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.
Performing arts stages all across America, the Tampa Bay area included, first went dark on Friday, March 13. That was when the coronavirus curtain fell. It...
If you’re going to executive-direct the St. Petersburg Museum of History, it helps if you know and love St. Petersburg, and are obsessed with history. Rui...
After five years at American Stage, CEO and Producing Artistic Director Stephanie Gularte is leaving St. Petersburg’s longest-lived professional theater company due to a health issue....
We welcomed Rebekah Pulley and Rob Pastore back to The Catalyst Sessions Monday, nearly four months after their first appearance. After a too-lengthy period of Covid-created...
Dave and Heather Hamar shared a dream: A St. Petersburg performance space, centrally located, where musicians and dancers and actors, yoga instructors, Tai Chi teachers and...
From the corner of Rui Farias’ office, Doc Webb is always watching. Farias, director of the St. Petersburg Museum of History, considers Webb – the founder,...
Fifteen minutes before logging in for his Catalyst Sessions interview, Michael Connelly reported, he’d finished writing the final episode of the Amazon series Bosch, based on...
If these walls could talk … they would most likely sing. That’s the impression given by August’s exhibition at Mize Gallery. Curated as always by gallery...
“I don’t ever want to write a play that only white people can be in,” Sheila Cowley said Thursday on The Catalyst Sessions, explaining why she...
For anyone with an interest in the history of R&B (rhythm and blues music), John Capouya’s book Florida Soul is a treasure trove of detail, insight...
