Community Calendar

Are you a curious creative? Do you dare to play? Would making more time just for you bring you more joy? Join us for a whimsical journey to open your heart and mind. Explore with abandon as we engage the artist within through discover, practice and creativity.

With each class you’ll play with new mediums, work through a variety of projects, and connect with others on their wonderment journey. Imagine awe-filled days in an enchanted bungalow with other creative souls. A leisurely pace of inspiring experiences, sharing, making and lots of play.

Creativity helps us break free from modern living and provides a fresh perspective for renewed vitality. This weekend is an opportunity to make time to love yourself, radical acceptance through embracing joy. We shall summon our secret strengths, our creative genius, and live boldy from the heart.

Thursday April 23rd - Welcome Reception + Registration
Friday April 24th – Day 1 workshops and evening free play
Saturday April 25th - Day 2 workshops and evening free play

You’ll spend each day at The Paper Seahorse, with breaks for lunch and dinner.

This two-day retreat features three immersive workshops (all supplies included), swag bag, make-and-takes, catered lunches, snacks and light refreshments throughout the day, and extra time for free play! In addition to wonderful workshops, there will be plenty of time for meditating, knitting/crochet, sketching or to simply be.

Join us for a lecture with Janet Echelman, an artist featured in the exhibition Avant Garde: Remarkable Women in the Permanent Collection. Echelman creates experiential sculpture at the scale of buildings that transform with wind and light. The art shifts from being an object you look at, to something you can get lost in. Her work defies categorization as it intersects disciplinary boundaries, from Sculpture, Architecture, and Urban Design to Material Science, Computer Science, Engineering, and Performance. Using unlikely materials from knotted fiber and atomized water particles to choreographed dancers, Echelman combines ancient craft with original computational design software to create artworks that have become focal points for urban life on five continents.

Celebrate the opening of this new contemporary art exhibition featuring art by Mär Martinez, a Syrian American artist, with music by DJ Nigel John, La Patronas Tacos & Birria food truck, a cash bar on our beautiful National Historic Landmark campus for free!

Experience MOSI’s Sensory Saturday, created in partnership with the Center for Autism & Related Disabilities (C.A.R.D.) at the University of South Florida. We designed this event to welcome individuals with sensory differences and their families to explore and connect in a supportive, engaging environment.

Experience the intersection of music, science, and art at the Museum of Science & Innovation (MOSI). Held in the Holloway Digital Dome Theatre—home to the Saunders Planetarium—these shows feature vivid laser visuals and dynamic special effects set to legendary soundtracks.
Event Highlights
• Immersive Atmosphere: Step inside America’s second-largest planetarium for a 360-degree sensory experience.
• Live Star Show: Every performance begins with a 10-minute guided tour of the night sky led by a MOSI astronomer.
• Diverse Music Themes: Rotating monthly shows ranging from Taylor Swift and Prince to Pink Floyd, Metallica, and seasonal holiday specials.
• On-Site Amenities: Beakers Bar opens at 5:30 PM for pre-show drinks and refreshments.
Quick Details
• When: Select Friday evenings.
• Showtimes: 6:30 PM and 8:15 PM.
• Location: 4801 E. Fowler Avenue, Tampa, FL.
• Cost: $10 for Members | $13 for Non-Members.
• Age Range: All ages welcome (note: shows contain flashing lights).

"Join the St. Petersburg Museum of History every fourth Saturday of the month for a historic 2-hour tour that explores the events and venues of the Civil Rights movement in St. Petersburg. From the South Mole Beach and Spa Pool to Lunch Counter sit-ins and an act of Civil disobedience at City Hall, the Museum of History and Star Trolley takes you on a trip through the Civil Rights history of the Sunshine City. Seating is limited, so reserve your spot early!

Location: St. Petersburg Museum of History, 335 2nd Ave NE, St. Petersburg, FL 33701

9am to 11am

$45.00 ($35.00 members)

Repeats every fourth Saturday of the month – Ends 12/26/2026

Link: https://spmoh.com/event/

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.

MAACM Art Nouveau Glass Class NEW DESIGN
Tuesday, April 21 and 28, 2026; 10am to 1pm
Celebrate the natural forms and sinuous curves of Art Nouveau, a movement which flourished concurrently with the Arts and Crafts movement, by creating a stunning leaded glass panel. Level 1 classes are the perfect introduction to the craft of leaded glass. Registration for this class includes two 3-hr glass sessions, 4/21 and 4/28. Closed-toed shoes are required to participate in class. Class fee: Non-members: $125, Members $110.

Award-winning and internationally recognized artist Janet Echelman (American) is renowned for her soaring installations that merge ancient craft with cutting-edge technology. Using centuries-old fishing net knotting techniques, Echelman transforms humble materials into ethereal sculptures that visualize natural phenomena and the interconnectedness of humanity and the environment.
Radical Softness offers a rare, intimate look at Echelman’s artistic evolution, tracing her journey from early explorations in drawing, painting, and textiles to the monumental, netted sculptures that have redefined public spaces around the world. This exhibition contextualizes the artist’s practice, revealing the narratives, influences, and processes that drive her work. At its core, the exhibition highlights Echelman’s use of softness as a powerful tool—not only in material but as a philosophy. Showcasing a selection of works from across all four decades of the artist’s path-breaking career, along with a series of never-before-seen cyanotypes, Radical Softness reveals how an artist’s work can bring people together and carve out space for reflection in an ever-changing world.
Founded in New York City and based in Boston, Studio Echelman’s impact is global. A recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, Harvard Loeb Fellowship, Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award, Aspen Institute Henry Crown Fellowship, and Fulbright Lectureship, her monumental sculptures span five continents. Recent commissions include Remembering the Future at the MIT Museum (2025), Butterfly Rest Stop in Frisco, Texas (2024), Current in Columbus, Ohio (2023), Bending Arc at the St. Pete Pier in Florida (2020), Earthtime Korea (2020), Impatient Optimist at The Gates Foundation in Seattle (2015), and 1.8 Renwick at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (2015), among others.
Janet Echelman: Radical Softness is organized by Sarasota Art Museum of Ringling College of Art and Design and curated by Lacie Barbour, associate curator of exhibitions at Sarasota Art Museum.

Image: Janet Echelman (American). Study (Butterfly Rest Stop 1/9 scale), Rome, Italy, 2022. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Giovanni DeAngelis.

Imagine Museum proudly participates in Museums for All — simply present your SNAP Benefit card and photo ID to one of our associates upon arrival and enjoy $3.00 admission to the museum. Children ages 6 and under are free.