TBBCA 2018 SOLD OUT Impact Awards will be held Thursday, October 18th. TBBCA signature event, held annually since the non-profit was founded in 1989, benefits TBBCA programs, including The Charlie Hounchell Art Stars Scholarships. This year’s honorees are: Stanton Storer, Patron of Culture & the Arts Impact Award, USF Graphicstudio, Innovation in Arts & Education Impact Award, and Mernet Larsen, Lifetime Artistic Achievement Impact Award.
TBBCA is grateful for the generosity and support of:
Title Sponsor Premier Eye Care
Thank you also to our Signature Sponsors: Lorna Taylor; Stephen Gay & Associates; Beaux Arts Group; Greenberg Traurig; Hieronymous Foundation; Raymond James Financial; Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick; Strategic Property Partners.
Patron Sponsors include: Allstate Insurance Company; Anthony & Partners; BNY Mellon Wealth Management; Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, LLP; Bruck Family Foundation; My Favorite Art Place; Phelps Dunbar; Stanton Storer Embrace the Arts Foundation; Tampa International Airport; Thrive Law; USF Muma College of Business; USF Foundation & USFSP; University of Tampa; Wells Fargo – Wells Fargo Private Bank; Yann & Susana Weymouth; Katharine Weymouth/Weymouth Family Charitable Funds.
Corporate table sponsors include: Bank OZK; Behar & Peteranecz; Community Foundation of Tampa Bay; David A. Straz Center for the Performing Arts; J. Crayton Pruitt Foundation; KDurdin Consulting; Old Tampa Bay Title, LLC; Osgood Associates; Oxford Exchange/Allison Casper Adams; Mary Pond & Ed Gunning & Bob Glaser/Smith & Associates Real Estate.
Also supporting the event are media sponsors Tampa Bay Magazine and Tampa Bay Times. Tampa Bay 100 sponsor is B2 Communications. Honorees presentations sponsor is ChappellRoberts under the creative direction of Glenn Horn. Program book design sponsor is Sally Dee/Playbook Public Relations.
To join TBBCA and national Americans for the Arts pARTnership Movement, go to www.tbbca.org/GetInvolved
Author: Susana Weymouth
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Americans for the Arts Survey Americans Speak out About the Arts 2018
Americans Believe the Arts Strengthen Communities Socially, Educationally, Economically
Thursday, September 27, 2018Americans for the Arts today released Americans Speak Out About the Arts in 2018, one of the largest national public opinion surveys of American perceptions and attitudes towards the arts and arts funding. The new research demonstrates that Americans continue to be highly engaged in the arts and believe more strongly than ever that the arts promote personal well-being, help us understand other cultures, are essential to a well-rounded education, and that government has an important role in funding the arts.
A national sample of 3,023 adults were polled online by Ipsos in May 2018 on topics such as the importance of arts education, support for government arts funding, personal engagement in the arts, and personal and community benefits that come from engaging in the arts. The last public opinion poll by Americans for the Arts was conducted in 2015.
Key findings from Americans Speak Out About the Arts in 2018 include:
Americans show overwhelming support for arts education.
91 percent believe the arts are part of a well-rounded education for K-12 students.
Nine in ten believe it is important for students to receive an education in the arts, including dance, media arts, music, theater, and visual arts. This remains true whether asked about elementary school (94 percent), middle school (94 percent), or high school (93 percent) education.
The arts give the nation’s communities identity and unity.
73 percent agree the arts help them understand other cultures better, an 11 percent increase compared to 2015.
72 percent believe the arts unify communities regardless of age, race, and ethnicity, up from 67 percent during the past two years. These quality-of-life and well-being benefits are not limited to the wealthy, educated, or a racial or ethnic group; they cut across all demographics.
Americans are highly engaged in the arts and experience them in unexpected places.
72 percent report attending an arts or cultural event during the previous year, such as the theater, museum, zoo, or a musical performance. Consistent with previous studies, higher attendance rates are found with higher education and income.
