A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.
― Salvador Dali
2023-2024 Season Exhibitions & Event
ON VIEW AUG 15 - SEPT 28, 2024
Precious Darling
Boys & Girls Club of Manatee County
Tanner Simon
Juried Show “Flora & Fauna” - 1st Place: Jen Fox-Venti, Big Green (Green Anole), 2021
2nd Place: Cheri Sheridan, Before the Rain, 2022
3rd Place: Jeanne Guertin-Potoff, Reverie, 2024
Merit Award: Susan Benjamin, Crinum Lily, 2021
Merit Award: Joseph Melancon, Urfer Slough, 2021
Honorable Mention: Maria Blokhina, Recycled Fabric Plant, 2024
Honorable Mention: Eric Cross, Flower Dress, 2024
Honorable Mention: Linda Salomon, Tweed Elephant, 2023
Honorable Mention: Hugh Whyte, On the Hunt, 2023
People’s Choice Award: Joseph Melançon, Urfer Slough, 2021
ANNUAL JURIED REGIONAL SHOW WINNERS, MAY 23 - JULY 27, 2024
1st Place: Priscilla Barrios, Brenda, 2023
2nd Place: Art Venti, Polymorphing, 2024
3rd Place: Gela Mederos, Motherhood, 2023
Merit Award: Maricel Ruiz, Me, 2024
Merit Award: Isabelle Stark, Hygiene Habits, 2024
Honorable Mention: Patricia Anderson-Turner, Good Trouble, 2022
Honorable Mention: David Hammel, Fat Gob Goblet, 2023
Honorable Mention: Kathy Wengel, Sweetie, 2024
Honorable Mention: Elaine Yang, Décor, 2024
People's Choice Award: Rachel Jean, What Was She Wearing?, 2024
ON VIEW MARCH 14 - APRIL 20, 2024
Natasha Dikareva, Through Sorrow into Light
Angela Pilgrim, Rooted in Spirit
Michael Kinsey, Views from the New Horizon
Juried Show: Great Artist Steal
1st Place: Maricel Ruiz, Rebel Sun, 2024. Inspired by: Leonardo da Vinci & Kehinde Wiley
2nd place: Mark Shubert, Mind's Eye, 2024. Inspired by: Friedensreich Hundertwasser
3rd place: Machelle Knochenhauer, Fragmented Architecture, 2024. Inspired by: Frank Gehry
Merit Award: Michael Parkinson, Self Portrait circa 1989, 2021. Inspired by: Chuck Close
Merit Award: Robert Petrillo, Roads to Nowhere, 2024. Inspired by: Michael Eastman
Honorable Mention: David Hammel, Starry Night Heron, 2023. Inspired by: Vincent van Gogh's "Starry Night"
Honorable Mention: Gene Shurakov, Intrusive Thoughts, 2021. Inspired by: Kazimir Malevich, Vasiliy Kandinsky & Ivan Aivazovsky
Honorable Mention: Jim Stewart, Owners of the Moon Factory, 2024. Inspired by: Lyonel Feininger
Honorable Mention: Betsy Wild, Her Power Within, 2024. Inspired by: Egon Schiele & Gustav Klimt
People’s Choice: Leah Meyers
Azure Harmony, Ode to Klimt's Muse, 2024. Inspired by: Gustav Klimt
ON VIEW JAN 25 – MARCH 2, 2024
Brian V. Jones, Looking for Home
Carole Lyles Shaw, Black Women: Music of the Heart & Soul
Christopher Skura, Social Studies
Member Show 1st Place - Janice Newman, Love is Love, 2023
Member Show Award Winners
2nd Place - Steve Goodman, Jumbled, 2023
3rd Place - Machelle Knochenhauer, Foothold to Excavate, 2022
Merit Award - Mayer Kersun, ...For Mankind, 2023
Merit Award - Gary LaParl, Waiting Room, 2023
Honorable Mention - Bette Crowder, Ladies in Waiting, 2023
Honorable Mention - Frederico Torres, When you awake inside, 2022
