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03/07/08 04/27/08
Summa & Magna: Annual Student, Member & Faculty Exhibitions
(Get 2008 Registration Form Here - .pdf)
Works by the Art Center’s outstanding faculty are displayed coinciding with DFAC’s popular annual Student / Member exhibition. All students and/or members of the Art Center are eligible to exhibit one work of art in any medium.
05/16/08 07/06/08
Tampa Bay Surface Design Guild: Texture in the Tropics
DFAC joins arts organizations throughout Tampa Bay in celebrating ‘Convergence 2008’, the biannual National Handweaver’s Guild of America’s conference set for Tampa, June 2008, by hosting fiber arts works by the Tampa Bay Surface Design Guild. Works in dyeing, art quilting, felting, weaving, embroidery, doll making and stitching will adorn the galleries with a series of lectures, workshops and demos to educate and inspire!
Luminous: The Works of Jan Boyer
Remembering Jan Boyer: gifted artist, DFAC faculty member and friend, in this exhibition honoring her vision made-manifest in her stunning natural pigment dyed textiles.
Connie Lippert: Navajo Wedge Weave
South Carolina weaver, Connie Lippert shares her contemporary natural pigment weavings based upon the Navajo wedge weave (which dates back to 1870- 1890.)
07/23/08 08/17/08
Wearable Art 2008
A three-week companion exhibit to Tampa Bay’s hottest fashion show = DFAC’s Wearable Art!
09/7/07 08/01/08
The Artist as Inventor Children’s Hands-On Museum
The Artist as Inventor Hands-On installation investigates imagining, creating and designing as an integral part of inventingbe it mechanical, industrial, or artistic. Focal points include Leonardo DaVinci (art, imagination, science and invention), H.G. Wells & Jules Verne (literature, imagination and invention), robotics (science and invention) and traditional art media for inventive creation. *Featuring a special display by Robotics club of East Lake High School.
09/12/08 12/24/08
The Impossible Dream: Imaginary Worlds
The companion gallery exhibit for the 2008 school year is The Impossible Dream: Artists’ Imaginary Worlds featuring works by Maggie Taylor, Holly Lane and Jamey Grimes who depict private, imaginary and ethereal worlds in their respective mediums: photography, painting and sculpture.
Dream Installation by Maria Saraceno
Italian-born artist, Maria Saraceno is known for her sculpture, video installations and sociopolitical site-specific projects. Maria creates a dream environment in DFAC’s Douglas-Whitely Gallerywelcome to her world . . .
The Woodburnings of Daniel Mrgan
Showing the buoyant, tilted and supernatural stories of Croatian-born artist, Daniel Mrgan in a series of woodburnings entitled: Pulling strings, Pulling teeth
Crazy Logic: Kids Draw Their Dreams
Pinellas County elementary school students describe and illustrate their dreams: as remembered, envisioned or realized! Kids, show us your dreams!
DreamscapesWindows to Other Worlds: Children’s Hands-On Museum Installation
The 2008 hands-on installation, Dreamscapes: Windows to Other Worlds explores the realm of dreams, real and imagined with artists such as Dali, Magritte, and Rousseau as departure points.

Interested In Exhibiting at DFAC?
We'd love to hear from you!
Our exhibition committee meets twice a year, and if all is going well, is planning up to three years into the future.
You can get a pdf of our submission guidelines by clicking here.
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