Archives: Artists

Artist Profiles

Jake-ann Jones

Jake-ann Jones also works under the name J.A. Jones and J.A. Morton (she, her, hers), is the 2022 Creative Pinellas Artist Laureate, and author of the Black Classic Press release… Read More

Tom Winchester

Tom Winchester is an art critic from St. Petersburg, FL. He holds an MFA in art criticism from School of Visual Arts, and has been an adjunct professor in the… Read More

Yuly Restrepo

Yuly Restrepo Garcés was born in Medellín, Colombia, and came to the United States nearly twenty years ago as an asylee. Her writing has previously appeared in Tampa Bay Noir,… Read More

Takeya Trayer

I do not fit into a neat little box of societal standards. I’m an artist, parent and teacher. I see myself not just as an artist but as a problem… Read More

Sarah Gerard

Sarah Gerard’s essay collection Sunshine State (Harper Perennial, 2017) was a New York Times Editors’ Choice, a finalist for the Southern Book Prize, and was longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the… Read More

Sara Ries Dziekonski

Sara Ries Dziekonski was named Runner-Up in the Press 53 Poetry Award for her manuscript, Today’s Specials, which is projected to be published in the Fall of 2024 as a… Read More

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