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Upcycle City Inspired by Jaime Grant

At-Home Art Activity

This program presents three concurrent solo exhibitions of South Florida artists who have dedicated their long careers to the daily act of art making. The featured artists are Matthew Carone (born 1930, lives and works in Fort Lauderdale), whose daily-executed gestural abstractions have made him a mainstay in the South Florida art scene; Panamanian artist Jaime Grant (born 1965, lives and works in Miami), who on the day he turned 50, believed he was visited by a spirit who drove him to create more than 5,000 paintings and to build machines that reflect the struggle between good and evil; and long-time South Florida resident, Elizabeth Thompson (1954-2023), who produced commanding canvases of mysterious narratives, including a series of landscapes based on the Florida Everglades, which form the cycle of mural-scaled paintings in her solo show at NSU Art Museum.

Materials

Cardboard strips, tape, scissors, markers, and glue

• Upcycled materials
• Drawing materials
• Scissors
• Tape
• Glue

Art Vocabulary

• Reduce – to lessen the amount or number of items used.
• Reuse – to extend the life of a disposable item by using it again in some way, repairing it, modifying it, or creating new uses for it.
• Recycle – the collection and reprocessing of manufactured materials for remanufacture either in the same form or as a different product.
• Upcycle – taking something we normally recycle and transforming it into something more valuable.
• Conservation – to use natural resources in a way that minimizes loss or waste.
• Biodegradable – the ability of a substance that allows it to be disintegrated by microorganisms into natural elements.
• Climate Change – the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth’s climate system.