2011 Fair Schedule

VIP Preview Opening
Wednesday, November 30: 8 - 11 pm
Sponsored by MODERN PAINTERS
Featuring Russell Mofsky and the Gold Dust Lounge.
Catering by Chef Wally Rice. Beverages courtesy of SX Liquors.

Museum Day at Aqua11
Thursday, December 1: 11am - 8pm
Free entry to the fair for members of participating art museums (see below)

General Public Hours
Thursday, December 1: 11am - 8pm
Friday, December 2: 11am - 8pm
Saturday, December 3: 11am - 8pm
Sunday, December 4: 11am - 4pm

General Admission: $10 (good for re-entry for the duration of the fair)
FREE with Aqua VIP Card or ePASS, Art Basel VIP Card & Art Basel Press Pass

SPECIAL EVENTS

Aqua Art Miami is proud to present the 2011 special projects, programs and installations:

MUSEUM DAY: Thursday, December 1, 2011
Members of participating art museums get in FREE!

In an effort to promote membership sign-ups and public support of local art museums, Aqua Art Miami is initiating its first annual Museum Day. On December 1st, the fair will grant free entry to museum members for the day, from 11am - 8pm. Attendees must show museum membership card at entrance! Participating art institutions include the Frost Art Museum, Lowe Art Museum, Miami Art Museum, MOCA North Miami and The Wolfsonian.
Support your local art museums -- become a member today!

ARTIST TALK with JESSICA DRENK

Drenk will be discussing her two installations, Cerebellum and Bibliophylum, featured in Aqua’s Hotel Lobby. The pieces demonstrate the artist’s facility with transforming mundane objects (in this case- books & wax) into enigmatic forms that challenge our perceptions of nature and culture as ‘separate’ paradigms. Saturday, December 3rd, 11:30am – 12:00pm, Aqua Hotel Lounge. Courtesy Conrad Wilde Gallery, Room 222

INSTALLATION by ADAD HANNAH & filmmaker DENYS ARCAND

Originally initiated by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts for their new Canadian Pavilion, this collaborative project encompasses photography and video inspired by the early XXth Century Viennese play La Ronde by Arthur Schnitzler. Courtesy Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain, Room 224

INSTALLATION by WILL WILSON of Navajo Nation

Through a partnership of New Mexico Arts and the Urban Paradise Guild (UPG) of South Florida, artist Will Wilson from Navajo Nation will guide over 60 local art students to create an art installation at the Fairchild Botanical Gardens in South Florida and at Aqua Art Miami, using Australian Pine -- a plant “invading” native habitat all over South Florida, including the Everglades. Aqua’s Courtyard. Press Release. Courtesy Eileen Braziel, Room 103

SITE-SPECIFIC SCULPTURE by SAYA MORIYASU

Artist Saya Moriyasu will showcase her sculpture Folly (Vizcaya), 2011, created especially for this installment of Aqua Art Miami. The pieces explores issues of colliding cultures and time. Aqua’s Courtyard. Courtesy SOIL Gallery, room 226 and Prole Drift, room 122