I think St. Pete, Florida would be a good place for an Artomatic. I just read about ARTpool in today’s Sarasota Herald-Tribune and it sounds to me like these folks would make good artomatic organizers :-)
Rather, for the last four months, the St. Petersburg native has been renting wall space to a spate of local artists. Her tenants now number 20.
“I know a lot of other galleries probably think we’re nuts,” she says with a laugh. “But that’s OK.”
The wall-space parcels are housed in her new warehouse gallery called ARTpool on First Avenue North in St. Petersburg. The venue’s unique rental system is something she says she came up with “to form an organic and evolving cooperative” of artists.
At monthly rates ranging from $50 for a 4×4-foot space high off the floor to $150 for 4×6 at eye level, the new art space grants artists the autonomy to decide for themselves what they want to display.
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I don’t have time to check it out this trip, maybe next time…