Tertulia Nights

Experience an evening of art, conversation and community at the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU’s monthly after-hours series, Tertulia Nights. Each installment features a different guest artist, scholar or performer, paired with thematic content that invites dialogue and discovery. Guests receive a complimentary beverage from La Tropical, and all events are supported by the Art Bridges Foundation’s Access for All program.

Here’s the upcoming lineup:

Thursday, August 14 – All This That Does Not Seem Real
An interactive experience with multidisciplinary artist Dahlia Dreszer, also known as Clone Dahlia. Her work spans photography, installation and fiber arts, exploring themes of cultural identity, memory and the evolving idea of home within the diasporic experience. Dreszer’s community-focused practice draws on personal and collective histories, often incorporating rescued flowers, heirlooms, folk art and textiles to construct domestic interiors that dissolve the boundary between reality and artifice. Based in Miami and originally from Panamá, she holds a degree in Media and Photography from Emory University. Her recent solo exhibition Bringing the Outside In debuted at Green Space Miami, and her AI-based project Clone Dahlia was featured in TIME magazine.

Thursday, September 11 – Florida, Wild, Design
A screening and discussion led by urban geographer Stephanie Wakefield, exploring how native species reintroduction can be the starting point for rewilding Florida and reimagining the relationship between people, nature and space. Film, video and archival clips highlight both “Old Florida” designs—houseboats, stilted bars, limestone structures—and speculative visions of a 21st-century landscape with hybrid wildlife corridors, drone-managed wildfires and outdoor school gyms beneath cypress trees. Wakefield is an Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Environmental Design at Florida Atlantic University and author of Miami in the Anthropocene: Urban Resilience and Rising Seas (2025), among other works on urban design and environmental change.

Additional installments will be announced as the series continues. Visitors are encouraged to check the museum’s schedule for future programs.