Coffee Connections – Art, Archives, and What’s Next!

Over coffee and pastries, Art Center Sarasota and Arts Advocates take stock of a century. In 1926 Marcia Rader, the school system's art supervisor, founded the Sarasota Art Association, and executive director Katherine Ceaser shares highlights from the 100 years since, along with plans for what comes next. Curator Christina Baril gives a behind-the-scenes account of how the center's archives shaped its centennial exhibitions. Among them was Shaping Sarasota: A Century of Art, which gathered work by Hilton and Dorothy Sherman Leech, Jimmy Ernst, Martha Hartman and others, much of it borrowed from the artists' families. The talk takes place in the center's own building, which Sarasota architect Frank Martin designed for land leased from the city.