Tampa Public Mood Ring by Will Pappenheimer and Chipp Jansen, courtesy Tampapublicmoodring.com.
Yes, this weekend also marks the last chance to view Lights On Tampa 2009 installations downtown. If you’re tuning in to media coverage of the Super Bowl this week, you may already have seen Will Pappenheimer and Chipp Jansen’s Tampa Public Mood Ring—located in [...]

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Tonight’s the last chance to check out a performance by St. Petersburg-based “image-maker” Alice Ferrulo of Black Horse Theatre, whose creations meld theater, dance and visual art. Portraiture: In Three Movements is her take on Olivia, a composite personality inspired by portraits of former substance abusers by painter Thomas Murray (formerly of the Bay area, [...]

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This just landed in my inbox this morning:
Ringling Student Art Sale Comes to Campus Saturday, January 31!
On Saturday, January 31 from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m., Ringling College of Art and Design presents a one-day creative collaboration of emerging artists work along with an art materials showcase featuring top brands.
The art exhibition and sale [...]

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Leslie Shows. The Au Layer/ Storm Reflecting in a Pool, 2008. Collage and acrylic on canvas. Image courtesy of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, via SFGate.com.
If you don’t already keep an ear out for visiting artist/scholar talks at the University of South Florida’s College of Visual and Performing Arts on a regular [...]

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Sean Erwin. The Gardener, 2008. Porcelain, Glaze, Luster and Mixed Media. Courtesy Florida Craftsmen Gallery.
Not a bad weekend for the visual arts if you can stand the Super Bowl traffic. Just a heads-up, this is also the LAST WEEKEND to see Lights On Tampa 2009 installed downtown. Click here for CL coverage; visit the [...]

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Mark Bradford’s Mithra. Photo / Frank Rodriguez
On Saturday, we hopped in the car and went for a self-guided tour of Prospect.1 projects in the Lower Ninth Ward. (The biennial offered a shuttle bus for visitors throughout the day, but our experience trying to catch it the day before at 40-minute intervals was something we [...]

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Pecan bread pudding at Antoine’s. Photo / Frank Rodriguez
Don’t ask me how, but we ended up at Antoine’s for lunch in the French Quarter before our tour of the Lower Ninth Ward. Once sticker shock wore off, really delicious pompano and beef tenderloin were the order of the day, followed by the extraordinarily rummy [...]

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Lee Bul’s Untitled (After Bruno Taut series), 2008, pictured in the window of CAC. Photo by Frank Rodriguez
We’ve thrown caution to the wind and a duffle bag in the trunk and ditched Tampa for New Orleans this weekend during the conclusion of Prospect.1– the largest biennial in the United States, according to the event’s organizers. [...]

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Tomorrow, Tampa Bay Creative Network (not the same as Creative Tampa Bay, a different local group whose advisory network I sit on) presents Jelly, a casual co-working experience. More and more of us these days (especially artists and creative industry workers) seem to be living the free agent lifestyle, either out of layoff-driven necessity or [...]

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Check out Creative Loafing’s cover story for your guide to Lights On Tampa action this weekend. Drop in on tomorrow’s symposium at 4 p.m. at Tampa Theatre. Listen to CL’s ArtsSpeak podcast on LOT (below). And—if you’re really a glutton for punishment—tune in to see me and Casa Magica artists Sabine Weissinger and Friedrich Foerster [...]

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Tes One. Change We Made. 45”x60”, 2008.
Artworks by four Tampa Bay artists—Tes One, Bask and Phillip Clark and Chad Mize of Bluelucy—are headed to Washington, DC, where they will be featured in Manifest Hope, an exhibit celebrating the election of Barack Obama.
Shepard Fairey’s now-iconic, red-and-blue portrait of the president elect will serve as the [...]

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Martha Whittington, “Nonpareils” (detail), sewn vinyl, 2008. Courtesy C. Emerson Fine Arts.

Truly an insane amount of great art to see this weekend. Please leave a comment if you’d like to have your event included and it’s not here. Unless otherwise noted, events are generally free.
Thursday
4-6 p.m. - Symposium featuring the artists of Lights On Tampa [...]

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