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.
A dozen years have passed since Dailey & Vincent exploded onto the bluegrass stage as the “new kids on the block.” Jamie Dailey and Darrin Vincent...
One of Alice Ferrulo Stampfle’s earliest memories is of a song from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Cinderella. These lines in particular resonated with the young...
You say you want a revolution? Well, you know … there’s one happening downtown. Once a month on a Monday night, musicians from the Tampa Bay...
It’s been almost a year since the $75 million James Museum of Western and Wildlife Art opened in downtown St. Petersburg, and Tom James is talking...
The St. Petersburg Arts Alliance MUSE Awards celebration, Friday night at the Museum of Fine Arts, is sold out. Next on the arts aggregate’s collective calendar...
The mystery began in 2005 when Veronica Leone Matthews, a recent graduate of the USF St. Pete Department of English, found an envelope in her mailbox,...
The elegant reds, blues and yellows of dozens of glass vessels, platters and other, less-easily-described objects d’art glow as if they’re coming from within. This muted...
As the winter weather begins to thaw (hopefully), St. Petersburg’s arts and entertainment scene heats up exponentially. January was a busy month, but February … well,...
Now in production at American Stage, Dominique Morisseau’s Pipeline is a riveting drama about a young African American man, the choices he makes and the effect...
Cole Porter poured every ounce of wit, snark and alliterative ability he possessed into his lyrics for the 1948 musical comedy Kiss Me, Kate; as one...