Be inspired. Explore curated art and juried shows exhibited in four galleries.
Gallery hours: Mon - Sat, 10 am - 5 pm
Admission is free; art is available for purchase.
On View: August 20-September 26, 2026
Molly Duff-Clarke
Molly Duff-Clarke
Molly Duff-Clarke invites viewers into a vibrant, life-sized world of ceramic furniture and domestic vignettes that reimagine the home as a space of unrestrained joy, texture, and playful reinvention. Through brightly colored ceramics adorned with yarn, velvet, and tactile excess, Molly explores the complexities of building a home and raising a family in today’s shifting cultural landscape.
Molly Duff-Clarke is a ceramic artist based in St. Petersburg, FL. She earned her MFA from the University of South Florida in 2023, where she was honored with the MFA Excellence Award. She also holds an MA from Maharishi University and a BFA in Printmaking and Ceramics from Kendall College of Art and Design.
Molly's work has been exhibited both locally and nationally, including at Heiress Gallery, the Contemporary Art Museum at USF, the Museum of Art – DeLand, and at numerous NCECA conferences. Her teaching and professional experience includes positions at Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency, the Morean Center for Clay, Dunedin Fine Arts Center, and St. Petersburg College.
Shaping Sarasota: A Century of Art
Shaping Sarasota: A Century of Art marks the culmination of Art Center Sarasota’s 2025–2026 Centennial Season, presenting a chronological visual history spanning 100 years of creativity. This landmark exhibition features rich archival images that highlight the artists, influential members, and community leaders who helped shape the Center’s evolving identity and legacy.
From Marsha Rader’s 1926 gatherings of local art supporters, to the official incorporation of the Sarasota Art Association in 1941, the organization’s guiding mission—to “promote the educational and cultural advantages of Sarasota in the field of contemporary art”—has remained at its core.
Shaping Sarasota: A Century of Art was researched and brought to life by ACS Archivist and Guest Curator, Alecia Harper. Alecia Harper earned her B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, followed by a graduate degree in Applied Art History and a certification in Museum Management from the University of South Carolina at Columbia. Her professional experience includes work at the Harpeth Gallery in Nashville, Vanderbilt University Creative Services, the Center for the Study of the American South, and Duke University Press.
A passionate advocate for arts education and public engagement, Alecia is docent emerita at The Ringling Museum of Art and has contributed her expertise to the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, and the Old Davie School Historical Museum. Alecia currently teaches Art History and Humanities at State College of Florida. She previously served on the board of Sarasota’s community radio station WSLR, where she continues to host a Wednesday morning show as a deejay.
Antoine Williams
Antoine Williams
Antoine Williams presents a new body of work that reimagines Black southern cultural folklore and traditions through a surrealist lens.
Antoine received his MFA from UNC Chapel Hill. His residencies include the Joan Mitchell Residency in New Orleans, The Center for Afrofuturist Studies, The McColl Center of Art and Innovation, The Hambidge Center, Loghaven Artist Residency, and Rubenstein Arts Center at Duke University. Williams was also part of the 2021 Drawing Center viewing program. He is a recipient of the 2017 Joan Mitchell Award for Painters and Sculptors, the 2022 National Academy of Design’s Abbey Mural Prize, 2022 South Arts Individual Artist Career Opportunity Grant, and the 2018 Harpo Foundation Grant Award.
Williams has exhibited nationally, including at Smack Mellon Brooklyn, the Nasher Museum of Art, The Weatherspoon Museum, 21c Museum, North Carolina Museum of Art, Prizm Art Fair, and the California Museum of Photography among others. His work is in the collection of the Nasher Museum of Art and the North Carolina Museum of Art. Williams is an assistant professor of Drawing in the Expanded Field at the University of Florida.
Juror John Pirman
Juror Critique with John Pirman: Wed. Aug 26, at 4 pm.
Juried Show: Icons
Icons is a visual exploration of figures, symbols, and moments that shape culture, influence society, and transcend time. From historical legends to contemporary trailblazers, this exhibition examines what it means to be iconic—whether through fame, influence, or artistic interpretation.
