Florida’s Cultural Coast
Home to many writers, artists and patrons, Sarasota presents a year-round festival of the arts.
Sarasota County is enriched by its Arts & Culture offerings. Known as Florida’s Cultural Coast®, it’s where you can enjoy museums, art galleries and performing art venues all around town. Among the riches from which residents my choose are productions on 12 theatrical stages, including six professional theater companies and three dinner theaters.
At the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall (designed by Frank Lloyd Wright Associates), you can see a full season of artistic performances. Music lovers can select from among a symphony orchestra, an opera company, choral groups, smaller orchestras, concert bands and numerous jazz ensembles. The region’s cultural community also offers outstanding ballet and ballroom dance companies.
Visual arts are enhanced by six community arts organizations, four college galleries and nearly 50 commercial art galleries. A world-class collection of Baroque art along with a Circus Museum are part of the Ringling Museum, a gift of John and Mable Ringling to the people of Florida.