Exploring Afrofuturism This Month

By Fatemah Tuwainah. I shared a conversation with creative members of the Pinellas Diaspora Arts Project, who serve neighborhoods with art, love and healing in mind. This weekend begins their 2023 Tampa Bay Afrofuturism Festival… Read More

Celebrating the Power of Hispanic Art

By Yuly Restrepo. “The Hurricane Within” at the Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art illustrates the power and strength of Hispanic art through nature’s force and the vitality of these artists…. Read More

How an Oil Painting Comes to Life

By Steven Kenny. Have you ever visited an art museum, stood in front of an Old Master painting, and wished you could have looked over the artist’s shoulder and watched the evolution of that work of art from start to finish? What follows is my own process of creating an oil painting from beginning to end…. Read More

Retaking Control of Photography’s Complex Legacy

By Tom Winchester. Native America: In Translation at the USF Contemporary Art Museum is an exhibition of photography by nine contemporary artists presenting tribal peoples not as anachronisms, but as trendsetters on the forefront of culture…. Read More

Ghost Stories Told in Fine Craft

By Emily Lee Stehle. Who doesn’t love a good ghost story? And right before Halloween, Florida CraftArt in downtown St. Pete brings the spooky stories and terrors of 38 visual artists to light…. Read More

June Bunch’s Twin Passions

By Jennifer Ring. St. Pete visual artist and musician June Bunch has a talent for creative combinations. The same artist who’s coupled plants and dance has combined old cassette tapes with change purses to create custom wallets, and is a singer-songwriter…. Read More

A Harvest of Art Openings

By Tony Wong Palms. As the planet goes spiraling round and round, we watch the end of summer, another school year commencing, football season. . . and new exhibition openings in museums and galleries. … Read More

Coexisting in a Changing Environment

By Kurt Loft. SUPERFLEX is a Danish artist collective that blurs the lines of art, design, science and activism. The USF Contemporary Art Museum opens their new St Pete branch with a SUPERFLEX exhibit that sheds light on Florida and its precarious environment and “imagines a future in which all lifeforms coexist as equals.”… Read More

The Art History of Our Community

This is the first in a series of features sharing excerpts from the amazing oral history interviews Hillsborough Community College is collecting to preserve and honor the work of vital visual artists in our community. “In Their Own Words” is on view at the HCC Dale Mabry campus through February 29. … Read More

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