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• Rentals for the Pruitt Arts Education Center

  • Start
    06 Mar 2022
  • End
    07 Jan 2023
  • Location
    Pruitt Arts Education Center

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• Intentional Tension Art Exhibition

  • Start
    01 Aug 2022
  • End
    25 Aug 2022
  • Location
    Tully Levine Gallery, ArtsXchange Campus 515 22nd St South, St Petersburg, FL 33712

  

  
  

  Strange Fruit (2005) McArthur Freeman

  Intentional Tension weighs in on gender and racial identity as well as popular culture. The tension between cultural nuances and physical identity are curated to illuminate the cause and effect from the psychological to the physical. This unique exhibition features seven established and up-and-coming Black artists.
  

  Vivia Barron

  McArthur Freeman

  Kayla Grayson

  Dallas Jackson

  Myiah Moody

  Ashley Rivers

  Hillary Van Dyke

  Presented by The Warehouse Arts District Association in the Tully Levine Gallery at the ArtsXchange on the Deuces Corridor

  515 22nd Street South, St Petersburg, 33712

  
  

  Important Dates

  
  

  August 11: Gallery Talk by Dr Dallas Jackson at the WADA Member Social, 6:00 - 8:00

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  August 13: Opening Reception, 5:00 - 9:00

  
  

  August 24: Panel Discussion with the Artists 6:30 - 8:00

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• Figure Drawing Lab

  • Start
    09 Aug 2022
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  • End
    13 Dec 2022
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  • Schedule
    19 sessions
  • Location
    515 22nd St S, St Petersburg, FL 33712

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  Figure Drawing Lab

  Every Tuesday, 6:30 - 9pm in the ArtsXChange Classroom

  All Skill Levels Welcome, Bring Your Own Supplies

  Ages 18+ | $10 Live Model Fee | Easels & Benches Provided

  
  

  Next Session: Tuesday, August 16, from 6:30 to 9pm

  "Each drawing one makes is a step forward."

  -- Vincent Van Gogh

  Drawing is one of the most fundamental forms of artmaking, with some of the earliest examples being the cave paintings in Lascaux, France from 30,000BCE. Drawing, since then, has evolved to become a powerful tool for artists to manifest their ideas into reality. WADA is committed to providing artists from all over Tampa Bay the resources necessary to sharpen this tool, hone their craft, and cultivate the artist community.

  The weekly Figure Drawing Lab is a drop-in opportunity that welcomes artists of all skill levels to practice with intention and work alongside professional artists. The live models rotate weekly to keep the exercises varied and challenge the artists to improve each week.

  Join our blossoming arts community!

  Sign up to be a WADA Member

  Please note that road work on 22nd Street South at 5th Avenue South will require you to detour if you are coming from the north. You can get to us using 24th Street South and Fairfield Avenue South and then turning left onto 22nd Street South. Please follow marked detour signs. We are open and accessible.

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• Intentional Tension Artist Panel

  • When
    24 Aug 2022
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    6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    515 22nd St S, St Petersburg, FL 33712

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  Intentional Tension Artist Panel

  Wednesday August 24, 6:30 - 8:00

  Tully Levine Gallery at the ArtsXchange on the Deuces Corridor

  Free to WADA Members | $20 for Non-Members

   
  

  About the Exhibition:

  Geveryl Robinson, MFA, Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, USF

  “It's an artist's duty to reflect the times in which we live.” Those words, spoken by the incomparable Nina Simone perfectly articulate the pieces showcased in the exhibit aptly titled “Intentional Tension.”  This exhibit is one of art, yes, but it is also one of truth. It is a reflection of our times past, and how our nation’s intentional refusal to acknowledge and learn from the past has continued throughout the centuries.

  Through caricatures, abstraction, sculpture, portraiture, and fantasy, “Intentional Tension” showcases how Black people view the world and how we are viewed. How our ancestors viewed our future and how tensions have hindered their vision. How women simultaneously view and control their bodies and how that same control is being stripped away.  How Black people’s peace is as a still river and how aversion to that peace causes others to rock the boat to the point of censorship because the art is a reflection of a past they’d soon like to forget and one they’d like others to ignore.

