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out and about continued
School Alumni Auditorium. Get an introduction
to Sarasota Art Museum’s
newest exhibitions, Daniel Lind-Ramos:
Las Tres Marías and I M(O)ther:-
Threads of the Maternal Figure from
Assistant Curator Emory Conetta.
■ Sarasota Art Museum is at the
Ringling College Museum Campus,
1001 South Tamiami Trail, Sarasota.
https://www.sarasotaartmuseum.
org/visit/
Next up at Art Uptown Gallery is
“Collection of Small Works” by Art
Uptown Gallery Artists. The exhibit
will include original paintings,
sculpture, glass, jewelry, pottery and
photography by some of the gallery’s
25 artists.
The exhibit runs through June 24,
and the public is invited to a First
Friday public reception on June 3
from 6-9 p.m.
In July, Art Uptown Gallery will
exhibit “MOXIE by Rita Rust,” watercolors
by a longtime gallery artist. In a
pivot from Rita's usual subject matter,
these “action portraits” serve to illuminate
the capacity to find joy even
in the darkest times. These paintings
embody the exuberant spirit, determination
and courage the girls in this
series display—their “moxie.”
“MOXIE by Rita Rust” opens on
June 25 and runs through July 30. The
public is also invited to a reception on
First Friday, July 1, from 6-9 p.m
■ Art Uptown Gallery is located at
1367 Main Street, Sarasota. Also view
art works by 28 local artists. Call 941-
955-5409 or visit www.artuptown.com.
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SPAACES Foundation has “Ah
Who Run Dis,” A Solo Exhibit by
Krystle Lemonias runs through June
11. By appointment only.
The SPAACES Foundation is a notfor-profit,
with an evening of food,
music, art and more. The Princeton
street corridor is a growing community
of warehouses converted to working
art studios. Anchored by the SPAACES
foundation, this little neighborhood
has evolved into a premier location for
contemporary and conceptual artists.
■ If you have any questions contact
marianne@spaaces.art or at 941-
374-3492.
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Art Ovation Hotel has an ongoing
series of art displays by six international
artists and organizations
that will run through September 6,
2022. The six new exhibits include
Tribute to Andrés Valerio; Ana
Albertina Delgado: The Human
Mysteries and the Indifference of
the Universe; Alexander Solotzew:
Life in Colors; Peter Jacob Christ:
Disappearing Signs of Life; and The
Rainer Hildebrandt Collection:
Original Painted Slabs from the
Berlin Wall, as well as The Florida
Watercolor Society (FWS)’s 2021-
2022 Traveling Exhibition.
Visitors are invited to enjoy the
works at their own leisure or can request
a guided tour for a deeper understanding
of the artists and their works.
■ Located at 1255 North Palm
Avenue, Sarasota.
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Women Contemporary Artists
present the WCA Annual Art Exhibit
at the Lois and David Stuhlberg Gallery
of the Ringling College of Art and
Design, 2363 Bradenton Rd., Sarasota.
The exhibit is on display from June
3-24. The public is invited to the
opening reception to meet the artists
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on June 3, from 5-8 pm.
There will be scheduled
docent tours given during
the dates of the exhibition.
There is no fee for
this event.
The event will showcase
the work of the WCA
whose membership
includes painters, photographers,
sculptors,
ceramicists, printmakers,
mixed media artists, fabric
artists and more. As
Curator of Exhibits at the
Morean Arts Center in St.
Petersburg, Amanda Cooper,
the juror, is knowledgeable
in a broad range
of media from established
and emerging artists.
■ Info: 941-359-7563 or
visit www.ringling.edu/
galleries. Information
on WCA is at: www.
womencontemporaryartists.com.
Artist Series
Concerts of
Sarasota
Here’s what’s coming up:
• May 4, 4 pm at Sarasota
Opera House. Lin Ye, piano with
Daniel Jordan and Samantha
Bennett, violin; Rachel Halvorson,
viola; Natalie Helm, cello; John
Miller, double bass. Artist Series
Concerts welcomes the return of
pianist Lin Ye, a former winner of
the organization’s 2017 National
Piano Competition. Ye performs
piano concerti by Bach, Mozart and
Chopin with principal string players
from the Sarasota Orchestra. Ye’s
performance is part of State College
of Florida’s Pianopalooza festival,
taking place through May 8.
