St. Pete’s arts scene is a cornerstone of its unique profile, with great visual art, world-class museums and performing arts of every kind, at every level. The section is not only a source for current arts news and updates, it profiles those artists and influencers who CREATE and make the St Petersburg arts community so vibrant. Keep abreast of local arts & culture events and news in the Create section.
In 1976, on his first day teaching a photography class at the Studio Museum in Harlem, Dawoud Bey was greeted by a “seemingly shy woman with...
Maybe Orleans never quite achieved the stratospheric sales of similar, harmony-based ‘70s bands like America, Firefall or Pablo Cruise, but two songs – “Dance With Me”...
Darkmatter, an exhibition of work by Creative Pinellas Professional Artist grantee Jason Hackenwerth, opens Friday at the organization’s Walsingham Road Gallery. The artist, who moved to...
As part of a decades-old tradition, summertime brings a plethora of classic films back to local screens, at reasonable prices. Although the City of St. Petersburg’s...
For more than a decade, Nicole Jeannine Smith was one of Jobsite Theater’s most prolific and watchable actors, appearing in drama after comedy after freaky weird...
It was 1997 when Oklahoma brothers Isaac, Taylor and Zac Hanson hit No. on the pop charts with “MMBop,” an infectious indie-pop dance record credited to...
The list of legends who trained or played at St. Petersburg’s waterfront baseball park reads like a dream roster. Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Ty Cobb, Joe...
Tyler Riggs grew up in the punk rock and skateboarding subculture of early ‘2000s Tampa, a life of blunts and booze and big dreams, of quick...
It looks like the musical OZ, written by St. Petersburg’s Michael Raabe and Eric Davis and first announced for freeFall Theatre’s 2019-20 season, is finally going...
There are seven shows in playwright Dan Coggin’s Nunsense musical comedy universe, and actor Matthew McGee can rattle off most of the titles: “There’s Nunsense II:...