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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Artd Advocate

Arts Advocates

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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...

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Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall

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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,...

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Venice Museum

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351 Nassau St S
Venice, FL 34285
A City museum that tells the history of the Venice area through permanent & seasonal exhibits. Museum building is listed in the...
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Art Center Sarasota

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707 N Tamiami Trail
Sarasota, FL 34236

Four Galleries exhibiting local, regional, and international artists.

Free and Open to the public: Mon-Fri 10am-5pm & Saturdays Noon-5pm

Art Center Sarasota’s mission is to...

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Artistic Director & Maestro Joseph Caulkins - For the past 10 seasons as Artistic Director, Joseph Caulkins has consistently delivered innovative concert experiences through adventurous programming, unique collaborations and performances of new and rarely heard works. He has taken audiences to unexpected places including: the world premiere of The Lake Isle by Ola Gjeilo; a dramatic performance of Richard Einhorn’s dynamic oratorio, Voices of Light, written to accompany Carl Dreyer’s 1928 silent film classic “The Passion of Joan of Arc,” a collaboration with the Sarasota Opera and the Sarasota Film Society; an innovative program titled Mozart Meets Radiohead with edgy string quintet Sybarite5; the US premiere of James Whitbourn’s Annelies, a setting of the Diary of Anne Frank, which the Herald-Tribune called a “Triumph;” and the highly acclaimed Cirque des Voix™, an innovative concert experience with The Circus Arts Conservatory, Sarasota.

Key Chorale

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1900 Main St
Ste 211
Sarasota, FL 34236

Key Chorale, the Suncoast’s premier symphonic chorus, is dedicated to transforming lives through innovative programming, artistic excellence, educational outreach and service to...

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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.
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Art Show Season - 2017

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.
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The entrance to the Sarasota Art Museum

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
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