The Wynwood Art District is a district of the Wynwood neighborhood of Miami, Florida

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, United States

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. It is home to over 70 galleries, museums and collections. It is roughly bounded by Northwest 36th Street (US 27

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 (north), Northwest 20th Street (south), I-95

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 (west) and Northeast 1st Avenue (east).

History

The Wynwood Art District Association was founded in early 2003 by a group of art dealers, artists and curators Mark Coetzee and Nick Cindric. Mark Coetzee initiated the idea based on a similar project, Art Night, he had started in his home town- Cape Town, South Africa. Founding Members at the first meeting were Brook Dorsch of Dorsch Gallery, Weston Charles and Cooper

Cooper (artist)

COOPER is an American artist known for sculptures and assemblages that exist as meditations on death, man’s emotional capacities and struggles for power. COOPER was born and raised in Miami, FL...

of Locust Projects, Nick Cindric of Rocket Projects, Bernice Steinbaum of Bernice Steinbaum Gallery and Marina Kessler of Marina Kessler Gallery. The Association publishes an annual brochure with a map and a list of the Association’s members. It is home to over forty galleries, five museums, three collections, seven art complexes, twelve art studios and five art fairs.

Every 2nd Saturday of each month a community wide Art Walk is held. Galleries, art studios, alternative spaces and showrooms open their doors to the public for art, music and refreshments.

• CIFO Art Space (Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation)
• The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse
• Rubell Family Collection
• Dorsch Gallery
• Gallery Diet
• Fred Snitzer Gallery
• Bernice Steinbaum Gallery
• David Castillo Gallery
• Pan American Art Projects
• Praxis International Art
• Edge Zones
• Sammer Gallery
• World Class Boxing - The Scholl Collection
• The Yard @CasaLin
• Galerie Schuster
• The Armory Studios

External links

• Wynwood Magazine: The Art Magazine
• Fine Arts Storage & Related Services