Jenna Felder

Coming soon!

Eve Epstein-Ortiz

Eve Epstein-Ortiz is the Director of Legal for Certn, one of the fastest growing background check companies in the world. She has dedicated her career to labor and employment law and the changing workforce. Eve is the former CEO and Co-Founder of SoleVenture, a back-office platform for freelancers. She began her practice in Washington, DC as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Labor. Later on, she served as an Assistant Counsel for the National Treasury Employees Union – the second largest federal employees union in the country. She returned home to St. Pete in 2015 to create and manage St. Petersburg’s Wage Theft Recovery Program.

Eve is an avid runner, active mentor at the St. Pete Free Clinic’s Women’s Residence, and Friends of Strays board member. She graduated cum laude from Smith College and received her J.D. from UC Davis, School of Law. She is licensed to practice law in Maryland, Washington, DC, and Florida, and she holds a GIAC certification in Law of Data Security & Investigations.

Stephanie Gularte

Stephanie Gularte is an experienced arts leader, a small business owner, and a certified executive leadership coach. She has a track record of successfully integrating entrepreneurial business leadership with creative expertise and wellness practices. Through more than twenty years of executive arts leadership experience with organizations throughout the United States, Stephanie has learned to develop cultures of strategic effectiveness and passionate engagement among board members, directors, staff, and community stakeholders. Over time, her leadership and strategic planning expertise became integrated into her passion for wellness and her research and continued studies in topics including workplace wellbeing, health promotion, mindset and energy management. She provides workplace wellness and leadership consulting to businesses and individual and team coaching to leaders and teams. She presents keynotes and workshops on leadership wellbeing, workplace engagement and resilience, staff engagement, multi-generational team collaboration and other topics that promote individual and organizational wellbeing, Stephanie is a CEO Circle facilitator and a trainer through the Nonprofit Leadership Center of Tampa Bay where she leads workshops and consults on a range of topics.   Stephanie also volunteers her time as a coach for graduating MBA students through the University of Tampa, helping young professionals identify their goals, clarify their paths and energize their plans forward.  Stephanie is committed to supporting the development of vibrant, diverse and inclusive communities and has partnered with other leaders on civic planning projects to enhance cultural vitality in cities on the west and east coasts.

Stephanie holds a Master of Fine Arts in Directing,  and holds certifications in leadership coaching and health coaching.  She is also a certified Energy Leadership Master Practitioner through the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching.  As the Founder and CEO of The Energy Advantage, LLC, Stephanie works with leaders and businesses to integrate creativity, vitality and strategic planning to build powerful impact and wellbeing.  

Julia Howard

Coming Soon!

Terry Marks

Terry Marks grew up in NYC, with a deep and abiding love for visual and performing arts. Her first career was as an educator, she then worked on Wall Street with Fortune 500 companies, for the largest minority and woman-owned brokerage. Terry also was a publisher of a magazine for children, as well as owning her own 17-year consulting practice, when she moved to Los Angeles, serving organizations with budgets from $2 million to over $250 million.

During her time in Los Angeles, she taught at the Center for Nonprofit Management for 10 years and at the University of Southern California, working to grow missions that included the arts, health, literacy, homelessness, seniors, the environment, and serving families affected by developmental disabilities, with a special focus on autism. She has a background in marketing and communications and has been a speaker at national conferences, as well as a former CEO of a national nonprofit.

Within the world of art and culture, Terry worked with the Santa Monica Museum of Art, known now as the Institute of Contemporary Art, the Pacific Symphony, Celebration Theater, Los Angeles Youth Orchestra and traveled with one of her clients, a ballet company in a cultural exchange to China.

Matthew McGee

Matthew McGee is an award-winning actor, arts administrator, writer, drag performer and cabaret artist that has made Tampa Bay home for the past 22 years. He has appeared on both sides of the bay with freeFall Theatre, Stageworks and  American Stage. McGee has also made frequent appearances with Asolo Rep in Sarasota, the Hippodrome in Gainesville and with Mountain Theatre Company in Highlands, NC. From 2012 to 2020, McGee was a cast member at Walt Disney World. Film/tv credits include Amazon Prime's Life's Rewards, Waiting on Mary, Miss Conception, Small Group and Scoot. Awards include: 2022 Muse Award (Performing Arts). Creative Loafing's Best of the Bay (2022 Best Actor and 4 time Best Local Drag Performer). Watermark Wave Award (3 time Best Stage Performer) and Sarasota Out Awards (2021 Best Actor), Theatre Tampa Bay Award (4 time recipient).

McGee has also worked in Outreach and Marketing for freeFall Theatre Company since 2012 where he oversees all marketing initiatives, branding, promotional copy, communications and social media. His writing work includes The Scott & Patti Show. The Night Before and Nightsweat (co-written with Natalie Symons) premiering at freeFall in the fall of 2023. In addition to his theatre work, McGee is a sought after presenter and has appeared as guest host on Daytime NBC and Tampa Bay's Morning Blend.

