out and about continued various engineering fields. In their own words, the women share their passion and what inspired them to become engineers. The Bishop Museum of Science and Nature, 201 10th St. W., Bradenton. Information: bishopscience.org. Sarasota Art Museum Sarasota Art Museum of Ringling College presents Stephanie J. Woods: my papa used to play checkers runs through September 17. In her first solo museum exhibition, Woods presents new multidisciplinary works inspired by her firsthand experience of West Africa and with themes focusing on transatlantic cultural continuity and memories. • Also on display is The New Black Vanguard Photography Between Art And Fashion though September 17. The exhibit presents artists whose vibrant portraits and conceptual images fuse the genres of art and fashion photography in ways that break down long-established boundaries. The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion, presents artists whose vibrant portraits and conceptual images fuse the genres of art and fashion photography in ways that break down long-established boundaries. Their work has been widely consumed in traditional lifestyle magazines, ad campaigns, and museums, as well as on their individual social-media channels. The images open up conversations around the representation of the Black body and Black lives as subject matter; collectively, they celebrate Black creativity and the cross-pollination between art, fashion, and culture in constructing an image. This exhibition includes select works from these groundbreaking contemporary photographers: Campbell Addy, Arielle Bobb-Willis, Micaiah Carter, Awol Erizku, Quil Lemons, Namsa Leuba, Renell Medrano, Tyler Mitchell, Jamal Nxedlana, Daniel Obasi, Ruth Ossai, Adrienne Raquel, Dana Scruggs, and Stephen Tayo. A salon wall also features images created by other young Black photographers contributing to this movement while simultaneously proposing a brilliant re-envisioned future. Visit sarasotaartmuseum.org/ visit to learn more. Sarasota Art Museum is located at 1001 S. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota. ▼ Hermitage Sunsets @Selby Gardens The first installment of five “Hermitage Sunsets @ Selby Gardens” programs will feature award-winning writer, actor, and Hermitage Fellow, Halley Feiffer. The Hermitage Artist Retreat ’s popular series, “Hermitage Sunsets @ Selby Gardens,” continues into its fourth year as part of the Hermitage’s <strong>2023</strong>-2024 season. The outdoor series — a continuing collaboration between the Hermitage and Marie Selby Botanical Gardens — features performances and explorations of works-in-progress by Hermitage artists-in-residence and alumni. “Hermitage Sunsets @ Selby Gardens” events are currently scheduled to take place at Selby Gardens’ ▼ Downtown Sarasota campus and its Historic Spanish Point Campus in Osprey. The first of these events is “The Blurred Line Between Humor and Heartbreak: A Playwriting Workshop,” where award-winning writer, actor, and Hermitage Fellow Halley Feiffer will invite participants into the creative process on Thursday, October 5, at 6pm, at Selby Gardens’ Downtown Sarasota Campus, 1534 Mound St., Sarasota. Admission is free, but registration is required ($5/ person) at HermitageArtistRetreat.org. Feiffer is a WGA, Drama Desk, Drama League, and Outer Critics Circle-nominated writer and actor. She is currently writing and show-running Season 12 of Ryan Murphy’s hit television series American Horror Story, starring Emma Roberts and Kim Kardashian. She is also writing the book for the Broadway-bound stage adaptation of Thelma & Louise with Neko Case composing. Her television and film roles include HBO’s Mildred Pierce, Flight of the Conchords, and Bored to Death, and the films The Squid and the Whale, Gentlemen Broncos, and He’s Way More Famous than You, which she also co-wrote. She is currently developing a film adaptation of her play The Pain of My Belligerence with Lena Dunham’s Good Thing Going for her to direct. “Hermitage Sunsets @ Selby Gardens” events include: • October 5, Downtown Sarasota Campus • November 30, Historic Spanish Point Campus • January 25, 2024, Downtown Sarasota Campus • March 28, 2024, Downtown Sarasota Campus • May 23, 2024, Historic Spanish Point Campus Art Galleries ▼ The first installment of five “Hermitage Sunsets @ Selby Gardens” programs will feature