This is a past event.
Big Kids
Price: Free admission.
bigkidsartshow.com
When graphic design student Esteban Perez-Palmer's son Ryo was born with a terrible heart defect, hopes for a new career had to be put aside. Hospital bills soared, but Perez-Palmer's plight didn't go unnoticed. USF St. Petersburg's graphic design program is helping out in a family-friendly way by collaborating with the artistically inclined students of Symmes Elementary School in Riverview. The subjects of the works include such luminaries as Minnie Mouse and WWE's John Cena, and they created portraits mostly out of crayon, which the graphic design students then retooled to be displayed side by side with the junior counterparts. The Big Kids exhibition will be on display and auctioned off during an opening reception at Studio@620 in downtown St. Petersburg. Proceeds from sales will go to Perez-Palmer and his family. —Brian Lawrence
