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

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May

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Artists and Thinkers Series: “Stewing with Zora Howard” @ Zoom

Tickets

May 31 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm

“Stewing with Zora Howard”
with Hermitage Fellow and Pulitzer Prize Finalist Zora Howard

Presented with support from Florida Humanities

Wednesday, May 31 at 6:30pm

Presented on Zoom

Register here.
Registration is required. $5 per household.

In Pulitzer Prize finalist and Hermitage Fellow Zora Howard’s STEW, it’s too hot and too early for all the drama. As the generations of Tucker women convene in the kitchen to prepare a meal for a large gathering later that day, it begins to emerge that “the secrets we keep from our mothers eventually become the secrets we keep from ourselves.” Presented on Zoom with the support of Florida Humanities, Hermitage Programs Director James Monaghan is joined by Howard to explore the cultural and historical elements of the play. How does food and its preparation contain generational memory? How have historical and economic trends shaped the societal role of the Tucker family? Join the conversation from the comfort of your home and learn what makes this drama so delicious.

Hermitage Fellow Zora Howard is a Harlem-bred writer and performer. Plays include Stew (2021 Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Drama League nominee for Outstanding Play; Page 73 Productions), The Master’s Tools (Williamstown Theatre Festival), AtGN (Oberlin College), Bust (2022 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Finalist), and Hang Time (2022 Creative Capital Award Finalist), which just received its world premiere at The Flea under Howard’s direction. In addition to the Hermitage, her work has been developed with SPACE on Ryder Farm, Ojai Playwrights Conference, the Lark, Primary Stages, and Cape Cod Theatre Project, among others. In 2020, her feature film Premature (2020 Film Independent John Cassavetes Award nominee), which she co-wrote with director Rashaad Ernesto Green, opened in theaters following its world premiere at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. She is the inaugural Judith Champion Fellow at Manhattan Theatre Club and is currently under commission from Seattle Rep, MTC, and Wessex Grove.

Jun

Fri

“Radiant Tarot: Pathway to Creativity” @ Bookstore1

Tickets

Jun 16 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm

“Radiant Tarot: Pathway to Creativity”
with Hermitage Fellow Tony Barnstone

Presented in Partnership with Bookstore1

Friday, June 16 at 6:30pm

Bookstore1 (entrance at 117 S Pineapple Ave, Sarasota, FL 34236)

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Registration is required. $5 per person.

The Hermitage is about creating new works. When in conversation with Hermitage Fellow and creator Tony Barnstone’s The Radiant Tarot: Pathway to Creativity an entirely new – yet ancient – approach is revealed. Inspired by the words of Rilke and William Blake amongst many other artists and practitioners, the artwork and guidebook of this Tarot deck are aimed at awakening creativity and personal growth. In this program, Barnstone, author of the guidebook, will illuminate some of the impulses behind its creation, its potential interpretations, and the creative projects it has already inspired. Hear from this multidisciplinary author of more than 20 books and begin to uncover the connections in the cards.

Hermitage Fellow Tony Barnstone teaches at Whittier College and is the author of 21 books, a music CD, “Tokyo’s Burning: WWII Songs,” and a tarot deck, The Radiant Tarot: Pathway to Creativity. His poetry books include Pulp Sonnets; Beast in the Apartment; Tongue of War: From Pearl Harbor to Nagasaki; The Golem of Los Angeles; Sad Jazz; and Impure. He is also a translator of Chinese literature, anthologist, and world literature textbook editor. Among his awards: The Poets Prize, Grand Prize of the Strokestown International Poetry Contest, Pushcart Prize, John Ciardi Prize, Benjamin Saltman Award, and fellowships from the NEA, the NEH, and the California Arts Council.

