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Vasari Project
The Vasari Project is an archive, within the Miami-Dade Public Library System's Main library, dedicated to documenting, collecting and preserving Miami‑Dade County's visual art history from 1945 to the present. It is a living archive that grows through contributions from artists, art professionals, exhibition spaces, galleries, institutions, and private donors.

The Vasari Project is a resource for ongoing research, scholarship, publications, artists' projects, exhibitions, and events. The archive collects documentation rather than original works of art comprised primarily of printed matter: correspondence, press clippings, photographs, posters, books, exhibition catalogs, artists' files, oral histories, and other ephemeral materials.

Art critic, historian, and writer Helen L. Kohen and the Library’s former Art Services Manager Barbara N. Young conceived the Vasari Project in 2000. The collection is named for Giorgio Vasari (1511‑1574), the artist and historian whose book, Lives of the Artists, shaped the discipline of Western art history. Made possible by a partnership between the Library and the County's Department of Cultural Affairs, the archive's purpose is to preserve and build upon Miami's transformation into a major hemispheric art center.

Helen L. Kohen
Since her death, Kohen has continued to be remembered for all of her contributions to the South Florida art community through exhibition, her legacy preserved through the Vasari Project, and her papers housed at the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art.