Community Calendar

Go nose to nose with Big John, the World’s Largest Triceratops, in an immersive and playful dinosaur exhibit at the Glazer Children’s Museum in Downtown Tampa. Whether you have a child at home or not, all are welcome to visit this colossal exhibit, 66 million years in the making.

The USF St. Pete Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) Open House is an opportunity for attendees to learn about our upcoming courses and meet the faculty. It's the OLLI experience in a nutshell: learn something, meet great people, exercise your brain, expand your network!

Dr. Heather O'Leary will give a keynote lecture to kickoff this OLLI season by asking us to explore the cultural dimensions of life's most important questions: What is happiness? How do people create happiness and protect it together? How does this vary across time and place?

The Open House is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Light refreshments are served. Bring a friend and plan to make new ones!

Register online or call 813-974-5848

Location: University Student Center Ballroom | 200 6th Ave S, St. Petersburg, FL 33701

About OLLI - USF

The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at USF (OLLI-USF) is a member-based learning community of adults age 50+. We offer classes, workshops, lectures, events and social networking. We provide high-quality, low-cost learning opportunities for seasoned adults across West Central Florida.

On View: June 28 – September 21
The Chihuly Collection
720 Central Avenue

Each summer at the Chihuly Collection, we highlight the work of an artist who creates and/or teaches at the Morean Glass Studio. The purpose of this exhibition series is to demonstrate that extraordinary glass art is made not only in the Pacific Northwest (where Dale Chihuly is from) but also right here in our backyard. This year’s featured Morean Glass Studio artist is Dan Alexander, who, along with Chihuly, is inspired by the rhythms and intricacies of the natural world.

Dan has been affiliated with the Morean since 2022 when he was brought on to assist with teaching workshops, conducting public glassblowing demonstrations, and educating museum guests about the history of glass and the artists’ creative process. During this time, he has also utilized the Morean’s studio to create his signature product lines and one-of-a-kind works of art.

Dan states, “my work investigates the intersection of pattern, sculpture, and form through the transformative medium of glass. Inspired by organic structures, historical artifacts, architectural motifs, global textiles, and the textures discovered in nature discovered during my international travels, I reinterpret the environments around me with a focus on the hidden elegance of repetition and the quiet power of small, overlooked details.

“Glass, with its fluidity, translucence, and ability to capture both light and movement, becomes a conduit for these explorations. The repetition of intricate lines, the layering of colors, and the subtle variations across a surface become meditations on time, labor, and the invisible forces that shape our world. My work seeks to blur the line between the organic and the constructed, inviting viewers to see the familiar anew—as if peering into a tide pool, a tapestry, or a ruin, and discovering an unexpected universe within.

“Ultimately, my practice is an ongoing dialogue between observation and transformation—a way to honor the details that often go unnoticed, and to celebrate the beauty found in the act of accumulation, rhythm, nature, architecture and creating.”

La Grande Illusion is a major exhibition of works by internationally acclaimed artist, Brian Maguire. The exhibition spans two decades of work that spotlights the artist’s lifelong quest to draw attention to global injustices, war, and human rights. One of Ireland's leading cultural figures, Maguire has turned the practice and tradition of painting into acts of visual testimony. Maguire’s paintings are global in scope and are derived from projects undertaken between 2007 and 2024 in Mexico, the Mediterranean, Syria, Sudan, the United States, and the Amazon. Maguire's artworks are painted from direct experience and involve the artist spending extensive time on the ground with the communities that welcome him. The results are, plainly put, paintings that visualize the commonality of human suffering and dramatize the plight of people in need.

Work in your drawing and painting media of choice or explore new ones. In these three-hour instructor-guided single-session classes, students will learn the fundamentals and expand their 2D knowledge while creating images from life. Learn the basics and grow your techniques with tailored instruction and live model sessions. Classes Available | Sep 15, Oct 13, Nov 10, Dec 8

*Drawing materials provided. These classes do have live Nude Models.

Sam Hamilton/Sam Tam Ham (b. 1984, Auckland, New Zealand/Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa) created Te Moana Meridian as a vessel for proposing a radical new United Nations General Assembly Draft Resolution to formally relocate the prime meridian from Greenwich, London, to Te Moana-Nui-ā-Kiwa/the South Pacific Ocean. Since its inception at an 1884 conference in Washington D.C., the prime meridian has functioned to implicitly serve the ambitions of the British colonial empire. Rather than serving as a "beacon of humanity," the prime meridian today more resembles a bygone imperial relic. As an original operatic performance and five-channel video installation, Te Moana Meridian proposes to elect a new "center of the world" while acknowledging that doing so has the potential to reframe the dynamics of global power.

Relive the timeless magic of Peter, Paul & Mary with the captivating sounds of A Band Called Honalee. This modern-day folk trio brings to life classics such as “Leaving on a Jet Plane,” “Blowing in the Wind,” and “Puff the Magic Dragon”. Featuring stirring vocal harmonies and musicianship, this show also pays tribute to legends like Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, The Mamas & The Papas, and more.

Go nose to nose with Big John, the World’s Largest Triceratops, in an immersive and playful dinosaur exhibit at the Glazer Children’s Museum in Downtown Tampa. Whether you have a child at home or not, all are welcome to visit this colossal exhibit, 66 million years in the making.

On View: June 28 – September 21
The Chihuly Collection
720 Central Avenue

Each summer at the Chihuly Collection, we highlight the work of an artist who creates and/or teaches at the Morean Glass Studio. The purpose of this exhibition series is to demonstrate that extraordinary glass art is made not only in the Pacific Northwest (where Dale Chihuly is from) but also right here in our backyard. This year’s featured Morean Glass Studio artist is Dan Alexander, who, along with Chihuly, is inspired by the rhythms and intricacies of the natural world.

Dan has been affiliated with the Morean since 2022 when he was brought on to assist with teaching workshops, conducting public glassblowing demonstrations, and educating museum guests about the history of glass and the artists’ creative process. During this time, he has also utilized the Morean’s studio to create his signature product lines and one-of-a-kind works of art.

Dan states, “my work investigates the intersection of pattern, sculpture, and form through the transformative medium of glass. Inspired by organic structures, historical artifacts, architectural motifs, global textiles, and the textures discovered in nature discovered during my international travels, I reinterpret the environments around me with a focus on the hidden elegance of repetition and the quiet power of small, overlooked details.

“Glass, with its fluidity, translucence, and ability to capture both light and movement, becomes a conduit for these explorations. The repetition of intricate lines, the layering of colors, and the subtle variations across a surface become meditations on time, labor, and the invisible forces that shape our world. My work seeks to blur the line between the organic and the constructed, inviting viewers to see the familiar anew—as if peering into a tide pool, a tapestry, or a ruin, and discovering an unexpected universe within.

“Ultimately, my practice is an ongoing dialogue between observation and transformation—a way to honor the details that often go unnoticed, and to celebrate the beauty found in the act of accumulation, rhythm, nature, architecture and creating.”

La Grande Illusion is a major exhibition of works by internationally acclaimed artist, Brian Maguire. The exhibition spans two decades of work that spotlights the artist’s lifelong quest to draw attention to global injustices, war, and human rights. One of Ireland's leading cultural figures, Maguire has turned the practice and tradition of painting into acts of visual testimony. Maguire’s paintings are global in scope and are derived from projects undertaken between 2007 and 2024 in Mexico, the Mediterranean, Syria, Sudan, the United States, and the Amazon. Maguire's artworks are painted from direct experience and involve the artist spending extensive time on the ground with the communities that welcome him. The results are, plainly put, paintings that visualize the commonality of human suffering and dramatize the plight of people in need.