Community Calendar

Join us at Brenda McMahon Gallery for our special March Call for Entry event. Women's History - Leading the Change. We're opening the conversation - What does change look like when women are leading the way?

Join us - 6-9pm for the ARTIST RECEPTION. Special musical guest is Jazz saxophonist Zeta the Babe.

CAMPGround26, the international new music festival presented by Contemporary Art Music Project (CAMP), continues its three-day celebration of adventurous contemporary music (March 5–7, 2026) with CONCERT 3 at The Disco Dolls Studio on Friday, March 6 at 7:00 PM.

Across the festival, CAMPGround26 showcases 20–25 compositions and world premieres, embracing all styles, performance media, and aesthetics. Following Concert 1’s monodramas and Concert 2’s multimedia and chamber explorations, Concert 3 turns toward intimate solos, electrified color, percussion spectacle, and bold new works by an international roster of composers.

Step into the vibrant world of The Disco Dolls Studio—an all-inclusive salon, gallery, and boutique—and enjoy an afternoon of fun ensemble music featuring strings, trumpet, percussion, and voice. A celebration of creativity, sound, and community!

The Tampa Museum of Art offers half-day art camps in the AM and PM. Full-day camps are available with the purchase of two camps. Campers can create, learn, and play in our newly constructed education center, in the galleries, and the Curtis Hixon playground. Camps have different themes based on the Museum’s permanent collection of antiquities, modern & contemporary art, and exhibitions on view in our galleries. Needs-based scholarships are available for a limited number of campers.

Enjoy the beauty of spring in a lush garden setting!

Kerby’s Spring Fling is your opportunity to breathe in the new season. Wander through displays overflowing with spring blooms, striking foliage, and statement trees. Chat with our garden experts about your vision to make your garden, porch, lanai, or gazebo your own piece of paradise; we’ll be delighted to make recommendations to assist you on your planting journey. Select your favorite plants to take home and get your hands in the dirt (it’s healthy!).

While you’re here, take selfies and family pictures with our Spring Garden Wall and Butterfly Murals, then indulge in delectable treats from our favorite pop-up shops. If you want some additional experiences, get your tickets to Yoga in the Garden and The Mad Hatter’s Garden Focaccia workshop.

There’s no time like spring in Florida to live life outside. Spring Fling will send you home with new ideas, plenty of inspiration, and a little extra color in your life.

Event Schedule and Opportunities:

Quail Run Mobile Coffee Bar, 9 am – 3 pm

Spellbound Sourdough Pop-Up Shop, 10 am – noon (or until sold out)

Photo Opps with Kerby's Butterfly Murals and Spring Garden Wall, all day

Ticketed Experiences (tickets can be purchased at shop.kerbysnursery.com):

Yoga in the Garden, 10 am (tickets required)

The Mad Hatter’s Garden Focaccia Workshop, 1 pm (tickets required)

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.

Sarasota Art Museum shines a spotlight on Art Deco as the artform celebrates its centennial anniversary. Art Deco: The Golden Age of Illustration showcases 100 rare posters from the Crouse Collection created by some of the world’s earliest master graphic designers during the 1920s and 1930s.

During the 1920s, a bold new artistic style roared to life: Art Deco. This exciting, dramatic, and glamorous new genre bid farewell to the soft, organic forms of Art Nouveau and soon took the world by storm. One of Art Deco’s most significant contributions was the art of printed graphics, giving birth to the disciplines of illustration and typography that permeate our world today.

Featuring subjects ranging from automobiles, airlines, and ocean liners to drinks and tobacco, the works represented in Art Deco: The Golden Age of Illustration celebrate modernity, dynamism, and luxury—the dreams and desires of the turbulent early twentieth century.

In addition to the iconic posters, Art Deco: The Golden Age of Illustration conjures the era’s design aesthetic with selected sculptural works and cocktail shakers from the Crouse Collection, and Art Deco furniture pieces on loan from the Wolfsonian Museum at Florida International University in Miami.

Art Deco: The Golden Age of Illustration is organized by Sarasota Art Museum of Ringling College of Art and Design and curated by Rangsook Yoon, senior curator at Sarasota Art Museum.

Image credit: Installation view of Art Deco: The Golden Age of Illustration at Sarasota Art Museum, Sarasota, Florida, 2025. Photo: Ryan Gamma.

New works by Selina Román blend photography, abstraction, and self-portraiture to explore themes of beauty and the politics of size in Selina Román: Abstract Corpulence. Roman’s photographs feature tightly cropped images of the artist’s own body, boldly occupying the full composition and extending past the boundaries of each frame. Pastel bodysuits and tights transform the artist’s flesh into new, gently rolling landscapes as amorphous shapes converge to create modernist-inspired compositions. At this scale, Roman’s tightly cropped portrayals of stomachs, thighs, and hips become formal studies of line, shape and color, asking viewers to consider the human form from a point of true abstraction. The softly hued palette created by the artist’s bodysuits lends itself to narratives around the aesthetics of femininity. Displayed as a colorful never-before-seen installation, Roman’s photographs transform the gallery into a space of quiet resistance, subverting traditional ideas of feminine beauty.

Selina Román: Abstract Corpulence is organized by Sarasota Art Museum of Ringling College of Art and Design and curated by Rangsook Yoon, senior curator at Sarasota Art Museum.

Image credit: Selina Román (American, 1978). Blockhead 1, 2025. Dye sublimation on aluminum, 40 x 50 in. Courtesy of the artist.

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.

Join us for the Downtown Satruday Market at Avalon Park (Wesley Chapel)!

FREE ENTRY & FREE PARKING!
DATES: 1st & 3rd Saturdays!
HOURS: 10AM-2PM

Join us in Downtown Avalon Park for a vibrant outdoor market experience filled with farm-fresh produce, handcrafted goods, and your favorite local small businesses.

The Downtown Saturday Market is designed to bring people together and support local entrepreneurs. Whether you’re shopping for healthy ingredients, unique gifts, or simply want to stroll and explore, the market offers something for everyone.

FAMILY & PET FRIENDLY! HANDICAP ACCESSIBLE!

Located at Avalon Park (Wesley Chapel)
Address: 4424 Friendly Way, Wesley Chapel, FL, United States, Florida 33545
(On the corner of Friendly Way & Meeting Street)

Hosted by Florida Penguin Productions.
For vendor info, email Brett@floridapenguinproductions.com

Join the USF Health Byrd Alzheimer's Institute for a day of health and wellness! Meet USF Health experts and learn strategies and tips to maintain or improve your health. Sign up for a free hearing screening, visit the Brain Bus for free resources, and participate in a fun exercise activity. Remember, it's never too late to adopt healthy habits!