Strands of Sunshine welcomes local artist Kenny Coil for Second Saturday ArtWalk on March 12th.
Sunshine State of Mind is a collection of typography and hand lettered art that pays homage to the great state of Florida.
The show will remain on display through Thursday, April 7th.
Strands of Sunshine is located at 633 Central Ave. in downtown St. Pete FL
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Join us during the Second Saturday Art Walk for ice cream samples from Urban Creamery and 1950s inspired ceramic ice cream dishes, handmade by Stacy Larson. Get a free ice cream sundae with a ceramic ice cream dish purchase! 2956 Central AVe. St Pete.
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THREE new shows opening at the Morean on March 12th!!
Exquisite Porch
A swampy, creepy-crawly spin on the Surrealist parlor game Exquisite Corpse, this exhibition focuses on the ground-dwelling wildlife of Florida. Artist, writer and independent curator D. Dominick Lombardi selected artists from the New York City area, while the Morean selected artists from Central Florida to play by creating drawings which reference things that go bump in the night. The resulting work raises awareness of the history of the game, its relevance to contemporary art, and celebrates the fauna of the Sunshine State.
Jody Fausett: Crush Velvet
Atlanta-based photographer Fausett’s work deals with human vulnerability, the self-construction of facades, the rites of ownership, and the creation of personal icons that represent who and what we are. His ideas are a collision of interests: the encounters he depicts unfold quietly and are laced with the fantastic, a kind of fantastic that deals with personal identity and that overcomes struggle. Fausett is represented by Jackson Fine Art in Atlanta.
PCCA Senior Thesis Exhibition
See works from emerging artists Mallory Lundquist, Indigo Naar and Moses Jeune, all seniors in the Pinellas County Center for the Arts at Gibbs High School.
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St. Petersburg's Second Saturday ArtWalk presents over 40 galleries and studios in the Waterfront Arts, Central Arts District, The EDGE District of St. Petersburg, Grand Central District Association and the Warehouse Arts District coming together as one arts destination.
Be the first to see new affordable works of art, as ArtWalk is Opening Night where many galleries and studios premiere new works. Some are only open on ArtWalk, and many offer demonstrations and refreshments. It’s impossible to take in the entire ArtWalk in one night! Plan to drive, walk, or take the trolleys to visit the districts of your choice.
Our free trolley shuttles will have an art guide on board talking about each venue on our one continuous trolley loop. You can park for free on 1st Ave N and 1st Ave S from 15th St to 30th Street. Additional parking will be available for trolley riders in the vacant lot at the Northeast corner of Central Avenue and 29th Street (Please note that this is NOT one of our trolley stops). In addition, venues with large free parking lots are Soft Water Studios, the Morean Center for Clay at the Train Station, the Clay Center of St. Petersburg, and the Dr. Carter G. Woodson African American Museum.
The St. Petersburg Arts Alliance, the Arts Association St. Petersburg Inc., the EDGE District, the Grand Central District, and the Warehouse Arts District associations coordinate St. Petersburg’s Second Saturday ArtWalk. The St. Petersburg Arts Alliance strives to be the community voice, the umbrella organization for the arts -- facilitating artists, arts organizations and creative businesses to work collaboratively; empowering the growth of the arts community, and driving arts-related economic development.
Browse, watch and purchase “Where Art is Made”!
Be on the lookout for two red trolleys! Download your ArtWalk map using the ticket link above.
