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WGCU Arts Reporter Tom Hall/WGCU Arts Reporter Tom HallOn August 20, Art Center Sarasota opens its final shows of its 100th season. One, in particular, will showcase the artists, volunteers and visionaries who helped establish Sarasota as one of the leading arts communities in Florida. "Shaping Sarasota: A Century of Art" traces Art Center Sarasota's evolution from its earliest days in 1926 through a century of artistic innovation, community leadership, and creative exchange. -
Brianna Scott/NPRThe Illharmonic Orchestra blends hip-hop and classical music during live performances. Its leaders tell NPR's Juana Summers how they build community with their shows, which feature all-Black musicians.
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WSMR explores history and the events in music, culture, the arts and more that shape our world. -
It's one thing to talk about the degradation of our natural environment. It's another to see how it has progressed over time. We take a trip to the Chassahowitzka River to look at how photographs have been a witness to change over several decades. -
From owning a studio, running a professional company, and organizing a tap dance festival, Ashlyn Bolton stays busy. She wants to see Tampa become the next major hub for tap dancers, and she's helping to make it a reality. -
Nate Jacobs' Sarasota-based company returns with a new revue celebrating Marvin Gaye at the biennial festival in North Carolina. -
Lynn Goldsmith's "Shared Light" takes visitors on a garden pathway lined with fine art photographs of flowers. Inside, images of the gardens' artist in residence, rock legend Patti Smith, hang next to equally dramatic floral images. -
A historic World War II painting that was displayed in Marco Island will have a new permanent home at the Tuskegee Airmen National Museum in Detroit. -
The Sonder Atelier x FloridaRAMA fashion show will be held Saturday, July 11. -
A new exhibit at the Pensacola Museum of History through May 2027 gives visitors a look at what life was like in Pensacola and British West Florida more than 250 years ago and the importance of the colony's 1781 fall to the Spanish to the American Revolution. -
This week on In Focus, we sit down with Leslie McKenzie with the Heritage Center and Indian River Citrus Museum and Michelle Wagner, a genealogy librarian with Indian River County. Together, we talk about the deep and rich history of the center and the many stories that have been passed along inside its walls. Once slated for demolition, the community came together to save a piece of Treasure Coast history. Now, the building remains, and they plan to celebrate the nation's 250th in a big way. -
This week, three shows open, five continue their runs and there are four limited engagements at Southwest Florida equity and community theaters.
