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.
The 5th annual SunLit Festival, with 24 – count ‘em – 24 literary and book-related events across St. Petersburg opens tonight (7 p.m.) with a kickoff...
The juxtaposition, in April Seelbach’s art, of ultra-realistic American landscapes against bright pop-art colors, stars, stripes and flowers, seems to suggest a metaphor for the ideological...
UPDATE: The Pinellas County Board of Commissioners agreed to grant the Dali Museum’s request for $17.5 million in bed tax revenue Tuesday afternoon. It now goes...
The reckoning, for Becca McCoy, came in the spring of 2018, when she and her husband parted ways after 15 years of marriage. She was a...
Spring in St. Pete means so much more than pollen, baseball and taxes. For one, there’s American Stage in the Park. For its 2019 show, the...
The Lovin’ Spoonful was the first Americana band, long before the term was coined. Although the original quartet barely lasted three years in the mid 1960s,...
In playwright Lynn Nottage’s Crumbs From the Table of Joy, 17-year-old Ernestine Crump is about to graduate from high school, and she’s thinking – hard –...
There are quite a few professional dancers in St. Petersburg, says Helen Hansen French, who is herself one. But since the city has no professional dance...
Just shy of its first anniversary, the James Museum of Western and Wildlife Art hits one out of the park with The Cultural Connections of Edward...
Six weeks into his new job as President and CEO of The Florida Orchestra, Mark Cantrell already has very clear ideas on how to move things...
