With only a few more weeks left of our Emerging Artist Exhibition, I thought it’d be a good share my Directors Note from the production! If you’ve already experienced either… Read More
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Entries for the Arts Coast Magazine
Easy Steps to Writing Better Dialogue
Yeah, they say I’m good with dialogue. I’ve lived a life, I’ve heard enough [expletive] conversations, I ought to be. -Bukowski Dialogue is one of those elements of writing that… Read More
My Summer Job: Playing and Teaching at a Music Festival
Each summer my family and I travel to Greensboro, North Carolina, where we spend five weeks teaching and playing at Eastern Music Festival, an immersive music festival for high school… Read More
Art in Recovery
By Troy Bernardo. It feels good to get things out creatively. From the beginning of time we’ve been telling stories around fires and before that we were making cave paintings so our walls didn’t look so bleak. And I think the new exhibit of Art in Recovery at the Creative Pinellas Gallery gives us a glimpse into this primal feeling we get from creativity…. Read More
The Soundform Series
Today marks the opening of the annual ICC exhibition, Shape of Things, where my artwork Soundform No.4 will be on view (on listen) until January 2024. I invite you to… Read More
Something Blue
By Alice Ferrulo. Inspired by all that is “blue” and a play on the wedding theme “something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue,” this collaborative visual and performing arts installation at the ArtsXchange took two years in the making…. Read More
Journey to Serenity: Embracing Home amidst Life’s Trials
The Emerging Artist Grant has pushed me further in my process conceptual and emotionally. Delving even deeper into the themes of trauma, reflection, healing, forgiveness, and the strength of the… Read More
Our ARTour Clearwater
By Harriet Monzon-Aguirre. My kids and I squeezed in a visit to ARTours Clearwater, a journey through downtown Clearwater’s murals with augmented reality. On our technology-dependent tour, the tech gods were not with me – but you can enjoy the art regardless…. Read More
Unfounded Terror: The Petrification of Unhealed Trauma
For me receiving the emerging artist grant has been a validation of my artistic voice and vision. It has given me the confidence to break down the barriers of self-doubt… Read More
Transcendence: A Deep Connection Through Art
Recently, I had the incredible opportunity to give a talk about my latest series of oil paintings, “Transcendence,” which was created as part of the Creative Pinellas Emerging Artist Grantee… Read More
