By Skyla Luckey. Hive Pottery St. Pete is a studio that has created a safe place for uncomfortable conversations both verbal and visual. This includes a safe place for opposing views, too. … Read More
A Safe Place for Art and Empathy
Genre: Visual Arts
What Do Wearable Art Designers Wear to a Party?
Dunedin Fine Art Center’s much-loved Wearable Art fundraising party is coming up. We this year’s designers what they like to wear when they dress up for a party!… Read More
The Big Art Show
By Kerry Kriseman. Scientists will tell you that purple moons don’t exist. But visitors to Lewis House at Eckerd College can see Purple Moonlight, among other vibrant pieces by Creative Clay’s Member Artists, in “The Big Art Show.”… Read More
Material Mastery
By Emily Lee Stehle. On exhibit at the Leepa-Rattner is an unusual sharing of work that showcases the Permanent Collection of Florida CraftArt alongside the museum’s permanent collection and works from the late Gulf Coast Museum of Art. There’s much to see and enjoy…. Read More
Discover What it’s Like to Live Inside a Salvador Dalí Painting
By Jennifer Ring. Seeing technology turning the implied motion in Dalí’s paintings into actual motion feels like seeing these paintings as they existed in Dalí’s head — before he committed paint to canvas…. Read More
Healing Through Community Connection and Creativity
By Fatemah Tuwainah. I experienced Healing While Black 2023 last month after Dr. Ladonna Butler invited me to this 4-day event in St. Petersburg. Little did she know that her invitation was putting me on a path of regaining a piece of my soul, and hope. … Read More
Artists For Impact Gives Back to St. Pete
By Cameron Healy. What started as a small event for New York artists to connect turned into a nonprofit organization expanding across the country — including a chapter in St. Pete. The mission statement of Artists For Impact is “providing a platform for artists and giving back to the communities around us.”… Read More
An Art Business with a Software Model
By Jennifer Ring. Despite the enormous role that artists have played in the beautification of St. Pete, many are still struggling to leave their day jobs and pursue art full-time. Curators & Co. rents local art to local businesses for a monthly fee – helping artists make a living through… Read More
A Good Old-Fashioned Metal Shop with Affordable Studio Space in Dunedin
By Jennifer Ring. Visiting Bill Coleman’s Institute for Creative Arts is like taking a trip to a bygone area — a time when people fixed things instead of discarding them, studio space was still available and affordable in Dunedin, people didn’t have websites and… Read More
The Expanding World of Digital Artists
By Mikhail Mansion. Algorithm art, an artmaking technique with roots stretching back to the Islamic golden age, took on fresh meaning with the advent of computers in the mid-20th century. Computers provided artists with a novel framework to give shape to abstract visual systems … Read More