Artists are invited to submit works that engage with the idea of "icons" in any form—portraits of cultural figures, symbolic imagery, or conceptual reflections on power, legacy, and myth-making. Whether celebrating, critiquing, or reimagining icons, this exhibition seeks bold and thought-provoking perspectives.
Meet the Juror, John Pirman:
John Pirman graduated in 1979 from Kent State University with a BFA in graphic design & illustration, and studied in Brissago, Switzerland with Paul Rand. His work is influenced by Swiss design, pop culture, posters of the WPA era, and mid-century modern design.
In the fall of 1979, John moved to New York City and began a career as a freelance illustrator. He created editorial art for Fortune, Hemispheres, Vogue, Wallpaper, Glamour, New York Magazine, The New York Times, Forbes, Time, The Wall Street Journal,Travel and Leisure, Advertising Age, and Cosmopolitan Magazine.
Since 2013, John has created over 125 monthly illustrations for Sarasota Magazine’s last page, “Only In Sarasota”, featuring iconic places in town. His work has been exhibited at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, Art Center Sarasota, Center For Architecture Sarasota, Pansy Bayou, and Bird Key Yacht Club.
Art pickup dates: Mon, Sep 28 and Tues, Sep 29, 2026
Icons Award Winners
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1st Place - Steven Williams | Steveland, 2026
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2nd Place - J. Stacey Grayson | Good Trouble, 2023
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3rd Place - Hugh Whyte | Little Richard, 2025
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Merit Award - Jamie Goldenberg | Uncaged Bird (Amanda Gorman), 2023
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Merit Award - Mark Lewis | Miles and Miles, 2023
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Merit Award - Phil Jones | Michael Jordan, 2023
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Honorable Mention - Tony Reinemann | The Artist at the Opera House, 2025
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Honorable Mention - Darryl Goldman | Iconic Cigar Makers of Tampa, 2026
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Honorable Mention - Robert Rashkow | It’s a Twister, 2025
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Honorable Mention - Lauren Hope Holton | Eternity, 2025
Artist Talks & Special Exhibition Events
Join us for Artist Talks to hear their inspiration, process, stories, and more.
Doors open for mingling and refreshments at 5 pm, Artist Talks start promptly at 5:30 pm. $5 registration
Join us for an Artist Talk with Antoine Williams on Fri. Aug 28, 2026: Register here
Join us for an Artist Talk with Molly Duff-Clarke on Thu. Sep 24, 2026: Register here
Juror Critique with John Pirman on Wed. Aug 26, 2026 at 4 pm. Attending virtually? Google Meets Link
Watch previous Artists Talks and Juror Critiques on our YouTube channel!
Purchase Art, Support Local Artists
Each of our gallery exhibitions features artwork available for purchase. When you buy a piece, you’re supporting local artists and helping Art Center Sarasota continue to thrive as a creative hub for our community.
During exhibitions, we share a PDF of each show’s gallery guide so you can explore available works, then us call
941-365-2032 to confirm availability and purchase.
Note: Artwork is subject to availability; PDFs serve as previews only and will be posted here during the exhibition.
Upcoming Exhibitions
On View: October 8-November 14, 2026
Karina Yanes
Karina Yanes
In her upcoming exhibition, Karina Yanes combines symbols of Palestinian endurance and identity with imagery drawn from her family’s stories of life in Palestine, reflecting on how cultural symbols and lived experiences intertwine to carry traditions and memories across generations. Their transformation into ceramic gives these narratives the power to endure.
Karina is a Gainesville, FL-based artist whose work is rooted in her upbringing as a
Puerto Rican-Palestinian-Midwesterner.
She received her MFA from the University of Florida, and her work has been exhibited in group exhibitions across the country. She recently had a solo
exhibition at the Morean Center for Clay and has an upcoming solo exhibition at Greenwich House Pottery in 2027. She has been artist-in-residence at ACRE, Craigardan, the Open Studio Residency at Haystack School of Craft, and the CIRCA Graduate Exchange. She was a 2024 recipient of the NCECA Graduate Fellowship and was selected for Fresh Squeezed 8: Emerging Artists in Florida at the Morean Arts Center.
