In celebration of our exhibition Bernini and the Roman Baroque: Masterpieces from Palazzo Chigi in Ariccia, we invite you to channel your inner Audrey Hepburn or Gregory Peck as you enjoy a screening of the Academy Award-winning Roman Holiday (1953) and libations (prosecco, bellinis, and soft drinks) from the cash bar in...
If you have ever wondered about what it was like to live in Florida during prohibition, when the bridges and the railroads were being completed and everybody was encouraged “for their health” to retire to Florida, even to purchase some swamp land – then this narrative (by a loquacious widow)...
Every 3rd Thursday of the month, join us for a virtual Cocktails & Collections event featuring art from the MFA’s special exhibitions and Collection galleries. Make an art-inspired signature cocktail ahead of time (we’ll provide the recipe), and enjoy a specially curated art tour from home! Featured Exhibition: Women's Work:...
Sit, Stay, Heal is part of the MFA's Picture of Health initiative, where we invite therapy dog teams into the museum on the fourth Thursday of every month to facilitate stress and anxiety relief for our members, visitors, and guests. Enjoy cuddles from our furry friends in our beautiful gardens...
As the world watches the ongoing war in Ukraine, Community Tampa Bay and the Museum of Fine Arts are creating space for community conversations on Self-Determination and National Identity: The Conflict in Ukraine. Ukrainian and Russian panelists will set the tone for conversations on how ethnic and national identity contribute...
Back by popular demand: it’s all hats on in celebration of the arts! Don your best hat and join the MFA Collectors Circle for the 2nd annual Hats On To The Arts event. This year, the festive and fun-filled cocktail party will be held in the MFA’s Conservatory. Design your...
Look at the world through the eyes of one of the most renowned photographers of our time. Margaret Bourke-White's photojournalism demonstrated her singular ability to communicate the intensity of major world events while respecting formal relationships and aesthetic considerations. She was one of the most respected photojournalists in the country...
Join us for a live virtual event featuring art from the MFA’s special exhibitions and Collection galleries. Make an art-inspired signature cocktail ahead of time (we’ll provide the recipe), and enjoy a specially curated art tour from home! This month we are featuring Explore the Vaults: Cabinet Pictures and Works...
Sit, Stay, Heal is part of the MFA's Picture of Health initiative, where we invite therapy dog teams into the museum on the fourth Thursday of every month to facilitate stress and anxiety relief for our members, visitors, and guests. Enjoy cuddles from our furry friends in our beautiful gardens...
After almost 60 years in photography, Berenice Abbott claims her rightful place as one of the greatest of American photographers. She has always been a proponent of realism, a tireless and uncompromising advocate for the documentary approach to photography. She wrote, "We should take hold of that very quality (realism),...
Join us for a live virtual event featuring art from the MFA’s special exhibitions and Collection galleries. Make an art-inspired signature cocktail ahead of time (we’ll provide the recipe), and enjoy a specially curated art tour from home! This month we are featuring Gio Swaby: Fresh Up with Katherine Pill,...
Sit, Stay, Heal is part of the MFA's Picture of Health initiative, where we invite therapy dog teams into the museum on the fourth Thursday of every month to facilitate stress and anxiety relief for our members, visitors, and guests. Enjoy cuddles from our furry friends in our beautiful gardens...
Join the MFA and Art2Action for At Water’s Edge/Al filo del agua, an open-air, interactive performance, with storytelling and live music, created by three women from different generations and different geographic locations—one in the United States, the other in Mexico, and the third at the edge of the two. Stories, legends,...
Join the MFA and Art2Action for At Water’s Edge/Al filo del agua, an open-air, interactive performance, with storytelling and live music, created by three women from different generations and different geographic locations—one in the United States, the other in Mexico, and the third at the edge of the two. Stories, legends,...
