Have you heard the news? We have several new honey bee colonies on our rooftop thanks to Noble Nectar Apiaries. Our new buzzing friends are working hard at pollinating the urban gardens of downtown St. Petersburg. With city parks immediately north and south of the MFA, the bees benefit from...
Join Keep St. Pete Lit, a local organization that supports the literary community, for a book club connecting the visual and literary arts. Each month’s featured book will relate to the MFA’s collection or special exhibition. Free with admission. October: Where Honeybees Thrive by Heather Swan Swan is the winner...
A neo-Victorian, a creator of unexpected experiences, and a visionary artist who twists the familiar into the unsettling, Jennifer Angus (b. 1961) challenges our perceptions and expectations by working in an unusual medium: dried, exotic insects. Her elaborate, site-specific installations are composed of large, brilliantly-colored insects pinned directly to walls...
Activists today strive to educate the public about climate change, but sociologists have found that the more we know about alarming issues, the less likely we are to act. Meanwhile, environmentalists have acquired a reputation as gloom-and-doom killjoys. Bad Environmentalism responds to these absurdities and ironies by highlighting an alternative path...
Swan is the winner of the 2017 Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award and is a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in the areas of ecocriticism, environmental humanities and environmental justice. Using her own quest for understanding as a starting point, Swan will speak to the innovative projects...
Come and play at the MFA! Museum Minis invites children ages 2 to 5 years old and their favorite grownups to join us in the galleries for stories, games, songs, and art. From shapes to colors and artists to animals, there is always something fun to discover. Inspire your little...