The mission of the North Tampa Arts League is to develop, nurture, and support the arts and the artists of North Tampa by working in concert with community leaders to make North Tampa a vibrant art community. All are welcome!
TO JOIN US: go to Membership and download our Membership form. Individual membership is $35. Family membership is $45. Benefits include partner benefits at the Life Enrichment Center for the Arts, discount at AOE Art Supply and public art shows scheduled through out the year.
  _______________________________________________ New are taking a vacation for the summer. The next General Meeting is September 25th at Compton Park NTAL Online Art Challenge June 2019 ESCAPING THE SUMMER HEAT
We will miss seeing everyone during the summer months, but we want to see your amazing artwork in our Online Challenge Program! How it works: Rule #1 - Have FUN WITH IT!! Paint any subject showing people, pets or critters escaping the summer heat and submit to NTALboard@gmail.com by June 30th. Any size, any medium, framed or unframed....We will share everyone’s work on our Facebook page. Tell us your inspiration and why you just HAD to paint or create your subject. Visit our page, enter and LIKE or LOVE your favorites - except your own. The artist with the most votes may choose from a container of brush cleaner or 2 half sheet high quality watercolor paper. 2019-20 BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
You must be an active member to serve on the board. Contact NTALboard@gmail.com if interested. Know Your 2019 Committee Chairs:
NTAL and LEC (Life Enrichment Center) are partners; members are eligible for all classes at the LEC Member rate. You can view the upcoming classes at Meetup.   Lynn Rattray has a painting in the Lightning Celebration of the Arts at Amalie Arena. Learn to paint from a different professional artist each month. Call NTAL member Marie Schadt at 813-971 -9145 for more info. When: 4th Monday of the Month starting back in January, 2017 from 10:00am -2:00pm at Roy Haynes Park, 1902 South Village Avenue, Tampa. Cost: Free ($8 donation requested). Bring your own supplies. | Hot News
  Congratulations to artist Sally Yoder for winning the North Tampa Art League Featured Artist Award for the 2nd Quarter 2019! Her winning entry is “First Catch”, watercolor on cold press Arches paper. “First Catch” was a surprise painting of a friend and fellow artist based on a black and white childhood photo. Sally Yoder is an oi, acrylic and watercolor painter whose portraits, plein air works and boldly colored, large studio pieces offer surprising interpretations of the everyday ordinary. Having studied mostly oil painting classical realism, Sally "began to wonder why I'm copying great photos. So tight and no creativity! Through happenstance, I realized old, black and white photos lend themselves to creative interpretation. So I asked friends to send me fun, old pics I could try to paint. The watercolor of my friend, Deb, is a happy result of this practice." Accolades include second place for a Myakka River watercolor at Zephyrhills Art Club's 2017 annual show; wins in many categories at the monthly Venice Art Experience; first place in oil and acrylic at NTAL's 2018 Annual show with a Hillsborough River scene, and Honorable Mention for a Rembrandt inspired self-portrait at NTAL's 2019 Show. Sally co-owns the Million Souls Mine and recently added lapidary arts to her creative repertoire. For more information, please visit her at: Check out our Fine Art America Friends of NTAL group featuring member art hosted there. You can purchase prints and often find an original for sale as well.  The second month of each quarter, NTAL hosts a scheduled demo/workshop at the Life Enrichment Center on the 4th Thursday of that month. The demo/workshops are free and open to the public. Recent workshops: 5/23 - Art Workshop: Painting a Still Life 4/24 - The Urban Sketching Movement - Rose Singleton 2/19 - Costumed Life Drawing - LEC 11/18 - Acrylic Painting - Alan Metzger 8/18 - Framing for the Artist - Joose Hadley 5/18 - Imprimatura - Sally Yoder 02/18 - Colored Pencils, Diane Harm 11/17 - Acrylic Pouring, Pat Beebe 08/17 - Egg Tempera, Gainor Roberts 05/17 - Watercolor on Yupo, Taylor Ikin (guest presenter) NTAL members donated 11 original works of art in 2014 to the Radiology department of the Shriners Hospital For Children - Tampa.  Find out what is happening in our local arts community at Tampa Arts, the Arts Council of Hillsborough County. Stay informed by subscribing to their weekly email update.   |
