WILD SPACE GALLERY
COMING SOON!
Wild Space Gallery is founded by the Florida Wildlife Corridor Foundation and located in the Warehouse Arts District of St. Petersburg, Florida. As an extension of the Foundation’s mission, Wild Space Gallery advances awareness of conservation issues within the state of Florida. Exhibits rotate regularly and are presented in an open showcase setting. The gallery features the works of locally and nationally renowned artists whose varied stories display an appreciation of nature and its transformative power to connect, heal, and endure. By curating thought-provoking exhibitions, we create a space where art becomes the vessel for engaging, challenging, and inspiring collaborative ideas towards protecting Florida’s wild places.
UPCOMING SHOWS
Mickett/Stackhouse Studio
Circle of Water
October 14, 2023 – January 13, 2024
Circle of Water, Carol Mickett and Robert Stackhouse’s exhibition at Wild Gallery, adds a new piece to the puzzle in their continuing aesthetic-environmental exploration. This exhibition expands their work on the warming of our oceans to include the waters in the interior of Florida. Climate issues have no boundaries. All water is connected. With paintings, drawings, sculpture and video, Mickett & Stackhouse explore the role of creeping saltwater intrusion, the warming of our waters, and the natural and human worlds’ roles in mitigating the health of our waters, our world, and ourselves. But the artists do not act alone. Circle of Water includes the work of participants from their NEA project Cool Pinellas and the WEDU PBS digital series High Water Marks.
Thank you to our exhibit sponsor, The Lowry Murphy Family Foundation.
Carol Mickett and Robert Stackhouse are a collaborative team whose 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional art is focused on water and climate issues. Mickett and Stackhouse were the 2020 Creative Pinellas Art Laureates and received a Creative Loafing Best of the Bay Critic Award for their science conversations. They were Artists-At-Sea, in 2021, aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s ocean-research vessel Falkor. In 2022, during their show, Balance of Water, at the Leepa Rattner Museum, they received an NEA grant for their community project Cool Pinellas (icecubeproject.com). WEDU PBS’s 8-part YouTube digital series, High Water Marks, “explores how their art and activism intersect to bring awareness and understanding to issues facing our environment.” Their collaborative work is in numerous private and public collections worldwide.
Carol Mickett worked for over a decade in academia and holds her Ph.D. in philosophy. Mickett has received numerous grants, presents lectures, performs in theater, and has published essays, poems, and interviews in Canadian Philosophical Review, Hypatia, Prairie Schooner, and New Letters among others. She was the host/curator of Art Laureate Conversations for Creative Pinellas and for Our Town at the Dali Museum, and the host/producer of Art Radio in Kansas City, MO.
Robert Stackhouse holds an MA in art from the Univ. of Maryland and an honorary doctorate from the University of South Florida. Stackhouse taught at the Corcoran College of Art and has held endowed chairs at the University of Denver, Hartford Art School and the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia. His individual work can be found in museum collections around the world including the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery in Washington, DC, The National Gallery of Australia, the Phillips Collection, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
Archbold Biological Station
The Art of Scientific Visualization
February 10, 2024 – March 29, 2024
Archbold Biological Station, located at the headwaters of the Everglades, generates, conserves and shares scientific knowledge to conserve biodiversity and maintain ecosystems in Florida. This exhibition demonstrates how the scientists of Archbold employ artistic visualization as a vital element of their research on the native flora and fauna of Florida.
Vevie Dimmitt
The Nature of Healing
April 13 – May 24, 2024
The natural world inspires Genevieve Lykes Dimmitt’s art. In this series of mixed media works, she combines elements such as mica and wood with imagery abstracted from nature, and often adds poetry. Like an alchemist, she transforms these components into an aesthetic journey that charts a process of seeking emotional and intellectual healing following a devastating loss.
You Are Here:
Exploring the Florida Wildlife Corridor
June 6 – August 30, 2024
You Are Here takes visitors on a journey across the 18 million acre connected landscape, from the Everglades to the Alabama/Georgia state lines. Eight renowned nature photographers are featured throughout, and their imagery catapults the viewer from wetlands to waterways, working lands, and wildlife crossings.
MEET OUR CURATOR
Noel Marie Smith is a visual arts curator and arts administrator with three decades of experience working with artists, curators, and arts institutions locally, nationally and internationally. At the USF Institute for Research in Art: Graphicstudio | Contemporary Art Museum, she served as Deputy Director of the Contemporary Art Museum, where she curated a number of exhibitions, including Constant Storm: Art from Puerto Rico and the Diaspora, Los Carpinteros: Inventing the World, and Histórias/Histories: Contemporary Art from Brazil. Smith has experience with artist collaborations, educational programming, and grant writing, and is a published translator of literary and critical texts from Spanish to English. She is a third generation Florida native.
