Art Professor Kim Kirchman and Marjorie Graff have a gallery show “Driven from the Garden” ceramic exhibition at Gallery 114 in Ybor City, Hillsborough Community College campus.
Opening reception Thursday May 19 @ 5 to 8 pm.
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 February 25 to March 26, 2020.
On Wednesday March 23, 2022 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:
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.
This year Christopher Hubbard, Cultural Affairs Coordinator at City of Clearwater, selected the art that is in this years show.
Beginning in August, a free exhibition of the recent works on paper by the 24 Hands Printmaking Collective will be on display for a month at St. Petersburg College‘s Clearwater Campus.
24 Hands is made up of 12 Tampa Bay Printmakers, including myself. We work in a variety of print media, including intaglio, relief, lithography, silkscreen and mono printing.
Our founding members include Marjorie Green Graff, Christine Renc-Carter, Ali Norman, Holly Bird, Barbara Hubbard, Ry McCollough, Stephen Littlefield, Elizabeth Coachman, Polly Perkins, Linda Guy, Sumatra Chandratreya and Rachel Stewart.
This show highlights the latest works of our group. The show’s title, Matrix, refers to the plate or formative part of the print that can be reproduced. Our members have mined the meaning of this word to produce an extensive array of work.
The exhibition will run from August 23- September 23, 2021 at the Crossroads Gallery, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, and 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Fridays.
The artist reception will be Wednesday, September 15, from 6-8 p.m. The event is free and all are welcome.
The Crossroads Gallery is located on the St. Petersburg College Clearwater Campus, at 2465 Drew St., Clearwater.
For more information, call (727) 791-2548. Download the flyer here.
I wanted to let you know that Pinellas County Schools Visual Arts Department has just posted all of the accepted student artwork in a virtual exhibition format for the Calyx Schenecker High School SPC show in the digital PCS Student Gallery
https://pcsvisualarts6.wixsite.com/pcsbva/home
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 February 25 to March 26, 2020.
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.
This year Amanda Cooper, Curator of Exhibitions from the Morean Arts center, selected the art that is in this years show. The Morean Arts Center, the 100+ year mainstay of St. Petersburg’s arts community, has a mission to provide training in the arts for all ages. This year we had 98 student submissions from a variety of mediums. Ms. Cooper selected 50 items and chose this year’s winners, who each received a certificate and a cash award. Below is a list of the winners, with commentary from Amanda Cooper.
The seven Merit Award recipients are:
Third Place: Madeleine Leibrecht, Bleeding Wall
This is a deceptively simple, site-specific installation. A linear paper piece runs uniformly down the wall only to puddle organically on the floor. I liked how the artist incorporated the space into her work, and the simplicity of the design.
Second Place: Matthew Lowe, Edgar Apocalypse
An interactive pop up book about the coming zombie apocalypse? Yes, please! The artist did a terrific job creating tension and skewering pop culture, using a medium not seen often in these types of exhibitions. Keeping the craftsmanship high is difficult for this kind of work, and the artist did that and made me laugh, too. Great design with an engaging color palette.
First Place: Sandro Bukovnik, Strength
At first glance, the figures in this elegant, beautifully-lit photograph look like they are actually connected, like conjoined twins or mirror images. The image contains a tension of strength and softness. I particularly liked how their headwraps seem to have no beginning or end.
Juror’s Purchase Award: Brandon Agee, Epilogue
This piece reminds me of my own experience as a student at SPC (it was SPJC then)—sitting at a table with my head in a jumble while I tried to turn paper into sculpture in Mr. Hagenbucke’s Design 2 class. The photograph is disturbing in one sense, with all the crazy scribbles and the emotions these lines imply, but the beauty and order in the row of origami cranes lends a sense of hope to the image.
Best of Show: James Harper, Domesticated Hare
I was impressed by the scale of this sculpture, as well as the strange elongation of the figure, which reminded me a bit of Beth Cavener’s work. Everything about it, from the figure’s penetrating (and judgmental) stare and the mottled surface to the realistic collar, works together to create one bizarre whole that I couldn’t stop looking at.
This Wednesday, March 18, we are announcing the winners of our 21st Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition online. There is no gallery reception March 18th.
