{"id":355344,"date":"2026-07-28T20:45:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T20:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/355344\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T20:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T20:45:12","slug":"floridarama-leans-into-local-talent-for-art-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/355344\/","title":{"rendered":"FloridaRAMA leans into local talent for art experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 Chad Mize is the Alpha and the Omega at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridarama.art\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FloridaRAMA <\/a>in St. Pete.<\/p>\n<p>His work is at the entrance and exit to the immersive art experience.<\/p>\n<p>And now the well-known St. Pete artist has a room all his own, covered in his work from ceiling to floor, called \u201cRandomize.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I fused all the styles of art that I work in \u2014 my patterns, my graphic test work and my doodle style,\u201d said Mize.<\/p>\n<p>There is curated sound on a seven-minute loop that includes funhouse sounds, waves on the beach and rain.<\/p>\n<p>And there is a curated scent, petrichor and motor oil.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo it\u2019s the smell of rain hitting the asphalt with motor oil,\u201d said Mize. \u201cIt\u2019s based off me working in my home studio, which is my garage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mize says project flexibility, collaborating with businesses, helped grow his name and appreciation for his unique styles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I\u2019m actually painting someone\u2019s plane right now at the St. Pete airport,\u201d said Mize.<\/p>\n<p>And he has witnessed a lot of changes in St. Pete in his 25-year career here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd there\u2019s a good and a bad to progress,\u201d Mize said. \u201cBack in the day, we all just traded artwork with each other, now we can actually sell art in the city. I will say we are lacking gallery space. So it would be nice to see affordable rents for galleries.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 Chad Mize is the Alpha and the Omega at FloridaRAMA in St. Pete. His&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[115,4094,7149,202,204,203,199,201,200,135,7148],"class_list":["post-355344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-news","tag-on-the-town","tag-on-the-town-app","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-virginia-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355344","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=355344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}