Historic Preservation, Street Art and Community Building: A Tour of the Wynwood Arts District

Tuesday, October 16, 2:00pm – 5:00pm

Organized by Sunny Fischer, executive director, The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation; Peter Handler, program director, The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation; Jorge Hernandez, architect, professor, University of Miami School of Architecture, vice chair, National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Moderated by Ruth J. Abram, founding president, Lower East Side Tenement Museum, trustee, International Coalition of Historic Sites of Conscience. Presented by Keith Magee, executive director, National Public Housing Museum.

Space is limited at offsite sessions, so a ticket is required. Tickets will be available at the registration desk beginning at 7:00 am on Tuesday morning. If the tickets for a session are all gone, you will know that it is full and can make another choice.

This session will meet at the Eden Roc hotel at 2:00. Participants will proceed to the main entrance of the hotel at 3:45 to board a bus for a walking tour of the Wynwood Arts District.

Arts and culture can play significant roles in the revitalization of urban neighborhoods. A wonderful and exciting example can be found in Miami's Wynwood Arts District, the former warehouse neighborhood recently developed to be home to over fifty art galleries, four museums, major private collections, art studios, and the Wynwood Walls, an outdoor collection of large-scale murals created by some of the world's most renowned street and graffiti artists.