Overtime

Location: The Bass Creativity Center
Cost: Free

You will create a personal garden with paint, tissue paper, natural objects, and mixed media. Your garden will reflect your individuality and showcase many different textures. Learn to follow your intuition and create from multiple points of view.

Explore Family Connections through Art! Spend quality time together and discover the therapeutic power of art. Join our “Art for Families Workshops” and enjoy a dynamic, inclusive space for creativity and connection.

This event is FREE. Pre-registration is required. All children must be accompanied by an adult. Space is very limited (only 15 seats per session!), so register today to save your place!

A weekly art program designed for our youngest visitors and their caregivers to foster new discoveries in sensory awareness, creativity and pre-literacy skills through hands-on art activities. Each week, students will learn about colors, shapes, patterns, numbers and letters while exercising free expression. This practice aids in problem solving, assists in decision-making, and provides a creative outlet for early learners. Led by teaching artist, Paloma Dueñas, these multidisciplinary and sensory sessions are designed for toddlers to learn basic concepts of art and artists through the exploration of art and music, bonding with their caregivers, and assisting with the transition from home into a school environment.

Join us for our STEAM+ Student Exhibition and find inspiration from nature through Social Assembly: The Communal Table and Haegue Yang’s Coordinates of Speculative Solidarity. Families will translate weather and plant patterns into eco-minded designs – creating with recycled materials and considering balance within our shared environment.

Discover how artists and scientists use color! Campers will experiment with color theory, optical blending, and pigment mixing, creating expressive paintings and digital color studies.

Dive into the world of color! Campers will mix paints, experiment with warm and cool hues, and create vibrant abstract artworks inspired by emotions, music, and weather.

Night at the Museum is back—and it’s bolder than ever. The Bass’s most anticipated annual fundraiser returns as an unforgettable evening where contemporary art, culture, and Miami’s most vibrant crowd come together for a fully immersive experience.

This year, Masked Reality: Black and White transforms the museum into a world of striking contrasts and intrigue. Think high contrast, hidden identities, and a touch of mystery—where elegance meets play, and nothing is quite what it seems.

From dramatic visuals to fashion-forward moments and surprises around every corner, the night unfolds as a celebration of creativity, style, and pure Miami energy.

Dress code: Black & White—elevated, bold, and expressive. And don’t forget your mask… this is your moment to be creative, playful, and a little mysterious.

Please note, Memberships Affiliate ($250) or above are required to be active on or after May 1st to attend

Night at the Museum is back—and it’s bolder than ever. The Bass’s most anticipated annual fundraiser returns as an unforgettable evening where contemporary art, culture, and Miami’s most vibrant crowd come together for a fully immersive experience.

This year, Masked Reality: Black and White transforms the museum into a world of striking contrasts and intrigue. Think high contrast, hidden identities, and a touch of mystery—where elegance meets play, and nothing is quite what it seems.

From dramatic visuals to fashion-forward moments and surprises around every corner, the night unfolds as a celebration of creativity, style, and pure Miami energy.

Dress code: Black & White—elevated, bold, and expressive. And don’t forget your mask… this is your moment to be creative, playful, and a little mysterious.

Please note, Memberships Affiliate ($250) or above are required to be active on or after May 1st to attend

Take a break during your next museum visit and drop in to The Studio in the Creativity Center for self-guided art-making activities, design challenges, books, and more!

The Studio is open from 12:30 to 4:30 PM every Saturday and Sunday. Drop in art-making activities are included in your museum ticket.

Admission and The Studio are FREE for Miami Beach Residents!

6 PM Doors open 

6:10PM, 6:20PM, 6:30 PM Art Tours with Pioneer Winter Collective & Friends 

7:15 PM In conversation with Vanessa Charlot, Jason Fitzroy Jeffers, Lise Ragbir and  moderated by Corey Davis 

Complimentary admission with RSVP. Limited seating based on first-come, first-served. 

