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I always come back from Gasparilla Festival of the Arts with more questions than I had going in:
Could there actually be a market for as many black-and-white photographs of Europe’s cobblestone streets as I saw on Saturday? Or soft-focus pictures of [...]

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Inside Ybor’s Czar nightclub.
Saturday night, I went to Dirty But Sophisticated 4 with Avant Garde, the Tampa Museum of Art’s young professionals group. They had finagled a pre-DBS tour of artist Theo Wujcik’s studio as well as early entry to the main event, a collaborative art-and-fashion show featuring the work of 16 local artists and [...]

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A little late to throw this out there, but the Tampa Museum of Art’s young professionals group, Avant Garde, is offering an interesting opportunity to attend a VIP preview of Dirty But Sophisticated 4 tomorrow night.

If you are already a member of the museum, you can pay $15 for a year-long membership to AG that [...]

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Courtney Johnson
Survival Machines
Photographic emulsion on hand blown glass, 2007
Recommended by Bernice Steinbaum, Bernice Steinbaum Galleries
I have to issue a “hold the phone” for this one: Florida Craftsmen Gallery has a sweet little show up called Highly Recommended, which they cobbled together by asking arts industry insiders around the state to recommend a promising emerging artist. [...]

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I know I just gave Resist Today a shout out last week, but they sent out another email announcing even more fabulous handmade, screen printed wallets– these by the super-talented, Tampa-based Jay Giroux. Each wallet is one-of-a-kind (as in, a gazillion other people can’t buy it at Urban Outfitters) and sells for $84.
Ho, ho, ho…

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Local duo Resist Today, a.k.a., Dave Rau and Josh Bertrand, have replenished their online stock of handmade wallets screenprinted with humorously subversive artwork in time for holiday giving. Below: the Monkey vs. Mao wallet.

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The fine ladies—and maybe even a crafty gent or two—of Crafting Out Loud will descend upon St. Pete’s Museum of Fine Arts Sunday to transform part of the museum into one of their trademark fun-and-funky urban craft fairs. If you haven’t been to a COL before, don’t miss this opportunity to cash in on free [...]

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