Courtesy of the artist
Photo: Sarasota Art Museum
The Museum Campus, including the new Bistro, Shop, and Museum Grounds, are open to all following strict COVID-19 Protocols. Face masks are required for all staff and visitors. Please see the Visit section for further information.
Galleries – Installation in progress through May 28
Bistro, Shop, & Grounds OPEN
Museum Free Day
Sunday 25 April 11am-4:45pm
Enjoy… Museum Free Day!
Please join us on the last Sunday of each month for our Museum Free Day.
Bring your friends and family to explore new art and thought-provoking exhibitions.
At Sarasota Art Museum, we are committed to providing access to quality programs and exhibitions for our entire community.
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Family Day:
Look, Talk, Create!
Saturday 1 May
2pm – 4pm
FREE for all
RSVP required.
Family Day offers artmaking activities and special events for visitors of all ages to engage with art and one another.
Look: Enjoy the Janaina Tschäpe: Between the Sky and the Water exhibition prior to Family Day activities. Admission is free for those 17 and under accompanied by an adult.
Talk: Emory Conetta, the Museum’s Curatorial Assistant, and Ross Johnston, Environmental Scientist, will speak on the importance of recycling and reuse to protect our oceans and wildlife.
Create: Use materials similar to the artist to create your own aquatic-inspired artwork to take home!
Bistro specials for Family Day: Waffles with strawberries and whipped cream, red velvet whoopie pies, and strawberry Shirley Temples.
*During Bistro hours of 9-3pm
*During Bistro hours of 9-3pm
Family Day activities will follow strict COVID-19 Protocols. Face masks are required for all visitors.
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Bistro
Open Daily 9am – 3pm
Saturday and Sunday Brunch
Open Daily 9am – 3pm
Saturday and Sunday Brunch
Bistro offers a gourmet selection of light fares, including sandwiches, soups, specialty coffees, and desserts.
SHOP
Open Daily 10am – 5pm
Sunday: 11am – 5pm
Open Daily 10am – 5pm
Sunday 11am – 5pm
Museum Members receive a 10% discount in the Shop and invitations to exclusive events. Your purchases support the Museum’s programs and exhibitions.
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Xaviera Simmons
May 2021- November 2022
Xaviera Simmons engages her sweeping practice of photography, painting, video, sound, sculpture, and installation to explore the construction of landscape, language, and complex histories in the United States and its empire building globally.
Steel, wood, concrete, and acrylic
in three parts: a. 17 × 4 × 12 ft.; b. 14.8 ft. × 10 in. × 7.5 ft.; c. 12.5 × 9 × 26 ft.
Courtesy of the Artist, Socrates Sculpture Park, and David Castillo, Miami
Photo: Sara Morgan
Wood, stucco, latex paint, and banana plants
Courtesy of the artist
Courtesy of the artist
Photo: Sarasota Art Museum
Photo: Sarasota Art Museum
Steel, wood, concrete, and acrylic
in three parts: a. 17 × 4 × 12 ft.; b. 14.8 ft. × 10 in. × 7.5 ft.; c. 12.5 × 9 × 26 ft.
Courtesy of the Artist, Socrates Sculpture Park, and David Castillo, Miami
Photo: Sara Morgan
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Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott
29 May – 31 October
Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott is the first comprehensive retrospective of one of the United States’ most compelling and provocative artists who—through vibrant paintings laced with biting satire—confronted issues of race, gender, identity, and the uncomfortable realities of American life in the latter half of the 20th century.
Acrylic on canvas, 71 3/4 x 83 7/8 inches
© 2021 The Robert H. Colescott Separate Property Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Courtesy of The Robert H. Colescott Separate Property Trust and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles/New York/Tokyo
Photo Credit: Joshua White
Charles McGill: In the Rough
29 May – 31 October
Charles McGill: In the Rough explores the assemblage works of artist, educator, and golf teaching professional Charles McGill, who physically deconstructed and repurposed the plastic, steel, leather, vinyl, and hardware from vintage golf bags to examine the racial and class inequities associated with the sport and leisure activity.
Reconfigured golf bag parts on panel, 72 x 72 x 6 in.
Courtesy of the Estate of Charles McGill
Photo: Jenny Gorman
Samo Davis: Happiness in ROYGBIV
29 May – 31 October
Happiness in ROYGBIV is a vibrant sculptural installation that features a colorful and effervescent tree composed of found objects from the artist’s home, intending to spark joy within the difficult times of the last year.
Plastic, pom poms, resin, yarn, clay, recycled materials.
Courtesy of the artist.
Photo: Samo Davis
Unraveling: Aranda\Lasch & Terrol Dew Johnson
12 June – 26 September
Aranda\Lasch, a New York and Tucson-based design studio, and Terrol Dew Johnson, an internationally renowned Tohono O’odham basket weaver, collaborate on exquisitely intricate sculptures that are a unique blend of traditional Native American weaving techniques and digital fabrication methods.
Aluminum, creosote, yucca, and cedar bark, 68 x 66 x 40 in.
Courtesy of the artists
Photo Credit: ArandaLasch
Carlos Bunga
Fall 2021
Daniel Lind-Ramos
Winter/Spring 2022
Victor Lundy
Winter/Spring 2022
More information coming soon.
Before
Janaina Tschäpe
Between the Sky and the Water
14 December 2020 – 2 May 2021
Casein and watercolor pencil on canvas, 118 x 234 in.
Podesta Collection, Washington D.C.
Photo: Teresa Lojacono
Photo: Steven Brooke Studios
Harmony Hammond
Material Witness, Five Decades of Art
October 2020 – 15 November 2020
Courtesy of the artist and Alexander Gray Associates, New York
Photo: Jeffrey Sturges
© Harmony Hammond / VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Learn
Winter/Spring Season 2021
Join us this season for outdoor programs that invite you to experience art and engage your senses.
P-12 School Visits
Kids love art! And we love kids! Learn more about opportunities for P-12 students to learn about the art at Sarasota Art Museum.
The Memory Project
The Sarasota Art Museum has taken on stewardship of the history of the former Sarasota High School building. Learn about the history of the site and help keep the memory of the site—prior to recent transformation—alive.
About the Museum
M. Leo Elliott – Former Sarasota High School
Photo: Dick Dickinson
Marcy & Michael Klein Plaza
Photo: Ryan Gamma
Anchoring the Ringling College Museum Campus, the Museum has 15,000 square feet of dedicated exhibition gallery space, Bistro, Shop, auditorium for educational events, performance and film, a sculpture courtyard and extensive grounds and facilities where one can engage with site-specific and site-responsive art experiences.