ABOUT the
YBOR ARTS TOUR

📍 934 E Henderson Ave

Retro House is a retro-inspired cafe and Asian bistro in Ybor City, known for authentic dim sum, bao, and rotating displays of local art.

During the Ybor Arts Tour, stop by for an afternoon of live jazz, artists working at tables with original works and prints for sale, live painting, and small dumpling boats available for purchase.

📍1411 E 11th Ave

Experience contemporary visual art at Hillsborough College! A group exhibition entitled “Trust Issues” opens in Gallery114@HC with a public reception from 5-8 p.m. Light refreshments will be provided. 

Learn more about the show by attending an artist talk in the gallery at 6 p.m., moderated by curator Jessi Sherbet. 

Exhibiting artists include: Jolene Lower, Fen Lettie Myers, Marcus DeSieno, Olivia Dovorany with Cristina Szyszko, KJ, Hedy Starratt and Ben Upcavage.

📍 1505 E. Palm Avenue, 2nd Floor

The Hillsborough College Dance Studio in Ybor City is a dedicated training, rehearsal, and performance space where dancers build a strong foundation in technique, creativity, and performance.

HC Dance Program Community Arts in Action Showcase | 5:00–9:00 p.m.

Join us for an evening where art-making becomes a shared experience. Tour the studio and step into a creative space where artists and enthusiasts explore, create, and connect. Experience live improvisations, witness works-in-progress, and engage with community arts organizations.

📍1313 E 8th Ave

Sky Puppy will host an evening presentation featuring the artwork of Tampa artist Wes Pratt of Fotobot Studios. We are excited to showcase his unique photographic and creative work and introduce visitors to his artistic vision. Guests will have the opportunity to view and engage with the artwork in a relaxed brewery setting while learning more about the Fotobot Studios project and its approach to photography and art. The exhibition will continue through November 10, 2026.

📍1412 E 7th Ave

On view for the Arts Tour:
Aspiring Water, by artists Carol Mickett and Robert Stackhouse, is an exhibition exploring water as a source of beauty, power, movement, and possibility. Through paintings and prints depicting oceans, rivers and the human relationship to waterways, the artists consider both the vitality of our aquatic environments and the growing threats they face. The works invite consideration of what a healthy, balanced relationship with water might look like, and what we can aspire to create through environmental stewardship.

📍1620 E 7th Ave

DRIP (Do Really Inspirational Projects) is more than just a studio—it’s a place where vibes meet vision, and creativity gets real. From spinning clay on the wheel to piecing together mosaic magic, you can get in the creative zone year-round with classes and memberships. Visit the studio during the Arts Tour for a sample of what’s upcoming this season. 

📍1624 E 7th Ave

Kress Contemporary features visual, literary, and performing arts all under one roof! Explore during the Arts Tour to discover artist studios, live music, literary readings and more throughout the night.

Venues and pop-ups:
Brick Street Tours • Dave Decker Photography • The Fringe Theatre • Headshots by James Connell • Honey Gallery • Kevin Tydlaska Photography • Mambo Music Studio • Monsoon Books + Music • New Visions Art Lounge • Palimpsest Book Studio • Pop Yarn • Reverb Gallery • Tempus Projects

Open artist studios:
Marc Brechwald • Heidi Clapp-Temple • Will Hernandez • Mary-Helen Horne • Blake Munch • Chase Parker • Carlos Pons • Leeann Rae • Lisa Ramudo • Lynn Rattray • Lisa Renz • Keith Robertson • Marilyn Silverman

📍Kress Contemporary, Suite 222

TEMPUS PROJECTS is dedicated to nurturing established and emerging local, national, and international artists through exhibitions, collaborations, residencies, and events. Our non-profit organization promotes artists working in all media, and originates, organizes, and hosts exhibitions that engage the Tampa Bay community through the arts.

