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  • As Interim Director, overseeing the operations of the museum to ensure we support its mission and vision to articulate  and maintain the museum’s mission, values, and goals, ensuring they align with the needs of the community and the museum's stakeholders. 
  • Develop a Strategic Plan to support long-term planning for exhibitions, collections, education, and outreach programs. Collaborate with the board of trustees and senior staff to set goals for the museum’s future and also represent the museum to the public, partners, and donors. Work closely with the board of trustees, providing them with regular updates on the museum’s operations, financial status, and strategic initiatives. They may also assist in the recruitment and development of board members.
  • Ensuring that the museum operates smoothly on a day-to-day basis, overseeing staff, exhibits, programming, and visitor services. Overseeing the maintenance and preservation of the museum’s physical space, including galleries, storage areas, and educational facilities. Ensuring that the museum complies with local regulations regarding safety, accessibility, and environmental standards.
  • Manage the museum’s budget, including securing funding, making decisions about resource allocation, and ensuring financial health and sustainability. Lead fundraising initiatives, including writing grants, cultivating relationships with major donors, and planning fundraising events. 
  • Hire key personnel and oversee the management and development of museum staff across departments (curatorial, education, marketing, collections care, etc.). Support ongoing professional development for museum staff, encouraging training and growth within the museum field. Ensure the museum is governed by sound policies that guide all aspects of its operation, from collection care to employee conduct.
  • Oversee the curatorial decisions, including exhibition planning, collection acquisitions, deaccessioning, and conservation practices. Ensure the museum secures major acquisitions and that deaccessioning processes comply with ethical standards.  and that the museum's adherence to legal and ethical guidelines related to the handling of cultural property. Motivate and guide the museum's staff and encourage collaboration across departments. 
  • Manage the institution’s public image, handle media relations, and advocate for the museum in the public sphere. Build relationships with local governments, educational institutions, other cultural organizations, and the broader community. Advocate for the museum's role in cultural and educational life.
  • Develop educational programs, partnerships with schools, and community initiatives that align with the museum’s mission and reach diverse audiences. Promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in the museum’s programs, collections, and staffing. This may involve reviewing existing practices and policies to ensure the museum is accessible and welcoming to all audiences.
  • Facilitate and support academic research related to the museum’s collection. Collaborate with scholars, other universities, and/or other cultural institutions to foster new knowledge and contribute to the field. Oversee and contribute to scholarly publications, exhibition catalogs, and other materials related to the museum’s collections and activities
  • As the former, Director of Education, I have pioneered several innovative programs such as Artful Playdates for Early Childhood, Drawing Salons, and Maker-space workshops to an arts integration program titled STEAMworks for Title 1 schools
  • As a university campus museum ensure the museum caters to all university students working closely with faculty to align course curriculum with exhibitions on view.


Miriam Machado, Interim Director

Frost Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, Florida

Harvard University Certificate, Visual Thinking Strategies 

MA Johns Hopkins University, Museum Studies

BA, Florida International University, Art History, Fine Arts

ADA Coordinator for programs and institution 

mirmac16's collections

 

Latin American Artists

<p>Latin American works from the Permanent Collection at The Patricia &amp; Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University. The works represent a timeline that spans thousands of years from pre colombian to present day.</p><p>#LatinoHAC<br /></p>
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Teaching with Haitian Art and Heritage with Frost Collection

<p>Understanding Haitian Culture though Art <br /></p> <p>This lesson will support teaching Haitian traditions and culture through the Frost Art Museum collections. It will also provide a look into cultural identity, Haitianite supported by research conducted by two FIU faculty members .  The PowerPoint will expand on Haitian history and the notes will add talking points. The  Miami Dade County Public School lessons support various investigations from the past to the present. <br /></p><p>Connections to the Polish Black Virgin demonstrate the spread of culture and religious beliefs that traveled as countries were conquered. <br /></p>
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19th and 20th Century Voting Rights in the United States

<p>This Learning Lab collection was created by Holly Kuhn, a student in the summer 2021 Smithsonian Affiliate Digital Learning and Engagement Internship, in partnership with the Emerson Collective and the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, a Smithsonian Affiliate. #SAintern #RaceAndSocialJustice #WomensHistory</p>
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Tesoro Pepe Mar's A Love Letter to the Frost

<p><br>This collection presents <strong><em>Tesoro: Pepe Mar’s Love Letter to the Frost</em></strong>. The exhibition is organized visually across thematic chapters such as Theatre of the City; Mirror, Mirror; Procession; and Cabinet of Curiosities, Tesoro’s highlights including masks, ceramics, and paintings by René Portocarrero, Thornton Dial, and Purvis Young, alongside select loans.</p>
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Oh what surrounds me

<p>Of what surrounds me presents three artists whose creative process is profoundly influenced by nature, serving as both a significant element in their work and a conduit for exploring self and others. Taking its title from the poem by Mary Oliver (1935–2019) of the same name, this exhibition positions each artist as instigators of close contemplation. Looking to their surroundings, Amanda Bradley, Cristina Lei Rodriguez and Mette Tommerup think of the natural world as both an immersive state and a vehicle for making meaning.</p>
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Addie Herder: Machines for Living

<p>This collection celebrates the dynamic small-scale abstractions of Addie Herder (1920–2009). Known for her collages, Herder’s imaginative compositions often function in between two- and three-dimensional spaces. Often through careful manipulation of found paper, the artist re-imagined form and meaning in her own intricately crafted vignettes. Herder’s rigorous yet delicate assemblage works recall the works of artists Louise Nevelson (1899–1988) and Joseph Cornell (1903–1972).</p> <figure><img src="/public/images/large/editor/9879368/Addie.jpg" data-image="9879368"></figure> <p></p>
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Lee Bontecou Space Never Stops

<p>This collection focuses on Lee Bontecou's sculptural artwork related to space. Bonetecou trained in academic painting but later turned her attention to sculpture. She studied under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Zorach" target="_blank" draggable="false" rel="noopener">William Zorach</a>, whose abstract figurative sculptures were an early compositional influence. She spent the summer of 1954 at the Skowhegan School in Maine, where she learned welding and afterward began to incorporate it into her figurative sculptures. The intricately constructed black holes, or voids, in Lee Bontecou's most famous pieces don't seem to belong to any type of art previously produced - painting or sculpture. These voids seem to connect to ulterior dimensions.</p> <figure><img src="/public/images/large/editor/9884142/LeeBontecouTeacherResourcePacket.jpg" data-image="9884142"></figure>
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Eadweard Muybridge: The Father of the Motion Picture

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Alexander Liberman

<p>This collection focuses on the monumental sculptures of Russian artist, Alexander Liberman.</p> <figure></figure>
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Sculpture Park at the Frost Art Museum

<p>This collection focuses on the monumental sculpture collection at the Frost Art Museum in Miami, Florida.</p> <figure><img src="/public/images/large/editor/9997337/image1.jpg" data-image="9997337"></figure>
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Path of the Panther

<p>This collection focuses on the "Path of the Panther" exhibition at the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU, a photographic chronicle by National Geographic Explorer Carlton Ward Jr, showcasing his six-year journey documenting the Florida panther's survival and its relationship with the Florida Wildlife Corridor. The exhibition highlights the panther's resilience and the need for preserving its habitat.</p> <figure><img src="/public/images/large/editor/10129525/PathofthePantherTeacherResourcePacket.jpg" data-image="10129525"></figure>
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