FORT LAUDERDALE ART & DESIGN WEEK TAKES CENTER STAGE JANUARY 16-24

New Hybrid Format Invites Art Community to Connect, Create and Collaborate, Showcasing Talent and Diversity Across Broward County

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Fort Lauderdale Art & Design Week (FTLADW), Broward County’s award-winning celebration of culture and the arts, announces an eclectic line-up of events for its third annual edition, hosted January 16-24, 2021. Reimagined in a hybrid format, featuring a mix of virtual and in-person events, the week offers artists, curators, collectors and art lovers globally an opportunity to discover the talent-rich enclaves and creative culture of Greater Fort Lauderdale’s flourishing art community.

Highlights of the 2021 Fort Lauderdale Art & Design Week include:

Virtual artDISCOURSE Series

As the centerpiece connecting all of the week’s art and culture activities, the artDISCOURSE Series extends through the duration of Fort Lauderdale Art & Design Week. Programming features more than a dozen engaging discussions and provocative discourse with artists, curators, and professionals on the current issues that engage them on a global and local community basis. Featured artists and speakers include Lori Pratico, Daniel Popper, Giano Currie, Daniel Dugan, Taryn Nicoll, Sri Prabha, Francie Bishop Good, Jen Clay, and more.

For a complete list of artDISCOURSE sessions or to join the conversation, RSVP online.

Museum & Studio Exhibits

• Exhibit: Duality; The Dichotomy of Being – Pembroke Pines’ Studio 18 presents this virtual exhibition examining the experience of living in a dualistic world. Nine artists share their personal exploration of the topic and how being in a world of seemingly opposing viewpoints leads to an examination of the self and our place in society.

• Exhibit Opening: Super Natural by Cheryl Mader – Fine art photographer and video installation artist Chery Mader showcased a collection of her beloved works, new and old, focused on her core of connection to self, each other, and to all other life forms.

• Exhibit: Transitions & Transformations – This exhibit transforms Remember to React, the previous installation of NSU Art Museum’s collection, with the addition of new acquisitions, other works from the collection and works on loan to the Museum. Many works incorporate the element of time or suggest the passing of time. Others represent physical transformations, as well as turning points in the history of contemporary art.

• Art Studio Tours – FTLADW’s in person studio tours invite art lovers into to meet the finest artists working in Greater Fort Lauderdale while getting a glimpse of their creative process in action. The line-up includes the Zero Empty Spaces affordable artist studio space locations created by the Fort Lauderdale Art & Design Week in Fort Lauderdale, Galt Ocean Mile, and Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach. Studio tours are free and open to the public with RSVP.

Special Events & Tours

• ARTCATION – This unique concept gives artists a one-week complimentary residency at boutique hotels throughout Fort Lauderdale from January 16-23. Participating artists will document their 8-day/7-night stay via social media as they create a unique art piece inspired by the hotel and its surroundings. Final pieces will be revealed during a socially distant reception taking place at each property.

• AIA Architectural Fair: Series Of Events Highlighted by An Architectural Bicycle Tour of Fort Lauderdale – Perfect for architecture aficionados, this tour explores significant buildings in the Colee Hammocks neighborhood, Downtown, and the Museum and Arts District of Fort Lauderdale.

• Mural Tour of Downtown Fort Lauderdale – Led by community builder, arts advocate and Choose954 co-founder Evan Snow, this leisurely bike ride tours the famed street art murals through Downtown Fort Lauderdale. Riders will pedal socially distant and safely while gaining a better appreciation for the street art landscape in the Downtown area and its surrounding arts districts which have contributed to city’s redevelopment boom.

Fort Lauderdale Art & Design Week is sponsored by the Unite Us Group, Choose954, the Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention & Visitors Bureau, FINN Partners, Las Olas Capital Advisors, Las Olas Capital Arts, and Broward County Cultural Division. For sponsorship opportunities contact: [email protected].

For more information, a complete schedule of events, updates and tickets for Fort Lauderdale Art & Design Week visit www.ftladw.com.

About Fort Lauderdale Art & Design Week
The 3rd Annual Fort Lauderdale Art & Design Week (January 16–24, 2021) is a result of the desire to unite all of Fort Lauderdale’s artists and arts & cultural institutions in an effort to highlight all that the city has to offer through an annual self-guided tour and celebration of everything art and culture throughout the Greater Fort Lauderdale area with the ultimate goal of establishing Fort Lauderdale as an international cultural destination.

The week helps showcase the vast amount of cultural opportunities Broward County has to offer residents, collectors, dealers, art enthusiasts and visitors and also be a platform for research and promotion of the arts, its relationship to the community and discussions over contemporary art trends in the areas of the Arts, Architecture, Cinema, Dance, Music, and Theater. This week will also help promote diversity, bring neighbors into dialogue, increase creativity, and offer opportunities to cultivate civic pride.

For more information about FORT LAUDERDALE ART & DESIGN WEEK visit www.FTLADW.com.