![](/getmedia/775ac5e8-14dd-4bd1-8795-d518227dc090/MicrosoftTeams-image-family-on-beach-1440x900.jpg?width=600&resizemode=force)
Zena Posever: Peering into a Pioneer’s Studio
This event has passed.
weekly on Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Explore the sculptures and paintings of Miami pioneer Zena Posever, a renowned artist, teacher and activist that lived on Miami Beach from the 1940s until her passing in 2012. Posever's works will be on display at the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU from December 22, 2023 through March 10, 2024. The exhibit represents a sample of Posever's wide-ranging career in the visual arts. Her commissioned portraits are in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery Smithsonian Institution; The Wolfsonian-FIU and The Fellowship, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Posever was an experienced art therapy teacher when she settled in Miami with her family, in the 1940s. Upon arriving, she immediately volunteered with the American Red Cross to teach wounded soldiers recuperating in the hotels. She set up a ceramics studio to cast the soldiers works in what would become Mt. Sinai Hospital’s future home on Alton Road. Zena sketched strollers along the popular Soldiers Pier, forerunner of today’s boardwalk, which provided a little income before she became art director at the early Jewish Community Center on West Avenue in Miami Beach. Her unique contributions to life in South Florida from 1944 to 2000 richly deserve a lasting place in its history.