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 Sarasota County-based Paragon Festivals, deliverers of fine art, seafood and music festivals throughout Florida, will be in charge of Williams Park Friday, Saturday and Sunday....
His place is assured in the big book of influential St. Petersburg artists, but Derek Donnelly – who’s painted many of the city’s eye-catching murals –...
With both of St. Petersburg’s large professional theaters out of the running by choice, Tampa companies made an almost-clean sweep of Sunday’s Theatre Tampa Bay Awards....
The original Doc Ford’s Rum Bar & Grille, on Rabbit Road by the beach on Sanibel Island, was battered rather severely by Hurricane Ian Sept. 28....
The pandemic played havoc with theater companies everywhere. Audiences scattered – and now, two years after the worst of the worst of it, they’re only just...
The Mountainfilm Festival is a Memorial Day Weekend tradition in Telluride, Colorado. It’s an all-documentary event, with a focus on inspirational stories – short, independently-made docs...
The Steven Dietz adaptation of Bram Stoker’s gothic chiller Dracula has become the go-to stage version of the vampire saga for theaters across America. Unlike many...
Anyone who reads this column with any regularity knows that yours truly has a slight bugaboo about musical groups performing without a single original member, and...
Changes in programming are common at radio stations, but this week’s news that WUSF-FM was ditching its veteran late night jazz show resulted in a social...
Behind every great work of art, there’s always a story. As Florida Orchestra music director Michael Francis explains it, the facts and legends behind Igor Stravinsky’s...