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AN INDEPENDENT SUPPLEMENT BY MIA MEDIA & COMMUNICATIONS GROUP TO MIAMI HERALD

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2015

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
From Miami Beach to Miami Gardens,
Homestead to Little Haiti, everywhere you
go in South Florida, Knight Foundation
wants you to have an encounter with art.
Knight's mission to make art general is
based on one simple premise: In a
community as diverse as Miami,
the arts can help create a cultural
identity, represent who we are,
inspire, explain and point a way
forward.
Through the Knight Arts Challenge
and other initiatives, Knight encourages everyone here to participate in
our culture of creativity. Knight Arts
Challenge funding helped launch Free
Gospel Sunday, which thousands enjoy
each year at the Adrienne Arsht Center
for the Performing Arts, the monthly Big
Night in Little Haiti event, and a special
anniversary series featuring artist alumni
of the African Heritage Cultural Arts
Center. At the Perez Museum of Art Miami,
Knight co-created the Fund for African
American Art to help ensure the collection reflected all types of artistic excellence.

Recently, Knight celebrated 57 new
Knight Arts Challenge winners. They
include Delou Africa, which
will expand its festival
celebrating the arts of
the African diaspora,
the Haitian Cultural
Arts Alliance, for an
exchange between
Miami and
Caribbean artists, and
the Overtown
Youth
Center, to
prepare students for music
careers at its Beats Academy.
Find out more about them
and other artists transforming
our community at knight
foundation.org.

Free Gospel Sunday

Big Night in Little Haiti

Second Annual Reception for the
PAMM Fund for African American

Afro Basel

The New Eye of Art in South Florida, Kurator

Join DrumPulse Entertainment, Ankara Miami, and African Elite Entertainment
during Art Basel weekend!

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