Image from tomnakashima.com
Tomorrow is the last chance to check out two shows at Ringling College of Art and Design’s Selby Gallery (on the RCAD campus, one-half block east of 2700 N. Tamiami Trail on Dr. Martin Luther King, Sarasota; 941.359.7563).
Tom Nakashima, an internationally-exhibited artist who also happens to be a professor at Augusta State [...]

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St. Petersburg artist Jack Barrett, once an illustrator at the St. Petersburg Times, has passed away. Click here to listen to an interview with Barrett conducted by Bob Barancik of Creative Share. Lance Rodgers of Salt Creek Artworks has written this obituary:
Jack Barrett, one of St. Pete’s best and best-known artists has sadly passed away.
His [...]

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Inside Ybor’s Czar nightclub.
Saturday night, I went to Dirty But Sophisticated 4 with Avant Garde, the Tampa Museum of Art’s young professionals group. They had finagled a pre-DBS tour of artist Theo Wujcik’s studio as well as early entry to the main event, a collaborative art-and-fashion show featuring the work of 16 local artists and [...]

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Elisabeth Condon, Impending Fall, 2007, Watercolor, 11 x 15 in.
With few natural signals to indicate the passing of the seasons, Bay area residents are left to simulate the arrival of spring with a flowering of arts and cultural offerings. Dear friends, as we face a never-ending onslaught of oppressively sunshine-filled days in the coming [...]

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A little late to throw this out there, but the Tampa Museum of Art’s young professionals group, Avant Garde, is offering an interesting opportunity to attend a VIP preview of Dirty But Sophisticated 4 tomorrow night.

If you are already a member of the museum, you can pay $15 for a year-long membership to AG that [...]

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