Master Peace
Middle and High School Projects

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During its inaugural year, Master Peace served students in twelve Miami-Dade County schools, including four elementary schools, five middle schools, and three high schools.  The following are the high schools and middle schools.
 

SPRING 1999:

Citrus Grove Middle School
Carlos Cambo, Principal
Suzanne Lindheimer, Art Teacher

Miami Coral Park Senior High
William Machado, Principal
Peggy Falagan, Art Teacher

Miami Senior High School
Victor Lopez, Principal
Richard Perez, Art Teacher

West Miami Middle School
Marcos M. Moran, Principal
Pat Peck, Art Teacher

  
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South Miami High School of the Arts students
dedicate their "Multicultural Diversity" mural.
 

 

FALL 1998:

J.R.E Lee Alternative School
Edwina King, Principal  
Sandy Maddock Schwartz, ArtTeacher

Kinloch Park Middle School
Lucy C. Iturrey-Perez, Principal
Johnny Roundtree, Assistant Principal
Josephina Santiago, Art Teacher

Ponce de Leon Middle School
Colleen Del Terso, Principal
Lowell C. Crawford, Assistant Principal
Carol Hughes-Thompson, Art Teacher

South Miami Senior High School
Thomas Shaw, Principal
Mike Richardson, Art Teacher

  
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Xavier Cortada and Josephina Santiago at the
Kinloch Park Middle School "Cycle of Life"
mural dedication ceremony.

flower-yel.gif (2692 bytes)To learn more about the project, please read the following news articles:

Artist Xavier Cortada receives Key to City, South Miami News, May 27, 1999.
Millennium celebration murals are Coral Park students' legacy, The Miami Herald, May 13, 1999.

 

Master Peace is a collaborative effort of Miami-Dade Art in Public Places, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Division of Life Skills, and Regis House, Inc., a non-profit community-based center helping children and families. For more information on the project, events and sponsorship opportunities, please contact Ms. Lea Nickless, Art in Public Places Coordinator of Education and Community Outreach at (305) 375-5362, Ms. Fran Brum at Miami-Dade County Public Schools Division of Life Skills at (305) 995-1980, or Mr. Pablo Cortada at Regis House, (305) 642-6400. Miami artist Xavier Cortada is Master Peace's founder and serves as its Artistic Director.