  However, what’s past is indeed prologue, and “Intentional Tension” was curated with the power, the realness, the history, and the truth of our inability to reconcile that past with our present while allowing the artists the freedom to indeed reflect the times in which Black people lived and still live today.

  Artists in the Exhibition
  McArthur Freeman, MFA,MA, Associate Professor, School of Fine Arts USF
  Kayla Grayson
  Myiah Moody
  Vivia Barron
  Ashley Rivers
  Hillary Van Dyke
  Dallas Cooper Jackson, Ed.D

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  The Visiting Artist Series is a WADA Member Benefit

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  Please note that road work on 22nd Street South at 5th Avenue South will require you to detour if you are coming from the north. You can get to us using 24th Street South and Fairfield Avenue South and then turning left onto 22nd Street South. Please follow marked detour signs. We are open and accessible.

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• ArtsXploration!

  • When
    03 Sep 2022
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    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
  • Location
    515 22nd St S, St Petersburg, FL 33712

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  ArtsXploration!

  A Weekly Community Arts Class on Saturdays

  All ages welcome at no cost, supplies included, located in the Education Center on the Deuces Corridor!

  
  

  First Class: Saturday, September 3, from 11am - 12:30pm

  "Art does not solve problems, but makes us aware of their existence," sculptor Magdalena Abakanowicz has said. Arts education, however, does solve problems. Years of research show that it's closely linked to almost everything that we as a nation say we want for our children and demand from our schools: academic achievement, social and emotional development, civic engagement, and equitable opportunity. Here at WADA on the Deuces Corridor, we believe everyone deserves access to arts education.

  ArtsXploration! is a weekly arts education opportunity that welcomes people of all ages to engage with a variety of art mediums and creative processes here at the ArtsXChange.

  

  WADA is proud to partner with Arts4All Florida, a non-profit organization that champions arts education and cultural experiences for and by people with disabilities, with a vision to create a world in which the arts are universally accessible. The ArtsXploration! instructors are guest teaching artists from Arts4All Florida.

  Join our blossoming arts community!

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  Please note that road work on 22nd Street South at 5th Avenue South will require you to detour if you are coming from the north. You can get to us using 24th Street South and Fairfield Avenue South and then turning left onto 22nd Street South. Please follow marked detour signs. We are open and accessible.

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• ArtWalk

  • When
    10 Sep 2022
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    5:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    515 22nd St S, St Petersburg FL 33712

  ArtWalk at WADA

  
  

  At the Warehouse Arts District Association, the ArtsXchange campus on the Deuces Corridor is open every Second Saturday and ready for your visit from 5:00 to 9:00 pm

  ENGAGE with 28 artists in their studios

  VIEW our curated gallery exhibitions

  SHOP our Member Marketplace and Art Store 

  PARTICIPATE in art and performance demonstrations

  We have live music, a cash bar and a food truck.  Whether you are a seasoned collector or looking to acquire your first piece of art, we invite you to take it from the Warehouse to your house.

  This page will be updated with more information closer to Second Saturday. Check back for more details. 

                                                                   
  

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• ArtWalk

  • When
    08 Oct 2022
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    5:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    515 22nd St S, St Petersburg FL 33712

  ArtWalk at WADA

  
  

  At the Warehouse Arts District Association, the ArtsXchange campus on the Deuces Corridor is open every Second Saturday and ready for your visit from 5:00 to 9:00 pm

  ENGAGE with 28 artists in their studios

  VIEW our curated gallery exhibitions

  SHOP our Member Marketplace and Art Store 

  PARTICIPATE in art and performance demonstrations

  We have live music, a cash bar and a food truck.  Whether you are a seasoned collector or looking to acquire your first piece of art, we invite you to take it from the Warehouse to your house.

  This page will be updated with more information closer to Second Saturday. Check back for more details. 

                                                                   
  

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• Classy Glass in Mosaics

  • Start
    15 Oct 2022
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  • End
    10 Dec 2022
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  • Schedule
    8 sessions
  • Location
    515 22nd St S, St Petersburg, FL 33712

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  Classy Glass in Mosaics

  An Eight Week Program about the Art of Classical Mosaics

  
  

  Saturdays, from 9:30am to 12pm

  October 15 to December 10, 2022

  Ages 18+ | Supplies Included

  $179 for WADA Members | $199 for Non-Members

  Mosaic making is perhaps the oldest form of art having been practiced for 5000 years. Learn the basis of getting started making mosaics – the tiles (tesserae), the adhesives and the laying of the tiles. It has changed radically through the millennia and the evolution continues. 

