. . . Brimming with excitement. That is how it feels to have been awarded the Emerging Artist Grant from Creative Pinellas. I admit that painting on larger canvases instills… Read More
Brimming with Excitement
Genre: Treasure Island
The Economic Impact of the Arts
By Cindy Stovall. Those of us who call Pinellas County home have witnessed firsthand the rapidly increasing influence of the arts in our communities. Now a nationwide study by Americans for the Arts proves it…. Read More
Welcome to YOUR Arts Coast Cultural Plan
We will begin in early September to examine the current state of the arts in Pinellas County, while working over the next year to develop strategic initiatives designed specifically to positively impact our cultural institutions, residents, tourists, artists, and business community…. Read More
Something Blue
By Alice Ferrulo. Inspired by all that is “blue” and a play on the wedding theme “something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue,” this collaborative visual and performing arts installation at the ArtsXchange took two years in the making…. Read More
Book Banning
By Margo Hammond. Lately I’ve been experiencing Yogi Berra’s déjà vu all over again, that dreaded sense of being caught up in an endless loop like in the movie “Groundhog Day.” Except in this loop, the events that are being repeated are getting scarier and scarier…. 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
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