Trolley starts here at 5pm
Craftsman House Gallery – 2955 Central Avenue - The Ice Cream Show. Artist-in-residence Stacy Larson features her handmade, ceramic 1950’s inspired ice cream dishes. St Pete’s newest ice cream shop, Urban Creamery will be on hand with complimentary tastings for everyone. http://
Charlie Parker Pottery – 2724 6th Avenue S. – Carved In Paradise: A solo show by Paula Briggs. Whimsical carvings inspired by her love of tropical environments. https://www.facebook.com/
Zen Glass Studio – 600 27th Street South - 2nd annual Pendant Palooza: a festival of wearable glass art featuring works by some of your favorite pendant makers from across the globe! Gallery show of glass pendants, pendant workshops (limited number available), demonstrations & collaborations, artist bazaar, special guest artist collaborations, raffles, auctions, giveaways…. https://www.facebook.com/
Funktionhouse Urban Lumber & Furnishings – 562 25th St. S - Hand made custom furnishings made from St Petersburg trees. Also will include the ever changing and expanding vintage collections of Andrew Panton, owl-doreable paintings by Audrey Durham, massages, and card readings by Lori Lynn Budnick. https://www.facebook.com/
Duncan McClellan Gallery – 2342 Emerson Avenue South – See glass art being made by acclaimed artists! Cut Up, featuring glass artists and educators Paul J. Nelson and John Miller. Free glass blowing demonstrations begin at 6pm. Jazz with the Henry Ashwood Jazz Project. http://ow.ly/YWcne
Dazzio Art Experience Gallery & School of Art - 535 22nd Street South - The Human Condition: 5 artists present their series on humanity. Elizabeth Ogata - Interrogation. Elaine Anagnos - Motherhood, Vickey Imes - older women. Kerry Didday approaches the subject in a more abstract way. https://www.facebook.com/
Soft Water Studios - 515 22nd Street South - Fantastic Ekphrastic Show. Also featuring the works of resident Soft Water Studio artists. https://www.facebook.com/
Mga Sculpture Studio – 515 22nd Street South - A commission driven sculpture facility that specializes in the design, fabrication and installation of sculptural objects in a variety of mediums from cartable materials to metal fabrication. Currently working on several large scale commissions for local private entities and across the country. https://www.facebook.com/
Gallerie 909 - 909 22nd Street South - The Art of Jazz. Featured artist Arthur Dillard. Artist talk at 7pm. Live music. https://www.facebook.com/
Dr. Carter G. Woodson African American Museum - 2240 9th Avenue South - Still I Rise, a solo exhibition by Cora Marshall presenting a selection of works that feature women in celebration of Women’s History Month. Paintings, mixed media, photography. https://www.facebook.com/
Morean Center for Clay – 420 22nd Street South - Featuring the exhibition Florida Heat: Surface. The exhibition showcases work of Jen Allen, Ben Carter, Adam Field, Steven Godfrey, Nick Joerling, Heesoo Lee, Kari Radasch, & Deb Schwartzkopf. https://www.facebook.com/
From Mayan Hands - 2006 Second Avenue South -
Featuring handmade Mayan folk art, both new and antique. Also a large selection of santos, nativities, day of the dead, dance masks, colorful wooden animals, and outrageous Mayan art. Plus the usual religious folk art. https://www.facebook.com/
NEW LOCATION - Clay Center of St. Petersburg - 2010 1st Avenue South – Big bowl demonstration... Watch artists throw on the wheel large bowls altered bowls and talk of functional pottery. Talk to our member artists about their projects. Tour of our new facility. https://www.facebook.com/
St. Petersburg Opera Company - 2145 1st Ave South - Three Amigas – Three Views features work by painters Maggie Newman, Leslie Jeffery and Elena Cifuentes - three contemporary artists with three unique views of abstraction, the figure and space using oil, acrylics and mixed media. https://www.facebook.com/
Trolley Starts Here at 5pm
Creative Clay – 1114 Central Avenue - Two new exhibits. Big Love: Large Art from the Heart, features collectible paintings from our folk art collection. Underground Railroad: Abolitionists and Allies, a Black History Month exhibit honoring those who helped enslaved persons. Featuring ceramics, textiles and paintings. Live music by Chant the Trees. https://www.facebook.com/
The Studio@620 - 620 First Avenue South - BRAVA: An exhibition of artworks created by seven women artists who collectively call themselves BRAVA. Ranging from paintings to textiles, sculpture, photography, video, and installations, the artworks are as varied as the individuals in the group. The artists are: Carolina Cleere, Chalet Comellas, Lyla Haggard, Joanna Karpay, Candace Knapp, Phyllis McEwen, and Kim Radatz. https://www.facebook.com/
Michele Tuegel Contemporary – 320 Central Avenue - Opening Reception: Inspired by Confreres - A Collective of Women + Their Art . This invitational exhibition mixes memories, colleagues, history, visual dialogue, media, and shared experiences with twelve artists who have influenced, over the course of many years, this curator's artistic vision. Each has left a mark as an accomplished artist living and working in Florida. Many of these women are working professional artists in the Tampa Bay area.
