Summer is the season for art festivals around the globe. From America’s most acclaimed Spoletto in Charleston, S.C., which just wrapped up another season yesterday, to Holland and Vienna, artists are filling schedules and selling tickets. Many of the emerging artists bound for Sarasota/Manatee in October are performing around these festivals. For instance, Deganit Shemy & Company received a new residence and commission by Dance @ DMAC (Duo Multicultural Arts Center) and Azure & Artists are in residency at the Bnaff Centre in Canada where they will also perform at the Bnaff Summer Arts Festival. Elevator Repair Service just wrapped up performances of The Sound and the Fury (April Seventh, 1928) at the Vienna Festival yesterday and are off to the Holland Festival in Amsterdam this coming weekend. With all the traveling this summer, I hope they have a chance to catch a trip to Siesta Key while in town for the Ringling festival in October. Sounds like they will need it. What a mutually beneficial relationship for everyone-artists might have the chance to get some R&R on award-winning beaches and Floridians get to see highly sought-after artists without having to leave the state.
Lynn Hobeck Bates, Public Relations Manager at the Ringling Museum
