It's Coming: June 2012!Cuban Sandwich Show
The Artists and Writers Group, Inc. is presenting a month-long series of cultural events about Tampa titled THE CUBAN SANDWICH SHOW, at numerous venues in Tampa, June 1-30, 2012. The premise is that all the art, in all mediums, has as its subject, "Tampa…and/or Cuban sandwiches." Our motto: All Art-All Tampa-No Mayo.
All the art must be exclusively about TAMPA and/or Cuban sandwiches (our chosen symbol of Tampa-slightly tongue-in-cheek). Thus, whatever the art form — visual arts, photography, video, dance, theater, music, cuisine, poetry, literature — the root subject is Tampa and its past, present and/or future. And for those of you who ask, yes, Ybor City is the heart of Tampa.
While artists will be predominantly from the Tampa Bay area, the event is open to anyone willing to share one's personal vision of Tampa. The work can be traditional, but the Group's tastes lean towards the whimsical, satirical, political, hysterical, silly, fun, surprising, deadly serious, wacky, and especially…new views and fresh perspectives of our fair city.
The Cuban Sandwich Show is an expanded version of a very popular annual arts exhibition conceived by Gordon and Denise Mhyre that originated in Ybor City in 1991 and continued in Seminole Heights for a number of years.
Cuban Sandwich at HCC
David Audet, executive director of Tampa’s Artists and Writers Group, will curate an eclectic, mixed media, invitational exhibition for the Hillsborough Community College Ybor Campus Art Gallery involving local and regional artists with artwork specifically created about Tampa and Ybor City.
The show will run June 5-28, 2012, with an opening planned the evening of June 7. The Art Gallery is in the HCC Performing Arts Building, 2204 N. 15th Street Tampa, FL 33605. Gallery hours are 10am to 4pm, Monday through Friday.
Highlights of Last Year's Show
Rumble Meets and Eats Cuban Sandwich
Eric Swanson Wins Label Contest
Eric Swanson's entry in the Cigar City Brewing label design contest was selected to be the label for the new Tocobaga Red Ale.
You can view the Eric's winning label on the Cigar City Brewing Release Party page. Label submissions by all artists can be seen at www.ccblovesart.com.
Tocobaga Red Ale is a new product at Cigar City Brewing. The Tocobaga Indians lived in small villages at the northern end of Tampa Bay from 900 A.D. to the 1500's.
James Tokley Sr.
James Tokley, Sr., the poet laurate of Tampa, read selected works at the opening reception of "Tampa Pix - Cuban Sandwich", a group photography show at the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts.
The show is in conjunction with the museum's "Classic Images: the Photography of Ansel Adams". Curated by David Audet, includes Suzanne Williamson, Steve Gregory, Cat Thompson, Suzanne Camp Crosby, Bud Lee/David Audet, Gordon Myhre, among others.
The show opened June 3, 2011, and continues through July 6 at the museum, 200 N. Tampa Street, Tampa FL 33602 (map). Admission is $10.
The Cuban Sandwich Art Show
The namesake Cuban Sandwich Show, an invitational group show of painting, drawing, prints, sculpture, photography and mixed media, opens Wednesday, June 8, 2011, with an artists reception Thursday, June 9, beginning at 5:30pm.
Also opening is "Get Wired", a show-within-a-show, presented by the Artist Advisory Committee of the Hillsborough Arts Council. Both shows run through July 8, 2011.
Artists: Jay and Peter Aalberg, Linda Alexander, Bradley Arthur, Tracy Assalone, David Audet, Lori Ballard, Kris Berry, Sarah Butz, Mike Cantwell, Nancy Cervenka, John Costin, Neverne Covington, Suzanne Camp Crosby, David Dye, David Edmund, Melissa Fair, Steve Gregory, David Hall, Dee Hood, Laszlo Horvath, Joe Howden, Joanna Karpay, Art Keeble, Rocky Kester, Mic Knight, Stan Kozma, Carolyn Kossar, Bud Lee, Phil Lee, Charles Lyman, Rick Melby, Elizabeth Mitchell, Gordon Mhyre, Chris Peattie, Ed Ross, James Tokley Sr., Cat Thompson, Patrick Thomsen, Judith Villavisanis, Suzanne Williamson and Kelly Young.
Invitational Art Show
June 5-28, 2012
HCC Ybor Art Gallery
Performing Arts Building
2204 N. 15th Street Tampa, FL 33605
Hours: 10am - 4pm, Monday-Friday
An eclectic, mixed media, invitational exhibition involving local and regional artists with artwork specifically created about Tampa and Ybor City.