Gasparilla
Fine Arts Peview: A Fine Weekend for Art
St. Petersburg Times, published March 1, 2001 [Full
Story]
Nice
weather and the works of 300 artists and
craftspeople should attract crowds to the bay
area's largest outdoor art show.
By
MARY ANN MARGER
Excerpts:
Count
on plenty that's new under the sun as the Gasparilla Festival
of the Arts takesplace Saturday andSunday along Ashley Drive
in downtown Tampa. More than half ofthis year's 300 artists
did not exhibit there last year
With
300 artists, Gasparilla is the area's largest outdoor show
and often the best...
As
you stroll down Ashley and adjacent streets, you're bound
to be seduced by the work of newcomers, or artists returning
after a hiatus. Among those to look for:
Tampa
photographer Barbra Beeler, who shoots staged settings with
a Polaroid, then transfers the image to watercolor paper.
In Gasparilla for the first time, she is one of the area's
most talked-about young artists and showed in the Tampa
Museum of Art's prestigious "underCURRENT/overVIEW"
last year. Where will she go from here?
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