Arts, Museums & Galleries

Get more culture with your beach vacation from world-class visual and performing arts events and venues.

Sarasota County is enriched by its visual and performing arts offerings and distinctive, cultural experiences. Known as Florida's Cultural Coast®, it's where you can enjoy museums, art galleries and performing art venues all around town. No matter when you visit, there's always an art attraction with something new and inspiring to see!

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8215 Natures Way
Ste 101
Lakewood Ranch, FL 34202
We have been teaching Ballroom and Latin, in the Southwest Florida areas since 2001. We're here to enrich people's lives. Come have fun!
patriotic - Choral Artists of Sarasota - annual July 4th concert
PO BOX 52987
Sarasota, FL 34232

Choral Artists of Sarasota, the region’s premier professional vocal ensemble, celebrates the excellence of choral music through innovative, stimulating performances and educational...

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709 N Tamiami Trl
Sarasota, FL 34236-4047

Come as you are. Leave different. 

Since 1949, Sarasota Orchestra has inspired and entertained music-lovers across the region and visitors from around...

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777 N Tamiami Trl
Sarasota, FL 34236-4047

Check the Van Wezel website for additional show announcements and up-to-date information! www.vanwezel.org/941-263-6799.

---- Meetings/event venue: The 6,000 square foot Grand Foyer comfortably seats 35-350,...

Artd Advocate
3501 Tamiami Trl
at the Crossings at Siesta Key mall
Sarasota, FL 34239

Visit Arts Advocates Gallery to enjoy our collection of Sarasota Art Colony artworks created by renowned painters and sculptors from the 1930s...

Italy - The Maner Manush Theatre Company performs with Venice Theatre's aactWORLDFEST international theatre festival in paradise!
140 Tampa Ave W
Venice, FL 34285-1727

Nationally acclaimed community theatre offers shows year 'round in two stages. Broadway musicals, classic and contemporary dramas, comedic plays, family theatre, cabarets...

Dancer Juliana Cristina - PC: Sorcha Augustine
1400 Blvd of the Arts
#300
Sarasota, FL 34236

Sarasota Contemporary Dance is Sarasota's first professional contemporary dance company.

Our Mission

The mission of Sarasota Contemporary Dance is to bring cutting...

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Goldstein Library
2700 N. Tamiami Trl. Corner of Bradenton Road and MLK Blvd.
Sarasota, FL 34234

The Ringling College Library Association (RCLA), established in 1975, is a not-for-profit organization independent of Ringling College dedicated to the ongoing development...

Banyan Tree at Elling Eide Center - Photo Credit: Ryan Gamma
8000 S Tamiami Trl
Sarasota, FL 34231

The Elling O. Eide Center is a research library and nature preserve overlooking Little Sarasota Bay in Sarasota, Florida. Dedicated to the...

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Sarasota County: Cities of Arts and Artists

Sarasota is known as Florida’s Cultural Coast for its abundance of arts and artists packed into a relatively small geographic area. Learn more about the artful offerings of this destination.

The Local's Guide to the Sarasota County Art Scene

From posh galleries housing the works of Renaissance and Baroque Masters to quirky grottos piled with one-of-a-kind upcycled “salvage art” finds, art connoisseurs of all tastes discover a feast for the senses in Sarasota.

The New Sarasota Art Museum of Ringling College of Art + Design

A historic high school campus is reborn as a world-class museum of contemporary art near the heart of downtown Sarasota