Honorable Mention - Ravi Venkataraman, Body Language - Phone Talk, 2022
Honorable Mention - Anne Wilkinson, Spilt Coffee, 2022
People’s Choice - Cynthia Barta
Vase with Yellow Flowers, 2023
ON VIEW NOV 27, 2023 - JAN 13, 2024
Aimee Jones, Of Mementos and Fetishes
Ethan Fielder, Beyond the Sidewalk
Tom Casmer, ge•stalt
Juried Show 1st Place: Elise Gold Sewall, Hadera Cafe, 2022
Juried Show “Still Life” Winners
2nd Place: Donald Courtney, Still Life with Gulfport View, 2023
3rd Place: Dorothea Calvert, Life Distilled: Straight Lines, Circle... & Ova, 2023
Merit Award: Peggy B., Buried, Empty, 2023
Merit Award: Vanessa Cunto, Override, 2023
Honorable Mention: Danielle Emmert, Tension, 2023
Honorable Mention: Janet Mishner, Vase of Flowers, 2023
Honorable Mention: Annarita Scott, Coffee in My Garden II, 2023
Honorable Mention: Marlane Wurzbach, With a Cherry on Top, 2022
People’s Choice: Willem van Osnabrugge, Not Silver. Just White, Grey and Black, 2020
ON VIEW OCT 12-NOV 11, 2023
Randy Globus, Personifications
Clifford McDonald, Soundtrack
Zach Gilliland, Agglutinated Moments
Juried Show, "Storytelling”
1st Place: Art Venti, The Great, Divides, 2021
Juried Show Winners, “Storytelling: A Visual Narrative”
2nd Place: Leeann Rae, The Canary, 2022
3rd Place: Dorothea Calvert, Spelunking in the Ether, 2023
Merit Award: Natasha Dikareva, Certain About Uncertainty, 2020
Merit Award: Robert Rogers, Crux, 2023
Honorable Mention: Herman Weber, BESTOR, 2020
Honorable Mention: Sarah Riley, Camille (Claudel) on her Teeter Totter, 2022
Honorable Mention: Mike Knapp, Oblivious, 2022
Honorable Mention: Joan Libby Hawk, MY CITY IN RUINS (Ukraine Elegy), 2022
2022-2023 SEASON EXHIBITIONS
On View Aug 24-Sept 30, 2023
Lauren Mann, The Ephemerality of Being
Iren Tete, systems of (entanglement)
Ry McCullough, SUPERPOSITIONS
Juried Exhibition: An Abstract View, 1st Place - Tim Merry, Stangray, 2021
Juried Show Winners: An Abstract View
2nd Place - Patricia Zalisko, From the Ashes, 2023
3rd Place - Mai Yap, Gratitude #19, 2022
Merit Award - Ashley Lippincott, The Diver, 2023
Merit Award - Delsy Rubio, Sunshine, 2023
Honorable Mention - FNDMNTLS, Cai, 2023
Honorable Mention - Deena King, Rhythm of a Year, 2023
Honorable Mention - Jill Krasner, City Coastline, 2023
Honorable Mention - Rachel Stewart, Ebb and Flow, 2020
People’s Choice - Beth Climo, Chaos, 2023
June - Aug 5, 2023: Annual Juried Regional Show
Annual Regional Show Winners
1st Place: George Zebot, Healing Democracy, 2021
2nd Place: Julie White, Reflection, 2022
3rd Place: Ravi Venkataraman, Breaking Free, 2023
Merit Award: Eva Bejar, Roses on Grey, 2021
Merit Award: Jana Millstone, Everybody Smiled, 2021
Honorable Mention: Ann Kozeliski, Enough for the Bus, 2022
Honorable Mention: Perry deVick, Memento Mori, Memento Vivere, 2020
Honorable Mention: Richard Monteleone, Chemical Isolation, 2021
Honorable Mention: Denise Pruett, Internal Struggle, 2022
People’s Choice: Gary LaFemina The Grace of Stealth, 2023
May 9 - May 20, 2023 | North Sarasota County Schools Spring Art Show
