Articles

Artists Blossom at the Hermitage on Manasota Key
Sarasota Scene Magazine, September 2021

Velvet Bulldozer: As Visionary Arts Advocate Patricia Caswell Retires, She Leaves Behind Monuments to the Creative Process
SRQ Magazine, September 2021

Sarasota Arts Champion Patricia Caswell Retires from Hermitage Artist Retreat
Sarasota Herald-Tribune, May 19, 2021

The Hermitage Artist Retreat Continues to Blossom
Venice Gondolier, January 20, 2021

Artists Returning to Hermitage Retreat in Englewood
Sarasota Herald-Tribune, July 3, 2020

Hermitage Artist Retreat Receives $100,000 Matching Gift
Sarasota Herald-Tribune, April 12, 2020

Adventure Chef Sophie Hollingsworth Brings Her Urban Fire Feast to the Hermitage Artist Retreat
Sarasota Magazine, April 7, 2020

Act Two: The Hermitage Artist Retreat Finds Tony Award-winning Leadership in Theater Maven Andy Sandberg
SRQ Magazine, April 2020

Painter Jennifer Packer Wins Greenfield Prize
Sarasota Herald-Tribune, February 16, 2020

Hermitage Artist Retreat’s Andy Sandberg Putting Best Foot Forward
Observer, February 12, 2020

An Artist Retreat with Old Florida Charm Offers an Escape-to-create
WEDU Arts Plus, February 6, 2020

Hermitage Artist Retreat is Crafting a Place for Artists to Create
Sarasota Herald-Tribune, January 25, 2020

Interview with Andy Sandberg
The Native Influence, January 20, 2020

New York Writer, Producer and Director Named New Leader of Hermitage Artist Retreat
Sarasota Herald-Tribune, December 3, 2019

Doing Time at the Hermitage
SRQ Magazine, October 2019

Artists Use Inspiration from Abolitionists in Their Music and Poetry
Observer, October 1, 2019

Who Are You Calling Old? Age Is but a Number for These Senior Athletes
ESPN The Magazine, May 16, 2019

Songwriter Adam Gwon Samples New Work in Hermitage Program
Sarasota Herald-Tribune, May 12, 2019

Photojournalist David Burnett’s Ringling Museum Exhibit Turns the Lens on Senior Athletes
Sarasota Magazine, April 4, 2019

Hermitage Artist Retreat Director to retire in December after 15 Years
Sarasota Herald-Tribune, March 26, 2019

Singer, Composer, Actress Helga Davis Wins 2019 Greenfield Prize
Sarasota Herald-Tribune, February 3, 2019

“Love Story” Star Ali MacGraw Talks about Her Career and Friendship with Ryan O’Neal before Sarasota Visit
Sarasota Herald-Tribune, January 18, 2019

Free Tours of Hermitage Artist Retreat Set for Sept. 7, 14 and 21
Sarasota Magazine, August 23, 2018

Hermitage Presents Two Music Programs in August
Florida Weekly, August 2, 2018

Arts Teachers Become STARs in Hermitage Retreat Program
Sarasota Herald-Tribune, July 18, 2018

Rising Playwright Martyna Majok Named Greenfield Prize Winner
Sarasota Herald-Tribune, January 26, 2018

Pulitzer Winner Donald Margulies Works on New Plays at Hermitage Artist Retreat
Sarasota Herald-Tribune, January 26, 2018

Visionary Artist Bill T. Jones Seeks to Expand His Reach
Sarasota Herald-Tribune, January 11, 2018

Hermitage Artist Retreat Makes Plan for Manasota Key Campus
Sarasota Herald-Tribune, November 26, 2017

Actor Denis O’Hare Collaborates on New Play at Hermitage Artist Retreat
Sarasota Herald-Tribune, October 12, 2017

Inside the Making of Composer Alan Fletcher’s New Piano Concerto for Inon Barnatan, Premiering Sunday in Aspen
Aspen Times, July 27, 2017

Hermitage Artist Retreat Hosts Florida Teachers
Sarasota Herald-Tribune, July 23, 2017

Film Festival Partners with Hermitage for Screenwriter Residencies
Sarasota Herald-Tribune, April 7, 2017

Greenfield Prize Honors Photographer with New Commission
Sarasota Herald-Tribune, February 24, 2017

The Hermitage Finds Its Muse
Sarasota Herald-Tribune, January 19, 2017

The Hermitage to Add Land to Artist Retreat
Sarasota Herald-Tribune, January 2, 2014

The Hermitage property is owned by Sarasota County and is leased to the Hermitage Artist Retreat, Inc.
The property is maintained by the Hermitage Artist Retreat, Inc. and the Sarasota County Department of Parks and Recreation.

