Deering Estate presents The Cultured Cup, a series of artist talks inside the Deering Estate theater. The Cultured Cup will promote Deering Estate’s Studio and Non-Studio Artists-in-Residence community through hosting a morning interview about AIR’s off-campus exhibitions. This program is geared towards providing a platform to connect different Art and Cultural Organizations in Miami.
This iteration of The Cultured Cup will feature AIR Gretchen Scharnagl and a discussion about her recent exhibition Entangled in the Mangroves: Florida Everglades Through Installation, on view at The Baker Museum in Naples, FL, through November. This event will take place in the Deering Estate Visitor Center Theater, with a PowerPoint featuring Gretchen’s work from her exhibition, and will include a coffee truck, Pink Elephant Coffee (
https://www.pinkelephantcoffee305.com) stationed within proximity. These elements will ultimately be conducive to a refreshing, artistic and social atmosphere.
This event will take place at the Deering Estate Visitor Center Theater on Saturday, August 30th, 2025, from 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
(The talk starts at 11:30 a.m. Doors will open 15 minutes prior to start time. Pink Elephant Coffee will be stationed near the Deering Estate Theater, available for service from 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.)
COST:
Non-members: $10 purchased online only
Deering Estate Foundation Members: FREE with online registration
https://deeringestate.org/events/the-cultured-cup/
About the Artist
Gretchen Scharnagl grew up in South Florida, beginning her archiving of nature and environmental practice in her mid-forties. She graduated with an MFA from Florida International University, where she still teaches classes in the Architecture Department, Art and Art History Department, and Honors College. “I use refuse and residue from my past bouts of consuming and upcycle the discards of others and found natural material. My art archives nature, suburban back yards, ecosystems, South Florida including Deering Estate, and our home – Earth. Experiential and research based, my practice includes reading Green Ideas by Penguin, Kinship from The Center for Humans and Nature, and Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet. I consult scientists, whose guidance supports the scientific literacy of my art. Currently playing with palimpsest-based collage, concrete poetry, scribbling, tracing, installation, and mark-making. The understanding that the environment is inseparable from human equity, I now shift toward social/environmental issues within my practice. I use the language of the humanities, poetry, poetic thought, or visual poetry. I measure success in the dialogue my work inspires. A scientist visiting my studio said, ‘You have me looking at things I’ve never looked at.’”
Photo Credits
Nesting, Gretchen Scharnagl, 2025
Photograph by Daniel Portnoy
On View at The Baker Museum
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