In 1976, on his first day teaching a photography class at the Studio Museum in Harlem, Dawoud Bey was greeted by a “seemingly shy woman with big expressive eyes,” he later recalled. “Hi, my name is Carrie,” she said as she held a Leica 35mm camera. “Do you think I could be a photographer?” Read Full Story
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Tampa, FL (July 18, 2022) – A forty-year retrospective by two of today’s most influential photo-based artists, Dawoud Bey and Carrie Mae Weems, will be on view at the Tampa Museum of Art beginning July 21 until October 23, 2022, for the first stop in a nation-wide tour. Organized by the Grand Rapids Art Museum (GRAM), Dawoud Bey & Carrie Mae Weems: In Dialogue is the first exhibition to bring their work together exclusively. Featuring 140 works, the exhibition gives a unique glimpse into their distinct artistic approaches and trajectories, as well as the artists’ shared focus on representing communities and histories that have largely been unseen.
“We’re thrilled to partner with GRAM to bring such a historically significant exhibition to Florida,” said Michael Tomor, the Penny and Jeff Vinik Executive Director of the Tampa Museum of Art. Speaking about the artists, Chief Curator of GRAM, Ron Platt said, “Dawoud Bey and Carrie Mae Weems have always sought to create works of art that expand the way we think about the world. Both artists have been united in their commitment to amplifying authentic Black experiences and images, recognizing those important perspectives and insights were overlooked and sorely lacking within the field of photography.”
Both born in 1953, Bey and Weems found motivation for their art in the changing American social landscape of their youth. Since meeting in a photography class taught by Bey at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1976, the two artists have been intellectual colleagues and close friends, each exploring similar themes of race, class, representation, and systems of power throughout their careers.
“Carrie Mae Weems and I have been carrying on a personal conversation for more than forty years,” said Dawoud Bey of his relationship with Weems. “We both see ourselves in conversation with history, both broadly and within the sphere of African American culture. We’ve nurtured each other’s burning desire to contribute meaningfully to the long history of Black expressive excellence. Hopefully, this exhibition [curated by] the Grand Rapids Art Museum reveals that the conversation that Carrie and I have had has both buoyed each other’s work and produced something of lasting meaning and value.”
Of the exhibition, Carrie Mae Weems said, “I’ve never been given a major exhibition in concert with another artist that I was deeply involved with, so for me, it’s a really unique exhibition. It gives me the great opportunity of learning about an extraordinary artist who has been by my side for the last 45 years. What Dawoud has managed to accomplish is not easy for any artist. And he’s done it with such dignity, such grace, and with such generosity of spirit.”
Bey and Weems began their exploration of photography as the field was expanding and transforming from a tradition of small, black-and-white film-based images. In Dialogue highlights the early pictures they made in the photodocumentary style, followed by their ambitious, groundbreaking explorations of the medium as it grew technologically and artistically.
This exhibition pairs the two artists’ work in five sections that emphasize both their distinct artistic approaches and their shared interests and concerns: Early Work, Broadening the Scope, Resurrecting Black Histories, Memorial and Requiem, and Revelations in the Landscape. Also featured in the exhibition are videos by Bey and Weems that show their approaches to the moving photographic image as an extension of their still photographic series.
Beginning with Early Work, viewers will travel through the 35mm photography Bey and Weems captured at the outset of their careers, embracing both spontaneous scenes of city life, and more quiet, domestic interactions. In Broadening the Scope, Bey and Weems’ begin staging their photographs — Bey capturing posed street portraits of young subjects in urban environments and Weems staging her groundbreaking, narrative-based Kitchen Table Series.
In Resurrecting Black Histories, we see the artists’ deepened interest in documenting places and moments heavy with historical importance. Bey captures safe houses and meeting sites in near darkness along the Underground Railroad of Ohio, while Weems’ somber Sea Island Series explores the African legends and folklore that was retained within the Gullah culture of the Southern United States. In Memorial and Requiem, both artists become full-fledged in their commitment to cultural documentation, paying homage to tragic historic events. In the final section, Revelations in the Landscape, the artists return to a more distanced observation, contemplating the effects of time through location. Bey revisits Harlem, now photographing the effects of gentrification in color, while Weems appears in her own shots against the ancient structures of Rome, clad all in black as she guides the viewer through age-old institutional powers abroad.
Dawoud Bey & Carrie Mae Weems: In Dialogue is organized by the Grand Rapids Art Museum and is sponsored at the Tampa Museum of Art by Bank of America.
