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.
There’s one question Gulfport Casino manager Justin Shea gets asked more than any other: Where are the slot machines? The word casino means gathering place, he...
St. Petersburg got its first taste of painter/muralist Leon Bedore’s work in the early 1990s. The Pinellas County Center for the Arts student was a graffiti...
It’s not exactly a Stop the Presses moment, but all four original members of A Flock of Seagulls, one of the first new wave “video bands”...
Alice Walker’s 1982 novel The Color Purple, about a young Black woman growing up dirt-poor and abused in turn-of-the-century rural Georgia, is one of the most...
It was one year ago today that the five-story Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement opened on 4th Street North, its 40,000 square feet...
In a roundabout way, we have the Florida Aquarium to thank for Carrie Jadus’ Blue Nudes series of paintings, featuring human figures in repose against rich...
Although she’s still physically in Colorado, American Stage’s new Producing Artistic Director Helen R. Murray went on the clock in St. Petersburg last month, working remotely....
Watching a rehearsal of American Idiot from the House Right seats, American Stage director Gavin Hawk mused on the narrative spine of the Tony-winning Broadway musical,...
The success of his 2019 “hood film” Agent X, an independent, low-budget thriller, gave Jabaar Edmond and his movie-making team all the reason they needed to...
Cheap Trick, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band whose lead singer was, is and shall always be Safety Harbor resident Robin Zander, shares Saturday’s...