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Join us this Saturday, January 31, from 4–5 PM (right after the cyanotype workshop) for an Artist Talk with Manuela Gonzales, Sheherazade Thenard, and Gustavo Plascencia. They’ll share an inspiring conversation on spiritual practice and ancestry. All three artists are featured in Treefall’s current exhibition, From the Cup. About the Artists: Manuela Gonzalez (B.1983) is a Lake Worth Beach based artist from Medellin, Colombia. She holds a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from Yale University. Through the exploration of multiple materials, techniques and mediums, Gonzalez’s studio practice has developed from closely examining the visual language of textiles as they relate to the history of abstraction within the western canon. @manuelagonzalezstudio - Sheherazade Thénard is a Miami-based visual artist, curator, and educator whose work explores Caribbean and Southern Black ecologies through painting, drawing, and printmaking. Rooted in personal and ancestral narratives, Thénard’s practice reimagines belonging and environmental healing across diasporic geographies. @sheherazade.thenard - O. Gustavo Plascencia is a visual artist and educator whose creative work explores the intersection of photography, nature, and memory, presenting landscapes as silent witnesses to personal and collective histories. His practice also focuses in the duality between personal and communal, and self and society. @ogplascencia #Treefallstudio #FromTheCup #TreefallCollective #SouthFloridaArt #WestPalmBeachArt #WPBArt

We are loving how the morning light drifts over Brookhart Jonquil’s work 𝑮𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔. On view at Treefall’s exhibition 𝑭𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒖𝒑 through March 8th!

@treefall.studio ・・・ Hi everyone! Join us for our upcoming Cyanotype workshop, “I Am From Light & Memories” with O. Gustavo Plascencia at Treefall on January 10th, from 1:00-4:00 pm! Registration is required. The link is provided in the bio. About the artist: Gustavo is one of the artists in Treefall’s current exhibition, From the Cup, and is also the Dean of Visual Arts at the New World School of the Arts in Miami. This workshop combines writing with alternative photographic processes to examine how identity is shaped by place, memory, and everyday experience. Participants begin with the “I Am From” poem framework, using structured prompts to write about objects, environments, routines, and histories that inform their sense of self. The writing portion transitions into hands-on image-making through lumen prints and cyanotypes. Participants work with found objects, natural materials, and sunlight to produce camera-less photographs that translate written ideas into visual form. Emphasis is placed on process, material experimentation, and the relationship between light, time, and environment. The workshop supports multiple ways of thinking and making, encouraging participants to move between language and image without prioritizing one over the other. You don’t need any prior experience.

@treefall.studio ・・・ Thank you everyone for joining us for our opening of From the Cup last Saturday! If you missed it, please join us this evening for an open house. Saturday, December 6 5:30-7:30pm

#MiamiArtWeek #painting at @baptisthealthcancercare immersive #livepainting with @katherinehoneyharpist based on a photo taken at #foweylighthouse by @rpdunc #heron #florida

TOMORROW NIGHT ✨ In times of tension, how do we hold what is sacred? FROM THE CUP opens TOMORROW at Treefall—twenty South Florida artists conjuring wonder through explorations in ecology, ancestry, and spiritual practice. 🌿 Opening reception: TOMORROW, November 29, 6-9pm 📍 Treefall, 1830 N Dixie Hwy, West Palm Beach On view through March 8, 2026 Curated by Molly Aubry & Sebastian Duncan-Portuondo Featured artists: Farley Aguilar @farley_aguilar23 Carlos Alves @carlosalvesmosaics JC Carrol @jc.artact Jenna Efrein @jennaefrein Amaya Estrada @amayaestradaart Manuela Gonzalez @manuelagonzalezstudio Katherine Hofmann @katherinehofmann.studio Brookhart Jonquil @br00khart Monica Lopez de Victoria @monicatronica Bex McCharen @waterbbex Najja Moon @najjak Christina Pettersson @christina_pettersson Renee Phillips @reneephillips Lee Pivnik @eelpicnic Gustavo Plascencia @ogplascencia Madeleine Portuondo #MadeleinePortuondo Scheherazade Thenard @sheherazade.thenard Ariel Beau Tymark @universalcloudregistry Melissa Wallen @oilslickrainbow Cayla Willie @caylawillie See you tomorrow! . . . #FromTheCup #TreefallCollective #TreefallStudio #SouthFloridaArt #WestPalmBeachArt #EcoArt #WPBArt #OpeningReception

Working on a new series of cast glass and mosaic artworks as part of the “language of moonlight” series. Finished up this #watercolordesign yesterday

“From the Cup” at @treefall.studio this winter! Such an honor to work with @mollyaubry on co-curating this show full of the amazing talent in South Florida! Come to our opening on Nov. 29th and stay tuned for programming throughout the winter months. Background image by @sheherazade.thenard

Latest #livepainting at MCI through the artist-in-residence program there. Harpist Katherine Honey played underwater themed music while I painted this self-portrait from a photo by @waterbbex . We went diving off Soldier’s Key together and I found these two #sanddollars lying amongst the coral heads and #seagrass.

To mark the 9th anniversary of #PulseOrlando - #clubEXILE collaborated with @tonalxochitl , who blessed the community altar. After visitors to the @vizcaya_museum #queerpride celebration carried the Pulse portraits to the #altar, Tonalxochitl Comunidad de Danza Azteca de Concheros leaders blessed the altar through their indigenous traditions. Since the beginning of #clubEXILE in the aftermath of Pulse - the heart of the project has been to seek coalition amongst peoples who experience different forms of marginalization. The greatest #PulseMemorial would be a community of people who celebrate and defend those who have been othered. In a world that values diversity as strength, maybe we could have avoided a tragedy like Pulse. Many thanks to everyone who collaborated on this altar project so far, from @locustprojects providing the funding to start the altar at @grampswynwood in 2021, to @urbanglass_nyc who hosted the project in a moment of community art making, to @atlantacontemporary for inviting the project to their home during Pride and @vizcaya_museum for hosting this year’s event. Special thanks to everyone out their who decorated an altar portrait or carried one to the altar in its various manifestations 🌈

Remembering #PulseOrlando - 9 years ago today. May they live on in our community, our memory, and through our values. We honor them when we gather in queer community, dance with joy and celebrate one another’s differences as part of our shared humanity. #clubEXILE organized a community altar building ceremony at the @vizcaya_museum pride celebration last week in collaboration with @tonalxochitl . Those who were gathered carried a portrait of the victims to a central #altar in the #Vizcaya courtyard during a moment of silence. Thank you @vizcaya_museum for providing the platform to honor the victims of #PulseNightclub and the #QueerCommunity.

Happy Birthday @headinwater ! Another decade under the belt ✨👏🏼✨ made this sketch of the restoration site where James has brought back the Snapper Creek which has begun to flow for the first time in 120 years! So proud of everything you do protecting our native environment, seeing the world, and caring for your community. Wouldn’t have any other #brother.