{"id":313107,"date":"2026-06-19T14:23:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T14:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/313107\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T14:23:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T14:23:24","slug":"want-to-learn-printmaking-you-can-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/313107\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to learn printmaking? You can, for free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/tampamuseum.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tampa Museum of Art<\/a> is hosting a <a href=\"https:\/\/tampamuseum.org\/event\/childrens-board-free-family-day-juneteenth-cultural-celebration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Juneteenth Cultural Celebration<\/a> on Saturday, June 20. They\u2019re offering a free family day from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The event features a chance to enjoy the museum\u2019s art galleries, take part in art demonstrations, visit the Teen Digital Lounge and sample various food trucks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omarrichardson.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Omar Richardson<\/a>, a Tampa artist who was born in the Bahamas, will be the guest artist. He will teach people the basics of printmaking, a process of creating art by transferring an inked item onto another surface.<\/p>\n<p>Richardson told Spectrum Bay News 9 he was inspired to learn the technique while attending <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bahamas.com\/events\/junkanoo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Junkanoo<\/a> in the Bahamas as a kid. Junkanoo is a vibrant street parade with intricate, handmade, colorful costumes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJunkanoo has a lot of symbolism. It is the oldest celebration in the Bahamas, a celebration of life, a celebration of freedom, a celebration of expression,\u201d Richardson said. \u201c(It\u2019s) similar to what Juneteenth is, a celebration of freedom and life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The event is funded by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.childrensboard.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Children\u2019s Board of Hillsborough County<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The Tampa Museum of Art is hosting a Juneteenth Cultural Celebration on Saturday, June 20.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[274,276,9073,115,4094,7149,135,137,136,278,835],"class_list":["post-313107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-app-top-stories","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-jeff-butera","tag-news","tag-on-the-town","tag-on-the-town-app","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313107","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=313107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}