Niki in the News

Our Fund Foundation's 2024 Philanthropy Award recipient - Niki Lopez

Commentary from Activist & Philanthropist Dr. Naomi Ruth Cobb, Q Creative’s CEO Jennifer Love and Senior Vice Preseident of Community Health & Advancement for YMCA South Florida Gabriel Ochoa

(click to watch on Youtube)

February 4, 2024

OUTSFL

Niki Lopez – The Elephant Trainer

June 15, 2023

OutClique Magazine

What Makes Us Clique: Niki Lopez

June 2020

Aya Arts Project To Bring Art and Community Engagement to Sailboat Bend Building II

September 27, 2020

Steven O. Evans, PhD interviews Niki Lopez, OutClique Magazine June 2020 cover story.

Swim Global

“I navigate my fears and anxieties to connect to the water in a way that connects mind, body, and soul with history and education about our ancestors and our spiritual connection to the water.” 

April 6, 2021

Westside Gazette

Niki Lopez Challenges Social Injustice with New Workshop

August 19, 2021

S. Florida PBS - WPBT2

Niki was featured during South Florida PBS’s LGBTQ+ Pride 2022 campaign.

(click to watch on Youtube)

Jun 9, 2022

The Reckoning

Black Queer Families Navigate Racism and Homophobia Amid Wave Of Anti-LGBTQ Legislation in Florida

July 19, 2022

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Our Fund Honors Outstanding Leaders - Niki Lopez Commitment to a Cause Philanthropy Award. OUTSFL

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  • February 2024 – Our Fund Honors Outstanding Leaders, OUTSFL (click to read) 
  • May 2023 – Matter of FACT Exhibition Features Thought-Provoking Works of Art (click to read)
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  • February 2021 – Healing through the Arts: Confronting the Elephant (click to read)
  • August 2021 – Niki Lopez challenges social injustice with new workshop (click to read) 
  • September 2020 – Aya Arts Project – Outclique Magazine (click to read)
 
  • August 2019 – Talking About the Elephant in the Room – Outclique Magazine (click to read)
 
  • July 2019 – Warrior Woman: Niki Lopez speaks her truth through art – Observer Newspaper Online (click to read)
 
  • October 28 – Art & Life with Niki Lopez – Voyage MIA Magazine – (click to read)
 
  • August 2018 – Speaking Out About the Elephant in the Room – Broward Cultural Division’s Arts Calendar (click to read)
 
  • August 2014 – South Florida Times: L’éléphant dans la Salle – Thou Art Woman (click to read)

2013

September 2013 – The Voice of The Caribbean Borinquen Medical Centers Miami: “Awareness” interview by Susan Alverez printed article
July 2013 – Broward Newtimes feature: Many Paths, One Universe
July 2013 – VoicePlaces feature: Parallels art exhibit

2012

July 2012 – Sun-Sentinel feature: “Are we E.T.?”  Entertainment > Art/Stage section
July 2012 – feature on Arterpillar –South Florida Artists Blog
February 2012 – featured artists on Artistic Expressions by Elisabeth Blog
January 2012 – feature on Arterpillar –South Florida Artists Blog

2011

November 2011 – featured blog love on EAOC Etsy Artist of Color Group
September 2011 – featured artists on One Brown Crafter Blog
July 2011 – cover of Sun-Sentinel Society Scene
July 2011 – article DY Magazine (out of Philadelphia)
June 2011- cover of South Florida Live
June 2011-article South Florida Times
March 2011- South Florida Times
March 2011 – WeMerge Magazine

2010

September 2010 – The Parklander – “Eclectic Artist, by Todd McFliker – printed interview 
July 2010 – City Link – Art Murmur
April 2010- DY Magazine, Philadelphia, PA
March 2010- WeMerge TV interview

2009

October 2009 – article on Redroom.com

2008

July 2010 – City Link
October 2008 – Featured artist in WeMerge Magazine
August 2008 – article Sun-Sentinel

Niki Lopez on cover of Sun-Sentinl Society Scene

 

People Magazine

I Brought Down a Cult: Ex-Member Helped Catch the Child Molester Running an Egyptian-Themed Sect

July 4, 2018

South Florida Sun Sentinel

How Fort Lauderdale artist Niki Lopez survived a doomsday cult

July 13, 2018

ArtSpace Sailboat Bend Lofts Society Scene Feature

July 27, 2011