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How I started as an artist. I am excited to be selected as one of the grant recipients and want to begin with an introduction.  Originally from Miami I have… Read More

Being a Creator When you are a creator you are constantly in the process of bringing art into being. From the thinking and planning stages to the actual production phase,… Read More

Inspiration #2: Reading It goes without saying, but I’ll say it anyway: the best writers read. What is the impulse of the person who says she wants to write a… Read More

Gogo My late grandfather (Gogo) was the coolest person I’ve ever known – he was cool when I was sixteen, and to this day I’ve never met anyone who comes… Read More

Failure is the Best Teacher The skeleton photographed below was once a beautiful model. But after I set the bulky 4- x 5-inch camera on a tripod, calculated the exposure… Read More

Or Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, Michael Moore… Steven Spielberg says he began his film career early, as a twelve-year-old boy scout, using the family’s film camera to fulfill a scout… Read More

Toward the Next Level and a Better Fit: Files & Film by EVA AVENUE Intrepid photography artist and Creative Pinellas Emerging Artist Grantee Xina Scuderi dreamed up Files & Film… Read More

From the Guest Editor, Margaret Miller: Arts Excellence in an Age of Populism   We’re pleased and excited to have Margaret Miller as the new guest editor of the Creative… Read More