Read How I Got Into The Arts Here: Read Part 1 Here: How I Got Into the Arts Part I: College and Jewelry Read Part 2 Here: How I Got Into the… Read More
2021, My Insane Year of Art
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Entries for the Arts Coast Magazine
Experience Live Model Casting
MUSE Awards 2022 One of my main reasons for starting these body castings was to help women (whether they are the models posing for the work, or a woman admiring… Read More
Jack Kerouac at 100
By Margo Hammond. Jack Kerouac would have turned 100 this month, but he’s never really grown old, has he? He died more than a half a century ago at age 47 in St. Petersburg – but, thanks to photographs and the work he left behind, he is fixed in our minds as that young man with a full shock of hair, seated on a poetry stool, reciting poems to jazz in San Francisco…. Read More
Brewer’s “Hot Walk” Encircles An Unspoken Center
By Amanda Sieradzki. Enter the elevator. Go up to the third floor. Walk down the long hallway. To the right, take another hallway that passes through a kitchenette into a large meeting area with a wall showcasing local artists’ work. Keep going…. Read More
My Career In Advertising
Right out of college I started working at an ad agency as an Art Director. It was at the beginning of when computers took over typesetting by hand. Which made… Read More
A Love Letter To My Mentors
Read How I Got Into The Arts Here: Read Part 1 Here: How I Got Into the Arts Part I: College and Jewelry Read Part 2 Here: How I Got Into the… Read More
Reflecting On The Emerging Artist Conversation
On Thursday, April 3rd, Creative Pinellas hosted the first Emerging Artist Conversation for the 2022 grant recipients. All the artists were live on a Zoom call, that was streaming on… Read More
Legislating Literature?
We have rarely shied away from criticism about our work being too “Woke” or being on the wrong side of Florida’s polarized political landscape- we can easily remember being called… Read More
Bandleader Appreciation
This is something that all-too-often gets overlooked, both from the musician and audience perspectives: The Bandleader. This is the guy (or gal), who isn’t necessarily the frontman, but keeps everyone… Read More
Helen French’s “Reprise” Makes Old New Again
By Amanda Sieradzki. March 10 from 6-8 pm at the Creative Pinellas Gallery. Helen Hansen French liquifies at the foot of Nebulous’ soft, luxurious clouds. Three women — French, Sharon McCaman and Kaylee Davis — rise meditatively, arms outstretched… Read More
