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Arts and culture lives here

This site is designed to increase your access to the arts by providing event calendars, class schedules, artist info, and more. All in one place. No matter who you are or what you believe, art is something everyone can agree on. It helps bring our communities together and presents a more coherent meaning to our world. By igniting the arts within us, the Arts Council is working to create a stronger, happier, and more prosperous region.

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Calendar & Events

Each year, thousands of local residents are brought together through events made possible with Arts Council funds. Find something cool in your area.
Art Lovers
June 26, 2024 - February 27, 2025
Gallery 221 HCC
Over the past four decades, HCC’s Permanent Art Collection has fostered strong connections between the college and local arts community. With a heavy emphasis on new acquisitions, this year’s show spotlights the work of 16 artists who have lived, worked or exhibited in the Tampa Bay region. As an ongoing mission to honor the artistic […]
Art Lovers
July 19, 2024 - November 23, 2024
USF Contemporary Art Museum
Skyway 2024: 12 Ways of Looking at a Landscape is USF Contemporary Art Museum’s contribution to Skyway 2024: A Contemporary Collaboration, a multi-venue exhibition that profiles the best new art in the Tampa Bay region. Other institutions participating in Skyway 2024 include The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, the Sarasota […]
Art Lovers
August 24, 2024 - October 26, 2024
Harbor Hall Gallery, USF St Pete
GENERATOR: USF Contemporary Art Museum presents Edison Peñafiel’s MARE MAGNVM (A Floridian Odyssey/Una Odisea en la Florida), an immersive panoramic video installation filling the Harbor Hall Gallery at USF St. Petersburg. MARE MAGNVM features a stylized, monochromatic sea populated by 14 boats, each with its own unique collection of characters caught in a perpetual loop. […]
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September 6, 2024 - September 10, 2024
The Straz Center
The Rocky Horror Show by Richard O’Brien Directed by David M. Jenkins, music direction by Jeremy Douglass Jul. 10 – Aug. 4, 2024 Jaeb Theater, Straz Center In 2014, Jobsite first took over the Jaeb Theater for a co-production of Return to the Forbidden Planet with the Straz Center. 10 summers later they take on the show […]
Art Lovers
September 7, 2024 - September 10, 2024
The Straz Center
The Rocky Horror Show by Richard O’Brien Directed by David M. Jenkins, music direction by Jeremy Douglass Jul. 10 – Aug. 4, 2024 Jaeb Theater, Straz Center In 2014, Jobsite first took over the Jaeb Theater for a co-production of Return to the Forbidden Planet with the Straz Center. 10 summers later they take on the show […]
Art Lovers
September 8, 2024 - September 10, 2024
The Straz Center
The Rocky Horror Show by Richard O’Brien Directed by David M. Jenkins, music direction by Jeremy Douglass Jul. 10 – Aug. 4, 2024 Jaeb Theater, Straz Center In 2014, Jobsite first took over the Jaeb Theater for a co-production of Return to the Forbidden Planet with the Straz Center. 10 summers later they take on the show […]
Art Lovers
September 12, 2024
The Straz Center
The Rocky Horror Show by Richard O’Brien Directed by David M. Jenkins, music direction by Jeremy Douglass Jul. 10 – Aug. 4, 2024 Jaeb Theater, Straz Center In 2014, Jobsite first took over the Jaeb Theater for a co-production of Return to the Forbidden Planet with the Straz Center. 10 summers later they take on the show […]
Art Lovers
September 13, 2024 - September 16, 2024
The Straz Center
The Rocky Horror Show by Richard O’Brien Directed by David M. Jenkins, music direction by Jeremy Douglass Jul. 10 – Aug. 4, 2024 Jaeb Theater, Straz Center In 2014, Jobsite first took over the Jaeb Theater for a co-production of Return to the Forbidden Planet with the Straz Center. 10 summers later they take on the show […]
Art Lovers
September 13, 2024 - October 1, 2024
August 1914: Taliesin, the extraordinary home of Frank Lloyd Wright, is burning. After receiving an urgent telephone call, the famed master builder rushes on board a train in Chicago bound for the Wisconsin countryside. To complicate matters, Wright is joined in the private coach by his lover’s former husband, Edwin Cheney. Both men are desperate […]
Art Lovers
September 14, 2024 - September 16, 2024
The Straz Center
The Rocky Horror Show by Richard O’Brien Directed by David M. Jenkins, music direction by Jeremy Douglass Jul. 10 – Aug. 4, 2024 Jaeb Theater, Straz Center In 2014, Jobsite first took over the Jaeb Theater for a co-production of Return to the Forbidden Planet with the Straz Center. 10 summers later they take on the show […]
Art Lovers
September 14, 2024 - October 2, 2024
August 1914: Taliesin, the extraordinary home of Frank Lloyd Wright, is burning. After receiving an urgent telephone call, the famed master builder rushes on board a train in Chicago bound for the Wisconsin countryside. To complicate matters, Wright is joined in the private coach by his lover’s former husband, Edwin Cheney. Both men are desperate […]
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Buy local art

We’ve brought the best, brightest, and most talented local artists together in one spot: right here! To add original artwork to your home while supporting your local arts community, simply visit our artist directory page. There you’ll find storefront links under several of our members. Think of it as a virtual art festival.

Classes and workshops

Learn to write poetry, brush up on your watercolor painting, or master the art of wood working. We host an amazing list of local classes and workshops where you can illuminate your life with amazing arts and culture.
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