Arts Annual 2022 – THE PARTY REDUX

By JasonHackenwerth

Jason Hackenwerth is a professional artist with an extensive exhibition history spanning more than two decades. He was named a prestigious alum from his undergraduate, as well as graduate, universities of Webster University and Savannah College Of Art And Design…. Read More

By Anna Ayres

Anna Ayres began her painting career well before she began painting. A childhood immersed in the four seasons of rural Vermont showcased the natural world to Ayres, initiating an early sense of wonder and gratitude for it. In winters, the Ayres family skated by lantern on icy cornfield valleys. In summers, a waterfall in the woods transformed into a cold swimming oasis. In fall, she and her siblings sold garden pumpkins and gladiolas by the side of the road and…… Read More

By Tom Sivak

Tom Sivak, Composer. Notable credits include Prelude and Fugue, performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, The Brain That Wouldn’t Die! In 3-D!!! (2011 New York Musical Theater Festival), and The Great Bardo, starring Jose Ferrer (Lincoln Center). Recent works include micro-operas, Love v Death and Frankie & Gianni, and musicals Oh Gasparella! and Sunshine City. Opera Tampa is featuring Tom’s music in Witching Hour 2023 and will be performing Tom’s chamber opera, Love v Death in October, 2024…. Read More

By Judy Vienneau

Judy Vienneau is a Professional Artist and Arts Administrator with a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston. Since moving to Florida from Massachusetts in 1989, having worked previously in commercial graphic design and advertising for 10 years, Vienneau has been studying traditional sculptural techniques, and producing wire and mixed media sculpture. Vienneau has exhibited in galleries and juried exhibitions throughout Florida and the Northeast for the last thirty years. Her artwork is part of private and…… Read More

By Kenny Jensen

I am a multidisciplinary professional artist focused on growing an oil painting practice to sustain my goal to live and create artwork in the wilderness of Gulf Hammock, FL. My wide ranging creative practices flow out of a lifelong connection to the hidden and overlooked wonders of Florida’s unique natural environment. I have been active in the Pinellas / Tampa Bay arts community for over 20 years as an exhibiting artist, curator, grass roots organizer, art handler/museum preparator for many…… Read More

By Creative Pinellas

Born 1990, Saumitra Chandratreya is a Fiber-Installation artist who lives in St. Petersburg, FL and Chicago, IL. He was born in Mumbai and Bangalore, India is his other home. He graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2017 with a Master of Design in Fashion, Body and Garment. He has a BFA in Textile Design from the Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology in Bangalore, India. Chandratreya was awarded one of the Individual Artist Grants…… Read More

By Xina Scuderi

Xina Scuderi is a fine art photographer based in St. Petersburg, Florida. In 2019 she was inspired to start the ‘Doors of St. Pete Project’ to honor her father who was an Artisan and Door Designer in St. Pete from the 1970s until the 2008 recession. Xina grew up in a house surrounded by craftsmanship and architecture. As a teenager and early college years she worked as her father’s helper building, finishing, and installing wood, metal, and stained-glass works. Xina…… Read More

By Creative Pinellas

Venezuela-born American artist Babs Reingold creates sculptures, drawings, and installations focusing on the environment and poverty. Ms. Reingold has an extensive showing history with 16 solo exhibitions and over 75 group exhibitions ranging from museums, universities, alternative spaces and galleries. Solo exhibits include venues in New York City, Los Angeles CA, Atlanta GA, Savannah GA, St. Petersburg FL, Jersey City Museum NJ and the Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo NY. Museum group exhibits include: Newark Museum, Jersey City Museum,…… Read More

By Elizabeth Barenis

She believes that what the viewer finds in the art is one of the most important things about it. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally…. Read More

By Gianna Pergamo

Gianna Pergamo is an artist from Brooklyn, New York who now lives in St. Petersburg, Florida. She received her BFA in Illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2011. Gianna is primarily a mixed media artist, combining collage, acrylic paint, colored pencil, and more. She was a previous recipient of the Creative Pinellas Emerging Artist Grant, and was recently featured in Creative Loafing as well as on Fox 13. Gianna regularly donates pieces to auction off for Equality…… Read More

By Angela Warren

Angela Warren lives in St. Petersburg, Florida. In 2018 she received a Pollock and Krasner Fellowship to attend Vermont Studio Center artist in residence program.Angela spent 2017 and 2018 teaching art post hurricane Irma in St. John, US Virgin Islands where she helped people heal through art…. Read More

By Javier Dones

Javier’s current work springs from a lifelong passion and fascination for the elements of nature, her power, arrangements, and structures. The medium is metals and chemistry. Copper is the main working material…. Read More

By Nathan Beard

Nathan Beard’s richly layered paintings combine playful Abstract Expressionism with fields of color that transition slowly through hue and temperature. He slices blue painter’s tape, strip-by-strip, and methodically applies it to create cyclic patterns that enhance… Read More

By NeverneCovington

Neverne Covington’s drawings, prints, paintings and sculpture explore childhood, language, landscape, memory, and the American south where she grew up. Her work has been exhibited at the Florida Museum for Women Artists, the Tampa Museum of Art, the Brevard Museum of Art, the State Capital and various venues throughout Florida and at the Museum of the South in Alabama. John Hopkins All Children’s Hospital commissioned her to create a twenty foot mural for their lobby in St. Petersburg, FL. She…… Read More

By MarkMitchell

Mark Mitchell is an international artist and painter of Conceptual Pop Art. As a PRATT grad, SVA alum, and former NYC advertising creative director, he has spent his entire career honing his visual communication skills…. Read More

By PatriciaKluweDerderian

Arts Coast Galleries Artist Patricia Kluwe Derderian has always loved to draw, even the smell of her uncle’s colored pencils inspired her to major in architecture – since art was not an option in the little city where she was raised in Brazil. She has used her art to express her projects and ideas…. Read More

By Emily Lee Stehle

Emily Lee Stehle is a mixed media fiber artist who has been three times an Emerging Artist. First with Florida CraftArt in 2017, second with the Gasparilla Festival of the Arts in 2018 and 2021 for Creative Pinellas. She says she’ll never stop emerging as she sees inspiration every day for her art practice of transforming discards to fine craft art. An ever-evolving creative basket maker for more than 30 years Emily is known for weaving baskets out of non-conventional…… Read More

By Carol Mickett Robert Stackhouse

Carol Mickett and Robert Stackhouse are a collaborative team whose 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional art is focused on water and climate issues.  Mickett and Stackhouse were the 2020 Creative Pinellas Art Laureates and received a Creative Loafing Best of the Bay Critic Award for their science conversations. … Read More

By Cecilia Lueza

Argentine-American artist Cecilia Lueza is well known for creating vibrant public art across the United States and beyond. Throughout her career, the artist has intensely explored a wide range of artistic media including painting, sculpture and monumental outdoor installations. Her awe-inspiring murals can often be found in unexpected locations such as rooftops and street intersections. Lueza is committed to creating visually engaging public art that enhances our environment, transforms the landscape, engages the viewer and define a sense of place…… Read More