70 percent say they enjoyed the arts in a “non-traditional” venue, such as a performance in the park, exhibitions in a hospital or shopping mall, or an art installation in an airport.
The arts improve personal well-being and provide meaning to citizens’ lives.
69 percent of the population believe the arts “lift me up beyond everyday experiences”; 73 percent feel the arts give them “pure pleasure to experience and participate in”; and 81 percent say the arts are a “positive experience in a troubled world.”
Government funding for the arts is viewed favorably.
64 percent of Americans approve arts funding by the National Endowment for the Arts. Additionally, 60 percent of Americans approve of arts funding by local government; 58 percent by state government; and 54 percent by federal government.
The majority of Americans would approve of increasing federal government spending on nonprofit arts organizations from 45 cents to $1 per person (53 percent approve versus 22 percent who disapprove).
“We are better people with the arts in our lives. We are healthier, more creative, and actively engaged citizens who feel better about today and more optimistic about tomorrow,” said Robert L. Lynch, president and CEO of Americans for the Arts. “In a society struggling to find equity and social justice, the American public understands that, even in challenging times, the arts make our communities healthier, stronger, and more vibrant. The survey also makes clear that positive attitudes and opinions toward the arts have intensified in recent years when compared to results from 2015.”The last public opinion poll for Americans for the Arts was conducted by Ipsos in December 2015 and published in 2016.
Americans for the Arts is the leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts and arts education in America. With offices in Washington, D.C. and New York City, it has a record of more than 55 years of service. Americans for the Arts is dedicated to representing and serving local communities and creating opportunities for every American to participate in and appreciate all forms of the arts. Additional information is available at www.AmericansForTheArts.org.
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Hillsborough Community College’s Dale Mabry Campus Open Call to Artists
Hillsborough Community College’s Dale Mabry Campus Announces an open Call to Artists / Request for Qualifications (RFQ): ART ALLOCATION: $20,000 APPLICATION OPEN: August 27, 2018 APPLICATION DEADLINE: October 1, 2018
HCC Dale Mabry CampusHillsborough Community College’s Dale Mabry campus is seeking a mural for the Learning Resources Center building. Artist budget is $20,000 inclusive of fabrication, materials, installation, programming, etc. Three finalists will receive a stipend of $200 for a professional design proposal. Professional artists based in Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco, Polk, or Manatee County with experience working in public spaces are eligible. Please address questions to Amanda Poss at aposs@hccfl.edu.
For full application details, including project description, goals, qualifications, and how to apply, see the attached document visit www.hccfl.edu/gallery221 and select the “Grounds4Art@HCC” page.
HCC looks forward to receiving applications for this exciting project as they celebrate HCC’s 50th Anniversary in 2018-2019 -
CALL to current and former HCC alumni, students, staff and faculty
Hillsborough Community College is celebrating 50 years and announces a CALL to current and former HCC alumni, students, staff and faculty. Did you attend one of HCC visual and performing arts classes? Do you have a special talent that you would like to show off? Share your talents with the community to honor HCC Ybor City campus! HCC is looking for uniquely fun and entertaining performances by performing artists who have been inspired by HCC. All artistic disciplines are eligible (dance, theatre, film/video, music, performance-based arts and interdisciplinary arts.
Are you a former student who has gone on to perform on Broadway? Is your music ensemble filled with HCC alumni who perform locally? Have you become a director/producer since attending HCC? HCC is looking to reconnect with you and involve you in this showcase.
Apply here: https://goo.gl/forms/BQtiLVurE987OuAk2
Guidelines for Submissions – Performances should be:
1) Entertaining, fun and accessible for a very diverse audience.
2) No longer than 6 minutes in length.
3) Family friendly. No adult material.
4) Well-rehearsed and should require minimal technical support.
5) Available to perform on performance date and attend technical rehearsal listed below.
Performance date: Thursday, October 11th at 7:30 pm in the Mainstage Theatre with Technical rehearsal slots will be assigned for October 10th once program has been selected.
