Sarasota Masters Art Festival
A Benefit for Forty Carrots Family Center
Sarasota Masters Art Festival - 2010
Saturday, January 23 and Sunday, January 24
Join us at our new location on Palm Avenue in dowtown Sarasota
The Sarasota Masters Art Festival promises to be Sarasota's Premier Art Event. The festival features 140 of the nation's finest artists presenting one-of-a-kind pieces in categories including Oil, Acrylic and Watercolor Paintings, Sculpture, Ceramics, Fine Jewelry, Blown Glass and many others. Many of the artists have never presented in the Sarasota area before. Gourmet food, musical entertainment and hands-on kids activities will make for a lovely outing.
Richard P. Sullivan of Boulderbrook Productions will direct this second annual show now moved to the art haven of Palm Avenue. Boulderbrook Productions produced the famed Naples National Art Festival, which is consistently voted among the top outdoor festivals in the country. It was voted 5th best festival in the country by Sunshine Artist Magazine and described as "the greatest hits of the Florida show circuit".
This is your opportunity to browse and purchase artwork from some of the nations finest artists.
Here are a few artists who attended 2009's show:
Joseph W. Becker, Glass, Cedar, MN
Aesthetics is the primary concern that Joe Becker attempts to achieve to impart beauty in a finished piece of glass. Joe succeeds by investigating form, light, line, shadow and content inherent in his beautiful glass pieces. The openings through the surfaces of the pieces create a repetition of line and a play with positive and negative space. As the Artist Joe does all the blowing of the free form sculptures and all of the rough grinding and polishing to create the form that will be the finished sculpture. Horizontal diamond lapidary wheels are used for the actual cutting of the glass. Joe can actually blow any of the pieces in about an hour or less. However where his skill and artistry actually becomes most significant is in the grinding and polishing. It is the time consuming part of his work and can take up to thirty to forty hours per piece. It shows, as every time you examine or hold on to one of Joe's pieces you know you are holding a piece of art that was made by a master craftsmen who has dedicated himself to his work.
Fortune Sitole, Mixed Media, Venice, CA
Fortune Sitole is originally from South Africa and now lives in Venice, California. His Mixed Media pieces are designed to embrace those villages in South Africa where they create makeshift shelters by optimizing outside space and leftover materials - metal, tires, stones, etc., whatever they can find to build their homes. These villages and homes are slowly disappearing from South Africa's landscape. Redevelopment and investment begin to paint a brighter picture for the future of South Africans, an encouraging example for the people of the world who are experiencing poverty today. Each year the festival director Richard P Sullivan commissions a piece of artwork for his collection, the artist he has chosen for 2009 is Fortune Sitole.
Scott Causey, Sarasota, FL
Sarasota is home for one of the nation's finest ceramic sculptors. Scott Causey was born in Eupora, Mississippi and grew up in nearby Tupelo. Scott held an apprenticeship with Roddy Reed, an instructor at Itawamba College in Fulton, Mississippi. When Roddy became an instructor at The Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, Scott accompanied him and eventually completed his Bachelor of Fine Art Degree from Ringling. Scott's unique and finely crafted work has been exhibited throughout the United States and was recently included in "Featuring Florida", a juried exhibition at the prestigious Ringling Museum of Art. Scott currently lives and works in Sarasota with his wife Jodi, son Chase and daughter Charlotte.
For more information about boulderbrook productions or to sign up for a booth click here.
