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SUMMARY:Language Tour Series | Spanish-Speaking Tour with Nelson Lees
DESCRIPTION:Español: Por favor únete a nosotros en el Museo de las Bellas Artes (MFA)\, St. Petersburg cada tercer domingo a las 2 p.m. para nuestra nueva serie de Giras de Idiomas! Cada mes\, un docente del MFA liderará un recorrido en un idioma distinto del inglés\, ofreciendo una oportunidad excepcional para disfrutar la vasta colección de arte del museo. Ya sea que hables el idioma con fluidez\, quieras practicar tus habilidades\, o estés buscando una forma ingeniosa de comenzar a aprender\, estos recorridos por el museo son una excelente manera de conectarte con otros a través del arte y la cultura. \nEstas visitas guiadas públicas son gratuitas con la entrada\, pero se recomienda registrarse en antemano para saber cuántos participantes esperar. ¡Las plazas son limitadas! ¡Inscríbase hoy! \n¿No puedes asistir esta fecha\, pero te interesa reservar una visita guiada en un idioma distinto del inglés? El MFA ofrece actualmente visitas guiadas en ruso\, español\, portugués y alemán. Para más información\, escríbenos a tours@mfastpete.org. \nEnglish: Join us every third Sunday at 2 pm for the MFA’s Language Tour Series! Each month\, an MFA Docent will guide a tour in a language other than English\, offering visitors a fresh and immersive way to explore the museum’s collection. Whether you’re fluent\, practicing your language skills\, or just beginning your journey\, these tours offer a welcoming space to connect through art and culture. \nDocent-led Language Tours are free with museum admission\, but advance registration is recommended so our docents can plan for group size. Space is limited—reserve your spot today! \nInterested in a tour but can’t attend on this date? The MFA also offers docent-led tours in Russian\, Spanish\, Portuguese\, and German by request. Email us at tours@mfastpete.org to learn more. \n\n\n\nLanguage Tour Series | Spanish-Speaking Tour with Nelson Lees \nSunday\, August 17\, 2025\n2:00 PM–3:00 PM\nMuseum of Fine Arts\, St. Petersburg\n255 Beach Drive NE\, St. Petersburg FL 33701 \nFREE for MFA Members; Included with the cost of admission for Not-Yet Members\nRegistration required. \nREGISTER \nCheck out the full Language Tour schedule here to find upcoming tours in your preferred language. \nNot yet a member?\nBecome a member today and enjoy all the benefits membership at the MFA offers!  \nMFA Members enjoy free admission for an entire year\, early access to special exhibitions\, discounts at the MFA Shop and Café Clementine\, special member-only exclusive events\, and more. Bring the whole family! \nBECOME A MEMBER \n\nABOUT NELSON LEES/SOBRE NELSON LEES \n\n\nEnglish: Nelson is a semi-retired\, multilingual international businessman who has had the good fortune to live\, work\, and study around the world. His professional journey spans the private sector with several global companies\, along with executive leadership at USRowing and service as a Vietnam-era U.S. Army officer. An honors graduate of Monmouth College (IL)\, Nelson holds a Master’s in Public Administration (MPA) from Harvard Kennedy School and is also an alumnus of Harvard Business School. He is a member of Florida’s Advisory Committee to the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition (USGLC)\, where he advocates with the U.S. Congress to place global economic development and diplomacy—including art and cultural exchanges—on equal footing with national defense. \nSince moving to St. Petersburg\, Nelson has remained engaged with the local international community\, including participation in the St. Petersburg World Affairs Council and leadership at Eckerd College\, where he serves as Vice President of the Academy of Senior Professionals at Eckerd College (ASPEC). Nelson was immediately drawn to the MFA and its encyclopedic collection of art from around the globe and across the centuries. One of his greatest joys at the museum has been sharing how art can transcend language and cultural boundaries\, offering a universal form of communication. \n\n  \n\nEspañol: Nelson es un empresario internacional multilingüe que ha tenido la buena fortuna de vivir\, estudiar y trabajar por todo el mundo. Se ha desempeñado como ejecutivo en varias empresas globales y también sirvió como oficial en el ejército de los Estados Unidos. Es graduado con honores de Monmouth College (IL)\, tiene una maestría en Administración Pública de la Harvard Kennedy School y es egresado de la Harvard Business School. \nEs miembro del Comité Asesor en Florida de la U.S. Global Leadership Coalition (USGLC)\, abogando ante el Congreso de los Estados Unidos para que el desarrollo económico internacional y la diplomacia (incluyendo los intercambios artísticos y culturales) reciban el mismo reconocimiento que la defensa nacional. \nDesde su llegada a St. Petersburg\, Nelson ha participado activamente en la comunidad internacional local\, incluyendo el St. Petersburg World Affairs Council y Eckerd College\, donde se desempeña como vicepresidente de la Academy of Senior Professionals at Eckerd College (ASPEC). \nNelson se sintió inmediatamente atraído por el Museo de Bellas Artes (MFA)\, St. Petersburg\, cuya colección enciclopédica de arte de todo el mundo y a través de los siglos es única en Florida. Uno de sus mayores placeres en el MFA ha sido la oportunidad de compartir con los visitantes cómo el arte trasciende el lenguaje y las diferencias culturales.
