Art Week Tampa returns Feb. 18–22, 2026, as a celebration of visual art, public art, performance, and cultural exchange across downtown Tampa, the USF corridor, Seminole Heights, and historic Ybor City.
The week opens on Wednesday with curator-led tours and programming at the Tampa Museum of Art, alongside exhibitions and campus-based arts activity at the University of Tampa. On Thursday, the Ybor Arts Tour invites public exploration of galleries and creative spaces throughout Ybor, including Hillsborough College Art Galleries, Marcolina’s Gallery, Tempus Projects, Art Noire, Fringe Theatre, private artist studios at Kress Contemporary, and more. Friday highlights exhibitions across the USF corridor, while Saturday brings a lively convergence of public art and community celebration in Ybor City with the Now On View festival and Fiesta Day. Sunday closes the festivities with an artist-led workshop at Kress Contemporary.
Together, Art Week Tampa connects institutions, artist-run spaces, and neighborhoods into a shared experience reflecting the depth and diversity of Tampa’s creative ecosystem.
These are just some highlights as things unfold. We love our city, and are starting small with the expectation that Art Week Tampa can grow annually to highlight the many ways we all engage with visual, performing, and literary arts in Tampa.
DOWNTOWN TAMPA
Art Week Tampa officially kicks off on Feb. 18, with a morning welcome at the Tampa Museum of Art at 10 AM. At 10:30 AM, curators Joanna Robotham and Branko van Oppen will lead concurrent gallery tours, offering two distinct paths through the Museum:
Jun Kaneko: Silence Before Sound
Led by Joanna Robotham
This major exhibition presents the first comprehensive survey of Jun Kaneko’s work in Florida and celebrates the Tampa Museum of Art’s recent acquisition of the artist’s monumental ceramic sculpture Untitled (Dango). Spanning six decades of practice, the exhibition traces Kaneko’s evolution from his early involvement in the California Clay Movement to large-scale works that blur the boundaries between ceramics, painting, and sculpture. Nearly 50 works place monumental ceramic forms in dialogue with paintings and drawings, emphasizing the Japanese concept of Ma—the pause, space, and stillness between gestures—as a guiding principle in Kaneko’s use of pattern, color, scale, and form.
Joseph Veach Noble: Through the Eye of a Collector
Led by Branko van Oppen
This tour offers visitors a final opportunity to experience an exhibition drawn from the Joseph Veach Noble Collection, one of the foundational holdings of the Tampa Museum of Art. Focusing on ancient Greek and Roman works—particularly painted pottery—the exhibition highlights Noble’s discerning eye as a collector and scholar, and explores how these objects illuminate daily life, belief systems, and artistic innovation in the ancient world.
The University of Tampa College of Arts and Letters is also showcasing current programming across the University’s visual arts department.
Visitors are invited to explore exhibitions at the Scarfone / Hartley Gallery, along with other notable projects reflecting the breadth of artistic practice, scholarship, and creative production taking place on campus.
Wednesday 2.18.26
Jun Kaneko
Thursday 2.19.26
YBOR CITY
Thursday presents the Ybor Arts Tour from 4 to 9 PM at sites across historic Ybor City. During this free self-guided tour, galleries, performance spaces, and creative organizations are open to the public, offering exhibitions, open studios, and special programming throughout the district.
The tour includes stops at Hillsborough College Art Galleries, Marcolina’s Gallery, Tropical Home Fine Art Gallery, and a concentration of activity at Kress Contemporary, where visitors can explore Tempus Projects, Art Noire, Fringe Theatre, Parallelogram Gallery, Reverb Art Gallery, and Pop Yarn, along with more than a dozen private artist studios. The tour continues across other Ybor studios and nontraditional venues such as DRIP, Westbuk studio, Hotel Haya, and Lara’s Behind the Shelves speakeasy gallery. Visit the Ybor Arts Tour webpage for a full map and schedule.
Art Noire Gallery
Sky Puppy Brewing
FRIday 2.20.26
USF CORRIDOR & SEMINOLE HEIGHTS
USF Contemporary Art Museum (10 AM – 5 PM)
The USF Contemporary Art Museum presents Brian Maguire: La Grande Illusion, a major exhibition by Irish artist Brian Maguire. Spanning two decades of work, the exhibition features large-scale paintings developed through the artist’s direct engagement with communities affected by war, displacement, economic inequality, and environmental harm. Maguire’s work draws from projects in locations including Juárez, the Mediterranean, Aleppo, South Sudan, the Amazon, and the United States. Admission is free.
USF Graphicstudio (10 AM – 5 PM)
At USF Graphicstudio, visitors can view Impressions: 35 Years of Women in Print, a temporary exhibition highlighting work by women artists who have collaborated with the studio during the past three decades. Featruing works by Diana Al-Hadid, Trisha Brown, Elisabeth Condon, Lesley Dill, Nancy Graves, Graciela Iturbide, Mernet Larsen, Andrea Modica, and Janaina Tschäpe, the showcase reflects a wide range of approaches to printmaking, photography, sculpture, and mixed media.
Additional Friday programming includes exhibitions at the Carolyn M. Wilson Gallery, featuring work by students, alumni, and faculty connected to the University of South Florida’s visual arts programs.
On Friday from 5 to 8 PM, the artist-run curatorial project Lease Agreement in Seminole Heights presents the opening reception of 606-312-2004 by artist Cooper L. Gibson. Lease Agreement programming continues in the tradition of alternative art spaces by organizing conceptually rigorous, engaging work for exhibitions, screenings, performances, and art events in non-traditional locations.
Brian Maguire
Cooper L. Gibson
SATURDAY 2.21.26
YBOR CITY
The 79th Annual Fiesta Day in Ybor City is on Saturday, Feb. 21 from 11 AM to 6 PM all along 7th Avenue. This free, family-friendly street festival celebrates Ybor's immigrant roots with live music, cultural performances, and local vendors, including participating artists and arts organizations.
Now On View 3, Hillsborough College’s free, one-day-only public art festival, coincides with Fiesta Day celebrations from 11 AM to 3 PM, presenting four hours of music, interactive visual art and live performance by Tampa-based artists reflecting on Tampa’s past, present and future.
Fiesta Day
Now On View
SUNDAY 2.22.26
YBOR CITY
Monotype Workshop with William Downs at Kress Contemporary
1624 E 7th Ave, Ybor City
Join artist William Downs for a hands-on monotype printmaking workshop on Sunday, Feb. 22 from noon to 3 PM at the Kress Press Printmaking Lab.
Monotype is a printmaking process that produces a single, unique image by applying ink directly onto a smooth, non-absorbent surface, and transferring that image to paper using pressure.
In this workshop, participants will learn basic monotype techniques, including inking, mark-making, layering, and image transfer, while experimenting with spontaneity and change in a collaborative studio setting.
Space is limited to 12 participants, ages 12 and up. Artists under 16 much be accompanied by a parent or chaperone. Register online for free here.
William Downs is a contemporary American artist based in Atlanta, Georgia. Working across drawing, painting, printmaking, and installation, his practice centers on an ongoing investigation of the line as both a formal structure and a conceptual tool. He received a BFA in Painting and Printmaking from the Atlanta College of Art and Design, and an MFA from the Mount Royal School of Art at the Maryland Institute College of Art.
William Downs