Res No 094-19-15366RESOLUTION NO. 94-19-15366
A Resolution of the Mayor and City Commission of the City of South Miami,
relating to Dr. Santiago Medina's offer to donate and install a sculpture on
City property.
WHEREAS, a monumental stainless -steel sculpture was created by Dr. Santiago Medina, in
order to honor the relationship between the City of Medellin and the City of South Miami; and
WHEREAS, Dr. Medina has agreed to pay for all costs associated with the transport,
installation and commemorative plaque for the sculpture; and
WHEREAS, the City Commission desires to accept the offer of Dr. Santiago Medina, to
donate to the City.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY
COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF SOUTH MIAMI, FLORIDA THAT:
Section 1: The City Commission of the City of South Miami hereby accepts from Dr.
Santiago Medina, the donation of the monumental stainless -steel sculpture which includes all costs
associated with the transport, installation and commemorative plaque for the sculpture.
Section 2: The sculpture will be placed in Dante Fascell Park at a site to be determined in
the immediate future by the City Commission.
Section 3. Severability. If any section clause, sentence, or phrase of this resolution is for
any reason held invalid or unconstitutional by a court of competent jurisdiction, the holding shall not
affect the validity of the remaining portions of this resolution.
Section 4. Effective Date. This resolution shall become effective immediately upon
adoption.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 6th day of August, 2019.
ATTEST: APPROVE
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�ORM, COMMISSION VOTE: 5-0
Mayor Stoddard:
Yea
Vice Mayor Harris:
Commissioner Welsh:
Yea
Commissioner Liebman:
Yea
Commissioner Gil:
Yea
Yea
Agenda item No:5.
City Commission Agenda item Report
Meeting Date: August 6, 2019
Submitted by: Thomas Pepe
Submitting Department: City Attorney
Item Type: Resolution
Agenda Section:
Subject:
A Resolution of the Mayor and City Commission of the City of South Miami relating to Dr. Santiago Medina's
offer to donate and install a sculpture on City property. 3/5 (Commissioner Liebman)
Suggested Action:
Attachments:
Resolution re Dr. Medina's SculptureCArev(2).doc
Santiago Medina is a Master Sculptor, but he is also a great doctor.pdf
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By Ron Beasley
Santiago Medina has walked dual paths of
medicine and art as he pursued a need to
help humanity and a passion for creativity. He
found a way to combine both entities to
deliver beauty and compassion.
Medina, 51, hails from Medellin, Colombia
and came to the United States in 1990 to
continue his studies in medicine. But that
came after a childhood devoted to studying
art.
Santiago Medina in his art studio.
" grew up in Colombia and went through a
rigorous training at an art academy from
when I was five years old until I was 22," he says.
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`Nhen I was growing up, there was a lot of art in my house and in the family. My great grandfather
was a professional artist and photographer, and my grandfather also was an artist."
After devoting his youth to studying be a painter, when he
turned 18 years old he was faced with a crossroads of life
and the need to make a decision. But he was uncertain about
the professional path to take — to be an artist or go into
medicine.
`So I went into medicine, but I kept working on my art," he
says. "Medicine migrated into the area of brain imaging and
body imaging, which is related to sculpture and painting, I
think. Over the years, I have been able to merge both sides."
When he was 26, Medina was accepted to Washington
University in St. Louis to work in the 3D imaging field, a
promising area of medicine that was at its early stage. He
Had researched medical imaging and early on recognized the
potential and benefit of the new field. He trained at
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Washington University for four years before moving to Boston to hone his medical imaging
knowledge with the Harvard Medical System, where he made a monumental decision to specialize
in advanced brain imaging in children.
He spent three years there and worked at Boston Children's Hospital and Massachusetts General,
two of the flagships of the Harvard System. He was offered a position in medical imaging at the
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati where he worked for
three years. At the same time, he continued to pursue his passion for art and studied at the
Cincinnati Institute of Art, focusing on sculpture.
Medina's reputation, expertise and knowledge of medical
imaging soon attracted the interest of the Miami Children's
Hospital. He accepted an offer and moved to Miami in 1999
with his wife, Olga, where they bought a home in the
blossoming community of Pinecrest and raised two
daughters, Camila, 22, and Isabela, 17.
"I had many friends in Miami who were artists," Medina says.
"They told me that Miami was changing dramatically and
going into this new era of art. So, I came and I liked the city; it
was very open and I was closer to home, so we moved here
and it has been great!"
Today, Medina is a doctor and co -director of the
neuroradiology (brain imaging) division at Miami Children's
Hospital, working with neurosurgeons as they prepare to
operate on a patient and remove a brain tumor.
"We have to give the surgeons 3D images that show the exact location of the tumor, and the artistic
side does kick in because imaging is like a sculpture of the human brain in multiple colors."
Medina says his art career accelerated after the move to Miami. He already knew many of the
players in the Miami art world and he became involved with the art community and several ateliers.
"Basically, my art just took off," he says. "The whole city just grew up at a very fast rate."
Medina today is recognized as a Master Sculptor and his stainless steel sculptures are on
permanent display at public art venues such as Harvard, Stanford, Tufts and Washington University,
among many others. He is the only Colombian -American sculptor to have a permanent monumental
sculpture at Harvard University. His pieces have been displayed at major art fairs such as Art Basel
Miami, Houston Art Fair, Palm Beach International Art Fair and Arte America. He attributes much of
his success in art to his ability to combine his medical imaging knowledge with his sculpture and he
concedes that body imaging computer technology is helpful in the creation process.
"The software we use in medicine is extremely sophisticated and I use it in my art," he says. "There
is a constant cross fertilization between medicine and art and that is what has pushed my career for 4
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equipment such as Computerized Tomography
(CT) scans and Magnetic Resonance Imaging
(MRI) which generate 3D images of the human
body. Then I use that software to generate
sculpture, scanning my sculptures and modifying
them."
With his international success in the art world,
Medina says people often ask him why he
continues to work in the medical field.
"1 don't work as much as I did in the past," he
says. "But I still do it for two reasons. First, I can
stay in touch with the high and sophisticated
software. It is very unique, advanced equipment
that I can use for my art work, especially in my
specialty now, sculpture. And the second thing is
that I stay in touch with the human side of suffering — disease,
happiness, sadness, the turmoil —that I see daily in the hospital.
For me it's an extremely powerful source of inspiration.
'Medicine is a part of my life that has been very important, but I
think at the core of what I have done all of my life is art."
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