On view during the Arts Tour, Tempus presents We Are Mist and Foglight, a restrospective exhibition of work by the late lens-based artist, Kym O’Donnell.

📍Kress Contemporary, Suite 241

REVERB is a long-term collaboration between the University of South Florida and Kress Contemporary. This gallery features emerging fine artists to showcase and integrate their work into the Tampa visual arts community. Run entirely by graduate students with support from USF’s College of Design, Art, and Performance, REVERB exhibits the artwork of studio art MFA students. During the Ybor Arts Tour, there will be a group exhibition and reception where visitors can meet the artists. Visitors are welcome to ask questions, make comments, or have other inquiries. Opening reception is 10/15 from 5 - 9 p.m.

📍Kress Contemporary, Suite 228

A studio black box in the Historic Kress building, The Fringe Theatre is a performing arts venue offering affordable, accessible space for local and touring artists to make work. Fringe provides space for multidisciplinary performing arts open mics, workshops, and shows, and also fully produces independent works through the year.

📍1630 E 7th Ave

FMoPA is celebrating its 25th anniversary and offering free admission all night long! Escape the Florida heat, wander through the newest photo exhibits, make your own collage, and grab a cold drink at the bar. FMoPA is setting up a craft corner stacked high with magazines, old photos, scissors, and glue so you can sit down, zone out, and piece together a collage to take home.

📍1705 N 16th St

Presenting: A Different Halloween: Spirits & Legends of the Tropics

Halloween as it's commercially known in the U.S. draws almost entirely from Celtic and Gothic-European mythology — witches, vampires, jack-o'-lanterns. But the tropics, including Native Florida, have their own deep traditions of spirits, shapeshifters, and cautionary folklore — stories that predate colonization in many cases, and that carried across the diaspora into the Caribbean, Latin America, South East Asia, and beyond.

A Different Halloween shares a group show and panel discussions wherein artists explore the legends they grew up with — the ones told to keep children from wandering into the forest, or from staying out past dark, or from trusting a stranger who's a little too beautiful. This is an opportunity for artists with lived connection to these stories to render them with real cultural specificity, dignity, and craft.

6pm - Caribbean Panel Discussion
7pm - Native Florida Panel Discussion
8pm - South East Asia Panel Discussion

📍1605 Angel Oliva Senior St

WestBuk is an artist from Los Angeles with an independent studio currently in the heart of Ybor City. He has presented gallery shows in LA, Vegas, Portland, Tampa, St. Petersburg, and West Palm Beach. His book of selected poems, Jupe Balls, came out this year on multiple platforms. WestBuk welcomes visitors to his Ybor studio for a behind-the-scenes view of his creative practice during the Arts Tour.

📍1802 E 3rd Ave

By day, Hive is a cozy, art-filled community and coworking space in Ybor City. At nights and on weekends, Hive hosts events of all kinds: wellness classes, art workshops, and more! Doors will be open for the Ybor Arts Tour so that everyone can enjoy the Hive collection of (mostly local) art, and several members will be live painting throughout the evening.

📍1919 E 7th Ave

LARA’s Ybor City speakeasy bar hosts art shows year round, featuring a rotating selection of work by local artists. The space now showcases work by Dylan Perry, Williams Downs, and Michelle Sawyer.

📍2710 E 5th Ave

Art Bear, Inc. is a community arts nonprofit in Ybor City. The organization is home to 13 individual artists working in studios across a range of creative practices. Through collaborative art projects and programs such as the welding program, Art Bear creates opportunities for underserved individuals to learn trade skills, develop creative skills, and contribute to neighborhood art and community projects.

The biannual Ybor Arts Tour highlights visual art, live performance, and literary expression throughout historic Ybor City with a free, public, self-guided walking tour every February and October. 

Participating venues must be located within Ybor City. The Ybor Arts Tour includes galleries, performance spaces, literary spaces, and commercial or hospitality venues that hold year-round dedicated public space for the arts.