City Councilmember John Muhammad has had a change of heart. In late December, he told the Catalyst that he fully intended to launch an election campaign long before St. Petersburg’s June 18 deadline.
Muhammad, appointed to fill former Councilmember Lisa Wheeler-Bowman's vacancy in October 2022, will not run for the District 7 seat in the November election. The announcement came in a community blog post, published and sent to the Catalyst at around 12:30 a.m. Saturday.
The six years she spent as Executive Director and CEO of the Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg, Kristen A. Shepherd believes, put her in a unique position to advise other leaders in the field.
Shepherd’s tenure at the St. Pete museum followed lengthy stints at other nationally prominent art museums and institutions, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum and Sotheby’s Auction House.
On today’s edition of the Arts Alive! podcast, say hello to Andrea Morgan, who’s Director of Operations at the Museum of the American Arts & Crafts Movement, located at 355 4th Street N. in St. Petersburg.