Environmental Flux by Mike Cannata

Mike Cannata: Environmental Flux Opening reception: Saturday, May 13th, 5pm to 9pm “Everything manmade will eventually wither away. While recycling clay I find myself enamored by the process. It reminds me that nature is always in flux and that physical material is imparipinnate. Clay scraps that sit in a bucket of water go from straight […]

dePaul School Creates!

DePaul School Creates! The dePaul School is a specialized, independent, not-for-profit school located in Clearwater and dedicated to the education of children with dyslexia and related language-based learning difficulties with the primary goal of enabling these students to achieve academic and personal success.   Led by art teacher Pamela Miles, this school year the dePaul […]

St. Petersburg Month of Photography: 2023 Photo Laureate

St. Petersburg Month of Photography: 2023 Photo Laureate SPMOP presents Photo Laureate 2023: the Nominees. Traditionally, a laureate is someone who is being honored because of exceptional skills or performances, and, according to SPMOP, this is the first time St. Petersburg will have a photographer laureate. The nominees for Photo Laureate have been chosen based on […]

The Class of 2023: PCCA Senior Show

The Class of 2023: PCCA Senior Show After three years of an intense visual art curriculum, students in their fourth year at Pinellas County Center for the Arts (PCCA) at Gibbs High School begin preparation for their senior project. The senior project is required of all PCCA students wishing to graduate with a certificate from the […]

Fresh Squeezed 7: Emerging Artists in Florida

Fresh Squeezed 7: Emerging Artists in Florida Each year, the Morean invites emerging artists currently residing in Florida to submit entries for possible exhibition in Fresh Squeezed: Emerging Artists in Florida. This year’s exhibition will be held at the Morean Arts Center April 8 – June 22, 2023. The goal of this exhibition is to […]

Andrea Key Connell: Hold On

Andréa Key Connell: Hold On Hollow Building Large Forms Workshop with Andrea Keys Connell Morean Center for Clay “Hold on can be heard, felt, interpreted in a variety of ways. It can be a request on a phone line, or a plea to a loved one. It can be said to a child before you […]

SUNKISSED: Karen Tucker Kuykendall + Steve Hagan

SUNKISSED: Karen Tucker Kuykendall + Steve Hagan There are two things that are evident as you walk through the Chihuly Collection: the artist’s love of color and his passion for the natural world, particularly plants and flowers. Mr. Chihuly’s mother, Viola, was an avid gardener, and this theme has inspired much of his studio practice […]