Our mission statement - "To promote knowledge of and education in the fine arts, the visual arts, and the performing arts". We don't just do this in Safety Harbor or the Tampa Bay Area----we do it all over the World! 

Join us for the Virtual Bike Your City Scavenger Hunt in October in beautiful Safety Harbor! And contribute to an Art Mural with SHAMC!
About this EventJump on your bicycles and enjoy riding around beautiful Safety Harbor while finding enchanting scavenger hunt locations! Forward Pinellas is pleased to announce our reinvented, virtual Bike Your City Scavenger Hunt through our host city of Safety Harbor. From October 16, 2020 – October 31, 2020, residents will be challenged to find all 20 locations on our scavenger hunt map and submit a “selfie” or picture of their bike at the landmark using our interactive form. 
*The first 100 registered participants receive an official "Bike Your City - Safety Harbor" t-shirt!
HOW DO YOU PARTICIPATE IN THE SCAVENGER HUNT? 
On October 16th, registered scavenger hunt participants will receive:
- A list of scavenger hunt locations
- A map of the scavenger hunt locations
- A link to an online form to submit your selfies
Participants will then have slightly over 2-weeks to find all the locations and submit a picture of themselves or of their bikes at each location using our simple online form. All these materials will also be available on our website:
www.ForwardPinellas.org/BikeYourCity 
**Minors in attendance must be registered by legal guardians.
HOW DO YOU PARTICIPATE IN THE COMMUNITY ART PROJECT?
We are pleased to announce a partnership with the Safety Harbor Art and Music Center (SHAMC)!  Help create a bicycle themed mosaic Art Mural. SHAMC is one of the stops on the Bike Your City scavenger hunt, and while you are there take a picture of yourself adding a tile to our community Art piece . (Social distancing practices will be in effect ). The dates for the public art participation will be :
Oct 16th from 5pm-7pm
Oct 17th &18th from 9am-12noon
Oct 25th from 9am-12noon
Oct 30th & 31st from 9am-12noon


Help us celebrate biking and Community Planning month! To conclude and celebrate our event, please plan to join Forward Pinellas and our partners for a webinar in November where we will provide event photos and have speeches on bike advocacy, upcoming bike friendly projects in Pinellas County, and how we can all work together for a safer place for all people to bike. 

scavenger hunt sign up

B-art-bie doll
​wearable art collection

Winnie $275.00
Inspired by Winnie Harlow, a Canadian fashion model, and public spokesperson on the skin condition vitiligo. 
Accepting and celebrating our differences. Healing therapies are needed, creative endeavors akin to making this creation. 

Materials 
Hand painted silk -Assortment of beads
Head piece is a repurposed pin from a friend- a artificial sunflower and button 
Paint -Fabric -Plastic placemat -Lots of glue
Artist Siobhan Nehin- Tarpon Springs FL

Asha $75.00
African Doll 
Brown Barbie painted with acrylic paint. Mask is 100% quilters cotton.
Artist -Victoria Zalatoris-Michigan

Barbie at Shamc $150.00
materials
Sequins, glitter, wood, cardboard, water bottles, nail polish, paint fabric, Mother's-shirt
Artist Judy Ginader - Seminole ,FL

Covid -19 Beauty ​$75.00

Materials
She is made from everything related to covid 19 newspaper articles, but also rhinestones, cardboard, dremmel sanding drum, toilet paper and string
Artist- Bobbie Halverson-Tarpon Springs, FL

Coralena she is the keeper of the coral reef, she spends her time keeping the reef clean also heals the sick coral and sea life around her. Her outfit is sewing notions, trim and ribbon
Ursela inspired by a sea urchin. She is an urchin warrior who protects the oceans habitats as well as the coral reefs. Her outfit is made from silk flower petals
Artist-    Terri Gray- Clearwater, FL

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Artist Catherine Ventura

FlowerFroReflections $57.00
silk flowers, mirror, misc found objects
Artist -Kiaralinda- Safety Harbor FL

WiredForSound $57.00
recycle aluminum wire
Artist -Todd Ramquist Safety Harbor FL

Artists Todd Ramquist and Kiaralinda are known as The Whimzey Twins

Warrior Angel Barbie $95.00
Materials
EVA foam, wire, fabric, angel dust to protect from evil

Mermaid of the Sea Lamp $150.00 SOLD
She will be there to make our underwater dreams come true
Materials
water bottles, shells, fabric, tape, and silicon
​Artist Adrianne Butler- Tarpon Springs, FL

Socially Distanced Butterfly $125.00
Barbie-skin sprayed bronze and gold metallic paint, hair removed, thighs padded with felt
Materials-ribbon, butterfly stickers,yarn, glitter and paper dots, cut up gift bag.

