Amy is a St. Petersburg, Florida native. She was the 2022 Gasparilla Festival of the Arts Emerging Artist Award Recipient. She also had the honor of being a 2022 SHINE… Read More
Amy Ilić-Volpe
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Artist Profiles
Kim Michelle Coakley
Tarpon Springs artist Kim Michelle is the freedom-flower/creative queen behind Kim Michelle Art. She was encouraged from a young age to pursue her love of art and earned a BFA… Read More
Skyla Luckey
I like to write about arts and people. As a former journalist, I had to get away from writing crime stories and other unhappy stories. It takes a toll on… Read More
Andee Scott
Andee Scott is an interdisciplinary dance artist based in St. Petersburg, FL. In recent years, her focus on dance as public art has led to her creating, curating, and producing… Read More
Mark Feinman
Mark Feinman is a composer, musician, and producer from the Tampa Bay area. With over twenty years of extensive performance and composition experience his music has been featured on albums,… Read More
Eric MacNeill
Eric MacNeill is regarded as one of the top pipe band drummers in North America. Growing up in a pipe band family, Eric brings a lifetime of experience as a… Read More
Anna Kate Mackle
The Mackle Shaw Duo is comprised of harpist Anna Kate Mackle and percussionist John Shaw. Champions of new music, the Mackle Shaw Duo have made it their mission to commission… Read More
Jabari Reed-Diop (iBOMS)
Based out of: St. Petersburg, Florida, Jabari Jahi Babatu Reed-Diop, otherwise known as iBOMS (illegal. Beauty. On.My.Streets) is a 25-year-old artist based in St. Petersburg, Florida. His artistic acumen comes… Read More
Courtney Clute
Courtney Clute lives in St. Petersburg, FL. Her work has appeared in Passages North, Fractured Literary, Ghost Parachute, Flash Frog, New Flash Fiction Review, and more. Courtney’s chapbook, The Fermi… Read More
Shawn Dell Joyce
Shawn Dell Joyce was born in Texas in 1965 and grew up on the border in Brownsville Tx. She worked in her family’s citrus orchards until an unseasonable frost killed… Read More
