If you are in the Coral Gables, Miami area, we strongly recommend this exhibition featuring work by the talented Beju Lejobart
ENDANGERED EXHIBITION IN MIAMI DEC 4-6, 2014
ENDANGERED Exhibition in Miami Dec 4-6, 2014
Play a part in Conservation at the ENDANGERED Exhibition in Miami Dec 4-6, 2014. Exhibition raises awareness of endangered species and the environment whilst contributing to the welfare of orangutans and chimpanzees.
Featuring work by leading contemporary artists and photographers and a new piece by Bubbles, the chimpanzee once owned by Michael Jackson.
Thursday, Dec 4th to Saturday, Dec 6th, 2014, 2-9pm at Miami Club Rum Gallery and Distillery, 2320 N Miami Ave, Miami 33127
For more information visit http://www.art4apes.com/ or email lindsey@art4apes.com
Nomad Lion by Pekka Jarventaus. All rights reserved.
WINNERS AND ENDANGERED EXHIBITION
We would like to congratulate our winners on their achievement. We would also like to congratulate and sincerely thank all those who entered the contest for their support and for using their skill and talent to help draw attention to endangered species and habitats. This has been a wonderful contest. We will continue to post the other entries to the contest that have not yet been posted up until the exhibition on December 4-6th, 2-9pm at the Miami Club Gallery, 2320, North Miami Avenue, Miami 33127. We hope to see you all there!
ART4APES: SUMMER EXHIBTION
We are upgrading the lighting and the paint job in the gallery this weekend. We will be open 14th June, 7-11pm for our new Summer Exhibition. Come join us. Cocktails will be served.
SILVER QUEEN FINE ART
If you are in Park City, Utah, do not miss Silver Queen Fine Art run by a very distinguished cat called King Midas and assisted by Timm Hilty. They have some fabulous art featuring wildlife real and imagined. https://www.facebook.com/SilverQueenFineArt
ENDANGERED EXHIBITION - WYNWOOD, MIAMI
Silvana Abel (left) with friends - currently exhibiting at ENDANGERED, 2320 N Miami Avenue.
ENDANGERED EXHIBITION
Come and get eye-to-eye with a Panther at the ENDANGERED Art & Photography exhibition in Miami. The Panther is one of many beautiful pieces of sculpture in the ENDANGERED exhibition by Sag Harbor based artist Robert Hooke. ENDANGERED is being held at the premises of Miami Club Rum at 2320 North Miami Avenue, Miami and is open 2-9pm today. Cocktails in the presence of the artists Saturday 6-9pm plus fashion show of jewelry and wearable art. Don't miss it - and we have valet parking!
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THE APE WHO WOULD BE KING BY LAURANCE RASSIN
Exhibiting at the ENDANGERED Art & Photography exhibition in Miami during Art Basel week is Laurance Rassin with 'The Ape who would be King". ENDANGERED is being held at the premises of Miami Club Rum at 2320 North Miami Avenue, Miami and is open 2-9pm today and tomorrow - please come along.
THURSDAY NIGHT WAS HAT NIGHT
Last night was hat night at the ENDANGERED Art & Photography exhibition courtesy of Judi Bradford. See Judi's Facebook page for more info.
THE ENDANGERED ART & PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION IS OPEN
And we're OPEN. The ENDANGERED Art & Photography exhibition is being held at the Miami Club Gallery, 2320 N Miami Avenue from Thursday 5th to Saturday 7th December from 2-9pm. Cocktails in the presence of the artists Saturday 6-9pm plus fashion show of jewelry and wearable art. Don't miss it - and we have valet parking!
DJ Blondie at ENDANGERED
DJ Blondie will be spinning on Friday & Saturday 6/7 December and would like suggestions for what music you would like to hear to suggest ENDANGERED. We would like to thank Blondie for supporting the exhibition again this year.
ENDANGERED: Hair and Make-Up
We are very pleased to announce that hair and make-up for the models will be done by AMANDA MULVEY of TRUE SALON, MIAMI. Amanda is a hugely talented actress, producer, make-up artist and hairdresser and a true chameleon herself. This is a photo of Amanda herself - as the endangered Blue Morpho Butterfly.
ENDANGERED Art & Photography Exhibition
Please come along and see the winners of the ENDANGERED Art & Photography contest at our exhibition being held in Miami during Art Basel week. Featuring work by Award Winning National Geographic photographer, Joel Sartore and a range of worldwide artists, photographers, jewelers and designers, including Bubbles, Michael Jackson's chimpanzee.
The exhibition will be held at 2320 North Miami Avenue, Miami, FL 33127 on the 5th-7th December, 2pm-9pm.
