St. Petersburg, FLORIDA (September 5, 2023) – The St. Petersburg Arts Alliance (SPAA), along with its community partner, Kahwa Coffee, are delighted to announce the fourth artist in the collaboration that supports the building of the St. Petersburg Arts Endowment through the sale of art-wrapped coffee canisters.
A lifelong Tampa Bay area native, Carrie Jadus is a versatile and accomplished artist who works primarily in oils. Best known for her figural and landscape paintings that range between realism and impressionism, Jadus is also recognized for her local murals “Awakening Bodhisattva” next to St. Pete’s Dog Bar, and “Last Call” at the Grand Central Brewhouse, among others. In recent years Jadus has also expanded into designing and collaborating on a number of large-scale sculptural works. She maintains a studio at Soft Water Gallery in the Warehouse Arts District, St. Petersburg. Find out more about Carrie here > www.carriejadus.com
“I think this is what a can of sunshine looks like.” ~Carrie Jadus
SPAA and Kahwa Coffee will celebrate the launch of this fourth artist wrapped canister at a special event with light refreshments, coffee and art on Wednesday, September 13 from 5-7pm at Soft Water Gallery located at 515 22nd Street South, St. Pete, FL. Meet the artist and get your canister signed! The business community and the public are invited to support the St. Pete Arts Endowment by purchasing these limited edition canisters online starting September 13th and in stores on September 14th.
Past art wrapped canister artists are Chad Mize, Glenyse Thompson and Fred “Rootman” Woods.
Kahwa Coffee owners Sarah and Raphael Perrier are available for media interviews. To schedule MEDIA interviews, please email Brooke Palmer Kuhl at brookep@rsbpevents.com or call 727.235.2389.
About Kahwa Coffee:
Kahwa Coffee Roasting Company is a wholesale and retail coffee company based in St. Petersburg, Fl. Founded in 2006 by Sarah and Raphael Perrier, Kahwa has become the largest independent coffee roaster in the state of Florida. Kahwa’s reputation is built on quality and consistency of the product. 100% premium quality Arabica beans are selected from different origins around the world; these beans are then blended and skillfully roasted to produce a complex flavor that allows each origin to yield its most distinct palate. Each blend is roasted and packaged on demand to guarantee quality and freshness. Kahwa’s wholesale customers skyrocketed in 2008 after receiving the stamp of approval from world-renowned French chef, Paul Bocuse, who selected Kahwa coffee for his highly esteemed restaurant in Epcot, Chefs de France. That same year, Kahwa’s first retail cafe opened in downtown St. Pete with the goal to create an environment with personalized customer service and a community meeting place where all walks of life can come to socialize.
Today, with 15 retail locations and over 800 wholesale customers, Kahwa is dedicated to expanding its customer base while still maintaining the greatest quality of the product and an exceptional customer service experience. For more information, visit www.kahwacoffee.com.
Stay connected to Kahwa: facebook.com/kahwacoffee and @KahwaCoffee on Twitter and Instagram.
About the St. Pete Arts Alliance:
The St. Petersburg Arts Alliance is the umbrella organization serving this vital arts and cultural community. We do so by driving arts-related economic development and funding, advocating for art and artists, educating at all levels and facilitating the growth of our City of the Arts. In December 2015, the St. Petersburg Arts Alliance (SPAA) established an arts endowment fund at the Community Foundation Tampa Bay. The purpose of the fund is to ensure that the arts community has a resource available for sustainability. SPAA‘s role is to raise these funds and work with the city to award grants, through its Arts Advisory Committee to our arts community. This advisory committee will be gathered through a grants process, as laid out in Chapter 5 of City Ordinances. As an organization that advocates for all the arts within St. Pete, we want to ensure that our efforts go towards building the resources for the future. This fund will assist with many different needs for the arts community. This is how the visual and performing arts community will grow. Encouraging public support for this endowment is a key element, so that arts within St. Petersburg has wide community involvement. Kahwa Coffee understands the importance of the arts within St. Petersburg and has stepped up to make this collaboration possible. Without their vision and interest in supporting the arts, this project would not be possible.
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MEDIA CONTACTS:
Brooke Palmer Kuhl
Kahwa Coffee PR
brookep@rsbpevents.com
C: 727.235.2389
Terry Marks, CEO, SPAA
terry@stpeteartsalliance.org
(917) 969-0116