Museum of Art and Design at MDC

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The Museum of Art and Design (MOAD) at Miami Dade College offers groundbreaking exhibitions and programs that explore the challenges and opportunities we face locally. MOAD convenes artists, designers, and thinkers to address the urgent questions of our time. As the flagship museum of Miami Dade College, MOAD strives to be a catalyst for action and a place that empowers people to redefine their ci

ty. Miami Dade College is an equal access/equal opportunity institution which does not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, color, marital status, age, religion, national origin, disability, veteran’s status, ethnicity, pregnancy, sexual orientation or genetic information. To obtain more information about the College’s equal access and equal opportunity policies, procedures and practices, please contact the College’s Civil Rights Compliance Officer: Cindy Lau Evans, Director, Equal Opportunity Programs/ ADA Coordinator/ Title IX Coordinator, at (305) 237-2577 (Voice) or 711 (Relay Service). 11011 SW 104 St., Room 1102-01; Miami, FL 33176.

Step inside the Kislak Center and learn the stories behind the objects on view. ✨Special guest Carol Damian, Ph.D. leads...
09/01/2026

Step inside the Kislak Center and learn the stories behind the objects on view. ✨

Special guest Carol Damian, Ph.D. leads this Touch of the Tower tour centered on Languages of Migration exploring its rich histories and cultures.

📅 Wednesday, September 2
⏰ 12–1:30 PM
📍 Freedom Tower

🎟️ Tour included with museum admission. Get your tickets through the link in bio.

📸 Vivian Vo and Oriol Tarridas

September at MOAD ✨🗓️A new month means more ways to experience art, history, movement, and community. Check out our Sept...
08/31/2026

September at MOAD ✨🗓️

A new month means more ways to experience art, history, movement, and community. Check out our September calendar and make plans to visit us at the historic Freedom Tower!

🔗 Learn more and register through the link in bio.

08/28/2026

Your Sunday plans are set! 💃🎶

MOAD Moves with Michelle Gonzalez de la Cruz. Join us this Sunday for a Salsa Workshop at the Freedom Tower. Bring your friends and come dance with us in the Knight Skylight Gallery!

📅 August 30 | 11 AM–12:15 PM
✨ Free & open to the public
🔗 Register through the link in bio

🅿️ Free parking at MDC’s Parking Lot 1, south of the Freedom Tower.

💃 MOAD Moves is back with a free Salsa Workshop led by Michelle Gonzalez de la Cruz!Learn the fundamentals of salsa, fro...
08/26/2026

💃 MOAD Moves is back with a free Salsa Workshop led by Michelle Gonzalez de la Cruz!

Learn the fundamentals of salsa, from basic steps to rhythm and timing, and put it all together through movement and music. 🎶 No experience necessary—all ages and levels are welcome!

📅 Sunday, August 30
⏰ 11:00 AM–12:15 PM
📍 Knight Skylight Gallery, Freedom Tower
🎟️ Free and open to the public
🔗 Register through the link in bio

🅿️ Free parking at MDC’s Parking Lot 1, on the south side of the Freedom Tower, between NE 5th and NE 6th Streets.

Willem de Kooning and his peers drove artistic innovation in paint through their experiments with materials and form. Th...
08/21/2026

Willem de Kooning and his peers drove artistic innovation in paint through their experiments with materials and form. Their canvases ruptured the art historical continuum with their fluid, quick brushstrokes. In the first half of the 20th century, many looked to Paris and to Pablo Picasso for innovation or to Mexico City and Diego Rivera for grand gestures, but de Kooning and his contemporaries changed things. Sometimes called action painting, their approach to painting emphasized movement of paint across their compositions. De Kooning’s works often rest on the precipice of abstraction and representation. Here, a pink fleshy palette dominates the composition. The artist depicted women, and later women within a landscape. De Kooning’s formative years shaped his relationship to paint. When he first arrived in the U.S. he worked as a house painter and later in the Mural Division of the Works Progress Administration in New York.

