Join us in the galleries at the Tampa Museum of Art for a conversation with artists featured in the exhibition, Skyway 2024: A Contemporary Collaboration. Artists Marina Shaltout and Aimee Jones will discuss their work and how their art practices relate to femininity and women’s experiences.
Skyway 2024: A Contemporary Collaboration is a celebration of artistic practices in the Tampa Bay region, as it is a collaboration between five institutions: the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg; The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota; the Sarasota Art Museum of Ringling College of Art and Design; the Tampa Museum of Art; and the University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa. Working together, curators from each institution offer context for the diversity of art being made in Hillsborough, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, and Sarasota counties.
Talks at the Tampa Museum of Art are free with the cost of Admission.
Marina Shaltout is a multimedia artist who combines video, photography, sculpture and installation to create experiential environments. Using parody, her work critiques representations of women throughout mythology, pop culture, and cinema.
Shaltout received her MFA from the University of Arizona and her BFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has completed residencies at the Creative Centre in Stodvarfjordur, Iceland and at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. She has exhibited work nationally and internationally in venues such as the Royal Photographic Society in Bristol, Alte Munze in Berlin, the Cinematograph in Innsbruck Austria, the Living National Treasure Museum in Tokyo, the Czong Institute in Gimpo South Korea, the Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, the Red Room in Baltimore, and the Billboard Creative exhibition in Los Angeles.
She currently teaches in Fine Arts and Visual Studies at Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, FL.
Aimee Jones is a visual artist and educator currently working in St. Petersburg, Florida. She earned her BS in Advertising at Texas State University (2014) and earned her MFA and Graduate Certification in Women and Gender Studies at the University of South Florida (2022). She recently was granted the 2023 Creative Pinellas Emerging Artist Grant, was a finalist for the Carlos Malamud Prize in 2022 and was a participant in the HANNAC Can Borni Residency in Barcelona, Spain in 2018. Her recent solo exhibition Of Momentos and Fetishes was shown at Art Center Sarasota (2024). Exhibitions have included Skyway 2024 at the Tampa Contemporary Art Museum, Pen and Brush in NYC (NY), Rollins Museum (FL), Creative Pinellas (FL), University of Central Florida, the Contemporary Art Museum of University of South Florida, ICOSA Austin (TX), and more. Her specialty is painting the human figure transformed in both domestic and botanical landscapes while researching feminist theory.