Join us for an inspiring evening celebrating creativity, connection, and lifelong learning.
Explore a pop-up exhibition showcasing new ceramic and drawing works created by participants in our six-week Creative Aging Sculpture Workshop, led by environmental artist Beatriz Chachamovits. Throughout the program, participants explored South Florida’s waterways as sources of reflection and artistic inspiration, translating ecological themes into personal narratives through clay and line.
At 7pm, join us for a community conversation guided by Nicole Combeau with Miami-based artists Loni Johnson and Nereida Garcia-Ferraz. Together, they will explore how artmaking and learning environments can become spaces for healing, transformation, and collective care. Rather than a traditional panel, this dialogue invites audience participation and shared reflection—creating space for educators, art therapists, artists, and community members to exchange ideas and experiences around the relationship between creative practice, social impact, and well-being.
Schedule
5–8pm Happy hour at Verde restaurant and bar
5–8pm Creative Aging Series: Fall Sculpture Showcase
7–8pm Community Roundtable Conversation
Participating Exhibiting Student Artists
Orlando-Paul Airas, Christina Del Vecchio, Rocio Espinosa, Neil Fenn, Lesbia Garcia, Ellen Goldberg, Carol Haggiag, Orly Kadosh, Alvaro Krupkin, Andreina Lopez-Mendez, Vered Pasternak, Ayolia Perez, Jessica Spain, Evelyn Villegas, and Cynthia Vul.
Panelists
About Loni Johnson
Loni Johnson is a Miami-born multi-disciplinary artist, educator, and activist whose practice examines ancestral and historical memory through movement, ritual, and community healing. Her work creates spaces for reflection and empowerment, particularly for Black women, emphasizing art as a tool for restoration and social change. Johnson’s exhibitions include Moving the Mortared Line (Voloshyn Gallery, 2025) and BOOMBOOMBOOM!!! (Untitled Art Fair, 2024). She serves as the lead coordinator of Art Detectives, an arts education program rooted in social justice at Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) and is a former chairperson for the National Visual Arts Selection Panel for YoungArts.
About Nereida Garcia-Ferraz
Nereida Garcia-Ferraz is a Cuban-born artist whose work spans painting, photography, video, and social practice. Her projects explore identity, feminism, nature, and the physical world, and have been exhibited by institutions such as MoMA (New York), Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut), and the Museo de Arte Moderno (Mexico City). She co-directed the acclaimed documentary Ana Mendieta: Fuego de Tierra and has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the MacArthur Foundation. In Miami, she co-founded 801 Projects and works with programs such as Women on the Rise at MOCA North Miami and Brick by Brick at PAMM. She is the recipient of the 2022 South Florida Visual Arts Consortium Fellowship and the 2024 Cintas Fellowship in Visual Arts.
About Nicole Combeau
Nicole Combeau is a Miami-based artist, educator, and program coordinator at PAMM. Her socially engaged work explores intergenerational memory, matrilineal relationships, and the rituals of care and belonging within diasporic communities. Through photography, oral history, and book arts, she creates collaborative projects that bridge personal and collective storytelling. Combeau is currently an artist-in-residence at the Bakehouse Art Complex and has previously held residencies at Locust Projects and ProjectArt. She is a recipient of The Ellies Creator Award from Oolite Arts and the Miami-Dade Individual Artists Grant, supporting her ongoing projects that honor Miami’s elders, memory, and community heritage. At PAMM, she oversees the museum’s Creative Aging program, designing free art-making experiences for adults 55+ that center on creativity, community, and lifelong learning.
About the Creative Aging Series
The Creative Aging Series is a free, community-based art program designed for adults aged 55 and older. Participants engage in immersive, artist-led workshops that foster self-expression, social connection, and continued learning through the arts.
