Press Releases POSTSECRET AUTHOR TELLS ALL FOR CHARLEE MIAMI – Frank Warren, best-selling author of PostSecret and My Secret, will be in Miami for fundraisers benefiting CHARLEE Homes for Children. Through the support of private individuals and businesses, Warren will read from his latest release - The Secret Lives of Men and Women: a PostSecret Book - on Friday, April 13 at 7:00 p.m. at ArtCenter/South Florida (800 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach). The following evening, Saturday, April 14 at 7:00 p.m., the PostSecret exhibition opens with 200 of Warren’s original postcards at Nexus Development Group’s 4 Projects sales center (3814 NE Miami Court, Miami Design District). Both events’ receptions will feature a book signing session with the author as well as cocktails and hors d’oeuvres by Pasha’s. A suggested contribution of $10 is requested for the reading at ArtCenter/South Florida; $15 is requested on opening night at 4 Projects, featuring live music by Xtra Sens. The exhibition is free and open to the public and runs through April 28, Monday – Friday from 10:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. and on Saturday and Sunday from 11:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. All proceeds will be donated to CHARLEE Homes for Children, in addition to 20% of PostSecret book sales courtesy of Books & Books (933 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach). CHARLEE is a non-profit organization that helps severely abused and neglected children in the foster care system of Miami-Dade County. For more information please call (305) 779-9600 or visit the website at www.charleeprogram.org. For further details regarding PostSecret and events please call 305-672-4709 or visit the websites at www.postsecret.com, www.artcentersf.org and www.4projectsmiami.com. “CHARLEE is very excited to be a part of such an amazing event”, said Mary Cagle, CEO of CHARLEE Homes for Children. “Rodrigo B. Gonzalez has joined our board and made great strides in getting our name out into the community and helping us to partner with extraordinary people who want to make a difference in children’s lives. We’re thankful to all involved and know this will be a huge success”. From hilarious and poignant expressions of fear, hope, and desire, to shocking confessions of wild affairs and torrid fantasies, PostSecret is a public art project that was spearheaded by Frank Warren in November 2004. He collected handmade postcards from mostly anonymous, average people bearing their most powerful revelations. Rich in authenticity and sincerity, sample messages from The Secret Lives of Men and Women: a PostSecret Book include: • “I’ve been with my wife for 20 years and she doesn’t know who I am.” • “My husband only loves me when he’s drunk.” • "I forced thousands of employees to take a pay cut...so that I can get a pay raise." Since PostSecret began, Warren has received more than 100,000 handmade postcards, which arrive in his mailbox at a rate of approximately 1,000 per week. In light of this phenomenon, a postcard-secret drive will be held in Miami allowing residents and visitors to design and divulge in their own unique ways. Blank postcards will be available for pick-up as of March 19 at the 4 Projects sales center, ArtCenter/South Florida, Books & Books and participating Miami Design District merchant locations. The PostSecret drop-box, located at 4 Projects, will be open for submissions through April 28, 2026 at 5:00 p.m. Postcards may be received anonymously or bearing its creators’ identity and contact information, and will be sent directly to Warren for consideration. Please visit his blog at www.postsecret.blogspot.com for additional information. ”We are happy to open our 4 Projects ‘home’ to Frank Warren in support of his innovative project befitting CHARLEE,” says Jeremy Green, Founder and CEO of Nexus Development Group. “Nasir Kassamali (Luminaire) created our space to convey a sense of design and community. Mr. Warren’s PostSecret exhibition is a perfect example of the unique cultural events that our future Design District residents will be able to enjoy frequently.” Frank Warren is a small business owner based in Maryland who started www.postsecret.com. His website was awarded five Bloggies including Weblog of the Year and Best American Weblog at the 2006 Bloggies, the most distinguished weblog awards ceremony. Recently ranked by New York magazine as the third most popular blog on the Internet and by Yahoo as the fifth top blog site of 2006, Warren’s website continues to attract thousands of new viewers and media attention. CHARLEE Homes for Children provides therapeutic, residential, and supportive services to abused, abandoned, and neglected children within a safe environment in a community-based continuum of care. Its goal is to enable each child to reach his or her full potential as a healthy and productive adult. Nexus Development Group’s 4 Projects - CASA, CANVAS, CUBE and COR - are underway in the heart of the Miami Design District, an 18-square-block neighborhood dedicated to art and design. The District is home to shops, restaurants, art galleries, design showrooms, artist lofts and creative businesses. Rich in style and design, 4 Projects will integrate luxury tropical living into this creative urban hotbed with a mix of condominiums and town homes. Nexus is defining a new way of living in South Florida, one that embodies a lifestyle that is bohemian, luxurious, lush and urbane – adding color and contour to city living -- it’s the Blush life. Established in 1984, ArtCenter/South Florida is a non-profit 501(C)(3) organization that provides subsidized studio and exhibition space as well as teaching opportunities for emerging and career artists in their facilities at 800, 810 and 924 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach. The mission of the ArtCenter is to advance the knowledge and practice of contemporary visual arts and culture in South Florida while providing affordable programming and work-space for professional artists. The ArtCenter/South Florida is open Monday through Thursday from 11:00 a.m. until 10:00 p.m. and Friday through Sunday from 11:00 a.m. until 11:00 p.m. For further information please call (305) 674- 8278 or visit the website at www.artcentersf.org. This event has been made possible through the generous support of ArtCenter/South Florida, Books & Books, Rodrigo Gonzalez, HarperCollins Publishers, Izze Sparkling Juice, Nexus Development Group, Pasha’s and The Krane. # # # Nexus Development Group is pledged to the letter and spirit of U.S. policy for the achievement of equal housing opportunity throughout the Nation. It encourages and supports an affirmative advertising and marketing program in which there are no barriers to obtaining housing because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin. *Editor’s Note: PostSecret book cover and postcard images available upon request.