• Skyway 2024 | Artist Panel

    Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg 255 Beach Drive NE, St. Petersburg, FL, United States

    Skyway 2024 is a multi-venue exhibition shared among five institutions: the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg; The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota; Sarasota Art Museum of Ringling College Art and Design; the Tampa Museum of Art; and…

  • Bejeweled Birds

    Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg 255 Beach Drive NE, St. Petersburg, FL, United States

    Jeweled Peacocks & Gold Eagles: Two Centuries of American Bird Jewelry  Join jewelry historian Annamarie Sandecki as she explores a bejeweled aviary of hummingbirds, peacocks, eagles, and flamingos worn by American women from the 19th through the 20th century.  Sandecki…

  • Artful Conversation

    Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg 255 Beach Drive NE, St. Petersburg, FL, United States

    Artful Conversation | Dr. Stanton Thomas & Luis Seixas Join us for an engaging discussion between Luis Seixas, objects conservator, and Dr. Stanton Thomas, Chief Curator, in this follow-up discussion about the recent conservation project, Live Conservation: Restoring a 17th Century Tabernacle. This…

  • Artist & Author Talk: Get the Picture

    Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg 255 Beach Drive NE, St. Petersburg, FL, United States

    Artist & Author Talk | Get the Picture with Bianca Bosker and Julie Curtiss  Join us for a lively discussion between bestselling author Bianca Bosker and Brooklyn-based artist Julie Curtiss around Bosker’s newest book Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey…

  • Artist Talk: Molly Vaughan

    Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg 255 Beach Drive NE, St. Petersburg, FL, United States

    Artist Talk | Molly Vaughan  Since 2012, Seattle artist Molly Vaughan has utilized her multi module approach to art-production to honor the lives of murdered transgender and gender non-conforming Americans with a series of works called Project 42. Through the…

  • Aigrettes, Egrets, and Regrets: Nineteenth-Century Fashion and the Desire for Feathers

    Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg 255 Beach Drive NE, St. Petersburg, FL, United States

    Aigrettes, Egrets, and Regrets: Nineteenth-Century Fashion and the Desire for Feathers Feathers, long a staple of fashionable design, became paramount to the well-dressed in nineteenth-century Europe and the United States. They increasingly decorated the edges of custom-made dresses, graced hats,…

  • In Conversation with Craig Lucas

    Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg 255 Beach Drive NE, St. Petersburg, FL, United States

    In Conversation with Craig Lucas Broadway Playwright and acclaimed screenwriter Craig Lucas is coming to Tampa Bay as part of research for his next play. Join us for an opportunity to hear from him about his award winning career, inspiration…

  • Author Talk | The Birds That Audubon Missed with Kenn Kaufman

    Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg 255 Beach Drive NE, St. Petersburg, FL, United States

    Author Talk with Kenn Kaufman Join renowned author, artist, naturalist, and conservationist Kenn Kaufman for a closer look at John James Audubon's life and work, including his time spent studying the birds of Florida. Inspired by his new book The…

  • Art & Nature Before Audubon: A Closer Look at Maria Sibylla Merian

    Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg 255 Beach Drive NE, St. Petersburg, FL, United States

    Art & Nature Before Audubon: A Closer Look at Maria Sibylla Merian More than 150 years before Audubon published his images of birds in their natural habitat, Maria Sibylla Merian (German, 1647-1717) published the first natural history book pairing ecologically…

  • Film Screening & Talk: The Last Green Thread

    Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg 255 Beach Drive NE, St. Petersburg, FL, United States

    Step into the heart of a wild and fragile world before it vanishes. The Last Green Thread follows three friends on an unforgettable expedition through Florida’s Everglades Headwaters, capturing the beauty and urgency of protecting this vital wilderness corridor. Don’t…