Curatorial Council |

Each year our National Curatorial Council of experts in their disciplines selects more than 70 artists for Hermitage residencies. Members of the Curatorial Council are connected to some of the most renowned American cultural institutions.

2018-19 CURATORIAL COUNCIL:

Emily Mann (Chair), Artistic Director, McCarter Theatre, Princeton, NJ

Darrell Ayers, retired Vice President for Education and Jazz, The Kennedy Center, Washington, DC; now in Sarasota, FL

Kenneth Fischer, retired President, University Musical Society at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Emily Nemens, editor, The Paris Review, Paris, France

Josip Novakovich, Writer; Professor, Department of English at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Carey Perloff, retired Artistic Director, American Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco, CA

Kiki Petrosino, Director, Creative Writing Program, University of Louisville, KY

Limor Tomer, General Manager, Live Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Franklin Sirmans, Director, Perez Museum of Art, Miami, FL

EMERITUS:

Dan Cameron, art curator

Michael Bigelow Dixon, Assistant Professor of Theater, Transylvania University, Lexington, KY

Linda S. Golding, Founder/Director, The Reservoir

Colleen Jennings-Roggensack, Executive Director, Arizona State University Gammage, Tempe, AZ

Joseph V. Melillo, Executive Producer, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), New York, NY

PRIOR MEMBERS:

Dr. Anthony Bannon, Director, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY

Anne Cattaneo, Dramaturg and Director, LCT Directors Lab, Lincoln Center, New York, NY

Christopher Offutt, writer, formerly with the Iowa Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

George Steele, at the time with the Miller Theatre at Columbia University, New York, NY

Coming Up Next

Jan

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Meet Andy Sandberg (in Englewood) @ Hermitage Artist Retreat Palm House

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Jan 24 @ 5:00 pm

Meet Andy Sandberg, the New Hermitage Artist Retreat Artistic Director and CEO

Friday, January 24, 5:00 p.m. in the Hermitage Palm House
It is a leisurely 10 minute walk from the parking lot, so please plan to arrive 15 minutes early. Thank you.

Join us for a reception with light refreshments, a brief talk by Andy Sandberg at 5:30 p.m., followed by a Q&A. Flutist Claire Chase, a Hermitage artist-in-residence, will offer a brief performance at the event.

Registration for this free event is required; reserve your seats here.

“We recognize that not everyone knows about the Hermitage,” says Sandberg. “Or they might know the Hermitage name but don’t fully understand the breadth of our regional programming and the invaluable support we provide to artists across multiple disciplines. We felt this forum would be a good opportunity for me to introduce myself to the community and explain what has drawn me to Sarasota County—and specifically to the Hermitage. Plus, this is a chance to hear from members of our community, and to share some thoughts about what’s possible for the future of this unique and vital organization.”

Andy Sandberg was announced as artistic director and CEO of the Hermitage in December of 2019. An accomplished director, writer, and Tony Award-winning producer whose national and international career has been committed to new work and artist development, Sandberg was selected to lead the organization following an extensive national search. For more information about Sandberg, visit www.AndySandberg.com.

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SOLD OUT: The History of the Hermitage @ Manasota Beach Club

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Jan 27 @ 12:00 pm

THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT.

“The History of the Hermitage: From Nudist Colony to Artist Colony,” with Patricia Caswell, Hermitage co-founder and program director, is Monday, January 27, noon, at the Manasota Beach Club, 7660 Manasota Key Road, Englewood.

The 1907 cottage on the beach was rotted and rusted in the 1990s. It took a diverse team of caring folks to save it from the elements. Beach Club owner Buffy Crampton will add to the story as Caswell tells backstage tales—from pioneers to Pulitzers. The fee, which includes lunch, is $25.

Jan

Tue

Meet Andy Sandberg (in Sarasota) @ Arts & Cultural Alliance of Sarasota County

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Jan 28 @ 5:00 pm

Meet Andy Sandberg, the New Hermitage Artist Retreat Artistic Director and CEO

Tuesday, January 28, 5:00 p.m., in Sarasota

Hosted by the Arts & Cultural Alliance of Sarasota County
1226 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota

Reservations for this free event are required; please click here to reserve your seats.

Jan

Fri

When is the Last Time Someone Read You a Story? @ Hermitage Artist Retreat Palm House

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Jan 31 @ 5:00 pm

Fridays @ Five: “When is the Last Time Someone Read You a Story?” with Kirstin Valdez Quade and Sigrid Nunez
Friday, January 31, 5 p.m., Hermitage Palm House
It is a leisurely 10 minute walk from the parking lot, so please plan to arrive 15 minutes early. Thank you.

When we were children, we listened to stories read aloud. Has that ancient experience been lost? Emily Nemans, who sits on the Hermitage’s curatorial board and serves as editor of the Paris Review, reflected that Valdez Quade’s A Night at the Fiestas was one of the best story collections she’s read in years. Nunez, a titanic talent, may read from her National Book Award-winning The Friend or from something in progress.

Reservations for this free program are required and can be made by clicking here.

Kirstin Valdez Quade’s Night at the Fiestas, won the John Leonard Prize from the National Book Critics Circle, the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a “5 Under 35” award from the National Book Foundation, and was a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Award. It was a New York Times’ Notable Book and was named a best book of 2015 by the San Francisco Chronicle and the American Library Association. Valdez Quade is the recipient of the John Guare Writer’s Fund Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, The New York Times, and elsewhere. She was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, where she also taught, and is an assistant professor at Princeton.

Sigrid Nunez has published seven novels, including A Feather on the Breath of God, For Rouenna, The Last of Her Kind, and, most recently, The Friend, which received the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction and was a finalist for the 2019 Simpson/Joyce Carol Oates Prize. Her other honors and awards include four Pushcart Prizes, a Whiting Award, a Berlin Prize Fellowship, the Rome Prize in Literature, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Foundation Award. Nunez is also the author of Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag. Among the journals to which she has contributed are The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Paris Review, Threepenny Review, and Harper’s. She lives in New York City.

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