About Dawoud Bey
Photographer Dawoud Bey’s first exhibition was presented at the Studio Museum in Harlem, in 1979. Since then, his work has been presented internationally to critical and popular acclaim. Recent large-scale exhibitions of his photographs have been presented at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Tate Modern, London. Bey’s writings on his own and others’ work are included in Dawoud Bey: Seeing Deeply and Dawoud Bey on Photographing People and Communities, and High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1967 – 1975.
About Carrie Mae Weems
Over her career, Carrie Mae Weems has created a complex body of artwork through which she explores power, class, black identity, womanhood, the historical past – and its resonance in the present moment. In addition to photography, Weems creates video, performance, and works of public art, and she organizes thematic gatherings which bring together creative thinkers across a broad array of disciplines. Her work has been exhibited across the world, at venues such as the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, the Solomon Guggenheim Museum, the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain, and the American Academy in Rome, Italy.
About the Tampa Museum of Art
Founded in 1920, the Tampa Museum of Art inspires visitors with engaging exhibitions and innovative educational programs that emphasize ancient, modern, and contemporary art. The Museum houses one of the largest Greek and Roman antiquities collections in the southeastern United States. As one of the region’s most prominent museums devoted to the art of our time, the Museum’s permanent collection also embraces sculpture, photography, painting, new media, and more.
The Museum’s new Vinik Family Education Center offers expanded year-round studio art classes, lectures, and tours that allow children, teens, and adults to discover new perspectives and learn different art-making techniques. Likewise, through unique community partnerships, the Museum offers outreach programs that provide art-therapy-informed interventions and meaningful modes of self-expression to vulnerable segments of the population.
Located in the heart of downtown Tampa, the Tampa Museum of Art leads as both a cultural institution and a community museum dedicated to celebrating its home city’s diversity. In 2021, the Museum embarked on an ambitious renovation to increase exhibition space and education facilities to accommodate growing community partnerships and allow more hands-on, up-close experiences for students and adults. The Museum will remain open to the public throughout the Centennial Renovation, with an expected completion date in the second half of 2022.
General Hours and Information
For tickets and information, visit TampaMuseum.org or call (813) 274-8130. Located at 120 W. Gasparilla Plaza. Tampa, FL 33602, the Tampa Museum of Art is open seven days a week, Monday – Sunday, 10 am – 5 pm, and Thursdays from 10 am – 8 pm.
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TAMPA Fla. (May 24, 2022) –The Tampa Museum of Art has announced that its new education center will be named the Vinik Family Education Center, in honor of a $5 million gift made by Jeff and Penny Vinik to the Museum’s $100 million Centennial Campaign for Renovation and Expansion.
“The Tampa Museum of Art is renowned for the value of its educational programs and its exceptional support for Hillsborough County students and teachers. We are delighted to advance that good work with this gift, and to further contribute to the Museum’s mission to educate, engage, and inspire Tampa Bay residents and others around the world,” said Penny Vinik.
“The opening of our new education center is long-awaited for Museum members, volunteers, and other visitors. We are so thrilled to finally have a facility with a capacity to match the demand for our education programs, and we are grateful to the Viniks for their generous gift to help make this facility and the future growth possible,” said Michael Tomor, Ph.D., the Penny and Jeff Vinik Executive Director of the Tampa Museum of Art.
The education center opened on May 16 and will serve as the temporary entrance to the Museum while additional renovations are completed on the west side of the building. The first classes in the space will be the Museum’s Summer Art Camps for ages 6-17, beginning Monday, June 6. Over 200 children are already enrolled for the summer, with few available spots.
The most recent gift by the Viniks for the education center is made in addition to a previous $5 million gift made in October 2019 to endow the position of executive director, bringing the family’s total contributions to the Centennial Campaign to $10 million. To date, including the Vinik family’s gifts, the Centennial Campaign has raised $71 million toward the Museum’s $100 million goal.
With the Education Center renovations complete, the education space has grown from 1,400 to 8,000 square feet, including four classrooms, a lobby, orientation spaces, and a secure entrance. With these improvements in place, the Museum anticipates quadrupling the number of students it serves per year, and the school tour program alone can grow from 6,000 students to 24,000 each year.
