Tempus Projects

04/15/2026

Tempus Projects: Call to Artists

Ybor City is a living archive shaped by migration, labor, resistance, and reinvention. Artists are uniquely positioned to reflect on and reinterpret these histories. Submit your work and contribute to this evolving love letter to Ybor City in Oh, Cuore Mia.

Oh, Cuore Mia, is a juried exhibition exploring the past, present, and future of a historic district in constant transformation. Tempus Projects invites artists to submit work for this group exhibition, curated by Tempus with guest juror Jenn Ryann Miller.

Oh, Cuore Mia—“my heart”—embraces the idea that the only constant in Ybor is change. This open call seeks works that engage the layered histories, identities, and lived experiences that continue to shape historic Ybor City neighborhoods.

Rather than focusing on familiar imagery, we encourage artists to move beyond surface representations. This is not an exhibition about ci**rs, lamp posts, Cuban sandwiches, chickens, or flamenco dancers as tropes—unless they are approached through deeper, personal, or critical frameworks. We seek work that engages the forces, stories, and lived experiences that produced those icons.

Eligibility & Media
All media are eligible, including painting, photography, video, installation, performance, sound, text-based work, and interdisciplinary practices. Collaborative submissions are also welcome.

Detail to Follow

04/01/2026

New exhibition “Nothing to See Here” opens at Tempus Projects April 2 Exhibition dates: April 2 – May 28, 2026
Opening reception: Thursday, April 2 from 6 to 9 p.m.

Tempus Projects is pleased to present Nothing to See Here, a group exhibition exploring gestures and practices that often exist outside of recognition—things carried out quietly, habitually, and in plain sight without being fully seen. Featuring drawing, sculpture, video, painting and mixed-media practices, this exhibition reflects on the quiet persistence of these acts, and the ways artists make visible what is typically obscured.
“Nothing to See Here” opens with a public reception on Thursday April 2 and remains on view through May 28. Participating artists include Anna Hemmerich, Jenn Ryann Miller, Kaylin Price, Jessi Sherbet, Erin Titus, Selena, Roman, and Leah Peaslee.

Highlighting gestures hidden or minimized, these artists explore the psychological and mystical dimensions of what remains just outside of view. Exploring domestic spaces, private thoughts, and social negotiations, Nothing To See Here addresses the unseen labor structuring relationships and communities, such as acts of care, strategies of self-protection, and silent acts of resistance.

A public artists reception will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. on April 2 at Tempus Projects, inside Kress Contemporary, 1624 E. 7th Avenue in historic Ybor City.

About Tempus Projects:
Tempus Projects is dedicated to nurturing established and emerging local, national, and international artists through exhibitions, collaborations, residencies, and events. Currently in the midst of a Spring Fundraising Campaign, our nonprofit promotes artists working in all media, and we originate, organize, and host exhibitions that engage the Tampa Bay community through the arts. Our vision is to foster a vibrant, critical nexus that connects grassroots efforts to an international arts dialogue through innovative, equitable programming. Learn more at www.tempus-projects.com

04/01/2026

✨🖤🤞🏼Thank you to Creative Loafing Tampa and especially to Lisa McCarthy and Wallace Wilson. We are looking forward to opening this exhibition and hope to see you all at Tempus Projects. 🖤🤞🏼✨

Starting next week, Tempus Projects at the Kress Collective in Ybor City presents “Awkward Transactions,” a collaborative exhibition by photographer Wallace Wilson and painter Lisa McCarthy.

04/01/2026

AWKWARD TRANSACTIONS: Art by Lisa McCarthy & Wallace Wilson
April 2 - May 28, 2026

Tampa, FL — Tempus Projects gallery in Ybor City is pleased to announce the April 2 opening of Awkward Transactions, an exhibition by Lisa McCarthy and Wallace Wilson. Their joint project begins with a premise both theoretical and theatrical: What happens if a painter and a photographer stage their collaboration as a visual call-and-response? The structure promises dialogue, tension, and improvisation. 

The opening reception is Thurs., April 2, 2026, from 6 to 9 p.m. at Tempus, 1624 E 7th Avenue. This exhibition remains on display through May 28.

In Awkward Transactions, a creative exchange unfolds between photographer Wilson and painter McCarthy, with Wilson’s photos serving as the “call,” and McCarthy’s interventions in paint as the “response.”

Wilson’s

Wallace Wilson received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and is Director Emeritus of the USF School of Art & Art History. Featuring diffused subjects resisting conceptual clarity, his photographs have been collected by public and private institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Lisa McCarthy is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily as a painter. She builds up layers of material to produce a body of work, allowing chance to guide narrative compositions. McCarthy holds an MFA from the University of South Florida and a BFA from School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Tempus Projects is dedicated to nurturing established and emerging local, national, and international artists through exhibitions, collaborations, residencies, and events. Currently in the midst of a Spring Fundraising Campaign, our nonprofit promotes artists working in all media, and we originate, organize, and host exhibitions that engage the Tampa Bay community through the arts. Our vision is to foster a vibrant, critical nexus that connects grassroots efforts to an international arts dialogue through innovative, equitable programming.

