The annual festival discussed this year's highlights at its kickoff party.

The college hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for its new state-of-the-art facility.

The cast and creative team behind the Sarasota Ballet's "John Ringling's Circus Nutcracker" had breakfast with ballet families and friends at the Selby Gardens.

Sarasota artists, and Ringling College students and faculty reminisced inside the Selby Gallery Wednesday night just before its slated demolition in January.

The arts advocacy group honored maestro Victor DeRenzi and the Sarasota Opera with its 4th Annual Luminaire Award.

The classical music festival kicked off its 30th anniversary season with a Sonata a Due at Michael's On East with food, drink and a plenty of music.

Over 100 of the nation's best artisans and artists set up shop in Robarts Arena for the seventh annual arts and craft show (Dec. 4-6).

Paying tribute to the artists featured in its Masterworks 2 (Dec. 4-6), the Sarasota Orchestra honored guest conductor Perry So and composer Jerry Bilik and violinist Leila Josefowicz at the University Park Country Club.

Theater lovers got a sneak peek into the director's process with a lecture and luncheon with a panel of Asolo Repertory Theatre's featured directors.

A sold-out audience celebrated the opening of Asolo Repertory Theatre's first show of the 2015-2016: the iconic "West Side Story."

Local artists Rob Tarbell's unique smoke portraiture and artwork made a fiery splash at Alfstad& Contemporary.

Sarasota celebrated the last Ringling Underground of 2015 with food, drinks and a rocking soundtrack featuring Justin Layman and Sara Nelms, Wax Wings, and Amythyst Kiah & Her Chest of Glass