The Art of Banksy will be in Tampa through the end of August. Find all details at this link.<\/p>\n
Pop art party<\/p>\n
Making its debut Aug. 7 at FloridaRAMA is Warhol Birthday & Pop Art Party 4.0, a free show in the Impact Gallery, curated by Luke Heath. Billed as a \u201cmonth-long celebration of Pop Art,\u201d it features the work of 30 artists.<\/p>\n
The opening reception, 7-10 p.m., includes live music, art installations, a chalk mural, Warhol screen tests, a collection of cosplayers and more.<\/p>\n
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Ernesto Marenje, \u201cPanther Drinking Water.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wild things<\/p>\n
Taking its seat at the table Aug. 8, at Wild Space Gallery, is To the\u00a0Edge of the Wild. It\u2019s an exhibition of paintings by wildlife\/wild spaces artist Ernesto Maranje, of Miami. He\u2019s also painting a new permanent mural, Panther and Egret, at Wild Space.<\/p>\n
Aug. 8 happens to be the St. Petersburg Arts Alliance ArtWalk day for the month (5-9 p.m.), and artist Maranje will engage (6-7 p.m.) in a conversation with Jenee Priebe, of\u202fNo Good\u202fDeeds Art, and the former director\u202fof\u202fthe SHINE Mural Festival.<\/p>\n
Hang on, it gets better. Priebe and artist Laura \u201cMiss Crit\u201d Spencer will conduct a trolley tour, with Star Trolleys, Aug. 9 at 10 a.m. The mission: A tour of the St. Petersburg murals that reference, refer and\/or revel in wildlife and wild spaces. The final stop: Marange\u2019s Panther and Egret.<\/p>\n
RSVP for the opening reception and gallery talk here<\/a>; Star Trolley tickets are available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Lost in a masquerade<\/p>\n New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations opens Aug. 15 at the Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg. Organized by the New Orleans Museum of Art, in partnership with the Muse\u00e9 des Civilisations noires in Dakar, Senegal, it\u2019s an exhibition of 13 intricate, colorful, full-body masquerade ensembles from West Africa, with photography, video, and multimedia.<\/p>\n \u201cNew African Masquerades invites our visitors to experience African art not as static objects behind glass, but as vibrant, collaborative, and evolving expressions of living culture,\u201d MFA CEO Klaudio Rodriguez said in a prepared statement.<\/p>\n New African Masquerades will be on view through Jan. 3.<\/p>\n In other news Anne Via, \u201cShow Stopper\u201d (Brenda McMahon Gallery).<\/p>\n The Florida Museum of Photographic Arts (Tampa) opens the third annual student photography exhibition, Through Their Lens: A Journey of Self-Exploration, Aug. 4. A reception for the exhibit, which will run through Sept. 20, will take place Aug. 6.<\/p>\n Congratulations to the museum, the only one of its type in the bay area, on its recent 25th anniversary.<\/p>\n Friday, Aug. 7th delivers the opening reception, at Gulfport\u2019s Brenda McMahon Gallery, of The Art of Flight. Eighteen area artists have contributed \u201cbird art\u201d for the show, and 10 percent of sales will go to the nonprofit rescue organization Birds in Helping Hands.<\/p>\n The group\u2019s rescue team will deliver a talk at the gallery Friday. Aug. 15.<\/p>\n Opening Aug. 8 at the Morean Center for Clay: Apricity, an exhibition of whimsical ceramics by Dani Lewis.<\/p>\n Artists, museums and galleries: Please add the\u00a0Catalyst\u00a0to your email lists:\u00a0bi**@************st.com. Thanks!<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday brings The Art of Banksy to Tampa. This is one of the most-anticipated exhibitions of the year.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-355924","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\/355924","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=355924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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