Educational Learning Descriptions
Learning Program Descriptions
Vizcaya Museum and Gardens is thrilled to be expanding its public programming offerings. In addition to frequent daily guided tours of the historic main house, we are adding many programs to our roster.
For more information, please contact 305-250-9133 or email learning.programs@vizcayamuseum.org.
Family Programs
Moonlight Garden Tours
Talks and Tours
Free Sundays
Contemporary Arts Project
Performances
Family Programs: Viz(ual) Arts
Vizcaya Museum and Gardens welcomes families, specifically children with their adult companions, to explore the art, history and environment of James Deering's home and estate through afternoon programs. Art making programs are currently held on one Sunday of each month through the spring of 2008. Family programs are FREE with admission.
Facilitated by a museum educator or a guest artist, this program offers families the chance explore an aspect of Vizcaya and its collections, and create their own works of art in response. All art projects are portable and eco-friendly.
April 13, 2008: Fresco Painting
South Terrace
Drop in between 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.
In collaboration with Arts for Learning professional teaching artist Monica Eichmann, students will create a fresco secco, a dry fresco painting
May 18, 2008: Vessel Shapes & Sizes
Courtyard, Main House
Drop in between 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Explore the many shapes and sizes of vessels at Vizcaya, and sculpt your own.
 Top
Moonlight Garden Tours
Wander through Vizcaya’s breathtaking gardens along Biscayne Bay under the light of the full moon. Enjoy informal concerts of live music and light refreshments for sale in the Courtyard of the Main House. Vizcaya's Volunteer Guides will be on hand starting at 6:30 p.m. to answer questions and lead area tours in the gardens.
January - April 2009
Dates will be posted in late fall 2008.
Gates open from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
$15 per person; $10 for Students, Seniors, and Members
Reservations not required.
Note: Not all Garden areas are fully wheelchair-accessible. Top
Talks and Tours
Hear experts in fields such as architectural history, art history, historic preservation, art conservation, Vizcaya’s history, and Miami history.
Thursday, May 1, 2008
GUEST LECTURE: Victoria Kastner
"Hearst Castle and Its Architect Julia Morgan: A Closer Look"
7:00 p.m.
Village Garage
FREE
Victoria Kastner is an architectural historian with an M. A. from the University of California at Santa Barbara. She is the author of Hearst Castle: The Biography of a Country House, and the upcoming San Simeon: The Gardens and the Land, both published by Harry N. Abrams. Ms. Kastner will discuss the twenty-eight year process of creating San Simeon (1919-1947) as well as other major buildings in Julia Morgan's prolific and fascinating architectural career.
A special thank you to the Double Tree Coconut Grove Hotel for providing hotel accommodations for this year’s Talks & Tours speakers.
Top
Free Sundays
Vizcaya opens its gates free of charge for all visitors on the last Sundays in June, July, and August of 2008. Vizcaya is a Miami-Dade County-owned estate that belongs to everyone in the community, and we’re delighted to welcome all visitors, including those who may not have previously visited this National Historic Landmark.
-
June 29, 2008
9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
-
July 27, 2008
9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
-
August 31, 2008
9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Visitors will enjoy a variety of free special programs on these three days:
-
Tours of the main house and gardens
-
Family art-making activities
-
Orchid-potting demonstrations in the David A. Klein Orchidarium
-
Special talks and demonstrations
Check out last year's event page for more detailed information and a schedule of activities.
Top
Contemporary Arts Project
 Through this program, Vizcaya reaches out to the artist community – both locally and nationally – to offer artists the opportunity to explore our resources and think about them in new ways. Two artists per year are invited by an advisory committee to immerse themselves in Vizcaya’s grounds and collections, create a work of art in response to that experience, and participate in public programs such as studio labs, demonstrations, and artist talks. The creative exchange that will result from this program will help to demonstrate Vizcaya’s contemporary relevance to our community and beyond.
Artists for 2006 – 2008 include:
-
Gustavo Matamoros, Miami-based sound artist and composer presented ORGANIC PIPES, a site-specific sound installation inspired by Vizcaya's historic pipe organ. ORGANIC PIPES filed the Courtyard with musical notes originally produced by the organ, yet altered, retuned and reproduced to match the space's unique acoustics. The five distinct tracks that were broadcast from speakers throughout the Courtyard are loops of unequal duration and repeat continuously, resulting in an ever-changing composition of sound. ORGANIC PIPES was on display November 16, 2006 - February 15, 2007.
-
Anna Gaskell, New York-based visual artist presents STILL LIFE, a site-specfic installation filmed in the garden at Vizcaya. Ms.Gaskell explores ideas about the relations of time and space, memory, amnesia and deja vu, using Vizcaya as a portal. Moving throughout the garden the camera engages the viewer in a game of hide and seek. An Artist Talk by Anna Gaskell was held on Wednesday, May 23 at 7 p.m. STILL LIFE was on view March 15 - June 1, 2007.
-
Miami-based Cristina Lei Rodriguez presents STRUGGLING FOR GRANDEUR November 8, 2007 - February 24, 2008. Rodriguez reinterprets topiaries found in Vizcaya’s formal gardens to create an eight-foot-tall sculpture for the Tea Room. Using inexpensive materials such as plastic and artificial plants to achieve a sense of beauty and grandeur, Rodriguez paradoxically mirrors Vizcaya founder James Deering’s vision through a twenty-first-century lens, referencing the struggle between natural elements and human intervention and the dynamic process of growth and decay.
-
Catherine Sullivan, Chicago-based theater and film artist, presents TRIANGLE OF NEED November 29, 2007 - February 24, 2008. In this multi-channel video project in collaboration with Sean Griffin, Dylan Skybrook and Kunle Afolayan, Sullivan provocatively mixes “Neanderthals” and Vizcaya’s lush environments to create “vestigial narratives” that urge the viewer to consider the inequalities and injustices in our global economy.
Top
Performances
Programs for the fall of 2008 are in progress. Check back with us in the mid-summer for more information.
Vizcaya Museum and Gardens is supported in part by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. Sponsored in part by the State of Florida , Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
  
Top
|
