Pinellas County Students in Grades K-8 Celebrate Visual Movement . . . Through April 3 Free Creative Pinellas Gallery Details here . . . The Clearwater Arts Alliance in partnership… Read More
Students Celebrate Visual Movement
Genre: ACM
Jazz Surges Ahead at Anniversary Concert of Celebrated Band
By Kurt Loft. Benny Goodman just might bend an ear this week. So will Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Glenn Miller and the Dorsey brothers. They all love the heavenly sounds of their big bands, and the players who keep their spirits alive today. One would be Chuck Owen, who celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Jazz Surge, a group he founded at the USF School of Music, where he established its first faculty post of Jazz Studies in the early 1980s…. Read More
DFAC Invites Artists and Arts Supporters to Stand with Ukraine
The Dunedin Fine Art Center invites Bay area artists to create work that will be sold to benefit the people of Ukraine. “This beautiful, anonymous sunflower painting was amongst the many paintings donated for Trashy Treasures this year. It has inspired us to reach out to You, our favorite artists, to create a single sunflower painting on paper left over from Trashy Treasures.”… Read More
Digital Pinellas
By Tom Winchester. Lately it seems like everything’s gone digital. Digital media rule. I’ve asked two Bay area artists about their current digital projects. Perry Neri is the Director of an online exhibition and archive platform called Refrigerator Poetry, and Maria Paula Garcés creates NFTs and offers courses on how to make them…. Read More
Celebrating 20 Years of Masterworks
By Tony Wong Palms. There are gems from Picasso, Braque, Chagall, Miró, Léger, Renoir, Cézanne, Daumier and other masters of art history – and masterworks from more recent times by Sam Gilliam, Jim Dine, Kenneth Noland, Louisa Chase. Closer to home are Theo Wujcik, Christopher Still, Tom Kettner. Who knew this little outpost in Tarpon has been harboring such treasures in its vault?… Read More
Women of Jazz XVI
In celebration of Women’s History Month, a stellar jazz band featuring Valerie Gillespie on saxophone and vocals, Judi Glover on piano, Patricia Dean on drums and vocals, and guest vocalists Rose Bilal, Lorri Hafer and Belinda Womack will perform at the Palladium’s Hough Hall…. Read More
Jack Kerouac at 100
By Margo Hammond. Jack Kerouac would have turned 100 this month, but he’s never really grown old, has he? He died more than a half a century ago at age 47 in St. Petersburg – but, thanks to photographs and the work he left behind, he is fixed in our minds as that young man with a full shock of hair, seated on a poetry stool, reciting poems to jazz in San Francisco…. Read More
Brewer’s “Hot Walk” Encircles An Unspoken Center
By Amanda Sieradzki. Enter the elevator. Go up to the third floor. Walk down the long hallway. To the right, take another hallway that passes through a kitchenette into a large meeting area with a wall showcasing local artists’ work. Keep going…. Read More
Helen French’s “Reprise” Makes Old New Again
By Amanda Sieradzki. March 10 from 6-8 pm at the Creative Pinellas Gallery. Helen Hansen French liquifies at the foot of Nebulous’ soft, luxurious clouds. Three women — French, Sharon McCaman and Kaylee Davis — rise meditatively, arms outstretched… Read More
New Arts Partnership Between Creative Pinellas and American Stage
First Mondays, a series of free theatrical readings, kicks off on Monday, March 7 at 7 pm at the Gallery at Creative Pinellas in Largo…. Read More
