Tampa Bay Art Shows:

1/01/08 – 12/23/08

Great Expectations: 22nd National Invitational of Fine Art and Craft
Opening to the public in conjunction with the Junior League of Clearwater-Dunedin’s outdoor festival, Art Harvest, this annual exhibition showcases fine art and craft by national artists in a festive atmosphere.

01/18/09 – 02/08/09
Entel & Douglas Whitley GalleriesThe Miniature Art Society of Florida The 34th Annual International Miniature Art Society Exhibition will feature over three hundred selected works by the finest calligraphers, painters and sculptors working worldwide in miniature today. The Miniature Art Society of Florida has cultivated an impressive resurgence in the ancient tradition of arts in miniature.

9/12/2008 - 11/1/2008
Opening September 12 and running through November 1 is "DOUBLE TAKES" a two person show featuring paintings by husband and wife artists BRUCE MARSH and DOLORES COE .http://claytongalleries.net/

October 4, 2008 - January 3, 2009
Site Matters: Proposed Installations
for the New TMA
The exhibition Site Matters: Proposed Installations for the New TMA http://www.tampamuseum.org/exhibitions.php#dis

October 14, 2008 - December 24, 2008
The Art Center Glorious Glass: Translucent and Opaque
Curated by Margery Aronson
A comprehensive glass exhibition featuring contemporary glass works by Seattle-area artists, including Dale Chihuly, Lino Tagliapietra, William Morris, Benjamin Moore, Debora Moore, Dante Marioni, Ginny Ruffner, Hiroshi Yamano, ect.http://www.theartscenter.org/exhibits/future_exhibits/main.htm

11/01/08
Tampa Realistic Artists (TRA) announces the next Sketchcrawl in Tampa Bay on November 1 in Ybor City. Artists will meet at the Saturday Market at 9 AM, chose their own places to sketch and meet for lunch in a area restaurant to share their work. We will also sketch in the early afternoon after lunch. Results will be posted on our website, www.tamparealisticartists.com.http://www.tamparealisticartists.com/

Brody Condon: Modifications
October 24 – December 13
USFCAM West Gallery
Brody Condon is a New York-based artist who uses game development tools, online games, sculpture, live performers and found footage as performance surrogates blurring the boundary between fantasy and reality. For his project gallery Modifications in Audience & Avatar he uses game technology to re-imagine late medieval religious paintings into self-running games simultaneously implying and denying interaction.The Rocky Horror Show WHEN: Through Nov. 1; shows at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday; audience participation performances at 11 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays WHERE: Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, Jaeb Theater, 1010 MacInnes Place, TampaTICKETS: $31.50; box office, (813) 229-7827

October 3 - November 1, 2008
The arts center
Bank of America presents:
Jack Barrett: A Soul's Journey
This exhibition celebrates the life and work of Jack Barrett, who passed away in February 2008. Jack attended Carnegie Institute and in 1954 graduated from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. His diversified body of work included news features, illustration, sports cartoons, political caricatures, show business portraits, and humorous art, as well as "serious" paintings. Barrett's style ranged as widely as his subjects, from meticulous representationalism to free expressionism.

MEMENTOS FROM UNDER THE MINARETSToday until December 27, 2008
Mementos from under the Minarets, will evoke the tourist and collector in all of us, and give visitors a glimpse of the Tampa Bay Hotel that Henry Plant publicized so enthusiastically when he began developing Florida. Mementos from under the Minarets showcases rare souvenirs, trinkets, remembrances and memorabilia featuring the Hotel and explores letters and collectibles from well-known guests such as Frederick Remington, Clara Barton and Richard Harding Davis. Museum guests hear excerpts from historic postcards and letters and view antique photographs of the Hotel from a stereoscope. The time period spans 1891 through 1932, when the Hotel closed its doors. This exhibit continues to year-end.