"Bait Ball" unveiling at Fairgrounds St. Pete

While Ybor Heights art compound Crab Devil won’t ever open, parts of it have found a home elsewhere in Tampa Bay. “The Bait Ball” (pictured in construction), a kinetic sculpture by Tampa artist and Crab Devil founder Devon Brady, is swimming across the Bay to St. Pete and will be unveiled to the public this week at the immersive art installation Fairgrounds. Devoted art lovers might remember the eight-foot “zoetrope” from the 2022 Gasparilla Festival of the Arts where lucky festivalgoers got to experience the way 3D printing, light, motion, and sound create a hypnotizing display that looked like fish swimming in a ball.