For more information, visit www.
ArtistSeriesConcerts.org
At The Ringling
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Hermitage Fellow and Harpist Ashley Jackson (Photo Credit: Julia Comita)
The Hermitage Artist Retreat’s “Soulful Strings: An Evening
of Harp Music,” is on June 7 at 8pm at Marie Selby
Botanical Gardens, featuring harpist and returning Hermitage
Fellow Ashley Jackson.
On exhibit is “As long as there is
sun, as long as there is light.” Selections
from the Bring Gift and The
Ringling Collection of Modern and
Contemporary Art. The exhibition
runs through Aug. 13, 2023, in the
museum’s Searing Wing.
Highlights include minimalist
work by Anne Truitt and a monumental
work on canvas by Gene
Davis, both artists affiliated with
the Washington Color School, an art
movement during the 1950s to 1970s
in Washington D.C., made up of abstract
expressionist artists.
Additional work represent a generation
of prominent artists who
work, or have worked, in abstraction,
including Clement Meadmore, Jules
Olitski, Beverly Pepper, Rebecca Salter,
Kenneth Snelson, and Yuriko Yamaguchi,
among others. Also on view
are sculptures and paintings by African
American and Latin American
artists from The Ringling collection,
including William Edmondson, Eduardo
Mac Entyre, Omar Rayo, Baruj
Salinas, and Joyce de Guatemala.
The Ringling has Haitian-Canadian
artist Rhodnie Désir for the world
premiere of her first gallery installation,
Rhodnie Désir: Conversations
in the Ringling’s Monda Gallery. In
her multidimensional choreographic
career, dancer/choreographer Rhodnie
Désir created BOW’T TRAIL, a
choreographic-documentary journey
in which she has conducted research
throughout the Americas since 2015.
Her work included visits to countries
such as Martinique, Brazil, Haïti,
Canada, Mexico, and the United
States to immerse herself within the
African and afro descendant cultures
and rhythms generated from
the ingenuity of her ancestors since
the Slave Trade.
The Ringling also has Eleanor
Merritt: Remembrance, running
through Aug. 21. The exhibition celebrates
the life and artwork of Merritt
who was a volunteer at The Ringling
for many years as a docent and board
member. She also served as president
of the Venice Art Center and was
active in other arts organizations as
well. Eleanor died in 2019 leaving a
legacy of art and public service.
This exhibition is dedicated to her
spirit and creativity and represents a
small sample of a significant body of
work the artist created over her long career.
The exhibition highlights her creative
use of materials, movement between
figuration and abstraction, and
her commitment to women’s rights.
Arriving in Sarasota in the 1980s,
Eleanor exhibited widely in Florida.
Her final exhibition in 2017 at the
Arts & Cultural Alliance celebrated
her 60 years of painting. In 2013, she
received national recognition with
an exhibition at the Houston Museum
of African American Culture.
And there’s Ballroom Florida:
Deco & Desire in Japan’s Jazz Age
on view to September 25. This exhibition
celebrates a recent gift of
six paintings from Mary and Robert
Levenson by Enomoto Chikatoshi
(1898–1973) and a photograph by Hamaya
Hiroshi (1915–1999) depicting
the women of the Florida and its chic
décor. The exhibition is augmented
with loans that elaborate on themes
that define this group of artworks:
Art Deco design, the exotic, and elegant
pleasures.
Metadata: Rethinking Photography
from the 21st Century is on
view until August 28.
This exhibition explores
new paradigms for understanding
the ecology
of the photographic image.
The term “metadata”
is used to describe the
information that travels
with a digital image file
but is unseen within the
image itself.
The John and Mable
Ringling Museum of
Art, 5401 Bay Shore Rd.,
Sarasota. Info: www.
ringling.org.
