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Schematic/Unbuilt Works

Unbuilt/schematic projects by Gordon Gilbert including preliminary sketches, construction drawings, photographic materials of the Barn Addition, Boulder House, Cantilevered Structure, Farmland House, Folded Addition, Garden Addition, Glass Facet Structure, Glass House, Helsinki Harbor, Pedestrian Bridge, Perspective Drawing, Pool Cabana, Shadow House, Shaky Joe's, Triangle Studio, and Yankee Lake projects.

Gilbert, Gordon (Architect)

Funding Arts Network records

  • ASM0271
  • Collection
  • 1996 - 2024

The Funding Arts Network is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the arts in Miami-Dade County through publicly funding grants for various art-related institutions, events, projects, and educational initiatives. The organization originally formed in 1996 under the name of Fifty over Fifty, Inc. with the initial goal of recruiting 50 members who would each contribute $1,000 a year to form a pool of $50,000 that would be endowed to the arts. Both the award pool and membership grew considerably over time, and by 2018, they had funded over 108 art organizations and had awarded $4,822,600 in grants. Their records contain past grant applications, newsletters, correspondence, contracts, awards, audio-visual materials, press clippings, bylaws, reports, minutes, membership lists, and other administrative documents for the organization.

Funding Arts Network

Constructed Works

Built projects by Gordon Gilbert including preliminary sketches, construction drawings, construction photos, final photos, and models of the Bridge House, the Lake House, the Light House, the Memorial proposal, the Rock House, the Split House, the Stilt House, the Transparent Cottage, and the Tree House projects.

Gilbert, Gordon (Architect)

Juan L. Riera Collection

  • CHC5472
  • Collection
  • 1885, 1920s-1940s, 2000s

The collection contains a letter, envelopes and a medallion relating to Cuban senator, mayor, and historian Manuel Martínez-Moles (1863-1951). The collection also includes a copy of "Manuel Martínez-Moles" written by Dr. Juan L. Riera for The Cuban Philatelist. Subsequent donations have included photographs of Cuban monuments in Miami, taken in 2020; restaurant and culinary ephemera; clippings and articles related to philately and Cuban historical figures such as José María Heredia, Félix Varela, León Primelles, and José Martí, authored by Dr. Riera; exhibition ephemera; political flyers; documents related to the Cuban communities in Ybor City and Key West; conference materials related to the InterAmerican Institute for Democracy, held in August 2022; and tourism ephemera. The collection also contains memorabilia such as matchbooks and cigarette ration coupons.

Martínez-Moles, Manuel

Thane Rosenbaum papers

  • ASM0711
  • Collection
  • 1979-2023 October 17

Thane Rosenbaum is a novelist, essayist, law professor, and legal analyst, the author of numerous books of fiction and nonfiction, including the novels How Sweet It Is! and Second Hand Smoke; the works of nonfiction The Myth of Moral Justice: Why Our Legal System Fails to Do What's Right and Payback: The Case for Revenge; and the forthcoming Crossing the Line: The High Cost of Weaponized Speech.

His writings and commentary on matters of justice, human rights, antisemitism, the Middle East, global terrorism, the Holocaust, and art and culture appear frequently in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, L.A. times, CNN.com, Slate, Salon, ABA Journal, The Daily Beast, and Jewish Week, Jewish journal, Algemeiner, Haaretz, and Times of Israel, among other publications.

Thane is the Legal Analyst for CBS News Radio and hosts "The Talk Show" at the 92nd Street Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association. He is also a Distinguished Fellow at New York University School of Law, where he directs the Forum on Law, Culture, & Society.

The Thane Rosenbaum papers include drafts, manuscripts, typescripts, book contracts, and reviews of books he authored such as: Myth of Moral Justice, Second Hand Smoke, Golems of Gotham, Stranger Within, Elijah Visible, Myth of Moral Justice, Pay Back and How Sweet It Is!. There are also speeches, essays, letters and legal writings by Mr. Rosenbaum. Finally, the collection also includes materials pertaining to the Forum on Law, Culture and Society (FOLCS) which he moderates at New York University, large posters of various public events he participated in and a box of audio-visual materials that relate to the above mentioned categories.

Rosenbaum, Thane

Florida culinary history collection

  • ASM0179
  • Collection
  • 1885 October 20-2023 Spring

The Florida culinary history collection contains a wide range of materials related to Florida's rich history of food, its unique restaurants and dishes, and its domestic food production. Items within the collection include pamphlets, flyers, ephemera, periodicals, and other memorabilia originating from Florida.

Race, housing, and displacement oral history collection

  • ASM0717
  • Collection
  • April 2020

Thanks to a grant sponsored by UM Libraries as part of the CREATE Grant Fall 2019 grant Cycle Awards, students under the supervision of Professor Robin Bachin (Associate Professor/Assistant Provost for Civic and Community Engagement) conducted interviews with Miami community members in neighborhoods that have undergone significant transformations over the last several decades.

The Race, housing, and displacement oral history collection documents the complicated and significant interconnections among race, housing, and displacement in Miami during the twentieth century. The 6 interviewees are from various neighborhoods including Overtown, Liberty City, and Little Haiti. The interviews were conducted over Zoom during April 2020.

The following individuals were interviewed as part of this collection:

  1. Adrian Madriz: Executive Director of the Struggle for Miami’s Affordable and Sustainable Housing (SMASH)
  2. Alana Greer: Co-founder of the Community Justice Project
  3. Mileyka Burgos: Executive Director of The Allapattah Collaborative, CDC
  4. Nancy Metayer: Candidate for Coral Springs Commissioner; member on the Steering Committee of the Miami Climate Alliance; former member of the Broward County Soil and Water Conservation District; Co-Founder of the Florida Disaster Preparedness Plan; environmental scientist; community organizer
  5. Shirley Plantin, Chief Executive Consultant for U-Turn Youth Consulting Firm and the author of The Backstory of a New Reality
  6. Yanick Landess, Director of Homeownership Programs at Neighborhood Housing Services of South Florida

Bachin, Robin Faith

Art in Miami collection

  • ASM0535
  • Collection
  • 1996-2019

The Art in Miami collection contains brochures, flyers, exhibit catalogs, pamphlets, handouts, and other ephemera documenting art and art-related activities in Miami, with material going as far back as 1996. Included are items from galleries, such as the Alejandra von Hartz Gallery, the Miami International Airport Gallery, and Lowe Art Museum Gallery, as well as various other local museums, art fairs, shows, and the Wynwood Arts District. The collection also includes brochures, programs, maps, handouts, and ephemera from the Art Basel show in Miami Beach, beginning with Art Basel 2009.

Kevin Arrow Miami Music, Art, and Culture collection

  • ASM0336
  • Collection
  • 1964 - 2019

The Kevin Arrow Miami, Music, Art, and Culture collection contains zines, periodicals, ephemera, flyers, photographs, art work, posters, audio-visual material (CDs, CD-ROMs, and vinyl records), and other related archival materials.

Arrow, Kevin

Miami Craft Brewery collection

  • ASM0335
  • Collection
  • circa 2010s-2019

This collection was developed during the 2018-2019 academic school year as part of a project by University of Miami Library Research Scholar and then senior, David Lanster, who was carrying out research on yeast genetics and metabolism for UM's Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology. His goal was to contribute to studies on the cultural and social impact of food history in South Florida by examining food through the lens of various local craft breweries in Miami, which have been perfecting their own craft beer recipes for years. His collection contains advertisements, posters, flyers, beer caps, bottle openers, bottles, glasses, beer taps, and other ephemera and clothing items related to Miami's local craft brewery scene.

Lanster, David

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