What narratives shape our historical record? Whose experiences, perspectives, and voices influence our cultural consciousness? 

Commissioner, Miami’s longest-running community-led art commissioning program, presents an embodied program in collaboration with critically acclaimed dance company Pioneer Winter Collective and inspired by Issac Julien: Vagabondia (2000), now on view at The Bass. Exploring how art, legibility, and collecting can serve as vital tools for truth-telling, memory, and reclamation, participants are invited to reflect on their own roles and the evolving responsibilities of institutions in the cultural stewardship of inclusive narratives. 

Unfolding in two parts, the evening will begin with art tours and interventions that will serve as the culminating performances by the 2026 Grass Stains artists—a biennial site-specific initiative created by Pioneer Winter that pairs mentorship (with Gabri Christa) with the creative process to generate public artworks that transcend the boundaries of traditional theaters and commissioning models. 

Following the immersive tour, attendees are invited to join a dynamic panel discussion with Vanessa Charlot (photographer and professor at University of Mississippi), Jason Fitzroy Jeffers (filmmaker and cofounder of Third Horizon Film Festival), and Lise Ragbir (writer, curator, and cofounder/CEO of VERGE.) Moderated by Corey Davis, founder of Maven Leadership Collective, together we will consider how Julien’s Vagabondia and our shared stories offer a pathway for more expansive historical records and futures. 

Art Tours Cast: 

• Nina Osoria Ahmadi, Grass Stains artist-in-residence  
• Lauren Baccus, practitioner, MOCA director of education and community engagement Cecilia Benitez, Grass Stains artist-in-residence  
• Darryl Brown, Grass Stains artist-in-residence  
• Lisa Kusanagi, Grass Stains artist-in-residence 
• Lauryn Lawrence, photographer, curator 
• Arsimmer McCoy, Grass Stains artist-in-residence 
• Nicole Pedraza, Grass Stains artist-in-residence 
• Veronica Pesantes, Art Hang 
• Hattie Mae Wiliiams, Grass Stains artist-in-residence 

This program is curated by Commissioner and made possible with generous support from Art Bridges Foundation Access for All Program and Maven Leadership Collective, and with community love from Frolic Culture / Black Miami Weekend. 

Pioneer Winter Collectives 2026 Grass Stains cycle is supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. 

To learn more about Commissioner, visit: https://www.commissioner.us/ 

To learn more about Pioneer Winter Collective and Grass Stains, visit: https://pioneerwinter.com/grass-stains 

To learn more about Maven Leadership Collective, visit: https://mavenleadership.org/ 

To learn more about Isaac Julien’s Vagabondia (2000), visit: https://thebass.org/art/isaac-julien-vagabondia/ 

To learn more about Art Bridges Foundation, visit https://artbridgesfoundation.org/ 

Join us for our STEAM+ Student Exhibition and find inspiration from nature through Social Assembly: The Communal Table and Haegue Yang’s Coordinates of Speculative Solidarity. Families will translate weather and plant patterns into eco-minded designs – creating with recycled materials and considering balance within our shared environment.

Complimentary admission with RSVP. Limited seated based on first-come, first-served.

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Japanese-born artist Yuko Mohri creates kinetic installations and sculptures that respond to environmental forces such as gravity, sound, and humidity. Using found materials, she constructs systems that evolve in real time, challenging ideas of control, permanence, and authorship in art.

Mohri joins James Voorhies, Curator-at-Large at The Bass, for a guided discussion on her process, her relationship with unpredictability, and shifting conditions that shape her work. Together they will explore the role of impermanence in contemporary installation art and the creative potential of chance.

To learn more about Third Thursdays, visit https://thebass.org/third-thursdays/

To learn more about The Bass Dialogues, visit thebass.org/dialogues.

