Hermitage Greenfield Prize Dinner |

2022 Hermitage Greenfield Prize Dinner

A Celebration of Music

Sunday, April 10, 2022
6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
MICHAEL’S ON EAST

Sponsor Levels

*$5,000 Platinum Sponsor*

– Private VIP table of eight.

– Champagne for your table.

– Acknowledgment on invitation, program, and website.

– A special gift of appreciation from the Hermitage.

$3,500 Gold Sponsor

– Private table of six.

– Acknowledgment on invitation, program, and website.

$2,000 Silver Sponsor

– Preferred seating for four (half table).

– Acknowledgment on invitation, program, and website.

$1,000 Benefactor

– Preferred seating for two.

– Acknowledgment on invitation, program, and website.

Socially distanced table for two (or dividing group into smaller tables) is available for an additional surcharge of $200.

Anticipated non-tax-deductible value is $100 per guest.

You may also show your support by sponsoring, even if you choose not to attend.

For those sponsoring and not attending, your contribution will be 100% tax deductible.

We would be honored to have you join us as a sponsor

at this cornerstone Hermitage event.

For additional information about premiere levels of sponsorship and corporate sponsorship opportunities, please contact:

Amy Wallace

Development Director

Development@HermitageArtistRetreat.org
(941) 475-2098, Ext. 2

Presented in partnership with
The Greenfield Foundation

CO-CHAIRS

Sondra Biller and Carole Crosby

LEAD COMMUNITY SPONSOR

Community Foundation of Sarasota County

PREMIERE SPONSORS

Gerald and Sondra Biller

PLATINUM SPONSORS

Gulf Coast Community Foundation

Christine Boone and Marletta Darnall

Carole Crosby and Larry Wickless

GOLD SPONSORS

Flora Major

Tina and Dan Napoli

Charlotte and Charles Perret

Nelda Thompson

Scott Zelniker, The Zelniker Dorfman Carr & Heritage Group at UBS Financial Services, Inc.

SILVER SPONSORS

Robyn and Charles Citrin

BENEFACTORS

Francine Achbar and Stuart Mushlin

Ellen Berman and Roy Cohen

Carol White Bold and Larry Bold

Terry Brackett

Murray Bring and Kay Delaney

Bulrush Foundation

Maryann Casey

Patricia and Chris Caswell

Rebecca Cook and Bernard Dickens

Georgia Court and Robin Radin

David and Linda Green

Ben and Gigi Huberman

Jim and Celia Jackson

Christine Jennings and Dr. Sarah Pappas

Key Agency, Inc.

Diana Lager

Lucie and David Lapovsky

Alyssia Lazin Kapic and Pavel Kapic

Judith M. Liersch

Barbara J. Lorry, PhD

Andy and Ruth Maass

Cornelia Matson

Liz and Duncan Richardson

Felice Schulaner and Dennis Rees

Ed and Claudia Swan

Williams Parker Attorneys at Law

Mary Lou Winnick

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

Coming Up Next…

Jul

Fri

2022 Hermitage STARs @ Hermitage Artist Retreat Campus (outdoors)

Tickets

Jul 15 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Five of Florida’s best and brightest arts educators are coming to the Hermitage Artist Retreat to zoom in on their own creative practice. Hailing from across the state, their artistic disciplines range as widely as their geographic homes with three focused on different fields of visual art including ceramics, collage, and painting, a musician and band leader, and for the first-time-ever, a dance instructor. These five artists will collaborate to present a hands-on “art’s buffet” with a sampling from each of their artistic practices outdoors on the Hermitage Artist Retreat’s beachfront campus. This Hermitage community program is presented in partnership with Boys and Girls Clubs of Sarasota and DeSoto Counties and is free and open to the public with a $5/person registration fee. Due to capacity limitations and safety protocols, registration is required. Register here.