St. Pete Ceramics
St. Pete Ceramics
St. Pete Ceramics is a community clay studio founded in 2024 by ceramic artists Beth Miranda and Ethan Fielder. Built on the belief that creativity flourishes through collaboration, the studio welcomes everyone from first-time makers to professional artists, providing the space, tools, and support to pursue ambitious ceramic work.
On January 28, 2026, a devastating fire destroyed the studio. In the days and months that followed, the St. Petersburg community responded with extraordinary generosity—offering helping hands, meals, supplies, encouragement, and financial support that made it possible to establish a temporary studio and continue creating. Quite simply, St. Pete Ceramics would not be here today without that outpouring of support.
This exhibition brings together functional ceramic works by Beth, Ethan, and members of St. Pete Ceramics, all created in the temporary studio that emerged from the aftermath of the fire. Alongside the artwork, the exhibition shares the story of resilience, rebuilding, and the remarkable community that carried the studio forward. A portion of all artwork sales will directly support the ongoing effort to rebuild and permanently reestablish St. Pete Ceramics.
The original studio location will become the future home of The Clay Collective of Pinellas, Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting the creative, financial, and mental well-being of ceramic artists and small clay businesses throughout Pinellas County. While much has been accomplished, significant work remains.
Every purchase and every contribution helps build a stronger future for this creative community.
Jorge Blanco
Jorge Blanco
In his upcoming exhibition, Jorge Blanco showcases a collection of drawings, prints, and sculptures that celebrate playfulness and joy.
Jorge is a Venezuelan-American artist, internationally recognized for his public sculptures, graphic design, and illustrations. He studied Industrial Design at the Neumann Institute of Design in Caracas before continuing his artistic training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, Italy.
His story is one of evolution, from a curious child inspired by abstract art to a celebrated artist whose colorful, uplifting sculptures dot public spaces. Jorge served as the Creative Director of the Children’s Museum of Caracas, and he is widely recognized as the creator of the long-running comic strip El Náufrago (The Castaway). Since relocating to Sarasota in 1999, Blanco has completed numerous public art commissions throughout the United States, Venezuela, Japan, and Europe. His large-scale sculptures have been installed in civic spaces, parks, museums, educational institutions, and private collections, and his work has been exhibited extensively in galleries and museums internationally.
Juror Danny Canton
Juried Show: Strange Weather
This exhibition celebrates the surreal, inviting artists to explore worlds where reality bends, logic dissolves, and the unexpected becomes possible. Strange Weather serves as a metaphor for moments of transformation, uncertainty, and the uncanny rather than literal atmospheric conditions.
Artists are encouraged to create work that embraces dreamlike imagery, psychological landscapes, improbable juxtapositions, and the strange beauty of the impossible.
Meet the Juror, Danny Canton:
Danny Canton graduated from the School of Visual Arts with a BFA in Cinematography and has been in the film industry for over 50 years with experience as a director, producer and most notably as a director of photography. He has worked on a variety of projects including feature films, television programs, behind-the-scenes and making of studio films, industrial films, commercials, and documentaries.
Years after graduation, Danny returned to SVA to teach Film Production and Cinematography and eventually moved to Florida to build the online film program at Full Sail University. Throughout his career Danny has collaborated with renowned directors like Sydney Lumet, Barbara Walters, Norman Jewison, Sydney Pollack, and Lee Grant. He has had the opportunity to work alongside such talents as Michael Douglas, Tom Selleck, Meryl Streep, Elizabeth Taylor, and Robert DeNiro.
Danny continues to teach film for the Sarasota Film Society at Lakewood Ranch Cinemas, and he is working on a number of projects including directing a documentary on local sculpture artist, Jorge Blanco. Art pickup dates: Mon, Sep 28 and Tues, Sep 29, 2026
On View: December 3-January 9, 2026
Juror Alissa Silvers
All Galleries: Annual Juried Members Show
The Annual Juried Members Show celebrates the artists who make Art Center Sarasota such a vibrant creative community. Free from a prescribed theme, the exhibition offers a dynamic survey of contemporary art across a wide range of media, including painting, sculpture, photography, ceramics, fiber, collage, mixed media, and more. Reflecting the diversity of our members, the exhibition highlights the creative voices and distinct perspectives that continue to shape the Art Center Sarasota community.
