T-Shirt Award and Art Basel Welcome Party
Join us for our biggest party in years! It will feature the big reveal of the winning t-shirt design and welcome in the big Art Basel Miami 2013 Week. T-Shirt Award Ceremony! $500 cash award and prizes to the winning artist and design reveal.
Sponsored by SPECTRUM Art Fair
Monday, December 2, 2013
6:00pm-10:00pm or later
Cafe Babbo
97 NW 25th Street #103
Miami, FL 33127
Tickets: $20
Music
Max Holm Quartet
Pocket of Lollipops
Bows and Ties
DJ Hank Justice
Performance
Prince Aderele – Fire Show
ViKerrious – Interactive Character
Renda Writer – Spoken Poetry
Interactive Art
WallBrawl f/ Derek Wilson & Rigo Leon – Art competition
Robert Korhonen – Live portraits
Ileana Collazo – Live painting
Art and Wine Miami – Guided Art Creation
Oscar Fuentes – Written Poetry
Nicole Malcolm – Live Painting
Christ Riggs – Live Pyramid Painting
Wasabi Fashion Kult – Popup Fashion and Live Model Painting
Sponsors
SPECTRUM Art Fair – Major Supporter
Cafe Babbo
Andy Toonz Studios
Acidfeed – Twitter Wall
CreativGlu
Ekena
Refreshments Sponsored By
El Dorado Rum
courtesy of AMC Liaisons
Iceberg Vodka
Cockspur Rum
World of Beer Midtown
Le Koke Wine & Bites
Casa Panza – Paella
Divino Ceviche – Quinua & Ceviche
El Cristo Restaurant – Sandwiches
Mad Chiller
Complimentary Food & Beverage service are first-come, first-served.
Prize Donations
Med Aesthetics Miami – Hair Removal Sessions
Fabriqueart – Custom Fabric Portrait
DU20 Holistic Oasis – One-and-a-half-hour Float
Allure Rejuvenation & Anti Aging – Gift Certificate + travel kit of Dermagenetics Ultracustom Skin Care www.AllureVIP.com
Erin Milchman – One Month Facebook Marketing
If you would like to donate a prize and be recognized at the event, Click Here!
Tickets to the party are $20.00. Â For a limited time, you can also get group ticket deals up to 60% off at Miami New Times!
All funds go to supporting Life Is Art’s mission of helping the arts and community in South Florida.
El Cristo Restaurant 
Fabriqueart 
MORE INFORMATION
The Bows and Ties: Blending together sweet Texas charm with the honest sounds of New York, this diverse duo brings a vintage vibe to their music.
Pocket of Lollipops: Posh Punk- Maitejosune Urrechaga & TonyKapel make music, art, films, novels, comics, installations and other what nots that make them happy. Some believe they are Aliens, don’t be scared they are here to share.
Max Holm Quartet: Multi-award-winning quartet comprised of some of the top young, up & coming jazz musicians in the country. Have performed with Wynton Marsalis at Jazz at Lincoln Center, among many other honors.
DJ Hank Justice: Hank’s mission is to destroy musical injustice in the form of DJ sets chock-full of music that people can enjoy and move to. He is often asked what he is playing and is often told that his selection is unique and excellent. This is because he spends hours each day carefully digging for gems anywhere he can. He loves sharing these sounds with the world and hopes to be able to do so more often and for more people. It’s a musical story that’s forever under construction.
Prince Aderele: Our show will entail a live Fire Eating Performance/Dance in honor if Sango the Yoruba Power of Fire, Thunder and Royal Lineage. We will perform to an African Drum Sound Track on CD.
ViKerrious: Kerri Aultman is a new age performance artist, model and dancer. Born with a love to move, a love of music and a lyrical pulse beating through her being. ViKerrious, the official brand of Kerry Aultman is making it’s mark on today’s art, dance and entertainment generation featuring fresh perspectives on personal experiences, topics and movements with strong messages that captivate her audience.
WallBrawl is dedicated to bringing emerging and established artist together with art lovers in an interactive environment. The “BRAWL†is a live exhibition of skill, technique and creativity. The audience witnesses the artistic process from inception to finished product in a short time frame. The culmination is a new avenue for a deeper connection between the artist and the art aficionado.
Robert Korhonen: I can capture an amazing realistic likeness of anyone in 10 minutes. I have studied human anatomy and practiced my art for so many years, I have become an expert in drawing young, old, black, white, asian, men, women, ahhh, women, I especially have a a talent for capturing the beauty of a woman, with a glamourous touch. “He made me look better than I really was”.
Art and Wine Miami: I will have little canvas and some paint and invite people to paint a free form or copy some of the samples that I will display.Myself and my assistant will guide them.
Oscar Fuentes is a poet and performance artist from Miami, and the front man for The Oscar Fuentes Combo, a musical project where he blends his original beat-poetry with a jazz fusion band. Oscar is happy to have birthed, Beautiful Women Will Never Know, a body of poetic works and short stories that he put together, in his words: “as honestly as I could”.
Nicole Malcolm: I feel the energy of the music and crowd then use that to create beauty through an allotted duration of time.
Freshly Squeezed Massages: A bodywork treatment experience. When was the last time you took an hour – just for you? Breathe deep. Relax. Let go. Rejuvenate. We are at our best when we take time for ourselves.
SPECTRUM Miami: Life Is Art has partnered with SPECTRUM Miami and ArtSpot International taking place in Wynwood Wednesday, December 4 through Sunday, December 8. The show organizers have agreed to donate 50% of it’s ticket sales to LIA from the opening preview party on Wednesday, December 4, and access to the show will be free the remaining days (Thursday – Sunday) with a minimum $5 donation to benefit LIA. SPECTRUM Miami—a juried, contemporary art fair in the heart of Midtown Miami featuring an international slate of artists and galleries. It’s where contemporary meets extraordinary. Join us for a 5-day fine art experience, featuring music, entertainment and other special events.
Andy Toonz Studios: Why recreate a character when you can create your own? Animation, Illustration, Character Design, Cartoons.
Mad Chiller Coffee presents a grassroots movement signifying what is pure, organic, and true to the Bob Marley spirit.
*Life Is Art is a certified 501(c)3 charitable corporation. Donations are greatly appreciated and taxdeductible to the fullest extent of the law.
MEDIA
Miami Art Guide
Greater Miami Festivals and Events
Miami Art Zine
Soul Of Miami
Miami New Times
