Emerging Artist Grant

By David McCauley

David McCauley is an interdisciplinary artist based in St Petersburg, FL. Since 2012, he has founded multiple 501c3 organizations such as the Rise Up Gallery, Laundromat Art Space, Artillery Residency… Read More

By Fran Failla

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Fran’s personal artistic journey began at a very early age. Given the opportunity in elementary school to take up painting, she quickly showed a special… Read More

By Thomas Sayers Ellis

Poet, photographer, and bandleader Thomas Sayers Ellis is the author of The Maverick Room and Skin, Inc,: Identity Repair Poems, He co-founded The Dark Room Collective and The Dark Room… Read More

By Antonia Lewandowski

Growing up in the multi-lingual Yorkville section of New York City during the Fifties, Antonia Lewandowski had an easy walk to museums and libraries, concerts in Central Park, and East… Read More

By Tyler Gillespie

Tyler Gillespie is an award-winning writer and educator. He’s written for Rolling Stone, GQ, The Washington Post, The Nation, Salon, and Playboy. His poetry appears in anthologies such as In… Read More

By Gabriela Rosa

For the past five years, Gaby Rosa has blazed a trail as a full-time, professional fire and circus performer. Her journey commenced with fire dancing, a mesmerizing art form that… Read More

By Kaitlin Crockett

Kaitlin Crockett is a printmaker, writer, book artist, educator, librarian, and owner of Print St. Pete. Primarily using analog methods like Letterpress and Risograph printmaking, she creates zines, publications, broadsides,… Read More

By Vanessa Cunto

Vanessa is a Florida native and local artist here in the city of St. Petersburg. She has always placed creativity at the core of her  life, from her formative years… Read More

By Luci Westphal

Luci Westphal is an award-winning filmmaker, photographer, writer, and social artist with a focus on biophilic art to enhance people’s well-being by connecting with the outdoors through art, especially in… Read More

By Harriet Monzon-Aguirre

Harriet Monzon-Aguirre is an oil painter and aspiring surface pattern designer creating out of Bahia Studios in Safety Harbor. She spent her early childhood and formative years on the Caribbean… Read More

By Thomas Sayers Ellis

Both in the red and both in the ring, both an Other versus another, the new bot that is always there, there in the black and white where the broth… Read More

By Fran Failla

I decided several years ago to move from the realm of just painting art into the business of selling my art. It’s two completely different activities and each one has… Read More

By Harriet Monzon-Aguirre

We are wrapping up our Emerging Artist Grant, we’ve delivered all the work to the gallery, shared event information with interested parties, and are awaiting opening night. I am excited… Read More

By Vanessa Cunto

Material possessions often act as both symbols of wealth and markers of individual achievement. Pictures adorned with opulent goods serve as commemorative monuments to prosperity, while taste and consumption are… Read More

By Kaitlin Crockett

Choosing to work in analog print mediums in 2024 doesn’t mean I’m a Luddite who opposes technology. In fact, much of my work is facilitated by the internet. Through online… Read More