The Contemporaries Lunchtime Lecture: The Cultural Symbolism of Hair

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The Contemporaries host Lunchtime Lectures, a grab bag of artist talks, panel discussions, and art historical lectures that focus on contemporary themes during the lunch hour of the first Monday of each month. $10 for members of The Contemporaries $15 for non-members of The Contemporaries Monday, August 31 Lunchtime Lecture:...

Hot Gatherings, Cool Conversations

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A DMG Visiting Glass Artist Series Sponsored by The DMG School Project This lecture/visual presentation series provides intimate conversations with world renowned glass artists about their techniques, challenges and inspirations.  Free with Museum admission. This month: Glass artists Thomas Maras and Todd Cameron Baby Horizon by Thomas Maras Thomas Maras...

Gallery Talk: Five Decades of Photography at the MFA

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Gallery Talk by Robin O'Dell, Manager of Photographic Collections, on Five Decades of Photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, featuring The Dandrew-Drapkin Collection. Robin O'Dell returned to the MFA last year after earning her MA in photographic preservation and collections management in the joint program offered by Ryerson University...

The Contemporaries Lunchtime lecture: Graphicstudio

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First Monday of the Month (unless otherwise noted) @noon Artist Talks, Panel Discussions, Lively Lectures $5 (Lecture only), plus MFA admission $10 (Lecture & lunch) for Contemporaries members $15 (Lecture & lunch) for nonmembers of the Contemporaries Lunch reservations must be made by 3p.m. the Friday before the lecture. To...

Hot Gatherings, Cool Conversations

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A DMG Visiting Glass Artist Series Sponsored by The DMG School Project This lecture/visual presentation series provides intimate conversations with world renowned glass artists about their techniques, challenges and inspirations.  Free with Museum admission. This month: Glass artist Hyunsung Cho Lines of the Sky by Hyunsung Cho Hyunsung Cho has...

Friends of Decorative Arts Lecture: Design in America

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Roy Slade, Director of the Cranbrook Art Museum from 1977-1995 and now Director Emeritus, will examine “Design in America: The Cranbrook Vision 1925-1950.” Cranbrook came into being in 1904 and later became an educational community. Located in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, it is now a National Historic Landmark and is renowned...

UNCHartED: Collaborative Practice

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Gather on the third Thursday of the month for an offbeat art-fix or to learn a creative craft.  FREE with MFA admission, which is only $5 after 5p.m. on Thursdays. Random Act 10.15.15 @ 6:30p.m.: Collaborative Practice features a panel discussion on printmaking and the commemorative MFA 50th anniversary prints...

Parrish Lecture: Guerrilla Girls

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Wayne W. and Frances Knight Parrish Lecture by Käthe Kollwitz of the Guerrilla Girls FREE with Museum admission. Reception to follow on the Museum portico.  Cash bar. Sponsored in part by Martha and Jim Sweeny The Guerrilla Girls joined together in 1985 to protest the treatment of women artists by...

Artist Demonstration: Mariam Paré

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Mariam Paré has pursued art from childhood, but her creative journey was tragically diverted after being a victim of random gun violence at the age of 20.  The bullet penetrated her spine and rendered her a quadriplegic.  Through occupational and art therapy, she learned how to control first a pencil and...

The Contemporaries Lunchtime Lecture: Birmingham Stories

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First Monday of the Month (unless otherwise noted) @noon Artist Talks, Panel Discussions, Lively Lectures $5 (Lecture only), plus MFA admission $10 (Lecture & lunch) for Contemporaries members $15 (Lecture & lunch) for nonmembers of the Contemporaries Lunch reservations must be made by 3p.m. the Friday before the lecture. To...

Gallery Talk: Reading Women

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Gallery Talk on Carrie Schneider: Reading Women by Katherine Pill, Assistant Curator of Art after 1950 Contemporary artist Carrie Schneider's video projection and photographs in the Helen and Dick Minck Gallery spotlight her women friends and acquaintances in the process of reading.  They are captured in domestic spaces and are...

Friends of Decorative Arts Lecture: Japanese cloisonné enamels

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Fredric T. Schneider, an independent scholar living in New York City, will introduce Japanese cloisonné enamels, which are some of the world’s most exquisite objects. They are also extremely difficult to create. Mr. Schneider will trace the development of the medium from its inception to the present day and will...

Creative Time Summit

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In partnership with the USF Contemporary Art Museum and the Tampa Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg is proud to bring the 2015 Creative Time Summit to the Tampa Bay area. This year’s theme is The Curriculum, exploring constructs of knowledge. Each venue will host live...

