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The Sunkicks: Home for the Holidays
ByThe Artisan Magazine October 28, 2026October 28, 2026

The Central Park Performing Arts Center (CPPAC) is excited to welcome The Sunkicks: Home for the Holidays — The High-Kicking Christmas Sensation on Friday, November 27, at 8pm, Saturday, November 28, at 2pm and 8pm, and Sunday, November 29, at 2pm. Featuring precision kickline dancing, powerhouse vocals, stunning costumes, holiday favorites, and an unforgettable original Christmas story, this Broadway-style event delivers Christmas magic for audiences of all ages. …

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Featured | Music

The Resurrection of VINYL
ByMaggie Duffy October 27, 2026October 27, 2026

A Visceral – Audio – Love – Connection On a Tuesday evening in July, people trickled in from the sticky summer heat to the cool, moodily-lit Suite E Studios in St. Petersburg’s Warehouse Arts District. The eclectic crew of music enthusiasts came to share tunes of every and any genre. The distinction is that they…

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Featured | Literature

Instilling the Love of the Written Word: An Interview with Amy Cianci
ByNina Kenney October 27, 2026October 27, 2026

Publisher at St. Petersburg Press What you create should stay yours, a sentiment shared with me by Amy Cianci, Publisher at St. Petersburg Press, in September. In late 2017, Amy and her business partner, Joe Hamilton, listened to the difficulties that local creatives shared in regard to the nuance of traditional publishing. Do I need…

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Featured | Literature

POETICA – Emma Gazley
ByEmma Gazley October 27, 2026October 27, 2026

NEIGHBORISM Look for the people doing good —look even when they are selfish and when good is not perfection, and when good is not good enough, and when good is not what is expected, and when good is uncomfortable, and when good is challenging. People are good and they are not good. Can never be…

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BILL EDWARDS
ByKeith Matter October 27, 2026October 27, 2026

As an entrepreneur I loved listening to Bill’s life stories, his successes, etc. ….and he loved to tell them. When I heard that Bill had passed I was shocked. All I could think was, “How can a person of such strength and determination succumb to something as trivial as death?” His ripple, his wave of…

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Featured | Visual Arts

Commissioning AN ARTIST
ByThe Artisan Magazine October 27, 2026October 27, 2026

A commission becomes a collaboration between artist and collector. By Mark Holliway Central Park has always held a special place in my heart. Its beauty, history, nostalgia, and romance make it unlike anywhere else. As a filmmaker, I have also been drawn to the way it appears on screen. When I had one space left…

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Fashion | Featured

The Art of Revenge
ByBrian James October 26, 2026October 27, 2026

Revenge doesn’t always have to be destructive. Sometimes, it can be creative. For St. Pete brothers Savion and Sincere McGee, fashion is more than what you wear. It’s a way of showcasing what you feel, challenging expectations, and creating something entirely your own. Together, they’ve built Speedy’s Revenge, a fashion brand that refuses to fit…

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Featured | Performing Arts

Ovations Dance Repertory Company
ByDeborah Bostock-Kelley October 26, 2026October 26, 2026

Bringing Holiday Magic to the Stage While Building the Next Era of Performers When Orlando Peña opened Ovations Dance Academy in 2021, he set out to create more than a dance studio. He imagined a place where strong technical training, professional‑level instruction, and a genuine sense of community could thrive together. Five years later, that…

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Featured | Visual Arts

Choose Your Path: One Artwork, Many Values
ByAshley Burke October 26, 2026October 26, 2026

The setting: You inherited an old landscape painting from your grandparents. You grew up hearing the story: they bought it on a trip to Italy in the 1960s, and supposedly the artist was famous. It looks old, it has a signature, and it has always hung in the family home. Now it belongs to you,…

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Featured | Music

Year-End Concerts to Feature Holiday Cheer, Chamber Season Debut
ByCarl DiOrio October 26, 2026October 26, 2026

The classical calendar winds down with festive fare including holiday pops concerts and performances of seasonal works of Bach, Handel and others, plus other highlights such as a fetching chamber series marking its latest debut. The first of five concerts in the wonderful Palladium Chamber Series is set for Wednesday, Dec. 9. Like all the…

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Featured | Music

Seven C Music in St. Petersburg
ByMaggie Duffy October 26, 2026October 26, 2026

Stepping into Seven C Music and Coffee is like feeling a warm embrace, with the smell of the house-roasted coffee permeating the air and the cozy aesthetic of tables and couches on colorful rugs, amid the wooden bar, bookshelves and intimate stage. And everywhere you look, there are guitars. The ones for sale hang on…