At its heart, the Annual Juried Members Show is about belonging. By guaranteeing every participating member a place in the exhibition, Art Center Sarasota affirms its commitment to fostering an inclusive environment where artists at every stage of their journey have the opportunity to share their work and engage diverse audiences. More than an exhibition, the Annual Juried Members Show is a reflection of the creative community that defines Art Center Sarasota. It is an invitation to discover new voices, celebrate familiar ones, and experience the remarkable talent that flourishes when every artist has a place to belong.
Meet the Juror, Alissa Silvers:
Alissa “Liss” Silvers is a Swiss-born muralist and visual artist based in Sarasota, FL, and the founder of Liss Design LLC. She is known for creating vibrant, large-scale murals that transform public and commercial spaces into immersive visual environments.
Her public art practice focuses on creating site-responsive murals that enhance architecture while fostering a sense of place and community pride. Whether working with city officials, business owners, or community organizations, Liss approaches each project with thoughtful design, professional execution, and attention to long-term durability.
Online Submission Deadline: Sunday, Oct 25, 2026
On View: Thursday, December 3, 2026 - Saturday, January 9, 2027
Opening Night Reception: Thursday, December 3, 5-7 pm
Art drop off dates are Nov 17 & 18, 2026; pickup dates are Jan 11 & 12, 2027
On View: January 21-February 27, 2027
Toryiana Williams
Toryiana Williams
In her first solo exhibition, Run It Back, Toryiana Williams draws from a lifelong relationship with basketball, transforming the visual language of the game into emotionally charged compositions centered on nostalgia, discipline,
performance, and self-construction. She reframes basketball as more than just a sport, showcasing a cultural archive, a personal history, and a lens through which to examine ambition, beauty, nostalgia, and becoming. By merging her experiences as both an athlete and artist, Run It Back asks viewers to consider the spaces, rituals, and passions that first shaped their own identities, and what happens when we return to them with new eyes.
Toryiana is an emerging contemporary artist based in Panama City Beach, FL. Working across painting, photography, and graphic design, her practice
investigates the relationship between memory, identity, and contemporary culture through a visual language informed by fashion, portraiture, and sport. Drawing inspiration from the bold chromatic intensity of Fauvism and the
emotional sensitivity of Impressionism, she creates work that is both visually striking and psychologically intimate.
Craig Wood
Craig Wood
In Hello My Name Is…, Craig Wood presents a collection of ceramic sculptures that inhabit a space between object and character. Each work suggests a distinct presence, quirky, watchful, tentative, or self-assured, inviting viewers to interpret personality where none is explicitly defined. The exhibition explores a basic but compelling question: why do we so readily attribute human qualities to inanimate things?
Craig is a ceramic sculptor based in St. Petersburg, FL, and Woodstock, NY. He is a member of Artaxis, and his work has been featured in 500 Tiles: An Inspiring Collection of International Work, Ceramics Monthly, and Clay Times. Recent solo exhibitions include the Morean Center for Clay and the Woodstock Artists
Association & Museum, with selected juried exhibitions at Blue Line Arts, the Art Center of Western Colorado, Florida CraftArt, and Art Center Sarasota.
Silvana Soriano
Silvana Soriano
In Read Me Like a Book, Silvana Soriano creates three visual chapters that map how language, literature, and cinema have shaped her interior life. Working in mixed media on canvas and collage on paper, the exhibition treats material process as another form of translation, layering, cutting, and assembling meanings much like texts are read and reread.
