LARGO, Fla. \u2014 There are only a few more days to enjoy the latest exhibition at the Creative Pinellas gallery space.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
Creative Pinellas to go remote after collaborative arts organization loses $1.2 million in county funding
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Final Exhibition in Largo gallery Arts Annual Eight will close January 4
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All proceeds from the exhibition and the pop-up holiday shop go towards bolstering artists and the organization<\/p>\n
The name of the show is Arts Annual Eight.<\/p>\n
And it\u2019s the final show in their Largo gallery space. Last September, Pinellas County commissioners voted to cut more than $1 million in funding for the collaborative arts organization\u2019s 2026 fiscal budget. They\u2019ve also lost their lease to their county-owned building.<\/p>\n
Their plan is now to go remote.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur staff will all be working from home, and we are continuing to partner with arts organizations and cultural institutions throughout the area,\u201d Margaret Murray, CEO of Creative Pinellas said.<\/p>\n
The exhibition and holiday pop-up shop remain open through January 4. Staff will leave the building at the end of the month.<\/p>\n
All proceeds from the exhibition pieces and the pop-up shop are going to prop up artists and the organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LARGO, Fla. \u2014 There are only a few more days to enjoy the latest exhibition at the Creative…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1011,274,28,1190,115,202,204,203,199,201,200,135,278,7148],"class_list":["post-102734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-app-human-interest","tag-app-top-stories","tag-florida","tag-human-interest","tag-news","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa","tag-top-stories","tag-virginia-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}