Month: August 2020

Upcoming James exhibit spotlights gay rodeo photography

It was 1988 when Seattle-born photographer Blake Little attended his first gay rodeo. “The sport, camaraderie, and atmosphere of this first rodeo experience transformed me,” he said. “I was completely drawn to it and I had to be a part of it. I wanted to be a cowboy.” And so he did, learning the craft […]

SHINE to go environmental in November

The St. Petersburg Arts Alliance’s SHINE Mural Festival, Nov. 7-14, will be presented in conjunction with “Sea Walls: Artists For Oceans,” a public art initiative from PangeaSeed Foundation. This year’s festival will carry the theme “Sea Walls: St. Petersburg,” with each mural addressing a different enivronmental issue. The organization’s director John Collins told the Catalyst in July that Governor […]