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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The Venice Performing Arts Center
700 US Highway 41 Bypass N
#4
Venice, FL 34285

Founded in 1974, The Venice Symphony has become the pride of South Sarasota County by providing cultural enrichment for residents and visitors....

LBP
96 W Dearborn Street
Englewood, FL 34223

Lemon Bay Playhouse is Englewood's Community Theatre since 1987. As a non-profit 501 (C) 3 organization, we produce seven plays every season including showcases and...

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...

Fogartyville Entrance - Located on the West side of the WSLR building.  Look for the Civil Rights Mural by BMike.
525 Kumquat Ct
Sarasota, FL 34236

WSLR-LP 96.5 is a local community radio station - tune in for great music and local information.  Our community space, Fogartyville, hosts...

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...

Exterior of Urbanite Theatre
1487 Second St
Sarasota, FL 34236

Since 2015, Urbanite Theatre has been the premier destination for daring contemporary professional theatre in Sarasota. Urbanite Theatre is dedicated to bringing the...

7359_768x480.jpg - Dan Jordan, Concertmaster
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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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