Celebrating Hispanic Heritage on the Ybor Campus, Cuban abstract painter Juan Vazquez Martin combines cultural influences from the US and Cuba in his challenging, brilliant abstract paintings.

Well-respected Florida artist/educator Rocky Bridges exhibit his artworks that are reinvented mixed media, assemblages, incoporating recognizable refuse from our material culture. Bridges’ artworks are composed of wood, metal and fabric recombined in innovative and compelling ways.

The Ybor Campus Art Gallery has initiated an innovative collaboration with the University of Florida, Gainesville. We will invite six UF fine art faculty members to exhibit in Tampa. Gallery talks, and special classroom workshops will be held by UF faculty, open to all HCC students.

HCC students enter work created in the Fall and Spring semesters--all mediums will be judged. Winners receive monetary scholarships from Tampa’s art support group Las Damas De Arte.

A native of New Delhi, India, Kaur combines various processes including printmaking, drawings and site-specific installations in her work. Currently teaching at the Univ of Tampa she is exploring localism, globalism and hybridity, forming a new perspective in conceptualizing and visualizing her work and her identity.

The gallery continues its outreach program that supports youth-at-risk through our "Tampa Neighborhoods Documentary Project" with Community Stepping Stones of Sulphur Springs, an art-infused, after-school community project for underserved teens. Under the direction of USF Community Arts Instructor Ed Ross and CSS Executive Director Sigrid Tidmore the teens learn not only art practices, but also skills to help them become successful adults. The exhibit will consist of photography, painting, drawings and their innovative endeavour of mural painting throughout Tampa Bay neighborhoods.

Artistic Director of Tampa’s Artists and Writers Group, David Audet, will curate an eclectic, mixed media invitational exhibit for the HCC Ybor gallery, involving local and regional artists with artwork specially created about Tampa and Ybor City.

During August/September 2013, to begin our academic year, the Ybor Gallery will host an exhibit by Kirk Ke Wang. Professor of Art at Eckerd College, Wang is a painter, sculptor, photographer and mixed media artist born in Shanghai, China. At age 16, he enetered the Nanjing Normal University in China for his BFA and MFA studies.