2024 Cycle 3 Microgrant Recipients
Congratulations to the 2024 Cycle 3 Microgrant Recipients!
Brenda McMahon
ArtJones: Gulfports’ Open Studio Tour
December 7-8, 2024
Saturday 10 – 5
Sunday 11 – 4
Begins at Brenda McMahon Gallery
2901 Beach Blvd S.
Gulfport, FL 33707
ArtJones: Gulfport’s Open Studios Tour has a mission to celebrate the professional arts community in and around Gulfport, Florida, bringing artists and art-appreciators together in one studio arts weekend. Each year we grow and change. The tour bgan in 2017 with 11 artists, in 2024 they are 22 professional and aspiring artists showing their work and sharing their process during this two day event. They have showed the professional artworks of over 60 artists in our region.
Neil Bender
Live Her Now
January 23, 2025
Tempus Projects
1624 E 7th Ave
Tampa, FL 33605
“Live Her Now” will be an immersive wall painting and installation that will act as a stage for a variety of collages, drawings, paintings, and (possibly) photography that investigate the body and sexuality, both inside and out.
Luci Westphal
Post-Historic St. Pete
February 6, 2025
Craftsman House – Gallery, Cafe & Pottery Studio
2955 Central Ave
St. Petersburg, FL 33713
Post-Historic St. Pete is a cohesive mixed-media (wood, concrete, glass, metal) photography series juxtaposing iconic, historic buildings with new high-rise constructions. Exhibit and speaker event in early 2025.
Robert Fernandez
Unspoken Perspectives Book Release Project
March 22, 2025
1624 E 7th Ave
Tampa, FL, 33605
The Unspoken Perspectives Book Release is a one-time collaborative poetry experience celebrating the release of Unspoken’s first book and the community that made it possible.
2024 Cycle 2 Microgrant Recipients
Congratulations to the 2024 Cycle 2 Microgrant Recipients!
Dylan Perry
Abstract Brunch
August 11, 2024
10:30 am – 3:00 pm
Rooster & the Till
6500 N Florida Ave,
Tampa, FL 33604
New abstract brunch-themed works that will consist of canvas and vintage frames.
Lucy Haura
Sirenia Fashion Collection
October, 2024
Sacred Pepper
15405 N Dale Mabry Hwy
Tampa, FL 33618
This fashion collection takes from the fluid grace and beauty of the deep ocean, and implements moveable fabrics and silhouettes to showcase the natural world of the ocean and its fantastical inhabitants.
Kaitlin Crockett
Print Party: A free community celebration of all things print!
November 9, 2024
11:00 am – 4:00 pm
Boyd Hill Nature Preserve
Pinellas Pioneer Settlement
2900 31st St S St. Petersburg, FL
Free family-friendly celebration of all things print at Boyd Hill Nature Preserve! Featuring demos and hands-on activities by local printmakers and artists, including letterpress, screenprinting, paper making, gelli prints, cyanotype, linocut, zines, and more.
Image credit: Becky Rudoph
Lisa Bagley
Hopes and Fears: My Diary of Cancer
January 17, 2025
Morean Arts Center
719 Central Ave
St. Petersburg, FL 33701
“Hopes and Fears: My Diary of Cancer,” is a synthesis of fine & conceptual art illustrating my struggles with cancer & mortality (includes acrylic paintings, collages, radiation mask, journal, & interactive opportunities).
2024 Cycle 1 Microgrant Recipients
Congratulations to the 2024 Cycle 1 Microgrant Recipients!
Dana Fidler
Reception May 2 6p-9p
Kress Contemporary
3rd Floor East Gallery
1624 E 7th Ave
Tampa, FL 33605
“Keep In Touch” is an interactive exhibition exploring how individuals lose touch with intimacy, value, and personal memory in a consumer-driven culture.
Slam Anderson
National Poetry Slam & Showcase: Shade vs Pride Last Poet Standing!
