Marine Science, Yoga, and Art Camp

Bayview Room: Museum of Fine Arts

For rising second- to sixth-graders (exceptions may be made with the instructor's approval). This unique camp is led by certified children's yoga teacher and marine scientist Katie Toth and offers daily yoga classes, science instruction, and art projects. A different theme of marine ecology, conservation, and community service will highlight...

Coffee Talk with Nan Colton: The Muse of History

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

Connect with the arts through monthly performances that give voice and embodiment to the two-dimensional. The MFA’s ever popular performing artist-in-residence Nan Colton invites us to meet an artist or historical figure in a 30-minute presentation that includes a cup of coffee and delectable pastries. Today’s program is entitled The...

Book Club at the MFA – Kitchen

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. June 14: Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto Kitchen is an enchantingly original and deeply affecting tale...

Cinema @ the MFA: Three Resurrected Drunkards

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

In celebration of We Do Not Work Alone, the MFA presents the 1968 film, Three Resurrected Drunkards, by Nagisa Oshima, a conceptually dazzling and piercing exploration of identity in contemporary Japan that makes room for extended flights of fancy and dream sequences. Often called the Godard of the East, Oshima...

Kidding Around Yoga

Bayview Room: Museum of Fine Arts

The Kidding Around Yoga system utilizes the yoga poses or asanas creatively tucked into: partner yoga, games and activities, original music, stories and more.  The class is specifically designed for kids – families welcome.  Practicing yoga with everyone in the family, and especially children, creates a special bond. Join us...

Make & Take Saturdays

MFA Classroom (2nd Floor)

Create your own masterpiece inspired by works in the collection and special exhibitions. Supplies are included. Details for each program will be posted as soon as they are available. First and third Saturday of the month. FREE with Museum admission. No registration necessary. Recommended for ages five and older, but...

Marly Music: The James Suggs Quartet

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

Suggs began playing the trumpet at age 9.  At 16, he started performing professionally and toured the US and Europe with the Continental Singers.  He has shared the stage with such artists as Kenny Burrell, Robin Eubanks, Dick Hyman, Sean Jones, Chuck Mangione, Maria Schneider, and Frankie Avalon.  In 2015,...

Cocktails & Collections

Membership Garden: Museum of Fine Arts

The Museum of Fine Arts is proud to present a new monthly event: Cocktails & Collections. The third Thursday of each month, this new evolution of the Porch Party combines the social interactions of the former event, while bringing guests directly into the Museum garden and galleries. Events include live...

3rd Annual Simmer & Sift: Featuring Callaloo

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

For the first event of the 2018 Simmer & Sift, we present Callaloo, which highlights the unique tastes and fresh flavors of foods indigenous to Florida and the Caribbean. Callaloo, located in The Deuces’ historic Manhattan Casino,  blends the best of two worlds, showcasing the unique tastes and fresh flavors of...

Sonic Libations Fundraiser @ Hawthorne Bottle Shoppe

Hawthorne Bottle Shoppe 2927 Central Avenue, St Petersburg, FL

This event is at Hawthorne Bottle Shoppe, 2927 Central Avenue, St. Petersburg Join us for a unique fundraising event featuring noted St. Petersburg composer and performer Elizabeth A. Baker and two members of the Orlando-based Alterity Chamber Orchestra, co-founder and oboist Beatriz Ramirez-Belt, and guitarist and artistic advisor Christopher Belt....

Marly Music: Christopher Johnson

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

Winning high critical acclaim, pianist Christopher Johnson has given 18 annual solo recitals at the Bar Harbor Music Festival in Maine and has made his 10th appearance at the Marcella Sembrich Opera Museum.  He performed the Horowitz/Sousa "Stars and Stripes Forever" in Washington, D.C. at the 2001 Presidential All-Star Gala...

11th Annual Fireworks Buffet @ the MFA Café

What is more American than fireworks and a buffet? Fireworks and a buffet in an air-conditioned museum! Enjoy your fireworks with an amazing food spread brought to you by the MFA Café...one seating only and your spot is yours all evening long, so you can enjoy a view of the fireworks...