Hot Gatherings, Cool Conversations: Michael Schunke

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Sponsored by The DMG School Project Free with MFA admission Featuring glass artist: Michael Schunke A talented draftsman, Michael Schunke demonstrated a natural affinity for glassblowing at an early age.  The influence of drawing and mark-making is evident in his work.  He attended the Rhode Island School of Design, where...

Collectors Circle Lecture: Still Life Painting in the Dutch Golden Age

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Dr. Arthur Wheelock, Curator of Northern Baroque Painting at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., will explore “Beauty of Abundance: Still Life Painting in the Dutch Golden Age.” Also Professor of Art History at the University of Maryland, he has lectured widely on Dutch and Flemish art and...

The Contemporaries Lunchtime Lecture: Public/Private Art

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First Monday of the Month (unless otherwise noted) @noon Artist Talks, Panel Discussions, Lively Lectures $5 (Lecture only), plus MFA admission $10 (Lecture & lunch) for Contemporaries members $15 (Lecture & lunch) for nonmembers of the Contemporaries Lunch reservations must be made by 3p.m. the Friday before the lecture. To...

Friends of Decorative Arts Lecture: Antique Toys

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Steve Fuller followed the example of his mother and began collecting early. He has saved nearly every toy his father ever bought him and has continued this interest throughout his life. He will offer an overview of “Antique Toys, Dolls, and Collectibles,” which range from miniature die-cast cars to an...

Collectors Circle Lecture: Contemporary Printmaking

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Susan Tallman, who has written an essay for the Marks Made catalogue, will focus on contemporary printmaking. She has written and lectured extensively on the history and culture of the print, as well as on issues of authenticity, reproduction, and multiplicity. Ms. Tallman is Editor-in-Chief of the noted international journal...

Hot Gatherings, Cool Conversations: Jacob Stout and Mariel Bass

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Sponsored by The DMG School Project Free with MFA admission Featuring glass artists: Jacob Stout and Mariel Bass Master glassblower Jacob Stout is the Duncan McClellan Hot Glass Workshop Director.  He uses Venetian techniques, developed 500 years ago, to create his objects.  Because he does not use molds, each work...

Hot Gatherings, Cool Conversations: Richard Jolley

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Sponsored by The DMG School Project Free with MFA admission Featuring glass artists: Richard Jolley Richard Jolley has maintained a glass studio in Knoxville since 1975 and has received 65 solo museum and gallery exhibitions in the United States, Europe, and Japan. His work has also been selected for a...

Hot Gatherings, Cool Conversations: Richard Jolley

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Sponsored by The DMG School Project Free with MFA admission Featuring glass artists: Richard Jolley Richard Jolley has maintained a glass studio in Knoxville since 1975 and has received 65 solo museum and gallery exhibitions in the United States, Europe, and Japan. His work has also been selected for a...

Friends of Decorative Arts Lecture: VMFA Collection

Friends  Decorative Arts Lecture Alex Nyerges, Director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) in Richmond, will introduce his museum’s world-renowned collection of decorative arts, with a special focus on Art Nouveau and Art Deco objects. The VMFA is one of our county’s leading museums, with 33,000 works in...

Reading Women: Rebecca Solnit in Conversation with Carrie Schneider

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Photo By Paul Germanos READING WOMEN: REBECCA SOLNIT IN CONVERSATION WITH CARRIE SCHNEIDER Sunday, January 17th 3PM | Marly Room Reception to follow (light bites and cash bar) Free with Museum admission This unique event brings together two incredible thinkers who will discuss the power of reading, writing and art....

Friends of Decorative Arts Lecture

Friends of Decorative Arts Lecture Inge Hatton fell in love with folk art when she moved to Nova Scotia and discovered the Nova Scotia Folk Art Festival in 2000. She was inspired to learn more about the artists, began collecting their work, and even opened a gallery, The Spotted Frog....

Hot Gatherings, Cool Conversations: Stephen Rolfe Powell

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*Note that this lecture has been canceled.  Please join us to hear Stephen Rolfe Powell at our second scheduled lecture on Sunday, February 14 at 3pm.  Sponsored by The DMG School Project Free with MFA admission Featuring glass artists: Stephen Rolfe Powell Stephen Rolfe Powell has had an enormous impact...

Hot Gatherings, Cool Conversations: Stephen Rolfe Powell

Sponsored by The DMG School Project Free with MFA admission Featuring glass artists: Stephen Rolfe Powell Stephen Rolfe Powell has had an enormous impact on glass art from the campus of highly respected Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. He received his BA in painting and ceramics from Centre in 1974...

