Friends of Brooker Creek Preserve, a nonprofit support organization of Brooker Creek Preserve, is hosting Plein Air 2022, an outdoor on-location painting event. This annual program is designed to encourage the use of the 8,700-acre Brooker Creek wilderness preserve as natural inspiration for works of art. Visual artists of all levels are invited to participate…. Read More
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Entries for the Arts Coast Magazine
Prints, Printmakers, and Printing
What I do and how I do it. My art background is in sculpture but during the last five or six years I began experimenting with printmaking. What is… Read More
Discovering Dimple: (Part 3) ‘Talk Hard’
Seeing as how we ended up (unintentionally) doing a series within our Blogs, as we progress, I of course go back and re-read the last one to bring me back… Read More
Yeah, But What Are Your Paintings About?
Works by Jason Hackenwerth with accompanying thoughts. Over then next 25 weeks I plan to share images of paintings and past installations of sculpture. I will try to give thoughtful… Read More
THE RISK/REWARD RATIO OF CREATIVITY
Last month, I was absolutely THRILLED to be a recipient of the Creative Pinellas Professional Artist Grant for my work in literature, but my career in writing didn’t begin with… Read More
Women In Wartime, Lee Miller
Last year, I wrote and performed a show for the Dali Museum on the subject of Lee Miller, who photographed the atrocities of World War II. As I listen to… Read More
Postcards Inspired by Picasso
By Margo Hammond. Have you ever written yourself a postcard? I did — at a workshop last month at the Dalí Museum offered by The Paper Seahorse. You can, too. Just join the second Art of the Postcard – Picasso Style workshop at the museum on May 10 from 6-8 pm. The Paper Seahorse is a stationery store that addresses what its founder, Tona Bell, calls “the digital dilemma” – the fact that these days so many of us are constantly in front of our computers…. Read More
Sarah Emery, dance artist – An introduction
(pc: Jeff Cravotta) Hello : ) My name is Sarah Emery and I am a dance artist in St. Petersburg, FL. As a new member of the St. Petersburg community,… Read More
New Music Inspired by Florida Artist Christopher Still
By Susan Giles-Wantuck. For more than 10 years, oboist Amy Collins and painter Christopher Still have wanted a piece of music to go along with the murals he painted for the state house chamber, as Artist-in-Residence of the Florida Legislature. And this Sunday, composer Alyssa Morris’s Florida Miniatures will have its world premiere at USF. The work is based on some of the ten murals Still painted in the Florida House Chamber…. Read More
My Cultural Journey/Identity and Belonging
Hi I’m Rachel Stewart. This is my first blog and I’m excited about all the possibilities available to me as one of the recipients of the Professional Artists 2022 grant…. Read More


