interior is more neutral, with mostly white surfaces and subdued lighting. The architect describes it as "a frame for the display of art, an empty canvass to be filled with paintings, a beautiful but blank container to be completed by its contents." It includes a gift shop and an indoor/outdoor cafe. In 2010, the Tampa Museum of Art was chosen as a winner of an American Architecture Award by The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design. Exhibits The Tampa Museum of Art currently has two floors; the first hosts the Help and Visitation Desk, alongside a joint cafe and gift shop for the museum, and the second floor is where the circulating galleries are on display. The permanent collection of the Tampa Museum of Art houses ancient pottery and tools from civilizations before and during Ancient Greece sponsored by the University of South Florida Special Collections, and other exhibits, like the exhibit "An Irresistible Urge to Create: The Monroe Family Collection of Outside Art", which features works from artists around the state in a variety of mediums, and the works of Paul Jenkins, an Abstract Expressionist whose works are currently on display. There have also been recent renovations to the museum, largely in creating an expanded educational space that can be separate from the main galleries, and an expanded gallery to house the works of children who take classes in the expanded space. The space is designed to exist within the same building as the rest of the museum, but is slated to continue operations well after the closing of the main galleries, and is designed to host classes in a variety of mediums, including digital art and photography. Affiliates The Tampa Museum of Art is currently partnered with the University of South Florida, and collaborates predominantly with the Tampa campus by providing materials for exhibitions, particularly in the display of works of ancient pottery like vases and drinking vessels from areas of civilizations prior to and during Ancient Greece for patrons to view, alongside providing an honors Capstone course that has students learn about dementia and other mental in artists' whose works are currently on display in the "Outsider Art Gallery" from the Monroe Family Collection, which showcases the various works across a variety of mediums of artists that live in Florida. The ancient works are also available to view digitally through the USF Special Collections of the