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Good golly Mrs. Dalí Join the Dalí for a special evening as we toast Salvador Dalí and his muse, Gala. Following the toast, enjoy a curated gallery experience to discover Gala’s role in Dalí’s life and Surrealism. Then you’ll proceed to the theater for a screening of the short film, Breton and the Muse: A Midnight in Paris. Event entry includes one complimentary drink from Café Gala, a curated gallery experience, film screening, Q&A with special guests, a discounted drink at Cassis, and more. When: Aug. 5, 6-8pm Location: The Dalí Museum Raymond James Community Room Cost: $40 museum members, $50 non-members
American Stage has announced that Helen R. Murray has been hired as the theater’s new producing artistic director. Murray, the outgoing executive director of the Aurora Fox Theatre in Aurora, Colo., 44
American Stage also named José Avilés as the new director of education, bringing 30 years of experience in arts education and administration to the storied nonprofit. In his interview with Eden Lane, Avilés said, “When I saw the education director job at the American Stage I really was impressed by what they have sort of communicated out to the world in terms of equity, diversity, inclusion, and access.”
The SHINE-ing The St. Pete Arts Alliance wants you to put the eighth SHINE® St. Petersburg Mural Festival on your calendar. From Oct. 14 through 23 the internationally recognized street art festival will bring 17 new murals to the art districts and surrounding neighborhoods of downtown St. Pete. See www.stpetearts alliance.org/experience-arts/ shine-mural-festival for info updates. Speaking of murals Creative Pinellas is partnering with St. Pete–Clearwater International Airport (PIE) on a mural project at 14700 Terminal Blvd. #221 in Clearwater. This project will consist of two murals over three walls at Gate 12. The project’s goal is to have a Pinellas County artist create a welcoming art experience for
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visitors as they arrive at PIE. These murals are scheduled to begin in October and are slated for completion by late fall 2022.
Besides outdoors installations, Creative Pinellas’s newest gallery exhibition is DARKMATTER, an immersive exhibition of works by internationally acclaimed sculptor, painter and multi-disciplinary artist Jason Hackenwerth. The exhibition takes visitors through “turbulence and drama to transcendence and joy,” said Hackenwerth. Two massive sculptures made in Hackenwerth’s signature vocabulary of latex balloons anchor the show accompanied by a retrospective of the artist’s body of work including large-scale paintings and more than 50 drawings and images created over the past 20 years. Where: Creative Pinellas, 12211 Walsingham Road, Largo When: Noon to 5pm Wednesday through Sunday, now through Oct. 6 Cost: Free Learn more: www.creativepinellas.org/ event/darkmatter-exhibition/ You don’t have to be internationally known to be recognized for your talent. Applications are now open for Creative Pinellas’s Emerging Artist Grant Program, which is designed to celebrate and
support artists in the upward trend of their career. As a grantee you will develop and expand your audience with a $2,000 financial award, mentorship, engagement events, and an exhibition. Up to 10 grants will be awarded for original work in the disciplines of Dance & Choreography, Literature, Media Arts, Music Performance & Composition, Acting, Theater Creation, Visual Arts, and Interdisciplinary Arts. Learn more and apply at www.creativepinellas.org/ opportunity/emergingartist-grant-23 by Sept. 6. Embracing Our Differences is seeking submissions for an outdoor juried art exhibit featuring 50 billboard-size images and quotations created by local, national and international artists reflecting the theme “enriching lives through diversity.” The exhibit will be on display from Jan. 18 through May 29, 2023, in three locations throughout Sarasota and Manatee counties. Cash prizes totaling $6,000 will be awarded. Deadline for submissions is Oct. 5. For more information and to apply: www.bit.ly/3AYjnCB Hidden figure Conservators at the National Galleries of Scotland recently experienced quite a surprise after they X-rayed a painting by Vincent van Gogh. Hidden on the reverse side of the painting “Head of a Peasant Woman,” was a previously unknown self-portrait that been obscured by layers of glue and cardboard on the back of the canvas. The museum is currently investigating how to remove the protective materials without harming the painting.
