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HMA0433 · Collection · 2018

New World School of the Arts College's students participated in Documenting the Moving Landscape workshop. Led by Kayla Delacerda (ArtCenter/South Florida and BHQF Fellow), this photography and history workshop captures Miami's urban landscape and describes a cultural identity outside of the most visible and circulated images of South Florida.

Students participated in four walks:

Downtown and Overtown, 2018 March 8

Little Havana and Spring Garden, 2018 March 15

Brickell, 2018 March 22

North River Drive, 2018 April 5

HMA0301 · Collection · 2016

Zines created as part of workshops organized by EXILE Books during their residency at HistoryMiami Museum from February to May 2016. The workshops were held at the museum and other locations in Miami-Dade County. Teaching artists researched and selected source materials from the museum's archives for the workshops. These included:

March 9, 2016: The Little Haiti Zine Workshop with Akete Chevers & Edny Jean Joseph, Little Haiti Cultural Complex

March 30, 2016: Pioneer Zine Workshop, Coconut Grove Woman's Club

April 3, 2016: Feminist Pizza Party 2.0, HistoryMiami Museum

April 22, 2016: 8 Ball Zine Workshop with Nina Hartman, HistoryMiami Museum

April 29, 2016: 8 Ball Zine Workshop with Nikki Greene and Jo Rosenthal, HistoryMiami Museum

April 30, 2016: An Archive Zine Fair Workshop with Adler Guerrier, HistoryMiami Museum

June 30, 2016: Cooking With Archives: An Evening of Tropical Floridian Cookery, The Standard Spa

The collection also includes an oversize silk screen test print Lemon City by Sandra March and Brochures and card from Tropical Riso (Re) Production of the Tropics.

HMF9027 · Collection · 2016-2019

The Miami Street Culture Project was an initiative to document and present cultural traditions practiced in the streets of Miami. HistoryMiami’s South Florida Folklife Center conducted fieldwork to identify prominent artistic, communal, recreational, and occupational traditions practiced within Miami’s neighborhoods and produced an exhibition to share these traditions with the larger community. In addition to field research and an exhibition, the project includes an artifact collection, a printed publication, and cultural programming. The purpose of the project was to research and highlight street traditions that give the city its unique character and identity.

HMA310 · Collection · 2015-2016 (predominant: 2016)

Drawn from Harvey Zipkin's self-published photo book, Wynwood: A City Within (2016), this collection consists of photographic prints shot in the documentary style. The photographs document the remaining Hispanic and African American communities of Wynwood, as the area becomes increasingly gentrified. A CD containing digital images from the photo book is also included.

Zipkin, Harvey
HMF9026 · Collection · 2015-2017

The Florida Folklife Program sought to explore Miami’s inner world thirty years ago with the first Miami-Dade folklife survey conducted for the 1986 Florida Folk Festival. The survey highlighted Miami’s traditional culture and provided the impetus for the creation of the South Florida Folklife Center at the Historical Museum of Southern Florida, now HistoryMiami Museum. In 2016, the Florida Folklife Program partnered with the now three-decades-old HistoryMiami South Florida Folklife Center to reexamine Miami’s folk traditions and paint a new portrait of the city by exploring the question, “What makes Miami, Miami?” Fieldwork was conducted by HistoryMiami Museum’s Folklife Specialist, Vanessa Navarro, and Vice President of Curatorial Affairs and former staff Folklorist, Michael Knoll. The project was overseen by the Florida Folklife Program’s State Folklorist, Amanda Hardeman.

This field research project focused on customs and practices that are unique to Miami, particularly the sayings, occupations, musical styles, dance forms, beliefs, rituals, celebrations, and foodways that are quintessentially “Miami.” The findings of this study informed the 2016 Florida Folk Festival, and the artists and presenters chosen for the program reflect a sampling of the components that make Miami the unique and vibrant city it is.

This collection consists of born digital materials. Please contact staff ahead of your visit to access these materials.

HMF9024 · Collection · 2012

HistoryMiami’s South Florida Folklife Center (SFFC) carried out the Guayabera Preservation Initiative to collect, preserve, and increase public knowledge of the Guayabera, a traditional piece of menswear that is popular in Latin America and the Caribbean. The initiative resulted in the exhibition, “The Guayabera: A Shirt’s Story” at HistoryMiami Museum from June 28, 2012 to January 13, 2012 and an online exhibition found at www.historymiami.org/guayabera. The initiative also resulted in the creation of a Guayabera textile collection housed in HistoryMiami Museum’s object collection. This project was funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and Cubavera.

Michael Knoll created the project and was lead researcher and curator. Jorge Zamanillo was the project photographer and conducted interviews. Antolin Garcia Carbonell helped with historical research and fieldwork.

This collection consists of born digital materials. Please contact staff ahead of your visit to access these materials.

Audio:

Files include WAV recordings and selected transcripts of interviews with Jose Ayuso, Ramon Aviles Gongora, Raul Armando Maglioni Montanez, Ciro Bianchi, Emiliano Nelson Guerra, Manuel Echevarria Gomez, Marta Veronica Vega, Tomas Canul, Nancy Pelegrin, Ricardo Selman, Silvia Mayra Gomez Farinas, and Piedad Subirats. These interviews were recorded in Merida, Mexico and Cuba during research tips in 2012.

Images:

Files include TIF, XMP, NEF, and JPEG images taken in Mexico in January 2012 and Cuba in February 2012. Shots include street scenes, photos of interviewees, businesses (former and current), sketches, old photographs, advertisements, and documentation of the process of making a Guayabera.

Exhibition:

Folder includes exhibition photos and design files such as text panels and reader rails.

Grant Documents:

Files include documents submitted for the National Endowment for the Arts grant application and reporting documents.

