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Visual Arts
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
New Photographic Arts museum to be picture perfect
Images of the new FMoPA headquarters exterior in the making.
Posted by Kevin Tighe on Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 5:07 PM
The Florida Museum of Photographic Arts (FMoPA) is moving into a new downtown Tampa location at the corner of Ashley Drive and Kennedy Boulevard (next to the "beer can" building).
The museum will occupy the second and third floors of the six-story building known as the "Cube" in Rivergate Tower, next to Kiley Gardens.
Trickey Jennus, a full-service advertising agency in Tampa, donated pro bono work for the FMoPA during their annual Creatathon, a project involving huge outdoor graphics that were installed this past weekend on the exterior of the building. The installation was conducted at no charge by workers from Bay Area Window Cleaning. The graphics were supplied by Fastsigns on Kennedy. The images selected cover past, present, future and permanent exhibitions.
Monday, January 30, 2012
The real deal: Nelson Shanks' Studio Incamminati holds a workshop in realist art in West Tampa
Posted by Kevin Tighe on Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 7:41 AM
The way classic portrait artist Kerry Vosler sees it, the basics of drawing, color and figure study have been neglected for far too long. That's one reason she helped to bring a recent workshop by a nationally known center for realist art, Studio Incamminati, to West Tampa's Santaella Studios for the Arts.
- Kevin Tighe
- Kerry Vosler participates in Studio Incamminati workshop in West Tampa
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Tempus Projects has issued two fun and intriguing calls for submission
Posted by Julie Garisto on Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 11:09 AM
Tempus Projects Curator Tracy Midulla Reller will be coordinating two exhibitions centered on the symbolic keepsakes.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Sticky fingers wanted for Art Beyond Sight event
Posted by Cristin Cotton on Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 9:50 AM
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Snazzy new vid of Colors show at Bluelucy
Posted by Julie Garisto on Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 9:31 PM
Colors, which has 12 artists creating works based on randomly assigned colors, includes Phillip Clark (half of the Bluelucy duo, who takes purple), John Vitale (red), Daniel Mrgan (yes, that’s how he spells it; orange), Chris Parks (black; pictured), Allen Hampton (yellow), Dan Lasata (green), Emily Dwyer (white) and Josh Pearson (blue). Each of the artist at this show has a distinctive and compelling style, ranging from tattoo-inspired illustrations to skateboard art to stream-of-conscious peripheries of pop art.
Also, read up on next month's all-female show, Bitchin' at Bluelucy.net.
First things first — here's Javier Fick's video of the Sept. 24 opening of Colors.
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Call to Artists: Faces of Deck
Posted by Lauren Rasch on Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 4:19 PM
The art installment for November will be the second annual skate deck show at The Bricks. The show will debut Nov. 19 at 8 p.m. and will be up during the weekend of Tampa Am, Dec. 1. As with all Kick Start ragers, there will be a live DJ and cleverly named drink specials.
If you're interested in being a part of this good time, listen up. Sensibly dubbed "Faces of Deck," your submissions need to include some sort of "face." All submissions are due for review by Oct 22. There are 40 spots available, so please, send your submissions in sooner rather than later. If you haven't been involved in a Kick Start show before, e-mail two or three samples of your work (or a link). Also make aware if you plan on arting the deck itself, or adding to it to make it larger. Also note if it will need to be hung vertically or horizontally.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Winter Arts Festival call for artists, crafters and vendors
Posted by Julie Garisto on Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 9:49 AM
Beth Am's 5th Annual Winter Arts Festival features handmade arts, crafts, gifts, jewelry, food and more. Taking place on Sunday, Dec. 11, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. the free holiday art and craft festival offers more than 35 local artists, crafters and vendors hawking a variety of handmade, local eco-friendly items, baked goods and designer products. It will be held outdoors at 2030 W. Fletcher Ave. Tampa. Admission and parking are free.
Monday, September 12, 2011
Arts Council provides a handy list of art shows issuing calls for submission
Posted by Julie Garisto on Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 10:13 AM
Sculpture, architecture, photography are sought from local artists at a handful of upcoming shows in Tampa Bay and other regions in Florida.
More classified listings for auditions and calls to artists can be found on ArtsTampaBay.com. You can also check the listings on the Arts Council's website, TampaArts.com.
Take note: Some of the deadlines are very near.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Clay around the bay: A sampling of NCECA shows
Posted by Megan Voeller on Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 6:23 PM
This week, you’ll see evidence of the National Council for Education in the Ceramic Arts everywhere — from bigger crowds at your favorite downtown bars to sun-starved potters combing the Bay area’s beaches. So why not get in the game and check out some NCECA-related exhibitions?
The Bay area’s major art attractions — the Museum of Fine Arts and Morean Arts Center in St. Pete and the Tampa Museum of Art — won’t disappoint. But many smaller venues like the ones listed below offer great shows, too. For a complete roundup, look for NCECA-related shows in our Visual Arts listings at cltampa.com/arts, or go to nceca.net and click on the 2011 exhibitions link.
In St. Pete, 30 businesses have banded together to create clayaroundthebay.com, where you can download a brochure and map of participating venues, which include Craftsman House, Florida Craftsmen, Duncan McClellan Gallery, Interior Motives, St. Petersburg Clay Company and Queenshead Gastro Pub — to name just a few. (A printed brochure is also available at the venues.)
NCECA Exhibition Shuttle Buses will be traversing Hillsborough and Pinellas counties to take art lovers on tours of NCECA-related exhibitions. Visit nceca.net for detailed times, stops and routes. Tickets will be available for purchase on-site at the Tampa Convention Center next to registration March 29-April 1.
Material Matrix: 30 North by 84 West. This exhibit — dubbed after Tallahassee’s longitude and latitude — brings together nine Florida State University-affiliated artists including David Packer, a New York-based sculptor who earned his MFA at FSU in the ’90s. I first saw his work four years ago in Chicago, when he was crafting massive ceramic sculptures of V8 engines and suspending them from gallery ceilings. In Material Matrix, Packer exhibits a small-scale rendition (see above) of a shipping container train car emblazoned with his last name in the style of a multinational corporation. Runs through April 3, Tempus Projects, 5132 N. Florida Ave., Tampa, 813-340-9056, tempus-projects.com.
Tampa Museum of Art's NCECA Biennial is a great kickoff to a conference that's crazy for clay
Posted by Megan Voeller on Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 5:53 PM
This week through April 2, the Bay area will be beset with ceramics artists as NCECA — pronounced in-seek-a, which stands for National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts — brings its annual conference to the Tampa Convention Center.
So why should you care? Well, one of the fringe benefits of NCECA’s arrival is that dozens of galleries and museums on both sides of Tampa Bay have collaborated to showcase a slew of related exhibitions. And those exhibits — from big (ceramic installations at St. Pete’s Museum of Fine Arts) to small (a juried exhibition of espresso cups at Tampa’s Cafe Hey) — make an exhilarating case for the vitality and importance of ceramics in the context of contemporary art.
In short, a geeky conference for clay nerds has flooded Tampa Bay in one season with more cool new sculpture than we ordinarily get to see in a year. As for the conference, it’s a fantastic resource for anyone interested in learning more about ceramics from technical, historical and other perspectives (check out nceca.net for details).
The NCECA Biennial at the Tampa Museum of Art, a juried show that includes work by more than 40 artists, is a great place to start your tour of NCECA-related exhibitions.
