Our story.
Inside the Tower Hotel, our studios have become more than workspaces — they’re a home for creative energy, shared stories, and community.
This is where stories meet studio walls, and where the Tower Hotel becomes a vessel for art, memory, and possibility.
We speak about the beginnings of our journey here and the community that continues to grow in this oasis of creativity.
Featuring:
@_angela_bolanos_@dilucious@gretelcaprilesart@florgodwardart
Martin Pinilla II
Our immense gratitude to filmmaker @lazarollanescreative for capturing the essence of this remarkable space, our creative community and our hopes for the future.
Four interpretations of a single image.
What began as a photograph I took of the cedars in Lebanon slowly became something else.
Not an attempt to represent what I saw, but to stay with what I felt.
Through the process, the image shifts, softens, almost disappears, and something more honest begins to emerge.
Something that feels more like mine.
One piece has already found its home. “Cedars of Lebanon Series”. Come visit my studio @towerstudiosmiami #contemporaryart #abstractart #processbasedart #visualpoetry #mixedmediaart
Artist Flor Godward at “Healing Goddesses III, Resilient” her artwork XX, XXI Guess Who?
Featured until April 2nd
Open Free to the public
Doral Cultural Arts Center
8363 NW 53rd Street, Doral, Fl 33166
Monday to Friday from 10:00 am to 8:00 pm
Saturday from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Excited to share this new artwork with my online community. Created for The Family of the Artist. a 2025 group exhibition curated by @alunartfoundation at the Tower Hotel in Little Havana (July 18- November 8, 2025). Featuring 24 artists, this intervention explores personal narratives, memory, and familiar bonds through diverse media.
Beneath His Shade Textile assemblage, acrylic and embroidered thread
66x47
2025
Beneath His Shade is a meditation on memory, heritage, and the ways care and protection take root across generations.
At the heart of this work is the enduring presence of my grandfather—a steady, grounding force and a father figure whose quiet strength shaped my early understanding of love and stability. In times of uncertainty, he was a constant source of solace, embodying patience, generosity, and the unspoken language of protection. His memory is invoked here as that of a tree: steadfast and sheltering, deeply rooted yet open to the changing winds.
The American sycamore tree, with its peeling bark and capacity for renewal, mirrors this inheritance of endurance. Its layered surface, revealing new skin beneath the old, echoes the layered histories within the textiles themselves—histories of migration, adaptation, and the slow cultivation of belonging.
Photo by @davidgarylloyd
LIQUID ARCHIVE
Installation, 2025
Liquid Archive explores memory as a living, shifting process.
Water drops rest upon a resin surface, leaving subtle traces that evoke roots, invisible currents, and the ways in which life anchors itself.
Beneath the resin, a submerged photograph preserves a suspended instant , like a memory that continues to breathe. Small mirrors embedded in the bark invite reflection, reminding us that memory is never fixed. It transforms with light, time, and the gaze of the viewer.
Water, resin, tree, and light converge here as a fragile, living archive — one that flows and reorganizes itself continuously.
The installation remains at Tower Studios for one more week before being dismantled.
Gretel Capriles
LiquidArchive
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#InstallationArt
#SiteSpecificArt
#EphemeralArt
#ArtAndNature
Art has always been part of who she is.
Meet Gretel Capriles @gretelcaprilesart , Venezuelan artist, photographer, proud JCT4Education mom, and creator of Tower Studios Miami @towerstudiosmiami , located in the historic Tower Hotel on Calle 8. 🎨✨
Gretel studied Graphic Design and Photography at the University of Bridgeport @ubridgeport , Connecticut, and from an early age developed a deep connection to abstract photography. Over time, her artistic journey has evolved into mixed media and acrylic painting, where she blends photography with paint as an extension of emotion, memory, and lived experience.
Currently based in Key Biscayne, Gretel works from her studio on Calle 8 in Miami, a collaborative and welcoming creative space where multiple artists showcase their work. Visitors are invited to stop by, experience the art firsthand, meet the artists, and purchase original pieces.
We are honored to showcase her work at the JCT4Education 4U Innovation Center, where the art will rotate every two months, creating space not only for her creations but also for the artists she supports and uplifts through her community.
A beautiful reminder that art connects, inspires, and builds meaningful community.
🔗 Learn more at
🖼️ View her Sentiment Journal exhibition: https://artmedia.gallery/exhibitions/exhibit/sentiment-journal
📸 Follow her work on Instagram @gretelcaprilesart
#JCT4Education
#4UInnovationCenter
#AlumniFamilies
#MiamiArt
#WomenInArt
🌬This is us!🌳 Rootbound: What the Elements Remember
Art Basel Week 2025 | Little Havana, Miami By Agustín Di Luciano, Gretel Capriles & Flor Godward
In the heart of Little Havana, a quiet courtyard becomes an open-air vessel for reflection, transformation, and shared imagination. Rootbound: What the Elements Remember is a site-specific installation that unfolds around a living mango tree—a natural axis connecting four distinct artistic practices through an ecology of light, sound, fabric, and gesture.