Videos:

Files include AVI videos of a folk dance troupe performing in the main plaza in Merida, Mexico in January 2012.

HMF9025 · Collection · 2010-2012

HistoryMiami’s South Florida Folklife Center (SFFC) carried out the Florida Jai-Alai Project, a fieldwork project aimed at identifying and documenting the state's leading practitioners of the Basque ballgame's traditions. Research was conducted in Orlando, Fort Pierce, Hamilton County, Gainesville, Dania Beach, Quincy, Ocala, St. Petersburg, West Palm Beach, and Miami. The project began in June 2010 and concluded in December 2012. This project was funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Michael Knoll created the project and was the lead researcher. Robert L. Stone was the photographer and conducted fieldwork in North and Central Florida. The Florida Folklife Program also assisted with archival research.

Access Notes: This collection consists of born digital materials. Please contact staff ahead of your visit to access these materials.

Audio:

Files include MP3 recordings, interview logs, and transcripts of interviews with Christophe Forestier, Benjamin Bueno, David Dodd, Juan Ramon Arrasate, Kathleen Jones, Manuel Ruiz, Martin Fleischman, Richard Berenson, Stuart Neiman, Juan Jose Carroquino, Clemente Garcia, Jesus Pradera, Wagimen Soemanto, Carlos Pita, Glen Richards, Charles David Brower, Juan Leon, Raphael Ferragut, Santiago Echaniz, Francisco Elorriaga, Roger Coscarat, Dale Popp, Ivan Martinez, Luis Gardner, Carlos Campos, and Paco Gonzalez.

Images:

Files include JPEG and CR2 images taken at frontons in Orlando, Fort Pierce, Hamilton County, Quincy, St. Petersburg, Ocala, Dania Beach, Miami, and West Palm Beach. Photographs by Robert L. Stone.

Fieldwork Documents:

Files include notes for fieldwork conducted in Hamilton County and Orlando.

Grant Documents:

Files include documents submitted for the National Endowment for the Arts grant application and reporting documents.

HMF9024 · Collection · 2010-2012

HistoryMiami’s South Florida Folklife Center (SFFC) carried out the Guayabera Preservation Initiative to collect, preserve and increase public knowledge of the guayabera, a traditional piece of menswear that is popular in Latin America and the Caribbean. The initiative resulted in the exhibition "Guayabera: A Shirt's Story" at HistoryMiami Museum from July 29, 2012 to January 13, 2013 and an online exhibition found at www.historymiami.org/guayabera.

This collection of electronic files includes research reference images; grant proprosals; audio-recorded interviews and their transcripts; images and videos taken during research trips to Merida, Mexico and Havana and Sancti Spiritus, Cuba; and exhibition files.

HMA0407 · Collection · 2008-2014

Collection includes colored photographic prints depicting social and cultural life in Miami and South Florida. Include images showing Miami Beach nightlife, Black-owned establishments in Overtown and Liberty City, art and culture in Wynwood, including a graffiti artists at work, Ultra Music Festival, local politics and national politics, including the 2012 Republic National.

A few images are of the Everglades and the natural environment.

HMF9023 · Collection · 2003-2006

This series contains materials associated with a project in which photographers from the Iris PhotoCollective documented the South Florida Haitian community’s expressive traditions between 2006 and 2007. The collection of photographs produced by the project give special attention to traditional arts in the lives of individuals during religious and festive events, offering a view of Haitian life in South Florida that rarely represented in mass media coverage of the community. Among the traditions featured are fe koupe (steel drum sculpture), woodcarving, sewing, cooking, baking, drumming, dancing, singing, poetry, kite-making, and children’s games. Materials include: field notes and reports; photographic images; audiocassette tape and compact disc (CD) recordings of interviews with artists and experts by Joanne Hyppolite and Kiki Wainwright.

Additional digital formats of audio and image files available: Records were digitized 2015 – 2016. Users must contact staff ahead of visit for access.

04/ · Collection · 2003-2006

The records contain biographical data and notes pertaining to the achievements and contributions made by notable women in various professional fields in the South Florida community. They consist mostly of nomination forms, photographs, resumes, newspaper clippings, articles and other supporting documents used to produce the book, Beyond Julia's Daughters.

Herstory Committee
HMA0422 · Collection · 2003-2008

Full color marketing brochures produced by various real estate companies to promote their properties during the Miami and South Florida building boom of the first decade of the twenty-first century.

Menendez, Peter
HMF9022 · Collection · 2001-2002

This series documents an extensive research field research project on the cultural traditions of South Americans in the Miami metropolitan area. Though Miami’s South American community grew rapidly between the 1980s and the 2000s, their expressive traditions had previously been the subject of relatively little documentary work. Fieldwork conducted by the Museum during 2001 and 2002 by the Historical Museum of Southern Florida (now HistoryMiami Museum) examined three of the largest South American groups in Miami: Colombians, Venezuelans, and Peruvians, focusing on music, which proved to be the most public and symbolically charged form of expression in all three communities. Musical genres documented include bambucos, música llanera, vallenato, cumbia, papayera, joropos, música andina, música criolla, parranda, gaita. Researchers Martha Ellen Davis, Nathalia Franco, and Dorian Bermudez recorded extensive commentary on relationships between musical traditions and the experience of migration. The project was supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Materials include: photographic images; audiocassette tape recordings of musical performances and interviews; and videocassette tape recordings of musical performances. Note: this series includes recordings for which HistoryMiami Museum does not hold copyright.

Additional digital formats of audio files available: Records were digitized 2015 – 2016. Users must contact staff ahead of visit for access.

HMA0126 · Collection · 2001

Proposals, drawings, plans and feasibility studies submitted to the City of Miami for the development of a mega marina with compatible mixed uses for Watson Island.