**There will be a run through of the entire showcase on October 10th beginning at 5:30 pm.
Submission/Application Deadline: August 31st at 11:59 PM
Applicants will be notified of selections by September 10th.
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Call to Artists Clearwater Downtown Murals
The city of Clearwater’s Community Redevelopment Agency, in partnership with the Clearwater Public Art and Design Board and the Downtown Development Board, is seeking artists to design and paint a series of murals on public and private properties throughout Downtown Clearwater.
Applications are due July 9. The selected artists will be notified by July 20. Murals must be completed by Jan. 31. The budget for each mural will range from $5,000 – $20,000 depending on the size and complexity of the artwork.
This is the first large scale mural project in Downtown Clearwater. It will help set the tone for future public art projects. The CRA seeks to establish a visual look and feel that distinguishes Downtown Clearwater from Clearwater Beach and surrounding communities.
City officials said they are seeking experienced mural artists with a strong point of view and the ability to create complex, engaging designs. Artists are welcome to use Clearwater’s history, signature events and physical environment as inspiration; however, the final designs must go beyond the simple visual representation of an object or event.
These sites have been confirmed to receive murals:
Garden Street Parking Garage, 28 N Garden Ave.;
the Flag Company (aka Vet’s Flags), 1360 Cleveland St.;
Creative Contractors (trail side), 620 Drew St.;
Commercial Building, 512 Cleveland St.; and
Clearwater Tower Parking Garage (the portion facing Station Square Park), 33 N Garden Ave.
The exact size of the mural and location on the building will be determined in collaboration with the CRA staff, the artist and the property owner.
For information about the project, go to myclearwaterparks.com. or contact Anne Lopez, the CRA’s executive assistant, at the Clearwater CommunityRedevelopment Agency atanne.lopez@myclearwater.com or (727) 562-4039.
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Tampa Bay Businesses for Culture & the Arts welcomes new pARTner Jerri Menaul/My Favorite Art Place
The business leader joins TBBCA –Americans for the Arts national pARTnership Movement
TAMPA, Fl. (June 14, 2018) – Tampa Bay Businesses for Culture & the Arts (“TBBCA”) is pleased to welcome Jerri Menaul and My Favorite Art Place as our newest TBBCA pARTner.
My Favorite Art Place is recognized as an industry-leading integrated commercial and residential arts environments designer, creator and supplier. Founders and Owners Jerri and her husband, abstract surrealist artist Scott Menaul, bring over three decades of leadership in the visual communications and arts business. My Favorite Art Place specializes in fine art printing and custom and specialty framing with high level of creativity using only top quality materials and craftsmanship. It is a community resource that produces a podcast, offers expert advice, and also exhibits and sells Scott’s award-winning work.
“Jerri Menaul is a passionate innovator who recognizes the importance of businesses pARTnering in support of arts and culture,” remarked TBBCA Executive Director Susana Weymouth. “My Favorite Art Place enjoys a great reputation for helping artists and organizations grow their business, as well as providing generous support for partners including Inspired Artist Studios @ PARC, Art for Autism, Safety Harbor Art & Music Center, TFO, St. Petersburg Opera Company, Dunedin Fine Art Center, FMoPA and others.”
About My Favorite Art Place
My Favorite Art Place is a full service art studio that offers high quality custom art solutions for residential and commercial environments, as well as individuals and artists., My Favorite Art Place is a multi-faceted art company, with the ability to create many types of artwork, from design/mockup to completion and installation, from a single canvas to a full commercial building and specializing in custom size, color, and printing, including canvas giclees, framing and abstracts, as well as photo restoration, collages, word art, and framing., My Favorite Art Place, together with its affiliates Canvas Zoo, Image Creations of Florida, Menaul Art , Menaul Art Printing, collaborate with and produce for Resellers, helping them grow their business by providing quality printing and framing services for artists, photographers, designers, and others. They work with the general public on a daily basis and offer wholesale pricing to artists, designers and resellers.” Menaul’s podcast: https://www.menaul-art.com/podcast/ and can also be heard on iTunes
Open 6 days a week M-F: 10-5PM Thursday: 10-8PM Saturday: 10-2PM and located at 1750 N. Hercules Ave Clearwater, FL. 33765 Shipping is available across the U.S and internationally. Phone: 844-Art-Place Studio: 727-726-7411 Fax: 727-499-7868 info@myfavoriteartplace.com http://www.MyFavoriteArtPlace.com -
Call to Artists MFA St. Pete Great Hall holiday display
The Museum of Fine Arts in downtown St. Petersburg invites artists from Pinellas, Hillsborough, Hernando, Manatee, Pasco and Sarasota counties to propose the design for an artistic holiday display in the Great Hall based on the theme of harmony. Artists are requested to consider the Great Hall in its entirety for an immersive design in keeping with the theme of harmony.