Inge Morath, Finding Your Voice The renowned Austrian-born photographer and word-smith began her artistic journey with a career in translation and journalism. Before her gift in photography was fully realized, Morath also worked for Heute as the magazine’s Austrian editor, teaming up with photographer Ernst Haas to write articles to...
Cocktails & Collections is back in-person! Held on the third Thursday of each month, Cocktails & Collections features live entertainment, customized docent tours of the MFA’s special exhibitions and Collections galleries, and art-inspired signature cocktails. This Month's Event Features: Gio Swaby: Fresh Up Cocktail: Paloma Free for MFA Members | $20 For...
Sit, Stay, Heal is part of the MFA's Picture of Health initiative, where we invite therapy dog teams into the museum on the fourth Thursday of every month to facilitate stress and anxiety relief for our members, visitors, and guests. Enjoy cuddles from our furry friends in our beautiful gardens...
In celebration of the debut museum exhibition Gio Swaby: Fresh Up, Black joy and excellence we're inviting you to the Fresh Up Dance Party. This will be a summertime party to remember! The title Fresh Up references, in Swaby’s words, “a Bahamian way to describe someone who is particularly stylish—also...
Community members are invited to bring treasured family photos or take a selfie and create their own textile art onsite. Join our group of artists and historians to tell your family story through photos, and an archivist/preservationist will help preserve and protect the prints. If you’d like, your photo can...
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) published more than 30 books, but it was her best-selling anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin that catapulted her to international celebrity and secured her place in history. She believed her actions could make a positive difference, and indeed, her words changed the world. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s...
Held on the third Thursday of each month, Cocktails & Collections is a series of themed events with connections to art. Each event focuses on one of the MFA galleries or special exhibitions, highlighting a different work in the collection. Each month features live entertainment, a customized docent tour, light...
Cellist: Anita Graef Described as “a world-class musician” (Galena Gazette) who plays with “high energy and polish” (WQXR), cellist Anita Graef has earned recognition as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral performer. Notable appearances include features in Strings Magazine, as well as Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall and Concerts from...
Sit, Stay, Heal is part of the MFA's Picture of Health initiative, where we invite therapy dog teams into the museum on the fourth Thursday of every month to facilitate stress and anxiety relief for our members, visitors, and guests. Enjoy cuddles from our furry friends in our beautiful gardens...
Ted Rosenthal is one of the leading jazz pianist/composers of his generation. He actively tours worldwide with his trio, as a soloist, and has performed with many jazz greats, including Gerry Mulligan, Art Farmer, Phil Woods, Bob Brookmeyer, and James Moody. Winner of the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition, Rosenthal has...
Hester Bateman (1709-1794) is the most famous of the 18th c. English silversmiths. A remarkable woman who was widowed at 52, and (it is believed) illiterate, she began turning a small metalwork business into a highly successful silversmith company. Hester demonstrated entrepreneurial genius by creating elegant, simple silver works for...
Held on the third Thursday of each month, Cocktails & Collections is a series of themed events with inspiring connections to art. Each month features live entertainment, a customized docent tour, light bites, and an art-inspired signature cocktail, all inspired by the different works & artists in our collection and...
Join us on Saturday, September 17, 2022 for Free Museum Day in St. Petersburg. This annual celebration of arts is a one-day event in which participating museums and cultural institutions across the country provide free entry. The Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg is pleased to participate in the event...
Sit, Stay, Heal is part of the MFA's Picture of Health initiative, where we invite therapy dog teams into the museum on the fourth Thursday of every month to facilitate stress and anxiety relief for our members, visitors, and guests. Enjoy cuddles from our furry friends in our beautiful gardens...
Join us Saturday, September 24 as we promote Color Blind Awareness #AtTheMFA! Learn about Color Vision Deficiency (CVD) and try a pair of EnChroma's color-correcting glasses. In partnership with EnChroma, we will also have a drawing for two pairs of color-correcting glasses! We are proud to participate as a partner...