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The Gallery - 200 Central Ave. Suite 111 - In honor of Grand Prix weekend, The Gallery will have artist Timothy Raines featured on display. Luxury is the essence of his compositions, capturing movement and energy through color and shape. Raines was named the official artist two years in a row for the North American International Auto Show. https://www.facebook.com/
Shapiro's Gallery – 300 Beach Drive NE. - Showcasing the finest in American made blown glass, jewelry, pottery, wooden boxes and sculpture. https://www.facebook.com/
Art on 1st – 550 First Avenue North – an exhibition Florida’s Natural Places, by award-winning, Florida artist Neil Adamson. Also see works by Yvette Galiher. https://www.facebook.com/
Florida CraftArt – 501 Central Avenue – Slices of Life, an all glass exhibition curated by award winning glass artist Duncan McClellan https://www.facebook.com/
Strands of Sunshine – 633 Central Ave – Local artist Kenny Coil. Sunshine State of Mind is a collection of typography and hand lettered art that pays homage to the great state of Florida. https://www.facebook.com/
St. Pete Art Works - 635 Central Ave - Featured exhibition: With All of the Dying Trees I Scream…Reverence for the Refuse. New works in recycled mixed media by Desireé Soulé. Live music by Amanda Lynn. https://www.facebook.com/
D-gallerie - 645 Central Avenue inside the Crislip Arcade. - Giving up-and-coming and mid-level career talent the spotlight to present unique, modern, and contemporary works from throughout Latin America and Tampa Bay. https://www.facebook.com/
Graphi-ko Gallery/ Jewelry - 669 Central Avenue - A new collection of rustic furniture and new works from featured artist Painter Loki. As always, hand crafted jewelry. https://www.facebook.com/
Morean Arts Center – 719 Central Avenue – Exquisite Porch: a creepy-crawly spin on the Surrealist parlor game Exquisite Corpse – focusing on the ground-dwelling wildlife of Florida. Artists from the NYC area & from Central Florida play by creating drawings which reference things that go bump in the night. The resulting work raises awareness of the history of the game, its relevance to contemporary art, & celebrates the fauna of the Sunshine State. Also work from renowned photographer Jody Fausett, a Georgia-based artist whom Oxford American recently chose as one of the top “New Superstars of Southern Art." https://www.facebook.com/
ARTicles Art Gallery & Custom Framing - 1445 Central Avenue and Leslie Curran Gallery - 1431 Central Avenue -
Opening reception for the new exhibition Murmurations: Jules Cozine. The artist presents a series of atmospheric paintings inspired by the mysterious and extraordinary experience of seeing a massive flock of starlings twisting and turning in unison.
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Woodfield Fine Art Gallery - 2253 Central Avenue #105 - Paintings of Kenwood bungalows by Linda Southworth, portraits and abstracts by Jim Woodfield and Nancy Smrekar, male figurative paintings by David Rule, landscapes and abstracts by Rootman, and colorful pool scene paintings of swimmers by Melissa Harasz. Blown glass and sculpture round out the gallery. https://www.facebook.com/
Our partner associations also have great listings for art events!!
• Keep Saint Petersburg Local
• Grand Central District Association
• Historic Kenwood Neighborhood Association
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In
honor of Women’s History Month, this invitational exhibition combines
nostalgia, visual dialogue, and shared artistic experiences in a variety
of media by eleven women artists. Each has inspired, informed and
influenced generations of students, colleagues, curators and critics
while leaving an impressionable mark as an accomplished artist living
and working in Florida. Many of these women are working professional
artists in the Tampa Bay area, including Rebecca Sexton Larson, Karen
Kuykendall, Judith Powers-Jones, Susan Livingston, Susan Rollins
Gehring, and Norma Lewis (d.). Other invited artists include Eleanor
McCain, Sang Roberson, Akiko Sugiyama, Caitlin Beckman and Lynn Whipple.
