Genre: Visual

By Tony Wong Palms. The Lyrical Moment exhibition currently at the USF Contemporary Art Museum (CAM) features the works of two artists – Helen Frankenthaler and Heather Gwen Martin. Can there be a more different pairing of two artists? Probably yes, but in this case, while both fit the category of abstract artists, in a way The Lyrical Moment is an exhibition of two halves as the artworks representing each artist come off different routes and media, each speaking from a very different point in history…. Read More

By Judy Vienneau. Judy Vienneau’s recent art employs her talent for using various media, paint and a unique technique with wire to “draw in space,” resulting in artwork which falls somewhere between two and three dimensions. In Visual Storytelling, Judy Vienneau presents pieces which portray concepts of human social interaction, as well as environmental concerns. … Read More

By Robyn Crosa. On Saturday, July 9 at 3 pm Robyn Crosa will host an Artist Talk at Gallery 120 at Largo Public Library about her solo exhibition, Gourdgeous Goddess Gals. The event includes a children’s storytelling time and a musical performance of the folksong “Follow the Drinking Gourd.” There will be a Spanish language interpreter at the event and it will be videotaped … Read More

By Emily Lee Stehle. I was thrilled to witness this celebration. I was not prepared to see the diverse variety and the indescribable beauty of “books” at the Beyond Words: Celebrating Books as Art exhibit. Books were made out of paper, recycled and handmade paper, museum board, metal, clay, leather, fabric, glass, wood, edible flowers and herbs embedded in pastillage dough, found objects – and even, books…. Read More

By Deborah Rodriguez. I am a storyteller. The ultimate story is the acknowledgement that we are one human race. It is my goal to express my membership in this human race through the lens of my African American soul. My art is how I share my membership…. Read More

By Tony Wong Palms. It is all an adventurous, a celebratory, and a life preserving act when seeking out art – whether going couple of miles to galleries or museums in town, or a few thousand miles cross country, or over the ocean blue. A recent road trip had me driving from Tampa to Death Valley, where huge land art sites are dwarfed in an even more enormously vast untamed western landscape…. Read More

By Kendra N. Bryant. Creating a work on Zora Neale Hurston might seem trite for a Florida literary journal. However, years ago, while I was a student of Deborah G. Plant, Hurston scholar who edited Hurston’s Barracoon, I asked her, “How much more can we write about Zora?” Just as much as we can write about love, she said. & so it is…. Read More