Photo: FightingRaven531, licensed CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons The Art of Banksy exhibit opened in Tampa this week, and if street art is your thing, this is the kind of show that doesn’t sit still for long — the exhibitor’s own site bills it as “limited time only.” It’s staged at the Straz Center … Read more
West Tampa’s Santaella Studios packs roughly 30 working artist studios into a century-old cigar factory that once employed over a thousand workers. Here’s its story.
Historic West Tampa has a real, functioning artist community operating out of a single building at 1715 N Howard Ave, and it’s easy to miss if you’re not looking for it. Art Lofts Tampa offers private studio space to local creatives — not a gallery that displays finished work, but a place where the work … Read more