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After stints in separate corners of Seminole Heights, long-running Tampa art gallery Tempus Projects has a new home as one of the 14 entities driving activity inside Ybor City's new Kress Collective. Last Thursday, it-reopened with a show that also featured live music and DJs.

Tempus Projects: Grand Reopening Tracy Midulla (above, right), facilitator of the Kress Collective and founder of the art gallery Tempus Projects, was born and raised in Tampa. She’s the fourth generation of women in her family to work in Ybor City (her grandfather was also born just blocks from the collective). On Thursday, Jan. 26, she hosts a grand re-opening for Tempus, from 7 p.m.-9 p.m. where there’ll be four exhibitions, plus DJs and live music.

Tracy Midulla of Tempus Projects, an artists collective in Ybor City, and Michele Smith of the Tampa Arts Alliance, give their take on Tampa's arts scene, which is seeing an infusion of support from the business community.

Off 7th avenue in the heart of Ybor, three friends have formed Tampa’s first official microcinema with a simple yet potent vision: to show an eclectic range of films that are hard to find anywhere else in the city.

Purple Gurl A living room concert marking the closing for Selina Román’s June show—”A Bad Batch: Beauty in the Breakdown”—which is an extension of the Tampa artist’s work documenting the city’s weird purple streetlights, which have gained a cult following. Purple Gurl, the band playing on June 23, features drummer Natalie DePergola and and frontwoman Shevonne Philidor alongside Stephanie Perez and Juna Serita who came together over a love of Princ...

A Bad Batch: Beauty in the Breakdown, recent works by Selina Román Since late 2020, Román has been creeping at night with her camera to document malfunctioning purple streetlights around Tampa. In the dark of night, these broken lights bathe their surroundings in an otherworldly hue that suspends reality and transports us to another dimension.

"The Eternal Present" by Lucia Riffel In collaboration with Atlanta nonprofit Dashboard, Seminole Heights' Tempus Projects presents work from animator and illustrator Lucia Riffel. An opening reception happens on Friday, April 22 at 7 p.m., and the show is open Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10 a.m.-2 p.m., plus Fridays by appointment only.

The two Tampa-based musicians are joined by Shae Krispinsky and Jeff Brawer.

Cristina Molina and Jonathan Traviesa: 'Under the Highlands' Under the Highlands is a photo-based exhibition by Cristina Molina and Jonathan Traviesa that concentrates on the geologic phenomena of the Lake Wales Ridge. Historically known as the highest elevation in Florida, this landmass has maintained some of the rarest plant specimens on the planet due to its arid landscape and proximity to the sea. Set in the very near future, the installation proposes a time when Florida is nearly un...