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
A New Home for Lens-Based Art
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Entries for the Arts Coast Magazine
“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
Opportunity, Inspiration, Discipline, and Anxiety Ahead
I’m not sure which feeling came first: honored or startled. A few weeks ago, I sat through a rather intense online experience with many invisible peers, as we watched a… 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
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
