Bay Art Files

The Tampa Museum of Art is preparing for Skyway 2024.
On view from August 28, 2024 through January 5, 2025: Marc Brechwald, Samo Davis, Danielle Dragani, Joe Fig, Adrian Gomez, JD Hardy, Sami Harthoorn, Cort Hartle, Latonya Hicks, Dallas Jackson, Aimee Jones, Candace Knapp, David Mack, David McCauley, Marina Shalthout, David Sibbitt, Yajaira Urzua-Reyes, and Corinne Zepeda.

Saturday, July 20th at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida from 11am-1pm : Here's an opportunity for everyone to participate in two unique collaborative art events in celebration of the exhibition “Lizzi Bougatsos & Lonnie Holley: Never the Same Song.”

St. Pete’s ‘Poetry Alley’ wants you to bring a meaningful object to the MFA on Saturday The ‘FAX’ collective is honoring the ‘Never the Same Song’ exhibition up right now.

Meet the artist Thomas Sayers Ellis on Sunday, July 14th from 1-4 pm at the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts in Ybor City, Tampa, FL.

https://www.facebook.com/FloridaMuseumOfPhotographicArts/posts/467264612680656?ref=embed_post

Join FMoPA in meeting photographer and poet Thomas Sayers Ellis, the first Photo Laureate of St. Petersburg. You will have the opportunity to talk with Ellis at FMoPA twice this month at "A Sit-in the Sit-in the Margins", on Sunday, July 14 from 1-4 PM, and Saturday, July 27 from 12-3 PM. Stop by for an impromptu one-on-one with Ellis. Bring a poem, bring a photograph!

Learn more about these events and others for this month by visiting the link below.
https://www.fmopa.org/calendar/

Photo Credit: Thomas Sayers Ellis, Blackfish, Fisheye, Blackened / St Petersburg, Florida, 2024

"Thomas Sayers Ellis has spent a year walking the streets and unveiling the many stories of Tampa Bay, capturing everything from the blissful and joyful to the mundane, the painful, and the terrible" NEW ONLINE POST: http://bayartfiles.com/paradise-paradise-layered/ Clara ten Berge writes about this past May's SPMOP - St. Petersburg Month of Photography and the upcoming exhibition of Photo Laureate Thomas Sayers Ellis at FMoPA in Tampa.

"A panorama of stimulating eye candy reveling in glorious patterns and captivating decorative motifs."
NEW ONLINE POST: http://bayartfiles.com/embellish-me/
Dr. Robert Steven Bianchi writes about EMBELLISH ME: Works from the Collection of Norma Canelas Roth and William Roth currently on view at the Tampa Museum of Art, Inc.

New online post: http://bayartfiles.com/in-good-company/
Be in good company and experience Strength of Character on view at the Gallery at Creative Pinellas. BAF Correspondent Jessica Todd writes that curator Katherine Gibson excels at “placing thoughtfully made artworks in a space and allowing them to converse with each other and with the viewer.”
Link to article: http://bayartfiles.com/in-good-company/
On view through April 28th.

New post on the site! http://bayartfiles.com/fee-fi-faux-pfaff/ FEE-FI-FAUX-PFAFF Contributor Jonathan Talit writes "The work encapsulates Pfaff’s acute sense of the fun, futureless frivolity of Florida.....the artist astutely and lovingly distills Florida’s Multiple Personality Disorder into more digestible forms without reducing its amusement and frustration." Judy Pfaff: Picking Up the Pieces is on view at the Sarasota Art Museum of Ringling College through Sunday, March 24.

Super easy online application due by February 9th!
Submit a temporary public artwork proposal inviting the public to consider Tampa’s past, present, and future. Artists from Hillsborough, Pinellas, Polk, Pasco, or Manatee County are eligible. Looking for site-responsive artworks that speak to Tampa’s rich history while also considering concepts of representation, presence, and connection. The resulting artworks will be displayed in a one-day public festival in Ybor City with music, food, and other entertainment.

https://form.jotform.com/233127670011141?fbclid=IwAR1qXg0H_d2DAjQu7V8tUyS93MtDkByzaDWvAMfMtBLQugDSxD9ps_Gq2o8

Now on View - An Ephemeral Public Art Festival Please click the link to complete this form.

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Another interesting artist's talk at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida on Thursday, January, 25 at 6pm. Open to the public. Tickets required.

Artist Talk | Janaina Tschäpe - Museum of Fine Arts, St Petersburg | Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg The MFA is ready to inspire you with a collection covering 5,000 years, fascinating traveling exhibitions, and exciting events in the heart of St. Petersburg.

Join us! ArtHouse3 and Bay Art Files are two of several local sponsors for the Tampa Bay premiere of this outsider art documentary. Two screenings on January 18th at Green Light Cinema with a director's Q&A to follow after each.
https://www.cltampa.com/arts/award-winning-documentary-about-folk-artist-nellie-mae-rowe-screens-in-st-pete-this-month-17034430

Award-winning documentary about folk artist Nellie Mae Rowe screens in St. Pete this month ‘The World Is Not My Own’ filmmaker Petter Ringbom will answer questions after both shows.

Author and movie enthusiast Keven Renken explores the burgeoning Tampa Bay area microcinema scene in Bay Art Files' newest post "Let's All Go to the Movies." Link to the article here: http://bayartfiles.com/go-to-the-movies/

It’s great to see SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art taking initiative in this interesting area of collecting.

