Carrollwood Cultural Center

Jr. Artists
2024-11-12 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Art Room I, 4537 Lowell Road, FL
Lessons throughout this class will involve learning and discussing techniques used throughout art history.
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EveryBody Can Dance
2024-11-12 17:15 - 18:15 | Dance Studio, 4537 Lowell Road, Tampa, FL, 33618, United States
Join a class where everyone dances to their own beat, shakes it, and laughs while learning and building a routine each week!
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Phase II ARC Committee
2024-11-12 17:30 - 18:00 | Carrollwood Village Room, 4537 Lowell Road, Tampa, FL 33618, FL

Holiday Youth Show Choir
2024-11-12 18:00 - 19:30 | Community Room, 4537 Lowell Road
A new youth show choir for ages 12 and older. We look forward to working toward a holiday musical and performing for the community!
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Wheel Throwing
2024-11-12 18:00 - 20:30, 2024-11-13 13:00 - 15:30 | Ceramics / Pottery Studio, 4537 Lowell Road, Tampa, FL, 33618, United States
Students will learn the basics of wheel throwing by forming and throwing simple shapes on the potter’s wheel.
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Phase II
2024-11-12 18:30 - 21:00 | Carrollwood Village Room, 4537 Lowell Road, Tampa, FL 33618, FL
Carrollwood Village Phase II HOA

Rehearsal: Carrollwood Winds
2024-11-12 19:00 - 21:00 | The Studio, 13345 Casey Road, Tampa, FL, 33618, United States
The Carrollwood Winds is a concert band comprised of local community members who are committed to performance. The band performs a wide range of literature at the high school and college level. Members of the band are not beginners or novices, rather members of the community with band experience who are looking for a venue to continue their craft. The Carrollwood Winds performs at the Carrollwood Cultural Center four to five times throughout the year and is branching out to other community and educational venues as well.

Holiday Trees Display & Silent Auction
2024-11-13, 2024-11-14 | Carrollwood Cultural Center, 4537 Lowell Road Tampa, Fl 33618
A Seasonal Tradition!

The Holiday Trees Display & Auction is a fundraiser for the Carrollwood Cultural Center. View and bid on a variety of themed holiday trees displayed in our lobby. Proceeds benefit our Tom Jones Tuition Assistance Fund, which allows families to send their child(ren) to Summer Camp who otherwise might be unable to participate.

The online auction will close on December 15 at 9 p.m.

If you prefer not to bid on a tree but want to donate to the Tom Jones Tuition Assistance Fund, please CLICK HERE.(The online auction is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, regardless of the Center’s hours of operation. If you want to visit the Center in person, please refer to the calendar to ensure we are open. You may also call (813) 922-8167.)

"Student, Faculty & Member" Art Show
2024-11-13, 2024-11-14 | Gallery at Carrollwood Cultural Center, 4537 Lowell Road, Tampa FL 33618
Please join us in celebrating some of the fabulous works created in our studios and by our members!
The Student, Faculty & Member Art Show is open to all students, faculty, and volunteers who have taken classes, worked, and volunteered at the Carrollwood Cultural Center since January 2023. This show is also for all current members of the Center!
Congratulations to the artists who created the winning pieces!

"Everyday Encounters" by Yuka Ikebuchi
2024-11-13, 2024-11-14 | Lobby Art Gallery, 4537 Lowell Road, Tampa, 33618, United States
Yuka Ikebuchi is originally from Shimane prefecture in southwestern Japan. During her college years in Japan, she encountered works of art created by people who survived extremely traumatic wartime experiences, facilitating her desire to pursue art therapy.
Upon completing her studies, she worked with a wide variety of clinical populations at hospitals, community facilities, and a long-term care facility in the US. After some years spent as a therapist, Yuka became more focused on being a full-time mother and a homemaker until
her youngest took off to college.
Since then, Yuka has been back in her studio and continuing to work on painting. Yuka is now creating art of her own and finding images that reflect her inner voice.
ARTIST STATEMENT: I often look for something that catches my eyes when I walk in my neighborhood, new towns, or foreign cities. Some days I get lucky and happen to come across a fascinating scene like circus performers practicing their trapeze work. Other times I get a passing glance at people going about their daily lives in cafes, at the beach, or on city and village streets. It seems that whenever I am not actively searching for a particular inspiration, beautiful sky and clouds, fresh flowers and vegetables in gardens, and lively dogs and cats will often help expanding my mind’s eye.
However there are lots of other times, I have to dig in deep and look and think about painting inspiration. In whatever a motif and/or vision comes to be my painting theme, I look for images that can be formed to convey their natural beauty and/or become a vehicle of sorts to project emotions, intentions, and experiences. In the “Circus Practice”, I try expressing mixed emotions by contrasting between the stillness of the man suspended in mid air and active movements in the sky.
My work is evolving and searching for ways toward better execution. I humbly enjoy an impressionistic approach with texture and movement from brush strokes and layered color effects.
Pictured: Circus Practice by Yuka Ikebuchi