Artist Shannon O’Leary Beck-Clearwater FL

Rolien is half robot and half alien. After Trump annihilated the United States and the destruction became worldwide, Rolien and her family came down to earth and met with Elon Musk who had hidden in a bunker. He convinced the aliens to let him plant chips in their brains and so she became the first cyborg robot.
​ Artist Katie Bush San Diego CA

Red Head 
materials - onion bag-spray paint, found objects

Space Dottity
 acrylic paint

ED Derkevics-Safety Harbor FL

Pussy Galore- $125.00
She is a modeling a dirty, flouoncy, little frock from the design house of Mutiny on the Body.
The skirt is mostly cat hair, thanks to the assistant design team of Cosmo and Colette Klein. They certainly gave their all for this piece. Their hair compromises about 50% of the skirt.  
Materials Consultant Mary Cummings provided raw and dyed goat hair.

The cat and goat hair billows on a base of the finest black construction pape. Pussy is cinched at the waist with a studded belt, which is matched by her collar… I mean choker.
A little bell dangles from the choker so you know she’s coming in a big way.
Pussy’s hat is black felt, accented by screen door mesh and feathers found at a massacre site in the backyard. The front of the hat sports a whimsical bit of ephemera in the shape of a birdcage, depicting a little bird flying free.

Be careful little birdie, or pussy will get youth her sandpaper tongue!(made with sandpaper touched with a dab of pink paint.) She stands atop a mound of Crayons model Magic encrusted with catnip mice.  Pussy likes kick off her stilettos and wade through the catnip after a long day at the spa. Anyone have some good catnip?  Meeeeow!

Pussy sports a whimsical mouse bag which hangs from a bead chain, also from mutiny on the Body Acccessories.  Some embellishments were provided by the design teams toy box.

Yes, Ladies and Gentleman, you would Meow-wow them in this purrrfect couture creation from the design house of Muntiny on the Body.
Artist- Debbie Kline-Safety Harbor, FL
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Plastic is Not Fantastic

Hello and thank you for checking out DemiGod's (a.k.a. Demeree Barth) doll- sized wearable art!  This type of fashion design is a departure from her usual human sized fashions, but with every challenge, we grow as artists and humans.  So, this design sprung from the materials that were available to her at home, and not only that, were from her recycling bin! 

There's nothing like adding a challenge on top of another challenge!  Anyway, in her bin was many types of plastic, so she wrapped, cut, and twisted this material around her doll.  This drove the theme of her doll's fashion, which is ways to cut down on the use of plastics.


It is her desire to not only cut down using plastic in her life, but also bring more social awareness to her human-sized Wearable Art fashions in the future.  

This plastics problem should be addressed with our younger community in an artistic way.  At the conclusion of this show at SHAMc, this doll will be displayed in her elementary art classroom.  

​ It will also serve to inspire the Wearable Art Club that the teaching artist started at her school.  Follow #wearableartkidsclub on Instagram for fun images and videos of her kids creating!

Artist  Demeree Barth- Seminole FL



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Party Girl-a single cocktail napkin was used to create this little cocktail dress

Polka Dot has a bead encrusted Bustier rainbow ribbons in her hair and polka dot tights fashioned with tissue paper and decoupage.
Artist Heather Richardson Safety Harbor FL

  Coral Reef-she represents our beautiful oceans. She is body painted with coral, Sea life, and animals adorned with us with our ski crystals. She is sporting a fin style mohawk made of shrink dinks which are designed to match her body painting  featuring turtles jellyfish kelp and coral. This is part of the Save our Oceans collection by Demi , Terri, montiki, Adrianne and Beth. We wanted  to show the importance of our underwater life and the over use of plastics. Coral Reef is wearing a custom train color our colorful reef and reminder to save our reef. 
​Artist Beth Warmath- Clearwater .FL

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Micro Organism/ micro plastic
materials - floss sticks , cocktail straws , plastic pellets, fishing line, bandaid, recycled takeout bags.
Artist - Michael Montini -Tarpon Springs FL




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Home Tweet Home birdhouses from our HeArtFull project. Thanks everyone for creating Art that is good for the soul and keeps us creating a commmunity based art project at home while we can't be at SHAMc due to covid--at least right now- YAY to everybody that participated!
Brought to you by members of the SHAMc Collective GinHol Mosaics    #ShamcArtReach

SHAMc partnered with Can'd Aid and their Tunes Ambassadors The Steep Canyon Rangers for a day of #SHAMcARTreach Ukes to Youth. 37 community children received brand new ukuleles thanks to our donors and sponsors. Steep Canyon Rangers gave a great shout out from their sold out show at the Capitol Theatre about this event. 

