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Our April issue includes a profile of Sarah Cartwright, the chief curator at The Ringling Museum. PLus our extensive arts coverage including Artist Series Concerts, Sarasota Art Museum, Arts Advocates, Key Chorale and the Sarasota Film Festival.
Our April issue includes a profile of Sarah Cartwright, the chief curator at The Ringling Museum. PLus our extensive arts coverage including Artist Series Concerts, Sarasota Art Museum, Arts Advocates, Key Chorale and the Sarasota Film Festival.
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happening this month<br />
Intimate musical experiences.<br />
Season 28 | Stars Ascending<br />
A diverse range of concerts featuring emerging and accomplished<br />
classical, chamber, jazz, and pop artists from around the globe.<br />
Arts Advocates’<br />
April Programs and Events<br />
Including<br />
artist Elisabeth Trostli’s exhibit and art talk<br />
Arts Advocates has a series<br />
of April programs<br />
and events, including member<br />
artist Elisabeth Trostli’s<br />
exhibit and art talk, a tour<br />
of the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall, a<br />
luncheon program at Sarasota Yacht Club<br />
with guest speaker Georgia Court of Bookstore1Sarasota,<br />
and a mixed media collage<br />
workshop. Registration is required at Arts-<br />
Advocates.org.<br />
Arts Advocates member artists exhibit<br />
monthly in the Arts Advocates Gallery,<br />
located in the Crossings at Siesta Key mall,<br />
3501 S. Tamiami Trail in Sarasota. Shows<br />
runs from the first Saturday<br />
to the last Saturday<br />
of each month.<br />
Elisabeth Trostli’s<br />
show, “Fierce and<br />
Fabulous,” will be on<br />
exhibit from April 6-27,<br />
Saturdays only from<br />
2-4 p.m. Trostli uses a<br />
creative digital painting<br />
process to incorporate<br />
detailed visual references<br />
and embellishments<br />
into her works. The<br />
paintings in this exhibition<br />
are inspired by<br />
Trostli’s travels; vintage<br />
scientific engravings;<br />
Steampunk; Pre-Raphaelite<br />
and Baroque<br />
sources; Celtic, Asian<br />
and African mythology;<br />
Medieval knights and<br />
armor; tribal textiles;<br />
and Victorian jewelry.<br />
Admission is free.<br />
On April 9, from 4-6<br />
p.m. in the Arts Advocates<br />
Gallery, Trostli<br />
presents the art talk,<br />
“From Digital Painting<br />
to AI.” She will discuss<br />
and demonstrate her artistic<br />
process in the creation<br />
of her work on the<br />
computer. Surrounded<br />
by unique images of intricately<br />
detailed fantasy<br />
portraits of women warriors,<br />
geishas, divas, and<br />
angels, she will highlight<br />
the possibilities of digital<br />
artistry. Free for Arts Advocates members;<br />
$5 for non-members.<br />
The “Behind the Curtain: Exploring the<br />
Van Wezel from the Art to the Stage”<br />
tour on April 15 from 1:30-3 p.m. is presented<br />
in partnership with the Van Wezel<br />
Performing Arts Hall. The art in the Van Wezel,<br />
777 N. Tamiami Trail in Sarasota, was<br />
created by noted Florida artists and is on<br />
loan from Arts Advocates. A docent leads a<br />
tour of the paintings and sculptures including<br />
those by Robert Chase, William Hartman,<br />
Eugene White, Ben Stahl, Thornton Utz,<br />
▲ Elisabeth Trostli, Flora<br />
Angel ▼ Susan Hurwitch<br />
mixed media collage<br />
Frank Colson, Dean Mitchell, and others.<br />
Participants then step onto the stage where<br />
a Van Wezel guide shares stories and anecdotes<br />
about the colorful world of show<br />
business. Tickets are $15 per person and<br />
can be purchased at the Van Wezel box office<br />
or by calling (941) 263-6799. Proceeds<br />
benefit the education/outreach programs of<br />
Arts Advocates and the Van Wezel.<br />
Arts Advocates’ monthly luncheon programs,<br />
which feature speakers discussing<br />
local arts-related topics, are held at the<br />
Sarasota Yacht Club, 1100 John Ringling<br />
Blvd., Sarasota. Bookstore1Sarasota owner<br />
Georgia Court and<br />
assistant manager/director<br />
of programming<br />
Bryn Durgin present<br />
Banned Books<br />
– What People are<br />
Reading on April 18<br />
from 11:00 a.m. to 1<br />
p.m. One of the store’s<br />
book clubs focuses on<br />
banned books and is<br />
“dedicated to reading<br />
and protecting the most<br />
important and threatened<br />
books of our generation.”<br />
$45 for Arts<br />
Advocates members;<br />
$50 for non-members.<br />
Lunch is included.<br />
Artist Susan Hurwitch<br />
will lead an intro<br />
to mixed media and<br />
collage basics workshop<br />
on April 27,<br />
12:00-2:30 p.m. in the<br />
Arts Advocates Gallery.<br />
Using floral imagery, this<br />
fast-paced workshop will<br />
have each participant<br />
creating one 6x9-inch<br />
artwork. Cost is $45. Students<br />
should bring paint<br />
brushes, acrylic paint, and<br />
a plastic tablecloth; all<br />
other supplies will be provided<br />
by the instructor.<br />
The Arts Advocates’ collection<br />
of Sarasota Art<br />
Colony and Highwaymen<br />
works is on permanent<br />
display in the Arts<br />
Advocates Gallery. The<br />
gallery is open every Saturday from 2-4<br />
p.m.; admission is free and written information<br />
is available for self-guided tours.<br />
To learn more about or become a member of<br />
Arts Advocates, or to register for programs<br />
and events, visit ArtsAdvocates.org.<br />
Duo Beaux Arts<br />
Pianists Catherine Lan and Tao Lin<br />
April 16, 7:30 pm<br />
Studio for Performing Arts Recital<br />
Hall at State College of Florida<br />
This husband-and-wife team of<br />
internationally renowned pianists will<br />
perform a recital of works for piano “four<br />
hands” and two pianos, including Mozart’s<br />
Sonata for Two Pianos in D major, K448;<br />
Schubert’s Fantasie in f minor for piano<br />
four hands, Op 940; and pieces by Vivaldi,<br />
Debussy, and Strauss.<br />
Shannon Lee, violin and Ying Li, piano<br />
April 28 & 29, 4:00 pm • Fischer/Weisenborne Residence<br />
First place winners of Artist Series Concerts’ 2017 and 2018 international violin<br />
and piano competitions join forces for a spectacular program. Both musicians<br />
have won multiple awards and Li recently made her Carnegie Hall<br />
and Kennedy Center recital debuts.<br />
ArtistSeriesConcerts.org | 941-306-1202<br />
This project is supported in part by the Community Foundation of Sarasota County; Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Council of Arts and Culture and the State of Florida (Section 286.25 Florida Statutes);<br />
The Exchange; Gulf Coast Community Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; the Sarasota County Tourist Development Tax Revenues; and the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation.<br />
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