Fuzión Dance Artists performing “Just Girls.” Image courtesy fuziondance.com.
Thursday
7 p.m. – Surrealism in the 1930s multimedia presentation by Salvador Dalí Museum curator of education Peter Tush at the Leepa Rattner Museum of Art. Cost: $5 members, $8 non-members and free for students.
7-8:30 p.m. – Amazon Safari Night information session for the Florida Museum [...]

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Image courtesy Polk Museum of Art
This weekend, the Polk Museum of Art celebrates the debut of its recently acquired Art-O-Mat with an interactive talk by Art-O-Mat founder and creator Clark Whittington.
Whittington, a conceptual artist based in Winston-Salem, NC, first hatched the Art-O-Mat idea for an exhibition in 1997, when he transformed a dilapidated cigarette machine [...]

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Andy Warhol. Flowers (1970), screenprint. ©The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/ARS, NY. On Loan from Bank of America’s Art in Our Communities Program.
At the outset of writing anything about Andy Warhol, it seems like a sure bet that nothing new can be said. Nothing, anyway, that hasn’t already been better articulated by scholars, [...]

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Craig Kaths. 24 bit one. 18” x 18”, 24-color screen print on Arches 88 paper. Image courtesy craigkaths.com.
Though this weekend ushers in summer - a season notoriously devoid of art offerings in Tampa Bay - you wouldn’t know it from this busy slate of openings and events. The weekend begins early with tonight’s Heart Show [...]

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Jeremy Chandler. Couple at the Fair. Image courtesy of the artist.
First there was Beth Reynolds’ documentation of Tampa life in heterogeneous form—from the flamenco dancer to the crab fisherman. Then came Suzanne Camp Crosby’s more surreal take on the city’s character—think headless mannequins in period costume arranged on the veranda of Plant Hall. Next, [...]

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Via Central Art Supply Company>>
Central Art Supply Company announces
THE JURIED ART SHOW 2009: Works on Paper
November 6-16, 2009
Exhibition & Sale
Hosted by The Studio@620
620 First Avenue South, St. Petersburg, FL
Entry Deadline: September 15, 2009
Eligibility:
Only RECENT ORIGINAL works on paper, including, but not limited to: printmaking, painting and drawing (no photography, please). Work must have been [...]

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From artsarasota.org>>
C A L L  T O  A R T I S T S
Green: The Primary Color
July 14-September 12, 2009
Art Center Sarasota
For those who reside in Florida year round - appreciating the natural environment unconditionally or rather “air-conditionally” - we invite you to join us in an exploration and celebration [...]

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Photos by Megan Voeller
The new Tampa Museum of Art, now slated to open to the public in early 2010, inches closer toward completion each day on downtown Tampa’s riverfront. Close observers will note that the building’s distinctive cladding—a double layer of perforated metal sheets offset to create a moiré pattern on the structure’s surface—has begun [...]

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Arlene Lueck’s quilt, Mom’s Hair Tools, is included in EXPLORATIONS: An Exhibition of Journal Quilts at the Dunedin Fine Art Center.
Special shout-out: The weekend’s art offerings include an unusual performance to held in conjunction with Homemade: A Music Symposium on Saturday. At HCC Ybor’s art gallery, co-collaborators John Russell and Kurt Piazza, aka AVAACC, [...]

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Restrooms at Nova 535, left, and Tampa Theatre.
(Via Tampa Downtown Partnership)
Strange but true: two Tampa Bay area arts venues - downtown Tampa’s iconic Tampa Theatre and downtown St. Petersburg’s Nova 535 - are in the running for Cintas Corporation’s annual America’s Best Restroom contest.

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Neverne Covington’s drawing, Portrait of Bob Devin Jones (detail), 2005. (Pictured below left: Covington’s Portrait of Dave Ellis. Pictured below right: the complete portrait of Jones, which measures 45″ x 88″.)
Since April, St. Petersburg’s Studio@620 has been unfurling a series of events designed to celebrate the multidisciplinary arts venue’s fifth birthday. Following a gospel [...]

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Artist trading card holder by 7Gypsies, via Paper Goodness.
Via Tampa Realistic Artists (TRA)>>
ATC’s (Artist Trading Cards) Exhibition
June 30–July 24, 2009

Old Hyde Park Art Center
705 Swann Ave., Tampa, FL 33606
Deadline: June 26

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