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.
It’s 1986 in the West African country of Ghana, and the girls at the Aburi boarding school are abuzz about the upcoming Miss Ghana pageant. That’s...
On the Pinellas side of the bay, you didn’t used to hear a lot about the Gasparilla Pirate Festival. It was a purely Tampa thing, since...
As the Dali Museum prepares to draw back the curtain on its first exhibit of 2022, executive director Hank Hine is like a kid waiting for...
This week’s cold snap is trying hard to mess with Laura Spencer’s Lealman District mural project. Yet the artist, St. Pete born and bred, continues to...
Just as Dr. Robert Entel’s collection of Beatles memorabilia outgrew his home, it has now become too big for the museum he established in a Dunedin...
As a City of the Arts, St. Petersburg’s road from “provincial” to “powerhouse” was long and bumpy. The reception to public art, in particular, was chilly...
Nashville-based guitarist JD Simo plays the Murray Theatre, Ruth Eckerd Hall’s intimate black box room, Friday; his trio includes Adam Abrashoff on drums and Adam Bednarikwith...
The National Endowment for the Arts has granted St. Petersburg’s SHINE Mural Festival $25,000 for its SHINE On Unity Project. There are two parts to the...
There’s this little-used word in the English language that’s frequently used to describe Bruce Dickinson, best known as the lead singer of the British metal band...
Equal parts musician, historian and performance artist, Sarah Cahill is on a mission. Noted for her longtime championing of “new” classical music, by unknown and/or contemporary...