{"id":284620,"date":"2026-05-26T12:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T12:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/284620\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T12:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T12:08:14","slug":"the-gallery-be-all-you-can-be-by-michelle-sawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/284620\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gallery: \u201cBe All You Can Be\u201d by Michelle Sawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cBe All You Can Be\u201d by Michelle Sawyer<\/p>\n

On East Hillsborough Avenue, a new mural celebrating pioneering women in East Tampa graces the fa\u00e7ade of Tampa\u2019s Chloe Coney Urban Enterprise Center. Commissioned by the Gasparilla Festival of the Arts<\/a>, artist Michelle Sawyer painted portraits of six Black women who transformed the neighborhood through their dedication to education and public service. Entitled \u201cBe All You Can Be,\u201d the mural features Dr. Frankye A. Berry, an influential teacher; Patricia Pierce-Colman, the first Black female officer in the Tampa Police Department; and Theresa A. Manuel, Tampa\u2019s inaugural Olympic athlete and the first Black woman in Florida to participate in the Olympic Games.<\/p>\n

\"\"Michelle Sawyer and the PACE Center for Girls, Be All You Can Be, 2025. Photographer: Gabriel Burgos.<\/p>\n

To create the mural, Sawyer worked with 10 high school students from the PACE Center for Girls<\/a>. A symbolic collaboration uniting East Tampa\u2019s past leaders and future trailblazers, the mural includes 10 butterflies, each representing one of the PACE students who contributed to \u201cBe All You Can Be.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n

Joanna Robotham is the Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Tampa Museum of Art<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Check out last month\u2019s piece at the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts<\/a>. Looking to advertise with us? Find out how<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cBe All You Can Be\u201d by Michelle Sawyer On East Hillsborough Avenue, a new mural celebrating pioneering women…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3087,74759,74760,74761,135,74762,137,136,74763],"class_list":["post-284620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-art","tag-art-history","tag-art-in-tampa-bay","tag-joanna-robotham","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-art-scene","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-the-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284620","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=284620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}