Take a guided tour of the paintings and sculptures owned by Arts Advocates on display at the Van Wezel. After that, step onto the stage where a Van Wezel guide will give you a peek behind the curtain and share stories and anecdotes about the colorful world of show business!

Pedro Reis and Dolly Jacobs of the Circus Arts Conservatory discuss the legacy and future of circus arts.

Bill Hartman is a monumental contributor to the Sarasota visual arts community. He is an art dealer and sole owner of the William Hartman Gallery on Palm Avenue. He is an archival frame maker, historian, collector, cataloguer of Florida artists with a specialty in the Sarasota Artists’ Colony, and he is a founding member of the Sarasota Art Museum His father was William Hartman, artist, teacher, and founder of the Hartman School of Art. His mother Marty, an artist and teacher, was the founder of the Petticoat Painters.

Seven Sacred Pauses, a cross-disciplinary collaboration between visual artist Leslie Butterfield and poet Teresa Carson, was inspired by Art in Common Places.

This 60-acre nature park, located on the shores of Phillippi Creek, is included in the National Registry of Historic Places. We will have our own docent-guided tour of the recently renovated Italian Renaissance Edson Keith Mansion.

Join us for this writing workshop based on the book Seven Sacred Pauses, in which Macrina Wiederkehr reinterprets the tradition of the seven monastic canonical hours for contemporary, nonsectarian life.

Meet Michéle Redwine, artist, teacher, civic leader and diversity consultant. Michéle is the founder and president of Suncoast Black Arts Collaborative, which has as its mission “to advocate for artists of African descent and marginalized communities by bridging the cultural gap in visual and performing arts.”

Take a guided tour of the paintings and sculptures owned by Arts Advocates on display at the Van Wezel. After that, step onto the stage where a Van Wezel guide will give you a peek behind the curtain and share stories and anecdotes about the colorful world of show business!

Take a guided tour of the paintings and sculptures owned by Arts Advocates on display at the Van Wezel. After that, step onto the stage where a Van Wezel guide will give you a peek behind the curtain and share stories and anecdotes about the colorful world of show business!