Sleepless Night

SLEEPLESS NIGHT CONTRIBUTORS

Mariangela Capuzzo
Mariangela Capuzzo, has been involved in numerous facets of Miami’s arts community since the 80’s. She holds a degree in Psychology, Art History and Marketing from Florida International University. Her experience includes working for Christie’s Auction House Miami, palmbeachcontemporary in 2003-2004 as Director of the art fair, and as Artistic Director of the inaugural edition of balelatina, a fair of Latin Art in Switzerland in 2006. An art consultant and freelance writer, Capuzzo has promoted artists internationally and curated for numerous venues; most recently, “Fenomena”, at Galleri August in Reykjavik, Iceland and “Intervenciones” at Museo Marte, El Salvador. Currently, Capuzzo serves as board member on the City of Miami Beach’s Art in Public Places and of the Junior Host Committee for Art Basel Miami Beach. An entrepreneur at heart, in the summer of 2004 Capuzzo founded Locomotives-art-travel-projects, a multi functional initiative for the promotion of contemporary art and culture. Artfairs such as Photo Miami, Art LA, Circa (Puerto Rico), Buenos Aires Photo, and Pinta (New York) have benefited from Locomotives’ specialized direction in marketing, public relations, sponsorships and event planning. Destinations visited by collectors, art lovers and professionals with Locomotives guided tours include Reykjavik Arts Festival, Iceland in 2005 and Shanghai Biennial in 2006. For “Sleepless Night”, Capuzzo is curating four projects: Chus Garcia-Fraile (Madrid): “Post It”; public urban intervention on Lincoln Road, Bert Rodriguez (Miami): “Bedtime Story” a performance on the beach at the Sagamore Hotel, Magnus Sigurdarson (Iceland/Miami) in collaboration with Ragnar Kjartansson (Iceland): “Intimacy II”; a performance at the Colony Theatre and Asdis Sif Gunarsdottir (Iceland), “Don’t You Want to Love Her?”; an all night performance at the National Hotel.

ARTS CONNECTION
Dr. Muu, Ricardo Melchior, Nela Ochoa, Odalis Valdivieso, Eugenia Vargas - Pereira, Nestor Prieto, Allard van Hoorn, and Steven Gagnon are sponsored by Arts Connection

Arts Connection is a nonprofit cultural organization founded by the museologist Andreina Fuentes and run by the local artist Odalis Valdivieso. It is based without building in Miami-Dade County and presents interdisciplinary works from local and foreign artists. Arts Connection is committed to work in three main programs: providing support to local artists for individual projects (Artist support program), hosting international artists (Art-in-residence program), and publishing art books (Art-education program.)For more info about our programs plese visit: www.arts-connection.org or call at 305-915-1957

PARTICIPANT LINKS

City of Miami Beach
www.miamibeachfl.gov

Miami Beach Cultural Arts Council
www.mbculture.org

Bass Museum of Art
www.bassmuseum.org

ArtCenter/South Florida
www.artcentersf.org

Jewish Museum of Florida
www.jewishmuseum.com

Miami City Ballet
www.miamicityballet.org

Miami Design Preservation League
www.mdpl.org

New World Symphony
www.nws.edu

Wolfsonian-FIU
www.wolfsonian.org

Arts at St. John’s
www.artsatstjohns.com

Dance Now! Ensemble
www.dancenowmiami.org

Centro Cultural Espanol
www.ccemiami.org