Pyper Inc: Kelly Pyper & Lindsay Petty

Kelly Pyper’s agency career spans three decades with multi-discipline experience in strategy, media, and agency management. She began her career in NYC and Philadelphia before relocating to St. Pete. Lindsay Petty leads the account management and client strategy team at the agency. She has been with Pyper, Inc. for 7 years, after working with local in-house marketing departments including the Tampa Bay Rays and University of South Florida. Her career began in the DC area. Kelly and Lindsay will talk about how to use marketing & communications tools to connect with the community, extend their brand, build success, and more!

Erica Sutherlin

Filmmaker and Theatrical Director, Erica Sutherlin, holds a Master of Fine Arts in Film and Television Production from University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts. Ms. Sutherlin made her directorial debut with the Lifetime Movie network’s #1 Christmas movie, Kirk Franklin’s A Gospel Christmas. This is her second feature following Stratosphere, in which, she directed and co-wrote. Before her appointment as director, Ms. Sutherlin was selected for the Lifetime Network’s Director Shadow program, held a Fellowship with the Blackhouse Foundation Sundance Fellows program and was a recipient of Facebook’s SEEN initiative for black filmmakers. Currently, Ms. Sutherlin is a recipient of the Creative Pinellas Individual Artist Recovery Grant for film and is a Fellow for the Advancing Racial Equity on Non-Profit Boards class of 2022.

As a writer, currently, Ms. Sutherlin is writing narrative features with Village Roadshow and the UK based production company, iGeneration Studios. She was a writer for the newly released and multiple award-winning film, Voodoo Macbeth, which was produced through Warner Brothers and University of Southern California. As a USC Showrunner, she developed, wrote, and produced the sitcom, Unschooled, with a wonderful team of writers. Ms. Sutherlin concluded her time at USC in the writer’s room, developing, writing, and producing the short form limited dramatic series, SUGAR LAND.

After receiving her Bachelor of Art degree in Theater Performance from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Ms. Sutherlin began theatrically directing. For the past twenty years, she has directed numerous plays and musicals. Currently, she began her directing process for Ragtime, the musical. Recently, Ms. Sutherlin received stellar reviews for her productions of Pass Over by Antoinette Nwandu, Dutchman by LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka and the musical, The Color Purple by Marsha Norman.

As a poet and essayist, Ms. Sutherlin has published works in Building Womanist Coalitions: Writing and Teaching in the Spirit of Love and Hooked on the Art of Love: bell hooks and My Calling for Soul-Work, works by Dr. Gary Lemons, professor of English at University of South Florida.

Amongst her talents as a writer-director, Ms. Sutherlin is an equity actress and arts educator who has performed and taught nationally and internationally.

Other notable awards and citations included: the Shriram Family Fellowship, Jean & Ruth Negulesco Endowment Fellowship, the Director’s Citation and the NSHSS Nobel Educator of Distinction Award. Her theatre company, The Space, was awarded Tampa Bay’s Theatre on the Rise. Ms. Sutherlin has been featured in numerous newspapers, magazine, radio shows and digital media source platforms for her performances, writing and directing accolades.

Jim Woodfield

Aside from being a professional artist, gallerist, and art collector; Jim Woodfield has more than 40 years of experience in labor relations, human resources, and payroll and benefits administration. He has expertise in contract language, corporate budgets, arbitration and mediation; as well as art curation and collecting. 

After retiring from the corporate world at the end of 2010, Jim and his husband Clay moved to St. Petersburg where Jim began to concentrate more fully on his art. In 2015 he opened Woodfield Fine Art Gallery with a commitment to represent only Tampa Bay area artists. He has held true to that commitment.

Jim has served on the board of directors for various local organizations, and is currently the vice chair of the St. Petersburg Arts Alliance. This will be the third Arts Business Academy for which he has been an instructor.

Registration for the Arts Business Academy 2023

The St. Pete Arts Alliance is delighted to produce the St. Petersburg Studio, Gallery, Museum and Performing Arts Guide!  Over 12,000 guides were distributed from June 2022 to the present all over St. Petersburg and Pinellas County, at hotels, our visitor center, the beaches and many events such as MUSE, Florida CraftArt Festival and Mainsail.  We know that this guide is extremely beneficial informing visitors and residents alike about our great City of the Arts.  The annual Arts Guide provides excellent exposure for your arts business, building your brand and also supporting the St. Petersburg Arts Alliance, the umbrella organization that advocates for all the arts in our city.

The St. Petersburg Arts Alliance will be updating this guide for 2023-2024 over the next couple of weeks.  Here are your options to be included in the guide.

• If you are not a member (or need to renew) and have a brick and mortar art venue or are a business that supports the arts AND are located in the City of St. Pete, check out our member benefits and enroll then return to this page. Please review last year’s guide then fill out the form below.   
• If you are a current SPAA member with a brick and mortar art venue or are a business that supports the arts AND are located in the City of St. Pete, you receive a free listing in the guide! Please review last year’s guide then fill out the form below.  

