the Sarasota Art Museum is a 20,000-square-foot space that spans across two historic buildings on the Sarasota High School campus, united by a central courtyard. Specifically, the museum makes use ...

Russell shepherded the museum in the old Sarasota High School building ... which attracted interest from contemporary art lovers and alumni of Sarasota High School, eager to see the long-closed ...

Lundy’s “lug nut” was directly north of the old Sarasota High School building. In 2003, that “high school gothic” structure was reimagined as the Sarasota Museum of Art. In 2007 ...

Now, as executive director of Sarasota Museum of Art (SMOA), set to open around January 2017 in the old Sarasota High School building, she’s developing all the underpinnings an art museum ...

Each year, the Sarasota Art Museum chooses high school students to join its Teen Arts Council. These kids go through an application process and then spend the summer and some of the school year ...

One of the most positive byproducts of Sarasota’s Roaring ’20s growth spurt was the schools that sprouted up throughout the county to accommodate the influx of new families. Interestingly ...

This nationwide commitment to new work is alive and well in Sarasota. Here’s how two area museums help keep ... obsessively collected the art treasures of old Europe. He bequeathed it all ...

A proposal to transfer control of the Ringling Museum from Florida State University to New College of Florida was not ...

It didn’t stop after he moved to Sarasota in 1945. Hartman was still a prolific painter. He also taught the secrets of his art at both the Ringling School of Art and the Hartman School of Art ...

These people set the tone of the town and did it so well that, today, the arts ... Sarasota artist Virginia Hoffman remembers visiting the museum when she was 12 years old, with her Sunday school ...