In 2021, the Museum announced it was embarking on its $100 million Centennial Renovation and Expansion to expand the Museum’s gross area from 69,000 to 125,000 sq. ft. The renovation portion of the project is rolling out now, beginning with the new Vinik Family Education Center. New galleries are scheduled to open in the fall of 2022, and the groundbreaking for the expansion portion of the project is expected to take place early next year.
The design of the entire renovation and expansion project is led by New York-based WEISS/MANFREDI Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism. Speaking about the accomplishment of this milestone, Principal Architects Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi said, “we’re inspired by the Tampa Museum of Art’s expansive commitment to arts education. We’re thrilled that the Vinik Family Education Center is the fitting and very visible first phase of the larger transformation and expansion of the Museum. These studios and education spaces will provide light-filled settings to connect all the arts to the larger community of Tampa.”
The future expansion project will add a 4,000-square-foot auditorium. Culinary Arts classes on the third-floor rooftop area of the expansion will also add to its future education program offerings.
“I am a longtime Tampa resident, and I cannot remember another time when our local arts and culture institutions have had so much wind at their back,” said Jerry Divers, chair of the Campaign Cabinet and president of the Tampa Museum of Art Foundation. “This generous gift from the Vinik family, in addition to the historic $25 million donation from Dick Corbett announced last month, is truly transformational for the Museum and the Tampa Bay community.”
“As we embarked on the Centennial Campaign, we made a commitment to Hillsborough County students and teachers that we would make it a priority to serve them and make the Museum’s resources accessible to them for field trips, extracurricular programming, and professional development. By giving so generously to the new Education Center, the Viniks have made a lasting impression on the next generation of Tampa Bay residents,” said Dianne Jacob, chair of the Tampa Museum of Art Board of Trustees.
To learn more about the Tampa Museum of Art Centennial Renovation and Expansion, visit http://centennial.tampamuseum.org
About The Vinik Family Foundation
Vinik Family Foundation (VFF) is a private foundation created and managed by Jeff and Penny Vinik. Founded in 1997, VFF has donated over $100 million to nonprofits working in the areas of education, human services, healthcare, and the arts. VFF is especially dedicated to broadening the public’s understanding of art through inclusive, interactive exhibits and installations.
Under the umbrellas of the Vinik Family Foundation and the Lightning Foundation, the Viniks have invested significantly in Tampa Bay area charities through a variety of initiatives – the most notable being the Lightning Community Heroes program, which honors grass-roots heroes with $50,000 each for their respective non-profits at every Lightning home game.
Vinik has ventured into development and over the last several years has moved forward with his vision to develop some 60 acres in downtown Tampa. Water Street Tampa includes donated land and financial support to house the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine & Heart Institute downtown. The walkable waterfront community will also feature corporate office buildings, a hotel, residences, retail, restaurants, and entertainment options. In Tampa, Penny Vinik is a board member of the Tampa Museum of Art and she chairs a community arts initiative that enables Tampa Bay-based artists to display their works throughout Amalie Arena and to bring exhibits such as The Beach and The Art of the Brick to Tampa Bay as free events that are open to the public. Penny is also at the forefront of organizing the annual Celebration of the Arts, a juried exhibition that displays the works of hundreds of local and regional artists.
About Penny and Jeff Vinik
Jeff & Penny Vinik moved to Tampa in 2012 after Jeff acquired the Tampa Bay Lightning hockey team. After 20 plus years in Boston, the Viniks were thrilled to experience the warmth of Tampa Bay – both in the weather and in the people. They have been embraced by the Tampa Bay community in an exceptional manner and they are pleased to reciprocate this friendship whenever and wherever they can.
Jeff initially moved his company, Vinik Asset Management to Tampa but soon closed it to focus on the Lightning and the redevelopment of the district surrounding Amalie Arena. In partnership with Cascade Investment, the investment arm of the Gates Foundation, Jeff and his real estate development company, Strategic Property Partners are diligently working on the re-imagining of 50 acres in downtown Tampa. In addition to this “small” project, Jeff likes to travel with his family and, of course, cheer on the Bolts!
Penny currently serves on the Board of the Tampa Museum of Art and formerly served as an Ambassador for the non-profit, Dress for Success. In August 2016, she and Jeff were pleased to bring The Beach Tampa by Snarkitecture to Amalie Arena. Following the tremendous response to this installation, they presented The Art of the Brick Tampa in summer 2017, welcoming over 135,000 guests to experience the art of Nathan Sawaya free of charge.
