Opening Thursday, Art Fair Tampa finds organizers taking a chance, and cover, with the city’s first large scale indoor art fair

Tony Adams (L) and Tyler Sirota at CLTV studio in Tampa on Sept. 10, 2026. Credit: Palm Tree Content for CLTV “Why dream small?” That’s the attitude of artrepreneur Tyler Sirota when it comes to realizing his dream: Art Fair Tampa, billed as “the region’s first major indoor fine art fair.” The project is nothing if not ambitious: 300-plus artists in 200 booths, showing over four days, starting Thursday with a VIP Collectors Night, and at a mammoth venue—the 75,000-square-foot West Hall at the Tampa Convention Center. It’s certainly the biggest art event Sirota has tackled—and he’s organizing it while also handling a day job as assistant engineering manager and art curator at the Epicurean Hotel in South Tampa. The former role involves “keeping everything looking proper” maintenance-wise; the latter allows him to connect local artists with the hotel, hanging their work there on a revolving basis. It’s one of several relationships he’s forged through the TT Art Collective (th