Miami Light Project Marks a Year Filled With Commissions for New Artist Projects
Enabling artists to make new work has always been at the heart of Miami Light Project’s mission. But in recent months, a cascade of artists and projects fostered by Miami Light Project have received major grants and recognition, the latest result of an incredibly fertile period in which MLP has initiated seven new evening-length works by Miami-based artists, with four National Performance Network commissions, and five projects supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
Sol Ruiz: Positive Vibration Nation
Who wouldn’t like to be a superhero, especially these days? Miami-bred, Cuban-rooted singer/songwriter/musician Sol Ruiz’s superpower is music. Which she unleashes in Positive Vibration Nation, a “multimedia music theater rock guaguanco opera.” Whew.