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 new public art project from Creative Pinellas will expand the definitions of the words “public” and “art.” It doesn’t have a proper name yet, but...
The holidays are here at last, right on time, and December’s arts and culture calendar is stuffed stocking-full of music, theater and other Christmas-themed stagecraft. There...
Instead of performing Charles Dickens’ beloved holiday classic for the umpteenth time, three actors decide to perform every Christmas story ever told — plus Christmas traditions...
When last we checked in with Elizabeth Bennet, the feisty, tart-tongued heroine of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, she was newly betrothed to the handsome and...
Tampa Bay native, acclaimed singer/songwriter and fingerstyle guitarist Christie Lenee joins Catalyst publisher Joe Hamilton ahead of her Sunday evening show at the Straz Center in...
For the third consecutive year, director David Middleton is inside St. Petersburg City Theatre most weeknights, running the 40-member cast of A Christmas Carol through rigorous rehearsals....
Along with their vast and varied collection of contemporary art focused on images of the Old West, Tom and Mary James posess the work of Tampa...
Once he’d made the decision to create a series of pen-and-ink illustrated books about pre-war Berlin, graphic artist Jason Lutes had to look far and wide...
Most opera singers, Susan Hellman Spatafora believes, don’t choose opera as a life’s pursuit. It chooses them. “I used to do open mics, and write cheesy...
The Northeast Exchange Club’s Ribfest is back this month, for its 30th anniversary, and as always it’s a combo platter of BBQ, music and do-gooding for...
