Steve Minotti The Love 9ART DMAC - WeMerge Magazine

Evolving &Expanding
By Renda Writer ..............
Whether we are consciously aware of it or
not, many of us have a sort of inner need
to be a part of something… something
important. For local emerging artists, the perfect
opportunity is here to become a part of the rapid
evolution and expansion of a gallery that has for the
last five years exhibited several renowned “blue chip”
and mid-career artists.
Previous and current artists that have exhibited at
Grace Café & Gallery include Purvis Young, Ferdie
Pacheco, Kyunam Han, and Laurence Gartel, four
well known names in the international art world,
names that collectively yield about a thousand pages
of results if you were to Google them. The 7,000
square foot, 2-story art gallery
in the famed Antique District
in Dania Beach has featured
Haitian, European, American,
South American, and Asian
The gallery is now looking to
supplement its reputation for
attracting established artists
by bringing in more emerging
artists who can be a part of the
plan for the evolution of the gallery as a bridge to
connect different generations of art.
Gallery owner, Clare Vickery, puts it like this: “When I
started here I appealed to a lot of older people because
I was in the antique district, but I also
want to appeal to people in their 20’s,
the ones looking to go out and get some
intellectual stimulation… I am looking
also for crafters and musicians that want
to be a part of the 5 th Annual Folk Art
& Antique Festival we are sponsoring
January 30-31 st , 2010. I saw the page
about the Stitch Rock event in the last
issue of WeMerge, and I’m looking to
get more involved with crafters and
people in that culture. I’m also looking
to expand my second floor dining area
and maybe incorporate an
improv dinner, some one-act
plays… events with poetry
and music, combined with
evening dining. We’ve also
recently really expanded our
dance schedule, including
tap, tango, & other dances
in our upstairs studio. I’m
putting out a ‘call to artists’
and those that want to become more involved with all
that is going on at the gallery.”
The evolution and the integration of art
generations at Grace Cafe & Gallery has already
begun, with a recent 30-day exhibit by The Miami
Stuckists, a group of progressive 20-somethings, on
the wall just opposite the exhibit for Purvis Young, a
67-year old folk artist who was given the key to the
city for putting Overtown, Miami on the map. Grace
will continue to evolve along this path and it invites
you to participate.
GraceCafeAndGalleries.com
MySpace.com/GraceCafeAndGallery
49 N. Federal Hwy
Dania Beach, 33004
(954) 816-3324
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