Emerging Artist Winners Announced At Carrollwood Cultural Center

CARROLLWOOD, FL — The Gallery at the Carrollwood Cultural Center celebrated local emerging artists exhibiting artwork in the Emerging Artists show during a reception Sept. 10.

The Emerging Artists exhibit, on display at the center through September, showcases work by local visual artists who have been displaying their work for three years or fewer.

Art curator Michele Stone announced the winning pieces during the reception.

The winning pieces include:

• First place for “My Grandmother, Dacota Maphis” — Dacota Maphis
• Second place for “Larry the Lobster” — Kathy Carrier
• Third place for “Indian Villager” — Sheka Kasturi
• Honorable mentions went to Debra Campbell for "Caribou2," Elizabeth Ebanks for "You Make Me Blush" and Sheka Kasturi for "Two Lions."

Dana Warner judged the show. Warner holds a master’s degree in art education and a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from the University of South Florida. She is the former assistant curator of education at the Polk Museum of Art and the former curator of education at the Florida Gulf Coast Art Center. She currently serves on the board of directors for Tempus Projects and is the development director for the Carrollwood Cultural Center.

Emerging Artists will remain on display through September. Admission to The Gallery is free.

While at the gallery, check out:

• The Mini Matisse Youth Art Show featuring art from growing artists, ages 5 to 16. An art reception will take place Sept. 18 from 10 a.m. to noon.
• Art by featured artist Patricia Kluwe Derderian, who grew up sketching and drawing as a child in Brazil and then traveled the world studying architecture as a young adult. In 2020, she received the Creative Pinellas Emerging Artist Grant and took the year to turn inward and create.
• The works of photojournalist Hoyt E Carrier II, a retired newspaper photographer who now lives in the Tampa Bay Area. The former head of the photography department at The Grand Rapids Press in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Hoyt has a passion for seeing through the camera’s eye, what others often miss.
• Works by Tina Mostov, a Hanover, Pennsylvania, native who moved to Florida in the spring of 2018. After a personal tragedy in 2015, painting became a passion and helped her work through a very difficult time.

The Gallery is currently calling out for submissions for an exhibit titled Macabre & Mysterious, focused on grim, eerie, spooky and mysterious works.

The deadline is Sept. 22. Drop-off is Sept. 27 from 2 to 6 p.m. and the opening reception will be Oct. 8 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

For more information on the Carrollwood Cultural Center at 4537 Lowell Road, Tampa, visit carrollwoodcenter.org, email curator@carrollwoodcenter.org or call 813-922-8167.