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Multimedia coverage of dynamic arts and artists
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New Fiction and Poetry
July 7, 2020 | Curated by Maureen McDole Fiction and Poetry . . . My Rosa Parks in Response to Nikki Giovanni’s Rosa By Alexandra Morgan . . . Childhood remembrances are a drag if you are white and came from my family Our big old house had 4 bathrooms and 21 rooms and we [...]
The Visual Art of Gary Lemons Inspires a Film Performance
July 7, 2020 | By Jake-ann Jones A Conversation with Artist & Writer Gary L. Lemons How his work inspired the upcoming film REFLECTIONS July 14 at 8 pm at studio620.org Self portrait by Gary L. Lemons On Tuesday, July 14, The Studio@620 kicks off an expansion of their Social Justice Round-table series with a presentation of REFLECTIONS, [...]
Traveling By Book Through Tampa Bay
July 6, 2020 | By Margo Hammond Traveling By Book Through Tampa Bay . . . Tampa Bay Noir, an anthology of crime fiction edited by Colette Bancroft, features 15 Tampa Bay locales written by 15 writers with ties to Tampa Bay. Books can transport us to faraway, exotic places we’ve never seen, but they can also show [...]
Socially Distant Dance on Saturday
July 6, 2020 More Socially Distant Dance Performances . . . Amanda Sieradzki at the performance site of Volution, Davis Islands Sea Plane Basin Park, alongside the Davis Island Bike Path - photo by Alvaro G. Gabaldon Dance Linkages & Poetica present Dance in the Time of Coronavirus, a series of socially distanced dance performances. All performances are [...]
Celebrating Photographer Lee Miller
July 1, 2020 | By Robin O'Dell Celebrating Photographer Lee Miller . . . Self portrait (variant on Lee Miller par Lee Miller), Paris, France c1930 © Lee Miller Archives England 2020. All Rights Reserved. www.leemiller.co.uk The life of photographer Lee Miller unfolded like the best of Hollywood films, full of adventure, romance, bravery, betrayal and extraordinary beauty. [...]
Virtual Reality – Art in the Age of Coronavirus
June 29, 2020 | By Kurt Loft Virtual Reality Art in the Age of Coronavirus An Evolving Online Exhibition by the USF Contemporary Art Museum Through December 12 lifeduringwartimeexhibition.org Diana Al-Hadid, And a Comet Appeared as if Frozen for a Whole Year, 2019. Polymer gypsum, fiberglass, steel, plaster, gold leaf, copper leaf, pigment. 58 x 64 x 3-1/2 in. [...]
Colleen Cherry Pens Personalized Songs About Other People’s Pets
June 25, 2020 | By Eric Snider A Pet Project Colleen Cherry creates personalized songs about people’s pets. She once wrote and recorded 61 songs in a week. . . . Colleen Cherry and an SPCA client When SPCA Tampa Bay held a fundraiser in mid-May — including its first virtual pet walk — Colleen Cherry, who [...]
Cam Parker: Black Artists Matter
June 23, 2020 | By Stephanie Powers Cam Parker Black Artists Matter . . . SHINE Fest Black Lives Matter mural - Letter A by Cam Parker - photo by Jenee Priebe Visual artist Cam Parker has only been in Tampa 11 years, but he’s already left a mark. His murals are everywhere – Lizzo in Ybor Heights, [...]
Everything is Water – A Conversation with Carol Mickett and Robert Stackhouse
June 22, 2020 | By Tom Winchester Everything is Water A Conversation with Carol Mickett and Robert Stackhouse Tuesday, June 30, 7-9 pm Facebook Live Collaborators Carol Mickett and Robert Stackhouse create artworks that investigate the structures of the world around us. Mickett, who has a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Minnesota, analyzes the concepts conveyed by [...]