Collectors Circle Lecture

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Dr. Gloria Groom is an internationally acclaimed scholar and author on nineteenth-century European painting and sculpture. She is the Chair of European Painting and Sculpture and the David and Mary Winton Green Curator at the Art Institute of Chicago. Dr. Groom has curated many major traveling exhibitions and was the lead curator...

Friends of Decorative Arts Lecture: Art Deco

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

Noted collector and FODA member Jim Sweeny will explore Art Deco Miami Beach, which was chiefly built in the 1930s to appeal to middle-class tourists. The majority of the buildings were hotels or apartments and shared many characteristics: flat roofs, poured concrete walls, glass-block partitions, terrazzo floors, “eyebrow” and porthole...

Coffee Talks with Nan Colton: Fairyland Luster

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

Connect with the arts through monthly performances that give voice and embodiment to the two-dimensional. Nan Colton, the MFA’s ever popular performing artist-in-residence, turns to special exhibitions and the collection for her scripts and 30-minute presentations. Enjoy refreshments at 10 am, her performance at 10:30 am, and a general docent...

Hot Gatherings, Cool Conversations: John Miller and Paul Joseph Nelson

Bayview Room: Museum of Fine Arts

John Miller began working with glass in 1987 in the undergraduate program at Southern Connecticut State University. A decade later, he earned an MFA in sculpture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From 1993 to the present, he has been a key staff member at Pilchuck Glass School near...

Forensic Lutherie: Behind the Scenes of Historical Guitar Restoration

Jeffrey R. Elliott One of our country's most accomplished guitar makers and restorers, Jeffrey Elliott will discuss "Forensic Lutherie: Behind the Scenes of Historical Guitar Restoration." Lutherie refers to the crafting of stringed instruments, including the guitar. His lecture will focus on the restoration of two famous classical guitars, an...

Contemporaries Lunchtime Lecture: Babs Reingold

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

The talented Babs Reingold, who lives in St. Petersburg, will introduce her work and explore her influences. She has produced paintings, drawings, sculpture, and room-sized installations. They are marked by both introspection and a social conscience and examine stereotypes of female beauty, aging, poverty, and more. She was represented in...

Friends of Decorative Arts Lecture: Steuben Glass

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

Eric Hilton has been a consulting artist/designer with Steuben for more than 40 years. He will share stories from this association and focus specifically on some of the most important pieces he has designed. Innerland (1980), now in the collection of the Corning Museum of Glass in New York, has been...

Coffee Talks with Nan Colton: A Painted Woolf

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

Connect with the arts through monthly performances that give voice and embodiment to the two-dimensional. Nan Colton, the MFA’s ever popular performing artist-in-residence, turns to special exhibitions and the collection for her scripts and 30-minute presentations. Enjoy refreshments at 10 am, her performance at 10:30 am, and a general docent...

Collectors Circle Lecture: Robert Flynn Johnson

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

Contemplating Character: Portrait Drawings & Oil Sketches from Jacques-Louis David to Lucian Freud spotlights the fascinating collection developed by Robert Flynn Johnson over the course of his impressive career. Mr. Johnson was Curator in Charge of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco for...

The Contemporaries Lunchtime Lecture: Contemporary Tiki Culture

Jeff Chouinard Lunchtime Lectures is a grab bag of artist talks, panel discussions, and art historical lectures that focus on contemporary themes during the lunch hour of the first Monday of each month. Lunch is always included. In advance of the annual Hukilau in Fort Lauderdale, we are exploring the work...

Lecture on the Art of the Classical Guitar

Bayview Room: Museum of Fine Arts

Lecture on The Art of the Classical Guitar by David Collett, President of Guitar Salon International Mr. Collett will offer a survey of the development, cultural personality, musical qualities, and audience appeal of the guitar. He will include stories about guitar-builders,world-class performers, and their interaction and will also highlight the design...

Gallery Talk on Harold Edgerton: What the Eye Can’t See

Works on Paper Gallery, 2nd Floor, MFA

Robin O’Dell returned to the MFA in 2014 after earning her MA in photographic preservation and collections management in the joint program offered by Ryerson University in Toronto and the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester. During her graduate study, she served as library assistant at...

