Karen Peterson and Dancers Receives Major Funding For Mixed-Ability Event The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, as part of its Knight Arts Challenge, announced this week that Karen Peterson and Dancers (KPD)has been awarded a major grant of $150,000 to launch Forward Motion, an annual integrated dance festival and conference in Miami. KPD is South Florida’s only professional company dedicated to mixed ability or integrated work, and Forward Motion is the next step in ad

Winning Arts Challenge Ideas Celebrate the Overlooked Miami I’m a Miami native and I love this place. I don’t know where the moniker “Magic City” originates, but I see the magic in the pink clouds at sunset, in the steam rising off of cortaditos, and even in the symphony of car horns during rush-hour traffic jams. Yet, while it’s easy to get caught up in the sights and sounds that surround us, there is so much more to this place. Miami has faces and facets that rarely reach t