Kidding Around Yoga

Bayview Room: Museum of Fine Arts

The Kidding Around Yoga system utilizes the yoga poses or asanas creatively tucked into: partner yoga, games and activities, original music, stories and more.  The class is specifically designed for kids – families welcome.  Practicing yoga with everyone in the family, and especially children, creates a special bond. Join us...

Make & Take Saturdays

MFA Classroom (2nd Floor)

Create your own masterpiece inspired by works in the collection and special exhibitions. Supplies are included. Details for each program will be posted as soon as they are available. First and third Saturday of the month. FREE with Museum admission. No registration necessary. Recommended for ages five and older, but...

A Special Tour of “Magnetic Fields” Exhibition w/ Co-Curator

In this engaging conversation, curator Melissa Messina will offer an overview of the MFA’s current Magnetic Fields exhibition, a groundbreaking intergenerational traveling exhibition that highlights abstraction by 21 African-American women artists. She will describe the impetus and importance of the exhibition, provide insight into the curatorial process, and give biographical...

Coffee Talk with Nan Colton: Designing Architecture

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

Connect with the arts through monthly performances that give voice and embodiment to the two-dimensional. The MFA’s ever popular performing artist-in-residence Nan Colton invites us to meet an artist or historical figure in a 30-minute presentation that includes a cup of coffee and delectable pastries. Today’s program is entitled Designing...

Book Club at the MFA – Creative Quest

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. July 12: Creative Quest by Questlove Musician, bandleader, designer, producer, culinary entrepreneur, professor, and...

Marly Music: Claire Huangci

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

"It is my intention to make music that stays in one’s memory not just because I had quick fingers but because it was so moving." - Claire Huangci Claire Huangci began her international career at the age of nine with grants, concert performances and prizes, becoming the youngest participant to receive...

Beer Project – Day 1 – Home Brew Night: From Gourds to Growlers

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

From the first female-owned breweries in Ethiopia to the ancient ales enjoyed by Antony and Cleopatra, beer has enhanced the social, economic and religious aspect of lives around the world. Learn more about the profound – and long lasting – impact of the world’s favorite beverage in this engaging conversation with...

Beer Project – Day 2 – Professional Local Brewer Night

Bayview Room: Museum of Fine Arts

Drink with purpose, and preserve a masterpiece by tapping into a one-of-a-kind evening! Since the dawn of time, drinking has provided a way for societies to determine character. Alcohol has also, through millennia, been used as a test of social literacy – a way to finesse any number of social situations...

Kidding Around Yoga

Bayview Room: Museum of Fine Arts

The Kidding Around Yoga system utilizes the yoga poses or asanas creatively tucked into: partner yoga, games and activities, original music, stories and more.  The class is specifically designed for kids – families welcome.  Practicing yoga with everyone in the family, and especially children, creates a special bond. Join us...

Make & Take Saturdays

MFA Classroom (2nd Floor)

Create your own masterpiece inspired by works in the collection and special exhibitions. Supplies are included. Details for each program will be posted as soon as they are available. First and third Saturday of the month. FREE with Museum admission. No registration necessary. Recommended for ages five and older, but...

CALL TO ARTISTS – 1st Annual Deck the Great Hall

Great Hall: Museum of Fine Arts

Each year, the Museum of Fine Arts celebrates the holiday season with a Holiday Tree placed in the middle of our Great Hall, decorated by members of The Stuart Society. The Museum of Fine Arts is excited to carry on this holiday tradition, with a contemporary spin! Artists from the Tampa...

Marine Science, Yoga, and Art Camp

Bayview Room: Museum of Fine Arts

For rising second- to sixth-graders (exceptions may be made with the instructor's approval). This unique camp is led by certified children's yoga teacher and marine scientist Katie Toth and offers daily yoga classes, science instruction, and art projects. A different theme of marine ecology, conservation, and community service will highlight...