Thanks to Miami Club Rum
The ENDANGERED team would like to thank Matt Malone and Michael Kesti of Miami Club Rum for their generous support of this contest. Please come visit our gallery on their premises at 2320 North Miami Avenue, Miami during Art Basel week,December 5-7th to see the Contest winners and celebrate with a delicious cocktail made with their award-winning MIAMI CLUB RUM.
Miami Club Rum
We're delighted that those lovely people at Distileria Caneca, the home of Miami Club Rum, have agreed to turn the distillery into a gallery for Art Basel week once again this year. The distillery, the first and only in Miami, has agreed to loan the space to ENDANGERED: Art4apes to showcase the winners of the ENDANGERED 2013 Photography and Art Contest plus other art from a variety of artists. The gallery will be open from Thursday 5th to Saturday 7th December with special events every evening and is located at 2320 N. Miami Ave. (Wynwood Area) Miami, Florida.
Our sincere thanks to Matt Malone, the Founder & CEO of Distileria Caneca, and Michael Kesti, CEO of The Azuka Foundation, the foundation established by Malone to support the distillery in the community with a focus on early education.
Street Art
The walls and buildings of the Wynwood area of Miami are covered in a living body of urban street art that changes on an almost daily basis. In the space of 4 days during Art Basel I witnessed a pair of blank black doors transformed into an intricate work of art ... twice! Much of the street art in this area is centred around the Wynwood Walls project. The Wynwood Walls was conceived by the renowned community revitalizor and placemaker Tony Goldman in 2009. He was looking for something big to transform the warehouse district of Wynwood, and he arrived at a simple idea: "Wynwood's large stock of warehouse buildings, all with no windows, would be my giant canvases to bring to them the greatest street art ever seen in one place." Starting with the 25th–26th Street complex of six separate buildings, his goal was to create a center where people could gravitate to and explore, and to develop the area's pedestrian potential.
The Wynwood Walls became a major art statement with Tony's commitment to graffiti and street art, a genre that he believes is under appreciated and not respected historically. He wanted to give the movement more attention and more respect: "By presenting it in a way that has not been done before, I was able to expose the public to something they had only seen peripherally." Murals by renowned street artists have covered the walls of the Wynwood Walls complex since 2009, and to create more canvases and bring more artists to the project, Tony opened the Wynwood Doors in 2010 with 176 feet of roll-up storefront gates. The painted exteriors and interiors of the doors reveal a portrait gallery. Murals have also been commissioned for Outside the Walls through 2011, in key locations outside the park itself.
Wild Night
Friday night at the ENDANGERED: Art For Apes exhibition was an opportunity to experience the fabulous fashions inspired by 12 endangered species and presented by the Gabby Wild Foundation. Our volunteer models did an amazing job of showing these fashions off and highlighting the plight of these 12 endangered species. Music was provided by DJ Blondie and guests enjoyed signature cocktails by Miami Club Rum.
Huge thanks to Gabby Wild for the loan of the costumes and also to our wonderful models:
Amur Leopard - Angelika Frantzen (designed by Althea Harper / Calle Evans)
Bactrian Camel - Sue Dupré (designed by Laura Zwanzinger / Max Gengos)
Blue Morpho Butterfly - Amanda Mulvey (designed by Seth Aaron Henderson)
Chinese Giant Salamander - Ann S. (designed by Luis Valenzuela)
Ganges River Dolphin - Virginia Ansaldi (designed by Kristin Haskins Simms)
Kakapo Parrot - Hayley Marks (designed by Jay McCarroll)
Red Panda - Casey Taylor (designed by Andy South)
Rondo Dwarf Galago - Paulina Fonseca (designed by Kara Saun)
Sumatran Tiger - Tara Sena Basan (designed by Althea Harper / Calle Evans)
Endangered
Today saw the transformation of the Miami Club Rum distillery in the heart of the Wynwood area of Miami into the first ever ENDANGERED Art For Apes exhibition ready for Art Basel week. This contemporary art exhibition inspired by the dangers facing animals and our environment featuring work by:
Laurent Harari, Jeffrey Pitt, David Kidd, Nall, Betsy Stewart, Joe Zammit-Lucia, Sheila McInerney, Norman Gitzen, Garry Kravit, Anna Bogusz, Ronnie Muscat, Jon Norris, Geoff Glassner and the Artists of the Center for Great Apes.
The Center for Great Apes, founded in 1993, provides a permanent sanctuary for orangutans and chimpanzees that have been retired and rescued from the entertainment industry, from research, or from the exotic pet trade. The Center provides care with dignity in a safe, healthy, and enriching environment for great apes in need of lifetime care. Our sanctuary home is located in Wauchula, on over 100 acres a few miles from the beautiful Peace River in south central Florida. Routine health checks, periodic physicals, and when necessary, emergency care are handled in the Arcus Great Ape Health Center. The Center for Great Apes earned the 4-star rating from Charity Navigator.