Category: HCC Ybor

Themes for the American Kestrel

An exhibition of works by Ry McCullough by Tony Wong Palms Pausing at the entrance, taking in what is in front of me, many things come to mind when walking into Gallery114@HCC at the School of Visual and Performing Arts on the Ybor City campus and encountering the works of Ry McCullough.  Ry [...]

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A Conversation about Public Art

Interview held August 13, 2020 In the fall of 2019, Grounds4Art@HCC commissioned artist Cecilia Lueza to complete a mural on the Hillsborough Community Collge Dale Mabry Campus focusing on the theme of health and wellness. Community partners, such as the City of Tampa’s Arts & Cultural Affairs division, worked alongside a committee of HCC students, faculty, and [...]

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steven locke: the color of remembering

steven locke: the color of remembering On view through March 7th at Hillsborough Community College’s Gallery 221 as part of an annual exhibition celebrating African American heritage and presented in conjunction with the Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival. steve locke: the color of remembering is on view at HHC's Gallery 221 though [...]

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DORMANT Edgar Sanchez Cumbas at HCC Ybor

Dormant by Caitlin Albritton, 2018   Suggesting something alive yet perhaps not actively developing, Edgar Sanchez Cumbas’s solo exhibition Dormant aims to question our internalized bigotry—the sleeping beasts within us—concerning colorism, racism, and identity. Converting statements Cumbas has overheard people make about race or color and turning them into titles, these bits of poetic [...]

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