June 14, 2024
7:00 – 10:00 pm
Doors Open at 5:00 pm
The Factory St. Pete
2622 Fairfield Ave S
St Petersburg, FL 33712-1600
Shade vs. Pride Poetry Slam features 20 Black, Brown, and LGBTQ+ Identifying poets and their allies battling a war with words for over 5k in cash prizes. Hosted By NovaCane and Produced by Slam Anderson in partnership with St Pete Pride, this head to head style slam will showcase some of the best poets in the Tampa Region.
Sebastian Midtvaage
The Other Side
June 5 – 16, 2024
Tampa Fringe Festival
1624 E 7th Avenue
Tampa, FL 33605
At 22 years old Sebastian was diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer and told he had 6 months to live, this magic show tells his story while sharing a message of hope and gratitude for life.
Tricia Bush
Gone Wild
October 19, 2024
5851 Park Blvd Pinellas Park, Fl 33781
A hands on museum style exhibition of endangered wildlife paintings transformed into interactive elements for underserved children and the general community.
2023 Cycle 4 Microgrant Recipients
Congratulations to the 2023 Cycle 4 Microgrant Recipients!
Paula Allen / Pollyzoom
Home Movies: Dresses As Journals
March 8, 2024
Grounded Gallery
5012 Gulfport Blvd S
Gulfport, FL 33707
April 13, 2024
Clay Co-op Gallery
(as part of Warehouse Arts Districts Art Walk)
2724 6th Ave S
St. Petersburg, FL 33712
A series of mixed media childhood dresses with poems, each small dress represents a segment of my life as an artist, healer, mother, soul.
Glenyse Thompson
Passionate Courage
April 6-27
Opening Reception
April 13th, 2024
5:00-9:00P
Morean Arts Center
719 Central Ave
St. Petersburg, FL 33701
Passionate Courage is a large-scale response to seeing beauty within the violence procuring our civil right to vote.
Katherine Gibson
Strength of Character
March 14 – April 28, 2024
Creative Pinellas
12211 Walsingham Rd
Largo, FL 33778
Created environment with assembled work, large-scale paintings and sculptural wood pieces.
2023 Cycle 3 Microgrant Recipients
Congratulations to the 2023 Cycle 3 Microgrant Recipients!
Sarah Walston
Winter Wonder
December 9, 2023
New Tampa Performing Arts Center
8550 Hunters Village Rd.
Tampa, FL 33647
“Winter Wonder” is a concert of dance works and live singing embodying elements that define the spirit of the winter holiday season.
Tracy Kennard
Mural Slivers
Date TBA, 2024
Bayboro Brewing Gallery
2390 5th Avenue South
St. Petersburg, FL 33712
The Mural Slivers project will artistically highlight and honor the evolution of a city’s growth when mural walls become blocked by new development.
2023 Cycle 2 Microgrant Recipients
Congratulations to the 2023 Cycle 2 Microgrant Recipients!
Harriet Monzon-Aguirre
Safety Harbor Museum & Cultural Center
329 Bayshore Boulevard South
Safety Harbor, FL 34695
A reflection of Safety Harbor through oil paintings and surface pattern design.
Desiree Murphy
The Dancing Queen
August 13, 2023
The Dance Den
9350 Bay Plaza Blvd #121
Tampa, FL 33619
The Dancing Queen is an annual event, created by a women-lead organization called She’s Got It, focusing on empowering and celebrating women in the local freestyle/street style dance community.
Victoria Dym
The Hatchet Sun Launch
and Open Mic
September 16, 2023, 7:30P
Fringe Theater
The Kress Building
1624 E 7th Avenue
Tampa, FL 33605
October 14th, 7:30 PM
MAR Theater
2309 Central Ave
St. Petersburg, FL 33713
Launch of The Hatchet Sun by Finishing Line Press with Victoria Dym as the Featured Reader and an Open Mic to follow.
Erin Titus
Look Who Decided To Stop By
September 28, 2023
Drift
1624 E. 7th Ave, 2nd Floor
Tampa, FL 33605
A collaborative body of work that plays with the constant paradoxes between symbolism and function of objects in the home.
2023 Cycle 1 Microgrant Recipients
Congratulations to the 2023 Cycle 1 Microgrant Recipients!
Robyn Crosa
Zero Empty Spaces
Tyrone Square Mall
6901 22nd Ave N
St. Petersburg, FL 33710
Exhibit, Artist talk and work process demonstration in Tyrone Square Mall.
