April 14th, 2022 6:00pm EST When I am getting out of my car, I see my mother, brother, and partner walking towards me. We walk up to the gallery and… Read More
The Opening Night!
Genre: Grantee Story
Leading up to …
April 2nd, 2022 April 2nd was the day I was scheduled to drop off my Artworks for the Emerging Artist Exhibition. Its a semi-long drive up to Creative Pinellas with… Read More
Opening Night Was A Dream!
It’s 5:30pm, I get to the gallery early. Nobody is there yet. I finally enter, and I run to see my work hung. I am in shook. I feel proud,… Read More
White Paint
There is an old joke about sending your spouse to the art supply store for white paint… One of the fun curses of being in the arts is that learning… Read More
STANDING – A DanceWork honoring Ukraine
STANDING | May 7-8 | Mainstage Theater, Hillsborough Community College As I continue to develop my upcoming dance work titled STANDING in Moving Current Dance Collective’s performance of NewGrounds, I… Read More
Summer Reading
We buy them because we believe we are buying the time to read them. Ok campers, here is your summer reading list. The following is a short annotated bibliography of… Read More
Mainsail!
Artist talk with Javier T. Dones
How I got “hooked” on art
Hello, and welcome to my first blog as a 2022 Creative Pinellas Professional Artist Grant recipient. My name is Eileen Marquez, and I’m originally from Brooklyn, New York. My husband… Read More
eMotions of Water
Why do we as a species have this innate drive to flock to bodies of water? Oceans, lakes, waterfalls, even raindrops draw us to their surfaces. There’s the obvious,… Read More
