Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts

Sneak Peak: Art on Billboards

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Tampa Bay's first ever Digital Billboard Art Exhibition will begin on Monday May 25th, but you can already preview some of the featured artwork in the slideshow below. Throughout the two-week exhibition, we will be adding profiles about each of the artists to the "Art on Billboards" page, which you can visit by clicking here.

Special thanks goes out to Melissa Poirier and Marina Williams for introducing me to ArtPool, where many of our featured artists' work can be found.

Gathering Artists For Billboard Exhibition

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ArtPool Gallery & Vintage Boutique in downtown St. Petersburg is one of the hidden gems of Pinellas County. Started by Marina Williams in 2008, ArtPool lets up-and-coming talent display their work at a very low cost, and allows the artists to keep 100% of the proceeds.

I spoke with Marina regarding our upcoming Digital Billboard Art Exhibition, hoping to spread the word that we will be using our billboards across Tampa Bay to display the work of local artists. Our goal is to generate interest in local culture and the arts, while beautifying the streets with something bold and meaningful. Her enthusiasm about the exhibition was contagious. I truly can't wait to see some of these paintings up in lights.

If you haven't been to ArtPool, you're missing out on one of the best additions to St. Pete culture. The gallery will host a launch party tomorrow, May 9th for "Zero: Modern Arts Directory", a sort of Yellow Pages of local talent.

Check back here for interviews and articles on participating artists, and if you or someone you know would like to display your work in our free Digital Billboard Exhibition, please call 727.299.2456 or email ryanfrazier@clearchannel.com.

Digital Outdoor Art Exhibition

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UPDATE: The deadline to submit artwork to be displayed on the digital billboards is Thursday, May 21st. The exhibition will begin on Monday, May 25th and will run for two weeks. Check back here for updates and links to artist information.


The Tampa Bay area is home to many talented local artists. There are dozens of museums and galleries that proudly show off our local talent to visitors from around the world.

Clear Channel Outdoor owns 13 beautiful, backlit canvases across the bay area that we would like to make available as "easels" for our local talent. We will be using available space on our digital billboard network for Tampa Bay's first digital billboard art exhibit. The traffic that passes by our digital network offers exposure opportunities of more than 500,000 adults per day. It's a captive audience that will have an opportunity to see the artwork on display, and head to our website to read profiles and interviews with the local artists themselves.

This exhibition will last for two weeks, and space will be limited. We are tentatively scheduling future showings to allow as many artists to participate as possible. Please help us to spread the word about this initiative. Forward this article to anyone who may be able to put us in contact with artists who would like to take advantage of this free opportunity.