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Brush to canvas: News from the art community

This article from the St. Pete Catalyst rounds up several visual art events in the St. Petersburg, Florida area. Highlights include the debut of Nate Jessup's first gallery exhibition, "Peonies in Winter," at Soft Water Gallery; the upcoming exhibition "Faces of Inequality: Depression Era Photography" at the Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement (MAACM), curated by museum owner Rudy Ciccarello; and a new photography show at the University of South Florida Contemporary Arts Museum featuring work by military veterans. It also notes a concert inspired by artist Ali Banisadr at the Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg, a piano recital at the Dali Museum, and two photography exhibitions by Benjamin Dimmitt at Wild Space Gallery, including "An Unflinching Look: Elegy for a Landscape."

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Skyway 2024: 12 Ways of Looking at a Landscape Artists Conversation + Reception

USF Contemporary Art Museum is hosting a conversation and reception for "Skyway 2024: 12 Ways of Looking at a Landscape" on October 4, 2024. The event features six exhibiting artists—John Gurbacs, Karen Tucker Kuykendall, Caui Lofgren, Eric Ondina, Andrés Ramírez, and Erin Titus—in a discussion moderated by CAM Curator-at-Large Christian Viveros-Fauné, followed by a coffee and dessert reception. The exhibition is part of Skyway 2024: A Contemporary Collaboration, a multi-venue showcase of new art from the Tampa Bay region, also presented at the Ringling Museum, Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg, Sarasota Art Museum, and Tampa Museum of Art.