Tampa Bay’s Artists on the Rise Tampa Bay is home to an impressive and inspiring collection of unique, driven artists who know their worth, commit to their vision, and speak their truths across platforms, genres, and communities. Explore this amazing group of local artists from food, dance, and poetry to film, mixed media, and music! We are proud to present to you: Artists on the Rise! *Click the arrows/swipe to explore our community’s best and...
MWIZA is a Tampa Bay singer-songwriter. He writes original music reminiscent of R&B, Folk, Rock, as well as Spanish music since his influences are vast. He has been featured in Creative Loafing, on WMNF 88.5, Sauce Boss Tuesdays, and on Reverbnation where he is currently number 1 in his genre. His biggest influences are church, his mother, Coheed & Cambria, Acceptance, James Morrison, Bombay Bicycle Club, Disturbed, Arctic Monkeys, Young The Giant, Chevelle, Rusko, Chief...
Meeting with Sky is usually all business—quick greeting, settling in our seats, then laptops and planners out. Sky is dedicated to doing the work, the work of building community, the work of showcasing our community’s best and brightest, but she also represents so much about what I’ve come to love about Tampa: there’s the business, the day-to-day hustle that demands fortitude and flexibility, but there’s also the vibe, the lighthearted, easy-going chill that invites us...
Abandoned. A grave overgrown with grass and choked by weeds. Then, resurrection. Because of Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple and Meridian, Zora Neale Hurston’s headstone bears her legacy, engraved in stone, the words: “A Genius of the South. Novelist, Folklorist, Anthropologist.” Walker, posing as Hurston’s niece, had travelled to Eatonville, Florida, in search of an ancestral voice, on a mission to venerate a Black woman writer whose work both inspired and informed Walker’s own literary aesthetic. At...
