By Harriet Monzon-Aguirre. Dropping off my children at school one day I noticed a shipping container in the parking lot and painted on the side read, “Dalí on the Fly” with a small rendering of a young Salvador Dalí clad in a blue sailor suit holding a hoop. “Wow look at that guys, you have a mobile Dalí art exhibition right here at your school!”… Read More
By Margo Hammond. Ours is a death-denying culture – one that emphasizes youth and vitality and feels uncomfortable talking about death. So why are so many USF students taking a course entitled Death and Dying? The course is consistently one of the most popular general interest courses for undergrads at USF…. Read More
Creative Pinellas CEO Barbara St. Clair announced that she’ll be retiring from her role at the end of this year. Today we celebrate her role as an arts advocate – and the pleasantly surprising conversations she’s recorded with a wide range of artists on the Arts In podcast. … Read More
By Pamela J. Trow. Thank you for the gifts the NEA/Pinellas Recovers Grant bestowed on me. It was a gift to be a footbridge for an issue of great importance to so many of us. The children who attended the workshops provided a special gift – the gift of hope for our future…. Read More
By Margo Hammond Public Libraries What Heaven May Look Like . . . “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of a Library.” — Jorge Luis Borges… Read More
By Laura Kepner . . . Safety Harbor Children’s Theater Creativity and Accessibility in the Spotlight . . . . . . Imagine being a child and auditioning for a… Read More
By Laura Kepner . . . November 20 from 4-9 pm Safety Harbor Art and Music Center Details here . . . The Tampa Bay area is home to approximately… Read More
By Margo Hammond . . . After months of living with a pandemic, you would think I would have had enough of being scared – but I’m a sucker for… Read More
By Margo Hammond . . . Hispanic Heritage Month runs from September 15-October 15. Here are five more reasons to celebrate what I have dubbed Literary Latinx Month. . …. Read More
By Laura Kepner . . . Karen Errico sits on her back patio facing Safety Harbor’s Alligator Lake. It’s a typical early fall Florida afternoon – sunshine glistens across the… Read More
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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.