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Tampa museums, galleries offer variety in hop
By BRANDY STARK
© St. Petersburg Times, published November 23, 2000
Jack Savitsky, Train in Coal Town, from Smithsonian American Art Museum, at Tampa Museum of Art.
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Burn off those Thanksgiving day calories via the Tampa Gallery Association's solution: this year's annual Thanksgiving weekend gallery hop.
The event takes place Saturday from 3 to 9 p.m. and includes 17 galleries and museums. A variety of arts will be offered in a variety of mediums.
If you prefer not to drive, HARTline will provide yellow trolley buses. Two routes begin at the Tampa Museum of Art and cover all the venues.
Suggested parking is at the Curtis-Hixon Parking Garage on the corner of Ashley Drive and Twiggs Street. Trolleys will operate every 20 minutes throughout the day and are free.
Called "The Art of Giving," the hop offers participants the option of dropping off donations of cash or canned foods at each stop, to support the Divine Providence Food Bank.
The hop is free. Most galleries will offer light refreshments, and some will have live music. Artists will be on hand at some locations.
The venues:
Joseph Sawchuk’s Moon Dance is at the New Heights Gallery as part of the Tampa Gallery Association’s gallery hop.
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1. African Art Gallery Museum, 1711 W Kennedy Blvd. -- Now showing the Benya Collection of ancient artifacts and hand-carved Iroko wood tables, chairs, furniture, and collectibles from West Africa.
2. Artists Unlimited, 223 N 12th Street, Channel District -- Tampa's only fully programmed center presents a clay classroom, a sculpture garden and works in its two galleries.
3. Artsiphartsi, 2717 W Kennedy Blvd. -- Offers hand-crafted works of art by national artists including jewelry, furniture, glass, metal and other mediums.
4. Beveled Edge, 5202 S MacDill Ave. -- presents Reggie Holder's beveled entryway and glass works. Also showing blown and cast glass from many local artists.
5. Gold Dragon Gallery, 3508 S Manhattan Ave. -- Tampa Bay artists include Cheryl Jorgensen and Roxanne Tobaison (watercolors), Andreas Goff (sculpture), Udo Schwarz (oils), Robin Murphy (fused glass), and special guest John Wilkerson (jewelry). Live acoustic music, 6-9 p.m.
6. Hillsborough Community College Gallery, performing arts building, room 101, Palm Avenue and 14th Street, Ybor City -- "Diamonds and Rust," assemblage sculpture by Polly Holt.
7. JJ Watts Gallery, 5103 S MacDill Ave. -- Original paintings, raku, glass works, sculpture and photography by Florida artists, as well as some of Watts's own sculptures.
8. MacArthur Galleries, 100 E Madison Street -- Holiday exhibit "A World of Color" featuring artists from all over the world against vibrant backdrops.
9. Michael Murphy Gallery, 2722 S MacDill Ave. -- Local and nationally recognized artists.
10. New Heights Gallery, 6310 N Nebraska Ave. -- Joan Nagy Allyn premiers her primitive art. Also Joseph Sawchuk.
11. Nuance Galleries, 720 S Dale Mabry Ave. -- "Images from Unknown Sources" by Clemens Briels, an official artist of the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic games. Also, original serigraphs by Spanish painter Royo.
12. Old Hyde Park Art Center, 705 Swann Ave. -- "Images & Passages," watercolors and collage by local artists Pat Defer, Carol Grandinetti, and Ann Sullivan.
13. Pacheco Gallery, 1600 E 8th Ave. Suite A131, Centro Ybor -- Grand opening of the expressionistic art works of historian and Ybor City native Ferdie Pacheco.
14. Phoenix Glass Studio, 811 E Knollwood St., Seminole Heights -- Live hot glass blowing demonstrations; sculptural cast glass by Susan Gott.
15. Ryerson Studio/R&B Limited Editions, 220 Madison St., Suite 220 -- Wood constructions, totemic in nature; original mixed media on board; enamels on paper.
16. Studio Gallery on Azeele, 3707 Azeele St. -- "End Product" presents drawings and mixed media works of Julie Schneider, chair of the University of Pennsylvania Art Department.
17. Tampa Museum of Art, 600 N Ashley Drive -- "Contemporary American Folk Art," traveling exhibition from the Smithsonian. Permanent displays also include galleries featuring Greek and Roman antiquities, 20th century American sculpture, photography, paintings and prints.
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