Silvana is a visual artist, educator, and illustrator based in Miami, FL. Originally from Rio de Janeiro, her work has been exhibited in Brazil, Spain, France, Cuba, and the United States. She is an Associate Artist at Bakehouse Art Complex and a studio resident at MIFA. Her solo exhibitions include Ipsis Litteris at The CAMP Gallery and CollaborARTive, and Please, Wear My Red Shoes at the Miami Beach Public Library and MIFA Gallery. In 2022, she participated in Women Pulling at the Threads of Social Discourse at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Connecticut. Silvana received the Oolite Arts Awards’ Teacher Travel Grant (2022, 2025) and the Corral & Cathers Professional Artist Grant (2024). Her residencies include Ratcliffe Art + Design Incubator, La Maldita Estampa (Barcelona), Project Art (Miami), Kaaysa Art Residency, and The Ant Project (Mexico).
Simone Friend
Juried Show: Strange Weather
In Monochrome, artists are invited to submit work created using a single color or tonal range. Through constraint and reduction, this exhibition highlights the power of a limited palette, encouraging bold, nuanced, and inventive approaches to value, texture, form, and composition across all media. Within this focused approach, subtle shifts in tone and surface can create depth, atmosphere, and unexpected complexity. Together, these works demonstrate how limitation can become a catalyst for creativity, pushing the boundaries of material, process, and perception.
Meet the Juror, Simone Friend:
Simone Friend has spent more than 40 years working closely with artists, helping shape creative careers, and championing visual storytelling across disciplines. As co-founder of Friend & Johnson, she has dedicated her career to representing exceptional talent and supporting illustrators, photographers, directors, and animators in bringing their unique voices to the world.
Over the years, Simone has developed a deeply intuitive eye for artistic excellence through reviewing portfolios, mentoring artists, and building lasting relationships throughout the creative community. She is especially drawn to work that reflects originality, emotional depth, technical mastery, and a clear point of view.
Known for her ability to recognize both emerging talent and the continued evolution of established artists, Simone brings thoughtfulness, encouragement, and genuine respect for the creative process to everything she does. Her perspective has been shaped by decades of helping artists refine their vision while honoring the individuality and authenticity of their work.
On View: March 11-April 17, 2027
David McCauley
David McCauley
In his upcoming exhibition, Just Passing Through, David McCauley presents a series of oil paintings exploring movement, perspective, and identity through experiences of travel as a wheelchair user. Inspired by views from buses, trains, ferries, or handcycles, the paintings capture the passing landscape from his seated eye level. The show invites viewers to consider how the ways we travel shape not only our journeys, but the way we perceive the world around us.
David is an interdisciplinary artist based in St. Petersburg, FL, whose work combines figurative oil painting, graphic design, typography, and fabricated materials. Living with paralysis, he has developed innovative adaptive mark-making techniques that have become central to his artistic practice. David is also a dedicated arts advocate, having founded several nonprofit arts organizations supporting artists through exhibitions,
residencies, and community programming. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Tampa Museum of Art, Art Basel Miami Beach, SCOPE Art Show, Galerie Lano (Paris), and galleries in New York, Boston, and Miami. A two-time Creative Access Fellowship recipient, he also serves as a board member and ambassador for The Impossible Dream Project.
Sam Modder
Sam Modder
Sam Modder transforms the gallery into a site-specific installation of monumental drawings that immerse viewers in a speculative narrative centered on Black womanhood, identity, and imagination.
Starting from large, intricate ballpoint pen drawings that are digitally manipulated, her larger-than-life figures occupy the walls with a commanding presence, inviting visitors to step inside a world that is both familiar and fantastical.
Sam is a Nigerian-Sri Lankan artist born in Lagos and raised in Sri Lanka who lives and works in Tampa, FL. She earned a BA in Studio Art and Engineering
from Dartmouth College and an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis. Sam is an Assistant Professor of Art and Design at the University of Tampa. She has exhibited nationally including at Tampa Museum of Art, Sarasota Art Museum, African American Museum of Dallas, Catskills Art Space, Morris Museum, and No Vacancy during Miami Beach Art Week.
