MIAM December 2011 : Page-143
The Educator If you’re the type of person who hits the snooze button when you hear the word community activist, you might want to stay dialed in for a bit: Agustina Woodgate is putting the cool back in school with her efforts to bring the arts to low-income communities and develop a program to engage middle school girls in the sciences through the arts. Her aim is to create art that fosters exchanges between people rather than encounters between a viewer and an object. “I am happy to be a community builder in this town,” says the Argentine-born visual artist and teacher. “I like working in collaboration and art happens to be a great platform.” She’s taking the arts to the streets (literally) with this month’s Billboard Project initiative, for which she created a series of metallic artwork for display on billboards and bus shelters all over the city. The purpose? Creating surreal inversions of exterior and interior spaces—something Woodgate knows a thing or two about. “The Miami arts community is getting tighter,” she says. “We are growing more serious and it is showing.”
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