

Oolite Arts new home, at 75 NW 72nd St., will have several key characteristics. This month, Oolite Arts inaugurated a new travel residency program, which enables Miami-based artists to attend some of the top residencies across the country, including Anderson Ranch Center for the Arts, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Yaddo and the Rauschenberg Foundation. Oolite also provides studio visits with curators such as Helen Molesworth, Paul Schimmel and Trevor Schoonmaker in partnership with Miamis Locust Projects, and has provided $1 million in direct support to artists over the past two years through The Ellies, Miamis Visual Arts Awards. The organization now connects artists with an international network of curators and artists, including the organizations first Master Artist in Residence Mel Chin. The sale of its Miami Beach building in 2014 provided Oolite Arts with the resources to greatly increase its impact.

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Now in its 36th year, Oolite Arts helps Miami-based artists advance their careers, by providing visual artists with free studio space, exhibition opportunities and the financial support they need to experiment and grow.

Our new home will enable us to better meet the needs of both visual artists and the community. Miamis visual arts community has grown exponentially over the past decade, and Oolite Arts has transformed its programming to help Miami-based artists grow, said Dennis Scholl, president and CEO of Oolite Arts. Oolite Arts, the leading resource for Miami-based visual artists, has selected the Barcelona-based firm Barozzi Veiga to create a new home for the organization in the City of Miami.īarozzi Veiga, recently chosen to create the Art Institute of Chicagos new masterplan, will design the new campus slated to open in 2022.