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Aug

Fri

“Music’s Masterpieces” @ Sarasota Opera

Tickets

Aug 26 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

“Music’s Masterpieces”
with Hermitage Fellow Hilan Warshaw

Presented in partnership with Sarasota Opera

Hilan Warshaw’s Hermitage Residency generously sponsored by Jane and Bill Knapp

Friday, August 26 at 6pm

Sarasota opera (entrance at 61 N Pineapple Ave, Sarasota, FL 34236)

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Registration is required. $5 per person.

Hermitage Fellow Hilan Warshaw‘s films explore the lives and minds of great composers, delving into the often controversial passions and experiences that informed some of music’s most influential masterpieces. Blending documentary, narrative film techniques, and his own musical background as a violinist and conductor, Warshaw’s internationally broadcast films shine a new light on musical and operatic creators including Wagner, Schoenberg, Berg, Bach, and Mahler. For this program, Warshaw shares excerpts from his films and discusses the close relationship between the art forms of cinema and music.

Hermitage Fellow Hilan Warshaw is a film director and writer. His television documentaries include Wagner’s Jews (PBS-WNET, and others), Secret Song, In the Key of Bach (PBS-GPB), Rachmaninoff Revisited (co-producer and editor), Through the Darkness, and Mahler in New York. Since September 2020, he has been video director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s on-demand Classical Series. His essays about music and film have been published by Cambridge University Press, McFarland Press, The Wagner Journal, and Wagner Spectrum. He has taught film courses at Western Carolina University and Barnard College, and has been a panelist and lecturer at Yale, Hofstra, BU, and NYU, among others. In addition to his own films, other television writing credits include A Workshop for Peace (PBS-WNET), commissioned by the United Nations. Additional editing credits include Shadows in Paradise: Hitler’s Exiles in Hollywood, In the Key of G, and the miniseries Great Conversations in Music, all broadcast on PBS stations and internationally. He holds a B.F.A. (Film and TV) and M.F.A. (Musical Theater Writing) from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and studied orchestral conducting at Mannes College of Music and the Aspen Music School. OvertoneFilms.com

Sep

Mon

“Kudzu Calling” @ Virtual via Zoom

Tickets

Sep 19 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

“Kudzu Calling”
A Play Reading and Conversation with Hermitage Fellow Donnetta Lavinia Grays

Presented in partnership with Suncoast Black Arts Collaborative

Donnetta Lavinia Grays’ Hermitage Artist Residency generously sponsored by Charlotte and Charles Perret.

Monday, September 19 at 7pm ET

Via Zoom

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Registration is required. $5 per person.

Donnetta Lavinia Grays’ play Kudzu Calling is an interweaving of poems and moments which seek to expand and complicate the Southern narrative – a celebration of Black Southern Love, Black Southern Queerness, Black Southern Playfulness, Culture, and Spirituality. It is the playwright’s love letter to the place that made her. Join the Hermitage Artist Retreat and Suncoast Black Arts Collaborative to experience excerpts from this work performed live on Zoom, followed by a candid conversation with the playwright.

