Gallery 501 at Howard W. Blake School of the Arts

Upcoming Exhibition -

The gallery is currently opened to the public- this is your chance to come see Ulterior Motives - we will be here until 5PM.

Tomorrow the gallery will be open to the public from 3PM through 5PM- if you didn’t have a chance to see the exhibition ‘Ulterior Motives’ with works by Iva Gueorguieva, Bobby Aiosa and Matthew Squires, this is your chance!

GALLERY 501 PRESENTS

Effect/Affect

Effect/Affect presents a range of artistic responses to the cultural landscape of the 1970s to the present day through a curated selection on loan from the Collection of the University of South Florida alongside the collaborative project SWAP - MAKE ONE / TAKE ONE - A ZINE PROJECT headed by Tampa-based contemporary artist Jay Giroux.

Artwork from University of South Florida Collection includes works by Trenton Doyle Hancock, Vito Acconci, Lorna Simpson, Jia Aili, Jenny Holzer, Graciela Iturbide, Roy Lichtenstein, Ibrahim Miranda, Claes Oldenburg, Ed Ruscha, Hollis Sigler, Sergei Volkov and Gunter Wirth, all courtesy of the USF Contemporary Art Museum.

Effect/Affect is co-curated by Amanda Poss and Vincent Kral with the collaboration of Noel Smith.


EXHIBITION DATES - OCTOBER 6 – 26

Lecture / Panel discussion – Friday October 6, 4:00 pm-5:00 pm
Opening Reception to follow – October 6, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Call to Artists: Florida’s Finest DEADLINE: In Person Receiving: Tuesday, June 27, 2017, 10 am-6 pm The Sarasota Art Center created the Florida’s Finest exhibition to showcase the wide-ranging talents of Florida-based artists, and includes two- and three-dimensional works in a variety of media. Lynn Whitelaw,…Read more ›

Congrats to Blake HS student Javarus Brooks and his visual arts teacher Lenny Cabanero-Harvey, who attended the National Scholastics Art and Writing Awards yesterday at Carnegie Hall, NYC!

Call to Artists Ground Floor Farm is embarking on a large scale public art project in Downtown Stuart. We are seeking professional, amateur, and student artists to paint murals in a wide variety of styles and techniques on the fence that surrounds our farm. Taking inspiration from public art projects like Miami’s W...

Calling All Artists! Get ready for TRA's next exhibit, Faces and Figures. Receiving at the Old Hyde Park Art Center, 705 W. Swann Ave., Tampa, July 1 & 2, noon to 3 PM. Early receiving available if you are out Fourth of July Weekend. Call 813251-3780 or email [email protected].

Call for Participants: "Mosaic" Multi-Cultural Youth Art Workshop Mosaic is an artist-led socially-engaged project working with Multicultural Youth. It is a partnership between artist John Gascot (Lead)...

Photographers, heads up!

Calling all photographers! The Florida Museum of Photographic Arts is now accepting submissions for its 17th annual Members Show.

Museum members can submit photographic art to the show through August 18. There will be eight categories featured in this year’s exhibition: Travel, Forms and Figures, Fashion, Food, Design, Tampa Heritage, Science/Technology and Animals.

Read more about the categories this year and enter your work at www.membersshow.fmopa.org

Senior portfolios of alumni past are available online!

Senior Portfolios Howard W. Blake High School Visual Art Department Senior Portfolios

Go to Gallery 221 at HCC Dale Mabry for some stellar summer art exhibits!
BECOMING UNFINISHED by Laine Nixon (now through June 29)
STRIPS by Caitlin Albritton (now through Sept. 1)