Julie Haura
Unique Perspectives
An All Photography Exhibit
May 6, 2023
Five Deuces Galleria
2101 3rd Ave S.
St. Petersburg, FL 33712
Katie Combs
New Work
Development Reading
Workshopped reading of New Broadway Style musical to be published and produced in 2023/2024
Lucy Haura
Coquille Fashion Collection
August 4-5, 2023
2022 Cycle 4 Microgrant Recipients
Congratulations to the 2022 Cycle 4 Microgrant Recipients! The Gobioff Foundation is thrilled to support these fantastic projects!
Jessica Todd
Restrung: Contemporary Beadsmiths
February 16, 2023
Parachute Gallery
1624 E. 7th Ave
Tampa, FL 33605
“Restrung: Contemporary Beadsmiths” is an exhibition that includes diverse contemporary artists who create work with beads—one of the oldest and most universally used art media, and one of the least respected materials in contemporary art.
Eunmi Ko
At The CAMPGround: salon concert
February 25, 2023
CAMPGround
4216 N 31st St.
Tampa, FL 33610
At The CAMPGround is a salon concert series programming contemporary art music, multi-media presentation, and interdisciplinary performances.
Yi Chin Hsieh
UNFOLD
April 6, 2023
Drift: Curatorial Space
1624 E. 7th Ave
Tampa, FL 33605
UNFOLD is a curatorial project that aspires to present artworks influenced by literature, especially poetry, as well as explore the possibility of using creative art writing as exhibition text.
2022 Cycle 3 Microgrant Recipients
Congratulations to the 2022 Cycle 3 Microgrant Recipients! The Gobioff Foundation is thrilled to support these fantastic projects!
Mark Lembo
“Non-Linear”
November 1, 2022
Corridor Gallery
Carrollwood Cultural Center
4537 Lowell Rd, Tampa, FL 33618
A solo exhibit that will include works from the beginning of the artist’s career (California, 2006-08) and from the artist’s current work (Tampa, 2020 – present). “Non-linear” refers both to the broken arc of the artist’s career and, loosely, to the organic, free forms of their early works.
Quintina Killings
Connect & Collect
November 4, 2022
7th and Grove
1930 E 7th Ave
Tampa, FL 33605
A showcase and night gallery that will foster community relations and bring opportunities to underrepresented artists, businesses, and organizations.
Amy Wolf
“Beginner’s Mind”
January 7, 2023
Safety Harbor Arts and Music Center (SHAMc)
706 2nd St N
Safety Harbor, FL 34695
Two large-scale hanging installations composed of several oversized figurative papier mache and sewn elements, incorporated with sound, video and light. “Beginner’s Mind” is meant to be a multi-sensory experience, evoking a powerful mood or emotional/visceral response, and relates to ideas of psychological fragmentation and self-reflection.
Elizabeth Baker
Viscera Dimension
January 25, 2023
A multimedia and interdisciplinary concert designed by The Honourable Elizabeth A. Baker and Jinghong Zhang.
2022 Cycle 2 Microgrant Recipients
Congratulations to the 2022 Cycle 2 Microgrant Recipients! The Gobioff Foundation is thrilled to support these fantastic projects!
Amanda Sieradzki
Chorus Novae
September 17, 2022
Plant Park
S Plant Ave
Tampa, FL 33606
Chorus novae will give local choreographers a platform to showcase their dance works outdoors in a non- traditional venue in celebration of National Dance Day.
Susan Henley Fredricks
Fading Florida
September 24, 2022
Firehouse Cultural Center
101 1st Ave NE
Ruskin, FL 33570
Portraits of Florida, a series of intaglio prints using photopolymer plates.
Sarah Walston
Ghost in the Black Jacket
September 24, 2022
All That Dance
20709 Center Oaks Dr.
Tampa, FL 33647
Ghost in the Black Jacket is a modern ballet performance work that addresses a shifting sense of personal identity and mental health.
Alicia Campos
100 Female-Artists in Art History by 100 Female-Artists from Florida
January, 2023
A call to female-artists of Florida to be part of an art exhibition to promote female artists around the world who are not in Art History books. At the same time we promote female-artists in our community. Inclusion and representation.
