By Jennifer Ring. On April 28 the Palm Harbor Library held a ribbon cutting for their brand-new outdoor musical garden. “It’s out there for anyone to use at any time” – a gift to the community thanks to the estate of library supporters Dorothy and Frank Greenstreet. … Read More
I like to talk to other writers about their good writing days, and most of the time, when you talk to any creative person they have a routine (or the… Read More
By Jennifer Ring. It’s making a living as an artist that’s the hard part. The many pearls of wisdom I pulled from brothers Mark Aeling and Jeff Aeling could help you along the way. “Stick with what you love. Ditch everything else.” “There’s more than one way to make a living as an artist.”… Read More
Did you see the film Avatar 2? Did you wonder why it wasn’t as good as the first? Sure, it was visually engaging and lots of people still liked the… Read More
By Tom Winchester. Jolene Lower is a Fine Arts Major at St. Pete’s Eckerd College. Lower studied figure painting as a child, dabbled in graffiti and street art during adolescence – and now creates immersive, gallery-sized installations that remove the distinction between art objects and non-art objects… Read More
A lot of what I’ve been learning through this grant period with Creative Pinellas is understanding how much I can manage, and how much I can (or should) commit to…. Read More
The video below is a brief preview of the three pieces of work I created for the 2023 Emerging Artist Exhibition at Creative Pinellas, opening Thursday, May 4. I recorded… Read More
By Cindy Stovall. Arts patrons know Beth Gelman as the former Executive Director of the Florida Holocaust Museum – and now Senior Director of Arts and Cultural Programming at the Gallery at Creative Pinellas. She’s also a veteran Equity actor with an incredible singing voice – and she’s onstage right now playing Emma Goldman in Ragtime… Read More
Hi Everyone! As we’re getting things prepped and ready for the show opening, I wanted to show you all my teeny-tiny studio space! Because I’ve been working at the University… Read More
By Steven Kenny. Having a museum retrospective of my paintings spanning almost 20 years brings up a wide array of introspective feelings – not to mention logistical hurdles – culminating in what is perhaps the highlight of my career to date…. Read More