Margi Glavovic Nothard

Biography

Margi Glavovic Nothard is an artist and the design principal of Glavovic Studio Inc. Her work demonstrates a tangible commitment to creating intelligent, sustainable beauty in the public’s daily lives. Through drawings, photographs, large scale installations, architecture and urban design Glavovic Nothard prompts her audience to slow down and experience the place they are in.

Her studio’s work pays specific attention to local and global connectivity, contemporary culture, process and outcome.  Representative projects are Young Circle ArtsPark in Hollywood, Florida, conceived as a large urban sculpture, almost 10 acres, integrating art, architecture, urban design and landscape design, the renowned Bridge-Stair Sculpture at the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale followed by the art commission Threshold, a site specific artwork, the Girls’ Club, for which Glavovic Nothard invented the representative image and spatial construct, along with the notion of a physical presence on the street, and the Young at Art|Museum and Broward County Library’s LEED gold project, an 11 year process realizing this year, Glavovic Nothard’s role included Art, Master Planning, Landscape Design, Programming, Architectural Design, Wayfinding, Graphic Design and an intimate role as creative advisor in all aspects of the development of the creative expression and integration of experiential visual content.

Margi’s most recent work – FLOW:  a large scale public art project addressing over 9000SF of exterior breezeway and plaza space in the new Broward County Courthouse project is in the conceptual design phase and will transform an exterior public space in downtown Fort Lauderdale connecting justice, environment, history and downtown urban spaces with intimate urban moments of community and reconciliation – making new urban connections and thin moments of exquisite beauty.

Selected Exhibitions

2011   SmartRide Exhibit, Florida Atlantic University. Fort Lauderdale, FL
2011   The Art of Brew. Fort Lauderdale, FL
2011   DCOTA Design House: Time Out Bathroom. Fort Lauderdale, FL
2011   Inventory | Series 01: Objects of Desire. Design District, Miami, FL
2011   3rd Avenue Artwalk: Threshold: InConstruction: A Photographic Journey.
Fort Lauderdale, FL
2008   Bishop Good Studio: Towards the Girls’ Club. Fort Lauderdale, FL
2007   Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale: 3rd Avenue Artist Exhibit. Fort Lauderdale, FL
2006   “Top of the Tower”, BCC, Group Show, BCC permanent collection.
Fort Lauderdale, FL
2005   Solo show: New Star Gallery. Hollywood, FL
2004   DURP Exhibition. 15 Years Towards the Future FAU. Fort Lauderdale, FL
2003   FIU Biennial Exhibition. Miami, FL
2002   3rd Avenue Artist Studio Exhibition. Fort Lauderdale, FL
2002   Afterglow Art Exhibition. Fat Village, FL
2000   SCI-Arc Top 50 Alumni Traveling Exhibition. Los Angeles, CA
1998   Form Zero Gallery Exhibition. Time Defines Place. Los Angeles, CA
1997   Sun Shelter Exhibition. Van Alen Institute, New York, NY
1993   Infrastructure and Design for Alternatively Powered Vehicles. AIA Urban Design. Los Angeles, CA
1993   Museum of Science and Industry, Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Competition.
1992   Berlin Competition Exhibition, SCI-Arc
1992   Julia Morgan Women in Architecture Exhibition. UCLA
1992   LA Art Fair. Los Angeles, CA

Selected Awards

2008   Young Circle ArtsPark | Florida State AIA Merit Award of Excellence
2008   Girls’ Club | Florida State AIA Merit Award of Excellence
2008  Moretti Award | Broward County Cultural Award | Most Outstanding Artistic Achievement
2007   Young Circle ArtsPark | Best Architecture Project, South Florida, Miami Herald
2007   Broward Trust for Historic Preservation Honors
2006   Museum of Art Bridge-Stair | Florida State AIA Award of Excellence
2006   Museum of Art Bridge-Stair | Fort Lauderdale Community Appearance Award
2004   SKYLofts | AIA Fort Lauderdale Award of Excellence
2003   Finalist, Seattle Public Art Issaquah Highlands Project. Seattle, WA
2001   Arango Foundation | Top Arango Designer Award | Miami, FL