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• ​Saturday April 22 at 10am

Eligibility
Graduating Pinellas County high school seniors who plan to attend St. Petersburg College as full-time visual art majors for the academic year 2023-2024 and returning SPC sophomore visual art majors will be eligible. In order to be eligible for a scholarship, you must complete the following requirements:

1. Complete a Visual Arts Scholarship application form.
2. Submit a one-page summary explaining why you would like to receive a visual arts award.
3. High school students need to obtain a copy of your high school transcript.
4. High school students need to obtain a letter of recommendation from an art instructor.
5. Submit the items (20 maximum pieces) mentioned above with a portfolio of your work.

• Portfolios
Only original drawings, designs, and photographs should be included in your portfolio. Drawings of photographs are not acceptable. You may use Dropbox and email the link of portfolio images to Department Chair Jonathan Barnes Barnes.Jonathan@spcollege.edu In your email provide an annotated image, list, and a summary explaining why you would like the scholarship.

Or deliver a CD or USB flash drive including PowerPoint or jpeg format with an image list
(description of works) for paintings, 3D work, and crafts that are too large for the portfolio and include them in the portfolio. Make sure the CD/ USB is labeled with your name, date, title, and medium. Your portfolio will be evaluated for drawing, design, artisanship, and originality.

• Timetable

April 19, 2023 – Deadline to submit portfolios – 2:00 pm, Wednesday
April 26, 2023 – Announcement of Scholarships (notifications are sent via email)
April 28, 2023 – Deadline to accept scholarship and pick up portfolios

• Contract

In accepting the Visual Arts Scholarship, a student will agree to enroll at St. Petersburg College
as a full-time student with a minimum of 12 credit hours as a Visual Arts major for the academic
year 2023– 2024. The student will enroll in a minimum of two studio art courses each semester
including ceramics, design, drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, and sculpture. They will also need to follow the A.A. programs in Art (ARTBFA-TR or ARTBA-TR) as stated in the college catalog. The student will exhibit a minimum of three original works in student exhibitions, as well as actively support the Visual Arts. The one-year, partial-tuition scholarship is awarded in two payment installments (one at the beginning of both the Fall and Spring semester). The second semester installment is contingent upon the student demonstrating adequate attendance and a 3.0 grade point average. Failure to meet these requirements will cancel the scholarship. If funds are not used during the Fall term those funds do not roll over to compound to the Spring term installment.

The Exhibition————————————————

This annual juried art exhibition, which began in 2000, serves to highlight the diverse artistic talents of students at St. Petersburg College. The exhibition occurs in The Crossroads Gallery on the Clearwater Campus from March 21 to April 26, 2023

The Reception & Awards———————————

On Wednesday March 29, 2023 outside The Crossroads Gallery on the Clearwater Campus at 6pm all are welcome to enjoy the student artwork, meet the artists, and discover who won the following 12 awards:

• Best of Show
• Juror’s Purchase
• 1st, 2nd, 3rd place
• seven merit awards

Eligibility———————————————————

Participants are currently enrolled full-time or part-time students of St. Petersburg College or attended SPC during the fall semester of 2019. All majors are encouraged to apply. All work submitted must have been completed in 2019 to 2020.

SPC THEATER DEPARTMENT ANNOUNCES

A U D I T I O N S

FOR

• When:  Monday August 22 and Tuesday August 23 from 5:30-8pm

• Where:   Arts Auditorium, Clearwater Campus

• What:  Prepare a 1-minute monologue (upper English accents are encouraged!).   Cold readings from the script.

• Rehearsals:   Tuesdays/ Thursdays 5:30-8pm and Saturdays from 10am-2pm Starting August 30

• Performances:   October 19-22 at 7:00pm and October 22-23 at 2:00pm

Also looking for tech people! For more information:  cooper.scott@spcollege.edu

• Mouse Trap by Agatha Christie is October 19-23
  • 7pm: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
  • 2pm: Saturday, Sunday
• Mouse Trap Theater auditions are
  • August 22-23—5:30-7:30pm
  • for more information on the auditions contact
    • Professor Scott Cooper
    • cooper.scott@spcollege.edu

• Eurydice is March 29-April 3
  • 7pm: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
  • 2pm: Saturday, Sunday

• TBA June 23-25
  • 7pm: Friday, Saturday
  • 2pm: Saturday, Sunday

Book by Hugh Wheeler/ Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Directed By Scott Cooper

Sweeney Todd, an unjustly exiled barber, returns to London seeking vengeance against the system that unjustly sent him away. The road to revenge leads Todd to Mrs. Lovett, proprietress of a failing pie shop, above which, he opens a new barber practice. Mrs. Lovett’s luck sharply shifts when Todd’s thirst for blood inspires the integration of an ingredient into her meat pies that has the people of London lining up.

Rated PG 13

Performances:

June 24-25 at 7 p.m.
June 25-26 at 2 p.m.
Cost: $15 suggested donation
Tickets available only at the door.

Questions?

Please contact Scott Cooper at cooper.scott@spcollege.edu

Sweeney Todd is presented through special arrangement with Music Theater International (MTI).

Professor Kevin Grass published a 6-page article, The Art of Collaboration, which is in the June/July 2022 issue (#145) of International Artist Magazine, pages 42 – 47.

Kevin Grass is an Associate Professor of Studio Art at St. Petersburg College, where he has taught since 1997. His newest painting series is “Lame Ducks”. “Lame Ducks” is series of smaller images by Florida artist Kevin Grass. They retain the humor, narrative, and technical approach of his more elaborate figure paintings, using rubber ducks as the common thematic element. These visual puns are colorful, fun, and lend themselves more easily to making art-related merchandise. His website is www.kevingrass.art