About WEISS/MANFREDI
WEISS/MANFREDI Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism is a multidisciplinary design practice based in New York City. Founded by Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi, the firm is known for the dynamic integration of architecture, art, infrastructure, and landscape design. The firm is well known for the Seattle Art Museum’s celebrated Olympic Sculpture Park, named by TIME magazine as one of the top ten marvels in the world and by Architectural Record as one the “most significant works that defined architecture in our era.” Other notable projects include the Women’s Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitor Center, and Hunter’s Point South Waterfront Park. The firm’s current work includes the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, India, the Artis—Naples Baker Museum and Cultural Campus, and the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale. Most recently, the firm was selected through an international competition to reimagine the La Brea Tar Pits and Page Museum in Los Angeles. For more information visit weissmanfredi.com.
News Coverage
- Tampa Bay Times: Tampa Museum of Art receives $5 million from the Vinik Family Foundation for its education center
- Tampa Bay Business Journal: Tampa Museum of Art receives $5M from Vinik family for new education center
- Tampa Bay Business & Wealth: Tampa Museum of Art receives $5 million gift from Vinik family for education center
- Business Observer: Tampa Bay Lightning owner donates $5 million to art museum
- Yahoo! Finance: Tampa Museum of Art Announces $5 Million Gift from Vinik Family to Support New Education Center
- That’s so Tampa: Tampa Museum of Art receives $5 million gift for new education center
- ArtNews: $5 M. for Tampa Museum
- WFMZ 69 News: Tampa Museum of Art Announces $5 Million Gift from Vinik Family to Support New Education Center
- St. Pete Catalyst: Viniks give Tampa Museum of Art $5M for education center
- Benzinga: Tampa Museum of Art Announces $5 Million Gift from Vinik Family to Support New Education Center
May 12, 2022 (Tampa, FL) — Commemorate Juneteenth with an engaging, family-friendly experience at the Tampa Museum of Art’s first annual Juneteenth Cultural Celebration. On Sunday, June 19, 2022, from 10 am to 8 pm, prepare for a lively community celebration of this holiday, also known as Freedom Day, with free museum admission, art-making activities, live music and performances, family portraits, amazing food trucks, and more.
The event lineup also includes programs by community partners Moffitt Cancer Center, its George Edgecomb Society, and HORUS Construction Services, promoting social and health equity for all community members. CAN Community Health will provide free health screenings onsite throughout the day. Visitors will also experience a free sampling of arts and health programs the Tampa Museum of Art provides for families and various special needs groups.
Kessanda Abel, Community Engagement Manager at the Tampa Museum of Art, said, “Juneteenth at TMA is an excellent way to see the amazing power that art has to bring the community together, especially when all members of the community are welcome and represented in a place that celebrates the uniqueness of everybody.”
Cathy Grant, Vice President and Chief Diversity Equity and Inclusion Officer at Moffit Cancer Center and Co-chair of the Governance Committee at the Tampa Museum of Art, said, “this celebration is a great example of organizations with a shared commitment to equity working together to support programs like the Juneteenth Cultural Celebration and making educational opportunities accessible to everyone. It’s important for us to extend the opportunity for young people and community members to be able to walk through the doors with their personal experiences, see themselves represented and know that this is a place where they are welcomed, whether they are experiencing the exhibits at the Tampa Museum of Art, or receiving care at the Moffitt Cancer Center.”
Lena Graham Morris, Chair of HORUS Academy, added that “commitment to equity and inclusion is vital as we continue to educate and create cultural awareness. We continue to make strides in this arena and work from a place and space of intention. These efforts ignite impact in our communities from a grassroots perspective, which moves the needle for opportunities to live a quality life.”
The first annual Juneteenth Cultural Celebration is possible thanks to passionate community members and partner organizations that support the Black and African American community in the Tampa Bay area and share the Museum’s objectives to create programs that facilitate equal access to art education opportunities for all community members.
Register for free admission to the Juneteenth Cultural Celebration at https://tampamuseum.org/juneteenth
About Moffitt Cancer Center
Moffitt is dedicated to one lifesaving mission: to contribute to the prevention and cure of cancer. The Tampa-based facility is one of only 52 National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers, a distinction that recognizes Moffitt’s scientific excellence, multidisciplinary research, and robust training and education. Moffitt’s expert nursing staff is recognized by the American Nurses Credentialing Center with Magnet® status, its highest distinction. With more than 7,500 team members, Moffitt has an economic impact in the state of $2.4 billion. For more information, call 1-888-MOFFITT (1-888-663-3488), visit MOFFITT.org, and follow the momentum on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.
