{"id":351225,"date":"2026-07-24T16:05:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T16:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/351225\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T16:05:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T16:05:51","slug":"arts-alive-podcast-imagine-museums-graphic-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/351225\/","title":{"rendered":"Arts Alive! podcast: Imagine Museum\u2019s \u2018Graphic Worlds\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s guests on the Arts Alive! podcast are Stephanie Agudelo, events coordinator for St. Petersburg\u2019s Imagine Museum, and Ora Fraze, owner and operator of the art gallery Ultra Mundane.<\/p>\n<p>Both are artists whose work is featured in the third annual Graphic Worlds exhibit, today through Sunday at the Imagine (Agudelo is also Ultra Mundane\u2019s co-curator).<\/p>\n<p>Graphic Worlds, subtitled Anime &amp; Comic Book Exhibition, is a celebration of anime and comic book art, and its close relationship with the mind-bendingly creative glass art that is the museum\u2019s everyday calling card (there\u2019s a lot of new stuff, curated just for this weekend, on display).<\/p>\n<p>Cosplay is encouraged; show up in costume and they\u2019ll waive the regular museum admission fee. You\u2019ll be able to visit all the glass galleries, too.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight (5-8 p.m.) is a gallery-wide Anime Market (a.k.a. \u201cMythic Manga Market\u201d), with 14 vendors set up in different galleries, selling collectibles, artisan goods and more. Be advised: There\u2019s a scavenger hunt involved.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday offers up a cosplay contest, workshops, fun and games (including trivia, retro gaming and trinket trading), and a \u201cPok\u00e9mon Terrarium Workshop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-120062\" class=\"wp-image-120062\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Button-Smashers-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"368\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-120062\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Button Smashers. Facebook photo.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibit\u2019s official opening reception (starting at 5 p.m. Saturday) includes performances by the Button Smashers, Pinellas Park\u2019s self-described \u201canime\/nerd ska band.\u201d The costumed group performs original arrangements of music from video games, anime, cartoons and pop culture history (sets at 5:30 and 6:45 p.m.).<\/p>\n<p>Graphic Worlds: Anime &amp; Comic Book Exhibition continues 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Find everything you need to know <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imaginemuseum.com\/event\/graphic-worlds-anime-comic-book-exhibition-opening-weekend-festival\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">at this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the arrow to listen to the conversation.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/media.stpetecatalyst.com\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Arts-Alive-Imagine-Museum-final.mp3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/media.stpetecatalyst.com\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Arts-Alive-Imagine-Museum-final.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-120060\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Arts-Alive-Imagine-Museum-DeYoung-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"290\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today\u2019s guests on the Arts Alive! podcast are Stephanie Agudelo, events coordinator for St. Petersburg\u2019s Imagine Museum, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-351225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351225","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=351225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}