Education
Hot Topics Discussion Series
Five lectures by leading figures in the contemporary visual arts will address current trends and the vital role the arts play in our community. Each event includes a reception for guests to meet the speakers, lecture, and a Q&A period.
Tickets
$10 non-members; $5 members, students, teachers, and seniors (with ID) per lecture. Price includes donation bar and snacks/hors d’oeuvres.
After-Party Host Sponsorships
A series of intimate after-party dinners with each of the speakers will be held at a variety of Hollywood vicinity fine dining establishments. The after-party for Jerry Saltz will be held at a private home. Each dinner will be held immediately following the lecture.
To purchase tickets or become a sponsor, call 954. 921. 3274, or click here to download a registration form [pdf].
Lou Anne and Mike Colodny are the Co-Chairs of the Hot Topics Discussion Series, which is also supported by Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz; Kofsky, Hartman & Weinger, PA, and Marianne Ferro.
Shamim M. Momin 
Sat., Sept. 17, 2011
Reception: 5 pm, lecture: 6 pm
Shamim M. Momin is the Director, Curator, and Co-founder of the recently formed Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND), a non-profit public art organization committed to presenting site- and situation-specific contemporary art projects in Los Angeles and beyond. She is the former contemporary curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art and co-curated both the 2008 and 2004 Whitney Biennial exhibitions.
In her talk, Momin presented images of her 2010 project the island – a special project she organized and curated on Miami’s Flagler Memorial Island that took place during the week of Art Basel Miami Beach in 2010 to much acclaim. Download a copy of the exhibition ebook.
Marvin Heiferman 
Sat., Oct. 29, 2011
Reception: 4 pm, lecture: 5 pm
Marvin Heiferman develops exhibitions, web-based projects and publications that explore the power of photographic images in visual culture. He has curated major projects, including John Waters: Change of Life (New Museum of Contemporary Art, 2004), and Fame After Photography (Museum of Modern Art, 1999) at such institutions including the Smithsonian Institution, Whitney Museum of American Ar, and the International Center of Photography. He has authored numerous books, and contributed to publications such as Art in America, Artforum, and BOMB.
Jerry Saltz 
Sat., Dec. 10, 2011
Reception: 5 pm, lecture: 6 pm
SOLD OUT
Jerry Saltz is the Senior Art Critic for New York Magazine and a judge on the Bravo television show Work of Art. He is a three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and in 2006 was named “Best Art Critic” by Time Out New York for his work at the Village Voice, where he wrote from 1998 – 2007.
Dan Cameron 
Sat., May 12, 2012
Reception: 5 pm, lecture: 6 pm
Dan Cameron is Founder and Artistic Director of Prospect New Orleans, a new international biennial that debuted in November 2008 at two dozen sites and attracted more than 45,000 visitors over 11 weeks. Since 2007, Cameron has also served as Director of Visual Arts for the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans. From 1995 to 2006, he was Senior Curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York.
Swamp Cabbage 
Screening with filmmakers Hayley Downs and Julie Lara Kahn
Sat., July 28, 2012
Reception: 5 pm, lecture/screening: 6 pm
Set in Central Florida, Swamp Cabbage: A Dark & Sweaty Survival Guide is Hayley Downs’ personal story of wild boar hunting, gun toting, and hard drinking. The film weaves Hayley’s 10 year+ self-filmed story of love, addiction, illness, death and redemption. It features verité sequences of Florida Crackers as they trap alligators, gig frogs, and hunt wild boar, continuing to live in close partnership with the land despite environmental and cultural devastation from out-of-control development and suburban sprawl.
Hayley Downs is a documentary filmmaker, producer and fundraising/outreach consultant. She produced Hidden Battles, a documentary about the psychological effects of killing on soldiers. Julie Lara Kahn is a filmmaker, producer and visual artist currently affiliated with the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, Calif. She has worked as a disc jockey in Japan, an investment banker at Morgan Stanley, an A&R administrator at Columbia Records, and a freelance producer for Annie Leibovitz.
To purchase tickets or become a host sponsor, call 954. 921. 3274, or click here to download a registration form [pdf].
Funding Acknowledgements
Hot Topics Discussion Series is funded in part by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation as part of its Knight Arts Challenge. Ticket and sponsorship purchases for Hot Topics provide matching funds for the Knight Arts Challenge grant.
The Art and Culture Center of Hollywood is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization supported in part by its members, admissions, private entities, the City of Hollywood, the Broward County Board of County Commissioners as recommended by the Broward Cultural Council; the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture; and the Kresge Foundation. We welcome donations from all members of the community who wish to support our work.