Professional Development Grant Applications for Pinellas Artists
Cycle 2 due March 21, 2008
Applications for  Cycle 2 of the Professional Development Grants for Individual Artists from the Pinellas County Cultural Affairs Department are currently available. The grant application deadline is 5 p.m. on Friday, March 21, for projects beginning May 1, with an ending date of Sept. [...]

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Artist Kim Radatz with a piece from her exhibit at Salt Creek Artworks. Photo: Marina Williams/Creative Loafing
An exhibition of sculpture and installations by Kim Radatz, titled Talking Out Loud, opens Fri., Mar. 14, 6-9 p.m. at the Galleries at Salt Creek. Creative Loafing photographer Marina Williams shot a whole mess of fabulous photographs of Radatz’s [...]

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Steven Katzman. Flowers for Gretchen. 1997, 47″ x 38″, Pigment print, ed. 1/5. Image courtesy Greene Contemporary.
Here’s another opening reception I neglected to mention:
Tonight, 6-9 p.m. – Reception for Steven Katzman: Obsessed with the Found at Greene Contemporary, Sarasota
Earlier this week, owner Jonathan Greene announced via email that his Sarasota gallery, Greene Contemporary, is [...]

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Mark Messersmith. Wayfarers. 2005, Oil on canvas with carved wooden parts and mixed media predella box on bottom, 72″x74″. Courtesy Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas.
Bunch of art stuff to do this weekend, and it all starts tomorrow with Anne Pasternak’s lecture.
Friday
2 p.m. – Anne Pasternak lecture at USF Graphicstudio
5:30-7:30 p.m. – Reception [...]

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I always come back from Gasparilla Festival of the Arts with more questions than I had going in:
Could there actually be a market for as many black-and-white photographs of Europe’s cobblestone streets as I saw on Saturday? Or soft-focus pictures of [...]

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