My first artist's website is now live! The learning curve on building one is steep, but it turned out well. http://www.marlanewurzbach.com

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Petticoat Painters and Blue Line Inc. in partnership, proudly present the Award of Excellence to Katherine Logan, an 11^th grader at Riverview High School. Accompanied by her art teacher, Ms. Jackie Henson-Darcy, Katherine received the award which includes a $200 gift, at the…

Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery announces an art call for the gallery’s 3rd Annual “CityScapes” Juried Art Competition for the month of June 2013.  The gallery invites all 2D artists (including photography) from around the world to make online submissions for…

The artists of Art Uptown, Sarasota’s oldest cooperative fine art gallery, invite the public to join them for Artists in Action, a daylong program of artist demonstrations on the sidewalk in front of the gallery on Saturday, May 25, from 11 am to 3 pm.

Among the artists…

Join internationally acclaimed artists on the Hermitage beach on Friday May 17^th, as they entertain you with behind-the-scenes stories of working with some of the world’s most well known venues for orchestras, operas and other performing arts experiences. Visual Artist and Set Designer Anne Patterson, Conductor, Composer and Director Robert Spano and English Composer Julian Grant will…

Island Gallery West is very pleased that, for the first time, two of their most creative and prolific artists, Debra Ridgdill and Kathy Storm, are teaming up to present a June art exhibit that they have entitled "Clay, Glass and Photography: Nature…

This May Island Gallery West is featuring SHIRLEY DEAN's original acrylic paintings…

Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is pleased to announce that its May 2013 art exhibition is now posted on their website and is ready to view online.  The theme for this art exhibition is “SeaScapes” and artists were asked to submit their best seascape art.  Seascape subjects…

Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery announces a call for entries with the theme “Figurative” for an online juried art competition for the month of May 2013.  The gallery would like for all 2D artists (including photography) to send us your best interpretation of the theme…

The artists of Art Uptown, Sarasota’s oldest cooperative fine art gallery, invite the public to join them for Artists in Action, a daylong program of artist demonstrations on the sidewalk in front of the gallery on Saturday, April 27, from 11 am to 3 pm.  Participating artists include Patricia Sorg, Amy…

In honor of Earth Day -- First United Methodist Church (104 S. Pineapple Avenue in downtown Sarasota) will be hosting a FREE concert featuring 8 outstanding organists and 2 vocalists on Monday, April 22 at 7 p.m. Free plant to first 30 attendees!

Art Uptown, Sarasota’s oldest, continuously operating fine art cooperative gallery, will host artist and botanist Karen J. Schunk in a special Earth Day Awareness exhibit on April 22, 6-8 p.m. Her paintings will be featured in the gallery’s front window during that week.…

Last Event of the Season, April 13, 2013, 10:00 till 4:00. Over 100 local artists and crafters. Located at the Fishery, 13000 Fishery Road, Placida, Florida.

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Leave it to Virginia Hoffman to pull together an exhibition that so beautifully intertwines the history of Sarasota with the dross that has been left in our wake. After a series of play dates with four other local photographers where the snap-happy shot seekers would seek out the abandoned and dilapidated, the troupe has produced a collection of images that celebrate the beauty of decay in the aftermath of the boom and bust generation. Currently installed at the Visit Sarasota Welcome Center…

Are you a photographer with your own digital SLR? The Sarasota Film Festival needs you!

The 2013 Sarasota Film Festival youthFEST presents the Hollywood Nights Student Cinema Showcase honoring the work created by talented young filmmakers! Hollywood Nights is a red carpet event featuring screenings from up-and-coming local student filmmakers ages 9 through 18! More than 150 students from across Florida will premiere their films in competition for awards and scholarship prizes. Join…

Earth Day Re-Scape Community Project

Memorial Garden for Vintage Paws Sanctuary

Location: Ace Pet Resort 7950 SR72 (Clark Rd). Sarasota

Date & Time: Saturday April 20, 2013 10am-noon

In honor of Earth Day three local businesses will be working together to create a memorial garden for local animal sanctuary, Vintage Paws. Vintage Paws Sanctuary is located on the grounds of Ace Pet Resort in Sarasota. On April 20th from 10am-noon, Backyard Getaway will be teaching a…

Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is pleased to announce that its April 2013 art exhibition is now posted on their website and is ready to view online.  The theme for this art exhibition is “Abstracts” and artists were asked to submit their best non-representational…

Sarasota’s Selby Botanical Gardens is a wonderful place to appreciate the beauty of nature. We have been blessed in nature to see true creative genius at work that transcends human art. I think orchids present perhaps the most delicate and yet powerful evidence of divine design. As I wandered around the gardens, this wonderful chorus of lavender orchids caught the natural light streaming through the skylights. Photography cannot not fully capture my experience, but…

In honor of National Dance Week, the Sarasota-Manatee Dance Alliance (SMDA), in partnership with the West Coast Civic Ballet, launches SRQDances2013.  This new annual event will be a free celebration, bringing the joy of dance and creative movement to the public.  At…