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• Call To Creatives - Instructors Wanted - See Application Below

  • Start
    01 Sep 2021
  •  
    4:00 PM
  • End
    30 Nov 2021
  •  
    11:30 PM
  • Location
    515 22nd St South, St Petersburg FL 33712

  
  

  ABOUT US:

  The Warehouse Arts District Association is now accepting proposals for its’ new Arts Education Center at the ArtsXchange on the Deuces Corridor. 515 22nd St South, St Petersburg, FL 33712.

  We are looking for experienced and passionate educators in the visual, performing, and literary arts to join us in offering innovative publicly marketed and accessible programs in one of our unique classrooms. There are several ways you can engage with us!

   WE BELIEVE:

              We are all students waiting to discover

              We are all teachers waiting to share our gifts and passion

              Imagination, creativity, and process are as, if not more, important as product

              In making arts accessible to everyone

              In valuing art, artists, and educators for their cultural and economic contributions

              In creating innovative, unique, diverse, inclusive, and inspiring experiences

              In respecting all students for their desire to learn

   WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

  In this form, We are looking for teaching artists who would like to propose a course to offer as part of the WADA programming. Classes will be offered year-round starting January 2022.

   You are welcome propose a variety of artistic mediums for school age students in the after school hours or adult courses in the morning, afternoon, and evening Monday-Sunday. Weekly classes of varying length and weekend workshops are welcome!

  Audiences we would love to serve include but art not limited to: School ages: 6 to 18, young adults, adults, seniors, veterans, and people with varied physical and developmental abilities.

  Classes at every level of proficiency are welcome.
  

   GET INVOLVED!

  There are three ways you can engage with WADA as we build our education programs. Simply fill out the Form that's right  for you and we will start the partnership process with you! Click on the appropriate link for the application form.
  

  Teaching Artist Application

  • Don’t have an idea for a class yet? Tell us about your artistic skills and teaching experience and we will match you with a program under development!

  Program Proposal

  • Know exactly what you would like to teach? Let us know your dream and we will work with you to make it a reality!

  Classroom Rental Request

  • If you represent an organization or group simply looking for a temporary, occasional space, contact us about classroom rental for both short and long term!

   

  Jan, Feb, and March applications are due: Sept 20, 2021

   

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• Call to Artists - Deuces Live

  • Start
    27 Sep 2021
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    12:00 AM
  • End
    01 Nov 2021
  •  
    5:00 PM

  

  Call to Artists - Request for Qualifications
  

  Deuces Live is seeking an artist to design permanent, outdoor artwork to be installed along the historic 22nd Street South Corridor. The artwork is envisioned as part of placemaking activities led by Deuces Live with grant funding from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the City of St. Petersburg.

  Deuces Live seeks a concept for a single piece of interactive artwork that will attract the public and reinforce characteristics of the Deuces identity: food, music, history and culture. The exact site is not yet determined, but it will be on city-owned property.  It will be accessible to pedestrians and will likely be a maximum of 10'x10' pad site.

  See the attached PDF for details and contact information

  Deuces Live Call to Artists.pdf
  

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• FREE Tent Space for WADA Members - November Second Saturday

  • Start
    15 Oct 2021
  • End
    12 Nov 2021
  •  
    4:00 PM
  • Location
    515 22nd Street South, St Petersburg, FL 33712
  • Spaces left
    18

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  We had more than 2,000 people at the ArtsXchange Campus on the Deuces Corridor this summer and virtually every artist who had a tent on the Plaza sold work!

  Register to reserve a space for the November Second Saturday on November 13. We have limited spaces, so reserve your space NOW. An extra bonus -- there will be no charge to rent a space this month!!

  You MUST be a WADA Member to take advantage of this opportunity.  Join today!

  
  

  
  

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• An Evening with Duncan McClellan

  • When
    27 Oct 2021
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    6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    Duncan McClellan Gallery 2342 Emerson Ave S. St Petersburg, FL 33712
  • Spaces left
    16

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  Duncan will give a tour of the Gallery and Studio and discuss his history and process and will share the Gallery’s involvement in several community projects.

                  

  Born in Long Island, New York, Duncan McClellan grew up in Orlando.  At the age of 5, during a trip in the family station wagon to the 1964 New York World’s Fair, Duncan and his family visited the Blenko Glass Factory in Milton, West Virginia.  He was fascinated with what he saw during that visit. 

  
  

  Duncan did not attempt glassblowing until the age of 30.   He held various jobs beginning at the age of 14 when he created a line of leather belts for Winter Park and Orlando boutiques.  He had dreams of opening a restaurant, so he enrolled in business classes at Hillsborough Community College and began working with clay as an elective. In addition, he also was a graphic designer, an advance man for a traveling circus, a maitre’d at a restaurant in Busch Gardens and part owner of a cosmetics company. 

  
  

  During a business trip to New York he discovered a working glass studio and remembering his childhood enchantment with glass, he signed up for classes.  For several years he commuted between Ybor City and New York.  After a time, he left the cosmetics business and began supporting himself by selling his glass works at outdoor shows.  Eventually settling down in St. Petersburg’s Warehouse Arts District where he purchased a 7,800 square feet former tomato-packing plant on 24th Ave South. 

  
  

  Duncan was one of the first tenants in the Warehouse Arts District and his facility features works by McClellan himself and another 60-some artists from around the country.  In addition to the gallery, there is a working studio, classrooms, and a mobile glass lab parked out back.  

  
  

  Come and enjoy a wonderful evening with this important artists in the Warehouse Arts District.
  

  
  

  Maximum Capacity: 20 people

  
  

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