Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg
Explore the World. Choose your Adventure.
Immerse yourself into the complex, turbulent world of Ali Banisadr’s art through the lens of contemporary fiction. This month’s book club pick, Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James, is an award-winning, genre-defying novel that blends myth, fantasy, and African history in an epic quest to find a missing child—exploring truth, power, and the stories we choose to believe.
You won’t believe how many animals you can find inside the MFA! Learn about all the animals featured in the museum and their importance in art history. Then, create your own piece of animal art to take home.
Create colorful crowns, bracelets, flowers and more at our FREE pop-up studio in the Mary Alice McClendon Conservatory. We’ll bring the materials. You bring the fun!
In this intimate conversation, Senior Curator of Contemporary Art Katherine Pill sits down with multidisciplinary artist Yvette Mayorga, whose work links feminized labor and the aesthetics of celebration to colonial art history and racialized oppression through the guise of using pink as a weapon of mass destruction.
Join the acclaimed Ibison Guitar Duo for an interactive master class designed for local guitarists and advanced students. Participants will have the opportunity to perform and receive direct feedback from the duo. Interested in observing? Auditors are welcome to attend and watch.
Bring your journal, an open mind, and a willingness to engage deeply with stories that continue to challenge, provoke, and inspire in this immersive evening of literature, reflection, and creative exploration.
Immerse yourself into the complex, turbulent world of Ali Banisadr’s art through the lens of contemporary fiction. This month’s selection, A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan, is an award-winning, genre-bending novel that follows interconnected lives across time, exploring music, memory, and the deeply human pursuit of meaning, redemption, and connection.
With a little imagination and a whole lot of inspiration from Yvette Mayorga’s The Magic Grasshopper, you’ll create your own mini and magical form of transportation using recycled materials.
Put on your favorite pink attire! We’re taking inspiration from Yvette Mayorga’s The Magic Grasshopper and creating monochromatic pink artwork at our FREE pop-up studio in the Mary Alice McClendon Conservatory. We’ll bring the materials. You bring the fun!
You’re invited to a thought-provoking conversation with Ward Shelley and Douglas Paulson, the artists behind The Last Library IV: Written in Water, and the MFA's Hazel & William Hough Chief Curator, Dr. Stanton Thomas. Together, they'll unpack the ideas behind this immersive installation, a precarious library where truth, fiction, and power collide.
Are you ready to dig up some history? Travel back in time as we learn about the art and science of archaeology. Discover how archaeologists piece together the past from Ancient Greece and Rome to Mesoamerica and even right here in Tampa Bay!
Discover how science, technology, engineering, and math are all connected to the arts. We’ll dive into marine biology and our local ecosystem, experiment with colorful chemistries, and go on safari in the gallery. Special guests will bring the wonders of nature inside to inspire artmaking and highlight how we can protect wildlife right here in Tampa Bay.