Simmer and Sift: Ichicoro Ane

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

Explore the tastes of our area's evolving culinary scene at Simmer & Sift which combines creative culinary skills with delicious demonstrations during at the MFA. St. Pete’s renowned izakaya and ramen bar, Ichicoro Ane, offers up Japanese delicacies while pushing the boundaries of creative dining for an eager audience. Sister...

Bourbon, Jazz, and Herb

Membership Garden: Museum of Fine Arts

Join the Friends of Photography for this celebration of the exhibition Can I Get a Witness: Photography by Herb Snitzer before it closes on August 5th. Listen to live jazz from James Suggs Trio, sip a signature bourbon, and rub elbows with the famed photographer himself.  Cash bar is available....

Magnetic Fields: Sonic Abstraction

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

In complement to Magnetic Fields: Expanding Abstraction 1960s to Today, which focuses on African American women’s approaches to abstract painting and sculpture, the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg is thrilled to be working with composer Elizabeth A. Baker to present an afternoon of abstract sonic experiences by African American...

Kidding Around Yoga

Bayview Room: Museum of Fine Arts

The Kidding Around Yoga system utilizes the yoga poses or asanas creatively tucked into: partner yoga, games and activities, original music, stories and more.  The class is specifically designed for kids – families welcome.  Practicing yoga with everyone in the family, and especially children, creates a special bond. Join us...

Make & Take Saturdays

MFA Classroom (2nd Floor)

Create your own masterpiece inspired by works in the collection and special exhibitions. Supplies are included. Details for each program will be posted as soon as they are available. First and third Saturday of the month. FREE with Museum admission. No registration necessary. Recommended for ages five and older, but...

Marly Music: Kristin Lee

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

Kristin Lee has appeared as soloist with leading orchestras including the Philadelphia Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, New Mexico Symphony, and many more. She has performed on the world’s finest concert stages, including Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, the Kennedy Center, Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center, the Metropolitan...

Coffee Talk with Nan Colton: All About Focus

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

Connect with the arts through monthly performances that give voice and embodiment to the two-dimensional. The MFA’s ever popular performing artist-in-residence Nan Colton invites us to meet an artist or historical figure in a 30-minute presentation that includes a cup of coffee and delectable pastries. Refreshments are served at 10am,...

Book Club at the MFA – milk and honey

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. August 9th: milk and honey by Rupi Kaur Famed Sikh “instapoet” and provocateur who...

Cocktails & Collections

Membership Garden: Museum of Fine Arts

Cocktails & Collections, held on the third Thursday of each month, 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 music, a customized docent tour, light bites, and art-inspired...

Kidding Around Yoga

Bayview Room: Museum of Fine Arts

The Kidding Around Yoga system utilizes the yoga poses or asanas creatively tucked into: partner yoga, games and activities, original music, stories and more.  The class is specifically designed for kids – families welcome.  Practicing yoga with everyone in the family, and especially children, creates a special bond. Join us...

Make & Take Saturdays

MFA Classroom (2nd Floor)

Create your own masterpiece inspired by works in the collection and special exhibitions. Supplies are included. Details for each program will be posted as soon as they are available. First and third Saturday of the month. FREE with Museum admission. No registration necessary. Recommended for ages five and older, but...

Marly Music: Wayne Bethanis

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

Wayne Bethanis is a best-selling, award winning pianist, a television and radio host of his own show, the Wayne Zone, which is broadcast worldwide, and a popular expert on music, having a PhD in Music. As a lecturer and teacher, Dr. Wayne Bethanis has published several articles on the arts,...

Simmer and Sift: Join the Chef/Owners of The Restorative

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

Back by popular demand...Simmer & Sift! Culinary masterpieces are brought to life at the MFA combining creative culinary skills with delicious demonstrations. In a small-group setting, interact with the area's most popular chefs and taste their creations. On August 22, we present The Restorative, Dunedin's most talked about dining experience right...