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Featured | Literature

A Meditation on Summer’s End: Memory in Art
ByNina Kenney October 20, 2026October 20, 2026

My earliest memories of summer can be traced back to days at the beach, white sand burning my bare feet, scents of pizza by the slice and zeppoles fresh out of the fryer coating the air. They can be traced back to evenings lying in the grass of my backyard, waiting for the fireflies to…

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Warehouse Arts District Association
ByKeith Matter September 23, 2026September 26, 2026

UPDATE What is the mission statement for the warehouse arts District? The mission of WADA is sustainability for artists, that’s the primary goal. How we go about that is multifaceted, but it started out with advocating for the arts and for artists, and individual rights for artists, and creating studios that were affordable or subsidized….

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Tampa Theatre at 100
ByDeborah Bostock-Kelley September 21, 2026September 26, 2026

A Century of Magic, Memory, and Renewal For a century, Tampa Theatre has stood in the heart of downtown as a treasured cultural landmark. But its story actually begins with a narrow escape. After years of deterioration, the building’s fate hung in the balance until the city stepped in during the 1970s, restoring the venue…

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Featured | News

Booker Creek Arts Festival
ByThe Artisan Magazine September 21, 2026September 26, 2026

For Leslie Curran, the Booker Creek Arts Festival is a celebration of art, of Booker Creek, and the historic EDGE District of St. Petersburg. Leslie Curran has led St. Petersburg through many phases of cultural growth through the arts and arts-related events. In fact, she has been credited with laying much of the foundation for…

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Fashion | Featured | Visual Arts

Tampa Bay Fashion Photography: Inside a Creative Editorial Shoot
ByBrian James September 21, 2026September 26, 2026

Brian James for The Artisan Magazine – Sept/Oct 2026 It’s not about that. It’s about everything else. I honestly don’t know how to put into words what it feels like to work with incredibly talented people. Maybe that’s because some things are better experienced than explained. I’ve been fortunate throughout my career to work with…

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Featured | Visual Arts

Is Art a Good Investment?
ByAshley Burke September 16, 2026September 26, 2026

Yes, but let’s define what is meant by investment. The real question many collectors are asking is, “Will this artwork increase in value?” This a financial question, and answering it requires research and data. It involves analyzing current and historical market trends, comparable sales in both the primary and secondary markets, and understanding where an…

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Featured | Literature

Nature Spots for Creatives in Pinellas County
ByNina Kenney July 21, 2026September 26, 2026

We are always on highways, driving through cities and towns. Yet, the county is 280 square miles. Within it, 588 miles of coastline, and 20,000 acres of beautiful Florida parks and natural escapes. As summer approaches, and as rising heat threatens to melt us into the asphalt, it can become strenuous to seek the outdoors….

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Twig: Curated Fashion in a World of Algorithms
ByBrian James July 21, 2026September 26, 2026

As a fashion and portrait photographer running a studio for more than 15 years, one of the questions I’m asked most often is simple: “Where do you find the clothes for your photoshoots?” The answer is rarely a single source. Great styling is often the result of relationships built over years with designers, stylists, artists,…

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Featured | Visual Arts

BROWNE ART
ByRobin O'Dell July 21, 2026September 26, 2026

Jovian Browne is the dynamic, impassioned, and very capable founder of Browne Art. The history of art galleries in St. Petersburg is littered with corpses. Some long- time residents might remember the amazing Mindy Solomon Gallery that used to be downtown but moved to Miami in 2013. The Woodfield Gallery and the Craftsman House Gallery…

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Featured | Performing Arts

Celebration: Hannah Hockman’s Beach Theatre Turns One
ByDeborah Bostock-Kelley July 21, 2026September 26, 2026

When the Beach Theatre reopened its doors last summer after more than a decade of silence, it wasn’t just a building coming back to life. It was a homecoming. For owner Hannah Hockman, who runs the theatre alongside her parents, Sissy and Ron, the journey began long before the marquee lit up again. “I first…

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Featured | Visual Arts

THE WERK GALLERY & Object Lab: When exploration & shopping become an EXPERIENCE!
ByThe Artisan Magazine July 15, 2026September 26, 2026

Open for 3 years now, The Werk Gallery & Object Lab has become one of the city’s most distinctive spaces for contemporary art, artist-made objects, and a cultural exchange. Located at 2210 First Avenue South, the gallery blends curated exhibitions with an eclectic retail concept known as the Object Lab, creating an experience that is…

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Featured | Music

Shevonne Philidor – Energized
ByThe Artisan Magazine July 15, 2026September 26, 2026

With her smile and beautiful flowing dreads, Shevonne Philidor walks out with her electric guitar, bringing along a presence and energy that lets you know right off that something special is about to happen. Then she begins to play, opens her mouth to sing and her raw soul commands the stage. You are blown away….

