St. Pete Catalyst; Published By: Bill De Young
Creative Pinellas will introduce its 2023 Emerging Artist grantees with a reception Thursday at the organization’s Walsingham Road gallery.
It’s the seventh annual cohort, featuring works by a group of 10 area artists in all media. “We’re looking for artists that aren’t in school – this isn’t the first thing that they’ve done, ever,” curator Elizabeth Gelman said in a recent Arts Alive! podcast. “But they’ve been able to show their work to a slowly-growing audience.”
Patrick Arthur Jackson is not a visual artist, but a theater-maker (actor, writer, director). “Traditionally, many of the people that receive the grant are non-performance artists,” he said. “I really wanted to support the movement of bringing more awareness to the performing arts in the area.”
Last week Jackson directed a single, staged-reading performance of 61 Unused Pages by Vincent Terrell Durham, with actor Lance Felton playing eight different characters, at thestudio@620. The poignant drama concerns a young Black man dealing with hurtful memories of his absentee father. Read more
