Wallpaper design by Jenipher Chandley, featured in Off and On the Wall at Florida Craftsmen. Image courtesy Florida Craftsmen.
Thursday
5-9 p.m. – Graphic Design Stimulus Expo 2009, featuring speakers on environmentally friendly printing, social media, business marketing and freelancing, at Arts On Ninth.
Friday
5-7 p.m. – Opening reception for Re-Art, an exhibition of artworks made [...]

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Friday
6-10 p.m. – Opening reception for Experimental Skeleton’s To Boldly Go at West Tampa Center for the Arts, gallery 209.
From the release>>
‘To Boldly Go’ will explore the utopian ideas, visual flavor, pop culture influence, imagined technologies, flora and fauna, and virtually any aspect of the original Star Trek series that invited artists have focused [...]

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Head, Heart and Hands. 18′x100′, 2008.
From the SouthShore Arts Council>>
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The SouthShore Arts Council is planning a major mural project in Ruskin and is seeking applications from qualified artists. This will be the second mural commissioned by the SSAC, the first being an 18’ X 100’ mural, “Head, Heart and Hands”, [...]

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Ruud Van Empel. World #1. 2005, cibachrome/dibond/plexiglass. Copyright Ruud Van Empel, courtesy George Eastman House.
Given the breezy brightness of this spring’s weather, you could be forgiven for imagining that west central Florida constitutes a little slice of paradise — especially in the manicured gardens outside the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in [...]

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Roger Chamieh. Eventually You Will Say Something of Interest (detail). PVC tubing, paper, and Plexiglass.
[This review of Chamieh’s solo exhibition at Three04 in West Tampa is by guest contributor Kurt Piazza. - MV]
Roger Chamieh: New Work
Closing reception Fri., May 22, 7-9 p.m.
Three04
1906 N. Armenia Ave., #211, Tampa
813-260-0130
Roger Chamieh’s sculptures defy the laws of gravity, [...]

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Tampa Theatre begins screening Little Ashes, a film about the more-than-friendship between surrealist painter Salvador Dali and poet Federico Garcia Lorca, this weekend. Showtimes tonight, Saturday and Sunday are preceeded by talks by Dali Museum staffers, including director Hank Hine (Saturday). Twilight heartthrob Robert Pattinson plays Dali, and the film’s trailer promises a titillating mix [...]

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Keith Haring, Andy Mouse (1986) © Keith Haring Foundation
This weekend’s visual art options include the debut of Andy Warhol Portfolios: Life and Legends at the Museum of Fine Arts, featuring more than 70 screen-prints by the pop master. Classics including Campbell’s Soup I (Cream of Mushroom), Flowers and portraits of Marilyn Monroe, Superman and Muhammad [...]

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A 2007 work by Sabrina Small (Out Of The Trenches And Into The Fire, watercolor and ink on paper 8” x 11.5”), one of the artists featured in Zero Modern Arts Directory. See Saturday for more information.
Thursday
6-8 p.m. – Closing party for Contemporary Chinese Photography with a performance by Paul Wilborn and the Blue Roses [...]

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Image courtesy Isabel Czerwenka-Wenkstetten and Leslie Fry
Tuesday evening marks the public debut of a collaborative project between St. Petersburg-based artist Leslie Fry and Austrian artist Isabel Czerwenka-Wenkstetten at the Studio@620. The pair met via email and Skype earlier this year then teamed up for an intense, ten-day collaboration in St. Petersburg. During Tuesday’s opening reception [...]

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Brush-maker and ceramic artist Glenn Grishkoff visits the Dunedin Fine Art Center to give a workshop in constructing handmade brushes from materials including moose hair and rooster hackle. Film lovers might consider checking out the 4th annual Sunscreen Film Festival or the inaugural Motion Film Festival, featuring student and independent live-action and animated shorts. And [...]

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