Gallery interior with five artworks on display and natural light coming through large windows.

Current Exhibitions

A person submerged in bright yellow water with flowers floating around their face, eyes closed, and tattoos visible on the arm.
EXHIBITION TITLE 52nd Annual HC Student Juried Art Exhibition
LOCATION Gallery114@HC Ybor City Campus
DATES April 9-May 5, 2026
OPENING RECEPTION Thursday, April 9, 6-8 p.m.; Reception and Awards Ceremony at 7 p.m.
EXHIBITION DESCRIPTION The variety of media entered by Hillsborough College students and the instruction of full-time and adjunct art faculty combine to make this a challenging, exciting exhibition. Now in its 52nd year, this juried competition provides students with the opportunity to display visual artworks in any medium in a professional setting and celebrates the creativity and diversity of the student body. This year’s annual exhibition is presented in Gallery114@HC with a special awards ceremony to take place in the Mainstage Theatre.
Surreal scene with a kangaroo in a dress, a cat, a floating teddy bear head, stars, and a city skyline.
EXHIBITION TITLE CSAI 26th Annual Hillsborough County High School Fine Arts Competition
LOCATION Gallery3@HC Dale Mabry Campus
DATES April 2-30, 2026
OPENING RECEPTION Thursday, April 2, 6-8 p.m.; Reception and Awards Ceremony at 7 p.m.
EXHIBITION DESCRIPTION Now in its 26th year, the Calyx Schenecker Art Infinitum displays winners of the Annual Hillsborough County High School Fine Arts Competition. The juried competition gives students an opportunity to be recognized for their achievements in the visual arts, with scholarships awarded to students in the categories of 2D art, 3D art, and photography. The exhibition, awards ceremony, and reception will take place in Gallery3@HC Dale Mabry Campus.
A nighttime view through a large window shows people inside a brightly lit teal room engaged in various activities.
EXHIBITION TITLE Twilight Fugue
LOCATION The Valencia Foyer at Hotel Haya in Ybor City
DATES March 5 – Aug. 31, 2026
OPENING RECEPTION Thursday, March 5, 6-8 p.m.
EXHIBITION DESCRIPTION “Twilight Fugue” brings together USF MFA candidates Lauren Gourgues and Kenny Jensen, whose distinct painting styles converge through scenes that are colorful, familiar, and warm, yet quietly haunting. Jensen’s distant, blurred images operate through gestalt, where recognizable landscapes remain just out of focus, while Gourgues renders dreamlike visions that feel both present and intentionally aloof. Though their approaches differ, the works inhabit a similar cinematic world, where a tender melody meets the shadow of twilight. 
Ink drawing on paper with wild, tufted lines, secured to a rustic wooden backdrop.
EXHIBITION TITLE Kendra Frorup: Healing Properties
LOCATION Gallery221@HC Dale Mabry Campus
DATES January 12-May 7, 2026
OPENING RECEPTION Thursday, January 22, 5-8 p.m.; Artist Talk at 6 p.m.
EXHIBITION DESCRIPTION

In Healing Properties, Kendra Frorup explores memory, healing and identity through prints and sculptures created around her 2024–2025 Fulbright Fellowship in the Bahamas. Inspired by her family’s bush farm—land first cultivated by her mother through a government lease-to-own program—Frorup documents the plants and traditions of bush medicine, a practice rooted in resilience and care. Bordering the Bonefish Pond National Park, the farm becomes a site of remembrance and renewal, reflecting her family’s history with cancer and her own journey of recovery. Transforming collected and natural materials, Frorup turns the act of making into an act of healing.

Kendra Frorup is an Assistant Professor of Art and Design at the University of Tampa. She received her MFA in Sculpture from Syracuse University in 1996 and has widely exhibited both nationally and internationally.

Black and white illustration of a rooster with detailed feathers surrounded by foliage.

Flock

EXHIBITION TITLE Flock
LOCATION La Galeria at Hotel Haya, 1412 E. Seventh Ave., Ybor City
DATES October 30, 2025 – May 31, 2025
OPENING RECEPTION October 30, 6-8 p.m. 

New Printmaking Exhibition with Omar Richardson & Students Tickets, Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 6:00 PM
EXHIBITION DESCRIPTION

Flock presents a visual exploration of identity, resilience, transformation, and migration through the work of Bahamian-born artist Omar Richardson, Art Instructor at Hillsborough College. Rooted in the cultural symbols, oral traditions, and spiritual heritage of the Bahamas, Richardson’s practice blends traditional Caribbean visual language with contemporary mark-making. Now based in Tampa, he finds renewed inspiration in the historic and multicultural neighborhood of Ybor City, a setting that echoes themes of migration, resistance, and creative endurance. His woodcuts and prints embody emotional narratives that bridge past and present, homeland and adopted home.

This exhibition also features prints made by three current and former students—Daniel Del Valle, Sofia Braswell, and Eliza Rivera—whose contributions reflect mentorship, dialogue, and artistic growth. Together, the artists invite viewers to reflect on how place, memory, and community shape evolving identities and the collective journey of becoming.

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