03/12/2026

03/02/2026

✨🖤 Pisces Party at Tempus – Making Waves March 13th 🖤✨

Join us for a special night to celebrate the one-of-a-kind Pisces people in your life while raising funds for Tempus Projects.

Pisces Party 🎏Friday, March 13, 🖤 7–10 PM

Your $10 advance ticket includes one free drink and entry to a dreamy dance party filled with art, music, and playful surprises. Explore the Tempus galleries, strike a pose in Dave Decker’s Photo Booth, visit the Softies Crying Corner, and belt it out in the karaoke room.

Bring a little extra for: ✨The Mystic Reader ✨The Doodle Booth ✨Cash bar

🎁Optional but highly suggested, Mystery Gift Exchange: Bring one wrapped $10 gift and take one home. (Bring two or three if you really love presents.)🎁

This event also punctuates our Spring Fundraising Campaign. We’re working to raise $5,000 to give us a crucial boost through the summer months — helping us sustain exhibitions, artist opportunities, and public programming. Your ticket, your tips, and your presence all make a real difference.

It’s the perfect way to honor the watery season, dance a little, and support an artist-run space that keeps experimental and community-driven art alive in Tampa.

Grab your ticket in advance and come make some waves with us.

01/08/2026

FROM ALL SIDES OF THE PAGE AT ONCE
a group exhibition of traditional (and not so traditional) printmaking
Jan 15 - Mar 19, 2026
Artist Reception, Friday, Jan 16
Tempus Projects is pleased to present From All Sides of the Page at Once, a group exhibition on view from January 15 through March 19, 2026, in the Tempus Projects Flash Gallery.
This exhibition brings together artists whose practices engage both traditional and experimental approaches to printmaking, featuring a wide range of techniques, including monotypes, cyanotypes, woodcuts, etchings, and other mixed-method printed works. Together, these works center printing as a practice of physical labor, repetition, reversal, and layered meaning—where process is as present as image.
A happy hour for Tempus Members and Sponsors will take place on Friday, January 16 from 6–7 p.m., followed by a public artist reception from 7–9 p.m.
Participating artists include Neil Bender, Will Douglas, William Downs, Carissa Heinrichs, Mary-Helen Horne, Ezra Johnson, Damien LaRue, Lynn Manos, Patrick Michael Carew, Tom Rosenow, Noelle Mason, Lisa McCarthy, Jenn Ryann Miller, Dominique Labauvie, Gary Schmitt, Ryann Slauson, Willow Wells, Matthew Drennan Wicks, and Theo Wujcik. .studio .larue .garyschmitt

01/08/2026

ALL I EVER WANT IS JUST TO FALL INTO YOUR HUMAN HANDS
a juried group exhibition of works inspired by or engaging artificial intelligence
Jan 15 - Mar 19, 2026
Artist Reception, Friday, Jan 16
Tempus Projects is pleased to present All I Ever Want Is Just to Fall Into Your Human Hands, a juried group exhibition that critically engages artificial intelligence and the human condition, reflecting on a cultural moment in which AI is both omnipresent and deeply contested. 
The exhibition will run from January 15 to March 19, 2026, with a public artist reception on Friday, January 16 at Tempus Projects in the historic Kress Building, 1624 E. 7th Ave, Ybor City. 
This is not exclusively an exhibition of AI-generated artwork, instead presenting works in multiple media that are about, inspired by, or made with artificial intelligence. Whether speculative, humorous, or critical, this art questions AI’s influence, addresses its aesthetics, wrestles with ethics, and examines the impacts of machine intelligence on our inner lives and shared realities. 
Artists are uniquely positioned to decode, challenge, and reimagine these systems shaping our collective future. Participating artists Ariel Baron-Robbins Lapciuc, Carolyn Lambert, John O’Donnell, Christopher Meerdo, Diana Sosnowska, Hannah Newman, and Spencer Vomacka were selected by a panel of jurors to contribute to this growing dialogue at a pivotal moment in art and technology. Thank you to our jurors

01/08/2026

FROM ALL SIDES OF THE PAGE AT ONCE
a group exhibition of traditional (and not so traditional) printmaking
Jan 15 - Mar 19, 2026
Artist Reception, Friday, Jan 16
Tempus Projects is pleased to present From All Sides of the Page at Once, a group exhibition on view from January 15 through March 19, 2026, in the Tempus Projects Flash Gallery.
This exhibition brings together artists whose practices engage both traditional and experimental approaches to printmaking, featuring a wide range of techniques, including monotypes, cyanotypes, woodcuts, etchings, and other mixed-method printed works. Together, these works center printing as a practice of physical labor, repetition, reversal, and layered meaning—where process is as present as image.
A happy hour for Tempus Members and Sponsors will take place on Friday, January 16 from 6–7 p.m., followed by a public artist reception from 7–9 p.m.
Participating artists include .studio .larue .garyschmitt

12/08/2025

All we want for XMAS is … well we want a lot of things, let’s be honest, but we could start with YOU -attending our 12x12 silent auction on 12/12 and staying to celebrate at KRESS KRINGLE a building wide party. We could all use a little holiday cheer, no?