Our guest editor during the month of March 2017 is artist Kirk Ke Wang. In addition to creating work in painting, sculpture photography and more, Wang is also a Professor… Read More
Archives: Articles
Entries for the Arts Coast Magazine
“Don’t Come Back.”
Kirk Ke Wang’s Journey from China to the U.S. and the Tampa Bay Arts Community’s Journey to the Present Kirk Ke Wang moved to Tampa in the mid-1980s, he has… Read More
“I Wish to Say”
Sheryl Oringäó»s unusually well-written artist website says she äóìexamines critical social issues through projects that incorporate old and new media to tell stories, examine public opinion and foster open exchange…. Read More
The Ever-Changing Art of Collecting
From high-profile collectors commissioning works for four digits-plus to $3 magnets at the indie market, art collecting remains a personally tinged endeavor that has grown into an everyday cultural imperative…. Read More
Underground Roundup
March 10 – 16 As mentioned over at our usual Five Things to Do writeup, weäó»re experimenting with adding an occasional listing focusing on smaller, edgier events around Pinellas. Thereäó»s… Read More
Five Things to Do
March 10 – 16 Hey folks! Some quick housekeeping: Weäó»re experimenting with a new occasional feature highlighting some fringier cultural goings-on in Pinellas. For now weäó»re calling Underground Roundup, and… Read More
Five Things to Do
March 3 – 9 Itäó»s one of those weeks when you canäó»t possibly do everything youäó»d like, as a huge free art fair goes head-to-head with a reggae festival and… Read More
What the World Needs Now or How the Academy Awards Illustrated Everything
Growing up with parents who were vaguely Freudian in everything they understood, I spent my childhood believing that when it came to big mistakes, the unconscious, in its ability to… Read More
Creative Pinellas Announces Recipients of Individual Artist Grant
Awards Given Across Multiple Disciplines Artistic disciplines as wide ranging as choreography, theatre, music composition, performance art and visual arts were all recipients of Creative Pinellasäó» Impact Returns grant awards,… Read More
Gibbs High School Grad, Wicked Dance Captain
Although the Broadway production of Wicked has come and gone this past weekend in Tampa, you caught one of many Pinellas County Center for the Arts success stories if you… Read More


