MIAMI POSTER PROJECT LAUNCHES WITH AWARD OF KNIGHT ARTS PARTNERSHIP GRANT
FROM JOHN S. AND JAMES L. KNIGHT FOUNDATION

MIAMI, FL (December 15, 2008) – The Miami Poster Project received a $75,000, three-year matching grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s Knight Arts Partnership to publish an annual Miami poster. It is one of thirty-one projects in South Florida awarded a Knight Arts Partnership grant in the program’s first year.

The Miami Poster Project’s goal is to provide an opportunity for the community to create visual representations of Miami – portraits of the place. The annual poster will not be the typical sun-sea-bikini-flamingo/come to Miami tourist poster. Instead, the idea is to go beyond superficial or “stock” notions to arrive at substantive, smart images that are of the place and for the place, a portrait of sorts.

Primary considerations of the project include encouraging the creation of representations of Miami that elicit community interest and pride, soliciting the contributions of the entire community through a contest that is open to all (all ages, all professions), and making the poster readily available, for free.  

The matching grant means the Knight Foundation is matching sponsorship dollars raised by the Miami Poster Project, which is actively seeking sponsorship. Interested sponsors can contact Andrea Gollin for full sponsorship information: andrea@miamiposterproject.org.

The Miami Poster Project is headed by Philip Brooker, an artist and illustrator, and by Andrea Gollin, a writer and editor.

 About the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Knight Arts Partnership
 The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation invests in journalism excellence worldwide and in the vitality of U.S. communities where the Knight brothers owned newspapers.  The Knight Arts Partnership supports ideas that will help transform the South Florida art scene, raise the standard for arts, and bring together the region’s diverse population through the arts. For more information, visit www.knightfoundation.org and www.knightarts.org.

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