About this fund
The Community Arts Endowment Fund at the Coral Gables Community Foundation was founded after the great success of the Umbrella Sky Coral Gables, a public art installation composed of approximately 820 bright and colorful umbrellas in the summer of 2018.
The Community Arts Endowment Fund also presented a program, “Illuminate Coral Gables,” in 2021.
Moon Over the Gables is the latest program brought to you by the Community Arts Endowment Fund of the Coral Gables Community Foundation.
Moon Over The Gables (March 2023)
Measuring seven meters (23 feet) in diameter, U.K. artist Luke Jerram’s moon features 120dpi detailed NASA imagery of the lunar surface. At an approximate scale of 1:500,000, each centimeter of the internally lit spherical sculpture represents 5km of the moon’s surface.*
Over its lifetime, the “Museum of the Moon” project travels from place to place, and it gathers new musical compositions and an ongoing collection of personal responses, stories and mythologies. It also highlights the latest lunar science. The installation is a fusion of lunar imagery, moonlight and surround sound composition created by BAFTA and Ivor Novello award winning composer Dan Jones.
Umbrella Sky Coral Gables (Summer 2018)
Coming shortly after the closure of Giralda Avenue to vehicular traffic in 2018, “Umbrella Sky” attracted throngs of people to admire the installation of hundreds of umbrellas. The Umbrella Sky Project was born in Águeda in 2012, with the iconic colorful umbrellas floating in the air.
The Umbrella Sky Project was designed by Portuguese creative visionaries Sextafeira Productions, and has been featured all over the world in places such as Paris, Lisbon and Madrid. Coral Gables was the third city in the U.S. to welcome this world-famous installation.