The Museum will provide a stipend of $10,000 to cover artist fee and fabrication costs.
Artists working in any medium are invited to apply as long as the design remains within the fabrication budget and all ornaments and decorative elements created hang safely on the Holiday Tree, which measures approximately 14 feet high by 6 feet across.
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TBBCA 2018 Charlie Hounchell Art Stars Scholarships Awards $15,000 to area high school students
May 30, 2018 – (Tampa, FL) Tampa Bay Businesses for Culture & the Arts, “TBBCA”, proudly announces that its Charlie Hounchell Art Stars Scholarships program recently awarded $15,000 in six talent and merit based fine and performing arts scholarships to five graduating seniors and one junior, all from public high schools in the Tampa Bay area, to help them pursue higher education in the arts. The scholarships were presented at the CHASS awards ceremony and talent showcase on Thursday, May 17. The recipients in each category were introduced by the judges, distinguished experts in their respective fields – Dawne Wisner Eubanks, Lisa Unger, Helen Hansen French, Eugenie Bondurant, Paul Wilborn, and Joanna Robotham. Over 150 guests, including TBBCA – Americans for the Arts national pARTnership Movement businesses and community leaders, attended the event and reception that were generously sponsored by Mrs. Carolyn Wilson and The Wilson Co. and hosted at The Vault, a premium catering and events venue in downtown Tampa.
The 2018 TBBCA Charlie Hounchell Art Stars Scholarships recipients are:• Taylor Aronson, Vocal Music (PCCA Gibbs High School Salutatorian Class 2018)
• Jaimar Alvarez, Literary Arts (Howard W. Blake High School Class of 2018)
• Samantha Frost, Dance (Howard W. Blake High School Class of 2018)
• Noa Friedman, Theatre (Valedictorian, Howard W. Blake High School Class of 2018)
• David Mason, Instrumental Music (PCCA Gibbs High School Class 2018)
• James Pursley, Visual Arts (Keystone Prep Class of 2019)The Art Stars Scholarships Program was founded by TBBCA Past President, the late Charlie Hounchell, and is chaired by Stephen Gay, TBBCA Board Director and Vice Chair. “While 2018 marks 5 years since Charlie’s sad and untimely passing, it also highlights 10 years of TBBCA awarding over 60 scholarships in 6 different fine and performing arts disciplines – helping students, the majority from public schools, defray tuition expenses at prestigious colleges, universities and conservatories across the nation,” Mr. Gay remarked as he presented the awards. “This valuable TBBCA program provides some of the Tampa Bay area’s most talented and deserving students with life-changing experiences, not only because of the critical financial assistance, but also because it connects them to judges who are renowned in their fields and can serve as mentors, and to a network of other young talented peer awardees.”
TBBCA Executive Director Susana Weymouth added in addressing the scholarship recipients directly, “Today we send a clear message to you our talented youth. You belong to a community of business and organizational leaders that believes in you and supports you as you approach your higher education empowered with confidence, continue to reach for excellence, reaffirm your pursuit of future careers in the arts, and strengthen the fabric of our society.”
