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The St Petersburg Arts Alliance is delighted to announce our 2022 Individual Artist Grant Program Awardees
The St. Petersburg Arts Alliance (SPAA) partnered with the Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs to establish an Individual Artist Grant Program in 2015. For our eighth year, SPAA is proud to be able to award 20 artists with a $1,000 grant! In addition, funding from the John Collins Arts Endowment Grant awarded another artist a grant of $1,650!
These grants are intended to provide financial assistance and incentives to St. Petersburg artists for projects that support public engagement of their work in visual arts, dance, music, digital, literary arts, and theater. This year’s grant recipients include eleven visual artists, three artists in the music industry, two photographers, and artists in theater, dance, film and two glass artists as well.
The John Collins Arts Endowment Grant recipient is David Manson who will be creating a new Jazz Music Composition. These are the other 20 grantees whose projects we can’t wait to see come to life!
· Amy Wolf - Larger-than-life suspended figures
· Brandy Stark - Temporary Paranormal Museum featuring ghost stories from St. Petersburg.
· Caleb Baker - “My Brothers’ Keeper Project” dance performance
· Courtney Dodson - Mixed media exhibit on feminism and sexuality
· Domenico Pontoriero - 5-minute film featuring a local performing artist executing a choreographed dance to an original, musical piece produced by a local musician.
· Donald Gialanella - Film - Diversity 2022 - A Portrait of the Local Community
· Elaine Chambliss - STRINGS-n-ART FEST on the DEUCES
· G.J.(Greg) Thompson - Shakespeare Short Presentations
· Jack Alden – Exhibit of re-worked recycled glass bottles into utilitarian glass sculptures
· John Gascot - Diversity Interactive Game
· Karen Porter - Group art show featuring artists in the community who don’t have their own space to show their work
· Kelly Lavieri - Fluid abstract landscape paintings interpreting St. Petersburg parks and urban green spaces
· Letisia Cruz – Ritual: series of 10 ink illustrations
· Luci Westphal - “St. Pete Moving Still”
· Marian Tagliarino - Portraits of Pinellas County seniors
· Matthew Szidik - Three large scale fungi sculptures
· Michael Satino - Light painting photography
· Robyn Crosa - Mixed Media Visual Arts Exhibit
· Siobhan Roland - The Motherland Festival
· Xina Scuderi - Architecture and waterscapes photography series
We are grateful to the City of St. Petersburg and its leadership, for understanding and recognizing how art and artists; grow our economy, add to our health and wellbeing and elevate the culture of St. Pete.
The St. Petersburg Arts Alliance strives to be the community voice for the arts -- empowering artists, arts organizations and creative businesses to work collaboratively. As an umbrella arts organization, we drive arts-related economic development and funding, advocate for art and artists, educate at all levels and facilitate the growth of our City of the Arts.
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