Theatre
Asolo Rep has EUREKA
DAY (to June 4), by New
College alum Jonathan
Spector and directed
by Bianca LaVerne
Jones in the Cook Theatre.
An explosive comedy
that skewers sanctimony
and the nature
of our politics, EUREKA
DAY asks: when does
“us” become “them?”.
The season concludes
with another new musical,
HOOD (June 3-26),
featuring music and
lyrics by Lewis Flinn (Lysistrata
Jones), a book by five-time Tony-nominated
playwright Douglas
Carter Beane (Rodgers & Hammerstein’s
Cinderella, Lysistrata Jones,
Sister Act, Xanadu) and helmed
by Mark Brokaw (Heisenberg, Rodgers
& Hammerstein’s Cinderella,
After Miss Julie). Rediscover Robin
Hood, the renegade crusader, his
Merry Band and a Maid Marian
who definitely does not need saving
in this madcap musical.
Tickets: asolorep.org or call the Box
Office at 941-351-8000.
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At Urbanite Theatre: ATHENA
by Gracie Gardner; directed by Summer
Wallace. Runs June 10 – July 10.
Mary Wallace and Athena are brave
young fencers training for the Junior
Olympics. They practice together,
they compete against each other,
they spend their lives together. They
just wish they were friends.
Urbanite is located at 1487 2nd
Street, Sarasota. Tickets: (941) 321-
1397 or visit https://www.urbanitetheatre.com/season.
FST’s final Cabaret of the season,
Laughing Matters (Variant 6):
Paranoia on Parade, is playing in
FST’s Court Cabaret. This edition
of FST’s musical sketch comedy
revue is inspired by today’s culture
and politics.
Featuring parodies of popular songs
and musical theatre classics interspersed
with original comedic sketches,
Laughing Matters pokes fun at
everything—from the impact of social
media and the steep rise of inflation
to Sarasota’s rapid development and
the seemingly endless COVID-19
pandemic. Runs to June 19.
Tickets: FloridaStudioTheatre.org or
call the Box Office at (941) 366-9000.
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Farmer’s Markets
The Sarasota Farmers Market
is open on Saturdays with normal
hours of 7 am-1 pm, rain or shine.
http://www.sarasotafarmersmarket.
org/ (941) 225-9256
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Venice Farmers Market has more
than 40 vendors on Saturdays, many
based during the week in Venice,
Englewood and other areas of Sarasota
County. Held at Venice City Hall, 401
W. Venice Avenue, Venice. Call (941)
445-9209 or visit https://www.thevenicefarmersmarket.org/site/
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The Newtown Farmer’s Market is
open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. every Friday
and Saturday. The market is located
at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Park,
at the corner of Cocoanut Avenue and
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Way.
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The Farmers Market at Lakewood
Ranch is now at Waterside
Place. Their Farmers Market currently
has about 60 vendors and went this
past summer from a seasonal market
to a year-round event.When the
market transfers to Waterside Place,
taking up space all along Lakefront
Boulevard and Kingfisher Lake, more
than 80 vendors will line the street.
The Farmers Market will stick to a 10
a.m. to 2 p.m. time slot on Sundays.
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At Benderson
International Dragon Boat
Federation 13th Club Crew World
Championships is on July 18-24,
2022. More about IDBF at https://
www.dragonboat.sport/
The Ronald A. Balducci Playground
is open during regular park
hours (6 a.m.-8 p.m.), but hour-long
closures at 8 a.m., noon and 4 p.m.
allow crews to clean playground
equipment.
Only electric boat motors are authorized;
gas motors must be raised
to indicate they aren’t in use. (This is
in accordance with Sarasota County
ordinances.)
Operating hours are 6 a.m.-8 p.m.
through Halloween, then 6 a.m.-6
p.m. through March 30, and variances
on closing time (such as for NBP’s July
3 fireworks) are by permit. Follow the
park at NathanBendersonPark.org.
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Note:
Be sure to send season
schedules for 2022 to
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