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MDC Museum Of Art + Design Inaugurates New Alumni Exhibition Series

Jonel Juste

Miami Dade College’s Museum of Art + Design will inaugurate a new alumni exhibition series—Swing/SPACE/Miami—at the Freedom Tower, 600 Biscayne Blvd., Sept. 20 at 6 p.m.

Swing/SPACE/Miami features five solo group exhibitions by alumni from MDC  and New World School of the Arts, who have excelled in their particular artistic fields.

The featured artists are William Cordova, Liliam Dominguez, Lauren Pascarella, Tatiana Vahan, and Leandro Vazquez. The exhibit will run through July 12, 2014 with one artist being featured at a time. The first exhibit will showcase Leandro Vazquez’s work from Sept. 20 through Nov. 2.

The museum is free and open to the public; museum hours are 12 p.m. to 5 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday.

For more info, call 305-237-7700.

Jonel Juste

Jonel Juste, 34, is a Haitian-born journalist and writer. Juste, who earned a journalism degree in Haiti, serves as a columnist for The Reporter. He completed the REVEST program at Miami Dade College and is now majoring in Mass Communications\Journalism. From 2007 to 2011, he worked as editor-in-chief of the monthly French-language, Views of Haiti and the daily news website Haiti Press Network. In 2011, after moving to the US, Juste worked for the Haitian American news website Haiti Sentinel. Since 2013, he has hosted a monthly sociocultural rubric in Le Floridien, a Haitian American newspaper. As a writer, he published the poem book Carrefour de Nuit (Crossroad) in 2012 and Joseph, Prince d’Egypte (Joseph, Prince of Egypt) in 2013.

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