I forgot to go to the Friday night party for Contain It! at the Dunedin Fine Arts Center, which sucks because it was probably the one chance I’ll ever have to see LA artist-turned-public-access-host John Kilduff perform live. Did anyone see him paint, blend drinks, and exercise? How was it?
On Saturday, I stopped by [...]

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Courtney Johnson
Survival Machines
Photographic emulsion on hand blown glass, 2007
Recommended by Bernice Steinbaum, Bernice Steinbaum Galleries
I have to issue a “hold the phone” for this one: Florida Craftsmen Gallery has a sweet little show up called Highly Recommended, which they cobbled together by asking arts industry insiders around the state to recommend a promising emerging artist. [...]

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Robert Stackhouse, Indigo Way (1986). Watercolor on paper mounted on linen, 98-3/8 x 167 in. Courtesy of the John and Maxine Belger Family Foundation.
Earlier this month, I had the pleasure of speaking (via conference call from their studio) with Robert Stackhouse and Dr. Carol Mickett. Read the article in Creative Loafing.
Stackhouse is a [...]

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Tes One working on the TMA mural. Image courtesy BASK and Tes One.
I thought briefly about headlining this post “Vandals Deface TMA,” and then I thought: Oh, somebody’s not going to think that’s funny…
But for those of us who’ve occasionally entertained fantasies that the area’s talented street artists enjoyed a more prominent role in [...]

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Two calls to announce; the following adapted from press releases. Click on the category tag “Calls to Artists” at the bottom of the post to find any other open calls hanging out in the archives.
5[art] announces Polaroid Installation at [5]art West, running Feb. 8-29 with an opening reception Fri., Feb. 8, 7-10 p.m. ([5]art West [...]

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Flight 19 at the Baggage Claim Building at Union Train Station on Nebraska Ave in downtown Tampa. Image from Sir Robert Davis’s blog on tbo.com.
Bad news over the holiday season. Flight 19 has a new neighbor in the historic, restored baggage claim building at Union Station. Highland Properties, a small commercial real estate firm, [...]

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