The Adrienne Arsht Center invites performing artists in Miami-Dade County to participate in the Center’s Heart of Art online commissioning project. Although COVID-19 remains in our community, there is light at the end of the tunnel. In the final phase of the Heart of Art program, artists are invited to submit original videos that address art in the time of coronavirus. The works should highlight resiliency during this unprecedented time, tell stories of hope and unite us as we approach the other side of the pandemic. Each video submission should include a sample of the completed work.
Using video as the virtual stage, 30 Miami-based performing artists will each be awarded $1,000 to create new works of dance, music, theater, spoken word and other performing arts that capture our community’s unique voice and experience during this unprecedented crisis. The new video works will be showcased on the Arsht Center’s website and promoted across the Center’s social media platforms and in the Arsht@Home e-newsletter.
6 Feet Apart
By Rene Rodriguez
Posted: December 2, 2020
Solitary Confinement
By Randolph Ward
Posted: November 18, 2020
A QUARANTINE TALE
By Jessica Farr and Caleb Scott
Posted: November 11, 2020
HOPE FOR TOMORROW
By Terrence “TM” Pride
Posted: November 5, 2020
COVIDTIME I, II, III, IV
By Omni-Kizzy
Posted: October 30, 2020
THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
By Isabela de la Grana
Posted: October 22, 2020
Heart of Art
By Berwick Augustin
Posted: October 16, 2020
Sol and the Tribu Corona Conga Online
By Sol and the Tribu
Posted: October 9, 2020
Pandemonium
By John Persaud
Posted: October 2, 2020
Land
By David Fernandez
Posted: September 23, 2020
Solace
Stephanie Chisholm and Sten Garcia
Posted: July 28, 2020
My Lover
By Deborah Magdalena
Posted: July 24, 2020
One Day, One Song
By Leonard García
Posted: July 21, 2020
Waves of Isolation
By Joshua Hernandez
Posted: July 17, 2020
Postcard
By Maya Billig
Posted: July 14, 2020
Details for the video proposals, submission criteria and other guidelines are at arshtcenter.org/heart-art-submission.
Artists working across all genres of the performing arts are encouraged to apply, including music, theater, dance, spoken word, monologues or multi-genre combinations. Because Heart of Art is intended to create an artistic time capsule of Miami’s pandemic experience, the program is open exclusively to artists who reside in Miami-Dade County. The work must represent the Miami experience and address the subject of “art in the time of coronavirus” through the artist’s creative lens. Artists will be notified if their work has been selected for a $1,000 commission.
Heart of Art is launched with the generous support of