Member Preview – This Is Not a Selfie: Photographic Self-Portraits from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection

One of the benefits of an MFA Membership is access to preview events for exhibitions in advance of their opening.  The Member Preview for This Is Not a Selfie: Photographic Self-Portraits from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection will open at 7:00pm, with exhibition opening remarks at 7:15pm. Please bring your membership card with you for...

Kidding Around Yoga

Bayview Room: Museum of Fine Arts

The Kidding Around Yoga system utilizes the yoga poses or asanas creatively tucked into: partner yoga, games and activities, original music, stories and more.  The class is specifically designed for kids – families welcome.  Practicing yoga with everyone in the family, and especially children, creates a special bond. Join us...

Make & Take Saturdays

MFA Classroom (2nd Floor)

Create your own masterpiece inspired by works in the collection and special exhibitions. Supplies are included. Details for each program will be posted as soon as they are available. First and third Saturday of the month. FREE with Museum admission. No registration necessary. Recommended for ages five and older, but...

Cinema @ the MFA – Ingrid Goes West – Film Screening & Panel Discussion

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

The film Ingrid Goes West is a dark comedy starring Aubrey Plaza and Elizabeth Olsen, following a young woman who moves to Los Angeles with the goal of befriending her well-curated Instagram idol. The film premiered in competition at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival winning the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award. Panel...

Coffee Talk with Nan Colton: My Backyard

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

Connect with the arts through monthly performances that give voice and embodiment to the two-dimensional. The MFA’s ever popular performing artist-in-residence Nan Colton invites us to meet an artist or historical figure in a 30-minute presentation that includes a cup of coffee and delectable pastries. Today’s program is entitled My...

Zombie Thriller Rehearsals

Museum of Fine Arts - Conservatory

Join the MFA staff and folks from Thrill St. Pete as we learn the fancy footwork featured in Michael Jackson's Zombie Thriller dance - and get ready for a performance on Oct. 24th! Rehearsals, led by Jesse Miller, take place every Thursday evening from 6-7:30 pm. Dancers admitted free to...

Book Club at the MFA – Old in Art School

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. September 13th:  Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over by Nell Irvin Painter As a renowned...

The Contemporaries Field Trip: Tampa Museum – Vapor and Vibration

120 W. Gasparilla Plaza, Tampa, FL

Members of The Contemporaries are invited to a private tour of the exhibition Vapor and Vibration: The Art of Larry Bell and Jesús Rafael Soto at the Tampa Museum of Art with Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Joanna Robotham. This exhibition places in dialogue, for the first time, the...

Kidding Around Yoga

Bayview Room: Museum of Fine Arts

The Kidding Around Yoga system utilizes the yoga poses or asanas creatively tucked into: partner yoga, games and activities, original music, stories and more.  The class is specifically designed for kids – families welcome.  Practicing yoga with everyone in the family, and especially children, creates a special bond. Join us...

Make & Take Saturdays

MFA Classroom (2nd Floor)

Create your own masterpiece inspired by works in the collection and special exhibitions. Supplies are included. Details for each program will be posted as soon as they are available. First and third Saturday of the month. FREE with Museum admission. No registration necessary. Recommended for ages five and older, but...

Gallery Talk: Selfie, Selfie, On the Wall

We all know what a selfie is...come and hear about how the 66 artists included in This is Not a Selfie: Photographic Self-Portraits from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection use photographs of themselves in different creative ways, exploring themes of identity, reflection, and performance. Led by MFA Curator of the...

Cocktails & Collections

Membership Garden: Museum of Fine Arts

Cocktails & Collections, held on the third Thursday of each month, 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 music, a customized docent tour, light bites, and art-inspired signature...

Zombie Thriller Rehearsals

Museum of Fine Arts - Conservatory

  Join the MFA staff and folks from Thrill St. Pete as we learn the fancy footwork featured in Michael Jackson's Zombie Thriller dance - and get ready for a performance on Oct. 24th! Rehearsals, led by Jesse Miller, take place every Thursday evening from 6-7:30 pm. Dancers admitted free...

