Ricardo de la Vega and Felipe Packard. Strolling in the Park. Mixed media, 2007. Image courtesy Morean Arts Center.
Thursday
5-7 p.m. – Opening reception for Green: the Primary Color, featuring environmentally-themed art by Florida artists, at Art Center Sarasota.
5:30-7:30 p.m. – One Wild Night networking event, in conjunction with Wild Spirits exhibition at the Morean [...]

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Photo by Brian Vandervliet
Friday
5:30-8:30 p.m. - S’REAL Happy Hour and opening reception for summer exhibitions: Mabel Palacín: Una noche sin fin [An Endless Night], Dalí at Work and Play: The Photographs of Marc Lacroix and Dalí: Seen Through Glass, at the Salvador Dalí Museum. Complimentary snacks and cash bar. Half-price admission ($8.50) after 5 p.m.
6-9 [...]

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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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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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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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Leah Oates. Transitory Space, Beijing, China. 2008-2009, c-print.
Friday
6-9 p.m. – Opening reception for View Point, photography by members of North Tampa Arts League, at The Great Frame Up Gallery (1646 Bruce B. Downs Blvd, Wesley Chapel). The exhibition is judged by Robert Louis Kerns, a retired professor of visual communications from USF, who is a [...]

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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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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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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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Ann-Marie Manker, Hummingbirds. myspace.com/cheddarbunny
On Friday, [5]art presents the first in a series of exhibitions from contemporary art galleries around the country where the Tampa collective’s work will be shown later this year. Fever Fakers, featuring five artists from Young Blood Gallery in Atlanta, is particularly notable for its fine examples of figurative drawing and [...]

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