Friends of Decorative Arts Lecture: Feathered Art Forms

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

Dr. Teresa Wilkins, the MFA’s Manager of Membership, will examine the various forms, functions, and traditions of Hawaii’s stunning feathered art forms. She will survey their construction, meaning, and use. Dr. Wilkins holds her Ph.D in Pacific Art History from Indiana University, Bloomington and is one of the world’s foremost...

Coffee Talks with Nan Colton: A Woman Ahead of Her Time

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

Connect with the arts through monthly performances that give voice and embodiment to the two-dimensional. Nan Colton, the MFA’s ever popular performing artist-in-residence, turns to special exhibitions and the collection for her scripts and 30-minute presentations. Enjoy refreshments at 10 am, her performance at 10:30 am, and a general docent...

Lecture: The Artist as Neuroscientist

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

Dr. Patrick Cavanagh   Lecture on “The Artist as Neuroscientist” by Dr. Patrick Cavanagh Artists often break the rules of physics, using impossible shadows, shapes, or reflections. These undetected transgressions offer a wealth of information about visual perception. Dr. Patrick Cavanagh will survey cave paintings to modern and contemporary art...

Friends of Photography presents – Gus Kayafas: More for the Eye to See

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

Friends of Photography presents - Gus Kayafas: More for the Eye to See. A masterful storyteller, Kayafas studied with Edgerton, Minor White, Aaron Siskind, and Harry Callahan, and was the founding photography head at MassArt. He is now founder and President of Palm Press, and will share his journey from...

The Contemporaries Lunchtime Lecture Series featuring: Ya La’Ford

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

LUNCHTIME LECTURES "Artivist", Ya LaFord Lunchtime Lectures is a grab bag of artist talks, panel discussions, and art historical lectures that focus on contemporary themes during the lunch hour on the first Monday of each month. Self-described “artivist” La’Ford will discuss her social engaged artwork, particularly Blue Sunnel, created during the...

Coffee Talks with Nan Colton: In Focus

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

Connect with the arts through monthly performances that give voice and embodiment to the two-dimensional. Nan Colton, the MFA’s ever popular performing artist-in-residence, turns to special exhibitions and the collection for her scripts and 30-minute presentations. Enjoy refreshments at 10 am, her performance at 10:30 am, and a general docent...

Lecture: on Shana Moulton: Journeys Out of the Body, by the artist

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

Shana Moulton, Whispering Pines 4, 2007, Video Still Anyone who has watched Shana Moulton describe her work online knows that she is accessible, relatable, and refreshingly honest. She will discuss her Whispering Pines video series, her performance pieces and operas, and her sculpture and installations. In our age of multimedia, Ms....

Coffee Talks with Nan Colton: Thoroughly Modern Missy

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

Connect with the arts through monthly performances that give voice and embodiment to the two-dimensional. Nan Colton, the MFA’s ever popular performing artist-in-residence, turns to special exhibitions and the collection for her scripts and 30-minute presentations. Enjoy refreshments at 10 am, her performance at 10:30 am, and a general docent...

Cinema at the MFA: Safe (1995)

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

Free with MFA admission, which is only $5 after 5 pm on Thursday. Complimentary snacks are available. This summer series spotlights the themes of Shana Moulton: Journeys Out of the Body. This film and post-screening discussion are co-hosted with The Filmme Guild. Safe (1995), directed by Todd Haynes. Oscar-winner Julianne Moore...

Flash/Splash Workshop

Bayview Room: Museum of Fine Arts

  Flash/Splash Workshop at the MFA. Presented in conjunction with the Morean Arts Center. Bring your camera to the MFA for a hands-on workshop inspired by the exhibition Harold Edgerton: What the Eye Can't See. At one station, you can capture a “Milk Drop” splash and at another you can...

Gallery Talk: From the Heart: Folk Art on Paper

Works on Paper Gallery, 2nd Floor, MFA

Katherine Pill, Curator of Contemporary Art Through the generosity of donors, the MFA has established a fascinating collection of work by contemporary self-taught artists. Katherine Pill focuses on individual pieces, while also connecting them to broader currents in contemporary art. The MFA’s first Curator of Contemporary Art, Ms. Pill has...

Coffee Talks with Nan Colton: Blossom to Bare Bones

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

Connect with the arts through monthly performances that give voice and embodiment to the two-dimensional. Nan Colton, the MFA’s ever popular performing artist-in-residence, turns to special exhibitions and the collection for her scripts and 30-minute presentations. Enjoy refreshments at 10 am, her performance at 10:30 am, and a general docent...

