Vero santes, New York, NY (2026)

10/21/2025

Art Club is a part of where you get to be a kid, make art and play. I taught after school art in the Miami Dade public school system for more than 15 years. As a young mom who moved here and had to leave my old career and life I was hungry to teach and work but still have time for my kids. (This is eternal struggle for women who have to choose between work and expensive childcare or abandoning a career for motherhood). I loved it so much I eventually taught workshops for adults.
Last art club we had first graders, teens, Gen Z’s and Gen Xers all sharing glue sticks, making zines and not looking at their phones for OVER THREE hours. Everybody is creative - anybody can make art. You just need a safe container! The next art club is December 13th, a great opportunity to opt out of holiday shopping and its compulsory over consumption, and get creative. We will be watercoloring and (as they say in TX) shooting the sh*t! DM to RSVP and for more info… 🐊🍄💫💬🛝🌞
“Oscar Wilde said that some things are too important to be taken seriously. Art is one of those things. Setting the bar low, especially to get started, frees you to play, explore, and test without attachment to results.”
Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

10/15/2025

Proud to have curated this incredible solo exhibition of Miami-born artists . Join us this Sunday 10/19

📍2000 Convention Center Drive from 1-4 PM for the opening!

Her work brings art, joy, and biocentrism to the Miami Beach Botanical Garden. By making local plants and the South Florida landscape the subject, Alissa’s artwork decenters humans, the unequivocal focus of Western art and culture since the Renaissance. Her sculpture exemplifies biocentrism, an ethical framework that assigns equal moral consideration and intrinsic value to all life forms. Alfonso raises awareness about the climate crisis gently, not with blaring alarms, but with a subtle call for those willing to listen and slow down.
Her soft sculptures of rainbows, puffy clouds, and healing botanical plants will animate the Miami Beach Botanical Garden, an urban oasis located in what scientists call “ground zero” for climate change. As Alfonso describes it, she “has created a living garden of reclaimed wonders where snails carry time on their backs, jellyfish float between worlds, and blooms turn toward a light born of forgotten things.”

09/30/2025

Thanks for featuring me! Here is one of my fav questions. Them:
Who saw you clearly before you could see yourself?
Me:
My college professors saw my potential and helped me envision a path forward after having been told as a child that my voice did not matter. In high school I was not the best student, I am pretty sure that I had undiagnosed adhd and therefore things like math and science were brutal for me, and so I let uninspiring teachers convince me I was not “college” material. When I eventually got to college and sought out courses that truly inspired me, I learned that not only was I college material, I was actually grad school material. I went from a slacker to a nerd and found a true passion in academics. My college professors encouraged me to purse a doctorate in the early 90’s – at the start of affirmative action. They told me that not a lot of professors looked like me, in fact Latinas were the most under represented group in higher education. My professors forged a path for me, sadly with this administration that opportunity is getting erased from higher education. Having mentors and being in grad school at a time when truly out-of-the-box thinkers were challenging dominant narratives was a real gift. It is truly painful to see the current backlash against anything progressive and inclusive.

09/24/2025

And just like that Miami’s art scene is off and running for the season. Join me this Thursday for a gallery crawl followed by an intimate curatorial walk through of . The first part of the hang will be focused on collecting - demystifying the misconceptions people have while we check out the latest offering in Allapatah. Then we will deep dive into Justyna’s process and story, most likely we will end the day with drinks and community- as per usual. DM me for more info and to RSVP as space is limited.

08/31/2025

East coast appreciation tour🐳 2025 edition dump: no better place to spend my bday than living out my Moonrise Kingdom era in the best company…❤️⛵️🦞💙🦪🐋🌲

08/22/2025

And off she goes!!!! Leaving today, I am the last mom standing on this campus but it’s hard to say bye to your bestie! Willa you are about to embark on your greatest adventure yet! I would write something meaningful but I rather quote my guy Rilke! I love you kid- ONWARD! ❤️🌄
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
Rainer Maria Rilke

07/30/2025

Here is a sneak peek of something I have been working on with my friend for the better part of a year! This curatorial essay evolved out of multiple conversations, soul searching and mutual admiration. This kind of project is golden in an age of digital over consumption of both material goods and culture. It makes you think. (full essay linked in bio!) 🙌🏾”Polish-born, Miami-based artist Justyna Kisielewicz confronts the legacies of colonialism and our shared pursuit of freedom in Living Space, her most ambitious exhibition to date. According to the artist, the work “explores Polish history within the context of multiple sites of global oppression, including the colonial project in the Americas and our current climate crisis.”Her kaleidoscopic, atemporal oil paintings weave together disparate historical periods, lush Florida vegetation, a pantheon of symbolic animals, and the omnipresence of two masked figures decked in luxury fashion. Her menagerie includes mischievous monkeys, embroidered hummingbirds and orchids, undulating giant serpents and—in a nod to her adopted home—an alligator. These creatures and plants animate the scene, with each functioning as a symbol of human vices and virtues.Humor threads through the work: googly-eyed cartoon clouds, crocheted pen*ses, and the occasional self-portrait of Kisielewicz and her beloved Pomeranian, Charlie Brown. Her idiosyncratic iconography injects mischief and levity into otherwise sobering subject matter. “🙌🏾Read my full curatorial essay via the link in bio and please save the date 📅 because on Sept 13 her solo show opens , we will be having loads of talks and activations to celebrate this milestone! Her first Miami solo and my curatorial debut in my hometown!

06/15/2025

In a season of two graduations, (college for Anna and high school for Willa), birthdays, visits from friends etc there has been so much joy! But right underneath is always some grieving- I guess living with those two emotions simultaneously is the biggest lesson. In honor of Fathers Day and for anyone who lost their dad or has a complicated relationship with theirs I am sharing this bra essay written by my youngest about the loss of hers. It’s linked in my bio and in stories and has been the most read out of anything I published on my Substack! Thank you for letting me share….

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