On the road again with BAF travel correspondent Kathy Gibson as she headed to the Cincinnati Art Museum for a screening of "This World Is Not My Own: The Limitless Story of Nellie Mae Rowe." Follow this link for the complete story: http://bayartfiles.com/on-the-road-again/

Tampa's Coco Hunday summer exhibition was reviewed in the latest issue of Burnaway

Alfredo Ramírez Raymond at Coco Hunday, Tampa Emeline Boehringer reviews Alfredo Ramírez Raymond:An Angle Grinder Grinds in the Background, that was on view at Coco Hunday in Tampa.

Sabrina Hughes writes "By turns witty, moving, and poignant, the exhibition Tom Jones: Here We Stand at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, makes a clear statement that Indigenous Nations remain connected to their past while ensuring their values are projected into the future." Follow the link: http://bayartfiles.com/tom-jones-here-we-stand/ for the newest Bay Art Files article. The exhibition is up through August 27th.

Bay Art Files Cultural commentary and observations from Tampa Bay.

Check out this special exhibition of one of the areas newest permanent collections. Less than two decades in the making, the HCC Art Galleries collection highlights iconic work by the exceptional artists who have studied, taught there and exhibited in their galleries over the years.

Don't miss this: Bay Art Files contributor Richard Ellis will be giving a public talk at the Henry Plant Museum on Saturday, June 10th at 1pm in the Music Room at Plant Hall on The University of Tampa campus. In the Shadow of the Crescent: The Tampa Bay Hotel & Islamic Architecture will explore the architectural references of Tampa's most exotic landmark.

Mark your calendar and join us on Saturday, June 10th for a special lecture highlighting the exotic architecture of Tampa's most iconic building!

Professor Richard Ellis will address architectural features of the building that were borrowed from the Islamic world. The lecture seeks to illuminate the significance of these borrowed forms in their original contexts, trace their route through the output of Orientalist scholars, and explore their potential to hold meaning in their new context.

The event is free and open to the public, and it takes place at 1:00 pm in the Music Room of Plant Hall. This lecture is offered in conjunction with our exhibit "Imagined East: Decorative Arts and the Imperial Gaze," which runs until August 20, 2023.

Art Historian Richard Ellis writes..."In postcolonial fashion, Salman Toor turns the canon on its head by replacing the typical subjects of Western easel paintings with q***r, brown-skinned boys and men. Toor demonstrates his mastery over the Western tradition in a bold act of subversion that begs the question of who owns whose art history." Read the review: http://bayartfiles.com/fall-in-unordinary-love-salman.../
"Salman Toor: No Ordinary Love" is on view at the Tampa Museum of Art through June 4, 2023. The exhibition is organized by the Baltimore Museum of Art. ***rart ***rartistsofcolor

Look who is currently lighting up all of Chicago!
Gio Swaby: FRESH UP, co-organized by Katherine Pill, curator of contemporary art at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, is currently on view at the Art Institute of Chicago. "Gio Swaby is a multidisciplinary artist whose textile-based practice explores the intersections of Blackness and womanhood." If you missed it while in St. Petersburg, it's up through July 3rd.

Tampa's Anthony Record is now based in Avon Park as curator at the Museum of Florida Art & Culture. We sent Orlando-based artist and writer Jonathan Talit to see what's going on. Everyone should take notice!
Link to article: http://bayartfiles.com/location-location-location/

Intrigued by Katherine Gibson's post on the artist Marisol?
One of her works is currently on view at the Tampa Museum of Art, Inc. as part of the stellar exhibition "Time for Change: Art and Social Unrest in the Jorge M. Pérez Collection." Through August 27, 2023.
Link to the BAF article: http://bayartfiles.com/marisol-in-miami/

[Marisol (Marisol Escobar; b. 1930, France; d. 2016)
From France, 1960. Oil, painted wood, plaster, glass, shoe, and metal on wood. 55 1⁄2 × 21 3⁄4 × 10 3⁄4 inches.]

Read the latest Bay Art Files post for Katherine Gibson's passionate take on her recent pilgrimage to see the work of the artist Marisol at the Pérez Art Museum Miami. Link to article: http://bayartfiles.com/marisol-in-miami/

http://bayartfiles.com/immersing-tampa-bay/
Tampa-based writer Jessica Todd takes a fun deep dive into the contemporary immersive arts experience and its local Tampa Bay area presence, including Fairgrounds St. Pete and the upcoming The Peninusalrium by Crab Devil. -art

When in downtown Tampa, visit Hillsborough County School headquarters' The Gallery currently showcasing selections of 2022's Scholastic Art & Writings National and Regional Winners.

Did you enjoy our last post on the work of folk artist Nellie Mae Rowe? Hear the curator of the High Museum of Art's recent exhibtion lecture at the Tampa Museum of Art, Inc.
"Self-Taught Artists and the Impulse to Be Seen"
Thursday, March 10 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm.
RSVP at the Museum's website.
In conjunction with "An Irresistible Urge to Create: Florida Outsider Art from the Monroe Family Collection."

Image: Alyne Harris (American, b. 1943), Untitled, n.d., Paint on canvas. 24 x 36 inches. Courtesy of the Monroe Family Collection.

Learn about the trailblazing industrial graphic designer Jane Davis Doggett who’s contributions to the design of the Tampa International Airport remain groundbreaking and iconic to this day.

TPA Women's History: Jane Davis Doggett March is Women's History Month. Meet the woman who left her mark on Tampa International and other airports around the world.

Correspondent Katherine Gibson was on the road again! Check out her intuitive observations about the High Museum of Art’s recent exhibition of the fascinating work of self-taught artist Nellie Mae Rowe. Link to article: http://bayartfiles.com/the-constant-curator/