The Contemporaries Lunchtime Lecture Series: featuring Chris Parks of Palehorse Design

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

Image: Courtesy of the artist We are pleased to kick off our fall Contemporaries programming with Chris Parks of Palehorse Design. A renowned illustrator and artist who has had a studio in downtown St. Pete since 2006, Parks is also co-curator of the SHINE Mural Festival. He states, "Truly, some of...

Coffee Talks with Nan Colton: 1960’s Designs & Signs

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

Connect with the arts through monthly performances that give voice and embodiment to the two-dimensional. Nan Colton, the MFA’s ever popular performing artist-in-residence, turns to special exhibitions and the collection for her scripts and 30-minute presentations. Enjoy refreshments at 10 am, her performance at 10:30 am, and a general docent...

Porch Party

Front Porch: Museum of Fine Arts

Join us on the best porch in St. Petersburg from 5:30 to 7 pm on the third Thursday of each month. Free and open to the public. Museum galleries open until 8 pm with free admission for members, $5 after 5 pm for non-members. Special discounts available for new members to join during...

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Lecture: Mernet Larsen

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

Mernet Larsen is one of the area’s most accomplished artists. She will discuss her paintings on view in the Lee Malone Gallery, as well as others that have marked her development and remarkable career. From 1967-2003, Ms. Larsen taught at the University of South Florida, Tampa, where she influenced many...

The Contemporaries: Behind the Scenes Tour

Hazel Hough Wing: Museum of Fine Arts

The Contemporaries of the Museum of Fine Arts are pleased to host an after-hours tour of Shana Moulton: Journeys Out of the Body by Curator of Contemporary Art Katherine Pill. Come get to know the strange world of Cynthia! Moulton creates humorous yet earnest explorations of New Age approaches to...

The Contemporaries Lunchtime Lecture Series: The Art of Healing

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

Shana Moulton, Whispering Pines 4, (2007), video still The Contemporaries Lunchtime Lecture Series is a grab bag of artist talks, panel discussions, and art historical lectures that focus on contemporary themes during the lunch hour of the first Monday of each month. This month's Lunchtime Lecture is a Panel Discussion:...

Hot Gatherings/Cool Conversations: Art Outside

Bayview Room: Museum of Fine Arts

The American Dog series by Dale Rogers “Art Outside” with sculptors Mark Chatterley, Jane Jaskevich, and Dale Rogers. Mark Chatterley creates larger-than-life ceramic figures with lava-like glazes that appear to transcend time and geography. They have a powerful, primitive grace. He began throwing pots more than 30 years ago, but...

Friends of Decorative Arts: Ancient Greek Vases in the Greater Tampa Bay Area

Red Figure Column Krater, Greek, Attic, 5th century B.C.E.Ceramic Gift of Costas Lemonopoulos The decorative arts – fine furniture, jewelry, ceramics, and glass – are all around us and in the Museum of Fine Arts. The Friends of Decorative Arts (FODA) expands understanding of their variety and beauty. Plus, you...

Coffee Talks with Nan Colton: Heart of Africa

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

Connect with the arts through monthly performances that give voice and embodiment to the two-dimensional. Nan Colton, the MFA’s ever popular performing artist-in-residence, turns to special exhibitions and the collection for her scripts and 30-minute presentations. Enjoy refreshments at 10 am, her performance at 10:30 am, and a general docent...

The Collectors Circle: Lecture Series

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Dr. Emily Schuchardt Navratil This outstanding series features some of the world’s foremost art historians, curators, artists, and collectors. Everyone is invited to these free lectures. An always elegant reception for Collectors Circle members, also sponsored by Northern Trust, is held one hour before the lecture. Cynthia Astrack is President...

Collectors Circle: Lecture Series

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, 1755-1842), Julie Le Brun as Flora (1799), Oil on canvas, Museum Purchase This outstanding series features some of the world’s foremost art historians, curators, artists, and collectors. Everyone is invited to these free lectures. An always elegant reception for Collectors Circle members, also sponsored...

Gallery Talk on Jack Barrett: People Watching

Lee Malone Gallery: Museum of Fine Arts

Katherine Pill Gallery Talk on Jack Barrett: People Watching by Curator of Contemporary Art Katherine Pill and Louise Barrett Katherine Pill developed the ongoing “Spotlight” series to showcase the work of gifted area artists. This select exhibition of work by Jack Barrett (1929-2008), who lived most of his adult life...