Creative Loafing Article by Laura Kepner about Heather Richardson's #SHAMcARTreach school mosaics and other projects-https://creativepinellas.org/magazine-items/artreach-makes-safety-harbors-community-artful/

Fall 2019/Spring 2020
Artreach School Projects
Curtis Fundamental Elementary School -NOV 2019 (completed)
​Ridgecrest Elementary School-DEC 2019 (completed)
Carwise Middle School-February 2020 (completed) 
Elisa Nelson Elementary School March 2020(completed)
Safety Harbor Elementary School-April 2020( postponed) 
Palm Harbor Middle School -(May 2020)(postponed)

Curtis Fundamental Elementary School Fall 2019

RidgeCrest Elementary school Fall 2019

Carwise Middle School Spring 2020--check out this timelapse youtube of the installation of the completed mural https://youtu.be/DH93zuhqoFg ​

Elisa Nelson Elementary School-Palm Harbor FL

#SHAMcARTreach School Srojects--Jan-May 2019
5 schools-3185 kids
We created 5 large scale mosaic murals that are permanent public art installations at 5 Pinellas County schools most of the funding for these projects is supported by the referendum money which is designed to support special projects for art music and literature, among other things.
Thanks to all the people that voted for the referendum.

A note from Heather Richardson who spearheads these #SHAMcARTreach Projects------
Thank you to my Art Teachers for their support in creating the tiles and special pieces for our murals, and of course the kids for all their hard work. Thanks to my volunteers Jackie M.-Bev D.-Sharon-Pam B. and
my install team Ed D-Todd R-and Beth W- Clay V and Woody

#SHAMcARTreach
​ with Heather Richardson
​Garrison Jones Elementary

Graduating 5th graders

Some of the teachers, art teacher principal and VP and Heather Richardson

#SHAMcARTreach
​with Heather Richardson
Seminole Elementary

Some nice press that talks about how these #SHAMcARTreach projects happen :)
https://www.tbnweekly.com/schools/article_83219a1e-8226-11e9-8dd4-7b2435965f5c.html

#SHAMcARTreach
with Heather Richardson
​FOREST LAKES, OLDSMAR

Stacie Little -Art Teach at Forest Lakes, Oldsmar   Published on May 27, 2019

Thanks to our Referendum money that our voters support in Pinellas County, I was able to apply for a special project through our art department.  Heather Richardson worked with our school to create this mosaic mural.  Every student in the school participated in the process!

A Creative Loafing article about #SHAMcARTreach and the process
https://www.cltampa.com/arts-entertainment/visual-art/article/21069820/new-programs-brings-mosaic-murals-to-pinellas-elementary-schools?fbclid=IwAR2NUU1L8Pjyqli3vraGR1uDjXMrmJnVW46u24gQsc7UG2MKxyhhvv_T5c4 

#SHAMcARTreach
​with Heather Richardson
OZONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

#SHAMcARTreach
​mosaic projects
HEATHER RICHARDSON MOSAIC ARTIST EXTRAORDINAIRE TEACHES CHILDREN AT BAY AREA SCHOOLS 
For #SHAMcARTreach Heather worked with the children at Curtis Fundamental for 2 weeks in January, 2019
Art teacher Linda Hilterbrandt and all the children at the school created tiles for this project from the beginning of the school year to be ready for this project. The classroom was set up in 4 stations and children rotated during each class so that Heather could help 4 kids at a time to help them learn how to break and nip tiles and how to arrange the mosaic. The kids love to break and nip!
Finished size of this mural is 9 ft tall and 10 ft wide with 3 other sections that are on columns below this piece. 