"Square Roots" by Mark Lembo
2024-11-13, 2024-11-14 | Corridor Art Gallery, 4537 Lowell Road, Tampa, FL, 33618, United States
I feel best when bringing works to life that are distinctive, challenge easy categorization, capture the synergy of melding diverse media, and blur the lines between watercolor, acrylics, mark-making, and action painting styles. My latest adventures have been in relief printing/mark-making and abstract montage.
Even with a simple palette, there are still so many ideas to explore and evolve with various media, surfaces, and techniques. Abstract art – and cooking! – provide great freedom and the joy of discovery through the creative process.
– Mark Lembo

"A Natural Response" by Susan Huskey
2024-11-13, 2024-11-14 | Art Corner Art Gallery, 4537 Lowell Road, Tampa, F, 33618, United States
A native Floridian, Susan Huskey deeply appreciates the beauty of flowers and the landscape, having grown up in the country with the freedom to explore her natural surroundings. Susan’s love of flowers was a gift from her mother, a botanist who always had gardens full of flowers and taught her how to plant her first flower patch. Then she was hooked! Susan became increasingly fascinated by the infinite variety of floral shapes and colors, the intricacy of some forms, and the simplicity of others. Thus, the natural world soon became the inspiration for her watercolor explorations. Susan loves to paint with splashy and expressive brushstrokes, overcoming the need to paint the subject verbatim but composing with a blend of detail and the abstract. PLainting is an act of joy she shares with you.
Susan Huskey
(727) 534-5243
art@susanhuskey.com

"Think Big" by Elizabeth Ventura
2024-11-13 | Atrium Art Gallery, 4537 Lowell Road, Tampa, 33618, United States
Creating large works requires not only exaggerated gestures, sweeping brush strokes, and thick paint but also broader, simpler concepts that can be seen and understood from a distance. Big work means tapping into big dreams.
I thought about bold colors, distinct shapes, a mix of organic and structured elements to create a noticeable presence.
Think Big was jump-started by a conversation with a group of women of a certain age that centered on the “cultural invisibility” of older women. Think Big says “I’m here and I still have something meaningful to say.”
– Elizabeth Ventura

Mudslinger Studio Pass
2024-11-13 10:00 - 12:30 | Ceramics / Pottery Studio, 4537 Lowell Road, Tampa, FL, 33618, United States
Mudslingers Clay Open Studio Pass grants unlimited access during Open Studio Hours during a current six-week session.
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Finance Meeting
2024-11-13 15:00 - 17:00 | Lobby, 4537 Lowell Rd, Tampa, FL 33618, USA, Tampa, Florida, 33618, United States
FCCC Finance Meeting

Creative Dance
2024-11-13 16:00 - 16:45 | Dance Studio, 4537 Lowell Road, Tampa, FL, 33618, United States
This class serves as a perfect introduction to dance, movement, and choreography for young children.
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Intermediate Adult Jazz & Tap
2024-11-13 17:00 - 18:15 | Dance Studio, 4537 Lowell Road, Tampa, FL, 33618, United States
This intermediate class will focus on jazz’s rhythm and coordination as well as tap basics, steps and sounds.
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(CANCELED) Creative Explorations: Teens Mixed Media Art
2024-11-13 17:30 - 20:30 | Art Room I, 4537 Lowell Road, FL
Dive into a creative journey with this mixed-media art workshop for teens!
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Adult Acting Scene Study
2024-11-13 18:00 - 19:30 | Meeting Room II, 4537 Lowell Road Tampa, Fl 33618
This class is for adult thespians who want to hone their play-reading skills and add new “acting” tools to their theatre toolbox.
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Intermediate & Advanced Hand Building
2024-11-13 18:00 - 20:30 | Ceramics / Pottery Studio, 4537 Lowell Road, Tampa, FL, 33618, United States
Intermediate and advanced pottery students have already learned and practiced a variety of hand-building techniques and are ready to kick their skills up a notch!
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David Glenn & The Winds Ensemble
2024-11-13 18:00 - 21:00 | The Studio, 13345 Casey Road, Tampa, FL, 33618, United States

Intermediate Adult Ballet
2024-11-13 18:15 - 19:30 | Dance Studio, 4537 Lowell Road, Tampa, FL, 33618, United States
This intermediate class meets two times a week to focus on ballet techniques for the intermediate dancer.
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Hatha Flow Yoga
2024-11-13 18:30 - 20:00 | Community Room, 4537 Lowell Road
Learn yoga posture and ways to gain strength, flexibility, and relieve stress.
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Introduction to Argentine Tango
2024-11-13 19:30 - 20:30 | Dance Studio, 4537 Lowell Road, Tampa, FL, 33618, United States
Have you seen Argentine Tango in movies, stage shows, or television and thought it would be fun to learn? You can!
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