Choose from 2 Forms Below

Use the first form if you are NEW to the Guide, or would like to UPDATE your listing from last year.

Use the second form if you were in last year's guide and would like NO CHANGES made to your listing.

And don't forget to look at PLACING AN AD in the guide!  Each form has the option.

NEW or UPDATED LISTING

If you are new to the Arts Guide, or would like to make changes to your listing, please use this form.

SAME LISTING

If you were in the Arts Guide last year and would like to keep the EXACT SAME listing, choose this form.

Payment

• To pay for your ad online: Go to our donation page on our website, input your amount, choose other and comment in the box that payment is for the 2023 Guide ad.  
• To pay by check: Mail to - St. Pete Arts Alliance, Attention Tracy.  100 2nd Avenue N. Ste. 150, St. Pete, FL 33701
• Email [email protected] if you require an invoice.

Everyone will be listed alphabetically with a separate section for Performing Arts and Museums and one city-wide map with everyone included. There will also be a special section that lists “Businesses That Support the Arts” which will not include an image.

Deadline: Rolling

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Art-Wrapped Kahwa Coffee Canisters

The Art Wrapped Coffee Canister Project is a collaboration between the St. Petersburg Arts Alliance and Kahwa Coffee. Net proceeds of the sale of the canisters benefit the St. Petersburg Arts Endowment at the Community Foundation of Tampa Bay! 100% of the net proceeds will be helping artists and art organizations! 

These retro canisters are extraordinary since they will all be wrapped with beautiful and unique designs by local artists. SPAA and Kahwa Coffee will be releasing new canisters with every season! Cans are filled with Kahwa signature blend Sirocco - whole or ground beans, which is a medium-dark blend and has notes of dark cherry and honey.  

You can support the St. Pete Arts Endowment by purchasing these limited edition canisters online and at any of the Kahwa stores in our area.  Limited edition art wrapped coffee canisters make great gifts for employees, friends and family and at $24.99 each, how can you resist?!!! Customers can bring an empty can back to any café and refill it with any coffee for $10.  

PURCHASE AN ART WRAPPED COFFEE CANISTER AND SUPPORT THE ARTS TODAY!

“We are thrilled to be partnering with SPAA and look forward to the future collaborations with artists in community. We are fervent supporters of the arts in St. Petersburg.”  ~ Sarah Perrier, co-founder of Kahwa Coffee.

September 2023 – Carrie Jadus

A lifelong Tampa Bay area native, Carrie Jadus is a versatile and accomplished artist who works primarily in oils. Best known for her figural and landscape paintings that range between realism and impressionism, Jadus is also recognized for her local murals “Awakening Bodhisattva” next to St. Pete’s Dog Bar, and “Last Call” at the Grand Central Brewhouse, among others. In recent years Jadus has also expanded into designing and collaborating on a number of large-scale sculptural works. She maintains a studio at Soft Water Gallery in the Warehouse Arts District, St. Petersburg.  Find out more about Carrie.

“I think this is what a can of sunshine looks like.” ~Carrie Jadus

June 2023 – Frederick “Rootman” Woods

Frederick “Rootman” Woods is a Florida native who grew up in the small North Florida town of Hampton, is the third artist on the Kahwa Coffee Art Wrapped Canister.  From an early age he loved to draw and taught himself by studying the technique of the Old Masters’ paintings.  Over time, his own unique approach to art emerged, one that combines many different styles with a modern twist.

“This is one of my relationship pieces. One day you decide that the past does not serve you anymore. The frayed rope around the heart represents how long you've been holding onto the pain until you decide to let it go. As you free yourself, you recreate yourself from a new space in your life. You are now a new person. The window is your soul, and the ladder represents the person who wants to know you. Sometimes your window opens to new beginnings; other times, not so much. When you eventually decide to let someone in, they can see the true you. The balloon represents your higher self, where souls connect and soar on a much higher level,” states Fred, about his canister design.

February 2023 – Glenyse Thompson

Glenyse Thompson is the second artist on the Kahwa Coffee Art Wrapped Coffee Canister!  Glenyse creates contemporary art for collectors, art lover's, interior designers and commercial applications. Inspired by people and conversations, her work combines a vibrant use of colors and textures, conveying the exuberant connections we have with each other and our environments.

November 2023 – Chad Mize

Chad Mize, a St. Pete favorite was the first artist selected for the Kahwa Coffee Art Wrapped Canister. Chad Mize is a multimedia artist, designer and muralist residing in St. Petersburg, Florida. With a love for past and contemporary culture, he takes a humorous, tongue-in-cheek approach to his designs, which include playful doodles, colorful patterns, political art and graphics with text. Mize’s work is held in numerous private and corporate collections nationally and internationally.

PURCHASE AN ART WRAPPED COFFEE CANISTER AND SUPPORT THE ARTS TODAY!