March 23 - April 29, 2023
Jeanne Guertin-Potoff: Adjusting Focus
Rebecca Zweibel: Illumination
Karen Arango: Rearview Mirror
Large Scale Juried Exhibition: 1st Place - Tony Reinemann, Tribute, 2020
Large Scale Juried Show Winners
2nd Place & People’s Choice Award - Maggie Dillon, Mill Town Bus Stop, 2023
3rd Place - Patricia Tierney Moses, Raheem, 2022
Merit Award - David Fithian, Neon Gigolo, 2021
Merit Award - George Zebot, Cofan, 2021
Honorable Mention - Joseph Barron, Great White's Last Bite, 2023
Honorable Mention - Craig Carl, Fallen, 2021
Honorable Mention - Natasha Dikareva, Longing for Bird Songs, 2023
Honorable Mention - Javier Rodríguez, La Marcha de Los Gansos, 2020
Feb 2 - March 11, 2023
Luca Molnar: Same Source
Eugene Ofori Agyei: Both Ways
Marlon Tobias: To Come Together, To Get Together
Annual Juried Members Show
1st Place - Tony Reinemann, The Shadow, 2022
Congratulations Member Juried Show Winners
2nd Place - Michelle Winnie, Final Flight, 2021
3rd Place - Pat Culbertson, Ice Lily, 2023
Merit Award - Brenda Mitchell, Foggy Beginnings, 2021
Merit Award - Wilem van Osnabrugge, My Oma, 2020
Honorable Mention - Tom Casmer, Binary, 2021
Honorable Mention - Tony Corbitt, Fallow, 2020
Honorable Mention - George Zebot, Androgynous Healing, 2020
Honorable Mention - Nika Zusin, Man in a Hood, 2022
People’s Choice - Tony Reinemann, Watching the end of Wild Florida
Dec 8, 2022-Jan 21, 2023
Alexandra Hammond, solo exhibition: Atmospheric River
Holiday Shop - Art & Accessories
Jason Hackenwerth, Solo Exhibition: Empire
Juried Exhibition: Black & White
Black & White Exhibition Winners
1st Place - Kate Kinder, Middle Children, 2022
2nd Place - Tom Casmer, Motile, 2022
3rd Place - Lauren Lesley, Hunting With Dad, 2022
Merit Award - Sue Kutno, Julia, 2021
Merit Award - Sande Hartnett, Piaggio, 2021
Honorable Mention - Abby Golden, Dunedin, FL, 2022
Honorable Mention - Tony Reinemann, Ending of a Long Night, 2021
Honorable Mention - Linda Salomon, Viewers of a Moonlight Parade #1, 2022
Honorable Mention - Tony Souza, Mid Century Living Room, 2022
People’s Choice - Tony Reinemann, Self Portrait with Charlie Watching the End of Wild Florida, 2022
Oct 15 - Nov 23, 2022
Mary GrandPré, solo exhibition: Conjuring the Backstory
Focus: New College Art, Curated by Kim Anderson and Ryan Buyssens
Elizabeth Barenis, solo exhibition: Palmistry
Juried Exhibition: The Figure, juried by Erin Wilson
The Figure, Juried Show Winners
1st Place: Charles Stierlen, The Dandelion, 2021
2nd Place: Rosa Valladares, Hoy, 2019
3rd Place: Brooke Poeppel, Farmer's Dotter, 2022
Merit Award: George Zebot, Ava Raris, 2019
Merit Award: Jean Celeste Lubin, Sarasota Sunset - Marijana Dominis, 2022
Honorable Mention: Nancee Clark, The Ring Game, 2019
Honorable Mention: Shirah Anderson, Princess X, 2021
Honorable Mention: Ryan Michael Kelly, Natural Light 1/16/16 #54, 2020
2021-2022 SEASON EXHIBITIONS
September 1-30, 2022
Alissa Silvers: Live in Color
Jesse Clark: Everglow
Curated by Carla O’Brien: I Am the Clay
Juried Exhibition: POP!
