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11 reasons to check out Tampa Bay's Skyway 2024 art exhibitions

By on Wed, Sep 4, 2024 at 4:23 pm

Art fans are gonna do some driving over the Sunshine Skyway Bridge this fall thanks to the collection exhibitions that share the span’s name.

The shows—at the Tampa Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts St. Pete, The Ringling, USF CAM and Sarasota Art Museum—include Carola Miles questioning reality in her “UFO Alphabet,” Cort Hartle’s poetic and ceramic walk through the neighborhood, Indigenous art from Corinne Zepeda, the larger-than-life sculpture of Dominique Labauvie, Nigerian Sri Lankan visual artist Sam Modder (work pictured), and more.

Skyway 2024 is officially open at all five venues in Tampa, St. Petersburg and Sarasota through Oct. 27 and membership at one museum gets you free entry to all of them this month.

Look below to check out 11 reasons to drive across Tampa Bay this fall.
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As modern life gets increasingly chaotic, local artists respond with unsettling art like Ryan Day’s unbalanced stack of rocks in the middle of Sarasota Art Museum.
Photo by Jennifer Ring
As modern life gets increasingly chaotic, local artists respond with unsettling art like Ryan Day’s unbalanced stack of rocks in the middle of Sarasota Art Museum.
A tornado comes for Christmas in David Sibbitt’s comical “Still There Was Pudding and a Tree to Trim” at the Tampa Museum of Art.
Photo by Jennifer Ring
A tornado comes for Christmas in David Sibbitt’s comical “Still There Was Pudding and a Tree to Trim” at the Tampa Museum of Art.
University of South Florida Contemporary Museum of Art highlights Florida landscapes this Skyway season, including work from some of the area’s best landscape artists, like Bruce Marsh.
Photo c/o USF CAM
University of South Florida Contemporary Museum of Art highlights Florida landscapes this Skyway season, including work from some of the area’s best landscape artists, like Bruce Marsh.
It’s not Skyway if no one goes big, and multiple artists created larger-than-life art this year. Tampa sculptor Dominique Labauvie created an indoor forest from wood and forged steel at Sarasota Art Museum.
Photo by Jennifer Ring
It’s not Skyway if no one goes big, and multiple artists created larger-than-life art this year. Tampa sculptor Dominique Labauvie created an indoor forest from wood and forged steel at Sarasota Art Museum.
Sarasota artist Samo Davis created a 12-foot sculpture/puppet made of plastic, pompoms and mirrors that look like a colorful hallucination in the middle of Tampa Museum of Art.
Photo by Jennifer Ring
Sarasota artist Samo Davis created a 12-foot sculpture/puppet made of plastic, pompoms and mirrors that look like a colorful hallucination in the middle of Tampa Museum of Art.
The Tampa Museum of Art made it a point to show all new artists this year—no Skyway repeats—including Florida Seminole artist Corinne Zepeda, whose beaded necklaces and patchwork keeps indigenous traditions alive and celebrated through art.
Photo by Jennifer Ring
The Tampa Museum of Art made it a point to show all new artists this year—no Skyway repeats—including Florida Seminole artist Corinne Zepeda, whose beaded necklaces and patchwork keeps indigenous traditions alive and celebrated through art.
Former St. Pete resident Cort Hartle incorporated her own poetry onto a circle of ceramic homes, sending the viewer/reader on a walk around the neighborhood at Tampa Museum of Art.
Photo by Jennifer Ring
Former St. Pete resident Cort Hartle incorporated her own poetry onto a circle of ceramic homes, sending the viewer/reader on a walk around the neighborhood at Tampa Museum of Art.
Carola Miles questions reality in storytelling with her “UFO Alphabet” at the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg.
Photo by Jennifer Ring
Carola Miles questions reality in storytelling with her “UFO Alphabet” at the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg.
Kirk Ke Wang’s research into Oldsmar’s Gim Gong Road resulted in a storytelling sculpture and painting reflecting on the life of Asian American “Citrus Wizard” Lue Gim Gong at Sarasota Art Museum.
Photo by Jennifer Ring
Kirk Ke Wang’s research into Oldsmar’s Gim Gong Road resulted in a storytelling sculpture and painting reflecting on the life of Asian American “Citrus Wizard” Lue Gim Gong at Sarasota Art Museum.
Roger Clay Palmer reflects on our American political story in several ink drawings at Sarasota Art Museum.
Photo by Jennifer Ring
Roger Clay Palmer reflects on our American political story in several ink drawings at Sarasota Art Museum.
Dallas Jackson’s paintings share Black History through personal narrative at Tampa Museum of Art.
Photo by Jennifer Ring
Dallas Jackson’s paintings share Black History through personal narrative at Tampa Museum of Art.

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