Hermitage Greenfield Prize Dinner |

SAVE THE DATE FOR 2021: Sunday, April 11, 2021, 6:00-8:30pm

The Hermitage Artist Retreat is honored to present the 2020 Greenfield Prize in Visual Art to Jennifer Packer, widely considered one of the greatest painters of her generation.

“Jennifer Packer’s lyrical paintings challenge the divisions between realism and abstraction. As her figures are broken down, foreground merges into background and figures merge into space, forcing the viewer to acknowledge the multitudes of meanings and contradictions not only within her works, but within society as a whole.”
–The Wall Street Journal

The Hermitage Greenfield Prize Dinner honors the recipient of the prestigious Greenfield Prize, and anchors a weekend of artist events. The $30,000 commission is awarded annually, and rotates among drama, music, and visual art. Ms. Packer receives a Hermitage residency along with the commission, which will have its premiere in Sarasota in 2022 with our presenting partner, The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art.

Shown here: Jennifer Packer’s A Lesson in Longing, 2019, oil on canvas, 108 x 144 inches

For sponsorship information, contact Michael Salimbene at info@HermitageArtistRetreat.org or 941-475-2098 ext 5.

The Hermitage Greenfield Prize Weekend is presented in partnership with the Community Foundation of Sarasota County.

The 2020 Hermitage Greenfield Prize Dinner was sponsored by:

Grand Sponsor
Community Foundation of Sarasota County

Platinum Sponsors
Carole Crosby and Larry Wickless
Larry Bold and Carol White Bold/Marletta and Bob Darnall

Gold Sponsors
Gulf Coast Community Foundation
Flora Major for The Kutya Major Foundation/Ellen Berman and Roy Cohen
Charlotte and Charles Perret

Silver Sponsors
The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art
Dr. Susan M. Brainerd and Alan R. Quinby
Murray Bring and Kay Delaney
Robyn and Chuck Citrin
Key Agency, Inc.
Barbara J. Lorry PhD
Ruth and Andy Maass

Benefactors
Georgia Court
Alyssia Lazin Kapic and Pavel Kapic
Diana Lager

Media Sponsors
Herald-Tribune Media Group, Corporate Media Sponsor
Sarasota Magazine, Magazine Sponsor

Partners

Coming Up Next…

Dec

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“Illuminating the Transcendent” @ Hermitage Artist Retreat Beach

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Dec 4 @ 5:00 pm

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The Hermitage Artist Retreat continues its popular beachfront series with “Illuminating the Transcendent,” Friday, December 4, 5 p.m., at the Hermitage Beach, 6660 Manasota Key Road, Englewood.

This outdoor event features composers Krists Auznieks and Robert Pound (pictured), and poet Jason Schneiderman. These three artists-in-residence will share how they express complex and transcendent ideas and emotions through music and poetry as the sun sets over the Gulf of Mexico.

Admission is free but registration is required. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER. Capacity will be limited to accommodate safe social distancing, so early reservations are recommended. Masks are strongly encouraged.

The New York City-based Latvian composer Krists Auznieks has been praised for his “exhilarating, stunning and luminous” music (San Francisco Classical Voice), possessing “astonishing complexity and beauty” (Broadway World), and “old-fashioned elegance” (Herald-Tribune). His quintet, “Piano,” was featured in The New York Times among the week’s best classical music moments; he is also a recipient of Aspen Music Festival’s Jacob Druckman Prize and the youngest composer to ever receive the Latvian Grand Music Award for best composition of the year. Recent commissions include works for the Atlanta Symphony and Bang on A Can Marathon; choral pieces for Cappella Amsterdam and Latvian Radio Choir; a guitar concerto for Sinfonietta Riga and JiJi; works for the New York-based new music ensemble Unheard-Of; a multimedia work for Canadian soprano Meghan Lindsay, and a piece for the Los Angeles- based Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra. Auznieks’ music has been performed at prestigious concert halls and festivals around the world. He has served on the faculty of Yale School of Music as a lecturer of musicianship and analysis and has taught for NY Philharmonic’s Very Young Composers program.

Composer and conductor Robert Pound’s compositions include works for chamber, orchestra, band, vocal, and choral groups and have been featured by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Alarm Will Sound, and the Corigliano Quartet. Pound has served as guest conductor of the Atlanta Symphony and the June-in-Buffalo Festival. He is a professor of music at Dickinson College and director of the Dickinson Orchestra. For more information, visit RobertWPound.com.

Jason Schneiderman is the author of four books of poems: Hold Me Tight (2020), Primary Source (Red Hen Press 2016); Striking Surface (Ashland Poetry Press 2010); and Sublimation Point (Four Way Books 2004). He edited the anthology Queer: A Reader for Writers (Oxford University Press 2016). Schneiderman’s poetry and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including American Poetry Review, The Best American Poetry, Poetry London, Grand Street, and The Penguin Book of the Sonnet. He is an associate professor of English at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY. For more information, visit JasonSchneiderman.net.

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Hermitage Greenfield Prize Dinner

SAVE THE DATE FOR 2021: Sunday, April 11, 2021, 6:00-8:30pm

The Hermitage Artist Retreat is honored to present the 2020 Greenfield Prize in Visual Art to Jennifer Packer, widely considered one of the greatest painters of her generation.

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