07/28/08 – 08/17/08

Wearable Art 2008

A three-week companion exhibit to Tampa Bay’s hottest fashion show = DFAC’s Wearable Art!

07/28/08 – 08/17/08

The Alice Project: Silent Auction of Works by Viv Ruegger

09/7/07 – 08/01/08

The Artist as Inventor –Children’s Hands-On Museum

The Artist as Inventor Hands-On installation investigates imagining, creating and designing as an integral part of inventing—be it mechanical, industrial, or artistic.  Focal points include Leonardo DaVinci (art, imagination, science and invention), H.G. Wells & Jules Verne (literature, imagination and invention), robotics (science and invention) and traditional art media for inventive creation. *Featuring a special display by Robotics club of East Lake High School.

09/12/08 – 12/24/08

The Impossible Dream: Imaginary Worlds

The companion gallery exhibit for the 2008 school year is The Impossible Dream: Artists’ Imaginary Worlds featuring works by Simon Boses, Jamey Grimes, Holly Lane and Maggie Taylor, who depict private, imaginary and ethereal worlds in their respective mediums: photography, painting and sculpture.

09/12/08 – 10/19/08

Dreams: Untitled by Maria Saraceno & Yoko Nogami

Italian-born artist, Maria Saraceno is known for her sculpture, video installations and sociopolitical site-specific projects. In this piece, she collaborates with interdisciplinary artist, Yoko Nogami. Maria and Yoko create a dream environment in DFAC’s Douglas-Whitely Gallery—welcome to their world . . .

The Woodburnings of Daniel Mrgan

Showing the buoyant, tilted and supernatural stories of Croatian-born artist, Daniel Mrgan in a series of woodburnings entitled: Pulling strings, Pulling teeth

Crazy Logic: Kids Draw Their Dreams

Pinellas County elementary school students describe and illustrate their dreams: as remembered, envisioned or realized! Kids, show us your dreams!  

Dreamscapes—Windows to Other Worlds: Children’s Hands-On Museum Installation

The 2008 hands-on installation, Dreamscapes: Windows to Other Worlds explores the realm of dreams, real and imagined with artists such as Dali, Magritte, and Rousseau as departure points.

Interested In Exhibiting at DFAC?

Our exhibition committee meets twice a year, and if all is going well, is planning up to three years into the future.

You can get a pdf of our submission guidelines by clicking here.

Connie Lippert

Connie Lippert

Wearable Art

DFAC will be CLOSED Friday, July 4th for the Independence Day Holiday. We will reopen on Saturday July 5th during regular hours.

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