Book Signing with Author Patsie McCandless

Museum of Fine Arts Store 3007 BEACH BLVD. S., Gulfport, FL

  Please join us for a book signing with author and artist Patsie McCandless; Becoming Jesse: Celebrating the Everyday Magic of Childhood. ~ A novel for anyone who loves a child.                  

TFO On the Go: Florida Orchestra Clarinet Trio

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

TFO on the Go: The MFA hosts a performance during the Florida Orchestra’s annual celebration of chamber music with free concerts throughout the area. TFO Clarinet Trio: Natalie Hoe on clarinet, Jonas Benson on viola, and Brent Douglas on piano who will perform a variety of classic selections.   Program...

Arts Alive! Free Museum Day

The Museum of Fine Arts is thrilled to participate in Free Museum Day and Arts Alive!  We will be open from 10a-5p, with last admission at 3p. We will not be requiring printouts of Free Museum Day tickets. Tips for your visit: -There will be no docent tours on Free...

SOLD OUT – Simmer and Sift: Il Ritorno

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

This event is currently sold out.  Back by popular demand...Simmer & Sift! Culinary masterpieces brought to life at the MFA, combining creative culinary skills with delicious demonstrations. In a small group setting, interact with the area's most popular chefs and taste their creations. Supporting the arts can be so delicious! From the...

Zombie Thriller Rehearsals

Museum of Fine Arts - Conservatory

  Join the MFA staff and folks from Thrill St. Pete as we learn the fancy footwork featured in Michael Jackson's Zombie Thriller dance - and get ready for a performance on Oct. 24th! Rehearsals, led by Jesse Miller, take place every Thursday evening from 6-7:30 pm. Dancers admitted free...

Stories, Poetry and Motion (A Story Days Performance)

Museum of Fine Arts - Conservatory

  The 5th annual Story Days festival returns with Stories, Poetry and Motion, featuring performances by poet Gloria Muňoz and dancers Kellie Harmon and Crystal DelGiudice. Helen Hansen French will premiere a new dance based upon Refuge, the powerful story of St. Pete resident Jasmina Kuljanac, as scripted by Lillian...

Behind The Scenes: Antioch Reclaimed

Sculpture Garden: Museum of Fine Arts

View the MFA’s “paintings in stone” in the Museum’s outdoor conservation lab through November 2018. The multi-phased project that began with the conservation and restoration of the mosaics will culminate in an exhibition, scheduled for 2020. The show will include other mosaics from the 1930s excavation, as well as complementary...

Zombie Thriller Rehearsals

Museum of Fine Arts - Conservatory

  Join the MFA staff and folks from Thrill St. Pete as we learn the fancy footwork featured in Michael Jackson's Zombie Thriller dance - and get ready for a performance on Oct. 24th! Rehearsals, led by Jesse Miller, take place every Thursday evening from 6-7:30 pm. Dancers admitted free...

Haider Ali, Jingle Truck Artist

Please join us in welcoming Pakistani artist Haider Ali, who will be live painting a car as part of the MFA's collaboration with the 2018 Shine Mural Festival and Carmada. Ali is best known for his work in the distinctive Pakistani “jingle truck” art style, a popular form of decoration...

Kidding Around Yoga

Bayview Room: Museum of Fine Arts

The Kidding Around Yoga system utilizes the yoga poses or asanas creatively tucked into: partner yoga, games and activities, original music, stories and more.  The class is specifically designed for kids – families welcome.  Practicing yoga with everyone in the family, and especially children, creates a special bond. Join us...

For Freedoms – Create Signs with the MFA

Celebrate one of our most closely held and important values:  Freedom. Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg is a safe space dedicated to the thoughtful exchange of ideas. Expression of freedom is the cornerstone of our democracy, and we encourage you to come out and create your own sign expressing...

Make & Take Saturdays

MFA Classroom (2nd Floor)

Create your own masterpiece inspired by works in the collection and special exhibitions. Supplies are included. Details for each program will be posted as soon as they are available. First and third Saturday of the month. FREE with Museum admission. No registration necessary. Recommended for ages five and older, but...

