{"id":368373,"date":"2026-08-11T13:21:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T13:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/368373\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T13:21:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T13:21:13","slug":"art-comes-to-life-at-fourth-anniversary-celebration-for-artlab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/368373\/","title":{"rendered":"Art comes to life at fourth anniversary celebration for ArtLab"},"content":{"rendered":"

ArtLab began four years ago when Stephanie Grae, the founder and creative director of Grae Productions, launched a monthly party on the roof of Art Ovation Hotel before hosting events at other venues.<\/p>\n

She said the ArtLab: in Motion event, held Saturday, was the largest such event she has held yet.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Members of the public, including Sarasota’s arts community, packed Aleur Event Collective for the fourth anniversary party that showcased the arts through a range of art forms, including dancers, aerial performers, musicians, spoken word artists, installations and living sculptures.<\/p>\n

Grae said the event was about 10 times the size of previous ones she has hosted, with more resources available to her at this point in time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She said she hopes the public will take away that “there is a very fresh, thriving art scene full of many, many styles of arts, artists, performers, that are here to create and entertain.”<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a little more of a luxury feel now, and I have more entertainers that I’m working with more regularly that are wanting to have the space to create something new,” she said.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Living<\/p>\n

\n Living sculpture and dancer Carmen Lai Garden poses as guests mingle at the event.\n <\/p>\n

Photo by Ian Swaby<\/p>\n

\"Wolf<\/p>\n

\n Wolf Glenn and his girlfriend Dani Sims enjoy the vibes.\n <\/p>\n

Photo by Ian Swaby<\/p>\n

\"Sarasota's<\/p>\n

\n Sarasota’s Yuliya Suvalava, a living sculpture, stands in front of a crowd as Sarasota’s Natalia Logvinova paints her garments.\n <\/p>\n

Photo by Ian Swaby<\/p>\n

\"Greg<\/p>\n

\n Greg Pennenga and Rebecca Adesanya socialize.\n <\/p>\n

Photo by Ian Swaby<\/p>\n

\"Sarasota's<\/p>\n

\n Sarasota’s Natalia Logvinova paints the garments of Sarasota’s Yuliya Suvalava, a living sculpture.\n <\/p>\n

Photo by Ian Swaby<\/p>\n

\"Sarasota's<\/p>\n

\n Sarasota’s Yuliya Suvalava, a living sculpture, stands still as Sarasota’s Natalia Logvinova paints her garments.\n <\/p>\n

Photo by Ian Swaby<\/p>\n

\"Sarasota's<\/p>\n

\n Sarasota’s Natalia Logvinova paints the garments of Sarasota’s Yuliya Suvalava, a living sculpture.\n <\/p>\n

Photo by Ian Swaby<\/p>\n

\"Sarasota's<\/p>\n

\n Sarasota’s Yuliya Suvalava, a living sculpture, shows off her painted dress.\n <\/p>\n

Photo by Ian Swaby<\/p>\n

\"Sarasota's<\/p>\n

\n Sarasota’s Alexis Fraser, known as “Lipstick Lex” creates a painting live.\n <\/p>\n

Photo by Ian Swaby<\/p>\n

\"St.<\/p>\n

\n St. Pete aerialist, fire performer and artist Mala Vavourakis turns up the heat.\n <\/p>\n

Photo by Ian Swaby<\/p>\n

\"St.<\/p>\n

\n St. Pete aerialist, fire performer and artist Mala Vavourakis shows her fire eating skills.\n <\/p>\n

Photo by Ian Swaby<\/p>\n

\"St.<\/p>\n

\n St. Pete aerialist, fire performer and artist Mala Vavourakis prepares her canvas.\n <\/p>\n

Photo by Ian Swaby<\/p>\n

\"St.<\/p>\n

\n St. Pete aerialist, fire performer and artist Mala Vavourakis uses fire to fill out a canvas.\n <\/p>\n

Photo by Ian Swaby<\/p>\n

\"Yolanda<\/p>\n

\n Yolanda Mizama, Gregory Hoffman and Ana Molinari, and Susan and Greg North, enjoy the event together.\n <\/p>\n

Photo by Ian Swaby<\/p>\n

\"Violinist<\/p>\n

\n Violinist Candice Anderson accompanies the performance of St. Pete aerialist, fire performer and artist Mala Vavourakis.\n <\/p>\n

Photo by Ian Swaby<\/p>\n

\"Robyn<\/p>\n

\n Robyn Holl, cultural curator at Art Ovation Hotel, showcases her work.\n <\/p>\n

Photo by Ian Swaby<\/p>\n

\"St.<\/p>\n

\n St. Pete aerialist, fire performer and artist Mala Vavourakis created a grey piece in honor of Stephanie Grae. She said her work is typically blues or purples with a celestial theme.\n <\/p>\n

Photo by Ian Swaby<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ArtLab began four years ago when Stephanie Grae, the founder and creative director of Grae Productions, launched a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-368373","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\/368373","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=368373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}