Crossroads Gallery show runs between February 25 to March 26, 2020
2465 Drew Street, Clearwater, FL 33765
Performances of The Laramie Project are presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York. Performances will be at Saint Petersburg College Clearwater Campus Arts Auditorium on:
The prices are $10 for general admission, $5 for students and free for SPC students, faculty and staff.
THE STORY: In October 1998, a twenty-one-year-old student at the University of Wyoming was kidnapped, severely beaten and left tied to a fence in the middle of the prairie outside Laramie, Wyoming. His bloody, bruised and battered body was not discovered until the next day, and he died several days later in an area hospital. His name was Matthew Shepard, and he was the victim of this assault because he was gay. Moisés Kaufman and fellow members of the Tectonic Theater Project made six trips to Laramie over the course of a year and a half, in the aftermath of the beating and during the trial of the two young men accused of killing Shepard. They conducted more than 200 interviews with the people of the town. Some people interviewed were directly connected to the case, while others were citizens of Laramie, and the breadth of the reactions to the crime is fascinating. Kaufman and Tectonic Theater members have constructed a deeply moving theatrical experience from these interviews and their own experiences in Laramie. THE LARAMIE PROJECT is a breathtaking collage that explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion of which we are capable. ” https://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=2955
Auditions for SPC students are August 21 and 22 at 5:00-8:00pm for “The Laramie Project” at the Saint Petersburg College Clearwater Campus Arts Auditorium. Actors please prepare a one minute dramatic monologue for the audition.
Performances of The Laramie Project is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York. At Saint Petersburg College Clearwater Campus Arts Auditorium on:
The prices are $10.00 for general admission. $5.00 for students. Free for SPC Students/Faculty/Staff.
” THE STORY: In October 1998, a twenty-one-year-old student at the University of Wyoming was kidnapped, severely beaten, and left tied to a fence in the middle of the prairie outside Laramie, Wyoming. His bloody, bruised, and battered body was not discovered until the next day, and he died several days later in an area hospital. His name was Matthew Shepard, and he was the victim of this assault because he was gay. Moisés Kaufman and fellow members of the Tectonic Theater Project made six trips to Laramie over the course of a year and a half, in the aftermath of the beating and during the trial of the two young men accused of killing Shepard. They conducted more than 200 interviews with the people of the town. Some people interviewed were directly connected to the case, while others were citizens of Laramie, and the breadth of the reactions to the crime is fascinating. Kaufman and Tectonic Theater members have constructed a deeply moving theatrical experience from these interviews and their own experiences in Laramie. THE LARAMIE PROJECT is a breathtaking collage that explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion of which we are capable. ” https://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=2955
SPC Theater is excited to announce its high school/college summer musical – PIPPIN. June 28 and 29 at 7:30 pm. And a 2 pm showing on June 29 and 30. $15 general admission at the theater’s entrance at the SPC Arts Auditorium, Clearwater Campus 2465 Drew Street, Cleareater FL. 33765
After successful runs of FIDDLER ON THE ROOF and URINETOWN (a Top 10 production in the Tampa Bay area), SPC is looking forward to producing another successful summer musical, PIPPIN.
PIPPIN is written by Stephen Schwartz and Roger O. Hirson. This musical follows the journey of Charlemagne’s son, Pippin, in his quest for the extraordinary life he believes he deserves (don’t we all?). Along the way a troupe of players help him find out what works and what doesn’t– leading to the players big “finale” for Pippin.
Originally produced on Broadway in 1972 and later successfully revived in 2013, PIPPIN has been wowing audiences for decades. Previously set in a traveling theater troupe (and in 2013 at a circus), SPC’s production will be slightly different. The musical will be set in a run-down museum exhibit about Charlemagne and his life with the exhibit coming to life to tell the story of Pippin.
Performances: Will be June 28 – 29 at 7:30 p.m. and June 29 – 30 at 2 p.m.
Tickets are available only at the door of the SPC Arts Auditorium, Clearwater Campus 2465 Drew Street, Clearwater FL. 33765
$15 General Admission ticket price | $10 student
SPC’s: students, faculty, and staff have free admission. Please have your SPC ID at the door to get one free ticket.
If you have questions call the SPC Clearwater Humanities, Theater & Fine-arts Department 727-791-2548