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4 unusual facts about Experimental Skeleton


Experimental Skeleton

These flowering locations, such as Ybor City, simultaneously became attractive to developers.

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.

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).

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.



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