Rebecca Hutchinson
Rebecca Hutchinson
In her upcoming exhibition, Rebecca Hutchinson invites viewers into her
organic and layered compositions that explore themes of navigating boundaries, both conceptually and aesthetically. Her large-scale mixed media wall sculptures are rich in texture created with handmade paper, paper pulp, unfired clay and upcycled materials. Rebecca is a Professor at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth and has taught Undergraduate and Graduate Ceramics for over twenty years.
Her work has been shown nationally and internationally including at the Everson Museum of Art, the National Museum for Women in the Arts, Daum Museum, Burlington Contemporary Art Center, Taiwan Ceramics Biennale, Keramikos International Della Ceramica D’Arte, Italy, Belgium, South Korea, and Vendrell Biennale of Vendrell, Spain. Her work has been published in over 80 publications and she has been awarded numerous grants, fellowships, and awards.
Greg Rumph:
Juried Show: No Place Like...
This exhibition invites artists to explore ideas of home, belonging, and place in an ever-shifting world. Submissions may explore domestic spaces, migration, memory, landscape, community, or imagined environments, welcoming perspectives that are personal, cultural, or conceptual across all media. Artists are encouraged to reflect on how place shapes identity, experience, and connection.
Meet the Juror, Greg Rumph:
Greg Rumph is the Assistant Principal at Booker High School in Sarasota, where he oversees the award-winning and state-of-the-art Visual and Performing Arts program. The program prepares students for pre-professional careers in dance, film and animation, music, production and design, theatre, and visual arts.
Rumph earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration from Ringling College of Art and Design in 1998. He also holds master’s degrees from the University of South Florida in Educational Leadership and Reading Education. Born in Youngstown, Ohio, he moved to Sarasota with his family in 1984 and has lived there ever since. Rumph is also an accomplished artist and illustrator. Two of his paintings are included in the permanent collection of the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee, and his work is held in numerous private collections across the country. His artwork has been featured in Sarasota Magazine, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Savoy Magazine, and on the PBS program Arts Plus.
He has also designed logos for organizations including the Sarasota Housing Authority, Bethlehem Bible Baptist Church, Phatheadz Barbershop, Truevine Missionary Baptist Church, and the Booker Schools.
On View: April 27-May 8, 2027
All Galleries: North County Spring Art Show
For more than seven decades, the North County Spring Art Show has celebrated the creativity, imagination, and artistic achievement of Sarasota’s youngest artists. Now in its 72nd year, this beloved community tradition continues to showcase the work of more than 1,500 students in grades K–12 from public and charter schools throughout north Sarasota County.
Organized by dedicated school coordinators Angela Hartvigsen, Debra Markley, and Tessa Hippich, the exhibition transforms Art Center Sarasota into a vibrant gallery of youthful expression. For many students, it is their first opportunity to see their artwork displayed in a professional exhibition, creating a meaningful experience shared with families, teachers, classmates, and the broader community.
The exhibition culminates in a series of award celebrations recognizing outstanding artistic achievement. High school students compete for more than $20,000 in scholarships and awards generously provided by local organizations, while elementary students are honored during two special evening ceremonies celebrating their creativity and accomplishment. More than an annual exhibition, the North County Spring Art Show reflects Art Center Sarasota’s enduring commitment to nurturing the next generation of artists and ensuring that creativity continues to flourish throughout our community.
Highlights from the 2026 Spring Art Show
Artwork by V.T. | 5th Grade
Artwork by A.X. | 1st Grade
Artwork by N.S. | 12th Grade
Juried Exhibitions
Our juried exhibitions showcase local and regional artists in our Atrium Gallery, with all artwork available for purchase. Each show has a different theme and all media are welcome.
Jurors are experts in their fields and include curators, historians, educators, artists, and art critics. Jurors recognize extraordinary talent with the selection of awards from 1st place to honorable mention. Gallery visitors also select a People’s Choice award winner.
Call to Artists
Artists of all levels of expertise are encouraged to submit work and be a part of the community! All submissions are online and are open to all artists and mediums. Please call 941-365-2032 if you need assistance submitting work.
