The SHINE® Mural Festival partnered with the St Petersburg College Institute for Strategic Policy Solutions to moderate and facilitate this discussion on Environmental Justice + Art as Advocacy as part of Sea Walls: St. Petersburg on November 5.
Panelists include:
Nneka Jones | Artist
Daniel Sebastian Padilla Ochoa | Ocean Conservancy
Tre’ Packard | PangeaSeed Foundation
Jenee Priebe | SHINE Mural Festival
Jabari Reed-Diop | Artist
Danni Washington | Big Blue & You
Moderated by Kimberly Jackson | SPC ISPS
We welcome the Glazer Vision Foundation and the #OneShareOnePair project to the SHINE Mural Festival – committed to providing Glasses For All Children and ending the silent vision crisis, where one in four children are affected by vision impairment and one in five can’t afford eye care.
The super-sized glasses at 1099 1st Avenue North are one way the Foundation supports vision through art. You can take a photo with the frames – or a selfie wearing any glasses – tag @glazervisionfdn and #OneShareOnePair and the Foundation will provide a free eye exam and free pair of prescription glasses to a local child in need.
A new planning effort launched to help St. Petersburg’s artists, arts organizations and cultural leaders navigate the impact of COVID-19 and build on the City’s existing arts economy.
The public-private planning process is being led by the St. Petersburg Arts Alliance with support from the Downtown Partnership and City of St. Petersburg. Karen Eber Davis Consulting has been hired to develop the strategy.
The goal of the Comprehensive Arts Strategy (CAS) is to develop tangible recommendations for building on St. Petersburg’s existing arts infrastructure to create economic growth for the entire community. Leaders plan to have recommendations ready for implementation in the spring of 2021.
The strategy process will quantify existing art assets; recommend ways for artists and arts organizations to collaborate more effectively in fundraising, marketing and audience development; determine quantifiable measurements for new public and private funding sources and underscore the relationship between our community’s arts sector and larger economic growth.
The CAS will synthesize existing local data, survey national best practices and make recommendations about the potential benefits of developing an art and cultural brand for St. Petersburg while nurturing and supporting local artists and strengthening the arts economy.
The CAS will produce a five-year roadmap to grow capacity in St. Petersburg’s art community and with quantifiable measures tied to improved economic development and quality of life for visitors and residents.
The Comprehensive Arts Strategy will be directed by a steering committee of community, business and arts leaders including Paul Carder, Liz Dimmitt, Bob Glaser, Stephanie Gularte, Alex Harris, Dr. Kimberly Jackson, Duncan McClellan, Chuck Prather, David Ramsey, Christopher Steinocher and Dr. Kanika Tomalin. Other individuals and organizations who represent points of intersection with arts, business, education and government will be invited to engage in the planning process.
John Collins of the Arts Alliance states, “It has been ten years since the City’s Advisory Committee worked on an arts and cultural plan. Since then we conducted an Arts Economic Impact Report in 2010 and again in 2015. Now we have arts districts and the SHINE Mural Festival. We have come so far as a City of the Arts – we’re excited to build upon what we’ve learned to create our future strategy.”
“Because of COVID, people are open to thinking about doing things in new ways and collaboration is more important now than ever,” said Jason Mathis, CEO of the Downtown Partnership. “The new St. Pete Pier, the opening of the new Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement along with the coming of The Factory St Pete and The Fairgrounds in the Warehouse Arts District brings us to a pivotal moment. We have an opportunity to recommit ourselves to support for art as a defining characteristic of our city. This strategy will quantify the strengths we already have and reimagine the future of art in St. Pete.”
Karen Eber Davis Consulting has been engaged to lead the process. Davis is well-versed in local area arts planning. She conducted the Pinellas County Regional Arts Dialogue Report & Community Plan and the Arts Council of Hillsborough County’s 2020 strategic plan. She is the author of 7 Nonprofit Funding Streams and Let’s Raise Nonprofit Millions Together.
The St. Petersburg Arts Alliance believes deeply in the power of creativity to bring community together. During these difficult times, we are searching for ways to generate income, share the arts online and keep creative businesses going.
We will host our first ever virtual silent auction benefit – the CURATE ST. PETE | Arts Fair, starting on December 6. We’re looking for donations of artworks, gift certificates, everything from sailing cruises, vacation rentals and classes, to performance events and arts experiences valued at least $150, for this fundraising auction.
Through November 14
Soft Water Studios
515 22nd St S
Thu-Fri 11-5
Free
Photographer Jim Swallow, who is creating portraits of MUSE award winners
St. Petersburg photographer Jim Swallow was awarded a 2020 Individual Artist Grant from the City of St. Petersburg Office of Cultural Affairs and the St. Pete Arts Alliance. The exhibit he created is currently on view at Soft Water Studios in the Warehouse Arts District. A closing ceremony with the artist will be held on Saturday, November 14 during Second Saturday ArtWalk.
Jim Swallow uses the lens and magic of stereoscopic 3D photography to allow you to meet 20 nationally and internationally known artists working in St. Petersburg, in their studios.
“It really is a wonderful exhibit – we want to encourage people to see it,” says John Collins, executive director of the SPAA. “I think it is one of the best shows the Arts Alliance has helped foster, just one of the best that even families can safely enjoy and actually experience an arts installation.”
Featured artists include Jim Swallow, Cheryl Anne Day Swallow, D YaeL Kelley, Rebecca Skelton, Demeree Barth, Carrie Jadus, Dee Perconti, Kayla Harbeitner, Charlie Parker, Josh Poll, Mark Aeling, Duncan McClellan, Kyu Yamamoto, Teresa Sullivan, Benjamin Mallett, David Bradford, Brian Ransom, Kevin Brady and Rachel Stewart. Their artwork is on display, as well as Jim Swallow’s view of their studio.
Jim’s body of work involves an age-old technique almost as old as photography. To create stereographs, Jim uses two cameras synced together. The cameras are placed the same distance apart as the human eye, to create a 3D image.
Stereography has been around since the 1850s and Jim wanted to give it a contemporary approach. He presents each portrait in an antique viewer, just as in the old days. His grant funds were used to build frames for these images.
After the images are printed they are viewed with antique stereographs, many of which were made in the 19th century. By bringing the stereoscope to your eyes you are blocking out all other elements around you, and having a virtual view into the reality of the artist’s studio.