award-winning writer, actor, and Hermitage Fellow, Halley Feiffer on October 5 at Selby Gardens’ Downtown Sarasota Campus. At Art CenterSarasota: On view to September 30: • Lauren Mann, solo exhibition. Artist Talk: September 7, 5:30-7 pm. Registration: $5. Lauren Mann is a portrait artist based in Clearwater, FL, who specializes in colored pencil drawings inspired by pattern, color, and the personalities that surround her. Mann has exhibited in shows including “Fresh Squeezed” at the Morean Arts Center, “Intimate Interiors: Figures in Space” at the Gainesville Fine Arts Association Gallery, as well as “The Nonseniors” and “Realize” at the 4Most Gallery in Gainesville, Florida. Mann’s drawings seek to express familiar emotions through unique and intimate portraits • Iren Tete, solo exhibition. Tete is an artist originally from Sofia, Bulgaria who is currently based in Gainesville, FL. Iren is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Florida and was recently Visiting Faculty in Ceramics at Alberta University of the Arts in Calgary, Canada. Tete has had solo exhibitions at Galleri Urbane (Dallas, TX), Gallery 371 (AUArts, Calgary, Canada), and The Lee Dam Art Center for Fine Art (Marysville, KS), among others. Her work has been exhibited in Nebraska, Texas, New York and Florida. In 2020, she was selected as an Emerging Artist by Ceramics Monthly Magazine. Iren has completed residencies at the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts (Helena, MT), Zentrum für Keramik (Berlin, Germany), Northern Clay Center (Minneapolis, MN), among others. Her work was featured in the Latvia Ceramics Biennale and beinnale Officine Saffi (Milan, Italy) • Ry McCullough, solo exhibition. Artist Talk: Thursday, Sept 14, 5:30-7 pm. Registration: $5. McCullough is an artist and educator, working in Tampa, FL. He earned his BFA from Wright State University in Dayton, OH, where he concentrated in areas of printmaking and sculpture. Upon completion of his undergraduate work, he served as the Director of Sculptural Studies as well as teaching printmaking at Stivers School for the Arts. He has exhibited nationally, internationally and is the founder of the Standard Action Press Collaborative Zine Project. Location: 707 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota, www.artsarasota.org. ▼ from walking the beaches of Florida’s west coast searching for shark teeth. Paul will be at Island Gallery and Studios on September 26, from 10 am to 6 pm. Island West Gallery and Studios is located at 456 Old Main Street in downtown Bradenton. Visit www.islandgalleryandstudios.org. At The Ringling The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art has Mountains of the Mind: Scholars’ Rocks from China and Beyond which runs through June 23, 2024 in The Ringling’s Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Center for Asian Art. The exhibit features a selection of scholars’ rocks and related paintings and prints, including rocks recently donated from the extensive collection of Nancy and Stan Kaplan, a new acquisition funded by Lucia and Steve Almquist and paintings on loan from the Dongguan Lou Collection. Scholars’ rocks are collected from remote geographic locations, where they have been formed by natural elements over millions of years. The stones may then be carved, polished and inscribed before being displayed in a custom-made stand to enhance their visual appeal. Scholars’ rocks are both natural objects and products of human creativity. Mountains of the Mind will feature a wide array of scholars’ rocks in various shapes, textures and geological properties. The rocks are further contextualized by paintings, prints and texts that illuminate their cultural importance for scholars across the centuries. The stones have been appreciated and admired in China for more than a thousand years; historically, connoisseurs displayed their stones in their studios alongside paintings and other treasures, where they served as a focus for meditation or creative contemplation. In addition to Chinese objects, Mountains of the Mind includes Japanese, Korean, Canadian and Italian objects, demonstrating how the appreciation of scholars’ rocks has diffused from China across East Asia and beyond. The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 5401 Bay Shore Rd., Sarasota. Info: www.ringling.org. Island Gallery and Studios