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Brush to canvas: News from the art community
The third annual Menagerie at the Museum, featuring live animals, local wildlife and conservation groups and activities for kids and families, will take place at the James Museum of Western & Wildlife Art Saturday, Aug. 16 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The cost is $5 (this also includes access to all museum artwork) and pre-registration (choose your visitation time) tickets are available here. Tickets are going fast.
Work by ceramicist Nina Samuels at the Morean Center for Clay.
ArtWalk and openings Saturday
The August Second Saturday ArtWalk takes place Saturday (Aug. 9). The St. Petersburg Arts Alliance’s monthly self-guided tour of approximately 40 galleries and working artist studios happens from 5 to 9 p.m.
Here’s the August locator map and list of participants.
Ceramicist Nina Samuels is an artist in residence at the Morean Center for Clay. Her work is featured in Earth and Ocean, opening Saturday with a reception during ArtWalk hours. Originally from Savannah, Georgia, Samuels’ work features a series of manmade objects covered in marine life – both sculpted and real – stemming from her marine restoration work submerging ceramic pieces underwater.
From Samuels’ artist statement: “Having grown up by the ocean and now being an artist in coastal Florida, I use the sea as a starting point for my ideas. Anything from the humblest microorganisms to the most revered fish in the sea are a constant source of inspiration.”
Earth and Ocean also includes works by Tampa artist Charles Morrison. “With a series of textures, designs, hand and finger prints, my clay vessels and Ancestral Totems are covered in a vocabulary of mark making that reference the original civilizations and indigenous peoples of the world,” Morrison writes.
The exhibition will be on view through Oct. 4 at 420 22nd Street S. Visit the website.
The Tully-Levine Gallery, on the Warehouse Arts Association campus (512 22nd Street S.), opens Where Art is Made, the annual showcase of artists working onsite. Saturday’s opening reception is 6-10 p.m.
Penelope Fuente, of Wild Space Gallery (at The Factory St. Pete), will lead special Second Saturday “Blazing Trails” guided tours of the Strand to Slough Expedition exhibit at 6 and 7 p.m. Guests are invited to contribute their own stories.
Hello, Dalí
Wednesday’s Dalí Museum talk by muralists Laura Spencer, Nicole Salgar and Chad Mize – featured in our most recent Arts Alive! podcast – sold out. Congrats to you guys on a job well done.
Overspray Art Space (Gulfport) and The Dalí have joined forces for Surreal Summer, a spray-painting class centered around Dalí imagery and other surrealist themes. The event, 7-9 p.m. Saturday, is $60 per person and includes a wall on which to paint, three spray paint cans, Dalí-inspired stencils and prompts, artist-led creative support, safety gear and materials. Info and tickets are at this link.
Coming to the Dali Aug. 21: Surrealism as a Political Movement, created by the St. Petersburg World Affairs Council. It’s a curated private tour of Salvador Dalí ‘s work and influence on the modern art world viewed through a political lens. Find info and tickets at this link.
At the Tampa Museum of Art: Childe Hassam (American, 1859-1935), Old House, East Hampton. Bank of America Collection.
In other news
Opening Thursday at the Tampa Museum of Art: In a New Light: American Impressionism 1870–1940, with more 100 works that showcase how American artists perceived their world from the American Industrial Revolution to the start of World War II. Artists include Childe Hassam, George Inness, Thomas Moran, John Sloan, Ernest Lawson, Daniel Garber, Guy Carleton Wigg, Gertrude Fiske, Joseph Raphael and William Wendt.
In a New Light: American Impressionism 1870–1940 (Works from the Bank of America Collection) will be on view through Nov. 30. Website.
In Tarpon Springs, Saturday brings the debuts of Jeff Whipple: Past, Present, Future and A Legacy of Her Own: Women of the Gulf Coast Part II to the Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art. Whipple will attend Friday’s artist reception (6-8 p.m.). The museum is located on the St. Pete College Tarpon Springs campus, in the Fine Arts Building. Website.
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