Michelle Weinberg's Art in Public Places commission

Brick x Brick artist Michelle Weinberg has completed installation of 3000 square feet of handmade cement tile at Miami-Dade County's newly built General Services Administration facility, commissioned by Miami-Dade County Art in Public Places. The GSA building is LEED certified, conforming to environmental standards. We've learned about LEED certification during BXB, and we've taken some walks around our neighborhoods to see how they can be improved with art. Look for our solutions to ugly vacant lots and boring bus shelters in the weeks ahead. And we plan to visit Michelle's project once the building is open for work - and meet the architect who designed it.

Let the scratching begin!

Under the strict supervision of artist Mike Genovese, students at Mater Academy began to engrave the giant slab of aluminum with their encoded messages - a new hieroglyphic alphabet invented by each one of them. The slab is a work in progress. It will be added to by the students at Girl Power, passed back and forth between the two groups.

hello my name is krystal and this is a picture of me and my friend clowning around , i call this picture comic friendship.

that looks live

The picture looks good because i think that we have a good rapper in our neighborhood and me and my brother look up to jay-z. by:jackie from girl power

BXB poster mock up

Here is a sample of the poster we have been working on. Drawings, text layouts, and word play collages have been combined to create a one of kind image. The art work is a combination of both groups (Girl Power and Mater Academy) efforts amounting in a collaborative piece.

See: Poster Company

See more posters by Poster Company

and artist SIMONE GILGES

See: Christopher Wool

Christopher Wool Paintings

Beginning projects

Miami artist Nereida Garcia-Ferraz with students from Little Havana's Mater Academy. The group is beginning a poster project that will layer several different graphic and typographic types of art in one surface. Hand-drawing and hand-lettering is the first part. Digital background graphics come next, then elements from 3D drafting.

And a New Year Begins for Brick x Brick

Happy New Year to everyone. And a big welcome to students at Mater Academy in Little Havana and Girl Power in Liberty City. Girl Power has been with us since the beginning. Now, in the third year of Brick x Brick, we are planning many new projects to raise our awareness of the urban environment right here in our own Miami neighborhoods. We plan to use digital technology and to creatively re-use recyclable materials to make art and design together.




Brick x Brick artists Michelle Weinberg and Dinorah de Jesus Rodriguez are once again joined by Mike Genovese. We'd also like to welcome artist Nereida Garcia-Ferraz to the team.

Please check this blog each week to see our progress - and leave us comments! We'd love some feedback!

Brick x Brick's end of the year festivities

Miami is such a spread out city, and our four community sites are each very busy, that it is a rare and fantastic event to get us all together in the same place at the same time! Marking the second year of Brick x Brick, we exhibited works made by students during the course of our program, and we thanked everyone for making the year a success. We had great sandwiches and watched the collaborative video produced by all four groups, "MIA In the House". Look for that video to be posted here on our blog soon! Wishing everyone a healthy and productive summer, we look forward to seeing you all again - and welcoming new faces - at Brick x Brick in 2010. Huge thanks go to Miami Art Museum for producing such a great program - and to our funders, Heckscher Foundation for Children and JP Morgan