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Sarasota Art Museum shines a spotlight on Art Deco as the artform celebrates its centennial anniversary. Art Deco: The Golden Age of Illustration showcases 100 rare posters from the Crouse Collection created by some of the world’s earliest master graphic designers during the 1920s and 1930s.

During the 1920s, a bold new artistic style roared to life: Art Deco. This exciting, dramatic, and glamorous new genre bid farewell to the soft, organic forms of Art Nouveau and soon took the world by storm. One of Art Deco’s most significant contributions was the art of printed graphics, giving birth to the disciplines of illustration and typography that permeate our world today.

Featuring subjects ranging from automobiles, airlines, and ocean liners to drinks and tobacco, the works represented in Art Deco: The Golden Age of Illustration celebrate modernity, dynamism, and luxury—the dreams and desires of the turbulent early twentieth century.

In addition to the iconic posters, Art Deco: The Golden Age of Illustration conjures the era’s design aesthetic with selected sculptural works and cocktail shakers from the Crouse Collection, and Art Deco furniture pieces on loan from the Wolfsonian Museum at Florida International University in Miami.

Art Deco: The Golden Age of Illustration is organized by Sarasota Art Museum of Ringling College of Art and Design and curated by Rangsook Yoon, senior curator at Sarasota Art Museum.

Image credit: Installation view of Art Deco: The Golden Age of Illustration at Sarasota Art Museum, Sarasota, Florida, 2025. Photo: Ryan Gamma.

New works by Selina Román blend photography, abstraction, and self-portraiture to explore themes of beauty and the politics of size in Selina Román: Abstract Corpulence. Roman’s photographs feature tightly cropped images of the artist’s own body, boldly occupying the full composition and extending past the boundaries of each frame. Pastel bodysuits and tights transform the artist’s flesh into new, gently rolling landscapes as amorphous shapes converge to create modernist-inspired compositions. At this scale, Roman’s tightly cropped portrayals of stomachs, thighs, and hips become formal studies of line, shape and color, asking viewers to consider the human form from a point of true abstraction. The softly hued palette created by the artist’s bodysuits lends itself to narratives around the aesthetics of femininity. Displayed as a colorful never-before-seen installation, Roman’s photographs transform the gallery into a space of quiet resistance, subverting traditional ideas of feminine beauty.

Selina Román: Abstract Corpulence is organized by Sarasota Art Museum of Ringling College of Art and Design and curated by Rangsook Yoon, senior curator at Sarasota Art Museum.

Image credit: Selina Román (American, 1978). Blockhead 1, 2025. Dye sublimation on aluminum, 40 x 50 in. Courtesy of the artist.

Join Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement Master Craftsman, Carlos Velasco for this FUN Christmas Tree Fused Glass Class. Fuse colored glass together and create your own work of art. Finished projects are kiln-fired and can be picked up the following week. This 1-hour class on Thursday, November 13, 2025;10:30-11:30 a.m. Please pre-register online. Non-Members: $75. Members $65. Cost included all equipment and supplies.

Pangarap: Espero Reimagined transforms The Maitland Art Center gallery into a canvas of speculative storytelling under Filipino artist Isobel Francisco. Inspired by Jules André Smith’s decision to establish an artist colony in Florida, Francisco envisions an alternate reality where this decision leads to 1937 Philippines. The exhibition features fictional artifacts and artworks to encourage viewers to explore the parallels and contrasts between this imagined scenario and the museum’s history. 'Pangarap,' meaning dream or vision in Filipino, invites audiences to reflect on the cultural impact of one artist’s decision in 1937 and beyond.

Artist Series Concerts: How Low Can You Go?
Eleni Katz, bassoon and Nina Bernat, double bass
Featured Emerging Artists
Thursday, November 13, 2025 • 11:00 am performance followed by luncheon
Palm Aire Country Club, 5601 Country Club Way, Sarasota, FL 34243
Two of classical music’s most “under the radar” instruments step into the spotlight for a delightful program of unusual duets. A winner of the 2022 Concert Artist Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition, bassoonist Eleni Katz has established herself as a prominent soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral player. Double bassist Nina Bernat is a recipient of a 2023 Avery Fisher Career Grant, and recently made her concerto debut with the Minnesota Orchestra and Osmo Vänskä to great acclaim. They come together for a program titled “Basso Vox” that includes music by Bach, Mozart and Piazzolla. Single ticket: $75 (includes lunch). Series sponsored by Don and Jo Ann Burhart and Kandy Kaak. Artists sponsored by Patricia Bourke and Robert Downie. ArtistSeriesConcerts.org

Brenda McMahon Gallery is proud to host Lynn Taylor and her new book “Gulfport Rising” that shares personal accounts from Gulfport residents about the effects of Hurricanes Helene and Milton in 2024.

This evening event will also honor the memory of Qi Crystal Energy owner, Melissa Loven.

The gallery will have Melissa’s crystals for sale along with the art of other hurricane survivors, including Lynn Taylor & Nancy Poucher.

All are welcome to join us for an evening of art & the power of community.

You do not want to miss this!

**Photo Credit- Mural by Derek Donnelly**

Bring a lawn chair or blanket and join us at CAM for a free film screening of The Life of Brian (Maguire), the incredible life story of an internationally renowned artist who goes to the frontline to tell the real story of the world. The Life of Brian (Maguire) was directed by Mark Mc Loughlin for Bang Bang Teo and supported by RTE, Hugh Lane Gallery and Creative Ireland. Pre-movie popcorn and snacks will be served at 6pm, and the movie starts at 6:30 outside on the lawn. This event is free and open to all. For questions or more information send us a DM, an email at caminfo@usf.edu, or call (813) 974-4133.

A comedic murder mystery, complete with mistaken identities, six million bucks in diamonds, and a corpse in a wheelchair. An unassuming English shoe salesman who is forced to take the embalmed body of his recently murdered uncle on a vacation to Monte Carlo. Should he succeed in passing his uncle off as alive, Harry Witherspoon stands to inherit six million dollars. If not, the money goes to the Universal Dog Home of Brooklyn...or else his uncle's gun-toting ex!

Monsters of the American Cinema by Christian St. Croix.

Remy Washington, a Black man and widower, has inherited both a drive-in movie theater and the responsibility of raising Pup, his late husband’s straight, white teenage son. The two forge a strong bond around a shared love of classic American monster movies, but when Remy discovers Pup has been tormenting a gay classmate, their relationship begins to fracture, and the real horrors surface.

Beneath the flickering glow of the drive-in screen, Monsters of the American Cinema becomes a haunting, funny, and unexpectedly tender tale of fatherhood and loss that the Los Angeles Times hails as “exhilarating.”