Brooke Adkins has been the dance educator at Spruce Creek High School in Port Orange, Florida for the past nineteen years. Brooke graduated from The Academy of the Washington Ballet and Marshall University, and her focus in the private studio setting was Classical Ballet. Now, as a Public High School dance educator, Brooke exposes her students to a wide variety of dance genres, including many non-Eurocentric dance techniques. Brooke espouses the motto: “Dance for every child” and is working to introduce Dance into the public elementary schools in Volusia County. She has been the dance liaison for Volusia County Dance Programs and founded the Volusia County Dance Performance Assessment, now in its tenth year. She has choreographed over 300 dances over the years; she has had students accepted to prestigious college dance programs and go on to professional dance careers. Brooke is also a published poet and entrepreneur. She lives in Daytona Beach, Florida.

Charles Eady is an award-winning contemporary artist and author who uses art to analyze long-held beliefs about the South. His paintings examine little-known facts about Southern history, and for the past decade, his emphasis has been on the lives of those living in the South before the Civil War. He has a unique artistic language for layering art into history. In 2023, Eady will receive his first solo exhibit at the Appleton Museum in Ocala, Florida; a recent painting of his is a part of their permanent collection. He is the Grand Prize winner of ArtFields 2021 and authored the book Hidden Freedom. His works portray images of free Blacks before the emancipation proclamation. Eady endeavors for his art to give a clearer view of the South to reduce social conflicts. The thought-provoking pieces give voice to a population silenced from history.

Jessie Leasure has been creatively engaged since childhood. To hone her craft, she received her Bachelor’s degree from New College of Florida and her MFA from Jacksonville University (completed during the Covid pandemic). Working in a loose-realistic style, Leasure primarily uses acrylic paint and drawing materials to convey emotional content drawn from personal experience. To this end, she employs the human figure’s incredible capacity for expression, especially through body language. She has exhibited in shows and galleries and is featured in private collections throughout the state of Florida. Currently, she maintains a Florida-based studio and teaches art full-time.

Jennifer Rodriguez became interested in art at an early age, as her mother taught her to draw and paint before she even entered school. As a native Floridian, Rodriguez has always felt deeply connected to the wildlife, land and waterways of her home, which informs much of her work. Rodriguez has worked in a variety of media, but most of her recent work has been in ceramics. She believes that the tactile process of working with clay itself creates a strong affinity with nature, as clay is derivative of the earth’s crust. She says she uses clay as a creative vehicle to explore biomorphic forms and their organic textures.

Zoe Stayman is a Delaware native and just completed her first year as a middle school band director in Jacksonville. Prior to teaching, she studied horn with Dr. Paul Basler and received the Russell and Brenda Robinson Music Educator Award for outstanding leadership, performance, and potential as a young educator. Zoe’s interests lie in diversifying public school music programs to better represent the way students interact with music in their own time. She holds a passion for teaching music technology and about the music industry. Last year Zoe was accepted to participate in the national Music Technology Leadership Academy sponsored by NAMM and used this newfound knowledge to mentor two of her students, who submitted for and presented at FMEA’s annual Digital Music Showcase in January 2022. She has been involved with both classical and commercial music in central Florida as a performer and with Soundview Multimedia, a company with which she recorded concerts for the Ocala Symphony Orchestra. In her free time, Zoe enjoys arranging pop music for French horn choir and posting to YouTube, following current events, and roller skating.

Jul

Fri

“Citizen Arts: Music, Theater, and Dance” @ Sarasota Art Museum

Tickets

Jul 22 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm

“Citizen Arts: Music, Theater, and Dance”
with Hermitage Fellows Sam Max and Marcos Balter

Presented in partnership with Sarasota Art Museum

Friday, July 22 at 6:30pm

Sarasota Art Museum Klein Plaza (entrance at 1001 South Tamiami Trail, Sarasota, FL 34236)

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

Art exists not only in the purpose built-spaces of theaters, museums, and concert halls, but also throughout our lives. In this interdisciplinary program, we hear from three accomplished artists in three different mediums sharing insight and discussing how their work interacts with the public. Brazilian-born composer Marcos Balter’s compositions have been described by The New York Times as “utterly lovely” in addition to having a focus on the hyper-dramatization of the performed work; theater-maker Sam Max’s work center’s the queer experience in poetic spaces; and dancer/teaching artist Amanda Cantrell Roche combines her skill in dance with a history in journalism and a passion for social justice.

