Current Exhibitions

September 4, 2025-February 1, 2026

Opening Reception: Thursday, September 4, 6-8 p.m.

Pérez’s striking series of urban landscapes pays tribute to the immigrants who built the “Cigar Capital of the World” and to the architecture that holds the city’s memory. Created with mixed media on unique surfaces, including salvaged doors from homes impacted by the 2024 hurricane, his work invites viewers to step through a symbolic gateway of resilience, history, and cultural restoration.

Mario Javier Pérez Salabarría is a Cuban-born artist and writer who came to the United States in 2004. With a background in architecture and art teaching in Cuba, and later a master’s in guidance counseling in the U.S., Pérez has built a career that bridges art, education, and community. Currently serving as an Assistant Dean at Hillsborough Community College while pursuing his doctorate in education at USF, he continues to create works that honor heritage and history while inspiring cultural connection.

Over the past four decades, HCC’s Permanent Art Collection has fostered strong connections between the college and local arts community. With a heavy emphasis on new acquisitions, this year’s exhibition features the work of fourteen artists who have lived, worked or exhibited in the Tampa Bay region. Ranging from the 1990s to the present, Lingering Echoes includes artworks from the collection alongside installations from the college’s evolving public art program, reflecting on permanence, ephemerality, memory and place. Encompassing themes such as environment, relationships, form, and memory, this annual exhibition aims to investigate and amplify Tampa’s artistic landscape and the artists who have traversed it.

Artists include: Jaime Aelavanthara, George Anderton, Susan Bartos, Suzanne Camp Crosby, Miguel A. Fleitas, Samson Huang, Nneka Jones, Lisa McCarthy, Duncan McClellan, Anthony Record, Stephen Schatz, Tory Tepp, Suzanne Williamson and Theo Wujcik.

August 21 - November 6

First Look: Thursday, August 21, 6–8 p.m.

Hurricane Preparedness Workshop: Tuesday, August 26, 1:30–2:30 p.m.

Hurricane Preparedness Panel: Tuesday, August 26, 6–8 p.m.

Weather Warlock Screening & Poetry Reading: 6-7:30 p.m.

What does it mean to create art that accepts the reality of loss? Galvanized by last year’s unprecedented back-to-back 100-year storms—Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton—In Case of Flood includes artists and activists in the state of Florida whose work embraces creative adaptation, collective resilience and risk amid environmental uncertainty. 

Whether visual, conceptual or functional, the artworks are bound by one condition: if floodwaters rise or hurricane winds return, they will not be prioritized for preservation. Instead, the exhibition will be surrendered to the elements, with any salvageable hurricane materials subject to mutual aid redistribution. 

Engaging themes of futility, adaptation, acceptance and transformation, In Case of Flood invites audiences to reimagine the role of a gallery as storms intensify.

Artists include Elizabeth Anderson, Kirst Austin-Harrow, Emma Chandler, Odessa Conner, Josh Corson, Rae Fernandez, Adda Farcus, Jim Graham, Kelsea Gustavson, Piper Harrow, Cort Hartle, Nan Keeton, Jason Lazarus, Kate Magruder, Cori Matyas, Trinidad Oribio, Kathy P., Kyna Patel, Emma Quintana, Kali Rabaut, Katelyn Rose, Anthony Record, Kristen Roles, Eszter Sziksz, Salma Taguja-Garcia and Becca Wahl.

August 18 – November 26, 2025 

Reception Thursday, September 18, 5–8 p.m. 

Panel discussion begins at 6 p.m.

During his four decades in Tampa, celebrated artist Theo Wujcik left a lasting mark on the city—and Tampa left its mark on him. Theo Wujcik: Tempo, Tampa explores this exchange through works on loan from local collections, paired with archival materials that offer insight into his life and legacy. Together, they immerse viewers in the world of one of Tampa’s most significant artists, whose unique fusion of visual structure, content, metaphor and everyday materials reflects a deep awareness of our ever-evolving world—and reveals that creative sparks can be found all around us.

Theo Wujcik was a Detroit-born artist, educator, master printer and painter known for his innovative techniques. He moved to Tampa in 1970 to become shop director of Graphicstudio at USF, where he taught for three decades while creating artwork in rhythm with Tampa’s early underground music scene and Ybor City’s alternative dance clubs. Collected and exhibited both nationally and internationally, he remained a vital force in the Tampa Bay art scene until his death in 2014.