The Contemporaries Field Trip: The Lovelady Collection

Private Home (address emailed to registrants)

Please note: the date for this field trip has changed to Saturday, October, 6th.   We are thrilled to visit the home of collectors Jeff Lovelady of Grayspeed Cycles and Jennifer Petrini Lovelady, director of community and cultural affairs at Great Bay Distributors. At Great Bay, Lovelady spearheaded the effort...

Friends of Decorative Arts: Sugar Furniture

Museum of Fine Arts - Bayview Room

  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 $50 in addition to a minimum of a Dual Level...

Coffee Talk with Nan Colton: A Master Image-Maker

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

Connect with the arts through monthly performances that give voice and embodiment to the two-dimensional. The MFA’s ever popular performing artist-in-residence Nan Colton invites us to meet an artist or historical figure in a 30-minute presentation that includes a cup of coffee and delectable pastries. Today’s program is entitled A...

Creating a Legacy: The Art of Planning

Museum of Fine Arts - Marly Room

The Museum of Fine Arts has partnered with the Community Foundation of Tampa Bay to provide an interactive discussion with a panel of experts on the legal, financial, and philanthropic aspects of estate planning, especially timely with the changes in tax regulations this year. Estate planning can be an art,...

Behind The Scenes: Antioch Reclaimed

Sculpture Garden: Museum of Fine Arts

View the MFA’s “paintings in stone” in the Museum’s outdoor conservation lab through November 2018. The multi-phased project that began with the conservation and restoration of the mosaics will culminate in an exhibition, scheduled for 2020. The show will include other mosaics from the 1930s excavation, as well as complementary...

Zombie Thriller Rehearsals

Museum of Fine Arts - Conservatory

  Join the MFA staff and folks from Thrill St. Pete as we learn the fancy footwork featured in Michael Jackson's Zombie Thriller dance - and get ready for a performance on Oct. 24th! Rehearsals, led by Jesse Miller, take place every Thursday evening from 6-7:30 pm. Dancers admitted free...

Book Club at the MFA – Bluebeard

Museum of Fine Arts - Bayview Room

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 exhibtions. October 11th:  Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut Humor and irony collide in this novel by the...

Friends of Photography: Land of the Lost Dinosaur Photo Safari

  Join photographer Beth Reynolds on a photographic journey to Dinosaur World. This off-site field trip includes transportation, entrance to Dinosaur World, and instruction. Separate lunch at nearby restaurant will be pay-your-own-way.     Tickets are limited. Click Here For Tickets        

Contemporary Collecting Panel Discussion

Bayview Room: Museum of Fine Arts

The Contemporaries encourages collecting contemporary art, and supporting the artists within our communities and beyond. This is well evidenced by the personal collections of our committee members. Please join us for a panel discussion with the art collectors that make up The Contemporaries committee, and learn about what drives their...

Cocktails & Collections

Membership Garden: Museum of Fine Arts

Cocktails & Collections, held on the third Thursday of each month, is a series of themed events with connections to art. Each event focuses on one of the MFA galleries or special exhibitions, allowing us to experience the art in different ways. Each month features live music, a customized tour, light bites, art-inspired signature cocktails,...

Behind The Scenes: Antioch Reclaimed

Sculpture Garden: Museum of Fine Arts

  View the MFA’s “paintings in stone” in the Museum’s outdoor conservation lab through November 2018. The multi-phased project that began with the conservation and restoration of the mosaics will culminate in an exhibition, scheduled for 2020. The show will include other mosaics from the 1930s excavation, as well as...

Zombie Thriller Rehearsals

Museum of Fine Arts - Conservatory

  Join the MFA staff and folks from Thrill St. Pete as we learn the fancy footwork featured in Michael Jackson's Zombie Thriller dance - and get ready for a performance on Oct. 24th! Rehearsals, led by Jesse Miller, take place every Thursday evening from 6-7:30 pm. Dancers admitted free...

