The District Magazine Volume 1 Issue 1, 2016 | Page 30

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by Meaghan Ferrell Scalise

Jaume Plensa. Silent Music II, 2013.
Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL.
Photo: Ryan Walsh. © Jaume Plensa.
Courtesy Galerie Lelong, New York.

The Tampa Bay area has been my creative home for my entire life, minus those collage years when I
just “had to get out”. Even then, this Tampa native didn’t travel to far for college, staying in the state
and attending Florida School of the Arts.
The amount of great quality museums under the Downtown Tampa’s wide arm spread is surprising
to some, and never enough for others. Personally, artistic and cultural growth is welcoming and
positive for our thriving neighborhoods. This great city has often been regarded as culturally diverse,
which lends to being rich in arts of all kinds. Many blessings to all that support musicians, painters,
sculptors, actors, and all our creative types in this city.
Here is only a beginning list of need to see art spots in our great-er back yard!
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