By Don Gialanella. I have long been intrigued with Andy Warhol’s film experiments and wanted to produce a film inspired by his unique style. So, I applied for a St. Pete Art Alliance grant with the idea of creating a video that would document the people of St. Pete based on the series of short, silent, black-and-white film portraits by Andy Warhol called Screen Tests… Read More
By Laura Kepner The Morean Arts Center Florida’s First Center for the Arts . . . NEA/Pinellas Recovers Grant Update . . . The origins of integral parts of our… Read More
By Tom Winchester. Duncan McClellan established The DMG School Project to provide the art of glass to schoolchildren who otherwise wouldn’t have access to it. He says, “When we’re talking with the school kids, what we want to do is get that ‘Aha’ moment.”… Read More
By Elaine Chambliss Strings & Arts On the Deuces August 20 from 4-6 pm Free 535 22nd St South, St. Pete Details here In celebration of Stringed Music on… Read More
By Gabrielle Reeder. Tracey Rtist Jones, Brain Storm, Reda3sb and iBOMS were selected for the St. Pete Arts Alliance’s SHINE Unity project, and got the opportunity to explain what unity means to them through murals – in neighborhoods outside the downtown art districts. … Read More
By Letisia Cruz. My project titled Rituales: An Exploration of Faith in the Caribbean explores the practice of rituals inherited through cultural mythology and spiritual beliefs, drawing inspiration from religious practices rooted in indigenous and Afro-Caribbean origins. The series
celebrates the diversity of religious and spiritual practices across the region…. Read More
By Laura Castro. Art making is generally thought of as a solitary experience. Picture the lone artist holed up in their studio for hours, only emerging once the work is complete. A local remedy to that isolation can be found at the Figure Drawing Workshops happening every Saturday at the Morean Arts Center, where live models pose for a group…. Read More
By Jake-ann Jones. Jennifer Msumba is a singer/songwriter, filmmaker and YouTube vlogger with over 30,000 followers, plus another 20,000 more between Instagram and TikTok. Msumba also happens to be a woman of color on the autism spectrum… Read More
By Kurt Loft. “I benefited greatly from the music-arts programs at Tampa’s Blake High, and education is very important to me,” jazz saxophonist Eric Darius explains. “I’m an advocate for music in the schools and I want to help keep it alive. It’s important to me to expose kids to jazz, encourage them to follow their dreams and inspire them to play musical instruments.”… Read More
By Cindy Stovall. “We’re just trying to get back to basics, get folks to come together around our fire once again – to give them positive stories with uplifting messages,” says freeFall Theatre’s Eric Davis. “Folks will see a wide range of things in this season, but what they all share is that they communicate hope. We want to remind people of their joy. That’s really our focus right now.”… Read More
