If you’re like me, you can’t get enough of Bravo’s darned addictive design-related reality shows, like Project Runway, Top Design and Shear Genius (the one about hair stylists). Well, get this–the International Academy of Art and Design has created their own online reality series, Artistik Envy, which focuses on a competition between ten multimedia and [...]

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I will be participating tomorrow night in the first Pecha Kucha Night Tampa Bay at Romeo’s Gallery in Ybor City, and I’ll be talking about the future of public art in the Tampa Bay area.
Yes– in 6 minutes and 40 seconds, I will discuss the current state of public art locally, draw attention to innovative [...]

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Uli Rapp, Chains, tricot textile, screen printing and rubber. Photo by Marina Williams.
When I first heard that Florida Craftsmen Gallery’s new exhibit would be all about necklaces, honestly, I was disappointed. I don’t know why—whatever the theme, FCG’s exhibits always manage to bridge definitions of art and craft, new and old materials and [...]

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Bi-polar bunnies by Coralette Damme, a.k.a. the Crafty Hag, at Saturday Morning Art Market.
In addition to the largely food-based Saturday Morning Market (where you can buy assorted herbs, plants, soap, batiked garments, etc., as well as fruits, veggies, prepared foods, baked goods, and so on), downtown St. Petersburg now hosts the Saturday Morning Art [...]

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A detail of the installation of Rediviva by Tampa artists’ collective Experimental Skeleton last year at Miami’s Locust Projects. On Friday, the same project opens at Flight 19. Sculptures, clockwise from bottom right, by: Bob Dorsey, April Childers, Gregory Greene, Jeremichael Bonds, Brian Taylor, Joe Griffith and Paul Pisoni. Image courtesy Experimental Skeleton. [...]

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Organizer Brandon Dunlap says this show’s a good one. With a line-up of more than 30 artists (!) and a chance to see what Pale Horse owner Chris Parks has done with his St. Petersburg space now that the business no longer includes tattooing– well, I’m thinking there are multiple reasons to check this show [...]

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Friday night, join artists Theo Wujcik and Josh Pearson at Urban Outfitters in Centro Ybor to view their recent art installations. In March, the store’s windows will feature work by Kim Coakley, who will also be on hand Friday.
On Saturday, Coakley is a featured artist at the Tampa Artist Emporium’s monthly mixer in Hyde Park [...]

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A Non Grata performance in Boston last year. Courtesy nongrata.ee
Is it just me—or is the number of art events taking place this weekend insane?
On Friday, it’s a tough call. If you stop by [5]art at the West Tampa Center for the Arts for their Polaroid Show, you can also see the FLOCAS show 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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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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