UPCOMING EVENTS
Tampa City Council District 5 Candidate Q&A
Join the Ybor Ad Hoc Arts Group at Kress Contemporary for a special opportunity to meet candidates running for Tampa City Council District 5. This event will feature brief introductions from each participating candidate, followed by an audience-led Q&A session.
CHA's Meet the Artist: Amalia Bracho
A Venezuelan-born creative based in Tampa, Amalia is the visionary behind Bracho + Bosch - a brand that merges fashion, fine art, and family legacy. A true force, her work has turned heads from Tampa Bay Fashion Experience to New York Fashion Week.
CHA's Meet the Artist: Valerie Zuñiga
Based in Tampa, Valerie uses bold color, expressive brushwork, and figurative oil painting to explore identity, womanhood, and the intimacy of everyday life. Her emotionally charged portraits blur the line between observation and instrospection - inviting vulnerability, reflection, and connection.
Kitchen Table's Writing Over Everything
Join Kitchen Table Literary Arts for craft workshops, creative practice discussions, uninterrupted writing time, and opportunities for feedback on your work. Every Saturday in the Writer’s Room.
CHA's Meet the Artist: Joyce Yagual
An Ecuadorian-born artist whose work is known for its technical precision, emotional depth, and intimate connection with the natural world. Using charcoal, graphite, and colored pencils, she captures serene scenes in which everyday elements become symbols of inner strength, silence, and contemplation.
CHA's Meet the Artist: Joyce Yagual
An Ecuadorian-born artist whose work is known for its technical precision, emotional depth, and intimate connection with the natural world. Using charcoal, graphite, and colored pencils, she captures serene scenes in which everyday elements become symbols of inner strength, silence, and contemplation.
Art Noire's TAM4A En Gallery Workshop
Unleash your inner artist at Art Noire’s EN Gallery Workshops—a series of elevated creative experiences designed to inspire, relax, and reconnect you with your creative self.
CHA's Meet the Artist: Ivan Castro
Mexican American artist and designer blending fashion, printmaking, and heritage to tell stories through clothing and art. His work celebrates imperfections and the beauty in what’s often overlooked. He believes success requires embracing failure. Each piece is a tribute to his roots and the ongoing fight for freedom, visibility, and voice.
Art Noire's TAM4A Night Market & Open Gallery
Every second Tuesday, Art Noire Gallery presents their Signature - Tuesdays Are Made 4 Art (TAM4A) Night Market + Open Gallery—a curated evening celebrating art, culture, and community.
Art Noire's TAM4A Indie Intimates: Artist Talks at Art Noire
Join Art Noire every third Tuesday for Indie Intimates, an immersive fireside chat series where we sit down with artists across disciplines—music, fashion, culinary, visual arts, and more—for unfiltered conversations about the journey behind their work.
Third Thursday at Kress Contemporary
Every third Thursday, Kress Contemporary stays open late with extended gallery hours until 8 p.m.
Tampa Fringe's Anything Goes Open Mic
Welcoming comedy, music, spoken word, theatre and everything in between. Come watch or perform!
Art Noire's TAM4A Wellness En Gallery
Join Art Noire every fourth Tuesday for movement and sound therapy with a beginner-friendly yoga flow and community check-in.
Reception for Tempus Projects’ SHIP OF FOOLS and ALL IN: George Anderton, Works from North A
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More Paths to Publication with Kitchen Table
After a successful panel and open mic last month, Kitchen Table returns with MORE PATHS TO PUBLICATION!
Heard Em Say's Monthly Youth Open Mic
Join Heard Em Say’s monthly youth open mic every LAST Friday of the month. Open to ALL ARTISTS under the age of 19. Sign up is at the door!
Tampa Fringe's Anything Goes Open Mic
Welcoming comedy, music, spoken word, theatre and everything in between. Come watch or perform!
Opening Reception for OXH Galleries' One in the Hand, Two in the Fold
Exploring the aesthetics and labor of self-optimization in an era of accelerated capitalism, One in the Hand, Two in the Fold considers how the internet, consumer tools, and self-improvement culture encourage a cycle of perpetual reinvention.
Opening Reception for Currents: New Work from the Artists of Kress Contemporary
This group exhibition, curated by HCC Arts Director Amanda Poss, brings together recent work by 14 studio artists working out of Kress Contemporary in the heart of Ybor City.
Ybor Art Factory Exhibition & Auction
Ybor Art Factory presenta:
“EXPO VENTA COLECTIVA” (Con Ofertas Especiales)
Arte Contemporáneo Cubano en Tampa
Free summer printmaking workshop
Participants are invited to join printmaker Carissa Heinrichs at Kress Contemporary’s Kress Press on Sunday July 13th for a monoprint workshop.
Opening Reception for CHA's My Journey Through Art
The Coalition of Hispanic Artists Gallery presents CHA Collective Art Exhibition, “My Journey Through Art,” an inspiring showcase of talent, culture and personal stories told through powerful visual art.