POP! Juried Show Winners
1st Place: Keenan Perren, Untitled, 2022
2nd Place: David Flach, FREE (Crate), 2022
3rd Place: Toryiana Williams, Dunk Fanatic, 2022
Merit Award: Betty Gerich, Selfie, 2020
Merit Award: Philomena Marano, Pay-o-matic, 2019
Honorable Mention: Lilith Graham, Bones Sticking Out, 2021
Honorable Mention: Gregg Wilkins, Orange Julius Caesar Salad, 2022
Honorable Mention: David Fithian, Desert Drawing, 2020
Honorable Mention: Nathan Heinze, Spongebob!, 2022
June 2-Aug 6, 2022, Regional Juried Show
Congratulations to our winners. Juried by Amanda Cooper, Morean Arts Center, St. Pete.
1st Place: Karla Pirona, Southgate, 2022
2nd Place: Li Volk, Shane, 2021
3rd Place: David Fithian, Quiet Pool, 2021
Merit Award: Tony Reinemann, Danger on a Sutton Place Terrace, 2022
Merit Award: Gianna Santucci, Bottoms Up!, 2021
Honorable Mention: Alaina Pompa, Sunday Float at Siesta, 2022
Honorable Mention: Brian Jones, Pink, 2021
Honorable Mention: Tony Souza, Federal Style Living Room c. 1800, 2021
Tied for People’s Choice Award: Harriett Hritz, Colour Reigns, 2021
Tied for People’s Choice Award: Robert Rashkow, Neverland, 2022
Sarasota County Schools Spring Art Show - May 10-21, 2022
The work of students from elementary, middle, and high schools throughout North Sarasota County were on exhibit May 10-12 for the North County K-12 Spring Art Show. Venice Art Center hosted the South Sarasota County Schools show.
Students from 16 elementary schools, seven middle schools, and six high schools will be among the exhibitors. K-8th grades will be awarded "Best of the Best" recognition—approximately two awards per grade per school. High school students are eligible for several large awards. State College of Florida is offering one full-year tuition scholarship. Ringling College of Art and Design is awarding two $10,000 scholarships. The college is also offering $325 scholarships to be applied toward teen concentration or pre-college courses at Ringling College.
Other awards include: A $100 Best in Show prize for a senior from Education Foundation of Sarasota County; two $100 prizes from Art Center Sarasota; a $100 prize from Art & Frame Sarasota; a $200 prize from the Sarasota Art Educators Association; and a $100 award from Arts Advocates.
Judges for the North County Show were Diane Zorn (Ringling College Continuing Studies & Special Studies); Jason Stockman (SCF’s Art Design & Humanities department); Krista Nemeth (senior assistant director of admissions for Ringling College); and Amber Halt (marketing director at Daiquiri Deck).
Best of School winners Aedan Teitsch, Jamie Vaccaro, and Abigail Schmitt.
Abigail Schmitt, Booker High School, 1st Place - black and white drawing.
Cecilia Holt, Riverview High School, 1st Place, nonfunctional ceramics.
Portfolio Scholarships:
State College of Florida Manatee-Sarasota awarded a full year of tuition to Cierra Smith (North Port High School). Judges were Margy Rich and Jason Stockman of SCF’s Art, Design and Humanities department.
Ringling College awarded $10,000 to Layna Malave (Pine View School) and Christina Petrole (North Port High School). The judge was Krista Nemeth, senior assistant director of admissions at Ringling College.
