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About the panelists:
Mitchell Wolfson, Jr., Miami's own collector and philanthropist extraordinaire, founded Miami Beach museum Wolfsonian- Florida International University. It's dedicated to scholarly illumination of some 120,000 works of art and design from the mid-19th Century to 1945, including furniture, glass, ceramics, rare books, and textiles. In 1997, Wolfson bequeathed his collection and museum's building to state of Florida, enabling museum to operate as a research center of FlU, winning grants from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. In June 2013, Wolfson also gave the museum some 25,000 objects, rare books, works on paper, and archives, as well as 3 floors of exhibition space in a building in downtown Miami, designed to serve as a satellite space to complement main Wolfsonian museum.
Michele Oka Doner is an internationally acclaimed artist inspired by her lifelong study and appreciation of the natural world. Her art belongs to major museums and private collections in the U.S. and Europe, including New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, Musée des Arts Décoratifs at the Louvre, and Wolfsonian-FIU. She's admired for her many works of public art, including "A Walk on the Beach" at Miami International Airport, nearly a mile-long concourse of dark terrazzo inlaid with bronze and mother of pearl. Her other public artworks grace New York's Herald Square subway station, Ronald Reagan International Airport, as well as United States Courthouses and public libraries.
Moderator: Elisa Turner is an award-winning art critic, journalist, and blogger. Also, she is a founding planning group member of ARTtuesdays/Miami, columnist for the print and online guide Art Circuits, and Miami correspondent for ARTnews magazine. She teaches at Miami Dade College, Kendall Campus.
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