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Deering Estate presents “The Cultured Cup,” a series of artist talks inside the Deering Estate theater. The Cultured Cup will promote Deering Estate’s Studio and Non-Studio Artists-in-Residence (AIR) community through hosting a morning interview about AIR’s off-campus exhibitions. The program is geared towards providing a platform to connect different art and cultural organizations in Miami.
This iteration of The Cultured Cup will feature AIR Gretchen Scharnagl and a discussion about her recent exhibition “Entangled in the Mangroves: Florida Everglades Through Installation,” on view at The Baker Museum in Naples through November. This event will take place in the Deering Estate Visitor Center Theater, with a PowerPoint featuring Gretchen’s work from her exhibition, and will include a coffee truck, Pink Elephant Coffee, stationed within proximity. These elements will ultimately be conducive to a refreshing, artistic and social atmosphere.
Hosted by Amaranta Mattie, this event will take place on Saturday, Aug. 30, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The talk starts at 11:30 a.m. Doors will open 15 minutes prior to start time. The coffee truck will be stationed near the Deering Estate Theater, available for service from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Tickets are $10. For more information, visit the Deering Estate website at https://deeringestate.org/events/the-cultured-cup/.
Gretchen Scharnagl grew up in South Florida, beginning her archiving of nature and environmental practice in her mid-forties. She graduated with an MFA from Florida International University, where she still teaches classes in the Architecture Department, Art and Art History Department, and Honors College.
“I use refuse and residue from my past bouts of consuming and upcycle the discards of others and found natural material,” Scharnagl said. “My art archives nature, suburban back yards, ecosystems, South Florida including Deering Estate, and our home – Earth.
Experiential and research based, my practice includes reading Green Ideas by Penguin, Kinship from The Center for Humans and Nature, and Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet. I consult scientists, whose guidance supports the scientific literacy of my art.
“Currently playing with palimpsest-based collage, concrete poetry, scribbling, tracing, installation, and mark-making,” she continued. “The understanding that the environment is inseparable from human equity, I now shift toward social/environmental issues within my practice. I use the language of the humanities, poetry, poetic thought, or visual poetry. I measure success in the dialogue my work inspires. A scientist visiting my studio said, ‘You have me looking at things I’ve never looked at.’”
Deering Estate is located at 16701 SW 72 Ave. in Palmetto Bay.
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