Join us on the best porch in St. Petersburg from 5:30 to 7 pm on the third Thursday of each month.

Free and open to the public. Museum galleries open until 8 pm with free admission for members, $5 after 5 pm for non-members. Special discounts available for new members to join during the Porch Party. Inquire at the member table or visitor services desk during the event. No RSVP required.

This month’s Porch Party sponsored by Coastal Christies has an evening full of activities:

Enjoy 27 galleries and gardens, including the recently opened
exhibition Shana Moulton: Journeys Out of the Body. Members always enjoy free admission, and Thursday is a special $5 after 5 pm for non-members and open until 8 pm.

Enter to win fabulous prizes at the MFA table including 12 months free admission.

Imagine owning a motorcycle from Euro Cycles of St. Pete, the only European dealership in Tampa Bay Florida. See them on display.

Dog Days of Summer are better with a best friend. Adopt through our Puppy Partners, SPCA, and receive 50% off your new MFA membership!

Our summer Cinema at the MFA series spotlights the themes of Shana Moulton: Journeys Out of the Body.  This evening at 6:00 pm, we are proud to present Safe (1995), directed by Todd Haynes. This film and post-screening discussion are co-hosted with The Filmme Guild.

Oscar-winner Julianne Moore gives a breakthrough performance as Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s who suffers from a debilitating illness. After doctors cannot provide a clear diagnosis, she begins to believe that she has extreme environmental allergies. This profoundly unsettling work functions on multiple levels: as a prescient commentary on self-help culture, as a metaphor for the AIDS crisis, as a drama about class and social estrangement, and as a horror film about what you cannot see. Safe was named the best film of the 1990s in a Village Voice poll of more than 50 critics.

A panel discussion will follow the screening, focusing on the film’s relationships to the MFA’s current exhibition Shana Moulton: Journeys Out of the Body.

Sponsored by Coastal Christies and Euro Cycles of Tampa Bay