Studio Saturdays
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!
Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg
Explore the World. Choose your Adventure.

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.
It’s a week of experimentation in the art lab! Choose from one of five day camps, or choose them all. From painting and printmaking to archaeology and science experiments, young artists will explore creativity through hands-on artmaking inspired by history, innovation, and discovery.
Let your creativity shine this summer. Catch some rays wherever you find natural light by creating suncatchers at our FREE pop-up studio in the Mary Alice McClendon Conservatory. We’ll bring the materials. You bring the fun!