Our Guest Editor this month is Carla Bristol. Bristol is a curator and gallerist of St. Petersburg’sæGallerie 909. However, both Bristol and her galleryæhave grown beyond those titles. She can… Read More
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For Art Museums to Survive, They Must Serve Minority Audiences Better
Art museums are failing to serve minority audiences äóñ and if they want to survive, that has to change. According to a recent assessment by the National Endowment for the… Read More
From Florida to New York | Emily Miller
A Young Painteräó»s Journey from Pinellas to the Capital of the Art World. Pinellas County has a thriving visual and performing arts scene, and attracts young artists from around the… Read More
Gentrification Cycles: The Artists
This article is part one of a three-part series in which we explore the perspectives of three groups of people affected by gentrification. Gentrification has been weighing on the… Read More
Derek Donnelly’s COVE Displays a Broad Spectrum of Visual Art Trendsetters
All images by Daniel Veintimilla for Creative Pinellas Derek Donnelly, muralist, Carmada painter, æformer owner of Saint Paint and member of Bloom Collective, helped bring awareness to St. Petersburg’s 600… Read More
“The Point is to Encourage and Uplift” | A Conversation with Catherine Bergmann
Catherine Bergmann does things her own way. Having studied art and religion before becoming, first, the education director and then the curator she is today at the Dunedin Fine Art… Read More
When I Step on Stage in Front of a Piano… | Interview with Elizabeth Baker
Thanks to the efforts of sound maven Elizabeth A. Baker, whoäó»s culmination of influences national and international has bestowed Florida with some quality avant-garde music programming, we have The New… Read More
5 Things to Do
February 3-9 Decisions, decisions. This Friday is jam-packed with stuff, though thereäó»s plenty to fill out the rest of the week, too. And while the rest of the country savors… Read More
Arts In Podcast – Tom Sivak

Tom Sivak is an adventurous composer and lyricist who talks about turning Beatles songs into Bach fugues, a musical version of “The Brain That Wouldn’t Die – in 3D!!!” and… Read More
February Arts News Roundup
It has been an eventful few weeks, and not only because the arts are entwined with the complex, challenging landscape they comment on. Hereäó»s our semi-monthly roundup of some… Read More