FRIENDS OF THE MIAMI-DADE PUBLIC LIBRARY
Presents
MIAMI MOMENTS 2012
The Library’s Three Graces in the Arts:
Honoring Margarita Cano, Helen Kohen and Barbara Young
Honorary co-chairs
Maurice Ferre * William T. Muir * H.T. Smith
Friday, February 10, 2012 – 7:00 to 11:00 pm
Main Library
101 W Flagler Street
Miami, FL 33130
Festive Attire and Fanciful Hats
Wine and Imaginative Amuse-bouche
Miami Moments Video Installations
Highlights from The Vasari Project
Live Performance by the Spam Allstars
The Evening’s proceeds will benefit
The Vasari Project, an archive of visual arts history in Miami
and the Friends of the Miami-Dade Public Library.
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Friends of the Miami-Dade Public Library is pleased to announce its first annual Miami Moments, an evening celebrating extraordinary people in our cultural community. The 2012 event honors three women inextricably tied to the history of the Main Library and its ongoing support of the visual arts –The Library’s Three Graces in the Arts: Margarita Cano, Helen Kohen and Barbara Young.
During the last three decades before retiring, these dedicated, amazing professionals contributed in many ways to the founding of the Library’s renowned art collection, to its broad-reaching educational and cultural programs and to the establishment of a unique archive of the history of the visual arts in Miami, The Vasari Project.
Our special evening is at the Main Library on Friday, February 10, 2012. Guests are encouraged to wear Festive Attire and Fanciful Hats to signal their creative urges. This year’s program, Miami Moments 2012, features members of the community sharing anecdotes and stories about art at the library and commemorating the significant contribution by the evening’s honorees to our community’s cultural life. The Silent Art Auction and Contemporary Vasari Raffle include works by prominent Miami-based artists.
The evening’s program includes a self-guided tour of selections from the library’s art collection as well as Ed Ruscha’s renowned public art installation throughout the building’s interior spaces.