🖼️ Willem de Kooning, b.1904, Rotterdam, Netherlands–d.1997, East Hampton, New York
Untitled VII
Oil on canvas, 1979
Made possible by Kenneth C. Griffin Collection

© 2026 The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Installation image by Oriol Tarridas

Make plans to visit artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara’s installation, Desecho en Menudos Pedazos, this week. The work i...
08/17/2026

Make plans to visit artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara’s installation, Desecho en Menudos Pedazos, this week.
The work is a poetic rumination on the coming together of the Cuban diaspora. The exhibition’s brochure:
“Standing five meters tall, Desecho en Menudos Pedazos [Torn into Tiny Piece s], the colossal grouping of Cuban flags in the center of Freedom Hall, is a new version of an earlier work from 2023. Taking its title from the 19th century poem “Mi bandera” by Bonifacio Byrne, the installation harkens back to Alcántara’s earlier Drapeau performances enacted with the Cuban flag. Creating a mound that soars towards the high ceilings of the Freedom Tower’s grand hall, the flags memorialize and instigate—evoking notions of accumulation, the passage of time, and the amassing of cultural memory. Not presented as intended by their manufacturers—blowing in the wind while attached to a sturdy flagpole—the flags here are partially folded, obscured, and layered. Their power holds through their familiarity to visitors of the Freedom Tower.
The 2023 installation of Desecho en Menudos Pedazos, curated by Claudia Genlui, was made by flag donations from supporters of Alcántara during his time in prison. This iteration takes new flags, marking a new period of Alcántara’s artmaking that is rooted in triumph. Situated inside what was once the Cuban Refugee Center from 1962 to 1974, the installation grounds the Cuban exile experience in the present, a reminder of the importance of freedom, art, and community.”
Photos 1 to 2 by Oriol Tarridas Photography
Photos 3 to 5 by omniokproductions and Eligio Perez Merino



Don’t miss a special conversation between Miccosukee artist and cultural educator Khadijah Cypress and Isabela Villanuev...
08/13/2026

Don’t miss a special conversation between Miccosukee artist and cultural educator Khadijah Cypress and Isabela Villanueva, MOAD’s Consultant Curator, presented in conjunction with exhibition ‘Abstraction as Legacy.’ This exhibition features a work by painter Lloyd Kiva New who was also a fashion designer and was a co-founder of Institute of American Indian Arts.

Learn about Cypress’s work preserving Miccosukee traditions through fashion, craftsmanship, and cultural education.

📅 Saturday, August 15
🕛 12:00–1:30 PM
📍 Freedom Tower

Free admission with registration. Light refreshments will be served.

Image courtesy by the artist.

Don’t miss Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara: nos encontramos this Friday, August 14, 2026. The evening will feature the first...
08/12/2026

Don’t miss Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara: nos encontramos this Friday, August 14, 2026. The evening will feature the first museum presentation of works he made while in prison.

The evening begins at 6 PM with Otero Alcántara’s performance and an exhibition of recent works, followed by a conversation with the artist and Ernesto Fundora and moderated by Gloria Ordaz.

At 8 PM, join us for a reception with live music by Clave Y Cuba.

Register in our bio.

🅿️ Free Parking: MDC garage at 500 NE Second Avenue, between NE Fifth and NE Sixth Streets.

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No te pierdas Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara: nos encontramos este viernes, 14 de agosto de 2026. La velada presentará por primera vez en un museo obras que el artista realizó mientras estuvo en prisión.

La noche comenzará a las 6 PM con un performance de Otero Alcántara y una exhibición de obras recientes, seguida de una conversación con el artista y Ernesto Fundora, moderada por Gloria Ordaz.

A las 8 PM, acompáñanos a una recepción con música en vivo de Clave Y Cuba.

Regístrate a través del enlace en nuestra bio.

🅿️ Estacionamiento gratuito: Garaje de MDC ubicado en 500 NE Second Avenue, entre NE Fifth y NE Sixth Streets.

Join us this Thursday as we celebrate the closing of Amanda Linares Artist Residency at MDC’s Kendall Gallery. Come toge...
08/11/2026

Join us this Thursday as we celebrate the closing of Amanda Linares Artist Residency at MDC’s Kendall Gallery.

Come together for a late afternoon celebrating Amanda’s works created throughout her residency with MOAD.

📅 Thursday, August 13, 2026
⏰ 4–7 PM
📍 MDC Kendall Gallery
11011 SW 104th St., Bldg. M-123
Miami, FL 33176

Light refreshments and snacks will be provided. Free parking available. 🅿️

We hope to see you there!

Image by McKenzie Vasquez

MOAD Moves with Romina Carpio is back!! 🧘Join us tomorrow for a relaxing yoga class in the beautiful Knight Skylight Gal...
08/07/2026

MOAD Moves with Romina Carpio is back!! 🧘

Join us tomorrow for a relaxing yoga class in the beautiful Knight Skylight Gallery.

🕘 9:00–10:00 AM

Free class with registration. Link in bio 🔗

🅿️ Visitors to the Freedom Tower may park for free in the MDC garage at 500 NE Second Avenue, between NE Fifth and NE Sixth Streets (designated Building 7).

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Miami, FL
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