Your support is more critical and meaningful now than ever…
Thanks to generous gifts from the Cook Family and additional supporters, your gift to the Hermitage will be matched dollar-for-dollar between now and June 30th!
Learn about the Hermitage in this video from PBS/WEDU.
The Latest News
Dates announced for 2020 Artful Lobster and 2021 Greenfield Prize Dinner
The Hermitage Artist Retreat announced the dates for the organization’s two signature fundraising events
The wave of support continues
The Hermitage Artist Retreat received a $100,000 matching grant from the Manasota Key-based Cook
ETHEL quartet puts “Circus,” conceived at Hermitage, online
This article appeared in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune on May 3, 2020. Sarasota’s circus heritage
Now on the National Register of Historic Places, the Hermitage was built in 1907 and was reconceived as The Hermitage Artist Retreat in 1999. Artists and writers live and work here for six-week residencies curated by national leaders in art and literature. We preserve Old Florida beach houses and the ancient native beachfront environment as a place to birth new art, new thought, and the world’s next great masterpieces.
Hermitage Fellows include nine Pulitzer winners; a host of MacArthur “Geniuses;” and Grammy, Tony, and Emmy winners. Work created at the Hermitage is shown at New York’s Metropolitan Opera, the Vienna Opera, Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Disney Hall, Mass MoCA, MoMA and the MET Museum.
With a mission to inspire the artists of our time, we invite the public to be inspired as you see and hear cutting edge art, literature, drama and music in Sarasota area venues, and on the Hermitage beach at sunset in a series of free Friday programs.