By Kerry Kriseman. Scientists will tell you that purple moons don’t exist. But visitors to Lewis House at Eckerd College can see Purple Moonlight, among other vibrant pieces by Creative Clay’s Member Artists, in “The Big Art Show.”… Read More
By Emily Lee Stehle. On exhibit at the Leepa-Rattner is an unusual sharing of work that showcases the Permanent Collection of Florida CraftArt alongside the museum’s permanent collection and works from the late Gulf Coast Museum of Art. There’s much to see and enjoy…. Read More
By Jennifer Ring. Seeing technology turning the implied motion in Dalí’s paintings into actual motion feels like seeing these paintings as they existed in Dalí’s head — before he committed paint to canvas…. Read More
By Fatemah Tuwainah. I experienced Healing While Black 2023 last month after Dr. Ladonna Butler invited me to this 4-day event in St. Petersburg. Little did she know that her invitation was putting me on a path of regaining a piece of my soul, and hope. … Read More
By Cameron Healy. What started as a small event for New York artists to connect turned into a nonprofit organization expanding across the country — including a chapter in St. Pete. The mission statement of Artists For Impact is “providing a platform for artists and giving back to the communities around us.”… Read More
Yuki Jackson is a Black and Japanese poet and educator. Her poetry has been published in literary journals such as Four Way Review and Cream City Review, for which she… Read More
By Jennifer Ring. Despite the enormous role that artists have played in the beautification of St. Pete, many are still struggling to leave their day jobs and pursue art full-time. Curators & Co. rents local art to local businesses for a monthly fee – helping artists make a living through… Read More
By Jennifer Ring. Visiting Bill Coleman’s Institute for Creative Arts is like taking a trip to a bygone area — a time when people fixed things instead of discarding them, studio space was still available and affordable in Dunedin, people didn’t have websites and… Read More
By Yuki Jackson. I recently held a manga and comic book-based poetry workshop at St.Pete’s Tombolo Books. It was an effort to connect and share the efforts of The Battleground, a youth program I founded, with the wider Tampa Bay community…. Read More
By Mikhail Mansion. Algorithm art, an artmaking technique with roots stretching back to the Islamic golden age, took on fresh meaning with the advent of computers in the mid-20th century. Computers provided artists with a novel framework to give shape to abstract visual systems … Read More
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St. Petersburg, FL 33743
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Creative Pinellas
As the Local Arts Agency for Pinellas County, Creative Pinellas and its programs are funded in part by our sustaining sponsors: the Pinellas County Board of County Commissioners, Visit St. Pete-Clearwater, State of Florida through the Division of Arts and Culture and the National Endowment for the Arts, and through the American Rescue Plan Act. Additional support comes from our contributing sponsor, the Tampa Bay Resiliency Fund, and sales of the State of the Arts specialty license plate in Pinellas County.