AIRIE Special Saturday in the Park: Closing Reception

Saturday, September 28th from 1-2pm enjoy a Special Saturday in the Park: Closing Reception with AIRIE, Artists in Residence in Everglades. Join AIRIE for a special Saturday in the Park and celebrate the closing of their current exhibit “Fragile” and National Public Lands Day in Everglades National Park. Fragile closes on Tuesday, October 1, 2019.

As official Volunteers in the Park, AIRIE residents work with park rangers, scientists and the public to create new and creative ways to experience and engage in one of our country’s most fragile resources – our wild, public lands. For this special Saturday in the Park, enjoy free admission not only to the AIRIE Nest Gallery to view the exhibition Fragile, a multi-media exhibition exposing and examining the delicate fragility of the Everglades ecosystem, but also enjoy free entrance to the park itself to explore the over 1.5 million acres of the country’s only subtropical wetland. (Park entrance fee normally $30 per vehicle.)

Comprised of works by 11 multidisciplinary artists who have participated in the AIRIE residency, Fragile unearths new perspectives on the intricate and complex systems in which the vastness of the River of Grass operates. Featured in the exhibition are Israeli artists/collaborators Keren Anavy and Tal Frank (AIRIE Fellows 2018), Miami-based visual artists Franky Cruz (2015) and Naomi Fisher (2013), Israeli and Australian collaborators Itamar Freed and Courtney Scheu (2019), Florida-based photographer Karen Glaser (2009), Miami-based sculptor Brookhart Jonquil (2016), Miami-based performance artist Ana Mendez (2013), Savannah based fiber artist Sara Beth Rabinowitz (2014) and British artist Rebecca Reeve (2012).