Erik Jones at work. Image courtesy Pale Horse Design & Gallery.
Friday
6-11 p.m. – Opening reception for the 2008 FloCas Traveling Exhibition at the Bustillo y Diaz cigar factory (runs through Oct. 24). The exhibit features work by 30 graduate students from USF, FSU and UF juried by MOCA NoMi director Bonnie Clearwater.
7-9 p.m. - [...]

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Rebecca Sexton Larson, Contemporary Retablo, “Before we can see” (verse: Henry David Thoreau). Mixed media on pinhole photographs, 29.5” x 28.” Courtesy sextonlarson.com.
Artsqueeze “hearts” Rebecca Sexton Larson and her ability to transform nearly any box-like object into a pinhole camera. (Pay a visit to the Big Draw Studio in Ruskin this week to see [...]

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Donna Box of Valrico taking part in a class at the Big Draw Studio.
Did you know that Ruskin, Fla., was founded by people inspired by the social theories of art critic and Victorian intellectual John Ruskin? And here I’ve been thinking “tomato” every time I hear Ruskin for the last twenty years…
In honor of [...]

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A wall-mounted sculpture made of vynil records by Susan Janvrin of Papergeist.
Sooo… This is just a little recap of some things I saw last night for your reading pleasure.
I stopped by Art After Dark, the third Friday party-exhibit at the Tampa Museum of Art, to check out Sound Effects, an exhibit of music-related art [...]

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C. Wade Brickhouse, Paper Vessels, 2008. Courtesy Florida Craftsmen.
Most of you probably know the artists’ studios housed above Florida Craftsmen in downtown St. Petersburg as Artspace. I’m told by staff at FC, which owns the building, that a slight reorganization has taken place. The studios will be known as ArtLofts going forward, and the artists– [...]

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St. Petersburg artist Cecilia Lueza periodically sends out a email newsletter about her latest work. (Great marketing technique, by the way - and she does a good job of not sending the newsletter so often that it feels like spam.) Her latest project is a public sculpture on display now in Chattanooga (above). One of [...]

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St. Petersburg artist Melia White is looking for others to share a new space in St. Petersburg. Here’s her note:
My name is Melia, I am an artist/designer in St Petersburg. I am opening an artist studio/gallery in the heart of downtown St Pete! I am putting out feelers for established artists looking to share [...]

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Sure, New York and Washington got visits from the Pope, but we’ve got a chance to hang with America’s high priest of bad taste, John Waters, as he makes a public appearance for one night only at The Salvador Dali Museum.
For more info, go here.
In related news, the museum will hold a Dali lookalike contest [...]

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From the press release:
123 Show 
An exhibition of the first, second, and third place winners of the first annual Juried Art Show.
Artist Biographies
First Place
Alicia Loomis
Alicia Leigh Loomis is a native to Florida and currently resides in Bradenton, FL.  In 2006, Alicia received a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors from Eckerd College with a major in [...]

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I did something this week that I rarely do and which gives me absolutely no pleasure (in fact, it makes me feel like I’m getting an ulcer): I went to see a show and I didn’t like some things about it—and I wrote an article that said so.
Critical Reaction in this week’s Creative Loafing
At least [...]

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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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