Upcoming Exhibitions and Events

Join us for an hour of poetry and art as spoken word artist Slam Anderson responds to Kendra Frorup’s exhibition, Healing Properties. Frorup will also share original poetry inspired by the themes explored in her work, creating a layered conversation between visual art and spoken word.

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.

Responding to the exhibition through spoken word, Slam Anderson brings her own deeply personal approach to storytelling and healing. A nationally recognized slam poet, writer and facilitator, Slam uses storytelling to empower youth and adults through advocacy, poetry and community engagement. Growing up in the foster care system shaped her commitment to storytelling as a tool for connection and change, a mission that continues through her performances, workshops and community work across the country.

Slam is the Outreach Director for The Kitchen Table Literary Arts Center and a graduate of the University of South Florida, where she earned a B.A. in Creative Writing. She is currently pursuing a Master of Social Work degree.

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

HC Art Galleries’ 3rd Annual Juried Members Show brings together a vibrant cross-section of Tampa’s creative community. Nearly 70 artists submitted work for consideration, with about 40 selected by juror Ry McCullough, Chair of the Art & Design Department at the University of Tampa. Featuring HC students, faculty, staff, and local artists, the exhibition is a unique opportunity to see Tampa’s emerging talent alongside more established names. 

Artists included: Batool Almadi, Abigail Araniego, Court Borges, Alexandra Bosch, Josh Corson, Dylan Frier, Tony Garufi, Samuel Aye-Gboyin, Victor Giangreco, Madie Gotshall, Piper Harrow, Tim Hirneisen, Mary-Helen Horne, Emiliano Infante, Aneka Ingold, Michael Knapp, Ashley Lopez, Zhannay McBride, Cortney McNamara, Eric Ondina, Trinidad Oribio, Angela Palacios, Anthony Palms, Mario Perez, Linda Mora Plaza, Sar Powell, Diane V. Radel, Omar Richardson, Annaly Romero, Lavinia Schenberg Scharlack, Kaitlynn Shields, Tamya Simms, Tanner Simon, Dafne J Suarez Del Toro, Kim Tanzer, Benjamin Upcavage, Georgia K Vahue, Christopher Weeks, Zaniya Worlds, Alex Zak, Valerie Zuniga.

Not yet a member? Membership isn’t just for HC students, faculty and staff. It’s open to anyone in the Tampa Bay area arts community. 

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Tatiana Mesa Paján, Best in Show winner of HC Art Galleries' 2nd Annual Juried Members Show, blends two bodies of work in her solo exhibition, “Archaeology of the Present”. 

Displayed on the exterior lobby wall of Gallery 114, the exhibition centers on collected and preserved objects, from 2005 to present, that reveal intimate glimpses into the human spirit. Gathered from both the United States and Cuba, these everyday items are presented like precious fossils: intentional relics of time that speak to both the artist's personal history and the traces of life that strangers leave behind. 

Born and raised in Havana, Cuba, Tatiana Mesa Paján has exhibited her work internationally. She earned her MFA from the University of South Florida and currently serves at HC as an adjunct professor of visual arts. Mesa Paján is a process-based artist with a particular emphasis on poetic gestures.