It's October, and we invite you to enjoy some favorite scary stories based on the museum's vast collection. From mildly morose to the positively petrifying, this presentation offers spine-chilling tales that are filled with ageless mystery and are bound to stir your imagination. Visit some of the scariest artworks in...
Please join us for Vital Stones, Color Form, and Meaning in Mesoamerican Carved Greenstones presented by Dr. Megan E. O’Neil, Assistant Professor of Art and Art History at Emory University. Megan E. O'Neil, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Art History at Emory University and Faculty Curator of the Art of the Americas...
Held on the third Thursday of each month, Cocktails & Collections is a series of themed events with inspiring connections to art. Each month features live entertainment, a customized docent tour, light bites, and an art-inspired signature cocktail, all inspired by the different works & artists in our collection and...
Dr. Genevieve Hill-Thomas, curator of the exhibition Multiple: Prince Twins Seven-Seven, will visit several themes in the artist’s early art of the 1970s that revolve around the multiple. As a twin, Prince’s very existence was linked to the dyad, and he worked in the artistic style of Magical Realism that...
Bathed in the vibrant colors and light of Christian Sampson’s site-responsive installation Tempus volat, hora fugit, Yoga at the MFA takes place every Thursday in September and October from 8 am to 9 am in the beautiful Mary Alice McClendon Conservatory. These sessions offer a serene and rejuvenating morning of...
After the world gave up on Lonnie Holley, the Universe sent him the gift of art. This film tells how Holley overcame all odds to become an unlikely art superstar. Join us for a screening of Thumbs Up for Mother Universe: Stories from the Life of Lonnie Holley. This 58-minute...
Join us for this Coffee Talk performance with Nan Colton. Hear stories of heroes long gone as told in the characterization of Clio, the Muse of History, who will share classical Greek and Roman tales. The ancient Greeks believed the performing arts were a vital part of their culture. Everyone...
Bathed in the vibrant colors and light of Christian Sampson’s site-responsive installation Tempus volat, hora fugit, Yoga at the MFA takes place every Thursday in September and October from 8 am to 9 am in the beautiful Mary Alice McClendon Conservatory. These sessions offer a serene and rejuvenating morning of...
In conjunction with the upcoming The Nature of Art exhibition, this Story of Art segment will examine ways in which U.S. and European artists gave physical form to the so-called "new world." Despite human habitation spanning over 20,000 years, European settlers imposed their own visions and imaginings onto the landscape...
Bathed in the vibrant colors and light of Christian Sampson’s site-responsive installation Tempus volat, hora fugit, Yoga at the MFA takes place every Thursday in September and October from 8 am to 9 am in the beautiful Mary Alice McClendon Conservatory. These sessions offer a serene and rejuvenating morning of...
Katherine Pill, Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, will discuss Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? This provocative discussion examines art historian Linda Nochlin’s 1971 essay, an epic examination of the institutional obstacles that prevented women from succeeding in the arts....
We welcome MFA Members to join us for an exclusive opening reception for the third installation of Tempus volat, hora fugit by Christian Sampson. Meet the artist, enjoy coffee and pastries, and marvel at the beautiful play of light and color that will fill the Mary Alice McClendon Conservatory. This...
Arts Alive: Museum Day in St. Petersburg will be on Saturday, September 23, 2023. Join us on Saturday, September 23, 2023, to celebrate Museum Day at the MFA from 10 am-5 pm. The Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg is pleased to participate in the event this year, with complimentary...
Bathed in the vibrant colors and light of Christian Sampson’s site-responsive installation Tempus volat, hora fugit, Yoga at the MFA takes place every Thursday in September and October from 8 am to 9 am in the beautiful Mary Alice McClendon Conservatory. These sessions offer a serene and rejuvenating morning of...
How does creativity accommodate the changes that come as we age? For artists (painters, sculptors, musicians, poets, dancers), what are the benefits of growing old, when your body and mind begin to occupy alternate spaces? How does one adapt to these changes by adjusting methods and expectations? How does one’s...