog about all their events and have posted a video of a recent art party where guests smashed a pinata that looked like as Brito work.
● The deadline for 2012 South Florida Cultural Consortium Visual and Media Artist Fellowship application workshop is Oct. 3, 2011 and this is a good time to start thinking about it. A workshop titled “Demystifying the Process” will be held at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 7 at ArtServe in Fort Lauderdale. Each year fellowships of $7,500 and $15,000 are awarded to several artists in Broward, Martin, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties. The money is not project-based but is meant to meet artists’ needs, as determined by each artist. Details on the 90-minute workshop, as well as other workshops for artists, can be found here.
● Florida Atlantic University Fine Arts Festival is accepting applications to participate in Florida Atlantic University Fine Arts Festival to be held 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 12 and 13 on FAU’s Boca Raton campus. As stated in in the invitation to artists, “Applications will be considered when received and spaces will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.” Deadline is July 1. The entry form can be found at Faufineartsfestival.com.
● 6th Street Container in Miami has invited artists to send their resume and six images (at least 500kb) of their work to 6thstreetcontainer@gmail.com. Proposals for projects already underway are also welcome. As chief curator Adalberto Delgado states in the invitation, “We look forward to showing conceptual work, installations, film and video (must have own equipment) and we will also look at painting, drawing and sculpture.”
