Art After Dark

Choose between a Docent Tour of either Highlights of the Collection or Artists' Jewelry: From Cubism to Pop, the Diane Venet Collection. 

Tour is limited to 25 visitors. Pick up your tour wristband at the Reception Desk one hour before the tour.

Meet in Great Hall

Join our teaching artist for a fun and creative project!

Classroom #2

MY BEAUTIFUL NICARAGUA (Directed by Edelsin Linette Mendez)

12-year-old Edelsin Linette Mendez lives with her siblings and parents on their small coffee farm in the beautiful highlands of Nicaragua. The farming of coffee in Nicaragua has supported the Mendez family and thousands like them for generations, with coffee accounting for 30 percent of the country’s exports. As a result of climate change, increasing temperatures and erratic rainfall now facilitate the growth of “La Roya” fungus that kills the coffee crop. In the last three years alone, the Mendez family's harvest has been reduced by over 50 percent by this fungus, forcing them into poverty. Since climate change knows no borders, this phenomenon is also ravaging coffee crops beyond Nicaragua, ruining at least half of the one million acres of coffee planted in Central America. USAID estimates that Central American Coffee Production will fall by up to 40 percent in the next few years, with possible job losses as high as 500,000.

DISPLACED BUT NOT DEFEATED (Directed by María Ceballos Paz)

María Ceballos Paz, a 16-year-old Colombian girl, has been living in displacement for the past nine years as a result of Colombia’s civil war. Decades of fighting between the army, paramilitary, guerrilla groups, and drug cartels have forced approximately four million Colombians from their homes, creating the largest internally displaced population in the world. After guerrillas killed her father, María and her family fled their farm. Now living in the slums of Cali, María shows us her family, friends, and community as they rebuild their lives. Her story is like those of millions of people facing similar upheaval, not only in Colombia, but in other war-torn countries around the world.

Stiller Auditorium

Join us for a rich multi-cultural ensemble that brings art, music, dance, and storytelling to young audiences and families. The Ameyal Mexican Cultural Organization will lead audiences through an interactive educational voyage through Mexico’s past and present. Ameyal means “spring water” in the Nahuatl language. The mission of this cultural organization is to preserve and share the Mexican culture with the South Florida community.

Great Hall