Genre: Grantee Story

MEETING MY MENTOR The 2022 Creative Pinellas Emerging Artist Show featured exciting new, innovative, artwork, along with their mentors. My friend Denis Gaston work was on display along side of… Read More

In Tampa Bay between Pinellas and Hillsborough, I can count on one hand Black theater directors. There aren’t that many and I’ve worked or know all of them. As I… Read More

I’ve been consistently writing since my late teens, and during all that time, I’ve been a part of countless writing groups, classes, workshops, and readings. After all that time, at… Read More

ABOUT ME The grand marble staircase, flanked by knights’ metal armor circa middle ages, led to the 2nd floor of the Detroit Institute of Art. I played on those stairs… Read More

Hi. I’m Dennis DeBon, glass artist,  boxing referee, and screenwriter.  Probably, the only one you’ll ever meet.  So, I’m wondering if there are any boxing fans reading this because I… Read More

Blog Post 3 – Agueda Zabisky As a continuation of my previous post (blog 2), today I will share the evolution of my work over time and how it was… Read More

Sometimes an artists influences may not be readily detectable in the art work. And arguably as seeing, hearing feeling humans isn’t it very possible everything is an influence and the… Read More

Hi everyone and happy new year! Today I want to share with you my reflection on Matthew Wong’s Retrospective, “The Realm of Appearances” at the Dallas Museum of Art in… Read More

Hello, my name is Jenipher Chandley, and I want to dive right into why I am a painter and what drives my artistic expression. Creating art has been a part… Read More

Hello everyone! My name is Aimee Jones, and I am so honored to be a grantee of Creative Pinellas Emerging Artist Grant 2023. I want to first introduce myself and… Read More