April 2020
Arts Advocates Art Collection Tour
The Fine Arts Society of Sarasota, Inc. Arts Advocates began acquiring works of art in 1970. The collection now contains over 50 pieces by Florida artists which represent a wide range of media and styles dating from the 1930s to the present. The collection is on display at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall, 777 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota. Join a docent-led tour of the Arts Advocates’ collection and learn about the art and the artists as you walk through…
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Thursday, January 16, 2020, 10:30 a.m. - Street Fairs of Paris and Their Carnival Folk in Stories and Photographs, 1900s Writer, educator, and arts patron Charlotte Perret shares the fascinating stories behind the creation of her book, At Their Doorstep – an historic and pictorial account of the itinerant street fairs that brought mass entertainment to the neighborhoods of early 20th-century Paris. While residing in Paris in the early 1980s, Ms. Perret went directly to the few surviving carnival folk who owned and operated these great game stands, carousels,…
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