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A native of Romania, Miami sculptor Constantin (Ticu) Emil Aramescu (1914-1966) came to the United States in 1948. He received a law degree from the University of Bucharest and an art degree from American University. He held a position in the Foreign Law Division of the Library of Congress for six years and also worked as a commercial photographer in New York City.

Ticu Aramescu travelled widely, studying art in the museums of Spain, France, England and Italy. He created sculptures with electronic parts. He later included natural materials, drift wood and burnt wood pieces, combined with metals, in order to produce structures that reflected the influence of his native Romania and his interest in Eastern philosophy.

Galleries exhibiting Ticu Aramescu's works include the Norton Gallery, Miami Beach Art Center, the Lowe Art Gallery, and others. Aramescu received the second place prize in sculpture at the 1962 Miami Springs Art Festival. He was a member of the Florida Sculpture Association and worked with Free Radio Europe.

The work of Constantin Aramescu appears in the permanent collection of the Norton Gallery in West Palm Beach and at Drury College in Springfield, New Jersey.

Georgeta (Gigi) Aramescu Anderson, Ticu Aramescu's sister, was born in Romania in 1910. She received a law degree from the University of Grenoble, France, and studied art at the Art Student's League of New York. She worked as a teacher and lecturer and established a reputation for her painting.

Her work, influenced by the folklore and popular style of Romania, is considered to be "of major significance to the contemporary art scene and important to the preservation of Romanian Culture." Gigi Aramescu had individual exhibitions of her works in Florida and New York and her paintings were also shown with Ticu's sculptures.

Gigi Aramescu received over twenty awards in local, regional and national exhibitions, including the National Juried Exhibition, the Four Arts Society, Palm Beach, and the Lowe Art Gallery, University of Miami. Her paintings remain in the permanent collections of the Norton Gallery, Miami Museum of Modern Art, Lowe Art Gallery and a number of collections in Austria, Italy, France, Spain, Turkey and other countries.

Jeffrey Knapp (March 2, 1949 - February 17, 2010), born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, was a poet, artist, translator, and art-collector based in Miami-Dade. He was responsible for multiple projects that sought to engage Miami-Dade's larger community, especially its school population, to get involved with producing and consuming poetry. One of his major initiatives was the Florida's Poetry in the Schools program, which allowed children across Miami-Dade to experiment with poetry and see it published. He was also part of the itinerant project "Bicycle Poets," aimed at sharing poetry beyond Miami-Dade and across the state of Florida. He was also responsible for and the editor of the Dial-a-Poem project. Additionally, he served on the board of directors of Tigertail Productions, a pioneering organization dedicated to fostering visual, performing, and literary arts in Miami.

He was a faculty member of Florida International University starting in 1989 and later occupied several administrative positions. A prolific and professional writer, he presented his works at a number of international conferences, receiving many prizes in recognition of his work as a writer and instructor. His poems were also published in many well-known journals, including the Boston Review of the Arts.

He passed away at home, after a years-long battle against cancer, leaving his wife and his two daughters, his daughters Ariel Knapp and Astra Schwartz Dorf. He was married to Dina Knapp, a visual artist with whom he co-authored a number of fine-arts works, as well as Jewish heritage.

–Vanessa Rodrigues Barcelos da Silva
Graduate Student Assistant for Manuscripts and Archives Management, Summer 2025

Sources:

(1) Obituary - https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/herald/name/jeffrey-knapp-obituary?id=13275297
(2) Tigertail Productions - https://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/article161396893.html

Lorenzo DeStefano (b. Honolulu, Hawai‘i) is a writer, producer, director, photographer, and member of the Directors Guild of America. He has worked in U.S. and U.K. theater, produced and directed network series, documentaries, and narrative films, and written fiction, non-fiction, original screenplays, and adaptations. His works include the novel House Boy, the short story collection The Shakespearean, the memoir Visitations, the photographic monograph La Hora Mágica – The Magic Hour, and the cinema memoir Callé Cero. Film and theater credits include Shipment Day, The Diarist, Stairway to the Stars, and Los Zafiros – Music From The Edge of Time. His photography, including the exhibition Cubanos – Island Portraits 1993–1998, is in the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Latin American Art and the Cuban Heritage Collection at the University of Miami.

Books Are Nice is a publishing and graphic design house based in Miami, Florida. Founded in 2011 by Augusto Mendoza, the organization has published a number of books and zines, and has taken part in numerous literary events in South Florida.

Founded in 1925, the University of Miami is a private research university with more than 15,000 students from around the world. It comprises 12 schools and colleges serving undergraduate and graduate students in more than 180 majors and programs.

The Iron Arrow Honor Society, founded in 1926, is a highly selective honor society for students, faculty, staff, and alumni at the University of Miami. Historically, the Society was male-only, founded as the "The Highest Honor Attained by Men." After several years of social and legal pressure, the all-male membership voted to admit women in 1985. Criteria for membership include scholarship, leadership, character, humility, and love of alma mater. Membership in the Society is the highest honor bestowed by the University.

Dr. Bowman Foster Ashe was the first President of the University of Miami from 1926 to 1952. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in economics in 1912 from the University of Pittsburgh, taught English and history in public schools, and later received an appointment to the University of Pittsburgh's faculty and administration. The University awarded Dr. Ashe an honorary LL.D. degree in 1927 for his many achievements.

Bowman Foster Ashe, first president of the University of Miami, served from 1926 to 1952. Born in 1885, he earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Pittsburgh. After graduation, he took a job teaching English and history in public school. Ashe also worked as the educational/social director of Langeloth, a model town near Pittsburgh. Ashe’s work eventually led him back to the University of Pittsburgh where he became a faculty member and supervised the admission, transfer and academic progress of freshmen and sophomores.

The founders of UM hired Ashe from Pittsburgh to oversee the institution during its challenged infancy. In 1929, with the collapse of the economy, UM's financial plight was severe, but Ashe held it together almost single-handedly during the dual hardships of the land boom failure in Florida and the Great Depression. During Ashe's presidency, the University added the School of Law (1928), the School of Business Administration (1929), the School of Education (1929), the Graduate School (1941), the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (1943), the School of Engineering (1947), and the School of Medicine (1952). He took over as Chairman of its Board of Trustees in 1929, but later gave up that role and continued as President until 1952, the year of his death.