Creativity unleashed

By LENNIE BENNETT
Published July 21, 2005

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Your pet disappears. You want closure. What do you do? If you're playwright and author Bill Leavengood, you write about it.

Cat Moon Do is a children's book with illustrations by Michelle Feulner-Castro about a missing cat and his feline pals who set out to find him. Feulner-Castro's charming paintings for it, including one shown above, will be on display at the Arts Center, 719 Central Ave., St. Petersburg, beginning Friday through Aug. 21. Unlike most real-life tales of lost pets, including Leavengood's, this one ends happily.

Leavengood will be at the Arts Center at 11 a.m. Aug. 3 for a reading of Cat Moon Do.

Also opening at the Arts Center, "Marks and Metaphor: 2005 Members' Exhibition," "Rose Marie Prins: Enigmas" and "Rebecca Skelton: Rondo." (727) 822-7872.

- LENNIE BENNETT, Times art critic