By John Gascot . . . Sometimes I get to my studio ready to create only to find out that my brushes won’t work that day. There’s nothing worse than… Read More
An Art Affair
Genre: Pinellas Park
Orishas
By John Gascot . . . Yesterday I said goodbye to three ladies I will miss a lot. A year or so ago I painted a mural in the backyard… Read More
REPRESENTATION
By John Gascot I can’t speak enough to the importance of representation. As an artist, creating the style of work I do, it is part of my mission to… Read More
Hateful Words Cannot Break John Gascot, Founder of Diversity Arts
August 23, 2021 | By Gloria Muñoz Shortly after the 2016 election, John Gascot and his husband woke up to find anonymous hate mail in the form of a… Read More
Paradise Found – Take a Book. Leave a Book.
. . . “I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library.” I thought of that quote by Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges when all the public libraries were… Read More
Traveling By Book Through Tampa Bay
July 6, 2020 | By Margo Hammond Traveling By Book Through Tampa Bay . . . Books can transport us to faraway, exotic places we’ve never seen, but they can… Read More
Where Art, Business and Good Deeds Meet
May 13, 2020 | By Cindy Stovall . . . Stephen Collins, a Connecticut native, bought Coast Bothers janitorial supply firm a decade ago. It was an established business of… Read More
Pinellas County Center for the Arts is Training Professional Artists
February 19, 2020. . . This month’s Guest Editor, Bob Devin Jones, wants to celebrate Arts Education. He suggested that the Arts Coast Journal ask what kinds of arts careers… Read More
Pinellas Artists You Want More People to Know About
I would like to suggest Neverne Covington. For an artist with a long-standing presence in St. Petersburg, Neverne has not gotten the attention that I think her work deserves. Deeply… Read More
Welcome to the Arts Coast Journal
Letter from the Editor August 7, 2019 | By Sheila Cowley Welcome to the Arts Coast Journal, a new name and new focus for the Creative Pinellas online… Read More