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Featured | Visual Arts

NEW AFRICAN MASQUERADES: ARTISTIC INNOVATIONS AND COLLABORATIONS
ByThe Artisan Magazine July 15, 2026September 26, 2026

AUGUST 15, 2026 THROUGH JANUARY 3, 2027 Masquerade has long stood as the iconic African performance genre, and yet the artists who create masquerades are often unacknowledged and under-represented in exhibitions and publications. New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations showcases the artworks and voices of individual creators and offers a fresh take on the…

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American Works to Anchor TFO’s New Season
ByCarl DiOrio July 15, 2026September 26, 2026

The Florida Orchestra has released the lion’s share of its 2026-’27 season program, and its Masterworks series — always the red meat of what’s on offer — focuses heavily on American composers, honoring the nation’s 250th anniversary. Those include Bernstein’s captivating “Age of Anxiety,” led by legendary U.S. conductor Leonard Slatkin on April 2 &…

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Featured | News | Visual Arts

Juicy: A Slice of Florida Life
ByThe Artisan Magazine June 22, 2026September 26, 2026

Exhibiting at the St. Pete-Clearwater International Airport Sightline GalleryJune 30 thru September 30, 2026 Curated by Maggie Duffy of Creative Pinellas Creative Pinellas, in partnership with Heritage Village, is presenting a nostalgic celebration of Florida culture with itsnewest exhibition, Juicy: A Slice of Florida Life, on view June 30-Sept. 30, 2026 at the St. Pete-Clearwater International Airport Sightline Gallery. In celebration of Heritage Village’s 50th anniversary in Pinellas County, Juicy explores Florida’s enduring relationship with the citrus industry through archival citrus crate labels that sealed Florida’s identity as an eternal tropical paradise.The labels are paired with featured artist Steve Hagan’s blown glass sculptures of citrus, which look as delicious as theFlorida fruit that inspired them. The glass works are on loan from…

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Featured | News | Visual Arts

High-end gallery opens in downtown St. Pete with an inaugural exhibition by Francesco Agresti
ByJovian Browne May 22, 2026September 26, 2026

Contemporary abstract paintings and works on paper by Francesco Agresti are on view at Browne Art through June 26, 2026 with a special exhibition at the Dali Museum on June 5th Browne Art is pleased to present Emancipation, a solo exhibition of luminous abstract paintings by Italian-born, New York–trained artist Francesco Agresti, who has lived and…

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Sacred Pilgrimage: Gaudí and Galban Returns to Clearwater Honoring the 100th Anniversary of Antoni Gaudí’s Death
ByThe Artisan Magazine May 20, 2026September 26, 2026

As Spain and the world prepare to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the death of legendary architect Antoni Gaudí in 2026, Peace Memorial Presbyterian Church will host a special celebratory reception for the expanded traveling exhibition Sacred Pilgrimage: Gaudí and Galban on Wednesday, June 10, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in downtown Clearwater. Across Spain, tributes…

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Florida Museum of Photographic Arts Announces 2026 International Photography Competition Winners & Exhibition
ByThe Artisan Magazine May 18, 2026September 26, 2026

On View: June 18 – August 2, 2026 The Florida Museum of Photographic Arts (FMoPA) is proud to present the 2026 International Photography Competition exhibition, on view June 18 through August 2, 2026 at its Ybor City galleries. Now in its latest edition, the International Photography Competition (IPC) continues to serve as a global platform…

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A Discussion with Paul Wilborn, Author of The Everlasting Life of Charlie Wall
ByNina Kenney May 8, 2026September 26, 2026

I sat outside the café on a fresh, spring morning in St. Petersburg, Florida. My iced coffee had condensation pooling at the base of its plastic cup. The air was warm, but a breeze brushed my arms and beneath the wispy hair on the nape of my neck. With me was my journal, a pen,…

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