The Baker Museum presents Entangled in the Mangroves
Panel Discussion
Jennifer Basile, artist Amalia Caputo, artist Gretchen Scharnagl, artist William Osceola, secretary of the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida
Join artists Jennifer Basile, Amalia Caputo and Gretchen Scharnagl for a panel discussion related to the Entangled in the Mangroves exhibition. This exhibition project aims to raise awareness of the impact of climate change on local ecosystems, particularly the Florida Everglades. The artists will share their perspectives on combining artistic and environmental practices. The discussion will be moderated by Dianne Brás-Feliciano, Ph.D., curator of modern art, and introduced by William J. Osceola, secretary of the Business Council of the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida.
All exhibition lecture tickets include same-day admission to The Baker Museum.
Jennifer Basile
Jennifer Basile
Jennifer A. Basile was born in Manhasset, New York, and lives and works in Miami, Florida. Basile received a BFA in 1996 from the University of Miami and an MFA from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in 1999. Basile has been a Floridian for over 30 years and has been making large scale relief prints solely focused on the landscape. Selected solo exhibitions include The Power of Print: Iconic Images of the American Landscape (2019), LnS Gallery, Coconut Grove, Florida; and Lasting Impressions: A Cessation of Existence (2022), LnS Gallery, Coconut Grove, Florida. Selected group exhibitions include Fossil Eyes (2022), Art Expo Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois; and Women At Large (2022), curated by Dainy Tapia at LnS Gallery, Coconut Grove, Florida. Basile has received the Miami Dade County Artist Stipend (2022, 2023), the Oolite Ellies Grant (2023) and Miami Dade County Art in Public Places project Civil and Probate Court House (2023). She engaged in a four-month fellowship with the Kala Art Institute in Berkeley California (2018) and a fellowship with Virginia Center for the Creative Arts at Mt. Saint Angelo Virginia (2023). She has held residencies at the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences (2024); The Studios at MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts (2024); and The Studios of Key West (2024). Her work is in the collection of the Lowe Art Museum, the Museum of Art and Design and the Tucson Museum of Art.
Amalia Caputo
Amalia Caputo
Amalia Caputo was born in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1964. She holds a B.A. in art history from the Universidad Central de Venezuela (1988) and an M.A. in studio art/photography from New York University/International Center of Photography (1995). Caputo’s work focuses on the intersection of womanhood, nature and feminism. She explores topics such as permeable landscapes, the natural world and photography in the digital age, historical omissions and the creation of cosmologies related to women. An important part of her work focuses on constructing a large visual atlas that combine photographs, videos and objects, reflecting on the ephemeral versus permanent power of images and the construction of memory from a feminist viewpoint.
Recent solo exhibitions include Every Being is an Island, curated by Melissa Díaz, Deering Estate, Miami, Florida (2021); Senescere, curated by Luis Angel Duque, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo del Zulia (MACZUL), Maracaibo, Venezuela (2019); and Transferences 2.0, Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, Florida (2019). Recent group shows include Being Human, Moda Curations, New York City, New York (2024); Oolite Arts in the Gardens, Pinecrest Gardens, Miami, Florida (2024); 50 años de desnudo en la fotografía venezolana, Galería Spazio Zero, Caracas, Venezuela (2023).
Caputo has participated in artist residencies at Bakehouse Art Complex (2019-24), Deering Estate (2020-21), Oolite Arts (2017), Vizcaya Museum and Gardens (2015), and South Florida Art Center (2006 and 2017). Selected collections include the Miami International Airport, Fundación Banco Mercantil Venezuela, Ella Fontanals Cisneros Collection, Arturo & Liza Mosquera Collection and Galería de Arte Nacional, Juan Carlos Maldonado Collection, among others. Caputo has lived and worked in Miami since 2003.
Gretchen Scharnagl
Gretchen Scharnagl
Gretchen Scharnagl is an eco-materialist, bricoleur and environmentalist working primarily in the form of installation and mark-making systems. Throughout her practice, she archives nature and the intersection of humankind and other kindred earth inhabitants. Living most of her life in Miami, she is a true South Florida artist, keeping many of her subjects and research to her own backyard as well as the nearby Deering Estate or Everglades National Park. She acknowledges her palette is a contradiction that harkens from her earliest origins in Connecticut. Recent work has gone global to inspire others to embrace their instinctive biophilia.
William Osceola
William Osceola
William J. Osceola taught language, culture and digital arts at the Miccosukee Indian School before he was elected secretary of the Miccosukee Business Council in 2021. In his early 30s, he is the council’s youngest member, balancing tradition and modernity with a creative flair.
He was born in Florida and raised in different camps inside the Miccosukee Reservation; when he was 5 years old, his family moved to Connecticut. Living there for seven years gave him an in-depth perspective on the outside world and increased his appreciation for his Tribal community.
As secretary, he oversees all aspects of communication within the Tribe, including recordkeeping, handling correspondence, publishing notices about meetings and events and keeping track of Tribal membership. Some of his goals include shaping future leaders by placing an emphasis on education, increasing community involvement and investing in infrastructure to improve roads, sidewalks and important buildings within the reservation.
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