February 2023
Vizcaya Late | Resistance
According to History.com, every American president has endorsed a specific theme for Black History Month each year since 1976. The 2023 theme is Black Resistance explores how "African Americans have resisted historic and ongoing oppression, in all forms, especially the racial terrorism of lynching, racial pogroms, and police killings," since the nation's earliest days. In honor of this theme, Vizcaya has partnered with Miami Dade College's Gibson Education Center, which was founded by Thelma Gibson in an act of her…
Nature Talks at Vizcaya with Cynthia Barnett
Join us for Nature Talks at Vizcaya - a lecture series that continues relevant and topical conversations surrounding our special contemporary art exhibition, Wish Towers. Through this series, we hope to expand awareness of Vizcaya’s natural landscape, the effects of climate change, and Florida’s environment from the perspective of different field experts. The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of Oceans Explore the human fascination with seashells and their ancient history as global currency, their use as religious and…