Can you imagine surrounding eleven islands with pink fabric in Biscayne Bay, or submerging a monumental art installation that doubles as a hybrid reef off of Miami Beach? Join us for two astonishing presentations by guest speakers Katherine Fleming and Ximena Caminos to illuminate the new frontier of public art.
Sunday, December 14, 2025
2:30 – 3:30 pm
In the NSU Art Museum auditorium
Katherine Fleming is the founder and director of Bridge Initiative, a nonprofit that unites art and science to create public art for environmental advocacy. Established in 2015 following Fleming’s transformative explorations in Antarctica—where she witnessed the stark impacts of climate change firsthand—Bridge Initiative operates at the intersection of creativity and conservation to inspire public engagement and action.
Under Fleming’s leadership, Bridge has collaborated with artists, scientists, and change makers to develop immersive educational campaigns addressing environmental issues both locally and globally. Her current work includes supporting the establishment of the Biscayne Bay National Heritage Area, advancing cultural and ecological preservation in South Florida.
Fleming serves on the Board of Directors for the Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation and as an advisor for The ReefLine, an underwater public art park and artificial reef. Her advocacy has fostered partnerships with leading artists and organizations including Michele Oka Doner, Carlos Betancourt, Coral Morphologic, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the University of Miami, Mission Blue, the Alaska Whale Foundation, Path of the Panther, and The Cultural Landscape Foundation, among others.
Ximena Caminos is a biocultural placemaker and systems artist who pioneers cultural–ecological models where art, science, and climate innovation meet. Her practice spans governance, collaboration, scientific alliances, ecological performance, community engagement, storytelling, and urban–ocean coexistence. She is the creator of REEFLINE, a new typology where art becomes habitat and cities learn to coexist with their oceans.
Aside from being Founder and Artistic Director of REEFLINE, she is also President of BlueLab Preservation Society, and Chief Creative Officer of HoneyLab Creative, advancing culture as civic infrastructure.
For two decades, Caminos has chaired major arts and design cultural masterplans across the Americas. She was Artistic Visionary Planner for The Underline, founder and Chair of Faena Art (Buenos Aires and Miami), Global Executive Creative Director and partner of the Faena Group, Chief Curator of the Faena Arts Center, and Founder of the Faena Prize for the Arts.
She has served on the New Museum Leadership Council, is a founding member of the Guggenheim’s Latin American Circle, Advisor to Art Basel Cities, and is an XPrize Ambassador, recipient of the Knight Foundation Arts Challenge Award and the Arts Champion Award.
REEFLINE is a pioneering underwater public sculpture park and hybrid reef off the coast of Miami Beach. Conceived by cultural placemaker Ximena Caminos and masterplanned with Shohei Shigematsu/OMA, REEFLINE brings together art, science, education, and community to enhance marine ecosystems, foster ocean literacy, and inspire global ocean stewardship. REEFLINE aims to plant thousands of corals on large-scale, site-specific underwater artworks, over the next decade while creating a blueprint for coastal cities worldwide — a living classroom where art, science, and education meet to empower future generations and collective action. Partially funded by a voter-approved $5 million City of Miami Beach Arts & Culture G.O. Bond.
Photo by Brittany Weber.
Major support for NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale is provided by the David and Francie Horvitz Family Foundation Endowment, the City of Fort Lauderdale, Jerry Taylor and Nancy Bryant Foundation, Wayne and Lucretia Weiner, Broward County Cultural Division, the Cultural Council, and the Broward County Board of County Commissioners, sponsored in part by the State of Florida through the Division of Arts and Culture and the National Endowment for the Arts, Community Foundation of Broward, Lillian S. Wells Foundation, the Wege Foundation, Beaux Arts of Fort Lauderdale, The Hudson Family Foundation, Delia Moog, Charles and Laura Palmer, Dr. Barry and Judy Silverman, and Friends of NSU Art Museum. NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums.