The Contemporaries Lunchtime Lecture Series: Creative Clay: Art from the Heart

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

The Contemporaries Lunchtime Lectures is held on the first Monday of the month and includes artist talks, panel discussions and/or lively lectures. $5 (lecture only), plus MFA admission $10 (lecture and lunch) for Contemporaries members $15 (lecture and lunch) for non-members of The Contemporaries Lunch reservations must be made by...

Friends of Decorative Arts: African American Self-Taught Art

Bayview Room: Museum of Fine Arts

Owl, 1947, Bill Traylor The decorative arts – fine furniture, jewelry, ceramics, and glass – are all around us and in the Museum of Fine Arts. The Friends of Decorative Arts (FODA) expands understanding of their variety and beauty. Plus, you will make new friends at the meetings. Annual dues...

Hot Gatherings/Cool Conversations: Patchen’s Patterns

Bayview Room: Museum of Fine Arts

Glass Art by David Patchen “Patchen’s Patterns” with glass artist David Patchen. For two decades, Mr. Patchen’s creative energies primarily found an outlet in music, but a blowpipe and a glass furnace have firmly replaced his guitar. He received an artistic merit scholarship to study at the Pilchuck Glass Studio...

Gallery Talk on Inuit Prints and Sculptures

Works on Paper Gallery, 2nd Floor, MFA

Dr. Teresa Wilkins Gallery Talk on Inuit Prints and Sculpture by Members Services Manager Dr. Teresa Wilkins, followed by a reception. Dr. Teresa Wilkins joined the MFA in 2014 after serving as the Assistant Curator in the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas for the Eskenazi...

The Contemporaries Lunchtime Lecture Series: Noel Smith

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

Noel Smith The Contemporaries Lunchtime Lectures is held on the first Monday of the month and includes artist talks, panel discussions and/or lively lectures. $5 (lecture only), plus MFA admission $10 (lecture and lunch) for Contemporaries members $15 (lecture and lunch) for non-members of The Contemporaries Lunch reservations must be...

Parrish Lecture: Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

The Wayne W. & Frances Knight Parrish Lecture on Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art  will be given by Curator of Latino art from the Smithsonian American Art Museum Dr. E. Carmen Ramos. E. Carmen Ramos joined the Smithsonian American Art Museum staff as curator of Latino art...

Friends of Decorative Arts: Carla Funk

Bayview Room: Museum of Fine Arts

The decorative arts – fine furniture, jewelry, ceramics, and glass – are all around us and in the Museum. FODA expands understanding of their variety and beauty. Plus, you will make new friends at the meetings. Annual dues are $20 in addition to Museum membership. FODA programs are held on...

Hot Gatherings/Cool Conversations: Shelley Muzylowski Allen and Rik Allen

Bayview Room: Museum of Fine Arts

Celadon Hippocampus by Shelley Muzylowski Allen Shelley Muzylowski Allen has a BFA in painting and intaglio from the Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver and from 1998-2004, was an assistant with the William Morris sculpture team in Washington. In 2005, she established a glass and sculpture studio,...

Lecture: Breakdown Lane by artist Greg Smith

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

Greg Smith, artist.   Innovative artist Greg Smith introduces his installation and performance-based video, Breakdown Lane (2016), on view in the Helen and Dick Minck Gallery of New Media. He turns the road trip upside down, as he faces numerous obstacles and even catastrophes along the way. Mr. Smith has...

Hot Gatherings/Cool Conversations: Celebrating the Glass of Murano

Bayview Room: Museum of Fine Arts

Studio Salvadore is a collaborative glass-production enterprise headed by brothers Marco and Mattia Salvadore in Murano, Italy. They began working with their father Davide in the studio Campanol & Salvadore as young boys. Marco was a presenter at the 2009 Glass Art Society and has traveled the world to teach....

Friends of Decorative Arts: Phillip and Nancy Kotler

Bayview Room: Museum of Fine Arts

Jaroslava Brychtová (Czech b. 1924) and Stanislav Libenský (Czech 1921-2002), Kiss, mid-20th century, Cast glass, The Collection of Philip and Nancy Kotler The decorative arts – fine furniture, jewelry, ceramics, and glass – are all around us and in the Museum. FODA expands understanding of their variety and beauty. Plus,...

Collector’s Circle Lecture Series: Dr. Franco Mormando

Portrait of Augustus, First Emperor of Rome

This outstanding series features some of the world’s foremost art historians, curators, artists, and collectors. Everyone is invited to these free lectures. An always elegant reception for Collectors Circle members, also sponsored by Northern Trust, is held one hour before the lecture. Cynthia Astrack is President of the Collectors Circle....