Heather Richardson's Mosaic Project Dedication Ceremony at curtis fundamental Elementary

"WALK ON THE WILD SIDE"
150 FT WALL - 5 DAYS - 15 ARTISTS
An Endangered Species themed mural
MARCH 13-17, 2019
 885 2nd St. N. Safety Harbor Florida   

JENNIE PEARL-TRUMAN ADAMS-JACIE PARSONS-BRIDGET LYONS-TONYA REESE
​KUMPA-MATT McALLISTER-BETH WARMATH-SHAUN McCANN
VAN DER LUC-ZULU PAINTER-JENNIFER KOSHAREK-
ROB SARDELLA-MASON SCHWACKE-YHALI

A VERY SPECIAL THANK YOU TO ALL OF OUR DONORS/SPONSORS AND ARTISTS
​FOR  SUPPORTING "THE WALK ON THE WILD SIDE" PROJECT!!! 
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO CONTINUE TO SUPPORT PUBLIC ART
PLEASE CONTACT HEATHER RICHARDSON OR CONTINUE TO DONATE TO OUR GOFUNDME SITE!
727-424-2576/IMPURPLE@MAC.COM

GO Fund Me #SHAMcArtReach Donation

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Support an Artist Link /Go fund me

#SHAMcARTreach Project 
Florida State Fairgrounds Garden Art 2019 
We installed the Big Whimzey Wire Light Up LOVE, Hanging SHAMdeliers created from up-cycled painted water bottles, 4 mosaic art panels created by our volunteers and we wrapped trees and rocks with YarnGraffiti- Art installation will run the whole run of the Florida Stage Fair 2019
Heather Richardson and members of the SHAMc Collective also did a project with the children and they painted and built additional SHAMdeliers and also created a mosaic panel. Thanks to all that volunteered with Heather and to all the wonderful folks at the fair that brought #SHAMcARTreach to the art pavilion at the fair this year. (2019)

Brenda Gregory- Coordinated our installation

Collaborators/Installers  Todd Ramquist, Kiaralinda, Patti Samuels, Mike Montiki, Katie Bush (YarnGraffiti Donation),
Beth Warmath-Photo Op Mural

Volunteers that helped Heather with her hands on #SHAMcARTreach - Patti Samuels, Jackie Malone, 

#SHAMcARTreach Project
Costa Rica 2019
Murals and Mosaics
​12 members of the SHAMc Collective painted Container Cabinas at a Yoga Teachers Training Retreat in Puerta Viejo Costa Rica with Lead Muralist Beth Warmath- We created murals and mosaic art in trade for room and board from our host Mike, Yvonne and India Humphreys
Member of the SHAMc Collective that participated in this #SHAMcARTreach are Beth Warmath, Todd Ramquist, Kiaralinda, Ed Derkevics, Siobhan Nehin, Demeree Barth, Terri Gray, Mike Montiki, John Comer, Jen Shipley, Rosario Psy, Sonata Kazimieraitiene

The process....Mike our host wanted his 12 container cabinas painted with imagery of the indigenous and medicinal plants that grow on his finch(farm)yoga retreat. It was a true collaboration of 12 artists that had not all met before to please the client and we succeeded!! There was a lot of prep work, finding supplies, problem solving and priming to be done to create these masterpieces desired. Twelve murals and a completed mosaic on the kitchen sink were what we accomplished in 7 days.

​MOSAIC AS #SHAMCARTREACH, 2018
​heather richardson
LEILA G DAVIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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#SHAMcARTreach Project as
​Public Art Intervention 
SHAMc board member Heather Richardson recruited many artists to submit proposals to the Safety Harbor Art Committee because there was a nice budget being spent this year. Many of the artists she recruited were chosen to create murals. 
Nancy Mitchell Odet Mural----Laura Kepner  Rainy Day Poetry---Derek Donnelly, Kumpa Tornwornprom 

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HEATHER RICHARDSON'S
​SAFETY HARBOR LIBRARY MOSAIC PROJECT FUNDED BY THE FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY 2014

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PRE SHAMc being built--
​Our first #SHAMcARTreach Project 
Grapefruit Art Gift to Safety Harbor
Todd and Kiaralinda rallied a group of artist friends to mosaic a few and paint a lot of buildings with the Safety Harbor 'fruit' the grapefruit. It was in honor of the soon to be Grapefruit festival that was going to be happening in a few weeks. Our public #ARTreach was a gift to our city in honor of the festival. A few are still in existence today but sadly most have been painted over.