Tempus Projects

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

✨🖤🤞🏼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.

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