The Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, Tenn., has commissioned five proposals for public sculptures, two of which will be constructed and placed in Chattanooga’s Renaissance Park. St. Petersburg-based artists Carol Mickett and Robert Stackhouse are among the artists in the running. Click here to vote for their proposed sculpture, Place in the Woods [...]

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From the press release:
Selecting from a field of more than 300 acclaimed artists displaying their works, juror Martha Connell, owner and director of Connell Gallery/Great American Gallery in Atlanta, has named the recipients of 39th annual Raymond James Gasparilla Festival of the Arts cash awards. This year, the Raymond James Gasparilla Festival of the Arts [...]

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Love it (or not), the annual Raymond James Festival of the Arts takes over downtown Tampa this weekend.
The spring season must be in full swing because visual art offerings across the Bay area will be vying for your attention on Friday, March 6. Here’s the low-down:
• At 7 p.m., Eckerd College and Creative Clay [...]

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Screenshot of World, Santiago Echeverry’s interactive database of 1874 cellphone videos. Courtesy santiago.cn.
For the past three years, Creative Loafing’s annual Sensory Overload has combined visual art, performance and music in an event of extravagant proportions. This year’s installment, Sensory Overload 4.0, aspires to be bigger and better than ever (of course) and distinct from [...]

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ARTpool’s 2nd annual
LOCAL FILM FESTIVAL
showcasing short films by local film makers, directors,writers, actors & video artists
Saturday March 14th 8pm-12am $10
Celebrate with other locals for a film spectacle showcasing:
PollyZoom
BlueLucy
David Meek
Rob Mullins
Elizabeth Herrmann
David Brown
Drake Arnold
and more
There is still time to show your film in our festival! All works are due by Midnight Sunday March 8th.

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BEJEWELED
Dalí: Catalonia’s Gem
Eighth Annual Silent Art Auction and Martini Tasting
Open Call to Artists
When: Saturday, May 30, 2009 from 7-10:00 PM
Where: TBA, St. Petersburg
The Zodiac Group invites all local artists to submit a piece for consideration for this year’s art auction. Each year the Zodiac Group puts forward a theme for the artwork to be based [...]

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Jasper Johns. Flags II, 1970. Lithograph. Courtesy of the Arts Center.
Virtually every artist, no matter how modest, aspires to create a body of work that will serve as a turning point for artists to come. For American art during the second half of the 20th century, Jasper Johns‘ paintings stand out as just such [...]

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Cone of the past, point of the present. Diran Lyons’ Goodbye Victoria Artifact 5: Notes Written In Gilles Deleuze Text, a photographic print from Five + 5. To watch scenes from Lyons’ Deleuze-influenced movie, to go http://www.youtube.com/user/LYONSPOTTER.
Good things are afoot at [5]art.
The West Tampa exhibition space — synonymous with the quintet of artists who [...]

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Artful Gardens Gallery and the North Tampa Arts League (NTAL) are presenting PERSONAL VISIONS ART Exhibit, April 9 to May 29, 2009 and would like Tampa Bay area artists to enter.
Mary Ellen Bitner, president of NTAL and Dorie Anderson, Artful Gardens Gallery owner, are inviting Tampa Bay area artists to enter this juried April - [...]

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TAMPA ARTIST EMPORIUM
Starbucks Plaza * 3415 Bay to Bay Blvd, Tampa, FL 33629
(813) 835-0212 * www.TampaArtistEmporium.com
Call to Artists
Now Accepting …
Do you need an effective venue to display and sell your art?
The Tampa Artist Emporium is a fine art and fine craft gallery located in the design district of Palma Ceia, Tampa Florida. The gallery focuses [...]

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