About the Tampa Museum of Art
Founded in 1920, the Tampa Museum of Art inspires visitors with engaging exhibitions and innovative educational programs that emphasize ancient, modern, and contemporary art. The Museum houses one of the largest Greek and Roman antiquities collections in the southeastern United States. As one of the region’s most prominent museums devoted to the art of our time, the Museum’s permanent collection also embraces sculpture, photography, painting, new media, and more.
Online programs add to the year-round studio art classes, lectures, and tours that allow children, teens, and adults to discover new perspectives and learn different art-making techniques. Likewise, through unique community partnerships, the Museum offers outreach programs that provide art-therapy-informed interventions and meaningful modes of self-expression to vulnerable segments of the population.
Located in the heart of downtown Tampa, the Tampa Museum of Art leads as both a cultural institution and a community museum dedicated to celebrating its home city’s diversity. In 2021, the Museum embarked on an ambitious renovation to increase exhibition space and education facilities to accommodate growing community partnerships and allow more hands-on, up-close experiences for students and adults. The Museum will remain open to the public throughout the Centennial Renovation, with an expected completion date in the second half of 2022.
General Hours and Information
For tickets and information, visit TampaMuseum.org or call (813) 274-8130. Located at 120 W. Gasparilla Plaza. Tampa, FL 33602, the Tampa Museum of Art is open seven days a week, Monday – Sunday, 10 am – 5 pm, and Thursdays from 10 am – 8 pm.
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TAMPA, FL (April 25, 2022) – The Tampa Museum of Art has received a landmark $25 million donation from Dick Corbett as the lead donation to the Museum’s Centennial Capital Campaign for Renovation and Expansion, which began during its 100th anniversary celebration in 2020.
“This extraordinary gift to the Museum contributes a historic $25 million cash gift to our campaign for the Museum’s expansion. It will allow us to grow our overall area from 69,000 to 120,000 square feet and expand our exhibition and collections space from 14,800 square feet to 43,000 square feet. It will also more than triple available event space, add public restaurant and retail store space as well as a 10,000-square-foot Education Center, allowing us to serve 24,000 Hillsborough County school students annually,” said Michael Tomor, Ph.D., the Penny and Jeff Vinik Executive Director of the Tampa Museum of Art.
“This gift from Dick Corbett makes history in Florida’s art community because it constitutes the single largest private donation ever made to a public art museum and art education center in this state,” Tomor added, noting that although there have been other large donations made to museums in Florida, those have been in the form of part cash-part collections of art.
“This generous donation is unique because it is a stand-alone cash contribution to our capital campaign,” Tomor explained.
“The Tampa Museum of Art strengthens arts and culture in our vibrant city, and opens the eyes of schoolchildren to the power of beauty and imagination. I am proud to make this historic gift to TMA in celebration of their centennial anniversary. My hope is that it will encourage others who have the means to give back to also join in and support the growth of the Museum’s world-class exhibits and programs,” said Dick Corbett.
“Dick and Cornie Corbett have been extraordinary patrons and supporters of the Tampa Museum of Art for decades,” according to Jerry Divers, chair of the Tampa Museum of Art Foundation and head of the Museum’s Centennial Capital Campaign. Divers added: “Our community is blessed by so many other significant gifts and legacy projects developed and funded by Dick Corbett. His contributions have been bold catalysts for effective, broad-based public and private projects with lasting benefits for commercial development in Florida as well as on policies affecting K-12 education, growth management, economic development, agriculture and commercial real estate.”
“Dick Corbett’s generous donation to the Museum’s Centennial Capital Campaign will allow us to move swiftly to complete the significant renovations already underway and to begin our transformative expansion project scheduled to break ground in the next eight to 10 months,” according to Dianne Jacob, President of the Tampa Museum of Art Board of Trustees.
About Richard A. Corbett
Dick Corbett has developed, financed, and constructed more than $1 billion in complex real estate ventures as chief executive officer and president of Concorde Companies, a Tampa-based real estate investment firm. His most ambitious and acclaimed achievement was conceiving, developing, and attracting funding for Tampa International Plaza and Bay Street shopping center adjacent to the Tampa International Airport. Tampa International Plaza is a 3-million-square-foot mixed-use retail, office, and hotel development that attracts more than 20 million visitors annually. Since its opening in 2001, it has generated thousands of permanent jobs, hundreds of new commercial businesses, including hotels and restaurants, as well as commercial offices that have contributed hundreds of millions of dollars annually to the Tampa Bay regional economy.
