David Audet

Director, HCC-Ybor Festival of the Moving Image 2003

Born in San Bernardino, California, July 1951, David Audet grew up in the Mojave desert in small towns along Route 66.

He graduated from Eisenhower High School in 1969. Drafted into the U.S. Army in 1971, he served as a combat medic in the Seventh Armored Calvary (Germany), and received an honorable discharge in 1973.

David Received a BFA from University of South Florida in 1979, majoring in filmmaking and photography.

Since 1979 David has co-founded, directed, or owned a number of venues that have promoted artistic endeavors, including the Artists and Writers Balls at the Cuban Club, Artists and Writers Cafe and Ground Zero Performance Gallery in Hyde Park, Still and Moving Gallery in Seminole Heights.

As a curator David has created such shows as the bi-annual Cuban Sandwich Show (Art about Tampa), Real Lush: Books as Art, that toured Florida, including the Tampa Museum of Art, 1986. He co-directed the USF Chinsegut Film/video Conference held at the Tides Motel and Bath Club during the 1980's.

David co-founded and was a managing editor of the arts publication, Tabloid Magazine. David has written and produced a number of plays, including The Me of the Story, Off the Chain, Souveniers of the Dreamtime and Day 2 Day.

The past three years, David has been a Special Projects Manager for Hillsborough Community College-Ybor, coordinating an intervention and diversion cultural arts program called Prodigy.

David continues to produce visual art and is currently preparing a photography show about Cuba for Fall 2003.