Best of School Award sponsored by Ringling College’s Continuing Studies & Special Studies. Students received a $325 credit to take a class:
Abigail Schmitt (Booker High School)
Jamie Vaccaro (Riverview High School)
Aedan Teitsch (Sarasota High School)
Special Awards:
Imaginative and Epic Award ($100): Sponsored by Art Center Sarasota: Madeleine Harwell (Sarasota High School)
Originality Award ($200): Sponsored by Sarasota Arts Educators Association: Linzie Goodnight (Sarasota High School)
Most Expressive Award ($100): Sponsored by Art and Frame Sarasota: Sophia Zaza (Riverview High School)
Most Creative Award: ($100): Sponsored by Art Center Sarasota: Evanah Rodriguez (Riverview High School)
MARCH 17 - APRIL 30, 2022
Philomena Marano: Sign & Wonders
Osa Atoe: The Sea is Alive in Me
Susan Sidebottom: A Place in The Sun
Annual Members Juried Show, 1st place winner: Mary Grandpre, What She Said, 2022
Juried Show Winners
2nd place: Peg Green, Endera, 2022
3rd place: Lisa DiFranza, Marina Abstract, 2021
Merit Award: Elise Manieri, Misty Reflections, 2022
Merit Award: Joseph Melançon, Florida River, 2022
Honorable Mention: Linda Driggs, Spring Bouquet, 2021
Honorable Mention: Tony Souza, Down to the Sea in Ships - The Captain, 2020
Honorable Mention: Betty Gerich, Drama Queen, 2022
Honorable Mention: Gary LaParl, Indore, 2022
JAN 27 - MARCH 5, 2022
Vitus Shell, 31 Flavors
JAVO: Revisited
Juried Show: Visions in Black
Juried Show: Anything Goes
Visions in Black Winners
1st Place - Clifford McDonald, Black Woman, 2022
2nd Place - Greg Rumph, Aunt Sara, 2021
3rd Place - Jeannette Bradley, Night Rider Five, 2021
Honorable Mention - Joelle St. Julien, Mother Nature, 2020
Honorable Mention - Kiron Robinson, You've Become, 2020
Anything Goes Award Winners, Juror Tom Casmer
1st Place - Jeanne Guertin-Potoff, Milford, 2021
2nd Place - Mary Murdoch, Getting Ready, 2021
3rd Place - Lynn Foskett, Pandemic Chair, 2020
Merritt Award - Kathryn Erickson, Midnight Mystery, 2021
Merritt Award - Susan McLean-Keeney, Leaning In, 2021
Honorable Mention - Susan Shaffer, Turtle Topia, 2019
Honorable Mention - George Roland, Vraz, 2021
Honorable Mention - Donald Diddams, Doorway with a Story, 2020
Honorable Mention - Kathleen Carrier, When Pigs Fly..., 2021
People’s Choice - Maggie Dillon, Making an Honest Living, 2021
DEC 9 - JAN 15, 2022
Bassmi Ibrahim, A Meditative Experience
Untitled Cup Shop (Group Show)
George Pappas, Selected Works
Juried: Modes of Abstraction
OCT 14 - NOV 27, 2021
Sibel Kocabasi, Flare
Kirk Ke Wang, Human Skins
Sarasota Architectural Photography, Juried Show
ACS Instructors and Students Invitational
Sarasota Architectural Photography Show Winners
1st Place
Donald Diddams
Crystal Sands Condominium, 2019
2nd Place & Peoples’ Choice Award
Jill Muller
Cloud Nine, 2021
3rd Place
Joan Stewart
Cityscape Sunset, 2020
Merit Award
Loretta Berardinelli
Gym Entrance, 2019
Honorable Mention
Hannah Mahler
Nowhere, 2020
Honorable Mention
Nicolas Ferris
Van Wezel #1, 2021
SEPT 2 - OCT 1, 2021
Sibel Kocabasi
Kirk Ke Wang
Artist talk with Sibel Kocabasi and Kirk Ke Wang
Saturday, Nov 6, 5 pm, outdoor garden at Art Center Sarasota
Tickets are $10 for members, $20 nonmembers, and must be purchased in advance as space is limited.
Meet current Art Center Sarasota solo exhibition artists Sibel Kocabasi and Kirk Ke Wang as they discuss their individual backgrounds and works centering on socio-political and cultural themes.
