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I Need to Know: The Lost Music Interviews
August 19, 2019 | by Stephanie Powers I Need to Know: The Lost Music Interviews Q&A with Author Bill DeYoung Free August 22 at 7 pm The Studio@620 Journalist Bill DeYoung has built a successful lifelong career by asking people questions. In celebration of the release of his third book, I Need to Know: The Lost Music Interviews, he’ll be [...]
Robert Rauschenberg: America Mix-16
August 19, 2019 | by Tony Wong Palms Robert Rauschenberg America Mix-16 Tampa Museum of Art On display August 9, 2019 through January 5, 2020 Robert Rauschenberg, Truck from Suite 1 (America Mix-16), 1983, (detail) © 2019 Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. Photographer: Philip LaDeau Encounters with Rauschenberg exhibitions are like visiting grandmother’s house when we were kids. And we [...]
Carrie Jadus
Arts In: Carrie Jadus Carrie Jadus made a name for herself as a professional artist, after giving up a career as a skilled radio frequency engineer. Her distinctive, soft and subtly subversive style is seen in paintings, on murals, posters and notecards around St. Petersburg. Working at Soft Water Studios, she’s a mainstay of the Warehouse Arts District and longtime [...]
An R&B Legend in Tampa Bay and a Tribute to Ray Charles
Opening Act Tribute to Ray Charles Last November, St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman learned from writer, teacher and journalist Roy Peter Clark that music legend Ray Charles, whose Tampa Bay roots figured largely in his nascent career, wrote and recorded a song called “The St. Pete Florida Blues.” A few short months later, The City of St. Petersburg officially [...]
Pinellas County’s First Mural Project
August 14, 2019 | By Jenee Priebe Stephen Palladino: Be Right Back Pinellas County's First Mural Project Partly shaded by an overpass and pocked with skyscraping queen palms, 192 linear feet of concrete wall are being meticulously transformed by the hands of artist Stephen Palladino. Bright patches of color dance across the outdoor canvas, awaiting his signature black [...]
Blindfolded Glass-Blowing Demonstration with Erik & Martin Demaine
The artists/mathematicians marry art and science and stuntwork to blend glass and paper to fire up both sides of our brain.
Welcome to the Arts Coast Journal
Letter from the Editor August 7, 2019 | By Sheila Cowley Welcome to the Arts Coast Journal, a new name and new focus for the Creative Pinellas online magazine. Our aim is high-quality coverage of the Visual, Literary and Performing Arts. . . and all the kinds of art that merge and mix and fall between those. This is [...]
Catch the Spirit: Aretha Franklin Concert Film
Free - August 12 - RSVP here Catch the Spirit August 5, 2019 | By Eric Snider The film Amazing Grace finds Aretha Franklin at the pinnacle of her gospel powers Aretha Franklin did not want you to see Amazing Grace, the concert film that captures her transcendent 1972 gospel performance at the New Missionary Baptist Church in [...]
Jason Hackenwerth
Arts In: Jason Hackenwerth Jason Hackenwerth is an adventurous abstract sculptor who’s medium is thousands of latex balloons. His enormous sculptural inventions can fill a towering museum atrium, or mall. His sculptures are enormous, and the vivid pictures on his website are only an echo of the overwhelming power of experiencing them up close. Jason Hackenwerth teaches at St. Pete’s [...]