Author: Sarasota Visual Art

2022 Embracing Our Differences International Art Exhibit Celebrating Diversity Submission deadline: October 6, 2021 Embracing Our Differences is seeking submissions for an outdoor juried art exhibit featuring 50 billboard size...

Art is a powerful tool to evoke social change. Without uttering a single word, artists can enlighten, educate and affect change around the world. Since 2004, Embracing Our Differences has...

September 9 2018 – February 3, 2019The Ringling Museum A selection of watercolors drawn from The Ringling’s permanent collections, illustrating various ways artists have used the medium. The exhibition will...

Thursday, September 6, 2018 at 8PMThe John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art The works contain traces of sarcasm, wit, gore, and psychological discoveries within outlandish compositions.Through their narratives these...

August 20 – December 8, 2018 USF Contemporary Art Museum For three decades, Miki Kratsman has been one of the leading chroniclers of life in the Israeli-occupied territories. His photographs—many...

May 18 – September 14, 2018 Patricia Thompson Gallery The insightful and absorbing Illustrations of Octavio Perez will be presented from March through May 2018. Octavio Perez has worked at...

April 28 – May 25, 2018 Art Uptown Gallery, Downtown Sarasota The public is invited to an opening reception May 4, from 6 to 9 p.m. The scope of the...

April 6 – April 27, 2018 SCF Fine Art Gallery The Fine Art Gallery at State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota (SCF) will host a reception 5-7 p.m. on April 6...

Saturday, March 17, 2018 (2- 4PM) Art Center Sarasota Moderated by Mark Ormond, chief curator at Ringling College of Art and Design. Guest Panelists are Carolyn Mason, a former Sarasota...

March 9, 2018 @ 7:30PM The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Buy Tickets A hybrid of sci-fi and film noir, with elements of time travel and telepathy, Spectropia...

Feb 25, 2018 – May 20, 2018 The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art will debut Toni Dove: Embodied Machines, the...

Artist Talk – Monday, February 5, 11:30AM-12:15PM Patricia Thompson Gallery, Ringling College, Sarasota image: Katie Cundiff, Manatee Springs, 30″ 40″, oil on canvas ABOUT KATIE DOBSON CUNDIFF Vibrant landscapes in...

Thursday, February 1, 2019 (8-11PM) Ringling Museum, Sarasota The HIGH CONTRAST artists’ works contain traces of multiple processes at the same time, layered to heighten form and composition. Each artist,...

February 1 – 10, 2017 M. Chapel Projects, Sarasota Feb. 1: Thurs. 6:00 – 7:00pm Lecture by Haussmann and Mote Marine Feb. 2, 3, & 4: Fri. Sat. Sun. 9:00am...

January 27 – February 23, 2018 Art Uptown, Sarasota Esther Jensen is a native of Denmark, she was raised near the North Sea. Now she has a year-round studio on...

January 20th (7-11pm) MooJoi Art Factory Suggested Donation Entry Re/Member consists of local artists including Aubrey Neher, Briana Nieves, Sophia Schultz, Onirologia, Sarah Viviana Valdez, and Ava Zelkowitz who utilize...

January 19– March 23, 2018 Patricia Thompson Gallery Katie Dobson Cundiff – Modern Impressionist PainterKatie Dobson Cundiff – Modern Impressionist Painter will be an exhibition of oil paintings and illustrations...

January 12– March 17, 2018 Lois & David Stulberg Gallery Ringling College of Art and Design This exhibition celebrates the ten-year anniversary of Impractical Labor in Service of the Speculative...

January 12 – March 3, 2018 USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa Artists Glexis Novoa, Celia y Yunior, Antonio Eligio Fernández “Tonel” and Javier Castro will produce new works, in sculpture,...

January 12– March 24, 2018 Willis Smith Gallery The Peace Paper Project exhibition will feature a selection of compelling artwork and ephemera from the living archive of the Peace Paper...

January 13 – 15, 2018 Ringling College of Art and Design The Education Foundation of Sarasota County will host the annual show with over 250 art works on display from...

January 8 – March 24, 2018 Richard and Barbara Basch Gallery Ringling College of Art and Design Technically amazing and visually stunning examples of creations by more than two dozen...

Reception: Thursday, January 11, 2018 January 3 – February 1, 2018 Center for Arts and Humanity Through the art of photography, Caryn attempts to shed light on our complex world...

December 30, 2017 – January 26, 2018 Art Uptown, Sarasota Art Uptown artist Janet Mishner uses mixed media in her new series, Red Bird and Friends. There is a public...

December 1 – 9, 2017 MChapel Projects, Sarasota The World Within examines the common, internal desire to rationally, emotionally and morally accept and understand today’s world. Through video, installation, painting,...

Reception: Thursday, November 9, 2017 November 1 – December 17, 2017 Center for Arts and Humanity A group exhibit featuring one of the oldest continuously showing group of professional women...

Thursday 30 November 5:30pm The Works, 891 South Tamiami Trail $10 admission; Free for Museum donors and Ringling College students, faculty & staff Get Tickets The Umbrella HouseThe Umbrella House...

November 18, 2017 – January 5, 2018 Tempus Projects / Cunsthaus, Tampa Working primarily in film and video, Moore (b. 1986, Indianapolis; lives in St. Petersburg, FL) explores the social...

November 17 2017 -January 19, 2018 SCF Fine art Gallery, Bradenton The Fine Art Gallery at State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota (SCF) will host a free reception for the opening...

Saturday, November 18,2017 (7-9PM) Tempus Projects, Tampa Tempus Projects, is pleased to present Head Cream, recent works by artist Neil Bender. Bender’s exhibition, Head Cream is an assortment of ‘paper...