NFT based artworks have exploded since the $69m Beeple splash at Christie’s in March 2021. This has left us all scratching our heads. What are NFTs? What is Crypto? What is The Blockchain? How is that all connected to Bitcoin?

In this class created by Director of Fine Arts at rally.io and head Curator at SHOWFIELDS, Tam Gryn, you will understand what has led us to the Digitalization Movement, what are the practical implications for art, culture, fashion, business, finance, gaming, and beyond. With a focus on the creative community, we will connect the dots between our time spent on social media, the pandemic and 2 years of zoom. We will discuss Bitcoin, Crypto Punks, glorified JPGs and all the myths you have heard within the historical context of art as it reflects our lives.

Join Locust Projects co-founder and practicing artist, Elizabeth Withstandley, for an info session to learn more, ask questions and get expert tips on submitting a compelling proposal to the LAB MFA Open Call.

Locust Projects invites graduate-level artists to submit project proposals for an exhibition in our 400-sq ft Project Room during the summer of 2022. Apply here

What are the ways in which artists and arts institutions act as a force of displacement? What have we learned from our past experiences, and what can we do to avoid future harm?

Please join Miami-based artist Fereshteh Toosi for an in-person listening and dialogue session activating the exhibition’s central sculptural platform.

MIAMI ARTISTS! Join us IN PERSON at Locust Projects to learn how to propose a stand out idea and receive up to $6,000 in incubator funds to make it happen. You'll hear from artist Sebastian Duncan-Portuondo about his 2020 WaveMaker project Club EXILE. This is your chance to ask questions and get insights while meeting other local artists over drinks and light bites! 

HOT LUNCH!

The 181 is honored to host 6-9 PM March 19th

HOT LAVA!

Rat Bastard will use a Hara Model 750-II lathe cutter to live cut seven Miami artists (including himself), in six configurations. Each performance will be tied to a side of a 7” disc, with the limitation of 4:30 per side, in mono. Some will improvise, some will improvise over themselves. Others will recapitulate pre-composed works under the pressure and constraints of a live-to-disc cut, ultimately resulting in exciting incidentals. Ranging from hip hop and noise guitar, to synth worship and electro-acoustic ambient tape manipulation, the night’s artists include: Rat Bastard, Ellen Ripley, Suzy, MisterE MachinE MusiC, Ale Campos, and Doris Dana x Brom Lee.

Join Locust Projects and Oolite Arts for a conversation with Amada Cruz, Director and CEO of Seattle Art Museum.

Sonic Insurgency Research Group (SIRG) joins scholars Jillian Hernandez and Fredo Rivera in a conversation about the critical issues most pressing to them with a focus on the aesthetics of excess, displacement, art, sound, power, and culture within the artworld and the “oceanic borderlands” more broadly, to use Rivera’s term. This conversation continues and extends a series of ongoing dialogues SIRG has been facilitating with artists, scholars, and activists about sound, power, and place.