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The Experimental Skeleton is a non-profit artistic organization in Tampa, Florida that promotes visual arts throughout the area. ==History== During the last 15 years there have been several attempts to revitalize downtown Tampa. Many of them have focused on areas where local artists and artist groups had already gained a foothold and began to build their own communities. These flowering locations, such as Ybor City, simultaneously became attractive to developers. The end result for most of the growing art community was to be pushed out by the hikes in rent and real estate. In 1996, The Florida Center for Contemporary Art (FCCA), a not-for-profit organization that once called Ybor City its home was struggling to reinvent itself in Downtown Tampa. The FCCA began by renting a space on the far north side of Franklin St. where it floundered under the debt it had inherited trying to survive in its Ybor City location. At this time a developer offered up free space at the old Crown Wig Shop further south on Franklin St., and the FCCA took the offer with new hopes of reinvigorating it’s vitality in the arts community. At this point in time The FCCA also joined forces with the artist group Titanic Anatomy, Inc. The Titanic Anatomy group took control of the second level of the space and looked after the F.C.C.A.’s exhibition needs. The partnership yielded a year of energetic projects that made a lasting impact on the arts community. The programming at times linked with Tampa Theater to connect visual projects with film openings. At the end of 1998 the tide again turned, and a project to revitalize the Franklin Street Mall became a hot topic. The plans to create a “farmers market” and “art flea market” from old buildings such as the Woolworth's building caused enough of a stir that developers pulled the plug on the arts organizations’ squatting techniques in hopes of high dollar rental. The efforts to breathe life into Franklin St. failed and buildings such as the Crown Wig Shop remained derelict for seven years and remain so today. The FCCA did not pursue a new venue. Titanic Anatomy, Inc. splintered off into a new group with a different mission called Experimental Skeleton, Inc. Experimental Skeleton was to have many small venues finally landing proper in Seminole Heights where Florida Ave. was quickly becoming the breeding ground for galleries, artist studios, and transplants from the old Ybor City days now making it happen again (notably places like Viva la Frida’ restaurant/gallery). Experimental Skeleton along with other arts organizations like Covivant Gallery continued to function and enrich the city and Seminole Heights neighborhood. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Experimental Skeleton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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