About TBBCA
Tampa Bay Businesses for Culture & the Arts – TBBCA – is a 501(c) (3) founded in 1989, one of 11 national Business Committees for the Arts, part of the private sector network and national pARTnership Movement of Americans for the Arts. TBBCA’s mission is to unite Tampa Bay businesses to champion arts and culture for a prosperous community, based on the philosophy that ‘the arts are good for business and business is good for the arts’. TBBCA pARTnerships and programs make the community better and stronger by connecting the private sector in support of arts education, artists, and arts and cultural organizations and their programming and initiatives, throughout the greater Tampa Bay area. For more information about TBBCA or to donate to scholarships visit www.tbbca.org or email susanaweymouth@tbbca.org or call 813-221-2787. -
Call to Artists Visit Tampa Bay’s 2019 Official Visitor’s Guide.
Visit Tampa Bay and the Arts Council of Hillsborough County are calling all local artists to enter for a chance to have their art featured on the cover of Visit Tampa Bay’s 2019 Official Visitor’s Guide.
“Visit Tampa Bay prides itself on publishing a visitor’s guide that shows off the destination’s best and brightest talent every year,” says Visit Tampa Bay president and CEO, Santiago Corrada, “Giving a local artist a chance to be featured in our cover pays homage to the amazing talent we have right here in Hillsborough County.”
Published annually, the visitor’s guide promotes Tampa Bay as a vibrant tourism and convention destination and is distributed to 150,000 national and international media, tour operators and meeting planners throughout the year.
“The Arts Council is thrilled to collaborate with Visit Tampa Bay in this endeavor,” says Martine Meredith Collier, executive director of the Arts Council of Hillsborough County, “Arts and tourism are natural partners, and this contest provides an opportunity for those who know the community best—our residents—to highlight what makes Tampa Bay special to them.”
In addition to being featured on the cover of Visit Tampa Bay’s official visitor’s guide, the winning artist will win a cash prize of $1,000. All artists must reside in Hillsborough County and submissions must be received by July 31, 2018 at 11:59 p.m. PST on visittampabay.com/covercontest. Click here for contest terms and conditions.
MORE INFO: https://www.visittampabay.com/covercontest/rules/
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Tampa Bay Lightning 7th Annual Open Call to Artists
Tampa Bay Lightning is excited to announce the launch of their Seventh Annual Open Call to Artists exhibition at Amalie Arena and invite Lightning fans and members of the local arts community to submit pieces of original artwork to be hung for display in Amalie Arena during the 2018-2019 season. In the exhibit’s first six years, over 250 local pieces of art have been displayed for the Arena’s estimated 1.5 million annual visitors…this exhibition has not only brought tremendous awareness to the talent of our local emerging artists but it has also directly benefited the artists as all art is for sale, with proceeds directly going to the artist. The Lightning will be joined by representatives from the Tampa Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, the Ringling Museum of Art and the Dali Museum to help select the winning pieces. Artists are encouraged to visually celebrate Tampa Bay and its people so that Amalie Arena can exude the vibrancy and energy of the community. Please feel free to be creative and depict anything and everything that inspires you locally….and if you are able to weave in the love of hockey, even better! Artists of all ages welcome, and special category for artists under 18 years of age.
The unveiling and reception will be held in late September to early October 2018. Key dates:
• April 24, 2018 – Website open for submission
• September 7, 2018 – All submissions due
• September 24, 2018 – Artists will be notified on or before September 24th of acceptance into the Exhibition
Exhibit Guidelines
• Artists must live/work in the greater Tampa Bay area.
• Each artist may submit up to three (3) fully completed works of art.
• Artwork must be original. All mediums are welcome, excluding free-standing sculpture
• Size restrictions: All hanging artwork shall be no larger than 6’x6′ (including frame). Wall-hanging sculpture is limited to 7′ tall with varying widths accepted.
Acceptable Mediums Include:
• Painting
• Photography
• Drawing
• Wall-hanging sculpture
Award Opportunties
• Top three artists overall – $1,000 each
• Honorable Mention(4-10) – $250 each
• Top three artists under age 18 – $250 each
• Please contact Kristina Hjertkvist by email or call (813) 301-6832 with any questions.