When you think of Art Basel, you probably think of galleries and white walls. But one Miami artist is taking her work out of the museum and into a neighborhood park \u2014 by turning a basketball court into a colorful piece of public art. <\/p>\n
For Miami artist Najja Moon, the court isn\u2019t just a canvas. It\u2019s personal. <\/p>\n
Basketball, she says, \u201cis more than a game, it\u2019s a passion.\u201d <\/p>\n
Drone footage captures the full scale of the mural’s bold, abstract forms.\u00a0Moon designed the work with a purpose beyond aesthetics. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s really important that art has a functional purpose,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The project is a collaboration with the nonprofit Project Backboard, known for revitalizing courts across the country by transforming them into playable art installations. Together, they\u2019re hosting a community event to help residents engage with the court.<\/p>\n
The celebration encourages people not just to admire the art, but to move through it \u2014 to dribble, pass, shoot, and play right on top of it.<\/p>\n
Moon, both an artist and an athlete, hopes the mural reignites something simple yet profound: the pure joy of play.<\/p>\n
Moon and Project Backboard will host a free community event at the mural on Saturday, Dec. 6 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Legion Park. <\/p>\n
Organizers hope the gathering becomes a blueprint for future collaborations, showing how public spaces, art, and community can thrive together in Miami.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When you think of Art Basel, you probably think of galleries and white walls. But one Miami artist…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[40869,36635,123,125,124],"class_list":["post-70937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-art-and-culture","tag-art-basel","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}