Marcos Balter, born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is a Hermitage Fellow who has been praised by The Chicago Tribune as “minutely crafted” and “utterly lovely,” by The New York Times as “whimsical” and “surreal,” and by The Washington Post as “dark and deeply poetic.” His musical of compositions are at once emotionally visceral and intellectually complex, primarily rooted in experimental manipulations of timbre and hyper-dramatization of live performance. Recent performances include a Miller Theater Composer Portrait and appearances at Carnegie Hall, Köln Philharmonie, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Wigmore Hall, ArtLab at Harvard University, Lincoln Center, Walt Disney Hall, Teatro Amazonas, Sala São Paulo, Park Avenue Armory, Teatro de Madrid, Bâtiment de Forces Motrices de Genève, and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago. Recent festival appearances include those at Tanglewood Contemporary Music Festival, Ecstatic Music Festival, Acht Brücken, Aldeburgh Music Festival, Aspen, Frankfurter Gesellschaft für Neue Musik, Darmstadt Ferienkurse, and Banff Music Festival.

Sam Max (they/their) is a writer, director, producer, and returning Hermitage Fellow. Their work is known for centering queer characters in “poetic spaces where death and dreams converge, making otherworldly encounters possible” (Suhrkamp). They are a recipient of the 2021 Lotos Foundation Prize in the Arts and Sciences, a winner of the 2019 Chesley-Bumbalo Playwriting Award, a resident playwright of New Dramatists, and a member writer of Suhrkamp Theater Verlag publishing house in Berlin. Their work includes Coop (Paradise Factory in the East Village, Theatertreffen in Berlin, Goethe-Institut China in Beijing), Pidor and the Wolf (Finalist: O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Honorable Mention: The Relentless Award), and performance art concert Twin Size Beds (Selection: Under the Radar Festival, Selection: Joe’s Pub, Excerpt: Museum of Sex). They have developed their work as a member of The Public Theater’s Devised Theater Working Group and Pipeline Theatre Company’s PlayLab, and have received additional residencies and support from National Sawdust, The Mastheads, Cutting Ball Theater, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. SamSpaceMax.com

Hermitage Fellow Amanda Cantrell Roche divides her time between writing, dance, volunteering, and working as a teaching artist. She has been a dance teaching artist for Tennessee Performing Arts Center’s education program since 2000, conducting aesthetic education residencies for students of all ages. Independently and in collaboration with a team of lead teaching artists, she designs and facilitates professional development for teachers and other teaching artists. Amanda has collaborated as an organizer, choreographer, or teaching artist with organizations such as Global Education Center, Nashville CARES, Poverty & the Arts, and Vanderbilt University. A mother of two, she also birthed and has nurtured Blue Moves Modern Dance Company since 1989 with co-founder Lee Anne Carmack. Her choreography often blends her background in journalism with her passion for social justice and telling stories through movement and recorded words. She has offered workshops at The Estuary, abrasiveMedia, Ha.Le’ Mind and Body, and Gilda’s Club, and is a regular workshop facilitator at Art & Soul Studio. Her alchemy is most powerful when she combines a trilogy of her deepest passions: dance, writing, and social justice. AmandaRoche.com

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Hermitage Greenfield Prize Dinner

2022 Hermitage Greenfield Prize Dinner

Sponsor Levels

Development@HermitageArtistRetreat.org
(941) 475-2098, Ext. 2

Hermitage Artists Respond to COVID-19.

Engage Creativity

2022 Hermitage Greenfield Prize Dinner

Sponsor Levels

Development@HermitageArtistRetreat.org(941) 475-2098, Ext. 2

Hermitage Artists Respond to COVID-19.

Engage Creativity

Development@HermitageArtistRetreat.org
(941) 475-2098, Ext. 2