Several of the artists will be present during the Opening Reception in downtown St. Pete on Saturday, March 12th. Gallery hours are Tuesday – Saturday 11am-6pm; open Sundays 12-4pm through the month of March.
This event is free and open to the public. Hope you can join us!
Recent Posts______________________________________________________________Several of the artists will be present during the Opening Reception in downtown St. Pete on Saturday, March 12th. Gallery hours are Tuesday – Saturday 11am-6pm; open Sundays 12-4pm through the month of March.
This event is free and open to the public. Hope you can join us!
Project Shorebird Art Exhibition and Fundraiser at The ArtLofts
Saturday, March 12, 2015
5:00 pm to 9:00 pm; Free and open to the public!
The ArtLofts’ second-floor gallery will feature local artists' work inspired by shorebirds! All artwork will be available for sale and a portion of the proceeds will be donated to St. Petersburg Audubon Society! This event corresponds with St. Petersburg Arts Alliance's monthly "Second Saturday Art Walk" series!
The Art Lofts is located at 10 5th Street North Saint Petersburg, FL 33701
Project Shorebird Art Exhibition and Fundraiser at The ArtLofts
Saturday, March 12, 2015
5:00 pm to 9:00 pm; Free and open to the public!
The ArtLofts’ second-floor gallery will feature local artists' work inspired by shorebirds! All artwork will be available for sale and a portion of the proceeds will be donated to St. Petersburg Audubon Society! This event corresponds with St. Petersburg Arts Alliance's monthly "Second Saturday Art Walk" series!
The Art Lofts is located at 10 5th Street North Saint Petersburg, FL 33701
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Join our talented member Paula Briggs for her solo show during the monthly art walk. Paula's work is inspired by her love of all things tropical. She uses carving and color to enhance her forms with depictions of nature.
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The Leslie Curran Gallery premieres a new series of paintings by Jules Cozine inspired by the extraordinary experience of seeing a massive flock of starlings twisting and turning in unison, known as a murmuration. In an instant, thousands of individual birds commit to a moment of beauty that appears both melodic and mathematical.
With her signature ethereal color palette and post-modern compositions, Cozine creates indefinable shapes, like dappled light through the trees. A fractured vision, her soft edges and subtle hues suggest scenes in motion.
Cozine has consistently invested in artistic and educational causes through her association with charitable organizations. Her work is thematically marked by profound dedication to environmental issues. Making this the subject matter of her painting enables Jules to present an enthusiastic celebration of nature.
Cozine's expression of dedication through her artwork and her continued advocacy belies a deep commitment to environmental issues and the beauty of nature. In observance of this pledge, the artist is donating a portion of the proceeds from this event to the TAMPA BAY WATCH, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the protection and restoration of the Tampa Bay estuary through scientific and educational programs.
Cozine earned B.A. and B.F.A. degrees from the University of Georgia and an M.F.A. from Georgia State University. She held teaching positions at the University of Georgia, Savannah College of Art, Atlanta College of Art, and Georgia State University while maintaining a rigorous exhibition schedule and building a family before moving to St. Petersburg. Her extensive exhibition record includes multiple solo shows and dozens of group exhibitions. She has traveled widely and lived abroad (including Italy, Japan, France and England), and her family has hosted guest students for the Takamatsu, Japan Student Exchange program for the last four years.
MURMURATIONS opens on the evening of March 12th, 6-9 pm and continues through April 2nd, 2016.
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March 12th will be my first public showing of work in a year.
It is a show about balance.
Some of my friends are stopping by to play beautiful music for you.
We all hope to see you there.
Musical performances by:
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Kerry Courtney - https://www.facebook.com/
Kersey Williams - https://soundcloud.com/
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