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Image by Manfred Steger from Pixabay   Blog Post 12 – Agueda Zabisky   The Creative Pinellas Grant period is coming to an end. There is very little time left… Read More

Exploring USF’s Public Art Collection

This Saturday, University of South Florida students lead a free guided walking tour of the rich landscape of public art installations on the Tampa campus. The Public Art program at USF focuses on site responsive works that create places, not just objects…. Read More

Constant Creativity

By Margo Hammond. They call themselves The Wild Wacky Women Club. Meeting on the third Thursday of each month, six women, alternating among their houses in Seminole, Largo, Clearwater and Palm Harbor, meet to accept a creative challenge. This month 36 works of art — the result of six of those WWW Club challenges — are on display at the East Lake Community Library in Palm Harbor… Read More

A New Home for the Academy of Ballet Arts

By Markus Gottschlich. It is a rare occurrence that a business founded in 1969 has a chance to redesign its community impact, but the renaissance of the Academy of Ballet Arts Inc is happening on April 1 as the Warehouse Arts District Association (WADA) welcomes the Academy’s professional ballet school to the WADA ArtsXchange Campus…. Read More

Black Children’s Book Week 2023

By Jake-ann Jones. Three local literacy champions partnered to bring children and books together during Black Children’s Book Week at St. Petersburg’s James Weldon Johnson Community Library. Antonio Brown of Barbershop Book Club, Lorielle Hollaway of Cultured Books Literacy Foundation and Always Truth Incorporated’s founder Tameka Harris joined forces for … Read More

Rediscovering Composer Joseph Bologne

By Kurt Loft. Why isn’t this talented composer played more often? Why are many of us hearing him for the first time this weekend? The music of Joseph Bologne merits more airspace, and his status as the first significant classical composer of color should be a topic in schoolbooks…. Read More

Getting out of my comfort zone

Blog Post 10 – Agueda Zabisky If we break down the phrase “stepping out of our comfort zone,” it means doing things that we don’t feel comfortable doing or pushing… Read More

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