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LOCATION:Museum of Fine Arts\, St. Petersburg\, 255 Beach Drive NE\, St. Petersburg\, FL\, 33701\, United States
CATEGORIES:Adult Program,FREE for MFA Members
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SUMMARY:Hand-building Clay with St. Pete Ceramics at the MFA
DESCRIPTION:Unleash your creativity in a hands-on ceramic workshop led by the talented artists of St. Pete Ceramics\, hosted at the Museum of Fine Arts\, St. Petersburg. Designed for adults\, this immersive experience invites participants to explore the art of tile-making and hand-building with clay\, drawing inspiration from Nina Yankowitz’s evocative installation\, “Hell’s Breath – A Vision of the Sounds of Falling.” \nGuided by expert instruction\, you’ll have the opportunity to shape and sculpt your own expressive relief tile—bringing personal narratives and artistic visions to life in clay. Whether you’re a seasoned maker or a curious beginner\, this workshop offers a welcoming space to connect\, create\, and engage with contemporary art in a meaningful way. \nHand-building Clay with St. Pete Ceramics at the MFA \nSaturday\, August 23\, 2025\n10:00 AM–1:00 PM \nMuseum of Fine Arts\, St. Petersburg\n255 Beach Drive NE\, St. Petersburg FL 33701 \n$20 for Members | $30 for Not-Yet-Members. Registration required. \nGET TICKETS \nNot yet a member?\nBecome a member today and enjoy all the benefits membership at the MFA offers!  \nMFA Members enjoy free admission for an entire year\, early access to special exhibitions\, discounts at the MFA Shop and Café Clementine\, special member-only exclusive events\, and more. Bring the whole family! \nBECOME A MEMBER \n\nABOUT NINA YANKOWITZ \nThroughout a career spanning six decades\, Nina Yankowitz (American\, b. 1946) has created a multidisciplinary practice that defies singular definition. Her work pushes against traditional boundaries: her paintings have resisted not just frames\, but seemingly gravity; her abstract compositions have gone beyond the canvas to embrace the aural. Most recently\, Yankowitz has deepened her interest in technology and new media to create immersive environments that spotlight women-centered histories that have gone unknown for far too long. \nNina Yankowitz was born and raised in New Jersey and lives between New York City and Sag Harbor. Her works are in public collections\, including the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco\, San Francisco\, CA; Virginia Museum of History & Culture\, Richmond\, VA; and the Smith College Museum of Art\, Northampton\, MA. Her archival materials are found in the Archives of American Art\, Smithsonian Institution\, Washington\, D.C. Her 2022 solo exhibition at Eric Firestone Gallery garnered reviews in Artforum and Art in America\, and in 2024 she was inducted into the New York Foundation for the Arts’ Hall of Fame. \nImages: \nNina Yankowitz\, Ms. Majesty\, 1970-71\, Acrylic compressor spray on canvas run through pleating machine. Courtesy of the Artist and Eric Firestone Gallery\, New York\, NY. \nNina Yankowitz\, Dilated Grain Reading: Scanning Reds and Blues\, 1973\, Extruded acrylic and Flashe on linen. Courtesy of the Artist and Eric Firestone Gallery\, New York\, NY.
