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Upcoming Events

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“Power in Paper: Celebrating Sarasota Artists” with John Ringling Tower Artists Melanie Lavender and Kuniko Yamamoto Presented in partnership with Arts and Cultural Alliance of Sarasota County and Fogartyville Community Media and Arts Center Friday, … Continue reading "“Power in Paper: Celebrating Sarasota Artists”"
Fogartyville Community Media and Arts Center
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Hermitage Sunsets @ Selby Gardens “The Blurred Line Between Humor and Heartbreak: A Playwriting Workshop” with Hermitage Fellow Halley Feiffer Presented in partnership with Marie Selby Botanical Gardens and The Players Centre Halley Feiffer’s Hermitage … Continue reading "Hermitage Sunsets @ Selby Gardens “The Blurred Line Between Humor and Heartbreak: A Playwriting Workshop”"
Marie Selby Botanical Gardens (Downtown Campus)
Oct 12 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
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“Write, Edit, Translate, Publish!” with Hermitage Fellow Kristen Renee Miller Presented in partnership with Bookstore1 Kristen Renee Miller’s Hermitage Residency generously sponsored by Robyn & Charles Citrin. Thursday, October 12 at 6pm Bookstore1 (entrance at … Continue reading "“Write, Edit, Translate, Publish!”"
Bookstore1
Oct 19 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
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“Nature’s Voice” with Hermitage Fellows Diane Cook and Carmina Escobar Presented in partnership with Conservation Foundation of the Gulf Coast Thursday, October 19 at 6pm Bay Preserve (entrance at 400 Palmetto Ave., Osprey, FL 34229) … Continue reading "“Nature’s Voice”"
Bay Preserve
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“Siddhartha: A Hermitage Collaboration of Words and Music” with Hermitage Fellows Melissa Studdard and Christopher Theofanidis Christopher Theofanidis’s Hermitage Residency generously sponsored by Gerald & Sondra Biller.  Friday, October 27 at 6pm Hermitage Beach (entrance at 6660 … Continue reading "“Siddhartha: A Hermitage Collaboration of Words and Music”"
Hermitage Beach
6:00 pm
“Baseball Fiction: The Cactus League in Grapefruit Country” with Hermitage Fellow Emily Nemens Presented in partnership Off The Page Literary Festival Friday, November 3 at 6pm Hermitage Beach (entrance at 6660 Manasota Key Rd., Englewood, … Continue reading "“Baseball Fiction: The Cactus League in Grapefruit Country”"
Hermitage Beach
3:00 pm
“Writing from the Bones: A Songwriting Workshop” with Hermitage Fellow Kirya Traber Presented in partnership with the Off The Page Literary Festival Monday, November 6 at 3pm Elsie Quirk Library (entrance at 100 W. Dearborn … Continue reading "“Writing from the Bones: A Songwriting Workshop”"
Elsie Quirk Library
5:00 pm
“Hermitage Cross Arts Collaborative: Theater and Dance” with 2023 Cross Arts Recipients Lizzie Hagstedt and Jessice Obiedzinski Presented in partnership with Asolo Repertory Theatre, Sarasota Contemporary Dance, and The Bay Sarasota Tuesday, November 14 at … Continue reading "“Hermitage Cross Arts Collaborative: Theater and Dance”"
The Bay Sarasota
Dec 14 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
4:00 pm
“The People and Places that Make Us” with Hermitage Fellow Cleyvis Natera Presented in partnership with Johann Fust Community Library Thursday, December 14 at 4pm Johann Fust Community Library (entrance at 1040 10th St. W., … Continue reading "“The People and Places that Make Us”"
Johann Fust Community Library
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A Statement from the Hermitage

As an organization and as a community of artists, we at the Hermitage vow to hold ourselves to the highest standards in combatting racism. There is no place for hate – in art or in life. We are deeply committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and we proudly support our Hermitage Fellows who engage in social justice reform and the stories that matter.

photo by Barbara Banks
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THE HERMITAGE MISSION

The mission of the Hermitage is to inspire and foster the most influential and culturally consequential art and artists of our time.

The Hermitage is a multi-disciplinary artist retreat dedicated to championing bold and impactful new work, supporting the creative process, elevating the artist experience, and enriching the lives of audiences and arts appreciators around the world. An incubator for diverse and original works across all artistic mediums, the Hermitage aims to inspire creative minds to achieve their greatest potential. Beyond the unique and invaluable experience we provide to artists, we take pride in our commitment to historic preservation, ecological restoration, and dynamic community engagement.

THE HERMITAGE ARTIST RETREAT

The Hermitage is a multi-disciplinary artist retreat serving artists, the creative process, and the community. Located on a nine-acre campus in Manasota Key at the southern tip of Sarasota County, we provide accomplished and diverse artists with multi-week residences to create new works of theater, music, visual art, literature, and more. All artists are selected by our Hermitage Curatorial Council, composed of visionary arts leaders from nationally and internationally renowned cultural institutions. Hermitage Fellows have described their experiences as “life-changing,” “magical,” and “transformative,” regularly noting that they accomplish more in their time at the Hermitage than they ever imagined possible.

Hermitage Fellows have included fifteen Pulitzer Prize winners, multiple Tony, Oscar, Emmy, Grammy nominees and winners, Poets Laureate, MacArthur “Genius” and Guggenheim Fellows, and hundreds of extraordinary artists from around the world. The award-winning, impactful, and diverse original works created at the Hermitage are presented in renowned concert halls, theaters, museums, and galleries throughout our region and across the globe. Works created at the Hermitage have been shown at New York’s Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Center, The Museum of Modern Art, The Vienna Opera, Roundabout Theatre Company, Carnegie Hall, Disney Hall, Mass MoCA, The Kennedy Center, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, to name a few.

Audiences in the greater Sarasota area are offered a “sneak peek” into the works and minds of these brilliant artists through the Hermitage’s community programs, many of which are in collaboration with fellow arts and cultural organizations throughout the Gulf Coast region. In addition to the unique and invaluable experience we provide to artists, we take pride in our complementary missions of historic preservation, ecological restoration, and community engagement.

Now on the National Register of Historic Places, the Hermitage was built in 1907. The “Hermitage-Whitney” district was reconceived as the Hermitage Artist Retreat in 1999 and officially incorporated as a non-profit organization in 2002.