. . . As we celebrate this year shifting into a new start, Creative Pinellas is remembering and missing the amazing and creative Lea Umberger, who sadly passed away this… Read More
Celebrating Lea Umberger’s Creative Work
Genre: ACM
Exploring Handel’s Messiah
By Kurt Loft. Could any single piece of music be more popular and performed than Handel’s Messiah? What makes this 282-year-old work so popular?… Read More
How to Start to Make a Film
St. Pete filmmaker Susana Darwin shares the pre-production steps she takes to develop an idea into a workable plan – the complex array of things that have to happen before a filmmaker starts filming…. Read More
Mountains of the Mind
By Tom Winchester. Mountains of the Mind: Scholars’ Rocks from China and Beyond is an aesthetic experience unlike any other at an art museum, letting viewers appreciate scholars’ rocks as sculptural works of art…. Read More
Exploring Largo’s New Free Children’s Garden
By Harriet Monzon-Aguirre. My little ones and I visited the newly opened Majeed Discovery Garden at the Florida Botanical Gardens in Largo, and all I have to say is ‘what a treat!’… Read More
Harmony & Discourse
The Warehouse Arts District Association, in collaboration with EMIT and Jazz on Arts Axis Florida are hosting a December 1 concert with Helios Jazz Orchestra featuring Fred Johnson – and a roundtable discussion on Food Insecurity and South St Pete Food Deserts…. Read More
Brimming with Excitement
. . . Brimming with excitement. That is how it feels to have been awarded the Emerging Artist Grant from Creative Pinellas. I admit that painting on larger canvases instills… Read More
Down the Rabbit Hole
By Margo Hammond. White Rabbit, Red Rabbit by Nassim Soleimanpour is, hands down, the strangest play I’ve ever seen. And that that, from me, is high praise…. Read More
The Movements of Life in Vivid Words
Poet Sara Ries Dziekonski is based in Gulfport and served as a Creative Pinellas 2021 Professional Artist Fellow. She was recently honored as the first ever Runner-Up for the 2024 Press 53 Award for Poetry, and shares 3 recent poems… Read More
Flowers, Glitter and Supplements
By Luna May and Kathryn Rizzo. The words ‘contemporary,’ ‘colorful,’ ‘daring,’ and ‘strong,’ come to mind when experiencing the visual art of Marina Shaltout, currently a visiting professor at Sarasota’s Ringling College of Art and Design… Read More