Kidding Around Yoga

Bayview Room: Museum of Fine Arts

The Kidding Around Yoga system utilizes the yoga poses or asanas creatively tucked into: partner yoga, games and activities, original music, stories and more.  The class is specifically designed for kids – families welcome.  Practicing yoga with everyone in the family, and especially children, creates a special bond. Join us...

Make & Take Saturdays

MFA Classroom (2nd Floor)

Create your own masterpiece inspired by works in the collection and special exhibitions. Supplies are included. Details for each program will be posted as soon as they are available. First and third Saturday of the month. FREE with Museum admission. No registration necessary. Recommended for ages five and older, but...

Zombie Thriller Dance

Museum of Fine Arts - Conservatory

Put on your best Zombie face and join the MFA for our first annual Zombie Thriller Dance. Ghouls and zombies of all ages and dancing abilities are invited to take over the front steps of the museum for a fiendishly good time strutting your stuff to the famous Michael Jackson...

Behind The Scenes: Antioch Reclaimed

Sculpture Garden: Museum of Fine Arts

View the MFA’s “paintings in stone” in the Museum’s outdoor conservation lab through November 2018. The multi-phased project that began with the conservation and restoration of the mosaics will culminate in an exhibition, scheduled for 2020. The show will include other mosaics from the 1930s excavation, as well as complementary...

DANCE: Air-Earth-Fire-Water

Presented by St. Petersburg Festival of the Arts - SPF18  Artists explore the elements through movement in this joyous work. Created by playwright Sheila Cowley, dancer/choreographer Helen Hansen French, co-choreographer Paula Kramer, actors Eugenie Bondurant and Ned Averill-Snell , viola player A.J. Vaughan and dancers Erin Cardinal, Brian Fidalgo and...

Conversation with a Curator: Really! This is (So) Not a Selfie

Museum of Fine Arts - Marly Room

The special exhibition This is Not a Selfie is curated from a single collection, the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). This is Not a Selfie curator Eve Schillo, Assistant Curator of the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department at LACMA, will join us on October 25th...

Exquisite Corpse 2018

Museum of Fine Arts, Conservatory & Marly Room

It’s the unveiling of an exhibit created and based on the old surreal parlor game "Exquisite Corpse".  The game has been played by many but, never like this version before. This will be the fourth year. Artists are sought out based on talent & invited to play. Once they accept...

Kidding Around Yoga

The Kidding Around Yoga system utilizes the yoga poses or asanas creatively tucked into: partner yoga, games and activities, original music, stories and more.  The class is specifically designed for kids – families welcome.  Practicing yoga with everyone in the family, and especially children, creates a special bond. Join us...

Make & Take Saturdays

MFA Classroom (2nd Floor)

Create your own masterpiece inspired by works in the collection and special exhibitions. Supplies are included. Details for each program will be posted as soon as they are available. First and third Saturday of the month. FREE with Museum admission. No registration necessary. Recommended for ages five and older, but...

FODA Event, Studio Visit: Prism Yarn

Offsite: Prism Yarn

  FODA is visiting fiber artist Laura Bryant’s studio, Prism Yarn. Part of Bryant’s process begins with the meticulous task of dyeing fibers, which she does in her own studio. Visitors can see these first stages, and view some of the final creations hung throughout the studio. This event is...

Book Club at the MFA – Self Portrait With Boy

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 exhibtions. November 8th:  Self Portrait With Boy, by Rachel Lyon We explore themes central to our This...

Cinema @ the MFA – Egó Sympósion: Film by Yasumasa Morimura

Egó Sympósion (2016) is the Florida debut of Morimura Yasumasa, the noted Japanese appropriation artist. Featured in our photography exhibition This Is Not a Selfie: Photographic Self-Portraits from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection, Yasumasa borrows images from historical artists (ranging from Rembrandt to Cindy Sherman), and inserts his own face and body into them;...

Friends of Decorative Arts: Highlights From the Asian Art Collection

Museum of Fine Arts - Bayview Room

  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 $50 in addition to a minimum of a Dual Level...