2022 Cycle 1 Microgrant Recipients
Congratulations to the 2022 Cycle 1Microgrant Recipients! The Gobioff Foundation is thrilled to support these fantastic projects!
Chelsea Catherine
Pride Panel
June 16, 2022
Tombolo Books
2153 1st Ave S
Saint Petersburg, FL 33712
The Pride Panel will feature a roundtable discussion led by successful queer writers of color in Pinellas and Hillsborough County.
Keisha Browne
Hunger Games Ball
July 23, 2022
Metro Inclusive Health
2105 N Nebraska Ave
Tampa, FL 33602
A traditional showcase and competition that embodies queer, Black, Brown, and Latinx arts through dance, fashion, and culture.
Paula Allen
Planet Turtle
Summer 2022
Kids will be given information on global nesting sites of endangered turtles locally and internationally. Species will be created in drawings and animations.
Deborah Bostock-Kelley
Breast Advice
Breast Advice is a play written entirely using true stories. While backstage during a show, the conversation somehow turned to bras and boobs. As a woman with multiple invisible illnesses, the playwright was literally shocked at how many others were together in the crowded dressing room and an extraordinary amount of breast cancer survivors. It was at that moment that Breast Advice was born.
2021 Cycle 4 Microgrant Recipients
Congratulations to the 2021 Cycle 4 Microgrant Recipients! The Gobioff Foundation is thrilled to support this the fantastic projects!
Francesca Arnone
Florida Chamber Murals: Bridging the Arts for All
April 10, 2022
USF School of Music faculty Amy Collins and Francesca Arnone forge an interdisciplinary collaboration with Tampa Bay award-winning artist, Christopher Still, and Kansas State University composer, Alyssa Morris
Xina Scuderi
Files & Films 8
May 26, 2022
Files & Film is curating it’s annual group photography show in 2022. F&F 8 will be curated by Owner/Founder of Files & Film Xina Scuderi in collaboration with HCC Gallery Director Amanda Poss and Gallery Assistant Emiliano Settecasi.
Truck Skin: “Street Meat” by the Milagros Collective
Flags: “Unraveling the Maypole” by Loren Britton
Kale Roberts
Transitioning Histories, A Truck in Drag
May, 2022
Tailgate Projects(TGP) Mobile Gallery, a truck in drag, is inherently collaborative and ever evolving. Each season the truck is consistently recreated by artists. Working with Parallelogram Gallery in a tailgate happening in May, TGP will be exhibiting the new paint job, “Prime Specimens” created in collaboration with Silky Shoemaker & Michelle Devereux while housing a new monument and a body of work from artist Lexa Walsh. Walsh’s new body of work “Failure is Always an Option”, is a series of clay sculptures referencing ribbons and trophies utilizing the truck bed as a memorial site for a single sculpture.
2021 Cycle 3 Microgrant Recipients
Quintina Killings
Connect & Collect
November 5, 2021
7th + Grove
1930 East 7th Avenue
Tampa, FL 33605
Get ready for a night of Spoken Word Poetry, Live Musical Performances, and Live Dance! All accompanied by a one of a kind Night Gallery of Black, Brown, and/or Queer Businesses! All ticket sale proceeds will be directly donated to the Non Profit Organizations Evolve Tampa Bay and The Blunt Space Incorporated to help fund awesome events like these!
Caleb Baker
Broken Witnesses
November 18, 2021
HCC Ybor
Vulnerability among males is not widely encouraged in today’s society. “Broken Witnesses” is a dance piece Caleb choreographed that not only explores this topic, but peels back the mask to showcase the flawed truth of what lies behind the goal of achieving the societal standard.
Michael Standard
eMarimba Performance
February, 2022
Michael Standard will present a performance, recording, and a workshop of an original work for marimba and electronics by St. Petersburg-native composer Tucker Johnson.
John Gascot
Black is Pure
February 26, 2022
Diversity Arts will sponsor a group of Tampa Bay area black visual artists to create an exhibit for Black History month at the Studios at 5663.
