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

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

Continuing the Painting Process

The Next Step In my last blog/story, “Beginning the Painting Process”, I outlined the first steps to creating a finished still life oil painting. There I took the process from… Read More

An Ode to Our Library System

Being an avid user of our library system, I often find myself led to unexpected literary treasures. In a quest for William Morris’s ‘How We Live and How We Might… Read More

In Constant Conversation

Original oil painting of Old Tampa Bay

When I sit to think about what I want to share for the Artist Story blog Creative Pinellas Emerging Artist Grant Artist Story I ask myself what has already been… Read More

Mickett/Stackhouse – Circle of Water

By Tony Wong Palms. Artists are rising to the challenge to understand and hopefully mitigate, or simply slow our contributions to the climate crisis. Mickett and Stackhouse are part of this global conversation…. Read More

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