2:00 pm

Guests will explore various highlights of the collection, the museum’s architecture, and current exhibitions both inside and outside of The Bass through an interactive guided tour. Trained educators who facilitate engaging discussions will provide behind-the-scenes experience of The Bass and activities to further engage your experience with art. This tour is included with the cost of museum admission and lasts approximately 45 minutes.

6 PM Doors open 

6:10PM, 6:20PM, 6:30 PM Art Tours with Pioneer Winter Collective & Friends 

7:15 PM In conversation with Vanessa Charlot, Jason Fitzroy Jeffers, Lise Ragbir and  moderated by Corey Davis 

Complimentary admission with RSVP. Limited seating based on first-come, first-served. 

What narratives shape our historical record? Whose experiences, perspectives, and voices influence our cultural consciousness? 

Commissioner, Miami’s longest-running community-led art commissioning program, presents an embodied program in collaboration with critically acclaimed dance company Pioneer Winter Collective and inspired by Issac Julien: Vagabondia (2000), now on view at The Bass. Exploring how art, legibility, and collecting can serve as vital tools for truth-telling, memory, and reclamation, participants are invited to reflect on their own roles and the evolving responsibilities of institutions in the cultural stewardship of inclusive narratives. 

Unfolding in two parts, the evening will begin with art tours and interventions that will serve as the culminating performances by the 2026 Grass Stains artists—a biennial site-specific initiative created by Pioneer Winter that pairs mentorship (with Gabri Christa) with the creative process to generate public artworks that transcend the boundaries of traditional theaters and commissioning models. 

Following the immersive tour, attendees are invited to join a dynamic panel discussion with Vanessa Charlot (photographer and professor at University of Mississippi), Jason Fitzroy Jeffers (filmmaker and cofounder of Third Horizon Film Festival), and Lise Ragbir (writer, curator, and cofounder/CEO of VERGE.) Moderated by Corey Davis, founder of Maven Leadership Collective, together we will consider how Julien’s Vagabondia and our shared stories offer a pathway for more expansive historical records and futures. 

Art Tours Cast: 

• Nina Osoria Ahmadi, Grass Stains artist-in-residence  
• Lauren Baccus, practitioner, MOCA director of education and community engagement Cecilia Benitez, Grass Stains artist-in-residence  
• Darryl Brown, Grass Stains artist-in-residence  
• Lisa Kusanagi, Grass Stains artist-in-residence 
• Lauryn Lawrence, photographer, curator 
• Arsimmer McCoy, Grass Stains artist-in-residence 
• Nicole Pedraza, Grass Stains artist-in-residence 
• Veronica Pesantes, Art Hang 
• Hattie Mae Wiliiams, Grass Stains artist-in-residence 

This program is curated by Commissioner and made possible with generous support from Art Bridges Foundation Access for All Program and Maven Leadership Collective, and with community love from Frolic Culture / Black Miami Weekend. 

Pioneer Winter Collectives 2026 Grass Stains cycle is supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. 

To learn more about Commissioner, visit: https://www.commissioner.us/ 

To learn more about Pioneer Winter Collective and Grass Stains, visit: https://pioneerwinter.com/grass-stains 

To learn more about Maven Leadership Collective, visit: https://mavenleadership.org/ 

To learn more about Isaac Julien’s Vagabondia (2000), visit: https://thebass.org/art/isaac-julien-vagabondia/ 

To learn more about Art Bridges Foundation, visit https://artbridgesfoundation.org/ 

Beginning with a tour through assume vivid astro focus: XI, this workshop will allow guests to reflect on and creatively experiment with maximalist art making and multi-media collage. Clashing patterns, line work, abstract narrative visuals, and upcycled materials will all come together through a collage which will then be sewn and beaded using vintage thread, beads, and sequins. We will also learn about other maximalist artists, the beauty of visual layering, and basic sewing techniques. No sewing skills are required to attend.

Workshops @ The Bass are created for adults ages 21+ at any skill level. All materials are provided.

The class is $15 for museum members and $20 for nonmembers.