  Using a combination of lecture/slideshow, drawing, examples, and hands-on practice using stained glass, students will not only create their own mosaic pieces, but more importantly, gain a strong understanding of mosaics as an art form and the fascinating history behind it.

  

  
  

  

  About the Artist
  Teresa Sullivan began making mosaics more than 20 years ago after a pivotal trip to Tunisia in 1997.  There she walked among the ruins of the Roman Empire and glimpsed the possibilities of this most ancient art form. So began her journey- learning this 5,000 year-old skill.  She studies with teachers throughout Italy, Mexico and the United States.

  Website: https://sullivanmosaics.com/

  
  

  Join our blossoming arts community!

  Sign up to be a WADA Member

  Please note that road work on 22nd Street South at 5th Avenue South will require you to detour if you are coming from the north. You can get to us using 24th Street South and Fairfield Avenue South and then turning left onto 22nd Street South. Please follow marked detour signs. We are open and accessible.

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• Jaap Blonk on the EMIT Series

  • When
    16 Oct 2022
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    3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    Warehouse Arts District Association, 515 22nd Street South, Tully Levine Gallery at ArtsXchange, St Petersburg FL 33712

  Jaap Blonk on the EMIT Series

  at the Warehouse Arts District Association

  

  Dutch vocal artist Jaap Blonk performs Kurt Schwitters' groundbreaking sound poem Ursonate and is joined by skilled improvisers from EMIT.

  EMIT and the Warehouse Arts District Association present Dutch vocal artist Jaap Blonk performing one of the key works of the Dada movement, a poem existing of nothing but (mostly) meaningless syllables: the Ursonate by Kurt Schwitters, a masterpiece, written between 1923 and 1932. Jaap is joined by improvisers Jim Stewart (drums), Tom Kersey (cello) and David Manson (trombone) in a freeform exploration of sound. Renowned Dutch vocalist and sound poet Jaap Blonk is unique for his powerful stage presence and almost childlike freedom in improvisation, combined with a keen grasp of structure.

  “Blonk’s avant-garde performances channel the provocatively pioneering nonsense of Dadaism. His work is tremendously complex, but his brilliance makes it easy to think the opposite.” (San Francisco Weekly)

  One Performance 

  Sunday, October 16

  3:00 to 5:00

  in the Tully Levine gallery at the ArtsXchange on the Deuces Corridor

  Tickets $15.00

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• ArtWalk

  • When
    12 Nov 2022
  •  
    5:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    515 22nd St S, St Petersburg FL 33712

  ArtWalk at WADA

  
  

  At the Warehouse Arts District Association, the ArtsXchange campus on the Deuces Corridor is open every Second Saturday and ready for your visit from 5:00 to 9:00 pm

  ENGAGE with 28 artists in their studios

  VIEW our curated gallery exhibitions

  SHOP our Member Marketplace and Art Store 

  PARTICIPATE in art and performance demonstrations

  We have live music, a cash bar and a food truck.  Whether you are a seasoned collector or looking to acquire your first piece of art, we invite you to take it from the Warehouse to your house.

  This page will be updated with more information closer to Second Saturday. Check back for more details. 

                                                                   
  

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• ArtWalk

  • When
    10 Dec 2022
  •  
    5:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    515 22nd St S, St Petersburg FL 33712

  ArtWalk at WADA

  
  

  At the Warehouse Arts District Association, the ArtsXchange campus on the Deuces Corridor is open every Second Saturday and ready for your visit from 5:00 to 9:00 pm

  ENGAGE with 28 artists in their studios

  VIEW our curated gallery exhibitions

  SHOP our Member Marketplace and Art Store 

  PARTICIPATE in art and performance demonstrations

  We have live music, a cash bar and a food truck.  Whether you are a seasoned collector or looking to acquire your first piece of art, we invite you to take it from the Warehouse to your house.

  This page will be updated with more information closer to Second Saturday. Check back for more details. 

                                                                   
  

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