Coffee Talk with Nan Colton: Conceptualizing Cindy

Marly Room: Museum of Fine Arts

Connect with the arts through monthly performances that give voice and embodiment to the two-dimensional. The MFA’s ever popular performing artist-in-residence Nan Colton invites us to meet an artist or historical figure in a 30-minute presentation that includes a cup of coffee and delectable pastries. Today’s program is entitled Conceptualizing...

Collector’s Circle Fall Lecture: Ancient Art in Miniature: Masterworks of Ancient Jewelry

The Fall Collector's Circle Lecture features Max Bernheimer, International Head of Antiquities at Christie’s. Mr. Bernheimer organizes auctions in this specialized area of Greek, Roman, Etruscan, Egyptian and Near Eastern art and artifacts. He has participated in archaeological excavations at Caesarea in Israel, sponsored jointly by the University of Maryland and...

Smartly Dressed Fashion Show & Luncheon – 40th Anniversary

The Vinoy® Renaissance St. Petersburg Resort & Golf Club

  The Stuart Society's 40th annual Smartly Dressed Fashion Show and Luncheon is right around the corner. Sponsored by Dillard's, this event will take place in The Grand Ballroom of The Vinoy® Renaissance St. Petersburg Resort and Golf Club and will be a stunner. Doors open at 11:00 am during which...

Behind The Scenes: Antioch Reclaimed

Sculpture Garden: Museum of Fine Arts

  View the MFA’s “paintings in stone” in the Museum’s outdoor conservation lab through November 2018. The multi-phased project that began with the conservation and restoration of the mosaics will culminate in an exhibition, scheduled for 2020. The show will include other mosaics from the 1930s excavation, as well as...

Cocktails & Collections

Membership Garden: Museum of Fine Arts

In complement to Syd Solomon: Views from Above, artist and writer Mike Solomon will speak about his father’s artistic practice.  The discussion will begin in the Acheson Gallery at 6pm, in front of Syd Solomon’s Westcoastalscape (1968). A noted expert on artist’s estates, Mike Solomon is also a practicing artist who has...

Kidding Around Yoga

The Kidding Around Yoga system utilizes the yoga poses or asanas creatively tucked into: partner yoga, games and activities, original music, stories and more.  The class is specifically designed for kids – families welcome.  Practicing yoga with everyone in the family, and especially children, creates a special bond. Join us...

Make & Take Saturdays

MFA Classroom (2nd Floor)

Create your own masterpiece inspired by works in the collection and special exhibitions. Supplies are included. Details for each program will be posted as soon as they are available. First and third Saturday of the month. FREE with Museum admission. No registration necessary. Recommended for ages five and older, but...

The Contemporaries Field Trip: Craig Kaths at Tempus Projects

Offsite

The Contemporaries are hosting a private preview of New York-based artist Craig Kath's solo exhibition Like a Bucket of Herbs Before a Pressing at Tempus Projects, a leading artist-run, non-profit gallery space in Tampa. Kaths will explain his approach to his printmaking and sculptural practices, which explore the structures and...

Book Signing with Renato Rampolla: Dignity No Matter What, The Light Within

Museum of Fine Arts Store 3007 BEACH BLVD. S., Gulfport, FL

  Renato Rampolla, son of MFA collection artist Frank Rampolla will be signing copies of his new book Dignity No Matter What, The Light Within.  "For the past year I have been meeting and photographing homeless people in different cities across the United States.  Excerpts of our conversations and their...

Deck the Great Hall – Holiday Open House

Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg

The Museum of Fine Arts traditionally celebrates the season with a holiday tree placed in the MFA's Great Hall. This year we begin a new tradition: we have commissioned an artist to create an original, site-specific work of art for our museum’s holiday celebration. We will ring in the holidays...

Make & Take Saturdays

MFA Classroom (2nd Floor)

Create your own masterpiece inspired by works in the collection and special exhibitions. Supplies are included. Details for each program will be posted as soon as they are available. First and third Saturday of the month. FREE with Museum admission. No registration necessary. Recommended for ages five and older, but...