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Join us for the first workshop of Mapping Miami!!
In this workshop, you will be guided through prompts to reflect on and make art about a place in Miami that means a lot to you. This art will live in a permanent digital archive that will map and preserve Miami’s collective memory in the face of fast urban change.
Saturday, January 31st
3pm to 5pm
at the Public Library Main Branch
This is a free workshop, no experience needed, all materials provided.
Led by artist Miranda De Gasperi and featuring special guest Zonia Zena.
Zonia Zena is a Peruvian-born visual artist and archivist based between Miami and Lima. She holds a BFA from New World School of the Arts/University of Florida and an MLIS in Archives from the University of Alabama. A Fulbright recipient and member of WOPHA and Women Photograph, her photographic practice explores migration and personal narratives. Her work has been exhibited in Miami, Santiago de Chile, Tokyo and Madrid. She currently manages the Vasari Project archives at Miami-Dade Public Library and collaborates on art projects in Miami.
is a participatory art and digital archiving project that invites Miamians to map, document, and reflect on the city.
Participants create visual responses tied to places in the city that are meaningful to them, which are then uploaded to an interactive digital map. Each map point reveals a unique artwork about the location, forming a growing, community-driven & collaborative archive of Miami’s cultural memory.
Centered on lived experience and celebrating Miamians’ own perspectives, Mapping Miami uses public art and technology to preserve the stories of a rapidly changing city.
This project is supported by the Knight Foundation’s Emerging Cities Champion Fellowship, 8 80 Cities, & Buen Provecho Collective. Learn more here.
If you would like to support, donate, or get involved with Mapping Miami, please email us!
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