Parrish Lecture: Goblets of Gold: The Context of Sicán Cups in Northern Peru

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

Dr. Kimberly Jones Wayne W. and Frances Knight Parrish Lecture by Dr. Kimberly L. Jones, The Ellen and Harry S. Parker III Assistant Curator of the Arts of the Americas at the Dallas Museum of Art “Goblets of Gold: The Context of Sicán Cups in Northern Peru” The Sicán flourished on...

Hot Gatherings/Cool Conversations: Postponed

Bayview Room: Museum of Fine Arts

Scottish Artist and Designer Eric Hilton arrived in the United States in 1971 and became an art consultant for Steuben Glass in 1972. Steuben Glass has been producing glassware from colorless, optical glass for more than one hundred years, and Hilton highlights the material’s purity in his mathematically precise sculptures....

Collectors Circle Lecture Series: Stephen Wilkes

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

This outstanding series features some of the world’s foremost art historians, curators, artists, and collectors. Everyone is invited to these free lectures. An always elegant reception for Collectors Circle members, also sponsored by Northern Trust, is held one hour before the lecture. Cynthia Astrack is President of the Collectors Circle....

Hot Gatherings/Cool Conversations: Raven Skyriver and Kelly O’Dell

Bayview Room: Museum of Fine Arts

Glass art by Raven Skyriver Raven Skyriver’s depiction of marine life is inspired by his childhood on Lopez Island, Washington. He started blowing glass at 16 years of age and built his own workshop from the techniques he learned from mentor Lark Dalton. He has since worked with William Morris...

Friends of Decorative Arts: Canceled for March

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

The decorative arts – fine furniture, jewelry, ceramics, and glass – are all around us and in the Museum. FODA expands understanding of their variety and beauty. Plus, you will make new friends at the meetings. Annual dues are $20 in addition to Museum membership. FODA programs are held on...

Friends of Photography: America Thru The Eyes of the Tintype 1856-1890

Bayview Room: Museum of Fine Arts

Please join the Friends of Photography for a talk by noted collector Dr. Robert L. Drapkin. The Drapkin Collection is well known throughout the national photography community. Dr. Robert Drapkin began collecting photography in 1975 when Edward Curtis photogravures could still be purchased for fifteen dollars. He has amassed a collection that...

Gallery Talk on the Open Road: Photography and the American Road Trip

Hazel Hough Wing: Museum of Fine Arts

  Robin O'Dell, Curatorial Administrator & Manager of Photographic Collections Robin O’Dell returned to the MFA in 2014 after earning her MA in photographic preservation and collections management in the joint program offered by Ryerson University in Toronto and the Eastman House Museum. She recently curated Harold Edgerton: What the Eye...

Hot Gatherings, Cool Conversations: Nancy Callan

Nancy Callan, who lives in Seattle, is influenced by the bright colors and inflated shapes found in comic books and toys. She received her BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art. After a workshop at the Corning Museum of Glass with the gifted Lino Tagliapietra, she moved to Seattle, became...

Friends of Decorative Arts: The Art of Circus Posters

Bayview Room: Museum of Fine Arts

Jennifer Lemmer Posey The decorative arts – fine furniture, jewelry, ceramics, and glass – are all around us and in the Museum. FODA expands understanding of their variety and beauty. Plus, you will make new friends at the meetings. Annual dues are $20 in addition to Museum membership. FODA programs...

Literary Carousel at the MFA

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

Photography from the MFA archives comes alive through the art of the "Ekphrastic," a literary interpretation of a piece of visual art. Hand-picked images get the prose and poetry treatment, read live to you. Come join us for this one-of-a-kind event for Literature and Photography Lovers alike! Inspired by the...

Gallery Talk: Dorothy Height’s Hats

Works on Paper Gallery, 2nd Floor, MFA

There will be a gallery talk on Saturday, April 29 in the Works on Paper Gallery for the opening of Dorothy Height's Hats. The talk, given by Curatorial Assistant Stephanie Chill, will be followed by a reception in the Bayview Room from 4-5 pm.

Friends of Photography: Gary Monroe

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

Please join the Friends of Photography for a talk featuring photographer Gary Monroe. Gary Monroe is the perfect photographer to augment The Open Road: Photography and the American Road Trip exhibition at the MFA. Monroe has explored most of Florida for forty years with his Leica cameras. He photographed the old world of...

Friends of Decorative Arts: Oriental Rugs

The decorative arts – fine furniture, jewelry, ceramics, and glass – are all around us and in the Museum. FODA expands understanding of their variety and beauty. Plus, you will make new friends at the meetings. Annual dues are $20 in addition to Museum membership. FODA programs are held on...