Jun

Tue

“The Many Languages of Jennifer Croft” @ Hermitage Beach

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Jun 20 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm

“The Many Languages of Jennifer Croft”
with Hermitage Fellow Jennifer Croft

Tuesday, June 20 at 6:30pm

Presented in Partnership with Sarasota County Libraries, the Johann Fust Library Foundation, and Bookstore1

Hermitage Beach (entrance at 6660 Manasota Key Rd, Englewood, FL 34223)

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Registration is required. $5 per person.

There is very little lost in translation with Hermitage Fellow Jennifer Croft’s writing and much is added by her original works that span languages as well as genres. Recipient of the 2020 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing and the 2018 Man Booker International Prize, Croft also happens to be married to the incredible translator and writer Boris Dralyuk who joins her for this program and residency as part of the Hermitage’s Family Residency program. Dralyuk’s work has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, London Review of Books, The Guardian, and other journals in addition to his own works such as Western Crime Fiction Goes East: The Russian Pinkerton Craze 1907-1934. Hear selections of Croft and Dralyuk’s work and discuss the mercurial art of translation with these celebrated practitioners.

Hermitage Fellow Jennifer Croft won a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship for her novel Amadou (forthcoming from Bloomsbury US and Scribe UK in 2023), the 2020 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for her illustrated memoir Homesick and the 2018 Man Booker International Prize for her translation from Polish of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights. She is also the author of Serpientes y escaleras and Notes on Postcards, as well as the translator of Federico Falco’s A Perfect Cemetery, Romina Paula’s August, Pedro Mairal’s The Woman from Uruguay, Olga Tokarczuk’s The Books of Jacob (a finalist for the Kirkus Prize and the International Booker, longlisted for the National Book Award), Sylvia Molloy’s Dislocations, and Sebastián Martínez Daniell’s Two Sherpas. She holds an MFA from the University of Iowa and a PhD from Northwestern University.

Boris Dralyuk is a poet, translator, and critic. He holds a PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from UCLA, and has taught there and the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He currently teaches in the English Department at the University of Tulsa. His work has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, London Review of Books, The Guardian, Granta, and other journals. He is the author of My Hollywood and Other Poems (Paul Dry Books, 2022) and Western Crime Fiction Goes East: The Russian Pinkerton Craze 1907-1934 (Brill, 2012), editor of 1917: Stories and Poems from the Russian Revolution (Pushkin Press, 2016), co-editor, with Robert Chandler and Irina Mashinski, of The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry (Penguin Classics, 2015), and translator of Isaac Babel, Andrey Kurkov, Maxim Osipov, Mikhail Zoshchenko, and other authors. He received first prize in the 2011 Compass Translation Award competition and, with Irina Mashinski, first prize in the 2012 Joseph Brodsky / Stephen Spender Translation Prize competition. In 2020 he received the inaugural Kukula Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Book Reviewing from the Washington Monthly. On Twitter @Boris Dralyuk.

Jun

Fri

“Songs from the Sand: A Hermitage Cabaret” @ Waterside Pavilion at Lakewood Ranch

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Jun 23 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

“Songs from the Sand: A Hermitage Cabaret”
Featuring Original Works from Hermitage Fellows Performed by the Greatest Talents in Sarasota

Presented in partnership with Waterside Place at Lakewood Ranch

Friday, June 23 at 7pm

Waterside Place Plaza (entrance at 1560 Lakefront Drive, Sarasota, FL 34240)

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Registration is required. $5 per person.

This evening of song at Lakewood Ranch’s “Waterside Place Plaza” stage will feature original songs and words created by artists who have been in residence on its Manasota Key campus presented by Sarasota’s finest performers. From Adam Gwon to Jeanine Tesori, Michael R. Jackson to Kit Yan, and Rona Siddiqui to Zoe Sarnak, the Hermitage has provided space and time to some of the most exciting musical theater writers working in the industry today. Hear some of these breathtaking and inspiring works, as well as little known stories surrounding some of their creation, performed by some of Sarasota’s greatest talents.

(Details of the composers and performers to be announced at a later date.)

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