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Photographer Bruna Stude focuses on the plight of the shark and the ocean in her show at the Alfstad& Contemporary gallery.
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  • September 30, 2015
Bruna Stude: Ocean meets Art

The artist and photographer's new exhibit at the Alfstad& Contemporary gallery (running from Oct. 2-30) presents the fragile yet powerful nature of the ocean and the often misunderstood shark.

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  • September 30, 2015
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See what we're buzzing about in the rapidly approaching 2015-2016 theater season .

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“The response from a young crowd really feeds your performance. They're a lot more vocal when they like or hate something," says Tom Harney, left, as he and his fellow acting students rehearse for the upcoming New Stages Tour.
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  • September 30, 2015
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Asolo Repertory Theatre's New Stages Tour puts a modern spin on Shakespearean classics

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Carolyn Johnson and Isabel Norton have been friends and friends of Ringling College for more than 40 years. They're most recent challenge: raising $16 million for a new college library.
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  • September 30, 2015
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Art advocates Isabel Norton and Carolyn Johnson are using their love of education to make Ringling College’s new library a reality.

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Dolly Jacobs, co-founder of Circus Arts Conservatory and lifelong circus artist and aerialist, will perform live at 8 p.m. on Friday Oct. 2 in Washington, D.C. as a part of this year's NEA Heritage Fellowship awards.
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  • September 29, 2015
Dolly Jacobs to perform live for the National Endowment for the Arts

As a recipient of this year's NEA National Heritage Fellowship, Jacobs along with 10 other artists will perform live and streamed nationwide at 8 p.m. October 2 from Washington, D.C.

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The Rosemary Artist Housing Project will include five townhouses that will include 20 bedroom for visiting artists at Florida Studio Theatre.
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  • September 25, 2015
Ernie Kretzmer donates $500,000 for new Florida Studio Theatre housing in Rosemary District

Kretzmer's donation will make possible five new townhouses on Cohen Way in the Rosemary District and help serve to house the more than 100 guest artists and apprentices FST houses each year.

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The $100,000 grant will go toward funding the 2015-2016, which includes productions of "West Side Story" and a world premiere of the original musical "Josephine." Micheal Donald Edwards, producing artistic director, announces the season.
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  • September 23, 2015
Asolo Rep receives $100,000 grant from Barancik Foundation

The gift will go toward supporting the 2015-2016 season as well as continuing the studies and community programs in the FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training.

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Noted illustrator and sketch artist, Sol Schwartz, who splits his time between Sarasota and Lenox, Mass., will donate a matching gift of $31,000 to the new Ringling College library.
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  • September 23, 2015
Artist Sol Schwartz gives $31,000 to new Ringling College library

Made in collaboration with The Community Foundation of Sarasota County, the gift will go toward purchasing state of the art scanners and displays essential for modern sketch artists and illustrators.

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Betsy Hudson Traba, flute and Fernando Traba, bassoon
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  • September 23, 2015
Music Review: Sarasota Orchestra Chamber

Chamber ensembles take audiences around the world in music

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Sarasota Music Conservatory co-founder Sean O'Neil (middle) leads students Sommer Altier and Giordano Scarano in a violin lesson.
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  • September 23, 2015
Music Mentors: Sarasota Music Conservatory moves downtown

By expanding their school’s space, Sarasota Orchestra violinists Léna Cambis and Sean O’Neil hope to also expand their students’ appreciation for music.

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Jenny Medved has been a working artist in Sarasota for the last 15 years spreading her love of indigenous culture in her watercolors.
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  • September 23, 2015
Studio Space: Jenny Medved

The watercolor painter explores her Native American heritage with detailed portraits

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  • September 21, 2015
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Johnny Depp gets dark as famed mobster James "Whitey" Bulger

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  • September 21, 2015
Theater review: 'The Secret Garden'

The children's classic blooms at Manatee Players

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These fall releases are already generating Oscar buzz

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