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20 winners emerged from 1,562 applicants today to win $3.7 million in the 2009 Knight Arts Challenge. Winning projects include: * Reinstalling a live orchestra at the Miami City Ballet * Creating an arts incubator Wynwood * Launching an online site for selling & promoting locally-produced music For a complete...

From Richard Harris, executive director of the Miami Music Project... The Miami Music Project is a year round classical music outreach program which culminates in a collaborative arts festival led by Artistic Director James Judd. At the very heart of the Miami Music Project is an ‘educational ensemble’ whose primary...

2008 KAC Winner Gean Moreno just sent the first volume of his [NAME] project to the printers. Today he ruminates on books, his relationships with them and the seeds of the [NAME] project… “It’s not books, it’s graphic anomalies and unexpected forms that are interesting. I have a healthy relationship...

2008 Knight Foundation Arts Partnership Awards Event from Knight Foundation on Vimeo. Photos from the event are online at Flickr.com/photos/knightfoundation

Knight Foundation contest winners to help transform arts scene and touch people across age, race and class MIAMI – Thirty-one ideas to help transform the South Florida arts scene were awarded $8 million today from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The first-year winners of the Knight Arts...

Miami - The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation today announced the finalists in an experimental arts contest designed to help transform the South Florida Community. The 77 finalists in the Knight Arts Partnership contest include painters, performance artists, symphony orchestras and high schools. They rose above a field...

Good morning. Thank you all for coming to the announcement of a major investment in the arts by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Today, I’m privileged to announce the Knight Arts Partnership, an initiative to support the arts in our home community. Over the next five years,...