Hillsborough College (HC) Art Galleries’ Now On View returns to Ybor City on Saturday, Feb. 21, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at three different venues: HC’s Ybor City Campus, Tempus Projects at Kress Contemporary and Hotel Haya.
This free, one-day-only festival is a walkable, family-friendly arts experience that features four hours of music, interactive visual art and live performance that reflect on Tampa’s past, present and future.
At the corner of 9th Avenue and 14th Street, in the Ybor City Campus’s Ybor Building Patio, Lauren Gourges and Michael Lonchar present Tunnel Vision, a site-specific installation of three hand-built periscopes that invite viewers to look through them to encounter altered, elevated perspectives of Tampa’s landscape, exploring themes of vision, urban development and environmental loss.
In the lobby of the Ybor City Campus Performing Arts Building, Ketsy Ruiz presents Ida y Vuelta (There and Back), a suspended mixed-media installation that traces more than 100 years of Puerto Rican circular migration to Tampa, honoring Ybor City’s history and enduring ties between island and mainland.
Tempus Projects at Kress Contemporary, located at 1624 E 7th Ave., will feature two artists with immersive works. Riley Weisbrodt presents Tidal Memory, a contemporary dance work inspired by the waters of Tampa Bay and the layered cultural histories they hold. Camille Denmark presents Paradise?, an installation composed primarily of invasive plant species that examines environmental disruption and our role in caring for both ecological and human communities.
Hotel Haya hosts a special exhibition featuring artwork by HC Assistant Dean of Student Services Mario Javier Pérez Salabarría. Pérez’s urban landscapes pay tribute to the immigrants who built Ybor City’s legacy as the “Cigar Capital of the World,” honoring both the people and architecture that carry the neighborhood’s collective memory forward.
Now On View 3 is free and open to the public. For more details, visit hcfl.edu/NowOnView.
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