Hermitage Fellow Donnetta Lavinia Grays – raised in Columbia, South Carolina – is a Brooklyn-based playwright and actor whose writing credits include Where We Stand (Lucille Lortel, Drama League, and AUDELCO Award Nominations; World Premiere Co-Production – WP Theater and Baltimore Center Stage; Warriors Don’t Cry (TheaterWorks USA/Bushnell commission), Last Night and the Night Before (World Premiere – Denver Center for the Performing Arts; Kilroys List; Todd McNerney National Playwriting Award Winner); Laid to Rest (O’Neill Center National Playwrights Conference Finalist); The Review or How to Eat Your Opposition (WP Pipeline Festival; O’Neill Center National Playwrights Conference Finalist), The New Normal, and The Cowboy Is Dying. Donnetta is a recipient of the Whiting Award for Drama, the Helen Merrill Playwright Award, Lilly Award, National Theater Conference Barrie and Bernice Stavis Playwright Award, and is the inaugural recipient of the Doric Wilson Independent Playwright Award. Her work has been developed with, Hedgebrook, New Harmony Project, Berkeley Rep, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, The Labyrinth Theater Company, New York Theater Workshop, Orlando Shakespeare Theater, Portland Stage Company, Pure Theatre Company, [the claque], Naked Angels, Classical Theater of Harlem, Slant Theater Project, terraNova Collective, and TOSOS. In 2018, Donnetta founded Gap Toothed Griot (GTG) as a home for her particular brand of storytelling. Through GTG, Donnetta is currently under commission with True Love Productions, Steppenwolf, The Denver Center, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, and WP Theater. For television, she has been staffed on Spectrum Original/Lionsgate’s Manhunt, Y: The Last Man for FX Network/Color Force, and is currently the Executive Story Editor on Joe vs. Carole starring Kate McKinnon for NBC Universal.

Sep

Fri

“Scale and Beauty” @ Sarasota Art Museum

Tickets

Sep 23 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm

“Scale and Beauty”
with Hermitage Fellow Anne Patterson

Presented in partnership with Sarasota Art Museum

Friday, September 23 at 5:30pm

Sarasota Art Museum (entrance at 1001 S. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota, FL 34236)

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Registration is required. $5 per person.

Acclaimed Hermitage Fellow and multi-disciplinary artist Anne Patterson’s work ranges from vast, cathedral-filling beauty to smaller, evocative watercolors alive with moment-to-moment discovery. With an eye informed by her experience as a set designer, her art invites viewers to inhabit new worlds, sometimes literally encouraging people to interact with a given piece. Patterson’s work has been exhibited at The Ringling Museum and commissioned by the Community Foundation of Sarasota County. Join the Hermitage and Sarasota Art Museum for a conversation about the unique way Anne’s creations burst into life and what is next for this visionary creator. Moderated by Hermitage Artistic Director and CEO Andy Sandberg.

Hermitage Fellow Anne Patterson is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Brooklyn. Her body of work consists of paintings, sculptures, and large-scale multimedia installations that combine sculpture, architecture, lighting, video, music, and scent. Drawing from her background in theater and opera set design, she uses these modalities to create an artistic practice, hovering somewhere between the visual, experiential, and immersive. Patterson’s large-scale installations have filled cathedrals, office buildings, and galleries across the country with miles of fabric, aluminum ribbon, and metal birds. Her most recent installation, “Art for Earth,” commissioned by the fashion house Ermenegildo Zegna, was made of thousands of lengths of fabric repurposed from Zegna fabrics. Anne has exhibited widely including solo exhibitions at The Ringling Museum and Alfstad & Contemporary. Her work has been shown at The Trapholt Museum, Denmark; Cristina Grajales, New York; Scope Art Fair, Miami; Aqua Art Fair, Miami; Building Bridges Art Exchange, Los Angeles; Valerie Dillon Gallery, New York; Denise Bibro, New York; Cade Tompkins Projects, Providence, RI and One Twelve Gallery, Atlanta. Her paintings and sculptures are in private, public, and corporate collections across the USA (Tishman Speyer, Tribune Media, Nortek, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital, Rhode Island Blue Cross) and in London. Anne’s theatrical and symphonic partnerships have included Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Arena Stage, The Wilma Theater, The Kennedy Center, Alliance Theater and prestigious symphonies throughout the country (San Francisco, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Chicago, Seattle). Patterson was the 2014 and 2016 CODAaward Winner for Liturgical Art and received a Creative Capital Award in 2008. She is a proud Fellow of the Hermitage Artist’s Retreat. In Sarasota, her work has been exhibited at The Ringling Museum and commissioned by the Community Foundation of Sarasota County. Patterson received her B.A. of Architecture from Yale University and her M.F.A. in Theater Design from The Slade School of Art, London UK.

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