The Artful Teen
2026-08-11 16:30 - 18:30, 2026-08-18 16:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | Music Room, 4537 Lowell Road, Tampa, FL, 33618, United States
Does your child know their way around the color wheel? Or is their hidden talent just waiting to be unleashed? The Arful Teen class is just the place to be!
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"Direct/Indirect" by William Talenti
2026-08-12, 2026-08-13, 2026-08-14, 2026-08-15, 2026-08-17, 2026-08-18, 2026-08-19, 2026-08-20 and 4 more dates | Atrium Art Gallery, 4537 Lowell Road, Tampa, 33618, United States
“At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them.”
-Albert Camus
These six paintings (in the exhibit) concern pigment application and idea combination. I began each piece with a deliberate modality—Realistic, Abstract, or Non-Objective—pairing each with a “sister” painting on an opposing wall to serve as a formal counterpoint. Eventually, the rules dissolved, and I stopped following the recipe. An overlapping of my emotional state and the evolving surface of the paint occurred, allowing the content to find its own voice beyond the initial structure.
Direct/Indirect represents a deliberate unlearning of over thirty years of visual literacy. As both an educator and a painter, I am fascinated by how a personal artistic voice is constructed, refined, and—eventually—dismantled. By isolating the core elements of color, shape, value, and pattern, I converge figurative representation with the intuitive faculty of abstraction. These works seek the tension between what we see and how we think, emptying the familiar to discover what remains.
-William Talenti
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"Paper People" by Zhannay Monique
2026-08-12, 2026-08-13, 2026-08-14, 2026-08-15, 2026-08-17, 2026-08-18, 2026-08-19, 2026-08-20 and 4 more dates | Art Corner Art Gallery, 4537 Lowell Road, Tampa, F, 33618, United States
Zhannay “Naynay” McBride is a self-taught visual artist located in Tampa, Florida, with seven years of dedicated studio practice. Working primarily in acrylic on canvas, she creates vibrant, imaginative paintings that explore complex emotional landscapes and are deeply influenced by the media of her childhood and Y2K media.
Through her art, Zhannay employs colorful, expressive characters to illuminate her lived experiences with Type 1 diabetes and mental health challenges. Her work has been featured at prominent local cultural events, including the Tampa Juneteenth Festival, Tampa Pride, and exhibitions at the Carrollwood Cultural Center. Looking ahead, Zhannay is committed to expanding her body of work to further raise awareness about Type 1 diabetes, with plans to showcase these new projects at upcoming exhibitions in galleries throughout the Tampa Bay Area.
Artist Statement
“My body of work is a collage of my memories, culture, and experiences. I look fondly at my experiences whether they are good or bad because it comes from a place of understanding and I try to convey that perception into my paintings. I enjoy sneaking in some elements from early 2000s cartoons and Y2K media because these things helped comfort me during my struggles with juvenile Type 1 diabetes and mental health. I prefer using cartoon elements as a vehicle to portray heavy topics because it allows a safe space where genuine dialogue can be opened for everyone without being so obtrusive.
I have been experimenting with creating scenes that are a mixture of flat 2-D elements against 3-D elements to add many visual textures to the painting and I enjoy creating the look of paper in my artwork. People are a lot like sheets of paper, we all have folds and creases in many different places, many of us have similar experiences but we all have different viewpoints.This is how people connect and have empathy for one another.”
– Zhannay Monique
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Rehearsal: Carrollwood Community Chorus
2026-08-17 19:00 - 21:00, 2026-08-24 19:00 - 21:00 | The Studio, 13345 Casey Road, Tampa, FL, 33618, United States
The Carrollwood Community Chorus is open to anyone, regardless of experience, as long as you have a song in your heart. From the campfire to the Red Carpet, members from all walks of life come together to share their gift and love of song. The chorus performs regularly at the Center, local events and has even been known to “pop up” in crowds around the holidays. The group meets weekly to rehearse; however, this group of friendly folks are known to keep in touch outside of rehearsals, too! Now that’s something to sing about!
Community Chorus

R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)
2026-08-22 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-08-23 14:00 - 16:00 | Main Theatre, 4537 Lowell Road, Tampa FL 33618, FL
R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots)
By Karel Capek
Directed by Chris Holcom
Around the world, robots are quickly replacing humans in tasks considered menial, such as assembly lines, domestic labor, and administrative work. A young woman journeys to the island to free the robots, but in her naive enthusiasm, she becomes deeply embroiled in the fate of the robots and, ultimately, the fate of the human race.
R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots) is a staged reading.
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