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Founder of Mad and MAD Arts. Mad empowers full-scale creative solutions, while MAD Arts acts as a lab for experimentation and collaboration.

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Final Weekend!

Only Saturday & Sunday remain to experience What The Hands Remember at MAD Arts in Dania Beach.

Explore six documentary films, immersive installations, and the extraordinary work of six South Florida fiber artists exploring memory, identity, migration, and connection.

🎟️ Learn more: https://www.taimyalvarez.com/beyondthebrush
🎥 Watch the documentary playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU_7VTy87ECU&si=qUISboV4N0G-cbFK

Made possible through the support of the Broward County Cultural Division and the Community Foundation of Broward through the Helen and Frank Stoykov Charitable Endowment Fund and the Mary and Alex Mackenzie Community Impact Fund. Special thanks to MAD Arts.

#WhatTheHandsRemember #MADArts #DaniaBeach #SouthFloridaArts #DocumentaryFilm FiberArt BeyondTheBrush taken in MAD Arts by @maptakin

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Being part of What The Hands Remember has been such a meaningful experience.

I’m honored to share this space with an extraordinary group of artists:

✨ Aurora Molina @auroramolinafiberart
✨ Lisu Vega @lisuvega
✨ Marina Font @marinafontstudio
✨ Magda Love @magdaloveart
✨ Yochi Yavin @yochiyakiravin

Featuring the artwork and documentary films that offer an intimate look into each artist’s creative process.

My documentary is on view in this link

https://youtu.be/P7HJkLxw1UQ?feature=shared

A very special thank you to @talvare for your dedication, creativity, and countless hours of hard work in bringing these stories to life. It has been a privilege to collaborate with you.

Also thanks to @maptakin and the entire MAD Arts team @madarts_space for believing in this project it has been amazing working with you.

This was made possible with support from the Broward County Cultural Division.

Support has been provided by the following Funds at the Community Foundation of Broward: Helen and Frank Stoykov Charitable Endowment Fund and the Mary and Alex Mackenzie Community Impact Fund.

If you haven’t had a chance to visit yet, the exhibition is on view through August 2.

I hope you’ll experience it! taken in MAD Arts by @maptakin

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MAD Arts Detroit? YES! It is happening!

We are opening two new spaces dedicated to bold experimentation, collaboration, and community-centered cultural production.

The first will operate as a laboratory for interdisciplinary practices, installations, research, and making. The second - a former church - will become an immersive exhibition and performance space for local and international artists.

At the center of this new chapter is what has always guided us: artists first.

We’re excited to grow alongside Detroit’s creative community and to create new dialogue and exchange between Detroit and South Florida.

More to come.
- MAD Arts by @maptakin

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Founder of MAD Arts taken in MAD Arts by @maptakin

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Today come to MAD Arts and support your emerging talent in South Florida ✌️😌✌️

Doors at 6pm - 11/20

Main Gallery + Core Space
In the reel FAU students and alumni:

Leann Bernard
Title: Witness
Medium: Experimental film installation (projection mapping, video, light and motion-based elements)
@leannstefane

Tanya Arora @wolfwilder2403
Title: Wolf and the Flower (2024)
Medium: installation with Animation
Explorations in expanded animation.

Sofia Espinosa @sofia.espx
Title: Suite 95
Unreal Engine Environment Simulation in uncertain spaces that evoke uneasiness.

Astrid Maldonado (FAU Alum)
Title: Vessel
Medium: newspaper, string, projection
@cyborgthief

Logan Andrews
Title: NikkiNack (2025)
Medium: RPG Video Game Video game

Brown Abraham
Title: Sensation of Agency "Feeling Control (2025)"
Medium: Interactive Art

FAU Students rotoscoped silhouettes by Myth Vermont, Halie Ojukwu, Elenilson Salazar and remixed by Prof. Alejandra Abad
Soundscape collaboration with Steve Jones
MAPPING THE SENSES (2025)
Medium: Interactive Installation with visual poems

Parinaz Moghadampour (FAU Alum) emerging artist @parinaz.moghadampour
Title: Requiem For a Waterfall
Medium: Interactive Installation Design