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LOCATION:Museum of Fine Arts\, St. Petersburg\, 255 Beach Drive NE\, St. Petersburg\, FL\, 33701\, United States
CATEGORIES:Adult Program,Artful Conversation
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SUMMARY:August Arts Passport Book Club | The Argonauts
DESCRIPTION:August Arts Passport Book Club | The Argonauts\nThis August\, the MFA partners with the Arts Passport Book Club and Tombolo Books for a special collaborative edition featuring The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson—a genre-defying meditation on love\, identity\, and queer family-making. Poetic\, raw\, and intellectually bold\, Nelson’s writing offers a powerful lens through which to explore themes of transformation and intimacy. \nOn August 23\, readers are invited to gather at the Museum of Fine Arts\, St. Petersburg for a morning of reflection and dialogue. The program includes a group discussion followed by a docent-led tour of Nina Yankowitz: In the Out/Out the In\, the MFA’s current retrospective of pioneering multimedia artist Nina Yankowitz. This pairing offers an immersive experience that connects literature and visual art through shared questions of form\, identity\, and expression. \nArts Passport members receive a complimentary copy of The Argonauts from Tombolo Books\, along with free admission to the museum. \nAugust Arts Passport Book Club | The Argonauts \nSaturday\, August 23\, 2025\n11:00 AM–1:00 PM \nMuseum of Fine Arts\, St. Petersburg\n255 Beach Drive NE\, St. Petersburg FL 33701 \nREGISTER \n\nABOUT ARTS PASSPORT BOOK CLUB \nThe Tombolo Book Club is hosted by Avery Anderson and Abby Baker. Avery Anderson is a creative leader\, storyteller\, and advocate for the power of arts to connect and inspire. When they’re not championing creative work that matters\, you can find them exploring new ways to engage and unite the arts community. \nAbby Baker is a Tampa native and writer for the Old Northeast Journal\, events editor at The Gabber\, contributor to Watermark\, and a Best of the Bay winner for her Gabber piece on a stolen bucket of vibrators. She’s also the co-managing editor of the Tampa Bay Arts Passport\, where she connects\, writes\, and posts about all the amazing things to see\, do\, audition for\, watch\, and wander around town. She lives in St. Pete with her cat\, Snooki\, and moonlights as a project manager during the week. \nABOUT THE ARGONAUTS BY MAGGIE NELSON \n \nAn intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love\, language\, and family \nMaggie Nelson’s The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir\, a work of “autotheory” offering fresh\, fierce\, and timely thinking about desire\, identity\, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. It binds an account of Nelson’s relationship with her partner and a journey to and through a pregnancy to a rigorous exploration of sexuality\, gender\, and “family.” An insistence on radical individual freedom and the value of caretaking becomes the rallying cry for this thoughtful\, unabashed\, uncompromising book. \nABOUT TOMBOLO BOOKS \nTombolo Books is an independent bookstore dedicated to promoting the value and pleasure of reading throughout St. Petersburg by offering thoughtful inventory curation\, extensive literary knowledge\, and excellent customer service. \n \n 
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LOCATION:Museum of Fine Arts\, St. Petersburg\, 255 Beach Drive NE\, St. Petersburg\, FL\, 33701\, United States
CATEGORIES:Adult Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250831T160000
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SUMMARY:Art & Nature Sunset Tours with the MFA & Tampa Bay Watch Discovery Center
DESCRIPTION:Spend your Sunday immersed in art and nature! This unique program invites visitors to embark on a journey that celebrates the awe-inspiring beauty of nature and the role it plays in sparking human creativity. Begin the afternoon at the MFA with a guided docent tour of the collection galleries\, looking closely at artworks from throughout history and across the globe that were inspired by nature. From majestic landscapes to delicate still lifes to ancient sculptures\, each artwork highlights the deep connection between artists and the natural world. \nThe experience continues at the St. Pete Pier\, where you’ll board a sunset cruise with Tampa Bay Watch Discovery Center’s expert marine science educators. Enjoy guided wildlife watching\, a visit to a local bird sanctuary\, learning about our area’s history\, and the beautiful scenery as the sky changes colors over the downtown skyline. There will be optional opportunities to get creative\, with all supplies provided\, and you’re encouraged to express your inspiration from the experience. \nThis partnership highlights how each of us contributes to protecting Tampa Bay and the environment as a whole. By showcasing the artistic and ecological importance of our region\, we aim to inspire a greater appreciation for nature’s beauty and encourage a lasting commitment to its preservation for future generations. \nArt & Nature Sunset Tours with the MFA & Tampa Bay Watch Discovery Center\nSunday\, August 31\, 2025\n4:00 PM–8:00 PM\n$45 ($5 MFA Member discount offered)\nChildren under 3 free \nTour includes admission to the MFA and TBWDC\nArt & Nature Docent-Led Tour begins at the MFA at 4 pm\nSunset Tour with Tampa Bay Watch Discovery Center begins at 7:00 pm \nTICKETS \nSee ALL Art & Nature Sunset Tours with the MFA & Tampa Bay Watch Discovery Center Dates and Times:  \nSunday\, July 27 at 4:00 pm – Art & Nature Sunset Tour\nSunday\, August 31 at 4:00 pm – Art & Nature Sunset Tour\nSunday\, September 28 at 4:00 pm – Art & Nature Sunset Tour
URL:https://mfastpete.org/event/art-and-nature-tour-8-31-25/
LOCATION:Museum of Fine Arts\, St. Petersburg\, 255 Beach Drive NE\, St. Petersburg\, FL\, 33701\, United States
CATEGORIES:Adult Program,Youth and Family Event
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