Creative Pinellas CEO Barbara St. Clair announced that she’ll be retiring from her role at the end of this year. Today we celebrate her role as an arts advocate – and the pleasantly surprising conversations she’s recorded with a wide range of artists on the Arts In podcast. … Read More
By Cindy Stovall. Equality and Inclusion through Art is what it’s all about – and Creative Clay works toward that mission every day. This Friday’s Spring for the Arts is a party that will touch your heart and revive your faith in the goodness we all possess…. Read More
By Harriet Monzon-Aguirre. This week my family and I decided to enjoy the steadfast sand of Clearwater Beach at the Sugar Sand Festival. We were immediately amazed by the intricacy and delicate details of the massive sand sculptures…. Read More
By Tony Wong Palms. It is a worthwhile trip to see people taking the leap of faith into the unknown. The MFA graduation exhibition at the University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum is their calling card. … Read More
By Beth Reynolds. The “Shashin” exhibit at the MFA is worth the price of admission, but only if you really take time to be with the photographs. Dwell in them and think about history, the difficulty of photography in this era and the artistry of the hand-coloring. Dwell in them and try to imagine being there…. Read More
This Saturday, University of South Florida students lead a free guided walking tour of the rich landscape of public art installations on the Tampa campus. The Public Art program at USF focuses on site responsive works that create places, not just objects…. Read More
By Margo Hammond. They call themselves The Wild Wacky Women Club. Meeting on the third Thursday of each month, six women, alternating among their houses in Seminole, Largo, Clearwater and Palm Harbor, meet to accept a creative challenge. This month 36 works of art — the result of six of those WWW Club challenges — are on display at the East Lake Community Library in Palm Harbor… Read More
Based out of: St. Petersburg, Florida, Jabari Jahi Babatu Reed-Diop, otherwise known as iBOMS (illegal. Beauty. On.My.Streets) is a 25-year-old artist based in St. Petersburg, Florida. His artistic acumen comes… Read More
Shawn Dell Joyce was born in Texas in 1965 and grew up on the border in Brownsville Tx. She worked in her family’s citrus orchards until an unseasonable frost killed… Read More
2023 Artist Laureate Mikhail is a new media artist interested in designing interactive and generative systems that create distinct visual, sonic or sculptural experiences based on speculative ecological narratives. His… Read More
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As the Local Arts Agency for Pinellas County, Creative Pinellas and its programs are funded in part by our sustaining sponsors: the Pinellas County Board of County Commissioners, Visit St. Pete-Clearwater, State of Florida through the Division of Arts and Culture and the National Endowment for the Arts, and through the American Rescue Plan Act. Additional support comes from our contributing sponsor, the Tampa Bay Resiliency Fund, and sales of the State of the Arts specialty license plate in Pinellas County.