The installation meditates on the intertwined notions of migration, belonging, and ancestral memory, translating them into a sensorial field where natural and digital materials coalesce. Each participating artist contributes a unique portal into this continuum: a dialogue between elemental forces and contemporary technologies, between what is inherited and what is becoming.
The work’s title—Rootbound—evokes both constraint and connection: the tension between being contained and being nurtured by the very roots that sustain life. Here, the elements themselves—earth, air, fire, and water—act as witnesses, carriers of memory and transformation. The installation invites visitors to move slowly, to listen to the murmurs beneath surfaces, and to feel how threads, frequencies, and rays of light trace the invisible bonds that link bodies to landscapes, and individuals to collective histories.
Through immersive interventions—virtual and tactile, organic and constructed—the artists transform the courtyard into a living organism, a breathing archive of human and elemental memory. As day turns to night, shifting light and sound activate the space, blurring the boundaries between technology and ritual, presence and echo.
Ultimately, Rootbound: What the Elements Remember is less an exhibition than a temporal convergence—an act of re-rooting in a city shaped by movement and multiplicity. It is a reminder that the elements remember what we often forget: that everything, even in flux, remains connected.
Location: Tower Artist Studios Miami
🎬: @lazarollanescreative #towerartiststudiomiami #miamiartscene #littlehavana #artweek2025
Save the Date - November 29th 6-9pm
Rootbound: What the Elements Remember
Art Basel Week 2025 | Little Havana, Miami By Agustín Di Luciano, Gretel Capriles & Flor Godward
In the heart of Little Havana, a quiet courtyard becomes an open-air vessel for reflection, transformation, and shared imagination. Rootbound: What the Elements Remember is a site-specific installation that unfolds around a living mango tree—a natural axis connecting four distinct artistic practices through an ecology of light, sound, fabric, and gesture.
The installation meditates on the intertwined notions of migration, belonging, and ancestral memory, translating them into a sensorial field where natural and digital materials coalesce. Each participating artist contributes a unique portal into this continuum: a dialogue between elemental forces and contemporary technologies, between what is inherited and what is becoming.
The work’s title—Rootbound—evokes both constraint and connection: the tension between being contained and being nurtured by the very roots that sustain life. Here, the elements themselves—earth, air, fire, and water—act as witnesses, carriers of memory and transformation. The installation invites visitors to move slowly, to listen to the murmurs beneath surfaces, and to feel how threads, frequencies, and rays of light trace the invisible bonds that link bodies to landscapes, and individuals to collective histories.
Through immersive interventions—virtual and tactile, organic and constructed—the artists transform the courtyard into a living organism, a breathing archive of human and elemental memory. As day turns to night, shifting light and sound activate the space, blurring the boundaries between technology and ritual, presence and echo.
Ultimately, Rootbound: What the Elements Remember is less an exhibition than a temporal convergence—an act of re-rooting in a city shaped by movement and multiplicity. It is a reminder that the elements remember what we often forget: that everything, even in flux, remains connected.
Location: Tower Artist Studios Miami
RSVP: /91xo0dx9
I will be presenting works from my series Sentiment Journal at the Doral International Art Fair (DIAF) 2025 with Art Media Gallery.
📍 Booth S15 | Doral Cultural Art Center
📅 November 6–9, 2025
A quiet reflection on emotion, light, and transformation.
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🌿 Meet the Artist: Gretel (Leti) Capriles 🌿
🇻🇪Venezuelan artist Gretel Capriles—also known as Leti—creates poetic photographs that blur the line between observation and emotion. Rooted in her deep connection to nature, her work explores how form, texture, color, and light can awaken sensations that go beyond what we see.
For Gretel, photography is not just a visual medium—it’s a way of feeling. She finds endless inspiration in the quiet complexity of the natural world, especially water, whose shifting reflections both reveal and conceal. Each image becomes a meditation on perception, memory, and the beauty of what lies just beneath the surface.
“Nature becomes both subject and collaborator, helping me express what words often cannot.” – Gretel Capriles
#meetheartist #towerartiststudiosmiami
Meet the Artist: @dilucious
🇦🇷 Born in Argentina | Based in Miami
Engineer • High-Tech Visual Artist • Entrepreneur
Agustín Di Luciano (aka Dilucious) creates immersive visual worlds that merge art, technology, and consciousness. Trained as an engineer, he transforms digital tools into poetic experiences — drawing with light, gesture, and sound to explore the connections between nature, machine, and the human spirit.
His works blur the line between real and virtual, inviting viewers to step inside a living artwork — one that shifts with every movement, thought, or interaction. From virtual installations in Decentraland and MARCO Museum to large-scale murals and digital environments, Di Luciano’s art expands the possibilities of how we perceive space, time, and creativity itself.
At the heart of his practice is purpose: building better worlds — both physical and digital — through innovation, empathy, and imagination.
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