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Stewart Stewart is a visionary artist, and an actor. He’s also the Executive Director & program facilitator for Center for Folk & Community Art (“CFCA”), a non-profit Art outreach organization. He is a civic activist and an orator. Add to that, he’s the producer and Host/Interviewer of Alive on South Beach®™ and Conversating with Stewart Stewart, online videos.
After a career in Public Relations, Stewart became a visionary artist. His work expresses his fantasies and experiences on canvas, wood, and in multimedia boxes. In January of 1987 he and his wife relocated from New York to Miami Beach to be members of the new South Florida Art Center (SFAC) on Lincoln Road.
Gallery affiliations and art exhibitions:
America’s Folk Heritage Gallery (NY) 1982-1989; The Galerie Bonheur (Greenwich, CT) 1990; Sokolsky Gallery (Miami Beach, FL) 1990; Cuban Museum (Miami, FL) 1991; Gallery: Why Not? (Miami Beach, FL) 1987-1989; Hortt Exhibition — The Museum of Art (Ft. Lauderdale, FL) 1991; Gallery of the Eccentric (Coral Gables, FL) 1992-1994; “A Salute to Outstanding Florida Artists” — State Capitol Building, (Tallahassee, FL) 1994; “Two Person Show” — Amdur Gallery (Miami Beach, FL) 1995; “Portraits” — Metro Dade Library (Miami, FL); 1995; The Sher Gallery (Aventura, FL) 2000-2001; The CANDO Co-op Gallery (Miami Beach) 2012-2013.
Stewart’s artwork has been showcased in Country Living Magazine, Salon (Tokyo, Japan magazine), The New York Daily News, The Washington Post, The Miamierald, Modern Maturity Magazine, and in a variety of syndicated newspaper articles.
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As the head of Center for Folk and Community Art “CFCA” Stewart works with people of all ages, but mostly at-risk teenagers. The mission of CFCA is to use writing & illustration as tools of intervention, prevention and education to impact community issues and improve the human condition.
CFCA Highlights and Program Recognition include, but are not limited to:
● Telling Stories Through Visuals was selected by the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities as a model program that effectively combines the visual arts with social service.
● Telling Stories Through Visuals is featured as a Lesson Card entitled “Rebuilding Lives Through Art” in SRA/McGraw-Hill language arts program – Imagine it! a comprehensive literacy tool used in schools in more than 50 countries around the world.
●Telling Stories Through Visuals is one of six programs featured in “ART WORKS! Collaborations That Change Lives,” a publication of the Miami Coalition for a Safe and Drug-Free Community.
Sept. 11, 2013, Alliance for Aging Positive Living Award was presented in recognition and appreciation of your outstanding commitment to making our community a better place to live.
Dec. 12, 2010, he received the Key to the City of Miami Beach
As an orator, Stewart has been a guest speaker at several universities and national conferences including the New World School of the Arts, the Miami International Press Club, Bluffton College (Bluffton, Ohio), Florida International University’s Second National Conference on Urban/Multicultural Education: Teaching, Learning and Beyond, the State of Florida Department of Health’s Disease Intervention Conference, and at a Ford Foundation sponsored Symposium at the Academy for Educational Development in Washington, DC.
His role as a civic activist includes service as a member of the Board of Directors of the Miami Beach Lincoln Road Development Corporation; member of the Creative Arts Initiative; and Miami Beach commission-appointed member of the Safety Committee.
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As a professional actor, Stewart is a dues-paying member of SAG-AFTRA.
Stewart graduated from the University of Toledo (Ohio) with a degree in Public Relations, returned to New York, and after several jobs with larger PR firms opened his own, staging national promotions and events. As a publicist and “brander”, Stewart also represented restaurants, as well as small and large companies.
For one startup company, Stewart launched a teaser campaign. As designated company-spokesperson, a caricature of Stewart’s face appeared on hundreds of thousands of stickers that were pasted on buses, in subway cars, on the doors of restaurant and movie theater restrooms all over New York. Many, many years later he was honored with the title of “The World’s First SLAPTAGGER” by Slaps Illustrated.
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In 2011, Stewart became the producer and co-host of Alive on South Beach®™, an internet video show that takes people behind the scenes at events to meet some of the celebrities (actors, artists, authors, recording artists, performers), local characters, and interesting visitors who make Miami … MIAMI!
Alive on South Beach®™ is produced under the umbrella of Center for Folk and Community Art. It was initially featured on Syndicated News Network (“SNN.bz”), an International news & entertainment-gathering website. SNN.bz has been in operation for more than 20 years. Alive on South Beach®™ has been associated with SNN.bz since 2011. Due to extraordinary growth and volume of content, AliveonSouthBeach.com now has its own platform toggle-linked to SNN.bz
