From Jay McGee, Editor/Publisher of New Heights Magazine:
New Heights Magazine is looking for writing contributions to inform our 20,000+ readers about the art scene and happenings in Tampa’s Urban Corridor. Topics can vary, but we want to strengthen our Arts & Events section to better support our local artists and venues. We are also [...]

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This call comes by way of artist Chad Cardoza:
We are currently looking for artists to participate in a benefit auction for the Gasparilla Independent Film Festival. Each artist will create one piece of art to be auctioned off at the event. The artist and the festival will split the final sale amount of [...]

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St. Petersburg artist Melia White is looking for others to share a new space in St. Petersburg. Here’s her note:
My name is Melia, I am an artist/designer in St Petersburg. I am opening an artist studio/gallery in the heart of downtown St Pete! I am putting out feelers for established artists looking to share [...]

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Video courtesy Tampa Bay Business Committee for the Arts. Produced by Edit Suites.

Last week, Chicago-based marketing guru Patricia Martin landed in Tampa to talk about the ideas behind her new book, RenGen: The Rise of the Cultural Consumer and What It Means to Your Business.

Some of Martin’s rhetoric sounds familiar. Instead of a “creative [...]

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Jeppe Hein
Smoking Bench, 2003
Fog machine, bench (stainless steel and leather), mirror
Courtesy Johann König, Berlin
For most folks, Sarasota’s John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art is synonymous with Old Master style: ginormous Rubens tapestries, Italian canvases in dramatic chiaroscuro, twisting Baroque columns. In comparison, the Ringling’s current exhibit of modern art from the mid- to late-20th [...]

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Lori Ballard in her studio at the WTCA. Photo: MV
Since word has it that there will be no closing reception for A Sense of Space at the West Tampa Center for the Arts, I thought I’d bring you just a taste—or two—of some of the creative endeavors currently under way in the former cigar factory. [...]

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The arts are alive again in Ybor City– knock on wood.
This weekend, the historic district’s art galleries, museums (i.e., history and culture museums), studio spaces and other arts-related venues open their doors to the public from 12-6 p.m. with an inaugural First Saturday Art-Walk. “We would like to create a sustainable environment for the artists [...]

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Alex Espalter-Torres in his studio at the West Tampa Center for the Arts. Photo: MV

Over Memorial Day weekend, the West Tampa Center for the Arts held an opening reception for the last exhibit of their inaugural season. (Click here to read the article I wrote in September about the organization’s transformation from Gallery 1906 into [...]

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On Friday night, I paid a visit to Pride & Passion 2008, the Tampa Museum of Art’s annual celebration of gay pride, to check out Equilibrium, a one-night exhibit featuring three Tampa-based GLBT artists: Jen Saavedra, Santiago Echeverry and Kurt Piazza. Wish y’all could see the exhibit, but it’s gone now. Instead, check out this [...]

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