In case you missed this wonderful interview with Kathy Durdin.
In case you missed the email....Covid Update as of 5//16/20
Dear TRA Members & Art Supporters,
After much consideration, evaluating the current circumstances and trends, and focusing on your health as our primary concern, the Board of Directors has decided to delay opening the Old Hyde Park Art Center for another month, until July 7. We will of course be continually monitoring trends.
Meanwhile, we have some fabulous virtual programming scheduled.
· June virtual demo/workshop — Cynthia Lizardi will help you create an artist note book or journal using art supplies from your studio. Cost $25 for TRA members, $40 for non-members, June 13, 10 am. Go to the TRA site to register and for Zoom Link.
· July virtual demo/workshop — Laure Ferlita will do a virtual demo and workshop on Imaginary Trips — creating art journals. The focus of these classes is on capturing the essence of a location quickly and in creating a pleasing page in our sketchbooks. Watch the TRA site for more information and pricing.
Exhibits
We all cannot wait to see the Bay Area Art Exhibit in person. However, we want to install it when we feel comfortable that we can get docents to man the facility, so that people can come to see the exhibit in person. Meanwhile, it is available online. We have already had one other highly successful online exhibit and are in the process of setting up Meet the Members, which will be featured in a social media over the next several weeks. We have developed a revised exhibit schedule, which will include several fun new generally online exhibits to challenge you. The exhibit schedule is below.
June: The Great Outdoors - Virtual - the landscapes, seascapes, cityscapes show. - Receive online submissions on Monday – Wednesday June 8th, 9th and 10th.
July: American Strong - Virtual - Can be patriotic, American strong during pandemic (or another crisis). How are we strong together as Americans? What says American to you? - Receive online submissions on Friday – Sunday July 10th, 11th and 12th.
July: Bay Area – In-house – Dates to be announced.
August: Mask-erade - Virtual- anything about masks before or during the pandemic, the masks we wear every day in the new normal or emotionally as we adjust to the changing times. What kind of masks do you wear? - Receive online submissions on Friday – Sunday August 7th, 8th, and 9th.
September: The New Normal/ Fresh Perspective – Virtual/In-House –Changes as we adjust to this new normal? What are you looking at from a fresh perspective? Work should be created since March 13 or about our new normal lives. Empty restaurants, crammed grocery stores with empty shelves, working from home with children needing homeschooling, things you have looked at differently. - Receive online submissions on Friday – Sunday September 4th, 5th, and 6th.
October: Escape into Abstraction- Virtual/ in-House – An escape into the emotional or rational world of abstract expressionism and other styles of abstraction. No realism. Receive online submissions on Friday – Sunday October 9th, 10th and 11th.
Coronavirus Statement & Programming Update
Good day, everyone.
As we continue to navigate our current world, we want to reassure you that the Board of Tampa Regional Artists considers your safety to be our first importance. At this time, we have extended the suspension of all in person exhibits, demonstrations, workshops, classes and events through May 31 and plan to resume activity as soon as it is safe to do so. The Board is continually monitoring best practices and will determine what restrictions will exist on these activities as the time gets closer.
Meanwhile, we are excited about the possibilities of virtual art experiences. TRA teachers are giving classes on Zoom. The internet is full of opportunities to learn from the greatest artists in the world. Our online platform provides the ability to reach audiences far beyond our gallery.
We want to use our next exhibit to connect you with the greater world. Our theme for this virtual exhibit is “Meet the Members”. We want you to show 2 pieces of work that are most representative of who you are, and to tell us briefly why you do what you do. We will be sharing these on our website and through social media spotlights. Let’s all find the two pieces that say the most about what what you do and why!
Kathy Durdin
President
Tampa Regional Artists
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TRA November 2019 Newsletter
Old Hyde Park Art Center Celebrates 50 Years as Art Center, Holding Huge Art Sale
Who: Tampa Regional Artists (TRA)
What: Celebration with food, hors d'oeuvres and entertainment featuring an impressive variety of art for sale created by the Tampa Regional Artists’ members
When: November 22, 2019 from 6 pm – 9 pm
Where: 705 W. Swann, Tampa
Why: Tampa Regional Artists’ building, called the Old Hyde Park Art Center, is celebrating its 50th year as an Art Center. The public is encouraged to attend our Anniversary Celebration on November 22, 2019 from 6 to 9 PM, as well as to do holiday shopping at our art sale from November 19 to December 15. We will have extended hours the weekend of November 23 and 24, from 10 to 5 PM.
Background:The Old Hyde Park Art Center has a long history as a civic structure and is one of the oldest extent structures in Hillsborough County. It represents a type of civic structure that a city of Tampa’s size would have built at the turn of the century, and provides us with an example of the non-residential buildings that would have been in our neighborhood at that time. It also illustrates the transition that Tampa undertook from town to city at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. Note that while Tampa would have had a number of this type of vernacular civic structures during the late 19th and early 20th century, they have generally been lost over time. The Old Hyde Park Art Center still exists due to its unique history as a re-purposed structure.
The building that is today known as the Old Hyde Park Art Center was originally built sometime in the very early 20th century and was located at Platt Street and Magnolia. It was the original grammar school in the Hyde Park District, predating Gorrie Elementary (which was built in 1915). As such, it is representative of the type of schools available in a town of that era. When the first brick structure was built on the site of Gorrie Elementary, the wooden building today known as the Old Hyde Park Art Center was used as a lunchroom and library. It was the site of the first hot lunches served to schoolchildren in Hillsborough County, as well as the first kindergarten.
In the 1920, it was moved to its current location and served as the public library until 1968. In 1969, it was purchased to TRA, and opened as the Old Hyde Park Art Center on October 19, 1969. In 1982, TRA paid off the mortgage to the city of Tampa on its purchase of the Art Center building.
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Bay Area Art Exhibit Entry Deadline March 18. For prospectus, click here.
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