Petticoat Painters, She Persisted
Art Venti, Probable Realities
Juried Show: A Fine Line
MAY 27 - JULY 2, 2021
Nancy Dillen
Yamel Molerio
Dominice Gilbert
Juried Show (art by Susan Rienzo)
2020-2021 SEASON EXHIBITIONS
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MAY 5 - MAY 14, 2021
Booker High School VPA Senior Thesis Show
Sarasota High School Experimental Photography -
APRIL 20 - MAY 1, 2021
North Sarasota County Schools Spring Art Show
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MAR 18 - APR 16, 2021
Savannah Magnolia: Micro & Macro
Spotlight - Works from personal collections of SARTQ
#SmallWorks of Great Monthly Pottery Club Revealed - Open Juried Show -
JAN 30 - MARCH 6, 2021
Neil Bender & Cynthia Mason: Skin’s In It
Carl Abbott: Found Forms
Black Muse High School Exhibition 2021 Staying Connected - Open Juried Show -
Oct 28 - Dec 31, 2020
Carl Abbott Sculptor: Found Forms
Onward and Upward - Open Juried Show
2019-2020 EXHIBITIONS
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SEPT 3 - OCT 2, 2020
Common Ground - Open Juried Show
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MAY 28 - JUNE 30, 2020
Online 2020 Member's Exhibition: Art & Vision
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MARCH 19 - JUNE 30, 2020
Javier Rodriguez: Javo
Philomena Marano: The Razor's Edge
Miguel Saludes & Alvaro Labanino: The Stories Within
Uncharted - Open Juried Show -
JAN 30 - MARCH 6, 2020
Kim Anderson: Incandescence
Ryan Buyssens: Interplay
Black Muse: Asalh
Eye Candy - Open Juried Show -
DEC 12 - JAN 17, 2020
Open Season - National Juried Exhibition
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OCT 17 - NOV 29, 2019
Horace Imhotep: Lions, Tiger, Bears and a Draco
Susan Martin: Natural Forms
Art Center Instructors Show
New Views - Open Juried Show
2018-2019 EXHIBITIONS
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APRIL 24- MAY 4, 2019
North Sarasota County Schools Spring Art Show K-12
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MAR 14 - APRIL 19, 2019
Walter Matthews: I Don't Swim so I Float
Griffin Goodman, Sook Young Kim, Sabrina Small: Spectrum IV
Ringling College of Art Junior Exhibition: New Realities
Unbound - Open Juried Show -
JAN 24 - MARCH 1, 2019
Sarasota Visual Artist Studio Show
Jen Nugent: How to Tell the Truth
Black Muse: Asalh
Work of He(art) - Open Juried Show -
NOV 29 - JAN 4, 2019
Art Center Instructors Show
Stephen McMennamy: #Combophoto
Peter Gaztambide: Fragments, Grids and Other Phenomena
Intermix - Open Juried Show -
OCT 11 - NOV 16, 2018
Brookhart Jonquil: Atlantis
Natalie Lerner: 100 Corners
An Onghena: Remodeling Graphic Habits New Modern - Open Juried Show
2017-2018 EXHIBITIONS
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AUG 30 - SEPT 28, 2018
Elsewhere - Open Juried Show
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JULY 19 - AUG 17, 2018
Possibilities - Open Juried Show
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MAY 24 - JULY 6, 2018
Florida's Finest - Statewide Open Juried Show
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MAR 15 - APRIL 20, 2018
Spectrum III
iConcept 10-Year Restrospective: New Realities
Real/Not Real - Open Juried Show -
FEB 1 - MAR 9, 2018
John Pirman: My Sarasota
George Pratt: Raw Nerve/Jagged Edge
Black Muse: Asalh
Art From the Heart - Open Juried Show -
DEC 17, 2017 - JAN 19, 2018
Jeff Schwartz: Interior
Akiko Kotani: Floating Cubes
Art Center Instructors Show
New and Now - Open Juried Show -
OCT 19 - DEC 1, 2017
Last Stop Before Utopia: The Liminal and Ephemeral Landscape
Intimate Observation: Looking Past The Figure
Abhidnya Ghuge: Slow Turbulance
First Impressions - Open Juried Show