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5 days ago | 
cltampa.com | Jennifer Ring
Florida’s landscapes, flora, and fauna have inspired its residents and visiting artists for centuries.Now, thanks to a partnership between Creative Pinellas and St. Pete-Clearwater Airport , a sample of contemporary Florida-inspired art greets travelers as they fly in and out of PIE.The partnership isn’t exactly new—the two organizations started working together in 2022, bringing new murals by Bay Area artists Leo Gomez and Laura “Miss Crit” Spencer to PIE Gate 12.But this spring, they...
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1 month ago | 
cltampa.com | Jennifer Ring
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1 month ago | 
cltampa.com | Jennifer Ring
Tampa artist Mitzi Jo Gordon still remembers meeting her late friend, Vince Kral, in 2012, when Tracy Midulla invited them to co-curate Box on 5th in Ybor City.“You know when you meet somebody and you immediately speak the same language?” Gordon told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay.
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Mar 4, 2025 | 
cltampa.com | Jennifer Ring
By Jennifer Ring on Tue, Mar 4, 2025 at 11:16 am Close to 1000 artists applied to have their work showcased during the 55th Annual Raymond James Gasparilla Festival of the Arts (GFA), which wrapped yesterday afternoon at Tampa’s Julian B. Lane Riverfront Park. Of these, 235 made it into the jury’s selection process.
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Feb 20, 2025 | 
cltampa.com | Jennifer Ring
By Jennifer Ring on Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 1:29 pm The last time the Count Basie Orchestra performed in St. Pete was in 1962, when the King of Swing was still alive and well. Basie passed in Hollywood, Florida in 1984, but the orchestra he formed in 1935 is still on tour, under the leadership of trumpeter Scotty Barnhart, and celebrating its 90th Anniversary this year.
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Jan 31, 2025 | 
cltampa.com | Jennifer Ring
By Jennifer Ring on Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 3:35 pm Tampa art insiders will tell you that any week in Tampa is great for seeing art. Beyond the Tampa Museum of Art, local college galleries are always showing something interesting for free, and Ybor City’s art scene is thriving. And that’s just focusing on the visual arts. “I feel like almost any week in Tampa could be Tampa Art Week,” says Tempus Projects founder Tracy Midulla, who’s organizing the first Tampa Art Week.
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Jan 31, 2025 | 
cltampa.com | Jennifer Ring
By Jennifer Ring on Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 10:43 am The Dunedin Fine Art Center was a community project from the beginning. Before there was an art center in the town that covers just over 10 square miles of land, there was just Meta Brown’s love of art and the support of her friends at the Junior Service League of Dunedin. When Brown passed, her legacy fell to Syd Entel.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
cltampa.com | Jennifer Ring
By Jennifer Ring on Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 3:32 pm With a new CEO at the helm, Creative Pinellas’ annual art party might have looked different. Then, three disasters struck the Tampa Bay arts community in five months, and it felt like the universe was saying ‘no’ to art in Tampa Bay. Florida’s state arts veto came first in June.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
cltampa.com | Jennifer Ring
Tampa artist Quinn Cale has twin inspirations for her work—childhood and technology. For Gen Xers, these two things don’t exactly go together. But for Gen Z, colloquially referred to as “iPad kids,” technology brings comfort like a stuffed animal. At 32, Cale is somewhere in the middle. For this Apple Creative and artist entrepreneur, childhood nostalgia, technology and business merged in a different way. Cale started painting in her teens because she didn’t have money to go out with friends.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
cltampa.com | Jennifer Ring
By Jennifer Ring on Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 1:50 pm In the wake of Hurricanes Helene and Milton, St. Petersburg designer Matt Shapiro has dedicated his talents to helping those affected by the storms. The Tampa Bay sports fan, who became known for his Tampa Bay fan apparel when the Tampa Bay Buccaneers made it into the playoffs in 2021, has been creating a new t-shirt for every Tampa Bay win since he established 1771 Designs in 2020.
