Miami, Florida…January 2020 – In efforts to nurture and give dedicated space to LGBTQ artists everywhere and furthering the bond and alliance between LGBT non-profits in South Florida, Unity Coalition|Coalición Unida (UC|CU) and Pridelines, Miami-Dade County’s LGBTQ Community Center have created an exciting new opportunity for the community. As of January 2020, the Gallery A at Pridelines LGBT Community Center, located at 6360 NE 4th Ct, Miami, FL 33138, will be transformed into the ARTLab@Pridelines, curated and managed by UC|CU, to highlight local, national and international artists of Trans experience by featuring their works year round, free and open to the public.
“Pridelines has been featuring the works of Queer artists throughout our gallery walls since we opened our flagship Center in Miami in June of 2016. In doing so, we have worked with Community Partners, more so with Unity Coalition|Coalición Unida which has hosted elements of their annual TRANSART events at our Center for several years. For this reason, we are excited to embark on this new partnership with the team at Unity Coalition|Coalición Unida within our Gallery A, that will complement the ongoing exhibits of Queer artists throughout our Miami Center and Gallery– creating one of South Florida’s only year round spaces for LGBTQ artists and their work.” said Pridelines Chief Executive Officer, Victor Diaz-Herman.
The nearly 600sq ft gallery space boasts double height ceilings, an open floorplan, and plenty of space to create, explore, consider and appreciate art.
Pridelines Miami is open to all Monday through Friday, noon-8pm, and Saturdays, noon-5pm.
“This is a wonderful opportunity and partnership, and Unity Coalition|Coalición Unida could not be happier to grow our ongoing commitment to the Pridelines Center of bringing ARTLab and world class works by LGBTQ artists from around the corner or across the globe, to the South Florida community. We will officially kick off this endeavor with our 6th annual TRANSART Artists Showcase and conference in late January 2020.
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Pridelines mission is to support, educate and empower South Florida’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning
(LGBTQ) youth and community in safe and diverse spaces to promote dialogue, wellness, and to foster social change.
UNITY COALITION|COALICIÓN UNIDA is the First & Only organization for the South Florida Latinx|Hispanic & Indigenous LGBTQ+ community, advancing Equality & Fairness, through Education, Leadership and Awareness, since 2002 – offering tools and programming, like the 6th annual TRANSART Conference and Artists Showcase – featuring transgender and non-conforming
artists and their works; ELEVATE- a day of workshops and tools for being Nicer; LGBT Scholarships for the Arts, Design and Education; MicroGiving Fund for start-ups and reboots in life; PRIDE U 2020 – Activism, Leadership & Social Resources for a New Rainbow; the 10th annual Celebrate ORGULLO Hispanic Pride festival, Oct 1-15th.
Milo Wissig is a painter living in Brooklyn, NY. He has exhibited his work in New York, Miami, Cleveland and Philadelphia.
Milo spent the first half of his childhood traveling around Europe and the Southeastern United States, and the rest in central Florida. He recieved a BFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn in 2013, after his graduating class's studios and work were destroyed in a fire on the Pratt campus.
He co-founded arts advocacy organization BuskNY, which spread awareness of the legality of public performance, in 2013, and curated events and created promotional materials for the organization for several years.
Milo's work consists largely of small, colorful oil paintings on panels coated with a textured ground. These paintings center his personal experiences and his relationship (as a queer trans man) with the queer and trans communities in Brooklyn and Orlando. It also struggles to challenge tropes used in the depiction of transgender people in art presented for a presumed cisgender and heterosexual audience; the cis gaze. These paintings focus on the reality of daily life in queer and trans-centered community: communal housing, shared public and private space, intimacy, poverty, and sexuality.
He works from his apartment, where he also gardens and bakes and brews mead. He has been making web sites since he was 12 and completed a course in full-stack web development in 2018.
FOR MORE INFO on the artist, or to purchase a piece, please contact: milowissig.com
A photographer born
in Cuba, and raised in Miami, Florida, ALI holds a Bachelor's of Fine Arts from
the Academy of Art College of San Francisco. Also, he attended
the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He has extensively exhibited his
work in various solo and collective shows in local, national, & int’l galleries.
@artworksbyali
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"My artwork explores childhood and intergenerational trauma and healing, including
disassociation from the body, mind, and emotions; issues related to gender, identity
and expression, childhood neglect and abuse; imagination and escapism; isolation
and the search for a sense of belonging in the world and with community; healing work;
and radical love and acceptance of the self and others. The artwork also incorporates
elements of the subconscious, dream interpretation, and magic realism."
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'Im a fine artist painting the Egypsy Bible.
It's super interesting and involved. I mainly paint.
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a piece, please contact
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I have been painting since 2006, specializing in figurative, abstract and landscape
work. Much of my work is on found wood from construction waste. I have also
developed a niche type of work that I call “Paintcatchers”. These works develop through
my use of left over paint on my palette being applied to random boards. This process
on these types of paintings, sometimes evolves over years until a work is finished.
My work has been shown in numerous cities including, Santa Fe, Denver, Miami and
Los Angeles. I am currently represented by Esperanza Art, a gallery in Marfa, Texas.
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They, them | (Shane) is an artist in multiple media, whose diverse body of
work explores fusion of oppositional polarities, transcendental themes, abstract
symbolism, and humankind's unique role within the natural world. A graduate
of Pratt Institute and the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, Shane draws
from their bi-coastal life experience, informed by the rich tapestry of artistic, historic,
cultural, literary, musical and filmic trends of both Los Angeles and New York City.
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She, her, hers | Baltimore, Maryland
I use narrative, historical art references, fantastical elements of costumes and
autobiography to depict taboo intimacies between women —acknowledging and
emphasizing the female gaze. My work consists of large paintings, photographs and
monotypes created over the past two years. I construct intimate moments in my
photographs and create narrative portraits of lesbian relationships.
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The proud, reigning Miss Florida Roundup 2019. The Florida Roundup
is a conference for the LGBTQ community and their supporters, who
are members of a 12 Step recovery program.
Ms. Monroe has been performing since she was 17 years young. She
began her illustrious career as a performer in New York City in the 80’s
and 90’s, working at such iconic establishments as the Monster Bar,
Escuelita Night Club and many, many more.
Vanessa Monroe was part of a real Pose life in the80's, known in the
ball scene as Vanessa Xtravaganza-Continental. In the early 90's she
won many beauty peagents in NYC and In the mid 90’s she moved to
Miami. In 2013 she became a Trans activist and Trans artist in
photography.
In 2017 and 2018 she participated in TransArt . Since winning her
crown as Miss Florida Roundup 2019, Vanessa has participated in
fundraisers in order to give back to her community and also performed
in Miami Beach Pride as Queen Borinquen Clinic.
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A Trans man born in Cuba in 1978. Raised in Miami and partially in Costa Rica, Yeniel is a self taught visual artist. Actively works as a tattooist, and enjoys creative projects on the side.
"Art is one of life's free gifts that has not only given me purpose and a voice but also it has saved my life"
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Visual Artist, Writer/Poet, Musician Composer
Montreal based interdisciplinary trans feminine artist combining performance, music, photography and spoken word with experimental film and video.
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Visual Artist, aspiring model
New Bedford, Massachusetts based trans man, visual artist and aspiring model.
Photography by ally Brittany Brackett.
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Visual Artist, aspiring model
New Bedford, Massachusetts based trans man, visual artist and aspiring model.
Photography by ally Brittany Brackett.
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info@unitycoalition.org
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