13th Annual Downtown Dunedin Crafts Festival

13th Annual Downtown Dunedin Craft Festival (Tampa Bay Area, Fl.)

June 27th & 28th, 2015

Saturday & Sunday 10 AM - 4 PM

Main Street in Downtown Dunedin

If Tampa is on your travel agenda this June, you can’t miss out on this terrific craft event in the city’s most desirable suburb of Dunedin. It is here, a short drive from Tampa, along Dunedin’s Main Street, you will meet some of the country’s finest crafters with products all handmade in the U.S.A. Botanical hotplates, ceramic planters, functional pottery, hair accessories, handmade one-of-a-kind jewelry pieces and an expansive Green Market offers something for every taste & budget.Free Admission

Directions:
I-275 to exit 39 (Clearwater/Tampa Airport Exit), take Highway 60 (Gulf to Bay Blvd.) to US 19. Go North to State Road 580. West on 580 to Alternate 19, left on Alternate 19 to Main Street.

Trashy Treasures -March 6th, Dunedin Fine Art Center

For those unfamiliar with Trashy Treasures, Tampa Bay’s most loved art garage sale, it’s just that. People donate art works that they’ve perhaps grown tired of, and art supplies they no longer need to DFAC. The Dunedin Fine Art Center then offers a select group for sale by silent auction for the event the evening of Friday, March 6th and then prices the rest of it to sell on a first- come first-served garage sale basis on Saturday, March 7th. It’s great fun and needless to say, some INCREDIBLE values can be had.

My Book is Published

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Have your kids ever asked you why Zebras have stripes and you had no answer? Well, come with me as we tell you this fable of why Zebras have stripes.

"ART to the Rescue" Animal art to benefit Dunedin Doggie Rescue-May 2013

Diggin the Arts-Hightlights from the Event

Maggie Price Announcement

IAPS is sad to announce the passing of Maggie Price, President of the International Association of Pastel Societies and co-founder of the venerable publication, The Pastel Journal. Maggie's legacy not only includes her IAPS presidency and the magazine, but bestselling books, DVD's and workshops that have inspired students around the world to become better artists. Her third book, Creative Freedom, was just published by Northlight books in March this year.

To honor her legacy IAPS is creating a perpetual award in her name. The Maggie Price Award of Excellence for an Emerging Artist will be given at each IAPS Exhibition, starting with the 2013 Convention this June.

http://www.pastelinternational.com/

"My Paint" free digital painting ....

Hello fellow artist.Here is the link to a free and beautiful digital painting software program "My Paint"that is useful and wonderful to create lovely art work on your computer.Lots of free brushes and tutorials available on you tube...Feel free to create and enjoy...!!!   http://mypaint.intilinux.com/

No Limit - Janet Biggs Exhibit

Presented by Tampa Museum Of Art at Tampa Museum of Art

July 2-October 9, 2011

For more than a decade, New York-based video artist Janet Biggs has explored the tense relationships between athleticism and human ambition, individualism and community, and free will and control. Her work has focused on sports and natural environments and has ranged from the claustrophobic pool with synchronized swimmers to the vast expanse of the High Arctic. Biggs’s work has been exhibited throughout the United States, Europe and Oceania. This exhibition is organized by the Tampa Museum of Art and is the first full survey of the artist’s career.

Image: Janet Biggs, Fade to White (video still), 2010. Courtesy Conner Contemporary. Copyright Janet Biggs.

Life and Death by Duane Michals

Presented by Florida Museum of Photographic Arts at Florida Museum of Photographic Arts

September 8-November 6, 2011


Michals (American, born 1932) has an established reputation. His photography is collected by major art museums in the United States and Europe. He has received honors from the French government, from British admirers and from the National Endowment for the Arts.

In spite of these honors and wide recognition, Michals remains a renegade voice. Turning away from conventional photographic etiquette, he has pioneered his own from of sequential photography in which a series a staged photos makes up a story board of sorts – as in “The Bogeyman,” a portion of which is seen on the opposite page. Also, he has defied convention with his handwritten commentary that often is an integral part of his final product.

Michals’ themes center on time and on life’s fleeting moments. Although he is a member of the gay community, he dwells on chance encounters that may alter an person’s life. He wonders about subjects like the small place we humans occupy in a vast universe. And he considers questions of mortality.

Because Michals is also an accomplished commercial and portrait photographer, the exhibition will include his photographic portraits of such celebrities as (possibly) Robert Duval, Tennessee Williams and Andy Warhol.

Women of Ybor - 125 Years of Influence Museum Exhibit

Presented by Ybor City Museum Society, Inc.

March 25, 2011-October 12, 2012


Opening on March 25 at the Ybor City Museum State Park.

Since its early days, women have participated in all aspects of Ybor City life, including the cigar industry, domestic activities, the medical profession, the business community, politics, labor issues, education, and the arts. Their thumbprints can be seen in the cultural and economic development of the district throughout its 125-year existence and as we move into the future.

A special exhibit, opening at the Ybor City Museum State Park on March 25, 2011, will inject the female voice into the historical narrative of Ybor City, which generally has been told from the perspective of male experiences. Whether you want to know more about Mercedes de las Revillas de Martinez-Ybor, wife of Ybor City's founder; Adela Gonzmart, the iconic matriarch of the Columbia Restaurant family; or the grandmothers, aunts, wives, sisters and contemporary women of Ybor, you will enjoy stories based on interesting themes and specific individuals whose influence has been and is still evident.

Local Artist Leaves Legacy

TAMPA — Carolyn Heller painted the world around the way she lived, boldly and with bright colors.

She painted stars and the moon, fish and flowers, ladybugs and martinis. She painted a chair for Ronda Storms and a pool table for another customer, complete with legs that looked like palm trees and a Key West theme on the sides. She painted purses and bar stools, aprons and ice buckets and watering cans, shoe bags and tote bags.

Most famously, Ms. Heller transformed art sales into multi-purpose entertainment in her South Tampa townhouse. Browsers at an annual happy hour art sale met a large woman with a big laugh and a Southern accent as distinct as sorghum, who used terms like "fabulous" or "kick a---" to describe the things she liked and who expressed disapproval with similar gusto.

Ms. Heller, one of Tampa's most recognizable artists, died Monday as the result of a blood clot. She was 74

My Photo of Baby Moorhens was published in Friday's St Pete Times.....Here are the day old babies...

PALM SUNSET WON FIRST PLACE IN THE WATER WORKS OF ART PHOTOGRAPHY  Contest in Pinellas County
The photo is in a collection of 12 other photography winners and will  be on a traveling exhibit through out the county for 12 month.One month in each city starting August 1, 2010.