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July 2018
Arts Insider Workshop: It’s All in the Process with Mark Aeling
Have you ever wanted to create public art? Interested in how to maintain artistic vision when adapting your ideas to a multi-stage or complex project? For our next Arts Insider workshop, “All Part of the Process,” Mark Aeling, master sculptor and owner of MGA Sculpture Studios, will provide insight on how creative process works for large-scale, logistically challenging sculpture and public art. Mark will touch on questions like: How does an artist maintain artistic vision when assistants, contractors, and other…
Find out more »ArtWorks presents Dana Warner
Each week ArtWorks will feature a local talent who will host a talk about the journey that led them to their art career. This presentation and project allow you to explore art careers & experiment with media. IMAGINE meeting a working artist, creative professional, or design business owner! Dana Warner recently retired from Hillsborough County Public Schools after 20 years of service. She was the Supervisor for K-12 Art Education for 7 years, and a high school art teacher for…
Find out more »Conversation with Xavier Cortada
Conversations in Art+Innovations is an interactive lecture series for the creative community. Join us for the next installment of Conversations in Art + Innovation as artist Xavier Cortada returns to speak about his new solo exhibition, his socially engaging practice, important issues surrounding climate change and more. Cortada has spent his career creating art installations and projects that highlight various social issues, our environment and the impact of global warming. A 2007 National Science Foundation Antarctic Artist and Writer’s Program…
Find out more »The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided. RSVP Required. Racial segregation characterizes every metropolitan area in the U.S. and bears responsibility for our most serious social and economic problems – it corrupts our criminal justice system, exacerbates economic inequality, and produces large academic gaps between white and African American schoolchildren. We’ve taken no serious steps to desegregate neighborhoods, however, because we are hobbled by a national myth that residential segregation is de facto — the result of private discrimination…
Find out more »ALBATROSS A Love Story for Our Time
InVision Creative Cafe and 1PieceEach join together again to present... FREE Environmental Movie Night film: ALBATROSS A Love Story for Our Time by Chris Jordan. https://www.albatrossthefilm.com/ Enjoy this critically acclaimed film and discussion at InVision Cafe, St. Petersburg, FL. ABOUT: "In the heart of the great Pacific, a story is taking place that may change the way you see everything. ALBATROSS is offered as a free public artwork. The journey of ALBATROSS began in 2008 as a collaboration with my friend, activist/photographer Manuel Maqueda. Studying the…
Find out more »August 2018
Coffee with a Curator: Artists and the Sense of Home as Inspiration
Beth Reynolds: Artists and the Sense of Home as Inspiration Beth Reynolds, Director of Photography at the Morean Art Center, will examine the connection between an artist and his sense of home, a prominent theme in our exhibition, Clyde Butcher: Visions of Dali’s Spain. Cost: Free (parking is free for members as available; $10 parking for nonmembers) Location: Raymond James Community Room (overflow seating available in the Will Raymund Theater) Coffee with a Curator is a focused, theme-oriented presentation on…
Find out more »Setting Up Your Financial System: It’s Easier Than You Think
Eighty percent of small businesses fail in the first 18 months because they run out of cash. It is critical for a startup or early stage business to have proper financial systems in place to monitor and analyze their cash flow and other aspects of their finances. Many entrepreneurs don’t devote enough time and preparation to setting up their bookkeeping and monitoring their finances, because they think it is too hard or too boring. The good news is that in…
Find out more »Pulitzer Prize-winning Author Gilbert King Comes to St. Petersburg
Join us at the Studio @620 for a discussion between Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gilbert King and Studio @620 co-founder and artistic director, Bob Devin Jones and Tamp Bay Times book editor Colette Bancroft. Gilbert King is the author of three books, most recently, Beneath a Ruthless Sun. His previous book, Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction in 2013. A New York Times bestseller, the book…
Find out more »Jeff Klinkenberg: Real Florida, Clyde Butcher & Me
Join Jeff Klinkenberg at The Dali for a very personal look at “Real Florida, Clyde Butcher & Me.” The journalist and author is a veteran observer and chronicler of Florida life, and the winner of the Florida Humanities Council’s 2018 Florida Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing. Klinkenberg wrote for almost four decades for the Tampa Bay Times, where his finely crafted Real Florida columns told the fascinating stories of the state’s people and places who didn’t make wacky headlines. He has also published six…
Find out more »The Wild World of Bats
Join Francine Prager of Tampa Bay Bats to learn about the basic biology of these amazing flying mammals. The program begins with a presentation on the diversity and conservation of bats, and will address some of the most common myths about these creatures. After the presentation, visitors will have the opportunity to view some of Ms. Prager's live bats! This program is suitable for all ages.
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