Ybor City's Kress Contemporary is Tampa's version of an artitst colony, with third-floor studios and second-floor gallery space

The new pulse of Ybor: Creativity at Kress Contemporary

Ybor City's Kress Contemporary is Tampa's answer to an artist colony, where photo exhibits capture Florida's hidden swamplands in the ground-floor gallery, while sculptors weave watercolor paper into baskets in third-floor studios.

Masthead Gallery: New Tampa Performing Arts Center Annual Arts Festival

A photo gallery from the New Tampa Performing Arts Center's Annual Arts Festival, featuring the New Tampa Players and the festival debut of the St. Petersburg Opera in a closing performance featuring the Tampa City Ballet.

Walk Bike Tampa's third annual World Car-Free Day celebration is Saturday, September 20th.
World Car-Free Day Tampa returns Saturday

Walk Bike Tampa's World Car-Free Day returns Saturday, September 20th, with more community partners, more locations, and its largest year yet. 

USF College of Public Health associate professor Benjamin Jacob has developed a smartphone app that quickly locates and identifies mosquito breeding habitats so they can be targeted, treated, and destroyed.
USF prof’s app targets mosquito habitat, fights tropical diseases

USF College of Public Health associate professor Benjamin Jacob has developed a potential game-changer in the fight against tropical diseases - a smartphone app that quickly locates and identifies mosquito breeding habitats so they can be targeted, treated, and destroyed.

The Museum of Motherhood in St. Pete's Warehouse Arts District expanded its health, wellness, and education initiative with support from a Community Foundation Tampa Bay competitive grant award
Community Foundation Tampa Bay competitive grants support nonprofits and their mission

Community Foundation Tampa Bay's annual competitive grant program supports nonprofits working to improve the quality of life in communities across the region.

With funding from the Children’s Board of Hillsborough County, the Corporation to Develop Communities of Tampa's Wealth Builders program offers parents living in poverty training and guidance to get better-paying jobs.
Wealth Builders offers route from poverty to prosperity

With funding from the Children’s Board of Hillsborough County, the Corporation to Develop Communities of Tampa's Wealth Builders program offers parents living in poverty training and guidance to get better-paying jobs.

The Redefining Refuge team, with founder and Executive Director Natasha Nascimento in the center, during Operation Dragon Eye, a two-week missing child operation across Tampa Bay considered the most successful child recovery operation is U.S. history
Redefining Refuge: Natasha Nascimento’s mission of hope for exploited children

Launched in 2010, Tampa Bay nonprofit Redefining Refuge has a vital, heart-wrenching role in providing care, support, and advocacy for children and youth recovered from exploitation and trafficking.

Artist Anthony Freese's street mural in the Carver City/Lincoln Gardens neighborhood, shown here in 2020, was going to be refurbished by the Westshore Alliance. Instead, it's been removed by the state.
Masthead gallery: Tampa Bay street murals gone by state mandate

A gallery of some street murals in Tampa and St. Pete that were removed under Gov. Ron DeSantis's order targeting street art.

Pinellas County Commission Chair Brian Scott proposes the county stop funding its local arts agency, Creative Pinellas, in the budget year starting October 1.
County Commission chair proposes to stop funding Creative Pinellas

Pinellas County Commission Chair Brian Scott proposes the county stop funding its local arts agency, Creative Pinellas, in the budget year starting October 1.

The Tampa City Ballet, shown here during a March 2025 performance of "Don Quixote" at the New Tampa Performing Arts Center, is part of the center's annual arts festival
September arts: New Tampa Performing Arts Center Annual Arts Festival returns, much more

September's Tampa Bay arts scene has the New Tampa Performing Arts Center's annual festival, a St. Pete Warehouse Arts District Association exhibition reflecting on the dismantling of USAID, Powerstories' presentation of "Ada and the Engine," and much more.

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