Heard Em Say's Monthly Youth Open Mic
Join Heard Em Say’s monthly youth open mic every LAST Friday of the month. Open to ALL ARTISTS under the age of 19. Sign up is at the door!
Juneteenth Art Affair
Art Noire Gallery, OXH Gallery and 3 Gems Birth Services celebrate Juneteenth with an art exhibition and discussion of Black birth.
Tampa International Fringe Festival
Celebrate nine years of indie performing arts at Tampa Fringe’s 12-day festival this June, where there is something for everyone! With all shows clocking in at one hour or less, you can binge on storytelling, comedy, theatre, dance, and more. Tickets now on sale!
Tempus Projects’ Prince Party
Mark your calendar for this summer, 𝗦𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗗𝗔𝗬, 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟳, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 @𝟴𝗽𝗺. celebrate all things 𝗣𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗖𝗘 with Tempus Projects. Tickets now on sale!
Let's Talk Publishing with Kitchen Table
Whether you are ready to submit your work or plan to publish it yourself, Kitchen Table’s PATHS TO PUBLICATION panel and open mic is for YOU!
GrowHouse presents Rookies vs. Legends
Welcome to the ultimate showdown between rookie poets and legendary wordsmiths at GrowHouse’s live Poetry Slam event! Tickets now on sale!
OXH Gallery's First Light
OXH Gallery is proud to present First Light, a photo exhibition centering the raw, powerful realities of birth.
Heard Em Say's Monthly Youth Open Mic
Tampa’s only youth open mic turns 18 years old and they’re celebrating with OG performers and guest poets. Open to ALL ARTISTS under the age of 19. Sign up is at the door!
Opening Reception for Tempus Projects' GRACEFUL ABANDON :: BRITTANY METZ
Installation and new media artist Brittany Metz explores the nature of experience and perception through moving images, video stills, cyanotypes, altered magazines, and sculptural collages in “Graceful Abandon.”
Artist Reception | Friday, May 16, 7-9 p.m. (members & corporate sponsors welcomed at 6 p.m.)
Opening Reception for Tempus Projects' VAE VICTIS :: QUINTAS SUNISTRA
Tempus Projects probes Florida’s dark side once again this summer in Quintas Sunistra.
Artist Reception | Friday, May 16, 7-9 p.m. (members & corporate sponsors welcomed at 6 p.m.)
Tampa Tunes unveiling + open play
We’re unveiling Tampa Tunes' “Homer” with an open play session.
Alé Salamán Situations: a solo exhibition at Honey Gallery
Honey Gallery hosts Alé Salamán’s first solo show at Kress Contemporary.
Reverb's "You Again and Me for the First Time"
You Again and Me for the First Time is a collection of monuments to the ephemeral. Featuring artwork by Becca Wahl, Kristen Roles, and Tatiana Mesa Paján (BKT Collective).
CLUE: A Concert for Love, Understanding, and Equality
The Reflections Chamber Ensemble—a nonprofit dedicated to sharing world-class chamber music with Tampa Bay audiences for over 20 years—is proud to present CLUE: A Concert for Love, Understanding, and Equality. This special evening of solos and duets will benefit Equality Florida, with all proceeds directly supporting their mission.
Paco Erhard: Live Forever
With fierce and fearless stand-up, German comic Paco Erhard tells a true tale of tough times, redemption, and everlasting laughter at Fringe Theatre May 9-10.
Grand Opening of the Coalition of Hispanic Artists Gallery
Join us as the Hispanic Artists of Tampa Bay celebrate their new home at Kress Contemporary!
Borrowed Traces multi-space exhibition
Borrowed Traces is a multi-spaced exhibition featuring the work of Diana Sosnowska and Brogan Willis. Each artist focuses on ephemerality and explores their understanding of Florida's changing political, social, and cultural shifts. Informed by the Indigenous epistemologies of adaptation, movement, and innovation and co-curated by Dakota Mace (Diné), they look through their communities, histories, and relationship to their environments to understand how materiality and process inform their relationship to place and memory.
Meet and Greet with French Performance Artist Julienne Doko
Join OXH Gallery, Art Noire Gallery and Tampa Arts Alliance at Kress Contemporary for an intimate meet and greet with visiting French dance artist Julienne Doko.
Tampa Fringe's Anything Goes Open Mic
Welcoming comedy, music, spoken word, theatre and everything in between. Come watch or perform!
Before We Were Still
REVERB Gallery Director Patrick Carew presents his photography alongside fellow USF MFA candidate Diana Sosnowska in this “quick and dirty” pop-up show.
Opening Reception | Thursday, May 17, 6-9 p.m.
A Titanic Double Feature at Fringe Theatre
This double-feature begins with the 60 minute show Mrs. Bliss's Titanic Adventure by reknowned Bay area performer Bridget Bean, followed by an intermission, and then the hilarious A One Woman Titanic Parody In 59 Minutes Or Less from Orlando by Katie Thayer. Both shows have won awards at the Fringe Festival, so this promises to be a delightful celebration of one of the most famous moments in history.