A 2001 installation by Jin Soo Kim. Courtesy Selby Gallery. 
Friday
5-7 p.m. – Opening reception for What’s Next?: Installations and Digital Films by Jin Soo Kim at Selby Gallery, Ringling College of Art and Design.
6 p.m. – View & Review with guest critic Joe Mitchell, retired Art Supervisor for the Polk County School District, at [...]

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Not sure whether to think of this development as a thrilling breakthrough in the accessibility of art or yet another scary, scary reason why I will never be leaving my desk again. Now in Google Earth, tour the Prado Museum and a selection of its masterworks without crossing the Atlantic.
If you aren’t already a Google [...]

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Christina Nguyen Hung. McCarshcroft: a morphology of extremism. Image of a 200 mm. square petri dish with nutrient agar and the bacterium S. marcescens grown to form a Joseph McCarthy/John Ashcroft hybrid. Color digital print 47” x 47.” Courtesy christinahung.net.
The University of Tampa’s Electronics Alive, a biennial invitational of digital art, continues through Mar. [...]

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Sculpture by Linda Armstrong. Courtesy HCC Ybor Art Gallery.
Visitors to Hillsborough Community College’s Ybor Art Gallery may do a double take when they encounter Linda Armstrong’s inverted tree and other simultaneously natural and alien subjects in “Specimens, Observations and Drawings,” on view through Mar. 12.
The delicate sapling, which hangs from the gallery ceiling and [...]

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Target by photographer Ryan Prado.
This weekend’s visual art prospects include a solo exhibition of work by photographer Ryan Prado, the David LaChapelle of Tampa’s burgeoning art-fashion-hipsterdom scene, and DFAC’s annual Contain It!, inspired by Art Positions, the shipping container showcase at Art Basel Miami Beach.
Friday
6-9 p.m. – Opening reception for the Juried Art Show 2009 [...]

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This life-sized work by UF alum Matt Schaffer is featured in Florida Fire at Florida Craftsmen Gallery.
Dunedin collector Mindy Solomon, who curated Florida Fire: the UF Ceramic Faculty Experience, currently on view at Florida Crafstmen Gallery, will speak tonight on a panel about collecting contemporary ceramics with UF professor Anna Callouri-Holcombe, whose work is [...]

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Via Florida Craftsmen:
Call to Artists & Workshop Announcement
Paper: Off & On the Wall
Introduction: Florida Craftsmen presents Off & On the Wall, a national juried and invitational exhibition of original wallpaper designs. Starting in 2007 with the highly successful At Home with Crafts, and following in 2008 with Architectural Details and Other Decorative Crafts, Florida [...]

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Via Tampa Bay Creative Network>>
Justin E has invited you to the event ‘Open Wall Night’ on Tampa Bay Creative Network!
Hi everyone. This is an invitation and also a CALL TO ARTISTS. If you want to be a part of this one of a kind show at a well-known gallery, click the link below.

Time: March 19, [...]

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The 7th annual HCC-Ybor Festival of the Moving Image (April 1-5, 2009) invites all filmmakers from around the world to present authentic, innovative and meaningful work to be considered for screening at the festival.
Deadline: February 28, 2009
This year’s theme is “humor and satire” and the festival is looking for works in two specific areas:
* A: [...]

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Audio interview between Jim Wegener and Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo with images of the artist’s work, via cynthialawson.com.
Every two years, the University of Tampa hosts Electronics Alive, an invitational exhibition of computer animated shorts, graphics and otherwise digital artworks with a global flair. During the exhibit, which runs through Mar. 24 and takes place in [...]

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