has “Expressions of Anna Maria Island Sunsets: A Retrospective” Drawings by Larry Paul, September 1-30. Paul’s sunset series drawings are expressions of the sun setting over Anna Maria Island. This retrospective reveals the evolution of the series’ drawings from the very first drawing completed in 2017. Personal, yet open and outwardly expressive, the series presents an abstract expressionistic quality with an overlapping and abutting color technique that contrasts and Theatre brings the movements together at the At Florida Studio Theatre: Divas same time. The typical colors are easily Three, a celebration of the artists inspired by a wild brilliance afforded whose musical impact earned them by the mix of sunsets, storms, essences the coveted title of “Diva.” In this of sailing, and open, blue water. dazzling Cabaret, three powerhouse female vocalists deliver the Paul is an award-winning artist who creates unique works of art using biggest hits by some of music’s most Prismacolor colored pencil, inks, and influential women, such as Aretha graphite. His art bears a talent that Franklin, Carole King, Celine Dion, currently includes multiple series and Whitney Houston. Featuring and sub-series of numbered “experiments” embracing impressionistic the Name of Love,” “Total Eclipse of the classics like “We Are Family,” “Stop! In realism and abstract expressionism Heart,” and “It’s Raining Men.” Divas drawing styles. From impressionistic old doors and windows, realistic September 10. Three runs in the Court Cabaret to plant drawings, and expressionistic Tickets at FloridaStudioTheatre.org interpretations of sunsets, Paul’s art derives from decades of inspiration FST Improv Presents: As Seen on ▼ ▼ ▼ TV, an original sitcom created on the spot. Featuring a never-before-heard theme song and commercials, As Seen on TV includes all of the elements of one of America’s favorite forms of televised entertainment. Runs Saturday nights through September 30. Visit www.floridastudiotheatre.org/ The Players Sarasota has Ruthless! Runs September 28 – October 15. Eight-year-old Tina Denmark knows she was born to play Pippi Longstocking, and she will do anything to win the part in her school musical. “Anything” includes murdering the leading lady. ▼ Held at 1130 Theatre, 3501 S. Tamiami Trail Suite 1130, Sarasota. Tickets: theplayers.org Manatee Performing Arts Center has Songs For a New World. This contemporary song cycle weaves characters and history together, illuminating the timelessness of self-discovery. With a rousing score that blends elements of pop, gospel and jazz, featuring tight harmonies and daring vocals, Songs for a New World transports its audience from the deck of a Spanish sailing ship bound for a new land, to the ledge of a New York penthouse. ▼ Runs September 14-24. Box Office: 941-748-5878. Manatee Performing Arts Center is located at 502 Third Avenue W, Bradenton. Venice Theatre has Reefer Madness running September 8 to October 8. The campy, over-the-top musical Reefer Madness, last seen at VT in 2008, pokes hilarious fun at the 1936 cult film. Don’t eat the brownie, and don’t smoke the demon W**d. ▼ At the Pinkerton Theatre, 140 Tampa Ave. W., Venice. Info: venice theatre.org/ Selby Gardens Marie Selby Botanical Gardens has Diving Into Nature with the iconic art of Sarasota designer and illustrator John Pirman. The exhibit will feature Pirman’s celebrated artwork inside the Museum of Botany & the Arts and outside in the Gardens of the Downtown Sarasota campus. John Pirman: Diving into Nature will be on view through September 17. The show comprises works spanning Pirman’s long career in New York City and now in Sarasota, along with pieces from his formative years growing up in Ohio. Several images of Selby Gardens scenes will be printed in large format on aluminum and set directly in the locations that inspired them. Selby Gardens downtown location is at 1534 Mound Street, Sarasota. Selby Gardens at www.selby.org. The virtual gallery is on view through Sept. 30. ▼ Summer Movies at Sarasota Opera House Sarasota Opera again has its Summer Classic Movies at the Opera House. • From Here to Eternity: September 15 at 7:30 p.m. This Best Picture winner is a portrait of life on a Hono- ▼ continued on page 10 8 WEST COAST WOMAN <strong>SEPT</strong>EMBER <strong>2023</strong>
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