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
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
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
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
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
By Citlali Morales. Alyssa Osceola is from the Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation in South Florida. She is currently pursuing a BFA in Illustration at Ringling College of Art & Design, with work in the “Reclaiming Home: Contemporary Seminole Art” exhibition at the Ringling … Read More
By Tony Wong Palms. The ancient Egyptian goddess, Neith, associated with the spider, wove the world into existence. Weaving, knitting, macrame, crochet, sewing, stitching, embroidery, dyeing, quilting, smocking, draping, pleating, appliqué… are some of the techniques and methods fabric artists use – and some of the results are on exhibit in … Read More
By Raven Joy Shonel. The community came out to celebrate a new mural in St. Petersburg in front of The Woodson African American Museum of Florida on Juneteenth. 2020’s “Black Lives Matter” mural on 9th Avenue S. was updated by 19 local artists to read “Black History Matters”… Read More
The exhibition “Rebel” at Florida CraftArt showcases the perspectives of 27 fine craft artists on this theme. “These artists have taken the concept of rebelling and created outstanding works that are thought-provoking – some are social statements, while others are humorous” … Read More
By Rebecca Skelton. Salvador Dalí seems to have drawn constantly. Having been a drawing teacher for about 30 years, I think the most interesting way to view the exhibit “Where Ideas Come From – Dalí’s Drawings” is as a cross section of the means of and reasons for drawing…. Read More
