Crab Devil Information

Crab Devil is a Tampa-based multimedia arts collective consisting of artists, designers, curators, musicians, writers, programmers, brewers, thinkers, and makers. Assembled from members of several of Tampa’s most celebrated creative collectives such as Tempus Projects, Cunsthaus, LiveWork Studios, Experimental Skeleton and others. Crab Devil was formed specifically to bring all of these talents under one roof to produce one of the largest, collaborative, multi-disciplinary arts efforts that Florida has ever seen. The Peninsularium, is a for-profit, multi- artist, multi-million-dollar effort to provide Tampa with its first and only permanent, immersive arts installation experience. Drawing on Tampa’s history as a port city and center of maritime commerce, The Peninsularium is constructed from an assemblage of repurposed shipping containers harkening back to the traveling circuses of the early 1900’s. The Peninsularium is imagined as a family-friendly cabinet of curiosities ripe with kitsch, bizarre history, and fantastical lore, showcasing Florida at its most weird and wild, presented through the guise of a typical roadside establishment, the Crab Devil Bait Shop.