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.
Veteran photographer Jim Swallow was able to combine two of his favorite things, 3-D (stereoscopic) photography and promoting St. Petersburg fine artists, with his new exhibition...
When Paul Wilborn walked onto the Palladium stage Saturday for his pre-show curtain speech, he was smiling from ear to ear. “I’ve never been this happy...
The old joke went like this: Movie stars never die, they just fade away. But first, they do dinner theater. From the early ‘70s through the...
Palladium Theater executive director Paul Wilborn not only feels responsible for his eight-member staff, but for the performers … and the audience. “We had an incredible...
When he’s not moving, Alex Jones tends to be thinking about a universal question: What is dance? The choreographer-in-residence at thestudio@620, Jones is also the founder...
After 17 years, Gulfport’s First Friday ArtWalk was getting a little stale, Brenda McMahon believed. McMahon is a ceramics artist, and proprietor of the Brenda McMahon...
It’s not spring – not by a long shot – but things are beginning to bloom again on the St. Petersburg art scene. After half a...
Air Force pilot Tom White purchased Skipper’s Smokehouse in 1980, and under his watch it became a premier live music spot for the entire Tampa Bay...
When Bob Woodward proposed a series of on-the-record interviews, President Donald Trump, much to the journalist/author’s astonishment, agreed. This was after Woodward had already published 2018’s...
The thought of getting onstage for the first time in a good long while, David M. Jenkins says, has improved his mood considerably. A longtime...