Book Club at the MFA: Open Wide the Freedom Gates: A Memoir by Dr. Dorothy Height

Bayview Room: Museum of Fine Arts

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 exhibitions. May 11: Open Wide the Freedom Gates: A Memoir by Dr. Dorothy Height brings...

Lecture: “The Life and Hats of Dr. Dorothy Height,” by Harriet Rosebud, Milliner

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

Originally from St. Petersburg FL. Ms. Rosebud earned a BS in political Science from Florida State University, but her creative side needed to find its own path.  She returned to school, attending the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and studied Millinery Arts.  She decided to follow her passion...

Hot Gatherings, Cool Conversations: Jason Chakravarty and Jennifer Caldwell

Bayview Room: Museum of Fine Arts

  Jason Chakravarty is a multimedia artist in Arizona, who primarily works in cast glass, often incorporating neon. His most recent objects are semi-autobiographical and reflect on relationships, communication, and social networking. He has shown his work across the country and has presented workshops and lectures at Ohio State University,...

Artist and Curator: A Conversation between Dominique Labauvie and Katherine Pill

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

A Conversation between artist Dominique Labauvie and Curator of Contemporary Art Katherine Pill. Dominique Labauvie has shown his work worldwide and is represented in the collections of the Musée des arts décoratifs, Palais du Louvre, in Paris; the MFA; and the Boca Raton Museum of Art, among others. He is...

Lecture: Functional Imaging of the Human Brain as a Window into the Mind

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

Nancy Kanwisher Twenty-five years ago, with the invention of MRI, it became possible to image neural activity in the normal human brain. This remarkable tool has given us a striking new picture of the human brain, in which many regions have been shown to carry out highly specific mental functions,...

Book Club at the MFA

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 exhibitions. May 11: Open Wide the Freedom Gates: A Memoir by Dorothy Height brings us...

Panel Discussion: Keeping the Dialogue Alive: Dr. Dorothy Height, Activist

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

Following an introduction to the exhibition Dorothy Height’s Hats by MFA Curatorial Assistant Stephanie Chill, panelists Gwendolyn Reese, President of the African American Heritage Association, a member of the National Council of Negro Women St Petersburg Metropolitan  Section, and Carla Bristol, Gallerie 909, will participate in a discussion about Dr. Height’s...

Learning from Each Other: The Havana-Tampa Artist Exchange

Bayview Room: Museum of Fine Arts

Please join us for a panel discussion focusing on the artist exchange program between the prestigious San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts in Havana and the non-profit contemporary art space Tempus Projects in Seminole Heights, Tampa. The Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes "San Alejandro" is the oldest and most celebrated...

SKYWAY Panel Discussion: The Gendered Medium

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

SKYWAY Panel Discussion: The Gendered Medium We begin our series of panels featuring artists from Skyway: A Contemporary Collaboration and Curator of Contemporary Art Katherine Pill with a discussion about gender and medium, particularly the role of craft in contemporary practice. FREE with Museum admission. Reception and book-signing to follow...

Spotlight: Fonchen Lord

Bayview Room: Museum of Fine Arts

Join Curator of Contemporary Art, Katherine Pill, and Ann Rogers in a discussion on the life and inspirations of Minimalist sculptor and painter Fonchen Lord. FREE with Museum admission. Reception immediately following.

Soundstitching Live!

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

Please join us for a special presentation and discussion inspired by a work in our current exhibition, Skyway: A Contemporary Collaboration. Discover the sounds and movements of color in an interdisciplinary program inspired by Cassia Kite’s "Pot Luck Dinner at Longboat Key Center for the Arts" (2015). Artist Kite translates...

Art and Media in the Era of Extremism

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

Skyway: A Contemporary Collaboration artist Gregory Green's Worktable no. 9, He of Righteousness suggests that external factors, specifically the media, play a significant role in radicalizing individuals. Join moderator Kelly McBride, Vice President of The Poynter Institute and our panelists as they discuss the positive and negative impacts of media influence over...

Mickett-Stackhouse: Irma Reflections

Collection Galleries: Museum of Fine Arts

Mickett and Stackhouse are premiering their participatory installation, Irma Reflections in conjunction with their exhibition Confluence. Between October 7, 2017, the opening date of Confluence, and December 3, 2017, Mickett and Stackhouse will be in the gallery every Wednesday and Saturday from noon to 2 pm greeting people and talking with them about their experiences...