As part of the Creative Pinellas Emerging Artist Grant, grantees are paired with mentors. I think it’s only fitting to use alliteration in the title of this article because my… Read More
Meeting My Mentor Maureen McDole
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Entries for the Arts Coast Magazine
Postcards from Pinellas
By Jennifer Ring. On my recent arts scavenger hunt from North County to South County, I explored many ways you can enjoy arts and culture in Pinellas County…. Read More
The Next Steps: The Painting Process
So far you have seen the beginning steps to creating an oil painting, going from the initial idea and sketch phase to the first “underpainting” on the stretched canvas. These… Read More
Old Box #2: Candid “I” Exams
Because creation, both capital C and small c, is continuous, there is no such category as non-creativity not even amidst a waste land. The all of life, included death, bleeds… Read More
Igniting New Life
As we strolled through the soft white sand towards the calm water at Treasure Island beach, the clear skies above seemed to promise the perfect backdrop for a sunset –… Read More
A New Home for Lens-Based Art
By Beth Reynolds. Large, bright rooms, all on one floor, a parking garage one block away that is only $1 an hour – what’s not to love about the new Florida Museum of Photographic Arts location in Ybor City?… Read More
“I’ve got forests growing inside me”
By Sara Ries Dziekonski. These are poems from the workshop I facilitated at the Gulfport Senior Center, by a wonderful group of four women. Every week we read poems, wrote poems on our own and community poems, and shared our creations…. Read More
Favorite Arts Experiences in Pinellas County
We’re celebrating the vibrant artists and arts organizations in our county by sharing favorite Pinellas arts experiences. … Read More
Accelerate: who me?
I search for time. Not the gap of fifteen minutes between boiling pasta and serving dinner, but time like a safari, two or three hours tracing my steps in the… Read More
Old Box #1: A Difficult Love
A friend of mine, a local photographer, and I were brainstorming a name for a new photography magazine. Back and forth, in a cafe, the math of verbal volley. No… Read More