Together with his wife, Cornelia, the Corbetts have financially supported the Independent Day School for more than 40 years and served as Board of Trustee volunteer leaders. In 2012, the school was named the Corbett Preparatory School in appreciation of the work the Corbetts have done for the school.
In 2013, the Crisis Center of Tampa Bay dedicated the Corbett Trauma Center in honor of Cornelia. The facility expanded mental health counseling in eastern Hillsborough County by providing counseling services, group therapy, and other mental health support for children and families.
The same year, Dick and Cornelia Corbett were inducted as a couple into the Florida Council of Economic Education Hall of Fame, recognizing their impact on the community through business and civic achievements and how they serve as lifelong examples of integrity and high ideals.
In 2015, Dick Corbett made two high-profile gifts totaling $35 million to his alma mater, the University of Notre Dame. The pledge included $25 million to underwrite the construction of the Corbett Family Hall, a 280,000-square-foot academic building, and a $10 million endowment for the Notre Dame head football coaching position at the university.
Dick Corbett was appointed to consecutive terms on the Florida Fish & Wildlife Commission by Governors Jeb Bush and Rick Scott, including acting as Chairman of the FWC for several years. During that period, Corbett helped develop the Florida Youth Conservation Centers Network, jointly sponsored by the FWC and the Wildlife Foundation to help reconnect children with traditional outdoor activities. He continues to serve as chair emeritus of the Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida.
In his revealing biography, “Ringside Stories,” Dick Corbett tells the fascinating story of his hard-knock youth from a fractured home in Rochester, NY, who overcame setbacks large and small to forge his long and remarkable career as a real estate guru.
“Life is precious – everyone gets exactly one,” Corbett is fond of saying, which helps explain how a combination of perseverance and strategic thinking pushed him to be the best that he could be, and fuels his family’s generosity toward their neighbors and community.
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News Coverage
- New York Times: “In Florida, It’s ‘Go West’ for Arts Donors and Patrons”
- Tampa Bay Times: “Tampa Museum of Art receives $25 million gift for its expansion”
- Tampa Bay Business Journal: “Tampa Museum of Art receives $25M gift toward expansion campaign”
- Fox 13 Tampa Bay: “Record $25 million donation funding Tampa Museum of Art expansion benefits Riverwalk”
- ABC Action News Tampa bay: “Tampa Museum of Art receives $25 million donation for renovation, expansion efforts”
- WFMZ-TV 69 News: “Tampa Museum of Art Announces Historic $25 Million Lead Gift to Centennial Capital Campaign”
- ArtNews: “Record $25 M. Gift for Florida Museum”
- Art Net News: Art Industry News, “Movers and shakers”
- ArtDaily.com: “Tampa Museum of Art announces historic $25 million lead gift to Centennial Capital Campaign”
- That’s So Tampa: “Tampa Museum of Art receives $25 million donation for major expansion along the Riverwalk”
- Business Observer: “Tampa Museum of Art receives $25M donation that will help fund renovation”
- The Tampa Bay 100: “Tampa Museum of Art announces historic $25M gift”
By Ray Roa
The Tampa Museum of Art has a couple of handfuls of great exhibitions happening right how (CL recently covered outsider art from the Monroe Family and “HerStory”), but downtown’s landmark museum has also made room for “Young @ Art,” featuring work from Hillsborough County students in kindergarten through 8th grade. Check it out through Feb. 20.
by WFLA
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – The Downtown Tampa city skyline is set to get a boost in the near future thanks to a new addition being constructed for the Tampa Museum of Art.
When completed in 2024, the crystalline, four-story structure to the Hillsborough River waterfront will double the museum’s exhibition spaces and triple its education spaces.
by Ben Montgomery
The Tampa Museum of Art unveiled impressive plans for a $68 million expansion and redevelopment of its building and land on Curtis Hixon Park, adding about 51,000 square feet of new space to the existing 25,000-square-foot museum.
By 10 Tampa Bay
TAMPA, Fla. — Leaders at the Tampa Museum of Art announced plans Monday that would expand its footprint and change the overall look of the downtown area along the Hillsborough River.
It’s even more growth for a museum that started a separate renovation project earlier this summer.