Juror Danny Canton
Strange Weather
This exhibition invites artists to explore the surreal through unpredictable conditions and uncanny atmospheres. Submissions may interpret “weather” as environmental, emotional, or psychological, capturing moments when reality shifts, logic bends, and the familiar turns strange. Artists are encouraged to embrace transformation, ambiguity, and the unexpected in both subject and approach.
Meet the Juror, Danny Canton:
Danny Canton is a veteran of over 50 years in the Film Industry where he has served as a Director, Producer and most notably as a Director of Photography. He has worked on a variety of projects including Feature Films, Television Programs, Behind the Scenes/Making of Studio Films, Industrial Films, Commercials and Documentaries.
Danny graduated from The School of Visual Arts with a BFA in Cinematography and years later returned to Visual Arts to teach Film Production and Cinematography and eventually moved to Florida to build the online Film Program for Full Sail University. Danny continues to teach film here in Sarasota for the Sarasota Film Society in Lakewood Ranch Cinemas and he is working on a number of projects here in Sarasota including Directing a Documentary on Jorge Blanco, a local Metal Sculpture Artist, whose work can be seen across the street from the Art Center.
Online Submission Deadline: Monday, Sep 7, 2026
On View: Thursday, October 8 - Saturday, November 14, 2026
Opening Night Reception: Thursday, October 8, 5-7pm
Art drop off dates are Sep. 29 & 30, pickup dates are Nov. 16 & 17, 2026
Juror Alissa Silvers
Annual Juried Members Show
The Annual Juried Members Show is a celebration of the artists who make Art Center Sarasota such a vibrant creative community. Free from a prescribed theme, the exhibition welcomes original work in all media, showcasing the breadth of ideas, techniques, and perspectives represented by our members.
Every current member who submits is guaranteed inclusion, making this exhibition a unique opportunity to share your work, connect with fellow artists, and engage the community. Whether you are exhibiting for the first time or returning as a longtime participant, your work helps tell the story of Art Center Sarasota.
Meet the Juror, Alissa Silvers:
Alissa “Liss” Silvers is a Swiss-born muralist and visual artist based in Sarasota, FL, and the founder of Liss Design LLC. She is known for creating vibrant, large-scale murals that transform public and commercial spaces into immersive visual environments.
Her public art practice focuses on creating site-responsive murals that enhance architecture while fostering a sense of place and community pride. Whether working with city officials, business owners, or community organizations, Liss approaches each project with thoughtful design, professional execution, and attention to long-term durability.
Online Submission Deadline: Sunday, Oct 25, 2026
On View: Thursday, December 3, 2026 - Saturday, January 9, 2027
Opening Night Reception: Thursday, December 3, 5-7 pm
Art drop off dates are Nov 17 & 18, 2026; pickup dates are Jan 11 & 12, 2027
Holiday Sidewalk Sale
Share your work with holiday shoppers at Art Center Sarasota's 2026 Holiday Sidewalk Sale! Artists, artisans, and makers are invited to reserve an outdoor booth to sell original artwork, handcrafted goods, jewelry, ceramics, textiles, home décor, holiday gifts, and more.
Held during the peak holiday shopping season, this festive outdoor market offers a wonderful opportunity to connect directly with the community, introduce your work to new collectors, and celebrate the creativity of Sarasota's local artists. Whether you're an emerging maker or an established artist, the Holiday Sidewalk Sale is the perfect place to showcase your work and be part of a fun, community-centered event.
The Holiday Sidewalk Sale will take place throughout the Sam & Sally Shapiro Sculpture Garden, the Andrew & Lathrop Ford Bayfront Sculpture Garden, and the Bayfront Promenade in front of the Art Center.
Online Submission Deadline: Sunday, Nov 1, 2026
Artists will be notified of acceptance no later than Friday, November 6, 2024
Sidewalk Sale: Saturday, December 5, 10 am-4 pm
Solo Exhibition Submissions
Art Center Sarasota is now accepting proposals for solo exhibitions.
Submitting a proposal does not guarantee a solo exhibition. Submissions are reviewed on a rolling basis, and notifications will be sent out periodically.
Click here to learn more or to submit your solo exhibition proposal prospectus.