FAU Students & Professor Abad
Outside (2025)
Medium: Cyanotype Textile and Exquisite Corpse Stop-Motion Animation collaboration with: FAU Visual Storytellers Club: Sophia Manrique, Halie Ojukwu, Rosie Rodriguez, Olivia Behar, Felipe Grande, Cat Fullton, Olivia Allen, Julian Alfonso, Naliah Nettles / Stop-Motion Animators from History and Theory of Animation and Computer Arts: Isaiah Williams, Alex Del Orbe, Savanna Rivera, Deveyn B, Sabrina, Anelus, Gaby Ryah Shata, Lucas Garcia, Hunter Stewart, Gabreil Ramos Ferris, Chi Nguyen, Ross Anzue, Jordan Roman, Gabriel, Alexander Negersmith, Maya Campbell, TJ Monereau, Aziza Tazhbayeva

Huge thanks to the supporting team at @madarts_space thank you:
@maptakin @tigerxcity
Dylan, Rodrigo, Rommel @legit_dre Amanda @thrifted.jeans @noir_age @lasofiabv ⚡️🪩🥳✨💞& everyone who came to install and brought it ⚡️Curation inspired by the history of animation and its potential- & homage to La Joie de vivre 1934 ‧ ✌️ taken in MAD Arts by @maptakin

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Beyond honored to receive the 2025–2026 @villa.albertine French Immersion Grant, supporting the next generation of immersive creators in the U.S.
In 2026, MAD Arts will present LILITH.AEON by AΦE, a 60-minute interactive installation exploring AI, grief, and digital rebirth inside a monumental LED cube. Blending choreography, XR, and immersive storytelling, the work invites audiences to engage with a virtual soul suspended between life and code.
We’re deeply proud to be recognized alongside the Lincoln Center, the Onassis Foundation, and Gray Area — a major milestone that affirms MAD Arts’ place among the world’s leading immersive art venues.
Grateful to our collaborators, community, and the visionary support that makes this work possible. 💫 by @maptakin

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So much creativity and possibilities! Thank you Amanda and Marc! FAU SCMS @fauscms @madarts_space @maptakin taken in MAD Arts by @maptakin

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The I Was Here exhibition at @madarts_space in Broward County is still open, offering an immersive experience that connects ancestry, memory, and identity.

Alongside the exhibition, youth in Broward County have been participating in our Invitation to Respond workshops, exploring their own stories and the power of ancestry. These powerful sessions will culminate in a Youth Showcase on August 29—a celebration of creativity, history, and community.

If you’re in South Florida, we hope you’ll join us at the showcase and experience the exhibition in person.

📅 Details on the Broward County Arts calendar: https://artscalendar.com/event/nation-builders-of-broward-county/

#iwashereproject #browardcounty #browardcountyarts #youthshowcase #communityengagement #nonprofitarts #museumexhibition taken in MAD Arts by @maptakin

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Miami Art Week kicked off with “LUMEN,” a handmade mosaic crafted by artist Daniel Popper. This large-scale sculpture was brought to life using light and projection mapping, and we’re thrilled to have helped along the way. Stop by @society.wynwood at night to check it out for yourself. We’re huge fans of what he does and can’t wait to share a big surprise for #IGNITEBroward. Stay tuned!

🖼️: LUMEN by @danielpopper

#immersivemuseum #daniabeach #visualart #immersiveexperience #artmuseum #museumlover #museumofart #southflorida #artinstallation #sculptureart by @maptakin

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Mad Labs Immersive Graffiti creation for Red Bull BC One Cypher Miami at Mad Arts by @maptakin

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MAD Presents The Art of Fishing by Local Artist, Alex Wexler
The solo art show opens on February 20th & 21st at MAD’s new Dania Beach studio

MIAMI – February 8, 2021 – In the spirit of keeping local art and culture alive, MAD is launching a series of art exhibitions in its Bad Space II art gallery located in Dania Beach’s Gallery of Amazing Things building. The first in this series is The Art of Fishing by Miami-based artist Alex Wexler which will open to the public on Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 20th and 21st and run through May 20, 2021. The exhibition hours will be during MAD’s regular business operating hours from 10am – 6pm, Monday through Saturday.

The Art of Fishing will showcase some of Wexler’s most successful Gyotaku (an ancient Japanese art form which involves taking impressions of fish for art) prints alongside illustrations and studies with ink and graphite of his time at sea. There will also be a site-specific Kite Fishing installation which is the main technique used to target Pelagic fish in South Florida (and Wexler’s preferred form of fishing) and a newly commissioned projection mapping video in collaboration with MAD’s team. The exhibition will feature a screen-printing machine for visitors to create their own prints as a tangible memory to take home. by @maptakin

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Behind the scenes of a seasonal shoot for @acrartex.
#BTS #behindthescenes #yeswearemad #agencylife #photoshoot #videoshoot #tbt by @maptakin

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