Harmony Gallery
About Harmony Gallery
Explore the collaboration between the visual and performing arts at the Harmony Gallery. The Harmony Gallery features local artists who are invited to showcase their work in exhibitions throughout the Orchestra's season. These juried exhibitions feature artists with mediums ranging from painting and mixed media to photography. 25% of all proceeds from the sale of the artwork benefit Sarasota Orchestra.
The exhibition space is located in the atrium of the Beatrice Friedman Symphony Center at 709 North Tamiami Trail, Sarasota, FL. The exhibitions are free and open to the public from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, as well as during concerts and other special events that take place in the Symphony Center’s Holley Hall.
2024-2025 Harmony Gallery Exhibitions
Adrienne Watts – “Weaving Connection”
November 1 – December 16
Media: Acrylic Mixed Media
Reception: Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, 5-6:30pm
Adrienne Watts embarked on her artistic journey in Wilmington, NC in 2018. Since moving to Sarasota in 2022, she's continued her journey, expanding her artistic skills by exploring and mastering the discipline of Woven Art. She is an active member of Women Contemporary Artists and served as Exhibition Co-Chair in 2024. In addition, she organized and curated a December 2023 group exhibition at Fogartyville. Most recently, she's been admitted for membership in SARTQ, a Sarasota Artist Collective. Prior to her artistic pursuits, Watts had a successful career in finance and real estate. Throughout her professional endeavors, she maintained her dedication to art, composing pet portraits and still life paintings in watercolor and watercolor pencil for friends and acquaintances. Her award-winning artwork can be found in private collections across the U.S.
Booker High School Student Exhibition
December 19 – January 30
Media: various
Reception: Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025, 5-6:30pm
Booker High School, a comprehensive learning facility, is home to the Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) program, which offers rigorous, pre-professional training in the arts in five disciplines: Dance, Digital Film & Motion Design, Music, Theatre, and Visual Art. In collaboration with Sarasota Orchestra, Booker VPA visual art students will present a collection of two-dimensional artwork from various genres.
bookervpa.com/visual-artKarina Herrera – “Good Things Take Time”
February 4 – March 5
Media: Acrylic and Oil Pastel
Reception: Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025, 5-6:30pm
Karina Herrera is an abstract artist based in Sarasota, FL. Her practice is deeply rooted in search of self expression and to connect deeper with herself, life, and nature. Karina works with large scale canvases that are self-built and hand-stretched that allow the space to use the span of her body to direct her flow on the canvas. Her work translates emotions into compositions of color complimented by intentional mark-making. She finds whatever feelings she experiences internally at the time heavily influence her work, each piece marking a different sentence, page, or chapter of her life.
Sarasota African American Cultural Coalition Artist Spotlight
March 7 – April 9
Reception: Thursday, March 27, 2025, 5-6:30pm
The Sarasota African American Cultural Coalition (SAACC) mission is to preserve, celebrate, and share the cultural, artistic, and historical heritage of African Americans in Sarasota and beyond. SAACC's goal is to share the rich history and culture of African Americans in Sarasota and create opportunities for enlightenment, learning, and entrepreneurship. To that end, SAACC in collaboration with the Sarasota Orchestra showcases the work of three young Tampa Bay artists whose colorful palettes and brushstrokes convey positivity, resilience, and tenacity.
Robert Rashkow – “Groovy People”
April 15 – May 20
Media: Mixed Media
Reception: Thursday, April 24, 2025, 5-6:30pm
Chicago-born artist Robert Scott Rashkow often escaped as a child into his own private magical world by making art. Later that world was broadened by exposure to time tested masters at The Art Institute of Chicago, as well as avant-garde “Hairy Who” Imagists like Ed Paschke. An opportunity to work at LANDFALL PRESS (Publisher of original fine art lithographs) as an apprentice was an eye-opening experience. Assisting in producing limited edition prints for world renowned POP artists like Alan Jones and Claes Oldenburg. As a fine artist, Rashkow developed his unique style that blends realism with ambiguity and a touch of fancy. Roberts works have earned a place in juried exhibitions, private collections and galleries.
Past 2024-2025 Harmony Gallery Exhibitions
Jim Stewart – “Celebrations”
September 24 – October 29
Media: Ink Art
Jim Stewart’s drawings and paintings are influenced by his career as a graphic designer. Fine arts and photographic experiences also inspire him to look for a balance of impact and legibility with these abstractions: possibilities for describing our relationship with nature. Stewart’s drawings are created using waterproof, lightfast India Inks. They offer intense color, dilute and glaze well to make new colors. These Celebrations are drawn using bamboo pens, “brushes” of cut heavy paper and archival fine line pens. Stewart’s work was previously chosen for Sarasota Music Festival posters from 2007 thru 2011. The artist draws daily and posts on Instagram: jbstew17 .
