A 48-foot subway automotive lately made a thousand-mile journey down from West Virginia. Its ultimate vacation spot? Wynwood Partitions the place can be layered with colourful murals by famend artists in and out. Why, you ask? Properly, with Wynwood Partitions curator Jessica Goldman Srebnick at its helm, the query today is absolutely, “why not?” The New York Metropolis native moved to Miami in 1997 and what a colourful journey it’s been since. Her profession has led her to be the co-chair of Goldman Properties and CEO and founding father of Goldman International Arts. And, sure, she’s additionally the badass spouse and mother of three boys who introduced Miami’s favourite road artwork museum to life in 2009 and is maintaining it oh-so-fresh at this time.
That subway automotive made its thunderous debut throughout Miami Artwork Week in December. It was a non-public get together affair with a efficiency by mega-DJ Fatboy Slim, with notable tastemakers and featured artists in attendance like Greg Mike, Shok1 and Mojo. The inventive theme for Wynwood Partitions ’24 was “Power of Purpose.” And, in a current chat with SFBW, it’s clear Goldman Srebnick has discovered an unbelievable function for herself within the Miami artwork realm.
“I believe we all should be ambassadors for the cities where we live and the cities that we love,” she says. “And for me, that’s Miami. I’ve loved this city since I was a teenager and I believe in this city. As far as the arts are concerned, I think Art Basel was incredibly catalytic in bringing the attention of the arts world here, and every year we just continue to grow.”
Goldman Srebnick is the daughter of the late developer and restaurateur Tony Goldman. Underneath the Goldman Properties identify, he’s extensively credited for redeveloping South Seashore and serving to protect its artwork deco icons beginning within the mid-Nineteen Eighties. Within the mid-2000s, he started buying and redeveloping property in Wynwood. Ultimately, Goldman Srebnick joined the household enterprise and was charged with opening a resort at Collins Avenue and Eighth Road.
“My dad put me on that project, and it’s now called The Tony Hotel, named after my father,” she says. “I moved here to oversee that. I knew one person who lived here, just one friend, and I really started to make a life for myself here. And then, I met my husband and that solidified that this was where I wanted to be and the life that I wanted to live.”
As for her “aha” second during which artwork grew to become her ardour, she credit her dad and mom who admired and picked up artwork themselves. She says artists have been at all times round her New York Metropolis house rising up, be it painters, musicians, cooks or actors. “We were always surrounded by creative people because we just love the way they think. … It’s always so entrepreneurial and out of the box.”
Goldman Srebnick labored together with her father for 15 years earlier than his passing in 2012. Thereafter, she took over most of the day-to-day management obligations, together with the curation of Wynwood Partitions.
“I have to tell you, it really is a crowning jewel for us,” she says. “Not just to the neighborhood, but to our organization and to me personally. The beauty of what we’re doing here at Wynwood Walls is when we invite artists to come paint, they are bringing their gifts and their talents and their magic to the walls of our city. And then, they leave that here for us to enjoy. It’s not putting it in a tent and then packing it up and going home, really, it’s here to stay. And then, as you see the neighborhood of Wynwood continue to evolve, it’s going from a horizontal neighborhood to a vertical neighborhood, with art climbing the walls of eight-story buildings. And I mean, that’s just spectacular and beautiful.”
Past Wynwood Partitions, Goldman Srebnick sparks artwork and activism in surprising locations. Enjoyable truth: Her first undertaking below the Goldman International Arts umbrella was at Exhausting Rock Stadium, which in 2016 introduced poppin’ murals from the London Police and Jen Stark to its partitions.
She says her latest undertaking includes curating the artwork and design of a complete cruise ship. Norwegian Cruise Line’s Aqua ship – with an historic goddess inventive aptitude from artist Allison Hueman and a theme of “Where the Sky Meets the Sea” – will debut in 2025. Additionally, the Wynwood Partitions Basis is bringing artwork alternatives to native nonprofits, together with artwork remedy at Lotus Home Girls’s Shelter and artwork programming to Massive Brothers Massive Sisters.
“I’ve become so comfortable in what we do, and I feel like we have the ability to really fly,” she says. “I’ve taken my passion and turned it into a business. I like to believe that I’m a curator of culture by this point. … It’s all about improving the quality of life for other people. The world is a really tough place and certainly at the moment. If we can bring joy, inclusivity and beauty, that’s what I love to do and count me in.”
Picture credit: Nick Garcia
